Imagine for a moment that you’re an Australian 14-year-old (if you are an Australian 14-year-old, well, thank you for reading Business Insider, first of all. You can skip ahead). Life is already hard enough — your toilets flush the other way, and there’s that whole cane toad problem. But worst of all, as of December 2025, your government banned social media like Instagram, TikTok, and Snap for kids under 16. Crikey, right?
But much like the resolve and perseverance of Olympic breakdancer ‘Raygun,’ you are going to keep forging your own path, haters and naysayers be damned. So you figure out a way (it’s not hard!) to skirt around the age…










