How the cheerful ‘teenage acquisitions’ trend on social media took a serious turn0

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• July 25, 2026

When 18-year-old Damarion Spann saw a flyer on Instagram calling for a mass gathering on a beach near downtown Chicago, she immediately wanted to go. Thousands of people joined him that night in the arena, playing music and dancing. The cultural trend of so-called teen power grabs has emerged across the United States in recent