#also this mainly pertains to the US bc I live here lol

[icaruseater]

Future Generation Predictions 

(Things I think the future young ppl will think)

They will think selfie museums are lame (they’re all about “living in the moment” and see selfie museums as “too fake”)

Kinda like how it is uncool for ppl my age to drink cow milk (in favor of almond and oat milk), I think the next generation will think coffee in general is lame

^^ because of this, they’re will be a big rise in tea popularity in the United States. Cute and trendy tea shops will be everywhere

Soda will also hit an all time low in popularity, the next generation will be pretty anti-caffeine in general (but, for whatever reason, this won’t apply to tea)

They’ll be more alcohol-conscious (not by much tho)

Remember how bacon was super trendy for a moment? And then it was kale? My suddenly-trendy-but-kinda-random food pick is figs! Fig candy, fig juice, fig shakes, fig burgers, figs on pizza…

Astrology completely goes mainstream (again) and even the ppl who claim to hate it find themselves participating for social reasons (there will also be a number 1 hit song about astrology)

They will be more cash-less. There will be a small but vocal number of young people who claim they’ve never seen anything above a $20 bill in their life (some will even claim to have never seen physical money at all)

Country (music) has a big mainstream moment

Podcasts fall out of fashion and become associated with “old people”

The anti-marriage movement really grows legs and hits the mainstream. This is the cause of a conservative moral panic (despite this, most ppl will still get married)

This one’s pretty obvious, but there will be more vegans and vegetarians than ever. Things like vegan burgers will become more widely available at fast food spots, but I think the newer generation is instead going to favor cuisines that are already easy to make meat-less, like Indian and Mediterranean food (mmm, falafel)

Feel like I should put something climate-related in here, but all I can think of is something similar to the panic around straws that happened a little before the pandemic

Fashion trends: checkerboard print (which many ppl my age associate with the “clout goggles” era of 2016) will make a big comeback

Color trend prediction: earth tones, and red for some reason

Flower trend: eucalyptus in showers will be more commonplace

Worrying about if you’re getting enough electrolytes will become a “thing”

Books and especially magazines will become popular again as the new generation seeks to have a “physical experience” away from the digital world

^^for similar reasons the metaverse/virtual reality will continue to struggle to become as popular as it desperately wants to be

The sins of the chocolate industry will become more widely known, and ppl will be more chocolate conscious

Final prediction, and it’s another food related one: homemade mac and cheese will be SUPER popular. Everyone will want some homemade mac and cheese. People will post their “best mac and cheese recipe” and get clowned on if it doesn’t look good or deviates from the expectation in any way. The fact that this is pretty much already a “thing” in the Black community only makes me more confident that this will happen in the mainstream