Millennials are set to soon outnumber baby boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, so naturally businesses and anyone else trying to make money off us is trying their best to figure us out. Like, why are we constantly attached to our phones yet practically refuse to actually dial a number and leave a voicemail? Our generation is constantly being studied, dissected, and labeled by generations before us, but now it’s time to see how millennials think of and define themselves.
Our friends at Yik Yak, a top location-based social app that has a 98% millennial user base according to comScore’s 2015 report, decided to find out. They asked none other than millennials themselves how they would describe their generation. Yakkers responded with some fascinating self-assessments. Check out the all too real answers below.