Buzzfeed made a Y2K joke and its readers were completely baffled — 'what is that'

Wall Street traders, United Airlines passengers, and Wall Street Journal readers were all left pretty confused on Tuesday due to large-scale technical difficulties. 

And now, BuzzFeed readers are, too.

The digital news organization sent out a tweet comparing the situation to Y2K, the technological glitch that some feared would paralyze the world's computer systems at the turn of the millennium.

And a chunk of BuzzFeed's followers had no idea what the acronym meant.

Here's the original BuzzFeed tweet:

 And here's how BuzzFeed's followers responded:

Readers were absolutely bewildered. 

So for those who can remember it, Y2K stood for "year 2000". And at the time there was concern that computers were going to melt down when the clocks changed to 01/01/00. But for the youngest millennials, the event is as irrelevant as the Tamagotchi.

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