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Solitude as a new aspirational lifestyle: 'We are not lonely'
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A young woman trudges back to her apartment after a day of work.
She enters a spotless kitchen, unloads a bag of groceries, and unwraps a frozen pizza before sliding it in the oven.
At the centre of the video – which has amassed seven million views on TikTok – is Lana Isa, a software sales manager in her 20s based in Toronto.
Isa is part of a growing, albeit niche corner of the internet where content creators, many of them women, share their daily rituals of living alone, choosing to spotlight a lifestyle that prioritises peace and solitude - the antithesis of social media excess.
For Isa, unveiling the "no friends" aspect of her life was less of a tagline, but the "reality" she had been living for several years.