The ‘How To Confuse A Millenial’ Hashtag Has Really Backfired…
Over the weekend, #HowToConfuseAMillenial started trending.
Basically an excuse for the older generations to bash the young, it sparked a lot of tweets like this:
Ask them to tell you five phone numbers from memory #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Leigh (@leightotheanne) September 4, 2016
While some of them were fond…
#HowToConfuseAMillennial ask them the relationship between the two. pic.twitter.com/VzRF9U6UsY
— Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper) September 4, 2016
Hand them a map #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Mustang Sally (@KJorud) September 4, 2016
Others were a little bit spiteful:
#HowToConfuseAMillennial - speak about anything that doesn't offend them, but good luck..
— Amymarie Gaertner (@amymarieg) September 4, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial
Hand them a job application form
— Andrew (@1andrewfenton) September 4, 2016
Ask them to work overtime #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Marshall (@MarshallSbar) September 4, 2016
…But the younger generations didn’t take too kindly to being vilified on Twitter by a load of old people, and it didn’t take long for them to hit back. Hard…
#HowToConfuseAMillennial
Destroy the housing market
Replace grad jobs with unpaid internships
Tell them to buy a house— Carl Kinsella (@TVsCarlKinsella) September 4, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial Rant about how "everyone gets a trophy these days" while sipping from your World's Greatest Dad coffee mug
— HarshlyCritical @PAX (@HarshlyCritical) September 5, 2016
You can be expelled from a university for plagiarism but you'll only get a slap on the wrist for raping someone #HowToConfuseaMillennial
— lew. (@Blink1EightyLew) September 4, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial - Destroy the environment, destroy the economy, destroy the housing market and then call millennials lazy.
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) September 4, 2016
Keep wages stagnant as productivity increases and tell people they're not rich because they're lazy. #HowtoConfuseAMillennial
— #NoDAPL (@BlackAutonomist) September 4, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial push for an advance in technology in the late 90s early 2000s and then complain about us always using technology
— Richey Collazo (@RicheyCollazo) September 4, 2016
Tell them to follow their passions!*
*as long as they aren't passionate about art, writing, or anything creative#HowToConfuseAMillennial
— sully (@NoMayoTears) September 4, 2016
Tell us education is important, continually raise the cost of tuition, then wonder why we're broke. #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Beauty in Color (@PoCBeauty) September 4, 2016
Complain about this generation being disrespectful & then act like homophobia, racism, social inequality is normal #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Albie Dominguez (@johnenricoo) September 4, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial tell us to stop being so reliant on technology while you sit there on life support pic.twitter.com/qxX3i5zeC0
— gratuity tucci (@aolanibani) September 4, 2016
Ruin the economy, cripple them with debt, push them into a poor job market, claim how much harder you had it. #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Ethan (@EthanTarr) September 4, 2016
This guy sums it up fairly succinctly:
#HowToConfuseAMillennial start a hashtag slamming millenials on a platform controlled by millenials; get offended when millenials fight back
— Nathan Walters (@waltersn512) September 4, 2016
Let us know what you think in the comments!
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