If you're on the internet for longer than 10 minutes, you've probably heard the word "millennial." At this point, I'm fairly certain we all know what it means, but let me define it for you, just in case.

Millennial: a person born in between the late 1980s and early 2000s. It's a nickname given to our generation similar to that of the "Baby Boomers," who were born in the years following World War II.

Using those years as our marker, we are the largest age group in American history.

So, chances are, if you're a young person, you're probably a millennial.

According to those older than 30, we are a generation of entitled, spoiled, brats who know nothing more than how to tweet every part of our day and whine. We're all "special snowflakes" and want "racism, sexism and homophobia to end" or "whatever."

Here's the problem with the rhetoric surrounding millennials - who created us?

I mean that both literally and metaphorically. The answer to both is the same - our guardians.

Yes! Of course! It's so obvious. Our guardians raised us, told us what's right from wrong, taught us how to act towards others and generally how to be a person.

So it's funny (not really) that those our parents age, and many of our parents themselves, tend to be the ones complaining about the "participation trophy generation".

Who gave us those trophies? Why aren't there piles and piles of articles complaining about the people who raised us? Is it because that would include those who complain about us? Do they not want to take responsibility for what they've done?

Now, look, I get it. If I was a 45 year-old with nothing better to do, I also would just start blaming society today on young people who are barely old enough to have contributed to it. I mean, I can only assume that's all I'd be able to do after reaching such an old, bitter age.

We are constantly being bombarded with hate. I can only compare it's ridiculousness to someone teaching their dog how to use the toilet, and then getting mad at them when they actually do it on their own.

You taught them to do that, why are you getting mad?

I love my generation, I love being a millennial, but I also fear for us.

Statistically we are more educated than generations before us, but see less earnings. We have a higher rate of Bachelor's Degrees, with 22.3 percent of us obtaining them as opposed to previous generations 15.7 percent (1980).

Because of our high college rates, we are faced with more debt than our parents could've ever imagined when they were our age. Tuition has been raised by 234 percent since 1993. The average millennial will graduate their college campus this year owing around $35,051, which is twice the amount our predecessors had. The cost of college has gone up with the need to attend it.

With this debt, we're buying less cars, less homes, we're opting out of having kids and getting married because who can afford it? I can barely afford to take care of myself, let alone another human being.

We face a sluggish economy driven by the very Baby Boomers who criticize us. They ruined the economy and blamed us for being so riddled with debt and having to move back in with our parents or ask that those who make minimum wage be paid more so they can afford to live.

On a positive note, we are more ethnically and racially diverse than our parents. Four out of ten of us have tattoos. We tend to be more accepting of those of different religious and cultural backgrounds, and of those with varying sexualities and gender identities. Nearly 60 percent of us favor gay marriage. We welcome diversity, and have become greater for it.

You see, secretly, I think Baby Boomers are scared. They fear us, so they use us as a scapegoat for everything they see wrong with today.

They're scared that at how versatile we are. They're scared of how quick we learn, having grown up in the technological boom of the 90s and early 2000s. They're scared that one day we'll figure out how to beat them out of their jobs and go on to further various industries farther than they could've imagined. They're scared of how accepting we are. They're scared - and when people are scared, they always find someone to blame.