“It’s retro”: new TikTok trend has Gen Z giving themselves scurvy

A new TikTok trend has emerged with influencers and wannabe influencers alike giving themselves scurvy, in what they call “Scurvmaxxing”.

The trend has young people around the globe giving themselves the ‘retro’ disease while uploading dancing videos from their hospital bed to a Pirates of the Caribbean them remix.

Many who take part in the trend say that it is fun to experience something from a bygone era, while others say it’s a great challenge because “who can afford Vitamin C these days?”

There have been some detractors however, with some millennial users on the cusp of a mid life crisis releasing rap songs in the hopes of ‘Stopping Gen Z from cancelling people who don’t have scurvy’.