These are the things ALL millennials do that give away their age

2023-01-11

These are the things ALL millennials do that give away their age – from using the laugh/cry emoji to adding filters on Instagram

Kate Woodland, from Queensland, shared what ‘screams’ someone is a Millennial
She explained she had been advised by Gen Z-ers what not to do on social media
She shared the tongue-in-cheek list including what emojis are a giveaway

A woman has shared a ‘tongue-in-cheek’ list of giveaways that ‘scream someone is a Millennial rather than Gen-Z’ – including using out of date emojis, filters and the wrong fonts.

Katie Woodland, 26, from the Gold Coast, Queensland, shared a list of things lots of Millennials – a person born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s – do which reveal their age without realising it.

The singer-songwriter explained she had been advised by Gen Z-ers – the group of people who were born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s – what not to do on social media.

Taking to social media, she shared the tongue-in-cheek list – including using the ‘laugh cry emoji’ – which she revealed ‘has been dead for a while’.

Apparently, Gen Z-ers told her instead the emoji to use is ‘the skull face, not with the cross bones, just the skull’.

‘It represents ‘dead’ – like dead from something being so funny,’ she said.

She also claims ‘every font on Instagram is unacceptable except for the last one’ when creating a ‘story’.

Katie Woodland, 26, from the Gold Coast, Queensland, has shared a ‘tongue-in-cheek’ list of giveaways that ‘scream someone is a Millennial rather than Gen-Z’

Katie shared a list of things lots of Millennials – a person born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s – do which reveal their age without realising it

The singer-songwriter explained she had been advised by Gen Z-ers – the group of people who were born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s – what not to do on social media

Katie, who is classed a Millennial, said the Boomerang – a short looping video which plays forward and backward – is also ‘out of fashion’

After the video went viral, amassing over one MILLON views, the comments saw Millennials rushing to their own defence

THINGS THAT GIVE AWAY YOUR A MILLENNIAL

1. Using the laugh/cry emoji

2. Using any font on Insta that it’s the last one when creating a story

3. Posting landscape pictures on your story and shrinking them to fit, leaving a border around the outside

4. Using Boomerangs

5. Using any filter on Instagram

6. Tagging your friends in posts and leaving the tags there visibly

Katie, who is classed a Millennial, said the Boomerang – a short looping video which plays forward and backward – is also ‘out of fashion’ but says her list is all light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek.

She said: ‘Using Boomerangs used to be so cool. When I was 16 and 17, it was Boomerang central.

‘But who knows, it might come full-circle – they might come back into fashion.’

Other points on her list included posting landscape orientation pictures on a portrait Instagram story, using certain filters and tagging friends visibly on posts.

After the video went viral, amassing more than one million views, the comments saw Millennials rushing to their own defence.

One said: ‘Don’t understand why I wouldn’t want to be a Millennial. We’re the best.’

Another said: ‘Grateful to be a Millennial and have no intention of changing any of my Millennial habits.

A third added: ‘think as a millennial, I no longer care what people think of me. It’s the whole point.’

Katie, who also does some acting work, said: ‘I had a few people reach out and say they found the video helpful.

‘Others didn’t care for it so much.

‘But I just make funny content to be relatable and helpful. It’s not serious. It was meant to be satire – it’s just a bit of fun.’