Extra Credit: What Is Depop Anyway?
Plus, Sally Rooneycore, grandfluencers, and manifesting hotness.
This week, I gave a presentation to a college about Gen Z. Most of it was about the generation’s priorities — fluidity, sustainability, authenticity — but to kick things off, I walked the group through some Gen Z vocab: Shein, cheugy, cottagecore, the passive-aggressive smiley emoji, Depop. Of all the follow-up questions I anticipated (so…a smiley…is ba…