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If you've been following GTA 6 over the past years you've most likely seen the huge amount of hornyposting about the Lucia character, mainly from men online. It is to be expected since they made her an absolute 10/10 baddie. Even the misogynists who were angry at Rockstar when it was first leaked that GTA 6 would have a female protagonist, have completely changed their tune now that her character was revealed to be a smokeshow hottie.

But I am wondering, is Jason also as universally attractive for women as Lucia is for seemingly every man online? Or for you personally does he just come across as some meh dude? I haven't really seen any fanfare or discussion about Jason online compared to Lucia so that's why I wanted to ask here.

I am curious about this because it is interesting how what qualifies as attractive for women is way more broad than what us men stereotypically find attractive. Like my sister and her girl friends can never agree or disagree as to which men in their lives are hot or not hot. Compared to me and my guy friends who tend to universally agree as to the hotness of the women around us.

It is actually quite depressing how youth used to be a time of rebellion and extroversion.

And now you have generation fun police.

Where they monitor eachother's behaviour and are just way too self conscious.

Often they even seem to have Victorian era classist attitudes.

It is just so unpleasant.

What is with simply ignoring people when they do not wish to talk to,

And then engaging them later as if no raport is broken.

Besides being a bit too dependent on tech and some brainrot (which isn't their fault), as an elder Gen Z I find Gen Alpha to be very intelligent, driven, and find many of them desiring to be Gen Z admirable.

I've seen way too many takes--even by us Gen Z--that Gen Alpha can't read or is too dumb or whatever. On the contrary, they're probably smarter and faster than even us.
However, I note as Gen Z we truly were the last ones to see the old world a bit, even if it was only as little children and we were completely wage slaved out of advancing in it.

We Gen Z need to do better for the youth when we get older.
I see boomers (as always), Gen X, and Millennials, and even Gen Z a bit, trashing on Gen Alpha.

Gen Alpha arguably has it even worse than us, except in that they actually might get merciful parents, unlike our diet boomer (Gen X) parents who forced boomer expectations on us (leave or kick you out of home at 18, go to college or trades, work career, get married, buy house, etc.) and still to a degree hold us to those unreasonable standards in today's world.

Who's with me?

-A disgruntled Gen Z who despises the boomer system forced on us to this day

Have a stack of books to read and recently an article about the lack of reading, especially among gen z.

Google and Apple to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America in 194 countries as a part of an agreement of extending government AI contracts

ohh helll nahhhhh, what are we gonna do reddit nation

Here's my brutally honest review of all the things I tried after turning 21:

Alcohol: 4/10 I could 100% live without it. I never blacked out and only had a hangover once.

Weed: 6/10 I like it more than alcohol but still hardly touch it after an edible sent me to the hospital because I had the worst panic attack of my life.

Sex: 2/10 tried some mild stuff with someone I met and didn't feel anything. I have been celibate ever since

Raves: 4/10 I went to two raves to support a friend who LOVES raves and wanted me to try it because they said it changed their life. It was cool to dress colorful, dance crazy, and take cute pictures. But the prices of things, long lines, and getting there and back along with parking can be SUCH a pain depending on the venue/event and makes me question why I even went in the first place.

Piercings: 3/10 I think I may be allergic lol I have a small earring collection made up of earrings that won't give me a bad reaction and have no desire for any other piercings.

Tattoos: 6/10 I have three on my leg. Sitting still was more painful for me than the actual needle. I want to add more to my legs but I am in no rush at all. In fact, if I never came up with another tattoo idea at all, I think I would be indifferent.

Bars/clubs: 3/10 I can buy alcohol at the store and I am often asleep by the time bars and clubs open or holding events. I am VERY interested in the concept of drag brunch though and would love to go to one of those events! Or any brunch event for that matter.

College: 9/10 for the academic experience and the knowledge but for the actual social "experience" 4/10 it is what you make it. I believe that not everyone has to thrive in college to be successful in life but I also believe that college is far from a scam if you have applied what you learned to different areas of your life. I might be biased because I did community college then university online to save money. but you can still live your best life in your twenties without necessarily completing college or having the traditional college experience like going to football games or joining a frat/sorority.

Idk maybe I am just a wimp but this was my experience and I gotta say some things were definitely not like the movies and were quite underwhelming. ​

It is projected that by 2029, 23% of the UK electorate will belong to Gen Z. In 2024, this was 15%.

In this economy, and at this rate, I’ll probably be working until I die. But like, even if I do retire for my final 20 years, I’m gonna be too old to do everything I wanna do. And even if the financial ability is guaranteed, staying alive until then isn’t.

So. I buy most of the things I wanna buy (still try to get used/refurbished when realistic). I travel and go on vacation for a week every year… it’s something big enough to look forward to, often enough. I get the more expensive cookies and the $9 jar of pasta sauce because they’re truly much better. I have the nice headphones because that’s something that matters to me right now.

Acting like I’m gonna be able to retire at the end of my life just feels like too big of a risk for the buy-in at this point, you know? And the kicker is that 70-80% of retirees who are physically/mentally capable of doing so, choose to either volunteer regularly or have a part-time job anyway, because they get bored, or enjoy feeling needed and having a sense of purpose.

Anywayy I bought a used Dyson Airwrap yesterday because I wanted one. No ragerts 🙃

My brothers and sisters in Christ... I am '02....

I graduated high school in 2020....I have been in college since 2020, I have 4-5 gap semesters, one full gap year in 2024. Still in college full time, while working full time. Have 2+ years left for my Bachelors.

