Cyprus’ youth talk money: Don’t believe the TikTok hype!

By Dimitris Evgeniou

Scroll through TikTok or Reels, and you see guys my age in rented Lamborghinis promising €10,000 a day from crypto!

The captions scream ‘ESCAPE THE MATRIX’ and ‘FINANCIAL FREEDOM’ – a huge temptation for any 19-year-old student struggling with rising costs, while rents in Nicosia and especially Limassol skyrocket.

At our age, we are afraid that the traditional path isn’t going to work for us. And so we become easy targets for FOMO and herding behaviour.