Teens on TikTok Are Already Nostalgic for 2013

TikTok users are reminiscing about 2013, those halcyon days when Macklemore was gonna pop some tags, Miley Cyrus danced with a foam finger and, ironically, TikTok wasn’t yet invented.A video by TikTok user @zayla.tpwk has amassed over 100,000 likes and made just as many feel old while doing so. The video features Zayla wishing she was a teenager in 2013.She responds to the questions, “why do you want to be a teenager in 2013,” using the popular “are you on drugs?” TikTok audio, which is often used to demonstrate how obvious a question is. In the clip, images of One Direction, who were arguably at their most popular in 2013, flash onto the screen. “A dream I will never live,” she captioned the video.For those who were teenagers in 2013, the viral video has acted as a stark reminder or time flowing too quickly. TikTok user @abejab hit over 200,000 views in nine hours with a shocked response to the video, “duetting” it with text reading: “Not us entering the ‘I was born in the wrong generation’ stage please i’m only 22.” Teen angst manifesting itself as “born in the wrong generation” feelings is nothing new, but it’s a message…
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