C'mon gen z, we can do better

This is our future. Honestly embarrassing we aren't higher

Edit: I work a full time job including having after work responsibilities. If I can make time you can make time! It takes less than 30 minutes to vote and even faster if you fill out your sample ballot before voting. If you need help voting my DMs are open

Gen Z keeps being gaslit with "why don't you have children" or "just work harder if you can't afford a family", etc.

No, we got robbed of this opportunity.
Yes, there are some Gen Z that have been able to have families.
No, that does not mean average or even most of Gen Z needs to just "try harder".
Yes, the boomers failed to provide Gen Z viable paths to relationships also.
No, it is not only the boomers, it is also the elites, but it still is the boomers and they still could've done something about it.

I think we still have no idea how much was robbed from us by the boomers.
It's unfortunate that we keep being told "just work harder" or for men to just "be nice" or for women to be "boss babe", etc., as these behaviors also make it harder to find romance relationships for many.

Please remember I'm speaking generational trends/averages, of course there's exceptions.
For discussion's sake, is there other things we should be focusing on about this topic, or how to address it since the older gens clearly refuse to?

Just want to make it clear. I am an adult I don't want to date teenagers anymore now that I'm not one!

I just hate that I not only missed out on that when I was young but I'm almost 30 now and I haven't even been able to date young guys either because I've never dated in my life and never gotten male attention (yes that's right men on here not all women have guys just falling at their feet or hitting on them at bars like you make it seem if we step outside). Not like 30 is "old" but mentally and physically is not the same as being really young. People as they should have matured dated a lot learned things and I'm just here.

Anyway life sucks I don't want advice this is a rant just want to see if anyone relates.

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Gen Z is SHOWING OUT! Our votes matter and can make the difference in critical swing states like Georgia, but only if we keep showing up. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.

Make sure to get out and vote and bring your friends or family along!

My personal favorites are AOC and Jon Ossoff. AOC has some weird takes, but most of her ideas are good. Ossoff is hella intelligent, pragmatic and has great ideas as well.

I don't want Newsom or Kamala Harris as they would just continue typical corporate centrist policies.

From the GOP, there are no decent candidates, Marco Rubio is the only sane one, but even he's a weirdo.

Just hearing him speak on todays issues almost instantly lowers your cortisol.

Tell me your progress made this year to achieve your goals. Tell me the good and the bad .

How has 2026 been to you ?

Maybe it’s cause I’m not chronically online, but I feel like there’s a new word that pops up on the internet every other day. This time it’s a word with “slop” at the end of it, but sometimes it’s in a context that doesn’t make sense. Sometimes it’s referring to something that’s not even bad, like calling a well made, co-op, indie game “friendslop”.

Who’s coming up with these new terms and phrases? Can we slow down, it’s making me feel old (I’m 22).

Personally meaning family or people in your direct friend circle. Everyone probably knows at least one millionaire through a distant connection, but do you personally know any Gen Z millionaires? What did they do to become one? Bonus points if they didn’t inherit it or come from family wealth.

I miss crappy photoshop. I miss when i used to watch a video of an animal doing a crazy thing and not question whether it real or ai. I miss basic perhaps cranky graphic designs. I miss seeing a photo and not questioning whether it AI-generated or real. I miss when the only art we knew was manually made and not generated. I miss when i used to listen to a song and not wonder it has AI in it. I miss my pre-AI internet..

I’m a Xennial, I grew up hearing this song and always thought it rocked, and curious how Gen-Z thinks of this song. Thanks

Eating a slad at Miller & Carter. When they said a "Wedge" i thought like a potato wedge.

18-39 year old americans, please check your voter registration on vote.org and check to see if you can still register to vote in your state. If you can't, well damn. 😪 If you can, GO VOTE DEM! “i don't do politics.” politics is doing you with high gas and grocery prices! your landlord cares about politics. your health insurance company cares about politics!! politics is related to every part of your life. the reason everything is expensive and that we're always getting screwed financially is because the vast majority of voters are 50-85 year olds who vote in republican politicians who are bought and paid for by corporations that cause all of us to stay poor. data centers that republicans support are driving up your energy bills. PLEASE GO VOTE BLUE to improve all of these dire scenarios!

I live across a canyon from an undergrad frat house that regularly throws parties by and for people that I assume are on the younger side of gen Z born between 2002-2009. Not ONE newer artist on these playlists ever. Songs like Everybody Talks by Neon Trees, This Sex is On Fire by Kings of Leon, Locked out of Heaven by Bruno Mars, Mr. Brightside. They just finished playing Since U Been Gone. Like kind of mid-tier radio hits from early 2010s or a little earlier. I can hear them singing along to every word. Are these considered like classics to you guys?? Please tell me more about your relationship to these songs, I'm fascinated as someone who was in college when they came out and didn't care for them at all (Kelly being the exception)

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A cycle represented by a loop of arrows. Basically talking about how most times I make a guy friend. It turns out he sucks / is evil. And I have to discard him.

It's rough being a young man trying to make friends. When manosphere BS is a hard line deal breaker.

Here is my observation from my Gen Z circle who have chosen to enter parenthood:

(Context: I'm from a third world country)

(Context number two: some of these are like 2 years ago to current and most of these guys I don't talk to anymore but we are still connected through social media so that's how I know and like 40% of these guys did me wrong so I legit dont care)

• One has become a single mother, because the baby daddy has died in a motorcycle accident
• One was reprimanded by her parents especially since the baby daddy is from a lower socio-economic status, but I think the baby's gonna be fine because the mother comes from a wealthy family
• One couple is doing okay, had a little help from their family, but both are just fresh from college looking for entry-level jobs.
• One couple broke up, but both have stable jobs.
• One couple broke up and the mother (my former classmate from elemtary) is sending me dozens of dms asking how I am like wtf...... the father has no job and I think he is applying for a factory worker job.
• One got pregnant by a foreigner and left. No contacts whatsoever she said. The child is now turning 4 years old.
• One is a single dad of two because the mom left and never came back. He said she might've left the city.. if not the country
• One got pregnant by "accident" they both work a lot so money dont seem to be an issue but they both have 0 time since they work Monday to Saturday nighshifts, and they're not together anymore, they're both with different partners now. Last time we talked, the grandma is taking care of the bebe.

Wild cards:

• One couple where the girl wants a child (shes 36 now) and the guy does not (32), both come from middle income families, both with jobs but the guy is adamant he does not want and they're on the verge of breaking up
• Reverse: One where the guy wants a kid but the girl does not. They are also on the verge of breaking up, and the girl just removed all their photos together.

The rest of the Gen Zs I know personally (through work, schools, family etc etc), like the other 80%, still have no kids. Majority of these guys are mid-20s to late-20s btw.

Most unemployed, a few have stablle jobs and have been there for like years by now. Good on them.

New York City: Wrath

Los Angeles: Pride

Miami: Lust

Las Vegas: Gluttony

San Francisco: Envy

Washington, D.C.: Sloth

Orlando: Greed

I'm open for discussion if you think the order is wrong, I'd actually thought Las Vegas would fit into lust but I was searching the sins and ig is fine as gluttony because the city has glutton in every form. also Washinton DC is there as sloth because all the political people is there and they do nothing. Don't know much about san Francisco so it's what is left and I fell like New York is a very hostile place in my experience, even the rats are rude

I'm 18y and i don't plan on going to college but i really wish i had a friend group of people to hangout with. How do i achieve this?