Democracy Goes Digital: Social Media and Bulgaria’s Gen Z Protests
Standing in her closet, folding clothes and speaking into a spatula suspended from the ceiling as a prop microphone, Bulgarian influencer and self-declared “Gen Z Machiavellian” Flora Stratieva (@florcheto) has a message for her 80,000 Instagram followers. “Every generation has its own historical moment that it declares to the world that they’re there… the time is ours!”