Gen Y Hijacks #HowToConfuseAMillennial To Rip Boomers For Destroying World

The Twitter hashtag game account @HashtagRoundup (yeah, those exist) asked its followers #HowToConfuseAMillennial, and the responses were utterly predictable. You know – “take away the remote!” like we’re not watching Netflix anyway, and “turn off the WiFi!” like you know how to do that in the first place.

#HowToConfuseAMillennial ask them if they want to join the breakfast club. pic.twitter.com/iMN1RLvfye

— Rick Stephens (@rikroku) September 4, 2016

Millennials: never watched 80s movies, never heard of 80s movies, believe film began with Spice World in 1997.

Blaming millennials for the worlds’ ills is an extremely tired trope, not least because it was ~so obviously~ all the Boomers’ fault in the first place. #Fact. Think teens today are taking too many selfies? Cool, judge them from the house you bought on a single wage.

Anyway, the youth on Twitter had not a lot of time for this kind of condescending roast, and so they returned fire with fire. If you are not on the smallest of the Big 4 SocMed platforms, here is what your youth representatives are saying on your behalf:

#HowToConfuseAMillennial

Destroy the housing market
Replace grad jobs with unpaid internships
Tell them to buy a house

— Carl Kinsella (@TVsCarlKinsella) September 4, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial cry that teens are wasting their lives on social media then create a tag on social media complaining about teens

— 011 (@imkxren) September 4, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial Crash their economy and then condescendingly ask why so many of them are living with their parents.

— ModernManKevinBacon (@Notintheface1) September 4, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial tell us to think for ourselves then tell us to follow the rules when we demand change in our churches schools & gov

— Avery Belyeu (@AveryBelyeu) September 5, 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 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

Shame them for being dependent on technology as if older generations don’t benefit from it aswell. #HowToConfuseAMillennial

— Millennial of Manila (@MillennialOfMNL) September 5, 2016

The war is still raging over on Twitter, if you want to jump into the fray. Alternatively, sit back and do literally anything else with your life.

Photo: Getty / Jeff Kravitz.