“I’m noticing it’s getting harder and harder for me to go out partying,” says Albert Thió Hortoneda, 26, from Barcelona. “You go into a club at two in the morning, you’ve paid 20 euros, and to get your money’s worth, you have to stay until six. This throws my sleep patterns off a bit,” he explains. He says that packaged, consumer-focused partying that lasts for hours on end doesn’t appeal to him. “I hadn’t really thought about it being a generational thing, but I do see that a lot of people around me are experiencing the same thing,” he points out. In fact, articles and videos with hashtags like "We've normalized not going out"where very young people speak openly about not going out partying in their 20s. What was once a stigma – having to tell friends not to include you in their plans – seems to have found its niche on TikTok with hashtags on well-being and self-care.

The ban on social media was the trigger fora revolt in Nepal, led by Generation Z, which ended with the government's resignation. A year later, the same youthful energy that brought down the old guard has given rapper Balendra 'Balen' Shah an overwhelming victory in this week's parliamentary elections. These elections were a commitment made by the interim government following the prime minister's resignation in 2025.

You might think you are cool because you can serve fig But you're actually being pond And you don't even know it. Youth slang is evolving faster than ever thanks to social media, which has transformed communication into a global and dizzyingly frenetic exchange. Lols and hypes were overtaken by PECs and haulsAnd new expressions have already appeared on TikTok, sea and air, which millennials and older are finding difficult to understand. We've updated our dictionary for boomers in version 2026 with ten expressions new of Generation Z.

As soon as the decisive penalty kick by a Moroccan player found the back of the net, pandemonium erupted in downtown Rabat. Morocco had defeated Nigeria in the semifinals and, after a 50-year drought, could once again be crowned champions of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN). Moreover, this time the title could be won in front of their home crowd, as the final against Senegal is this Sunday in Rabat. Within minutes, thousands of euphoric fans gathered on Mohamed V Avenue in the capital to celebrate the victory. Amidst the honking of car horns and the blaring of trumpets, the noise was deafening. the social protests of the GenZ 212 movement that shook the country last October

"I'm getting ready for the protest. We have no idea what's going to happen; they might resign," explained Tsvetozar, a young Bulgarian in his thirties, on Wednesday as he headed to Parliament, where young people had called for what they hoped would be the biggest mobilization of the decade. Less than 24 hours later, their wish came true. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov announced the resignation of his government, a three-party coalition led by conservatives that had been in power for less than a year, in the country's lower house on Thursday. Yesterday's protests brought together tens of thousands of people who demanded the resignation of the government, which they accuse of corruption. "We have listened to the voice of society," stated the prime minister, who announced his resignation shortly before a vote of no confidence against the government, the sixth since he took office on January 15. Wednesday's demonstration was the third in just a few days called by the pro-European opposition party PP-DB against the government, a coalition of the conservative GERB party, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, and the populist ITN. Bulgaria—which will join the eurozone in January—has been mired in political instability for years and has held seven elections since 2021. The protest movement began on December 1, when tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest the 2026 budget, announced days earlier; a draft that included cuts to social spending, increased taxes on the self-employed and small businesses, and a lack of measures to combat inflation and corruption. Due to the public outcry—which culminated in clashes and arrests that same day—the government backtracked and canceled the budget's implementation. However, this "has been a turning point for Generation Z," explains Teodora, also from Sofia. "Every day more of us are joining this movement, and I believe that together we can achieve results." It's no longer just about budgets: what young Bulgarians are demanding, supported by a social majority that hadn't mobilized in over a decade, is an end to corruption and a government that has "held the state hostage."

A generational fatigue is shaking the Global South. These people were born between the mid-1990s and approximately 2010, at the turn of a millennium marked by a succession of crises. Generation Z has risen up in several countries and continents to demand tangible changes in imperfect, corrupt, and unequal democratic systems. The spark has ignited in recent months in Nepal, Madagascar, Morocco, and Peru; and, to a more incipient extent, in Indonesia and the Philippines. But we could also add Bangladesh—where there have been significant waves of violence—Kenya last year, and Sri Lanka in 2022. These movements are dispersed in space and time. The trigger has been different in each country, but they all share a deep malaise and the feeling of living under violence: social violence due to injustice and corruption; environmental violence due to resource deprivation and climate effects; human violence due to rights violations and inequalities.

A pirate flag with a straw hat was flying at the gates of Nepal's Parliament as the building burned. The same flag was raised above the Malagasy protesters who this weekendDemanding an end to the constant water and electricity outages, the protesters flooded the streets of Peru, where President Dina Boluarte was ousted on Friday. This is the insignia that presides over the ship of Captain Luffy, a rubber-bodied pirate who in the manga One Piece He is confronting the so-called "World Government." For several months now, he has also become the symbol of the wave of protests led by the so-called Generation Z—a label that encompasses those born after 1996—that has spread across South Asia and, more recently, to some countries in Africa and Latin America.

Coup d'état in Madagascar. Soldiers from an elite unit announced Tuesday that they were assuming political control of the island, following weeks of demonstrations that ended with the flight of President Andry Rajoelina. "We have taken power," Colonel Michael Randrianirina said on national radio. He had led the mutiny of soldiers who this weekend joined the thousands of young Gen Z protesters who led the anti-government protests.

It's six o'clock in the evening on any given Tuesday. Although the sun is already setting, the gray clouds of a rather disenchanting day are still reflected in the windows of the 22@ skyscrapers. The office workers in the area are starting to leave their jobs. They punch out and file toward the subway. And among men in blazers, with ID tags hanging from their necks, headphones being pulled out, and a few students with backpacks... "Baby can't you see, I'm calling a guy like you, you should wear a warning, it's dangerous"A group of four girls and a boy dance a version of the song Toxic by Britney Spears.

In the middle of the last century, everyone believed that men had to pay on first dates. According to the classic division of roles, women were in charge of the reproductive side and men were in charge of the productive side. They were the ones who breadwinners, provided the family with the financial resources, so their value was associated with purchasing power and the fact that he paid for dates was a sign of power. Furthermore, it was not until 1978 that women in Spain were able to open a bank account without a man's permission, having been denied their autonomy until then.