If you’re over 30 and aren’t required to have a Twitter for work, then chances are good that you don’t have one. Twitter is awful. It’s a pointless, empty void of ripe garbage that’s only somewhat saved by people making jokes in the trending hashtags. So when old people (“old” in this case = anyone who isn’t considered a millennial; yes you’re all old to me) started firing shots off at the youngin’s on Twitter using #HowToConfuseAMillennial, it got petty real pretty quick:
Explain how we used to be social, before media#HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Jeff Dwoskin Has A Podcast (@bigmacher) September 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/JERoyle/status/772404365999169537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Show them what an antique GPS looks like pic.twitter.com/QbRhP4HNdm
— SophieDiddles (@sophie_diddles) September 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/1andrewfenton/status/772408362281623554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Put a Trigger Warning on a Safe Space. #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 4, 2016
I'm already confused. I didn't know this many old people used Twitter. #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— chase (@chsecrwfrd) September 4, 2016
Yeah, why ARE so many old people on Twitter? I don’t have an answer for you, although it turns out that, predictably, there are WAY more millennials on the site, which means when they fired back things got way too real:
Destroy the housing market
Replace grad jobs with unpaid internships
Tell them to buy a house— Carl Kinsella (@TVsCarlKinsella) September 4, 2016
Tell them mental health is important while they run between three part-time jobs. #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Asher Wolf (@Asher_Wolf) September 5, 2016
#HowToConfuseAMillennial Rant about how "everyone gets a trophy these days" while sipping from your World's Greatest Dad coffee mug
— John Wolfe (@JohnWolfeYT) September 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/bradylee_/status/772579607350423552
https://twitter.com/SamanthaStauch4/status/772562238955589633
https://twitter.com/AndyKirn/status/772558784933744641
https://twitter.com/Blink1EightyLew/status/772557910232567808
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/772539541802590209
"cursive handwriting is super important and you will use it all the time when you are older"
— chris melberger (@chrismelberger) September 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/BlackAutonomist/status/772527305243713536
#HowToConfuseAMillennial Destroy the economy and then expect us to progress through life at the same rate you did and settle down at 25.
— max (@silentfl1ght) September 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/RicheyCollazo/status/772518667514806273
https://twitter.com/NoMayoTears/status/772514525916438528
Complain about this generation being disrespectful & then act like homophobia, racism, social inequality is normal #HowToConfuseAMillennial
— Albie (@johnenricoo) September 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/waltersn512/status/772495778401189892
#HowToConfuseAMillennial tell us to stop being so reliant on technology while you sit there on life support pic.twitter.com/qxX3i5zeC0
— 𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖆 ✰ (@aolanibani) September 4, 2016
Everyone in the #HowToConfuseAMillennial tag pic.twitter.com/TFEkjNHnGf
— Príńčë Āłī (@high_techboy) September 4, 2016