As a Teenage Girl, ‘SkinnyTok’ Makes Me Hate My Own Body
My friend’s room was pink, with dolls and flowers and a grand window overlooking Central Park. She had a poster that said “Chanel” above her bed, and a card above…
TikTok Therapy: What Teens Get from Influencers That Adults Might Be Missing
It’s easy to panic when we hear that teens are turning to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube for mental health advice. (I mean, there’s a lot of brainrot out there.) As…
‘Adolescence’ Revealed a ‘Secret Language’ of Emojis — Should Parents Be Worried?
When I imagined life with teenagers, I seriously underestimated how much time I’d spend just trying to decode what they were saying (cracked? Sigma? Crash out?) and their cryptic emoji…
TikTok Might Be Banned (Again). Here’s What 6 Teens Think About That
Will TikTok be banned… again? Or saved… again? Welcome back to the frenzy of will it or won’t it speculation now that President Trump’s executive order-decreed 75-day extension is almost…
Spam Accounts Are Making Instagram Casual Again — And as a Gen Z Girl, I’m Here for It
Forget finstas — there’s a new type of Instagram account taking over teens‘ feeds these days. Gen Z is now embracing the “spam” account as a way to reclaim a…