ICYMI | “Gen-Z Stare” and the Log-In Epidemic

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim parse through the annoying practice of logging in and downloading apps. From hiking in the woods to brushing our teeth, it seems like we can’t do anything online these days without being prompted to make an account or download an app. Why do tech companies pressure us to log in all the time? And if we log out, why do they shame us into downloading apps for fast food places and refrigerators? But first, what’s the “Gen-Z Stare” and is this simply TikTok creating another intergenerational conflict? Get more of ICYMI with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of ICYMI and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the ICYMI show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/icymiplus for access wherever you listen. This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, that's it. Come on. Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow. Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level. It's going off now. Yeah, whatever. Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is. What? How? Oh, no. You're out. Better look next time. Mom! It's game over for late nights on school nights. EE Wi-Fi controls help you get them off the Wi-Fi and into bed.
0:22.8	More parents are choosing EE broadband, the UK's fastest growing broadband provider.
0:27.8	To verify see EE.com.com.
0:30.2	There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.
0:33.8	Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.
0:38.3	You'll get to know the difference.
0:40.3	New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.
0:45.3	Until 9th of September from 11 AM, and you're listening to I see why am I.
1:08.5	In case you missed it.
1:10.2	Slate's podcast about internet
1:11.6	culture. And Candice, the discourse that was all over my for you page over the weekend is something
1:18.2	called the Gen Z stare. And as sort of the resident, dare I expose you, gen Zer of this duo,
1:27.2	yeah. I want to know, have youier of this duo. Yeah.
1:27.9	I want to know, have you ever encountered this?
1:30.6	Have you ever done this?
1:31.9	Have you heard of this?
1:41.0	Yeah, so here I go speaking for my community.
1:44.9	Yeah.
1:45.4	I did not know what this was when you brought it to me.
1:48.8	And then I thought about it.
1:51.1	I just did it.
1:51.9	I just did it literally a day ago.
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