youth culture
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Skrt, Cheugy, and All the Other ‘Gen Z’ Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
We’ve all been around the social media block long enough to know what the terms extra, basic, lit, and flex mean. (Right? Right?) Still, there are a host of slang words popularised by Gen Z — people born between 1997 and 2012 — that, unless you have a teenager in your life, are addicted to…
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TikTok Is a Never-Ending Stream of Bad Financial Advice
A recent LendingTree survey revealed that 41% of Gen Zers have relied on TikTok for financial advice in the previous month, and indeed, hashtags like #FinTok or #Money have hundreds of millions of views. But are these bite-sized videos actually giving out good advice? Often not — even comically so. In many cases, the “expert”…
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‘Disciplining’ Kids on TikTok Isn’t Funny — Even If It’s Staged
TikTok is a varied place, full of cute dance moves, disturbing “challenges,” weird food hacks, and earnest parenting tips. And in yet another strange corner of TikTok lives a genre of videos we absolutely do not need: The (often fake) practice of parents publicly disciplining or shaming their children for views and likes.
