Gen Z Explainer: The Costco Guys, Mewing, Jimmy Fallon, PJ Vogt, and The Rizzler
The key to their appeal, intentional or not, lies in how amateurish and cheesy they are. Gen Z/Gen Alpha ironically love them but also earnestly appreciate their authenticity. My son describes this generation’s sense of humor as “suspended between irony and earnestness,” or “irony in quantum superposition,” which he calls “Schrödinger’s Irony.”