Just when you thought teen culture couldn’t get darker than dystopias, stories of suicide took center stage. A switch has flipped from titles like The Hunger Games to media like Thirteen Reasons Why, telling progressively less hopeful stories of struggling teens. Even in the popular dystopias of a few years ago, the heroes had a chance, but today “the plucky teen hero who can save us all” has become “the plucky teen committing suicide.” If popular culture for teens “is the purest distillation of [the American] subconscious,” reflecting socio-cultural anxieties, the turn from pessimism to nihilism might reflect Ypulse data showing that Millennials and Gen Z think many issues in America are only getting worse. (Vox)
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