The student who tweeted the list, identified as Mew by Buzzfeed, said Callahan will often ask kids to define a word or confirm a definition, and sometimes he works the slang into classwork. When his students found out about the Gen Z lexicon, they convinced their teacher to give them a look. The sociology teacher has been tracking new words he hears from his students for 15 years, but only recently began writing them down. “I love learning the words that their generation comes up with,” Callahan told Buzzfeed News, “both the unique ones as well as the ones where they take an existing word and give it a completely different meaning.” (The original tweets have since been deleted.) The tweet went hyper-viral-168,000 retweets and 584,000 likes-and was spotlighted by Jimmy Fallon. In April, Twitter user shared screenshots of Callahan’s computer showing an ever-growing list of slang the teacher learns from his students.
And that’s something James Callahan, a 43-year-old high school teacher in Lowell, Massachusetts, discovered listening to classroom and hallway conversations. Whether you slay that quick test or not likely depends on your age, because those words have totally different meanings today than they did even a decade ago. You do you! But maybe give yourself a break from video calls from time to time, too.Pop quiz: Define “slaps,” “snack,” “smacks,” “extra,” and “finesse.” None of this is to shame or dissuade anyone who’s gotten or wants to get some cosmetic work done. When debating a little plumping or preserving, Gen Zers might also consider their personal finances and how spending a couple grand on fillers fits into that picture. Even some celebrities, those who once avoided questions about the work they had done, are openly admitting they wish they “ never touched anything to begin with. Just ask the millennials who spent years puffing up their faces in all the right places only to have the aesthetic pendulum swing back toward the gaunt, hollowed look. Aesthetic-service outlets, aka medispas and the like, are spreading as well.Īnother POV on why Gen Z might be rushing to the derm’s office: pretty privilege-the idea that you get further ahead at work, in social settings, in life because of your smashing good looks-is a real thing, as Elise Hu points out in her new book, Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital.īut all of us, from Gen Zers to boomers, should pause for a second to think about what beauty actually is-and how long our current definition of it will last. In addition, McKinsey’s research points to increased social-media messaging about injectables (to drive awareness and acceptance of them), and it’s landing with the under-25s: potential new users and manufacturers of the products engage directly or through influencers. (Some of the most enlightened among us have leveled up and turned off their self-view.) Why the boom? By now, everyone’s at least a little aware of how staring at themselves on video calls all day has affected their self-image. The idea is to stop wrinkles before they start. Last year, 27 percent of US patients receiving Botox were 34 or younger, compared with 21 percent in 2015, according to survey data from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Gen Z even has its own injectables lingo now: dermal fillers, biostimulators, and neuromodulators are known as “prejuvenation,” “ baby,” or “preventative” Botox. Those figures may have increased since then. Nearly as many high-income earners in the 20 to 30 age range as those in the 41 to 50 age range reported getting “neuromodulator” treatments (injectables that freeze your muscles like Botox)-and that was two years ago. That same research projected revenue growth in the injectables market to be no less than 12 percent a year through 2025, with the biggest growth coming from consumers in the North American and Asia–Pacific regions. When McKinsey published research about the growing injectables market in 2021, senior partner Olivier Leclerc and coauthors noted that the business was growing in part because men and millennials were getting in on the action.
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