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What's "boomer shooter" supposed to mean? According to Wikipedia definitions, baby boomers were 29-47 years old when Doom was released - hardly the target audience.
Technically speaking we're all baby butts compared to the old timers who played the games at the time. Wolfenstein, DOOM, Hexen and Blood were not targeted towards children - even though some of us got our hands on the shareware.
But like with all language and definitions, it was normalised by certain people, like Civvie 11 - who also uses the short hand "boom shoot" and worships at the feet of John Carmack, hallowed be his name.
If anything it's just a definition that stuck, probably because it's pre-millenial.
It's games styled like doom. Iirc it's from Duke nukem calling his shotgun a boomstick and the shooter part comes from it being a shooter game. Some people also just call anyone a generation older than them a boomer.