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There is not a single night club or bar I frequented in my youth that is still open today or hasn't changed ownership. And I'm not that old. The average price of a beer when I started drinking was $3-5 and the lavish prices we made fun of were $8-12.
Drinking is gay old man. You crash your car and end up like Ethan Ralph that way. Also lose all your money.

Not sure what changed. Even as a drooling retard child, I knew not to use my real name online for any reason. It was like the one thing your parents were obliged to tell you before setting you loose on the Internet at age four
It was the move from PC to smartphone. It made everyone fucking dumb as shit with computers. A zoomer born in 07 stands no chance at opsec.
 
It was the move from PC to smartphone. It made everyone fucking dumb as shit with computers.
Speaking from experience, Mormon man with tiny feet and ham hands? I guess that the call of Kiwi pussy can hardly be resisted.

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Edit: Also, why do all zoomers have such shit taste in clothing? I mean, wtf are these shoes even supposed to be?
 
Then one of the ambitious ones will try to get everyone together to actually meet in person. He'll reach out to five guys. One will bail 20 minutes beforehand. The other will bail when they're supposed to meet because they "forgot" and the other will just no call no show and hit the Fuck You button when you try to hit them up.
This behavior is not even exclusive to zoomers anymore. A surprising number of otherwise well-adjusted people thinks that cancelling social outings an hour before is acceptable. Organizing anything has become a nightmare as half of the interested people cancel just to jerk off at home while a quarter sits passively just to drink shitty beer. It feels like everyone has started avoiding any adrenaline-inducing activities. It's as if people have forgotten how to live.
 
The 2000s were great for a while. You see this:
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This was peak entertainment as a young zoomie. Even if you didn't understand the game, you could still open it on the fridge. That shit was awesome.
I had the toys and watched the cartoon, and never once did I figure out how to play the fucking game. To me they were just cool little toys.
 
I had the toys and watched the cartoon, and never once did I figure out how to play the fucking game. To me they were just cool little toys.
I don't think anyone knew how the game worked. It was just fun enough to collect the little guys. Out of all the fads Zoomers had, I fondly remember Bakugan the best. It was certainly better than fucking silly bands or fidget spinners. You got an ok TV show, some cool magnet marbles, and video games to boot.
 
All the mannerisms in question fall under one category, it’s the usage of “Zoomers inside jokes/memes”. I can tell a person is a Zoomer by memes and jokes they’re using in their posts. Like the dead rose emoji 🥀
All that does is tell me if someone is a soyteen.
The typical Friday night for a Zoomer is they get home, eat dinner their parents made, turn on computer and call their friends on Discord and play Helldivers until 5AM. Sometimes they'll drink, but it'll be the worst shit possible. They'll smoke weed and get munchies and eat garbage. Then they'll take a couple huffs from their vape pen and send questionable mixtures of carcinogenic chemicals, seed oils, artificial flavorings, (all the things RFK wants to ban) directly into their fucking lungs because it tastes like Fruit Loops. Their Saturday is more or less the same thing.
My entire social life consists of brapping up Kiwi Farms. It could be worse.
Edit: Also, why do all zoomers have such shit taste in clothing? I mean, wtf are these shoes even supposed to be?
Work boots because xhe's overcompensating for being fat and inactive. I don't care about clothing but I always wear polo shirts or plaid shirts when I go out; I like the pretty colours and it feels most appropriate.
I had the toys and watched the cartoon, and never once did I figure out how to play the fucking game. To me they were just cool little toys.
The ones from a few years ago that had transparent parts and mini Bakugan were decent. Bakugan is solidly meh; they're animal Transformers that turn into balls and there's little you can do with that after a while. I never looked at the anime though.
 
There is not a single night club or bar I frequented in my youth that is still open today or hasn't changed ownership. And I'm not that old. The average price of a beer when I started drinking was $3-5 and the lavish prices we made fun of were $8-12. Now, $8-12 is the norm virtually everywhere. Every nightclub or young bar has been shut down for being too rowdy or hasn't done enough business to justify staying open. The major party sectors of my young adulthood life are all gone. Real estate investors convinced mayors and local politicians to shut down places where young people gather.

For a teen? It's even worse. Where did I go as a teen? Movie theaters. Too expensive for that anymore. Hang out at the mall? Can't do that anymore. Malls now have curfews now and close early assuming they're still open. Restaurants? Everything closes by 10pm and there are no cheap specials anymore. Concerts? Fuck they're expensive now. Nothing is open all night anymore. Skate parks barely exist and close early. There's nowhere for teens to just hang out anymore other than at someone's house. That's a death knell for social gatherings.
I believe I'm on the older end of zoomers. (2001)

I've gone to clubs sometimes and rarely see any other zoomers. Bars are the same results. I have tried multiple times to hang out with those my age, and they seem content sitting at home all day doing nothing but streaming shows. What's the point of going to theaters anymore? Many have closed are too expensive like what you mentioned. Even then, why would they go when they can wait a bit longer and stream it from the comfort of their couch. I think the mall nearby also shut down, or is in the process of shutting down, and even before lockdowns it was in shitty conditions and full of trash. I feel lucky that I experienced a concert even though that was when I was a child. Even if people want these hangouts, I doubt you can get many zoomers to visit them or do anything. With streaming and ordering restaurant meals from delivery apps, it'll be hard to drag them out.

