Someone Started A #HowToConfuseAMillennial Hashtag And It Backfired Massively

6 September 2016, 17:07 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09

By James Wilson-Taylor

@mrjaytee

Note to old people - don't mess with millennials on social media. It won't end well...

If there is one thing Millennials know how to use, it is a social media.

Last Sunday (September 4th), the hashtag #HowToConfuseAMillennial began trending on Twitter with various comments and pictures from the older generations.

Some of them were harmless enough:

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

— adu1tg33k (@adu1tg33k1) September 4, 2016

#HowToConfuseAMillennial

Show them what an antique GPS looks like pic.twitter.com/QbRhP4HNdm

— SophieDiddles (@sophie_diddles) September 4, 2016

A bit basic maybe but, ya know, harmless.

But then the tweets started getting a bit more pointed...

Explain how we used to be social, before media#HowToConfuseAMillennial

— Jeff Dwoskin (@bigmacher) September 4, 2016

And annoying.

#HowToConfuseAMillennial
Talk to them.

— Jason Royle (@JERoyle) September 4, 2016

And actually just kind of sh*tty.

#HowToConfuseAMillennial

Hand them a job application form

— Andrew (@1andrewfenton) September 4, 2016

But, of course, millennials fought back. 

And that's when things got LIT!

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

Tell 'em!

#HowToConfuseAMillennial

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

— Carl Kinsella (@TVsCarlKinsella) September 4, 2016

Yaaasss!

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

— Nathan Walters (@waltersn512) September 4, 2016

Slay.

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

— ModernManKevinBacon (@Notintheface1) September 4, 2016

In summary, if older generations want to unwisely criticise younger generations they may not want to do it on social media. 

We're all rather good at it.