Gen-Z is a weird generation in the scheme of things. We date far less than any previous generation. Something like 50% of men between the ages of 18 and 25 say they've never had sex or been in a relationship before. The rates for workforce participation have also been steadily decreasing every year as young people decide to abandon the workforce and stop looking for work in general. Zoomers are falling behind on every major milestone from getting their drivers license to having their first kiss.
We've also seen a major increase in things like anxiety, PTSD, BPD, Bipolar etc. It's a stereotype that zoomers lack resilience and get burned out easily. Normal things seem to negatively impact them in ways that make life difficult to live.
I'm a zoomer. I know a bunch of zoomers. Many of us are finding ourselves unable to cope with adult life. It impacts both men and women in large numbers.
Hot take: Zoomers aren't just being lazy assholes, they actually have some form of autism. Idk if it's from the vaccines or the food or something else but there's definitely a very different psychological form emerging with each generation that hasn't existed with these numbers in the past. Young people genuinely have a much lower threshold for pain and exhaustion and need a lot of time to recharge after doing anything social or productive. They're afraid of the world and generally feel unequipped. This isn't everyone, but it's a big enough percentage to seriously impact society.
I think they will ultimately have a lot of influence. Society can't function when as much as half of the population isn't cut out for it. We're already seeing institutions change with safe spaces and stuff like that. I think society is slowly adapting to the reality that a huge percentage of our population now has neurodivergent traits. The world will look very different when they outnumber more adaptive types.
This seems accurate. As a fellow zoomer and knowing many hundreds irl and online, this sums up perfectly how zoomers generally feel.
Then add to that the societal despair caused by trends that are popular with Gen Alpha and making us zoomers think "it's so over".
No wonder we are messed up. We are the first generation to grow up fully online. We are the first generation to have on-demand high-definition porn from the second we got a computer or smartphone or tablet. We are the first generation to grow up post-2000. We are the first generation to experience any of these things before our brains matured.
No wonder we are so different from those who preceded us. No wonder we can't help but give up because the internet is all we know and love and truly cherish and we can't even properly conceive of a world outside of that bubble. No wonder we don't understand how the world works, and if we do, it's only because our personal assortment of mental disorders harmonized as high-functioning autism.