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Gen Z’s Favorite Fall Semester on The Viral List

Fall 2022 nostalgia (already), 1000 little joys from Tumblr, and hometown pride (minus LA) are all going viral…

Written and Edited by the YPulse Editorial Team

Jul 31 2026
North America, Western Europe

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Gen Z is romanticizing fall as usual, but this time, it’s Fall 2022
Tumblr’s decade-old Just Little Things blog is making Gen Z appreciate the everyday
Gen Z is proudly repping the places they actually call home—they can’t all be from Los Angeles!

There’s nothing that compares to fall 2022 according to Gen Z Nothing says Gen Z is ready for fall quite like the return of #FallTok. But instead of romanticizing the season with the same old Gilmore Girls “So, what’s the verdict? I am an Autumn” audio (well, that too), Gen Z is looking back at a much more specific moment in time: Fall 2022. Often set to Steve Lacy’s song “Bad Habit” from the same year, creators are digging through their camera rolls and reposting ordinary videos that have suddenly become sentimental. Think: b-roll of college campuses blanketed with colorful...