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...TikTok has hit $16bn in sales in the US, where the viral video app that has hooked Gen Z users is at risk of being banned.Three people with knowledge of its finances said the app, owned by Beijing-based...
...The annual jamboree is produced by Jay-Z’s entertainment company Roc Nation. The R&B singer has the stature for the marquee event....
...Gen Z seem pretty Zen with parents who can’t let go. Far from being fed up with all the intrusion, the majority say they rely on their parents for emotional and financial support....
.... £3 for 330ml, counterculturedrinks.com, kombuchawarehouse.com The A-list enterprise Brad Pitt was among the founders of California-based B-Corp Enroot, which supports the James Beard Foundation’s women...
...Each piece is handmade by craftsmen in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, Provence. Z.d.G....
...Punctuated by a mock-sonorous male voiceover, the set was split into acts, like a big arena show. The tone was ironic. “This is my R&B moment,” she announced as a wind machine blew her tresses around....
...The British grassroots movement Smartphone Free Childhood has been spreading, set up by parents who aim to keep the devices out of their kids’ grip....
...In some states, parental consent is assumed, says Shrier; and parents wouldn’t even know about these questions were it not for freedom of information requests made by dogged campaigners....
...With no common ground to speak of, today’s young adults and their parents’ generation are destined to end up in opposing camps on everything from housing policy to the environment and politics....
...Factors may include Gen Z socialising more online and a greater awareness of physical and social health. Some may be rejecting their parents’ habits. How very rebellious of them....
...Tony Thorne, director of the Slang and New Language Archive at King’s College London, says Gen Z is “heavily influenced by viral trends and memes, [it] is not strictly only verbal . . . it always has one...
...While TikTok has repeatedly denied its ties to China, Beijing potentially has as much sway over its fate as does Washington, which is attempting to force a divestment of the platform by its Chinese parent...
...Dior parent LVMH’s Life 360 programme includes commitments to eliminate plastic from packaging by 2026, to reduce its overall water consumption by 30 per cent by 2030, and to use 100 per cent renewable energy...
...Governments and businesses should instead do more to reduce barriers to those who do want children, particularly by making child-rearing a better deal for working parents....
...The music had elements of orchestral soul, vintage R&B, 1960s Afrobeat and classic hip-hop, assembled in a way that sounded contemporary rather than backward-looking. Simz’s rapping was the catalyst....
...The packed crowd was composed predominantly of young women in their teens, some still of an age to be accompanied by their parents....
...An increasing number of child diagnoses has also led parents to recognise traits in themselves later in life, while Generation Z are expecting the same support in the workplace that they received for such...
...TikTok’s surging revenue in the US and around the globe has put its parent company on track to overtake Facebook owner Meta as the world’s largest social media company by sales....
...The adoption by the older generations — our parents and grandparents — may have been influenced by black and white films of the 1960s, the “Golden Age” of Greek cinema....
...There is a lot of grunge in Gen Z’s love for thrifting, genderfluid approach to dressing and uninhibited expression through clothing....
...A survey in the US in October 2022 found that 82 per cent of Gen Z were in that situation — with many fearing they lacked skills as a result. They were probably right....
...This so-called “Migos flow” resulted in a copious flow of words, verbally superabundant even by rap’s wordy standards....
...One TikTok post and a million views later, other Gen Z and millennial daters followed her lead. It became a thing....
...But with Gen Z, a new global gender divide is emerging with potentially far-reaching consequences. Take a break from the news “Dog-face”....
...And, he says, it is no accident that millennials and generation Z are the least pro-democratic generations in US history....
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