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Gen Z is Bringing Back These 3 Millennial Social Media Trends

Oversharing is back!

Written and Edited by the YPulse Editorial Team
KEY TAKEAWAYS
  • Instagram has brought the profile song back for Gen Z (just like MySpace!), following the trend of music sharing on the platform  
  • The viral Gen Z airport tray aesthetic is a direct result of the Millennial flat lay days 
  • Expanding the number of photos Gen Z can put in their “monthly photo dump” makes their posts more like a Millennial’s event-based Facebook album 
Though Gen Z tells YPulse they’re more likely to be viewers on social media these days than they are creators, Millennials had a much different experience when social platforms first launched. It wasn’t uncommon to post their every move on Facebook as a status update or publicize their relationship statuses via MySpace’s top eight. Even Instagram’s early days were all about picture-perfect “Instagrammability,” which YPulse reported on at the time. And while Gen Z thinks they’re doing things totally differently, new features they’re using and trends they’re taking part in prove quite the opposite. In fact, the tides seem to...

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