It really doesn't help many are leaving where I grew up. Many jobs are condensed in the same areas unless you work blue collar, get lucky enough into public sector, or have anything in demand, there's simply nothing out here. Our manufacturing left before I was born. Gone are the factory jobs with an excellent pension. Love or hate unions as well, but these unions often served as communities too for the older generation. With both of these gone, what's the point of staying for them if they can be successful elsewhere? Those who are left behind or stay, we are watching where we grew up become some tourist playground but at the same time fall apart.
 
It made everyone fucking dumb as shit with computers. A zoomer born in 07 stands no chance at opsec.
First part is completely true. I've had to deal with people my age who had no idea what a file and/or file arrangement was and it pisses me off every single time I have to help them with this, it's by far one of the simplest things when it comes to computers, and the fact that there are people who grew up glued to the Internet from a young age that have no idea how to work around something as simple as Windows UI is terrifying to me. Schools going from Windows XP/7 desktops to Chromebooks was a massive mistake and it did nothing but hinder students' development & knowledge when it comes to this particular topic.
For the second part, eh, true in the majority of cases, but there are a few who go out of their way to not be a massive retard on the Internet with their public information. Very rare though
 
There's nowhere for teens to just hang out anymore other than at someone's house.
We don't have houses either albeit.

As far as I know, the best place to mingle with people in the 18-25 bracket is at smalltime bar gigs. Literally just rock up (with a friend, if possible), down a couple of beers, and start cold approaching randoms. You'll meet a few insufferable trust fund tards but the crowd as a whole tends to be a lot more worldly & amenable to conversation than the typical zoomer.

The few young people who still go out to pubs tend to be a little unusual, so things will happen to you for no reason. A couple of months ago I walked into an ADHD support group meeting by mistake, but they were fun, so we just hang now. Last week I won a case of beer at a music quiz, traded it with some guy for a Cuban cigar, and sat out back with him to talk about photography for an hour. You can just DO this stuff. It's not weird unless you make it weird.

The drinking age is eighteen where I live, though -- that probably makes a big difference. I don't know what I'd be doing if I was a Yank.

This behavior is not even exclusive to zoomers anymore. A surprising number of otherwise well-adjusted people thinks that cancelling social outings an hour before is acceptable. Organizing anything has become a nightmare as half of the interested people cancel just to jerk off at home while a quarter sits passively just to drink shitty beer. It feels like everyone has started avoiding any adrenaline-inducing activities. It's as if people have forgotten how to live.
Zoomers have encyclopaedic knowledge of everything retarded you can do as a young person. They think avoiding those things makes them smarter and more mature than their parents. But this is the most retarded thing of all.
 
I hate the cultural impact TikTok has had on zoomers worldwide. Every couple of months there'll be a new phrase that every zoomer adds to their vocabulary then discards when TikTok says so. Right now it's "crash out" but that's on its way out. Accents are another thing. There's zoomers in my country who've never set foot in America but have American accents because of social media.
 
The drinking age is eighteen where I live, though -- that probably makes a big difference. I don't know what I'd be doing if I was a Yank.
They get drinks from older university students, that's what I did when I was in university. Even when they are of drinking age, bars are still empty and they will sit at home streaming all day or doing nothing at all. The last time I went out with a group of people my age, half bailed at the last second or went silent. And then what was left of the group, you had me and a few others engaged in conversation and another part just sitting silently. What I find the most frustrating is one of those who bails bitches about being lonely all the time, but he cancels every second or goes silent. He also had the nerve to say "No one includes me" after we fucking invited him in the first place.
 
They get drinks from older university students, that's what I did when I was in university. Even when they are of drinking age, bars are still empty and they will sit at home streaming all day or doing nothing at all. The last time I went out with a group of people my age, half bailed at the last second or went silent. And then what was left of the group, you had me and a few others engaged in conversation and another part just sitting silently. What I find the most frustrating is one of those who bails bitches about being lonely all the time, but he cancels every second or goes silent. He also had the nerve to say "No one includes me" after we fucking invited him in the first place.
If it makes you feel any better, it's just as miserable in the slightly older demographics. Young millennials/old zoomers are soyfaced redditors who clog up bars in groups of 4+ friends without ever socializing outside of their friend circle. If it isn't social cliques, it's activity-maxxing. I don't actually know if millennials enjoy the 7+ activities they do each week, but they will schedule playdates to mechanically do an activity and then leave. Sometimes socialization happens, but you better have a strong stomach for the most insufferable people imaginable.

I suspect that normal people just stay home nowadays or have a small circle of friends. Public activities are filled with weirdos and strangers avoid random impromptu conversations without an app telling them to talk.
 
I suspect that normal people just stay home nowadays or have a small circle of friends. Public activities are filled with weirdos and strangers avoid random impromptu conversations without an app telling them to talk.
I sadly feel that's the safest thing these days. I still enjoy public activities like the fair and the parades that happen during Holidays, but anything else is full with very old people. The old people are really nice, but I have no interest in attending a seminar about dementia or anything about aging. So I really don't blame some people my age not going out to these events if it's all going to be elderly people. A good amount of people my age wind up leaving and going far away, even to opposite ends of the country, and I really don't blame them.
 
As far as I know, the best place to mingle with people in the 18-25 bracket is at smalltime bar gigs. Literally just rock up (with a friend, if possible), down a couple of beers, and start cold approaching randoms.
Probably one the most damaging behaviors for young adults to take part in. As a zoomer myself (born 2000) and a non drinker, having to get a bit of liquid courage just to talk to people you don't know is, in my opinion, pussy behavior. It's not normal. Grow a pair.

Edit: or better said, don't rely on something like that just to get through something so normal.
 
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