Roya Heydari for Insider
A group of women in Afghanistan are breaking through as Gen Z influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
More Afghans are online, and dozens of Afghan women have 50,000 or more followers on at least one social platform.
As tastemakers, they're offering a fresh point of view on what it means to be Afghan in 2021.
A generation of Afghan women in their 20s have mastered the art of living their lives on social media.
Digital natives as much as any young person in Istanbul or Los Angeles, they are doing more than shaping what's
cool in Afghanistan. Over Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook, these influencers are proving they are more than the "post 9/11" generation, as they've been labeled for 20 years. Afghanistan is what