Gen Z is using dark humor on TikTok to distract them from the stressful news cycle. Gun violence, vaping, natural disasters, and other current events are all getting the meme treatment on the platform, where the hashtag politics has over 123 million views. TikTok’s short, unpolished content style makes sharing opinions unintimidating, and making light of the problems they see in the world is, in the words of one teen, “a way for everything to seem less hopeless.” (NBC News)
