Against ‘toddlercore’ (opens in new tab)

New Yorkers have always waited in line for culture-defining memories and trinkets — admissions to nightclubs, fashion scores from sample sales, Sex and the City cupcakes, or an “I Voted” sticker for the #resistance. But the new lines lengthening and proliferating across the Big Apple are confoundingly lackluster, due both to the fashion of the people waiting in them and to the grotesque, sugar-bomb goodies Gen Z is desperate to score.