First Coined In 2014 Shareable Humanity trend icon

Shareable Humanity

Content shared on social media gets more emotional as people share amazing examples of humanity and as brands inject more feelings into marketing communications efforts.

The 2014 Non-Obvious Trend Report, where Shareable Humanity was first coined

First published in the 2014 Non-Obvious Trend Report →

Trend Longevity Rating

C Graded C in 2026 ·
a partial prediction that evolved differently than expected

How this trend held up

While human stories matter, this trend was negatively affected by fatigue from overly dramatic media stories and click-baiting headlines, which have made people far more skeptical of such stories.

Every past trend prediction is re-reviewed and graded with a Trend Longevity Rating, measuring how much each originally curated trend still matters years later.

Where It Led

This trend evolved into a megatrend.

In 2020, Shareable Humanity was identified as one of the past trends that evolved into the megatrend Human Mode: Tired of technology that isolates us from one another, people seek out and place greater value on physical, authentic and “unperfect” experiences designed with empathy and delivered by humans.

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