Is Fridgescaping Another Symptom of Our Increasingly Polarizing Times? [Video]

“Surprisingly, I never thought anybody would care about my refrigerator,” says Lynzi Judish, a TikTok creator who posts content about “decorating, organizing, and romanticizing” her home. Judish is one of many millennials and Gen Z’ers deliberately arranging the contents of her refrigerator all for the sake of “fridgescaping.”

The new fridge decor trend has been taking over TikTok, inspiring thousands of people to intentionally curate the inside of their fridge and post content of their creations online. Over the last few weeks, the hashtag has racked up 34.3 million posts. But you might be surprised to hear that fridgescaping has actually been around for a minute—blogger Kathy Perdue first coined the term 13 years ago. The recent spark can be traced back to a post on Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” on August 15.

The user, Icy-Shelter9897, wrote, “Recently my wife has taken to ‘fridgescaping,’ I guess it’s a recent trend because I’d …