The reason Gen Z is so obsessed with ageing

TikTok is driving anxiety among younger generations, but are there healthier ways to prevent looking old before your time?

Social media is a hotbed of anti-ageing sentiment.

Gemma Brown

Sep 24, 2024 – 9.00am

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For older generations, their 20s consisted of a daily moisturiser and SPF on a sunny day. Gen Z, however, is preoccupied with anti-ageing long before they need it.

And yet it’s hardly surprising that a generation of young women raised on social media, which has ingrained users with a hyper-awareness of appearance and unrealistic beauty standards, is so anxious about looking old.

The Telegraph London