Young Americans are hungry to assert their social dominance—and they’re using food to do it. Expensive foods are the latest status symbol for cash-strapped Gen Z members who can’t afford traditional indicators of wealth, including expensive cars and designer clothes. $19 fruit smoothies from upscale supermarket Erewhon and $45 fries are among the most coveted […]
Gen Z has revived a pocket-sized toy that many millennials remember fondly. Tamagotchis – “digital devices in which users can take care of a virtual pet” are hot products among the younger generation recently, going back to their heyday in the 90s. Bandai Namco, the brand behind the popular toy, reported that worldwide sales doubled […]
Gen Z is always eager for a new trend. Electrolytes are the latest craze to grab TikTok’s attention, with hundreds of “recipes” appearing on the platform. Electrolytes – such as sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium – are the minerals in your blood that essentially help keep everything in your body balanced. You lose electrolytes when […]
When asked to go big or go home, Gen Z tends to choose the latter. “I’d say I’m kind of home now,” Karson Krouse, a 24-year-old wildland firefighter in Washington state, told Bon Appét. “There are strange things that came out of the pandemic. I go out a lot less. It would have to be […]
Give us a break. Gen Z is calling out of work for the same aches and pains as their elders — but at surprisingly higher rates. In a new poll, for the Daly Mail, 24% of workers aged 16 to 26 said they used neck or back pain as an excuse to take time off […]