Why are teens actually eating Tide pods? Nihilist meme culture rose up as a generational reaction to socio-cultural calamities (like The Great Recession) that have made Millennials & Gen Z the most anxious generations to date. Creating and consuming dark content is a quiet expression of their anxieties, and a way of seeking an escape from them. In other words, making light of drinking bleach or eating household objects via tweet is just this generations’ Dadaist art. (Salon)
