ICYMI - How “Millennial Cringe” Became “Millennial Optimism”
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Gen Z expert and After School writer Casey Lewis to talk about how Gen Z TikTok users are switching up on Millennials. After years of mocking the generation for being “cringe” online, now people are longing to return to the 2010s and the culture that came with it. But were Millennials really as “optimistic” as the fancams make it seem? And what does Gen Z have, if anything, to be nostalgic about?
This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 1:12.0 | Joining us today, we have Casey Lewis, author of the newsletter After School. |
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