“Youth always feel like they’re being talked down to about politics. [Politicians like Markey] see us as people and important voters rather than dumb students,” said Dillon Tedesco, a 19-year-old student from Boston, who has been using herplatformof more than 25,000 followers on TikTok toadvocatefor Markey. These narratives are usually oversimplified. While some headlines attempt to reduce so-called “generation wars” to phrases like “okay, boomer” and thedownfall of skinny jeans “Markey has a fantastic work ethic, and I think Generation Z relates to that because we have a lot of work to do in order to fix the problems that previous generations left for us, such as climate change,” she toldTeen VogueMultiple environmental advocacy organizationsincluding the youth-ledSunrise Movement film, Afropop’s growing popularity, and Instagram.