Raised online and under constant scrutiny, young adults are leaning into embarrassment as a necessary part of growing up.

"We have liberated ourselves from the shame of Gen Z calling us embarrassing," Charlotte Owen, the editor in chief of Bustle, ...

As Nike targets a new generation with a revised slogan, "Why Do It?," NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to consumer trends expert Casey Lewis about what brands get right and wrong about Gen Z.

This past year, it seems like the primary way to be online is to be kind of embarrassing, if not fully indulge in a rising ...

Scrolling through LinkedIn and Reddit lately, one thing keeps popping up: the “Gen Z vs. Millennial cringe” debates. Everyone ...

Cringe” has become its own culture online, and it's changing the way young people behave personally and professionally.

The things we say at restaurants can reveal more about generational gaps than the menu itself. Dining out should be about ...

Chalamet’s beloved presence online exemplifies the slow collapse of shallow, mob-like critique into itself — where calling something cringe might be just as cringe, so cringe begins to lose all ...

These are 14 terms, from TikTok slang to rising trends, you might hear your Gen Z coworker using in 2025.