Uh-Oh: #MillennialBillofRights is trending on Twitter

Published February 3, 2016 4:37pm ET



#MillennialBillofRights was trending on Twitter Wednesday morning, and as is always the case when Gen-Y discusses their “rights” — it was disaster.

It started out as a light hearted hashtag game from the account @ICanHash.

“I just thought it would be funny to see what ppl in the hashtag ‘community’ would come up with. Criticism and Defense of Millennials is a huge vein, in social media, ironically lol,” said Jonathan Xavier, one of the people behind @iCanHash to Forbes. “I think a lot of the hashtag game players are millennials themselves so there wasn’t any hate we desired to express towards them.”

Criticism of millennials and the Gen-Y’s criticism of older people exploded on Twitter and it became the one of the top ten hashtags by 10 AM.