This trend is especially pronounced on TikTok, where younger users replaced usual dance trends with videos featuring ...

Some Gen Zers have openly mocked millennial humor as being cringe and outdated. Meanwhile millennials have begun appealing to Reddit for help as they're baffled by the humor behind Gen Z memes.

However there were some who were defiant, claiming that Gen Z humor was “actually funny” compared to these videos. “The difference is our memes were funny I swear,” one person wrote.

Some memes and TikTok videos may be funny or tasteless (or both). But for Gen Z users online, experts say dark humor can help them process major news events and protect their mental health.

Gen Z users specifically are going viral with videos reminding each other of the ridiculous memes they grew up loving and coming to the realization that perhaps brainrot humor is universal.

The consensus among Gen Z is that memes generally stop being funny once they’re overused, especially in ad campaigns by brands. But even if we see the meme as dead, it doesn’t disappear—it just stops ...

Alayna Cowan, a college student in Savannah, Ga., learned about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump from a news alert on her phone. She read the accompanying article, which reported that ...

The internet has transformed how Gen Z communicates. Our language is built on memes and a collective sense of wry existentialism, with our humor often turning dark or potentially dangerous, as it ...

Move aside Gen Z, there is an even younger generation with an even weirder sense of humor taking over the internet. Years of making fun of “cringe” Millennials have finally caught up with Gen ...