Earlier this year, Eric Bailey released a Chrome extension that replaces the word “Millennials” with “Snake People”<\/a>. I was reminded of this in an article I read the other day where the author had struck out the phrase “Baby Boomers” and replaced it with “Locust Generation<\/a>“:<\/p>\n The Internet has been saturated for years with videos and photos of cats. This summer, it is also filled with snake people.<\/p>\n For the thousands of Internet users who have downloaded a browser extension called \u201cMillennials to Snake People,\u201d any online use of the word \u201cmillennial,\u201d a common term for people born in the 1980s and 1990s, is automatically changed to \u201csnake person.\u201d An extension is a small software program that modifies an Internet browser such as Google \u2019s Chrome or Mozilla\u2019s Firefox. Related terms are also altered: \u201cGreat recession\u201d becomes \u201ctime of shedding and cold rocks,\u201d and \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d turns into \u201cGreat Ape-Snake War.\u201d<\/p>\n Web designer Eric Bailey, 33 years old, said he created the extension to amuse himself. \u201cI saw one crazy-titled headline too many,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of these articles speak of [millennials] in terms of this weird, dehumanized, alien phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n The joke caught on quickly. Mr. Bailey launched the extension for Chrome in April, and others later adapted it for download in Firefox and Apple\u2019s Safari. The Chrome extension has nearly 12,000 users, while a competing extension that turns \u201cmillennial\u201d into \u201cpesky whipper-snapper\u201d has about 2,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this year, Eric Bailey released a Chrome extension that replaces the word “Millennials” with “Snake People”. I was reminded of this in an article I read the other day where the author had struck out the phrase “Baby Boomers” and replaced it with “Locust Generation“: The Internet has been saturated for years with videos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,15],"tags":[58,956],"class_list":["post-32758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-technology","tag-internet","tag-millennials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8wm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32759,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32758\/revisions\/32759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}