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The 2024 Gen Z Gift Guide, According to TikTok
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The 2024 Gen Z Gift Guide, According to TikTok

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Dec 01, 2024
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Welcome back to After School Weekend Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers. Your support keeps this newsletter going! 💫

Today we’re talking about:

  • What Gen Z wants for Christmas! I analyzed hundreds of Christmas wishlist hauls and more than 50 reader-submitted Christmas lists to determine the 15 most requested gifts…

  • Data on Gen Z’s most-wanted gift cards for the holidays

  • What should be dupped vs what should not be dupped, according to Gen Z

  • The skinny jeans resurgence is here

  • Spirituality fragrance is the new functional fragrance

  • Sephora’s viral advent calendar 

  • Gen Z is already nostalgic for 2024 (and they’re sharing it on TikTok)

  • The “we listen and we don’t judge” trend

  • Why everyone’s saying “PMO”

  • Some thoughts on Teen Vogue and the desire for un-woke content

Plus everything else that happened in style, beauty, and culture and what I’m buying, reading, and listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week:

@ellazillmer1the crowd of people around the cybertruck just makes it so much better #blackfriday #arizona #thanksgiving #shopping #fyp #iowa #blackfridaydeals #mall
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Tomorrow I have a recap of what Gen Z bought for Black Friday coming for paid subscribers. (I wanted to include it in today’s but the Christmas haul TikToks consumed me…!)


WHAT DOES GEN Z WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IN 2024?

It’s my favorite time of the year.

For the fourth year in a row, I’ve spent many, many hours watching Christmas wishlist TikToks and then tallied up the most popular gifts. (Here’s 2021, 2022, and 2023.)

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