That means that’s crazy.
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Youth word of the year – These were the top 3 youth words of 2025.
The youth have spoken… And, as every year, the rest of us are left wondering. The decision on the youth word of the year will be made on October 18, 2025. But which terms were up for selection in advance?
No wonder. When all you care about is yourself how could you expect anything else?
Take another selfie. You’ll feel better.
Germany sees loneliness epidemic among young people – “How do I find friends?” is the most common question German influencers get asked on social media. Loneliness has become a pressing issue in Germany, with far-reaching consequences.
Three years ago, Felix Wunnike realized he had struck a chord with young people. Whenever the business psychology graduate posts videos on his TikTok account about “finding friends,” his followers respond immediately.
“Even when I just said in the video, ‘Send this video to your best friend,’ the top comment with the most likes was always something like, ‘I don’t have any friends.'”
But I’m not a young German.
The race was extremely close: “Aura” is the German youth word of the year 2024, with a wafer-thin lead over “Talahon” and a new interpretation of “scissors.”
Talahon: An adherent of an urban subculture of males aged between about 13 and 25, typically but not necessarily of Middle Eastern origin, characterized, among other things, by a passion for German hip hop and wearing counterfeit designer labels.
Duh. By not being far left.
Much less far left batshit crazy.
AfD: How Germany’s far right won over young voters – For the first time, 16-year-olds in Germany were able to vote in the 2024 European Parliament elections. The far-right populist Alternative for Germany party’s targeted social media campaign appears to have paid off.
The far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) made gains in almost all age groups in the 2024 European elections, but its biggest success was among young people. In the last EU election, in 2019, one in three voters younger than 24 chose the Green Party, and the far-right AfD garnered just 5% of the young vote.
Hundreds of thousands of young people start smoking.
Cigarette boom in Germany – Last year, the proportion of smokers among 14- to 17-year-olds almost doubled, a new study reveals. Health Minister Lauterbach is horrified.
So, no future, in other words.
Germany: Number of young people falls to record low – People aged 15 to 24 have never made such a small share of Germany’s population. The latest figures show only 10% of the population fall into this age group — putting Germany below the European average.
But at least the number of migrants coming to Germany continues to rise. Up to 400 per day now. And they tend to have really big families.
So, do the math or whatever.
Number of young people in Germany continues to fall – The proportion of youth and young adults in the German population is growing ever smaller.
The number of people between 15 and 24 years old in Germany continues to sink, with just 8.5 million in this age group living in the country at the end of 2019, figures released by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) showed on Tuesday.
That makes up just 10.3% percent of Germany’s population of 83.2 million people, Destatis said.
The German figures were released ahead of International Youth Day on Wednesday.
Or Volk, if you prefer. Thanks to you a total Corona lockdown is virtually assured now.
Confusion, defiance and parties in the park: A postcard from Berlin under coronavirus lockdown – Police had to break up several so-called “Corona Parties” on Monday evening, where hundreds of students had bought cases of Corona beer and gathered in parks.
In Berlin zum Beispiel sind die Clubs zwar geschlossen, trotzdem treffen sich viele Jugendliche einfach in Parks zum gemeinsamen Trinken.
Observing Hermann 