Concern for Gen Z spikes after 28-year-old TikToker is criticized for looking \u201cold\u201d TikTok: courtneylillianballGen Z\u2019ers are being slammed after shaming a 28-year-old TikToker for looking old, highlighting the younger generation\u2019s fear of aging. With the rise of social media, Gen Z is an example of growing up in an online world that preys on insecurities and values youth and beauty above all. Internet users have begun to notice Gen Z\u2019ers are fixated on preventing the natural process of aging to ensure a continuous youthful appearance, going so far as wanting to \u201cunalive [themselves] in their 30s\u201d. Now, Gen Z is being slammed for their obsession with youth after criticizing a 28-year-old woman on TikTok for looking \u201cold\u201d. \u201cWrinkles, freckles, sunspots, imperfections, breakouts, discoloration\u2026 all very normal,\u201d Courtney wrote. \u201cAll natural is always most beautiful in my opinion.\u201d However, many viewers didn\u2019t agree and took to the comments to blast Courtney\u2019s appearance. One person said, \u201cStay out of the sun jeez woman.\u201d Another wrote, \u201cSeems more like 38, rather than 28.\u201d Taking to Reddit, user \u2018Ok-Economy-5820\u2018 pointed out the \u201calarming\u201d increase in Gen Z\u2019s fear of aging. They wrote, \u201cI have seen multiple Gen Z\u2019s (the vast majority women) on various platforms including Reddit and Instagram express a desire to unalive in their 30s or when they reach 40 because they cannot handle the fact that they will age, \u2018become unattractive,\u2019 \u2018become hags\u2019, etc.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think this is necessarily our fault, but I do see (and recognize in myself) a fear of aging, and instead of psychologically and socially trying to combat this, we simply turn to consumerism to try and \u2018fix the problem,’\u201d they continued. \u201cWe need to do better, for ourselves and for younger generations. Skincare should be something we do to prevent cancer and to make us feel good, not another tool to try [to] fit into a patriarchal mold.\u201d Despite the immense criticism, Courtney has maintained her love for the natural process of aging and stated in a follow-up video; \u201cI\u2019m a happy girl, my face shows it\u2026 normal, human girl.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Concern for Gen Z spikes after 28-year-old TikToker is criticized for looking \u201cold\u201d TikTok: courtneylillianballGen Z\u2019ers are being slammed after shaming a 28-year-old TikToker for looking old, highlighting the younger generation\u2019s fear of aging. With the rise of social media, Gen Z is an example of growing up in an online world that preys on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}