Meet the fin-fluencers: Raised on social media, fueled by boredom and flush with stimulus checks - scores of newly-minted 'zillennials' are shaking up the stock market on TikTok The TikTok hashtag '#stocks' has amassed three billion views on the mobile video app as more and more millennials and Gen Z turn to the platform to learn about the stock market These amateur investors have put 'day trading' back in vogue after experiencing the March Covid-19 stock market crash and its record-fast recovery - all they know is that 'stocks always go up The investment strategy of many Gen-Zers and millennials is to buy high-risk momentum stocks - and a speculative fever has taken over social media in a frenzy of 'meme-stocks' viral financial advice