Many things could sum up the Gen Z experience. There’s “CHICKEN JOCKEY,” the Minecraft movie stunt that, to the relief of AMC employees around the country, seems to have died down. There’s Ballerina Cappuccina, an Italian “brainrot animal” you have no business knowing about. There’s Benson Boone and his wide array of haters. But none of those things captures Gen Z’s crippling anxiety quite like the TikTok at the bottom of Casey Lewis’s Substack today:
“I was too anxious when the maintenance man came over so I made a fake work document for a fake company.”
Her rationale for faking an entire e-commerce content strategy? “I wanted to look gainfully employed
