This week on TikTok: Practicing “Lucky Girl Syndrome” in 2023 Gen Z loves to manifest their perfect future through mantras, and it’s even become a huge wellness trend. Last year, it was all about making affirming videos and claiming financial success with a supposedly lucky audio. This year, the affirmation to recite is “I am so lucky, everything works out for me,” which will supposedly incite “Lucky girl syndrome.” It began with a TikTok of two girls eating takeout in their car, discussing how through manifestation, things have simply gone their way when they need them to. Since they posted their video, the hashtag #LuckyGirlSyndrome has amassed 40.2M views, full of others sharing how the mantra and attitude of believing good things will happen just because has changed their lives. Many explain it like this: by believing good things will happen to them, the universe matches their positive energy with the opportunities they’re hoping for. Maybe it’s that Gen Z is just that lucky, or maybe their...
