On social media, everyone’s in their funemployment era

While American workers face “forever layoffs” and struggle to find work in today’s tumultuous job market, some are reframing this era of unemployment and finding a silver lining in their personal economic meltdowns. 

“Laid off in June and the job market is so bad I decided to have a funemployed summer,” one TikTok creator posted earlier this year. Another wrote: “a weekday as a funemployed millennial.” In the video they wake up at 11 a.m. and scroll TikTok for an hour; after breakfast at 1 p.m....