TikTok wants me to host a dinner party. Is that an actual recession indicator?

TikTok wants me to have a dinner party, but the year is 2025, and I'm not a billionaire.It could be that it's spring, the ultimate dinner party season, but being fed constant streams of dinner party content on TikTok during the economic thrill that is April 2025 seems — at the minimum — worth consideration. Even the term "dinner party" eludes a sort of quiet luxury; no one is encouraging us to have potlucks or reinventing picnics a la, the cottage core trend of 2018, despite its endu