Millennials can't even with Good Morning Britain's 'useless' Twitter jibe

Piers Morgan, co-host of ITV's Good Morning Britain. Reuters

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Show asks Twitter if those aged between 18-35 are 'useless' .
Tweet prompts hundreds of angry replies.

Good Morning Britain has enraged young viewers by implying on Twitter that millennials were "useless".

The popular morning talk show, co-hosted by the ever-controversial journalist Piers Morgan, has received a barrage of sarcastic responses. More than 200 people replied in less than an hour.

The show's producers further angered their younger audience with a follow-up tweet. They said: "Millennials can do anything... so long as there's wifi to access Google and YouTube, right?"

Their attempts to fan the fire worked.

Here are just some of the best replies to Good Morning Britain's provocative tweet:

More young people bashing?!! Arenâ€™t you the guys who talk about generalising groups and stereotyping is bad? Iâ€™ve found myself more than capable in life, yes some of these tasks I havenâ€™t had to do in my life yet but thatâ€™s doesnâ€™t mean we are useless, we can learn simple tasks!
— Lewis Banyard (@banyardl) January 30, 2018

No. We are not tech and social media obsessed all of the time. A lot of us are passionate and want to succeed in our goals. Many people young and old will use YouTube to view tutorials. It is not a bad thing. It is useful and can help many people.
— Hope Barker â€ (@aspoonfulofhope) January 30, 2018

Are the people who think up such nonsense questions useless?
— Becky (@ArrJayEll) January 30, 2018

Iâ€™m a millennial. Iâ€™m working, I have a house, I pay my bills, I have ambition to go further in my line of work. I also know people my age who donâ€™t work, donâ€™t pay their bills, still live with their parents and have no ambition. Does that mean we are all the same??
— jodiii (@jodihannon) January 30, 2018

Let me guess some jumped up idiot wrote this? How can you put all 18-35 year olds in the same basket. Some of us are educated, have jobs, pay mortgages etc. Not all of us sit there watching Jeremy Kyle every day waiting for their Instagram to make them famous.
— Emma Taylor (@ejtaylor16) January 30, 2018

Nope! Iâ€™m 31 a lead teacher in a school for children with severe learning difficulties and I have two children and a husband. We run a house, do diy and educate and car for our children
— Elizabeth Murphy (@CoppMurph86) January 30, 2018

By 20 I was managing a business, 23 completed an MSc and at 27 Iâ€™m a paramedic. Iâ€™ve delivered babies, restarted hearts and seen more death than many will in a lifetime. Posting questions like this is whatâ€™s useless ðŸ˜‘ pic.twitter.com/R8gRSPc9cP
— James Donovan (@Jdon101_) January 30, 2018

For some reason ITV's flagship breakfast show has been struggling to capture the 18-35 audience. https://t.co/G3rRD8GoGm
— Johnathan Randall (@MrJRan) January 30, 2018

Others pointed out that the younger generation has been dealt a bad hand when it came to the economy:

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— Garret (@burger_mc) January 30, 2018

Is this a legitimate question? I tell you what we are.. absolutely shafted by a generation that couldnâ€™t look after their money, and our financial futures up the shitter thanks to codgers voting us out of the EU. Knob heads.
— Rich Glover (@rich_glover89) January 30, 2018

One user got a bit dark about everything.

Is the spectre of your ever-encroaching mortality starting to bother you as you realize that you're more than halfway through your natural lifespan and you still haven't found a way to be happy?
— Hannah Shaw-Williams (@HSW3K) January 30, 2018

Full marks for honesty from this older-than-average millennial.

I am 33 and do not self identify as a millennial. Snowflakes one and all. That being said, I am pretty cack-handed.
— Ben Fletcher (@BFism) January 30, 2018

Let's face it, the older generation faced problems of their own.