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A global coming-of-age community
Your coming of age,
in good company.
Trendies Global is for people who want their coming of age, but do not want to do it alone. Find your people, widen your world and help shape a community built around lasting friendship.
Global community
Real connection
Shaped together
The idea
The world is full of people waiting to meet.
Trendies Global was founded by Tende Amery, a filmmaker, traveller and storyteller. After spending a year travelling to a new continent almost every four weeks, he discovered that the desire for community travels with us. The response to one honest video made the feeling impossible to ignore: people everywhere are longing for richer lives, deeper friendships and somewhere to belong.
From everywhere, for everyone. What began as Tende and a friend wanting to widen their own circle is becoming an invitation to build a more connected life—across genders, cultures and countries.
The story behind Trendies
Photography: Luis Haad
Register your interest
Tell us where your chapter begins.
Add your name if you want your coming of age, but do not want to do it alone. Your answers help us understand where the community is, what people hope for and what would make connection feel safe.
The early community
Where the energy is gathering.
Live city-level signals from the interest list—never private names or emails.
Designed for real chemistry
Not random rooms. Thoughtfully shaped circles.
As Trendies develops, an optional matching layer could help curate smaller groups around compatible energy, shared interests and the environments where people feel most at ease—without turning friendship into a dating-style swipe or reducing anyone to a personality label.
Optional by design. Human-led. Never a dating feature.Shy extrovert, quiet observer, natural organiser or ready-to-arrive-alone energy.
Culture, sport, food, travel, film, conversation, exploring and the ideas people want to try.
Ideal group size, public settings, accessibility and what makes a first meeting feel easy.
A letter from the founder
Dear Trendies,
On the people we are hoping to find—and the life we hope to build together.
You may wonder what a “Trendie” even is. It is a word I use for people who share the same energy for life: romanticisers, dreamers, main-character people, and those who do not just follow trends, but live with curiosity, hope and intention.
I started Trendies because I know what it feels like to have so many dreams and so much energy, but still struggle to find people around me who align with that—people who see the bigger picture too.
Trendies Global is a coming-of-age project for people who want to build real human connection. It is for anyone who wants their coming of age, but does not want to do it alone.
The aim is simple: meet in safe, enjoyable, public environments, expand our circles, make new friends, and help shape a new era of human connection together.
Everything is voluntary, and everyone should use their own judgement. Come with care, respect, and the desire to make this chapter feel real.
Love, Tende.
Stay trendy.
Trendies Journal
Stories for the life you are becoming.
Essays on coming of age, the places Tende has travelled and the small decisions that turn strangers into community.
EssayHow to have your coming of age
Not one perfect scene, but a collection of brave little yeses.
Photography: Luis Haad
TravelLetters from the road
What moving through the world taught Tende about belonging.
Photography: Luis Haad
CommunityFinding community far from home
The ordinary rituals that make a new place begin to feel familiar.
Photography: Luis HaadThe Global Atlas
Our community spans the globe.
Pin your country and watch a global community take shape. Each flag is an anonymous signal that someone, somewhere, is ready for a new chapter.
The atlas is gathering live signals.
Voices from our community
What does coming of age mean to you?
An evolving collection of thoughts from around the world. Safe notes appear automatically; anything that may contain harmful language or personal details waits for review.
Latest contribution
I want a life where I stop waiting for someone else to invite me.
“A group of people who mean it when they say we should make plans.”
“Becoming brave enough to build the life I keep imagining.”
Safety and trust
Connection, considered carefully.
Trendies is built around public, low-pressure plans and clear expectations. It is not a dating app. The aim is to make real-life friendship feel less intimidating, never unsafe or overwhelming.
Build with Trendies
Help create a new era of connection.
We are interested in thoughtful partners who can help turn a global online feeling into meaningful real-world experiences. Collaboration is entirely optional for members.
A brand can underwrite an accessible community moment while Trendies retains its voice, values and creative direction.
Hotels, cultural spaces, cafés and members’ clubs can offer considered settings, local knowledge or quieter off-peak access.
Travel, food, music, cameras, sport and lifestyle partners can contribute useful products or experiences—not intrusive advertising.
Partners can help fund responsible pilots, host training, safeguarding and documentation in new places.
Photography, film, publishing and cultural programming can capture the people and places shaping this generation.
Universities and wellbeing organisations can help us learn what genuinely supports friendship, belonging and participation.