Young people desperately try to re -connect -with the world around them. The method that many have chosen? “Flows”: Also known as BlackBerry of the millennial era.
Ironically, Gen-Z brings to social media-which does not even lean on pephs-to spread the word.
For months now, users from late twenties to late adolescents have shown an interest in “retro” technology such as walkmans, iPods and digital cameras.
But Y2K’s last mania has older generations positively.
A quick search for Tiktok under the key “BlackBerry” keyword will show thousands of videos of ebay-borrowed blackberry phones, or dig them from their parents’ cabinets, decorating them with rhino and keys and nailing click keyboards to ASMR.
For many, BlackBerry’s mania is a continuation of the nostalgia of 2000, a time when aesthetics like Britney Spears-Esque McBling, cyberfuturism and frutiger aero governed the trends.
“We have come to the full circle,” they say dozens of comments in Tiktok’s publications Conting Creators such as @notchonnie, which uses their platform to show his massive collection of Retro Technology
“I am so sick of Apple, I would give up everything to make a blackberry!” A user wrote.
The commentators also shared how they searched places like Facebook Marketplace, Ebay and a post -search market for BlackBerry phones to replace their modern smartphones.
For a few hundred dollars, these technology-comfortable genes understand tranquility and many bigger generations questions, which undoubtedly remember the timely service, super-petting keyboards, and less than intuitive user interfaces.
Compared to the price of a new iPhone, which can cost more than a thousand dollars these days, and unlimited data plans up to $ 70 a month, younger generations see Blackberry as non-penser.
For many, the increasing anti-scatphone movement is also a way to really embrace the world offline and be more aware of content consumption.
“The smartphone is no longer a source of enjoyment,” a Tech columnist, a technological columnist in Mont -Real, told CBC News. “I used to be fun but now [people are] Add to this, so they want to return to simpler time using a simpler device. “”
“They are supposed to be the best moments of our lives, but you look around and people move,” said Sammy Palazzolo, a Tiktok content creator who uses a part -time part -time phone, told Usa Today.
Although they have grown in the digital age, the genes -even the older members of the Alpha gene, begin to take -regardless of where you look at these days, everyone is stuck on the phone.
According to a study by the Pew Research Center of 2024 on the subject, almost half of teenagers say they are “almost constantly” online, compared to ten years ago, when 24% of adolescents responded the same.
Some have even reported to hear the ghost of smartphone notification and others said that touching the “where” button is now no less than a reflection.
“He basically created this pattern where I was anxious and, therefore, would open my smartphone, and then I hate to open my smartphone, which made me more restless,” said Charlie Fisher, a 20 -year -old college student at USA Today.
Facilitating his digital detoxification, Fisher left his iPhone for a Flip telephone and, according to him, has not looked back since then.
“I have been seeing things more like when I was a kid,” Fisher continued, making his lifestyle recently without telephone. “You really see things about how they are in the physical world and your emotions are really linked to this.”
Flips and technology of the 2000’s as Blackberry are not cheaper.
According to Gen-Z, they promote spending more time with family and friends, exploring other hobbies outside doomscroling and Binge Watching, and find a healthier labor-vidal balance, who asks: children are really something?
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