Twitter users have taken to reinventing famous quotes with a millennial twist, creating hilariously grandiose tributes to youth culture.
The trend started yesterday at the initiative of a game account called @TagFemmes, which regularly challenges users of the platform to create tweets based on a specific prompt.
People thus started revamping their favorite quotes as if they had been written in the millennial era, celebrating concepts such as avocados, vaping, man-buns, and pumpkin spice lattes.
New and improved: Twitter users have taken to reinventing famous quotes with a millennial twist, creating hilariously grandiose tributes to youth culture
Creative: People have been celebrating concepts such as avocados, vaping, man-buns, and pumpkin spice lattes in their re-written quotes
Several people chose to revisit William Shakespeare’s Hamlet soliloquy, which begins with ‘To be, or not to be, that is the question’.
Attached to the hashtag #MillennialAQuote, the famous sentence became in one instance: ‘To be on fleek or not to be [on] fleek—that is the question.’
Another person turned it into ‘To vape or not to vape, that is the question’ in another imaginative reinvention.
Someone else shared their own riff on the maxim ‘Behind every great man, there is a great woman’, writing: ‘Behind every successful man-bun there’s a woman rolling her eyes.’
One person mixed Julia Roberts’ famed line in Notting Hill, ‘I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her’, with the expression ‘I can’t even’.
Hair: Someone shared their own riff on the maxim ‘Behind every great man, there is a great woman’, writing: ‘Behind every successful man-bun there’s a woman rolling her eyes’
History: Some referenced Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address, in which he stated: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself’
Another person reinvented Michelle Obama’s ‘When they go low, we go high’, which she said in 2016 during the Democratic National Convention
The result of the crossover reads as: ‘I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to even.’
Some people dedicated their reinvented quotes to technology and the world of social media, turning the proverb ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’ into ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try restarting the app’.
‘There is nothing to fear, but no likes,’ one person wrote in reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address, in which he stated: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’
‘You have nothing to fear but millennials themselves,’ someone else tweeted in a similar tweak.
Another person chose to share a tribute to coffee shop culture by rewriting the proverb ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step’, turning it into: ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a pumpkin spice latte.’