They're too young to come up with their own name. When they do, they'll make the 'boomers eat shit, as every generation after the 'boomers has so succinctly done. They tried call Gen X "latchkey kids" and then they tried calling them "the MTV Generation" and then Strauss and Howe showed just how little attention they were actually paying to those kids and called them I-shit-you-not the thirteenth generation until Coupland told them to eat shit with "Generation X" and then the 'boomers were so cowed they tried calling Millennials "Generation Y" until Strauss and Howe actually got something to stick (probably because they were talking about their kids, rather than that annoying generation they didn't raise) and now they're trying real hard to make the current generation of kids "Generation Z" because fuck you, that's why. You watch. They'll come up with something like "The Resistance" but cooler. Generally when your parents spend your entire adolescence worrying that you're going to amount to nothing because you suck so hard you aren't allowed out, you aren't allowed freedom and they think you're going to kill yourself because The Snapchats are the only thing you care about, you backlash hard against their patronizing bullshit. The kids are all right.
It's typical for older generations to look down on younger generations, right? It's a pattern that's been continuing for millennia? What about the opposite, the general perspectives of older generations? Maybe it's just the circles I follow, but I see nothing but disdain for the boomers. Is there any kind of new trend there?
Keep in mind: when you're arguing on generational timescales your sample size goes way down. Tony Judt argues in Postwar that the 'boomers were literally the first "teenagers" in the history of mankind - semi-adults that lived as children but had adult money, adult drives and childish pursuits. Think about that: 'boomers represent something like 1 in 3 of all the "teenagers" (as a demographic, not as an age group) that ever lived. Also keep in mind that we've only got eight generations since the Civil War and eleven since the Revolutionary War. And economically speaking, the Industrial Revolution was a period of upheaval that tore down old social structures and created entirely new ways of life, largely for the better (in the long run at least). This trend continued through the long boom, the period of american exceptionalism that effectively capped American world dominance... ...but came to an end right about the time the Baby Boomers took over. Generation X was famously the first generation of Americans to be worse off than their parents, and Millennials are famously worse off than Generation X. Generation Z, whatever they call themselves, are already worse off than the Millennials. Now - did the 'boomers cause this? Debatable. But they didn't do any fucking thing about it, and they continue to hold themselves harmless and their offspring as shiftless. Thus, hard to point at a trend. But easy to point at a cause.