Earlier this week, Pink Floyd inadvertently culled all their fans who inhaled a few too many lead paint flakes throughout the 1970s — and like, forgot how to be semi-decent human beings — sparking Boomer-fueled backlash by doing the unthinkable — going “woke” by *checks notes* including a rainbow in their new logo honoring The Dark Side of the Moon’s 50th anniversary.


Anyone who has ever glanced at the Pink Floyd poster that appeared in every frat house in the country between the years of 1998 and 2010 knows that the rainbow prism is an integral element to the album’s cover art, but it seems decades of iconic, consistent branding couldn’t stop hardheaded Boomers from being hardheaded Boomers.



“No librul [sic] agenda for me today,” seethed one Facebook user/certified poster in a comment proving that typewriters, too, need spell check. “Thanks, Pink. Fan for 63 years and never listening again.”


“I miss when the songs were about cats and gnomes! Bring back syd, he’d never stand for this left wing nonsense,” they concluded, referencing former frontman, late Syd Barrett.




Yet it seems the aforementioned boomer wasn’t the only one potentially peeved at Pink Floyd. While it’s unclear if or where the “comfortably dumb” Boomers ended, as commenter Livi Renae dubbed it, and the armchair satirists begin, several fans got in on the fun, calling for the return of Pink Floyd as we knew and loved them — buttoned-up, conservative and definitely not counter-cultural.


“These stupid liberals puttin [sic] rainbows on everything!! When will it stop? I want my Pink Floyd homophobic and right wing, just the way they were back in the day!!” another commenter quipped, adding the hashtag #makefloydgreatagain.


As one commenter ingenious summed up the entire ordeal: "Some people here took ‘we don’t need no education’ too seriously.”