Millennials have some choice responses to #HowToConfuseaMillennial Hashtag

07 Sep 2016

Whew, things are heating up on the social media-sphere between Baby Boomers and Millennials in yet another clash of the generations.

Over the weekend, the hashtag #HowToConfuseaMillennial began trending, which started off with a few members of the older generation poking fun at youngsters – you know, the usual.

Things began lightheartedly enough …

#HowToConfuseAMillenial starter pack. pic.twitter.com/mhEVlgnPei

— DeusExMachinaV42 (@xzhyrax) September 4, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial

show them how we used to “google” pic.twitter.com/6gtFJjcLCN

— SophieDiddles (@sophie_diddles) September 4, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial ask them to make a call on this pic.twitter.com/BXUcAPJfs7

— adu1tg33k (@adu1tg33k1) September 4, 2016

All right, we get it, haha.

Turn off their autocorrect #HowToConfuseAMillennial

— #Jesus (@TheLordHasSpoke) September 4, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial Turn off their wifi, & block instagram & snapchat. Welcome to the real non digital world. pic.twitter.com/e9Q9loxvcE

— ken (@KenKenhall65) September 4, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial
In the good ol’ days of yore & yesteryear, people didn’t brag about eating!#StrangeButTrue pic.twitter.com/EnBdmCfdxy

— pH1 – and only! (@pH1Online) September 4, 2016

Then they started to get a tad … hmm, shall we say judgmental?

Where is the participation medal?#HowToConfuseAMillennial pic.twitter.com/ZLdBhjOioM

— Brendan McInnis (@BrendanMcInnis) September 4, 2016

Tell them there are only two genders #HowToConfuseAMillennial

— Michael F Duffy (@pantseater) September 4, 2016

Guys, c’mon, that’s not cool.

#HowToConfuseAMillennial tell them they aren’t entitled to anything.

— Caroline Craig (@CeeJayCraig) September 4, 2016

When they call you a racist, say “ok” and watch their face melt. #HowToConfuseAMillennial

— ScottInSC (@ScottInSC) September 4, 2016

But it wasn’t long before Millennials began to pick up on the hashtag and decided to give as good as they got.

I’m already confused. I didn’t know this many old people used Twitter. #HowToConfuseAMillennial

— chase crawford (@chsecrwfrd) 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

#HowToConfuseAMillennial
Get all the math wrong and think Millennials are still teenagers who never used a map. The 90’s weren’t 10y ago.

— Sara S. (@SaraFSarmento) September 7, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial continuously blame them for problems that were created by generations before them

— Zito (@_Zeets) September 4, 2016

And kept it comin’.

#HowToConfuseAMillennial
Say there’s no $ for universal healthcare, education & infrastructure. But there’s always $ for wars & prisons

— Angel (@ThatAngelRivera) September 7, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial – Destroy the environment, destroy the economy, destroy the housing market and then call millennials lazy.

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) September 4, 2016

#howtoconfuseamillennial tell us to get an entry level job that requires 5 years experience and a bachelor’s degree with 120k in debt.

— cohuddd (@codyh9) September 7, 2016

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

— ModernManKevinBacon (@Notintheface1) September 4, 2016

Some even pointed out how ironic the whole situation was.

#HowToConfuseAMillennial tell us we are so obsessed with social media but create a hashtag to bash us on social media

— emo-ly (lol get it) (@f_EM_inism) September 6, 2016

Baby boomers will tweet #HowToConfuseAMillennial then call us to fix their internet problems 30s later pic.twitter.com/hLt9KLjoCc

— mark (@bringbackjozea) September 4, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial start a hashtag slamming millennials on a platform controlled by millennials; get offended when millennials fight back

— Nathan Walters (@waltersn512) September 4, 2016

I like how #HowToConfuseAMillennial is trending right now. Don’t the people who hate millennials realize THEY were the ones who raised them?

— Cory Williams (@smpfilms) September 4, 2016

Guess it goes to show … don’t start a war you can’t win. 😉

#HowToConfuseAMillennial is hilarious. I think the worst platform to insult a millennial is social media. You won’t win.

— Swaggy B. (@2sense2b_had) September 7, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial is one of my favorite trending hashtags that completely backfire from their original intentions. Best mistake ever

— Dominic Moret (@DmoretArt) September 7, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial Millennials are the Clapback Generation. Y’all should have known better than this.

— Ernest Ezeugo (@ErnestEzeugo) September 6, 2016

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