Gen Z and Performative Apathy
The Generational Trope that Typifies their User Persona
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7 min readAug 12, 2022
Boomers have their “back in my days”, Millenials have the “everyone gets a trophy”, and Gen X has something too... probably (I don’t know, because everyone forgets about them). But every generation becomes known for a certain type of persona. This is the generational glue that holds a group of people together and gives them a nugget of both identity and community.
Well, Gen Z has entered the scene, and I’d argue that their generational trope is performative…