Over the weekend, the hashtag #HowToConfuseAMillennial started to trend on Twitter. It was a cute way to bash what many in my generation and above think is a culture of apathy and privilege.
“Turn off their autocorrect. #HowToConfuseAMillennial”
“Show them a phone booth. #HowToConfuseAMillennial”
“Show them a rotary phone. #HowToConfuseAMillennial”
“Hey, look at this video cassette recorder. #HowToConfuseAMillennial”
The jokes pretty much wrote themselves.
As annoying as some may think Millennials are, it’s wrong to underestimate them. Soon enough, the hashtag got turned in its ear and ended up being a commentary on how the generations before them has a ton of catching up to do – and how they’ve self-righteously screwed Millennials over.
Destroy the housing market
Replace grad jobs with unpaid internships
Tell them to buy a house— Carl Kinsella (@TVsCarlKinsella) September 4, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial tell us you fought for our freedoms and then protest gay marriage while wearing clothes designed by gays.
— Adrienne Airhart (@craydrienne) September 7, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial re-enact the contempt for the younger generation that your parents infuriated you by expressing
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) September 5, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial Tell them your bigoted "free speech" is oppressed by "PC" when bigotry is embedded in every aspect of society.
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) 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
#HowToConfuseAMillennial Crash their economy and then condescendingly ask why so many of them are living with their parents.
— Girlfriend In A Comey (@Notintheface1) 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
Baby boomers will tweet #HowToConfuseAMillennial then call us to fix their internet problems 30s later pic.twitter.com/hLt9KLjoCc
— mark (@calvinsharris) September 4, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial tell us to stop being so reliant on technology while you sit there on life support pic.twitter.com/qxX3i5zeC0
— ms wonderful (@aolanibani) September 4, 2016
Why you're seeing annoyance with this hashtag…#HowToConfuseAMillennial pic.twitter.com/kGpZa8kmfv
— Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) September 4, 2016
Cut veteran's benefits, oppose increase in military pay and pretend like Colin Kaepernick is disrespecting troops.#HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) September 4, 2016
#HowtoConfuseaMillennial our society considers protesting police violence worse than murdering black men pic.twitter.com/fNkJDp8MiP
— abolish ice. send homan to the hague. (@SeanMcElwee) September 4, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial start a hashtag slamming millenials on a platform controlled by millenials; get offended when millenials fight back
— Nathan (@waltersn512) September 4, 2016
*mic drop*
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