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Students on Yik Yak have been renaming their generation with brilliant results

“Cracked screen generation”

Jun 14th 2016, 8:15 PM 5,828 Views 1 Comment

THE ANONYMOUS APP Yik Yak allows people to share short messages with people in the same area – and it often produces spot on observations on Ireland.

This week in the US, Yik Yak asked its college students to rename their generation with a more accurate term than millennial, and PopSugar collected the best ones:

They could be named after their greatest pain

crakce Source: Yik Yak

Or the best meme sounds much better than millennial

lyin Source: Yik Yak

Nicholas-Fraser-Why-You-Always-Lying-video Source: Stereogum

Or how about naming this generation after their insatiable desire to collect evidence

happen Source: Yik Yak

All of these have absolutely legitimate cases to be the name of the new crop of college students

text Source: Yik Yak

Ranging from huge cultural changes

leggings Source: Yik Yak

To the very essence of romance

swiped Source: Yik Yak

Whoever decided on millennial: you now have some new options to work with.

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Students on Yik Yak have been renaming their generation with brilliant results

“Cracked screen generation”

They could be named after their greatest pain

Or the best meme sounds much better than millennial

Or how about naming this generation after their insatiable desire to collect evidence