New data from over 8,000 users suggests that people are increasingly defining themselves through emotional and symbolic patterns, rather than demographic categories or social roles.
Over the past decade, digital life has encouraged increasingly curated versions of identity, shaped by job titles, relationship statuses, and location tags. But new internal data from Hint App indicates a measurable break from this paradigm. In a global survey of 8,200 users, 68% reported that they now describe themselves primarily through emotions, symbolic patterns, or inner states rather than conventional demographic markers.
This shift, reflected across regions and age groups, points to a broader cultural movement away from static identity categories. Users surveyed favored descriptors such as “transition,” “expansion,” or “stability” over occupation, gender, or geography. Hint App’s analysis shows that 54% of users rely on mood-based terminology, while 47% use symbolic language informed by the platform’s interpretive tools.
Such changes align with a wider return to symbolic and introspective systems for meaning-making. According to Hint App’s data, engagement with tools centered on timing, emotional alignment, and cyclical understanding has risen by 29% over the past two years. Meanwhile, 58% of users in the same survey said symbolic archetypes and planetary cycles helped them articulate personal change more clearly than traditional self-definitions.
The pattern reflects a growing discomfort with identity labels that feel rigid or reductive. Among respondents, 41% explicitly stated that demographic categories limited their ability to describe personal development. Instead, users are turning to interpretive structures that allow for complexity, ambiguity, and emotional nuance.
What emerges is not simply a change in language, but a reorientation of self-perception. Emotional descriptors are no longer auxiliary; they are becoming the foundation for how people communicate who they are and what they are experiencing. This is especially pronounced in younger users, who engage most actively with Hint App’s symbolic features. Among users aged 18 to 29, the preference for symbolic identity markers was 15% higher than the platform average, suggesting generational acceleration of this trend.
The rise of these frameworks is not confined to niche groups. Hint App’s engagement metrics suggest a broad-based trend, with interest in emotionally reflective practices growing 34% year over year. These tools are not used in isolation but in conjunction with key life moments, breakups, new beginnings, therapy, or turning points in relationships, indicating that emotional states are becoming primary coordinates for personal navigation.
Rather than serving as abstract philosophy, the so-called “post-self” turn now appears grounded in behavior. The desire for language that mirrors internal experience is reshaping how people across demographics interpret who they are. While demographic data remains part of onboarding, it is increasingly supplemented, and sometimes supplanted, by emotionally driven self-description.
The implications of this shift extend beyond digital platforms. In education, mental health, and even marketing, identity frameworks built on emotional resonance may soon become more relevant than traditional segmentation models. For platforms like Hint App, this evolution signals more than a UX preference; it reveals a foundational change in how identity is constructed, navigated, and expressed in a digital society more attuned to subjectivity than structure.
About Hint App:
Hint App is a symbolic, emotional insight platform with over 1.2 million users that combines ancient practices such as astrology, palmistry, and visual soulmate interpretations with modern technology, including artificial intelligence and NASA astronomical data, to deliver highly personalized reports based on a user’s exact birth details. Rather than offering predictions or quick fixes, Hint App serves as a reflective framework, helping individuals map emotional patterns, understand the deeper timing behind personal and relationship decisions, and reconnect with their inner clarity.
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Hint America Inc.
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Leigh Roberts
PR manager
Hint App is a symbolic, emotional insight platform with over 1.2 million users that combines ancient practices such as astrology, palmistry, and visual soulmate interpretations with modern technology, including artificial intelligence and NASA astronomical data, to deliver highly personalized reports based on a user’s exact birth details. Rather than offering predictions or quick fixes, Hint App serves as a reflective framework, helping individuals map emotional patterns, understand the deeper timing behind personal and relationship decisions, and reconnect with their inner clarity.
Media Contact:
Hint America Inc.
pr@hint.app
Leigh Roberts
PR manager