For Gen Z, TikTok is more than entertainment.From wired headphones to yoga pants, here are 10 trends Gen Z brought back in 2021.TikTok is reviving the 2014 Tumblr-era aesthetic.Our eagerness to cling onto and restore aesthetics, objects, and technology can therefore be seen as natural. Technology, as an ever and rapidly-changing world, provides much to be nostalgic for: the trend-cycle is arguably too short and beloved products are abruptly replaced with updated versions, if not altogether discontinued. Gen-Z has been noted to bring back wired earphones - dismissing the rise of AirPods - the Tamagotchi, and flip phones. The digicam is just the latest in a line of 'old' pieces of technology that are facing renewed interest at the hands of a generation fuelled by nostalgia (opens in a new tab). Still, the use of the digicam paled in comparison to the fascination with film and Polaroid cameras - which both millennials and Gen-Z would agree have been dominant in the last few years. In 2018, the compact digital camera garnered attention once again, with accounts like (opens in a new tab) on Instagram shifting newfound focus on the camera. Somewhere on the spectrum of analog, digital, and smartphone, digicams were lost in our collective cultural consciousness. The game changing TikTok beauty filters that help you apply eyeliner and contour

The hashtag #digitalcamera (opens in a new tab) has 128.1 million and counting. On the app, the term 'digital camera trend' (opens in a new tab) has 137.3 million views 'vintage digital camera' (opens in a new tab) has 177.3 million views while 'cheap digital camera' (opens in a new tab) has 26.5 million views. Hundreds of videos and millions of views dedicated to the subject of digital cameras. As with most obsessions these days, TikTok is largely a force behind the revitalisation of the digicam. The digital compact camera is indeed facing a distinctive revival, and not only because Instagram-savvy celebrities like Bella Hadid (opens in a new tab), Charlie D’Amelio (opens in a new tab), Nicola Peltz Beckham (opens in a new tab), and Emily Ratajkowski (opens in a new tab) are engaging with this nostalgic device. 'Last year, I noticed the rise in people commemorating the digital camera across social media.' 'All of my childhood memorabilia was taken on a digital and so they hold a real nostalgic principle to me,' Temujin (opens in a new tab), a fashion communications student, tells me. Throughout the night, we turned to the silver Canon IXUS 177, eliciting reactions that all sat on the plane of appreciation: 'That's such a good idea,' was the overwhelming consensus. He was using his mother's camera, he explains, but he's taken it for his own now. This Halloween, in the midst of Wordle-inspired costumes and general mayhem, something stood out to me: my friend Temujin carrying a point-and-shoot digital camera, the kind that dominated the 2000s before smartphone cameras took reign.

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