15 Moments You Wouldn't Know How to Explain to Previous Generations
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Whether it's the "Damn, Daniel" meme or the poses we do for selfies, our generation has created a lot of weird trends that are hard to explain. It's exactly for this reason that popular social sharing app Yik Yak asked millennials what they wouldn't know how to describe from this era to aliens.
For some people, it was duck face. Another just didn't know where to begin on explaining smartphones. Read ahead to see some of the best answers — it might make you wonder if we should rename our generation any of these things.
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Who knows how memes started in the first place?
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Talking about eyebrows has never been more popular.
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Trying to explain Kanye is like trying to explain physics.
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Start deleting your duck face photos now.
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Hopefully, Jon Snow will know something one day.
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The Kardashians will be in history textbooks in the future and we won't remember how they got in there.
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The best and worst hair trend ever.
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Imagine the day dabbing becomes the new Electric Slide at prom.
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All the slang we use today will someday be considered old school.
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Can you believe there was a time when smartphones didn't exist?!
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What a time to be alive to see Donald Trump run for president.
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A world without YouTube is no world to live in.
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The kids behind "Damn, Daniel" will run for office someday and this will be their slogan.
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We're still waiting for the day twerking stops getting autocorrected.
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