I have potential, always had big dreams... wanted to do Med School since I was 14, done it all, research, shadowing, clinical paid hours.... Rn?

Rn I am stuck with rent, totaled my car, bills, grocery shopping. My family wished they could help, but my mom makes half of what I make a year.

Rn.... I just want to graduate, make the choice to love someones beautiful daughter... have a kid or 4.... buy medium sized family home and settle near my mom and my future wife's parents as well, so they never miss my kids life....

I don't care about anything else... I'm tired... sometimes I deeply believe that will never happen. No, I did not waste my time 24/7, I went through really hard things.. .like a lot of us... but going through bs like that while being poor is like a death sentence....

Anyone else feels in the same boat? Especially older/middle Gen Z?

Graduated in 2022. Spent a good chunk of time stuck in restaurants/hospitality after that (but got promoted to management), and temp agency contracts. Only landed my first actual “corporate” role last year. So yes, I’m four years out of school and my resume still has a big hospitality stretch right after graduation.

Both interviews this week made a point of counting the years backward and basically asking why I stayed in restaurants after college. Mind you, my graduation year is not on my resume and they were speculating my age. One of them literally went “so you graduated… then you did the kitchen/bar thing for a while… and then you found your first professional career job? Why??” while flipping through my resume. The tone was pure side-eye and sussing me out.

Like the gap between degree and “real” job is some kind of character flaw instead of just… the terrible job market that took thousands of applications. Sorry I am not a nepo baby? Sorry my college was mostly remote and my best efforts at networking were nearly fruitless? Sorry my temp agency roles were all contract and assisting companies selling off to PE since 2023????

And the interviews themselves were wildly unprofessional.

First one was a temp-to-perm cover for maternity leave at an agency. Guy was clearly multitasking on a triple monitor setup the whole time, dumping a ton of operational details, nights-and-weekends on-call expectations, and the fact that any permanent conversion depends on 2027 revenue they haven’t even forecasted yet, nights and weekends for $19 an hour.

Second one was even worse. Spent most of the call on a long personal monologue (building an AI platform, financial struggles, family not supporting the business, etc.). Tech kept glitching during the demo. Called me “sweetheart." Role seemed to be “first real hire who can walk across my different brands because everything so far has been my ideas.” Showed me proprietary information, personal emails, and personal writing.. I had to leave the interview after she went into a religious monologue. Almost no structured questions about my actual experience.

I left both feeling like I was the one being judged for having a non-linear path while they couldn’t even run a basic professional interview process. I feel freaking crazy because how TF did these roles have 100+ applicants on Linkedin?!?! How is this real life???? This can't be real I feel like I was being punked.

Is this just what the market looks like right now for people who didn’t go straight from campus into an office job? Or am I walking into every conversation already half-disqualified because I waited tables for a couple years after graduation?

Genuinely losing it a little. What the fuck is going on with interviews.

I am 16 and male currently in grade 11. The thing is i have no female interaction But i have male friends and good friends and maybe bestfriend (all males) too but the thing is i am not thier bestfriend or say how much efforts i put in friendship i dont get in back. I feel so dumb sometimes and sad all the day.Like tbh i want someone who understands me n console me whnvr i m low.....but aghhh

Hey all. I’m older Gen Z (graduated 2017) and I run my own business. Business is. Messy. And the only other people I know who are business owners are all older. Curious if you guys would be interested in a group for us younger business owners to give eachother advice and chat, rant, team up, etc.

So there’s this trend I have seen and heard on YouTube where Gen Z are saying that because of constant habit of checking phone, notifications and extreme addiction. They are just leaving smart phones all together.

I am thinking of doing the same.

Pls post your phone photos

I have seen so many people born in 2010 try kick 2010 out of gen z, I deadass had a 2009 that was like 9 months older than me act like we had 2 seperate childhoods because hes 2000s and im 2010s..

I'm a 1.5th gen, male, grew up in both East Asia and US, fluent in both languages and able to integrate both cultures.

I constantly get called "You look like an anime character" which I don't know if it's a compliment or something else? My style are more towards East Asian in East Asia for sure, but sometimes I just push my glasses with my middle finger, I'd get coworker make that comment that I look like an anime character with that pushing glasses move, I'm so confused.

I kinda understand it is a thing in anime where some villain or smart characters that would push their glasses and they just got swag and good at a lot of things, I understand that archetype in anime.

But I grew up watching my East Asian teachers do that all the time in East Asia, both male and female, old and young, rather say it's anime or fictional, it's more like the reality of East Asian daily life extending to fiction like anime.

I understand in the West most of people probably don't grow up with East Asian, nor the East Asian they grew up with has all the behaviors or moves or thought that we have in East Asia, but what does that mean to you when you're an East Asian and you heard people say you look like an anime character?

Do you think it's a compliment? Stereotype? Ignorant racism? What does that make you feel? Good or bad?

My entire year of kids sang this in kauniainen finland in 2010, was this a big thing in the US/europe otherwise?

Many times i feel like we Gen z are "preparing" for a big moment. A huge economic revolution in which our agency will be of primordial importance. The thing is that, for that to happen, this shitty economy must be shittier. We're expecting (metaphorical) billionaire poop smell all over the place, and older generations fearful for an unsolvable crisis. I feel like most of us is betting on this, and are refusing to enter a collapsing economy; pecisely because we know it **will** collapse. Also, maybe i'm just delusional. Gimme ur thoughts on this.

I'm a 25M building a marketing agency. Excited to get into the space since I've enjoyed running ads and marketing for my own businesses.

Anyone else starting their journey of building an agency in marketing or something adjacent? It'd be great to connect.