Waging war on millennial memes

Gen Y loves their memes and both millennials and marketers are using them more and more to connect to younger audiences but we are propelling a false and negative stereotype? Tym Yee asks do we need a war on meme?

tym yeeWe can’t afford houses. We’re over educated. We spend money. The job market is an asshole.

Yes, we millennials face a depressing lot in life.

I feel, however, that despite the aforementioned circumstances and being on the receiving end of an endless flow of you’re-screwedisms, up until only recently we’ve been able to stand our ground.

We’ve been known to scoff at unreasonable requests made to us in the workplace, disparage the silent cries of our Gen X counterparts struggling to raise young families, and we’ve never once stopped to second guess our entrepreneurial abilities – no matter how stupid the app idea.

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