'I wanted to spend less time on my smartphone so I ditched it for this classic device'
We all know Gen Z are unnaturally attached to their smartphones, with doom scrolling and brain rot on the rise, it comes as no surprise that social media has taken over their attention spans. But it seems that a fair few are keen to reverse their phone obsession and decrease their screen time by turning to an old classic.
One TikTok user, @CatGPT went to the extent of making a retro rotary landline phone which connected to her smartphone via Bluetooth. As shown in the video, if someone was to call her, the landline phone "actually starts ringing and you can pick it up."
The user mentioned in her previous video that she wanted to spend "less time on [her] phone and [have] no phone mornings" and "people went crazy over it" which is why she "decided to make a few [landline phones]". It comes after the now infamous Ibiza Final Boss Jack Kay's girlfriend speaks out after his incredible haircut goes viral.
She also revealed that if you pressed star on the phone, it would activate Siri, so you don't need to rely on memorising anyone's number.
The creator disappointed viewers as by adding that she doesn't "know how long she would be selling them for" because she felt that it was "more like a fun side project than anything else," but urged viewers to "check it out for a limited time" using the link in her bio.
In her caption, she confirmed that the retro phone answers FaceTime Audio and WhatsApp calls and, just "like the olden days", you won't know who's calling you.
The video received over four million views and over 450,000 likes as well as many comments on how great the invention was. One commented: "Younger generations are fascinated with a simpler time." Another said: "Ship worldwide I BEG YOU."
This is not the only example of Gen Z being heavily interested in the nostalgia. The Blackberry phone has seen its own resurgence on TikTok. Its hashtag has 136K posts with creators calling for its return, talking about their memories of their past BlackBerry phones and even finding and rebooting their own old phones.
The BlackBerry was released in 1999 and resembled a school calculator, but due to the popularity of smartphones, BlackBerry was discontinued in 2022.
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