'Our listlessness is right at home in TikTokland, which insists on squandered time, self-abnegation, and nonbinary play over productivity, self-improvement, and hard edges.'
Even as the “TikTok generation” is increasingly its own designation—and the phrase means something like “damned young”—theof the antic video-sharing platform, Zhang Yiming, born in 1983, is almost a Gen Xer or at least a xennial. Moreover, the new CEO, Liang Rubo, was Zhang's roommate. Very Gen X to stick with your teen tribe.
I admit, I'm giving into the mental laze of generational categories. But come on: It's all so obvious, the Clinton-era apparatus pervading TikTok. And it's not just the high-waisted jeans and flashed midriffs. The #nonbinary videos, for example, are chocked with the sartorial stylings of Grace Jones, Prince, Eddie Izzard, Kurt Cobain, RuPaul, Boy George, Annie Lennox. You get the sense that, sometimes, nonbinary living is styled as a function of apathy, as it was in grunge days.
Mental illness TikTok, especially #adhd TikTok, is another Gen X throwback. Memes like “Tell me you have ADHD without telling me you have ADHD” let people register their bedeviling idiosyncrasies and find fellow travelers. It was from that I learned about “ADHD paralysis,” which descends on someone when they fall, in an instant, into a blank state and can accomplish nothing.
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