Boomer Texting & Dad Texts Hats

Some parents text in a style so distinctive their kids screenshot it. Adam Gopnik told The Moth in 2019 that he thought LOL meant lots of love for six months. When a dad quit his family group chat in January 2023 with 'I love them, laugh at them, or like them, unless it's bad, then I dislike them. In perpetuity,' his daughter's post reached 14 million views. Everton Myers' formal, fully punctuated texts have been posted to TikTok by his daughter Kelly since 2021. Fatherly has noted how many dads rely on one word, Ok, and Gen Z reads a thumbs up or a final period as cold when the sender means the opposite. These dad texts hats put that voice on the wearer. LOVE, DAD and LOVE, MOM are the sign-offs, comma included. LOL LOTS OF LOVE is the Gopnik misreading as a flag, and the longer lines cover the thumbs up sent with a whole heart, one finger and full punctuation, the loving period, the voicemail that says a text was sent, the crying laughing emoji used without irony, and the caps lock that will not turn off. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear it if you are the parent who texts this way, or give one to the parent whose messages already live in the family group chat.