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

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.

For Gen Z, a beige flag is more innocuous. It could be someone offering a cringe or basic answer to a dating app question, or ...

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

The "Gen Z stare" or a neutral and unblinking facial expression emerged in 2025 as a significant cultural phenomenon. Studies ...

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 ...

Gen Z has abandoned the old dating script. In its place are more possibilities than young people sometimes know what to do ...

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 ...

Tween-targeted U.S. franchises such as Hannah Montana, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, iCarly, and High School Musical captivated audiences between 8 and 13. These shows launched music careers, product ...

A digital lynch mob had gunned for Myers over a clumsy sentence in his unsparing column on the BBC’s gender pay gap. The incident presented a perfect opportunity for his enemies, during his ...

In the early 2000s, “toothing” had commuters on edge; discover the strange Bluetooth craze millennials want to leave in the ...