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These 3 Meta-Cores Will Help You Understand Gen Z on TikTok

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Leave it to Gen Z to get meta with their social media content, creating #CoreCore, #HopeCore, and #MeCore to express their deepest feelings all on TikTok…

TL;DR

  • #CoreCore is young TikTok users’ meta way of talking about their deepest thoughts, and how social media has turned them into aesthetics
  • #HopeCore is the antithesis of the #CoreCore trend on TikTok—and it’s inspiring confidence among viewers
  • #MeCore has TikTok users sharing compilations of pop culture moments that personally resonate with them
Last year, fashion on TikTok was all about the #cores, which YPulse told you all about. But in 2023, Gen Z took a hold of “core” and made the trend into something deeper. While #Core has been used in the last few years to describe hyper-specific aesthetics, usually for fashion subcultures, it also now functions...

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