A recent analysis of 70 million words from online and in-person sources compared the language used by 16- to 25-year-olds to that used by older people. Gen Z was less likely to use the words class, status, nation, religious, or spiritual and more likely to use the words stressful, relatable, gender identity, free, true, honest, fake, cancel, ghost, block, fam, and squad. This is Gen Z in a nutshell: concerned with authenticity, confronting free speech issues, pushing the norms of gender, and struggling with mental health.
