Lipstick sales soar and men's underwear slumps: Behind the TikTok craze for recession indicators
Last month, an English TikTok content creator – known mononymously as Yasmin – posted a video on the platform, titled 'My Recession Indicators'.
The twentysomething listed several indicators that made her believe a recession is imminent.
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