#MillennialRetirementPlans

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Moddigotchu @moddigotchu #MillennialRetirementPlans Reselling plastic bags A GIF 12:15 AM Sep 17, 2019 Twitter for Android

JOHN MORRIS @mashfan0678 #MillennialRetirementPlans Begging on #twitch THAT'S INCREDIBLE GIF 12:50 AM Sep 17, 2019 Twitter Web App

Xemnas's waifu @shadowqueen2016 Work and rage myself to death #millennialretirementplans GIF 9:11 AM Sep 17, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

Auz @Auz29913294 No need seeing as we will all be dead because of climate change deniers. #MllennialRetirementPlans GIF 7:13 AM Sep 17, 2019 Twitter for Android .

lamegirlblues @lamegirlblues Watch as the environment disintegrates and move to Mars, where we will yet again, destroy another planet. #millennialretirementplans IGHT IMMA HEAD OUT 7:32 AM Sep 17, 2019 Twitter Web App

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About

#MillennialRetirementPlans is a hashtag which grew popular on Twitter on September 17th, 2019. The hashtag finds users joking about the poor retirement prospects for Millennials.

Origin

On September 17th, 2019, Twitter account @Radstags posted inviting its followers to make jokes under the hashtag "#MillennialRetirementPlans."^[1]

allyRadTags HAD@Radstags TAGS Hi! Let's play #Millennial RetirementPlans With your pals, and @AshGamesAcct Rad LET'S PLAY #Millennial RetirementPlans ORads1ags ww E MONEY BOH WITH SOUND #1 12:00 AM Sep 17, 2019 Hootsuite Inc. 00

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Over the following day, hundreds of Twitter users began sharing jokes with the hashtag. User @lamegirlblues posted a joke that gained over 240 retweets and 1,500 likes (shown below, left). User @floofram posted a joke about American health care that gained over 150 retweets and 900 likes (shown below, right).

lamegirlblues @lamegirlblues Finally earn enough experience to get an entry level job. #millennialretirementplans 7:32 AM Sep 17, 2019 Twitter Web App

30-50 Feral Sheep @FloofRam Die at the age of 40 from medical complications, since you couldn't afford treatment. #MillennialRetirementPlans 7:28 AM Sep 17, 2019 Twitter for iPad

The popularity of the hashtag caused it to trend on Twitter on September 17th.^[2] Other popular examples include a tweet by @mylightinflight which used a Saturday Night Live that gained over 140 retweets and 840 likes (shown below, left). User @Jenninjuice1 posted a Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions meme, gaining over 400 retweets and 1,700 likes (shown below, right).