Visits: 25 He’s quick on the reply, she’s slow to respond: Are they doomed? With little else to go on in the early stages of dating, minor matters of text etiquette can take on outsize importance. Imagine someone messages you …
So, You Love Sending Voice Notes. Do Your Friends Love Getting Them?
Visits: 17 The audio messages give users the freedom to deliver lengthy, meandering monologues — to the chagrin of some recipients. Kyle Victory It has become a common scene. Your phone dings, but instead of a text, it’s a forewarning …
Want to Feel Bad? Ask TikTok How Old You Look.
Visits: 24 A new trend has people asking to be roasted by commenters. Cherri Gervais got her first gray hairs as a teenager. “It’s genetic,” she said. Her hair color, a striking shade of silver, is the first thing people …
‘Let’s See You at 21’ Puts Fun Spin on the Unrelenting March of Time
Visits: 23 Hundreds of thousands of Instagram users responded to a recent prompt asking them to post pictures of their younger selves. Photo quality varies. Most of the photos are slightly faded. The hairlines fuller. Some feature braces. Old friends. …
Why Does Gen Z Believe It’s ‘Aging Like Milk’?
Visits: 24 Some say they fear their generation is aging more quickly than others. But as Gen Z-ers enter their late 20s, it’s more likely that they are simply getting older. It is a disorienting moment for anyone who happens …
Adiós al LOL, bienvenido el IJBOL
Visits: 30 Para la generación Z, es un remplazo oportuno a una retahíla de vocablos que ya no parecen adecuados para transmitir risa en línea. En el principio estuvo LOL, un acrónimo aparecido en la década de 1980 que se …
Why Are More Men Getting Perms?
Visits: 24 The modern men’s perm is loud for a hairstyle so soft. On TikTok, the hashtag #menperm, referring to one of the latest hair trends to be born from the app, has garnered more than 20.7 million views. Those …
Sorry, You’ve Been Rejected. Now Let’s Party.
Visits: 19 At Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles in mid-April, Lynda McGee, one of the school’s college counselors, checked her paper shredder. She needed to make sure it had the optimal effect: loud, obnoxious and finite. Soon, her …
Can Coach Get Shoppers to Buy Bags Made From Waste Scraps?
Visits: 23 Coachtopia, a new sub-brand from the American fashion house, uses waste or recycled materials to make new products. Will it catch on? During an interview in late March, Stuart Vevers, the creative director of Coach, stood by slivers …
They’re Over Being Real
Visits: 25 BeReal was pitched as Gen Z’s safe haven from the artifice of social media. For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so long. Each day last summer, a black-and-white notification appeared simultaneously on millions of phone screens. As …