YESTERDAY marked my last day of serving as Froyonion.com‘s editor-in-chief.

Founded in 2021, our media outlet is an alternative voice by nature. It is meant to accomodate Gen Z’s hidden voices that mainstream media outlets are less interested in.

With this in mind, we gradually built a network of contributing writers from various cities and towns across Indonesia.

Our Achievements

At this moment, we are not even three years old but proudly announce that we have published 3,918 articles, written by 306 writers, and served all these to our readers in 15 categories that cater to Gen Z’s demand of lifestyle content, from movies to music.

On top of that, we built an organic following on TikTok and Instagram, two platforms that Gen Z are now most religiously using.

Mutual Understanding

After having worked with them for almost 30 months, let me tell you how I honestly thought of Gen Z because so far I have always heard of Gen Z’s bad rap on social media.

Even a certain TikTok influencer dedicates his entire content to let the public know how annoying Gen Z can be in real life.

As the one and only geriatric millennial (read: old) in our workplace, I can tell you I have different experience of working with some of them.

The Gen Z I know here are so diverse just like my generation. They don’t fit in one kind of stereotype.

In my experience, they may be bold, outspoken, expressive, determined yet fragile, confused, moody at the same time.

It is true that they are sometimes problematic but AREN’T we all in our own way?

My point is this transgenerational gap should never be made even wider by despising each other because I am positive that the Gen Z with whatever their potential and issues are the reflection of how they are raised by adults (previous generations) around them and the world they are now living in.

So I am proud that I have been a part of this platform, helped, and teamed up with them for more than 2 years, building a platform that can let their voices heard and can serve as a ‘bridge’ that anyone especially Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y (Millennials) like myself use to understand Gen Z even better.

Thank you, Froyonion!❤️

[Also published on my LinkedIn feed]