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But other people do care, or at least they care about their own social-media-induced self-awareness. Earlier this year, a tweet that read ‘Why is posting on Instagram so embarrassing?’ attracted nearly 100,000 likes, 11,500 retweets and a deluge of commiserating comments, including: ‘Idk I cringe when I post that’s why I archived all of them and ha
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Gen Z grew up online watching their peers and older generations rip apart any behavior deemed cringe or cancellable, so now they’re largely risk averse and afraid to express vulnerability without masking it in irony, sarcasm, or self-flagellation.
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Nathan Allebachx.comWe’re in a constant battle to find our own sense of identity within the overarching internal values of the scene we want to belong to, and on that journey we’re incentivized to continuously prove our allegiance (“fanship”) and how we’re ‘in the know’.