“Gen Z is aging like milk.” That’s the word on social media. Some in the generation whose elders have just turned 27 (and whose youngest members are 12) are concerned about the image looking back at them in the mirror. Or, more accurately, from their TikTok and Instagram accounts.
After a viewer of one of her videos reckoned that 23-year-old Taylor Donoghue was in her thirties, she began considering Botox. Twenty-six-year-old Jason Howlett speculates that the stressors of this era have aged his generation prematurely.
And this era has big stressors: climate change, school shootings, the resulting routine of lockdown drills, a pandemic, burdensome student debt, endless wars, declining economic prospects, a shifting geopolitical landscape.
There are some Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) who snicker at the Gen Z angst about their age. It’s what they get for poking fun at older generations (especially the Millennials themselves). Maybe you’r…
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