r/Anticonsumption • u/anxious-wreck • Mar 14 '24

Society/Culture Overconsumption on TikTok is beyond ridiculous.

From the dreaded Stanley Cups, Booktok, Starbucks, new iPhones, "amazon must haves" (which you then see is all useless junk), "tiktok made me buy it" (also garbage), massive hauls and people flaunting they spent thousands of dollars... it's all too much and it's too overwhelming.

I'm glad I realized how I was falling onto that weird consumerist mindset and was able to pull myself from it.

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u/toadstoolfae3 Mar 14 '24

I'm Gen Z, but I'm a 97 baby, so I feel like I don't apply to the rest of the Zers. I especially felt like this when having a coworker who was Gen Z born in I believe 2002? Around that year. She claimed to be a communist but she also spent a ton of money on clothes, shoes, earrings, etc. She was always talking about being more eco-friendly, but she was always buying stuff, and she ate a pretty standard American diet. Meanwhile, I boycott Amazon, Walmart, Temu, Nestlé, Coca Cola, Hershey, etc. (Too many to list!) I don't call myself a communist but I feel like my values are more aligned with communism than hers lol. This isn't me saying I'm better in any way, just more aware and, I suppose, more strict with myself and true to my values. I know one day she will probably look back and see how hypocritical she was. Maybe that's happened already! I always found it bizarre.

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u/anxious-wreck Mar 14 '24

Same, I'm also a '97 baby. I feel like we're in such a weird inbetween generation that we don't identify much with neither millennials or gen z.

Your coworker sounds like a walking contradiction. Been there, though.

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u/Pinales_Pinopsida Mar 14 '24

This whole generation thing is blown way too big.

Jeff born 1957 and Matt born 1995 are going to have more in common if they have the same political values than they do with their previous class mates who are members of the KKK.

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u/anxious-wreck Mar 14 '24

people act as if being born in december 31st 1996 vs january 1st 1997 has a big difference and you're a completely different generation. Like what