Have you heard of Gen Z being called the “Christopher Columbus Generation”? It’s because they keep “discovering” things that already existed.
The newest one is “silent walking”, which is just walking without your phone. And “quiet quitting” is a big thing nowadays. But that’s just doing the minimum at work. And people have been doing that for YEARS.
And they also just discovered “Coke floats”, which have been around since the 1800s.
But to be fair, every generation repackages old ideas. Millennials had “life hacks” and “adulting.” And Gen X had “slacker culture.”
The difference now is TikTok blasts these trends everywhere instantly. One expert summed it up nicely, saying Gen Z isn’t inventing things, they’re just “making them their own.”
(Newsweek)
