Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’::Why have so many teens and twentysomethings stopped going out?
Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’::Why have so many teens and twentysomethings stopped going out?
Gen-X here. Articles and “hot takes” like this are as old as time. They called my generation “slackers”. Ok, I guess the rise of hip-hop, independent film, electronic music, and THE FUCKING INTERNET just happened magically. The called millennial’s lazy hipsters, but it was those hipsters that almost single handedly gave us all better taste in…everything and made it acceptable to enjoy life and experiences instead of just stuff.
If Gen-Z wants to chill at home, fucking Let them! I enjoyed lock down. There, I said it. I didn’t enjoy people dying, but for about a year most of us got to stay inside and only go out to enjoy being outside. Some bettered themselves. Many realized that they enjoyed staying in, playing roleplaying games with friends over Zoom, baking bread, reading, writing, making music, or simply watching old concerts from the comfort of their own couch. I certainly did. Fuck the haters.
Lockdown was one of the best periods of my life. Getting to stay at home as much as possible and when I did go out people actually respected my fucking personal space.
God I miss it.
It was magical
BRING. BACK. COVID. 🪧📣
BRING. BACK. COVID. 🪧📣
It never went away
The best part was not feeling like I should be doing something else.
I felt like sitting my lazy ass on the couch watching movies and eating popcorn was exactly where I was supposed to be for once.
One hundred. It was like having an excuse to be a loner while also contributing to society, but by your absence from it. You got the feeling that everyone was cooped up for the good of each other, trying to ride this thing out. A beautiful hybrid lonely-solidarity: a unique feeling that will never happen like that again.
Gen-x here. You know boomers built the Internet, right? It wasn’t us.
Boomers built ARPANET, later called the internet based on Gopher, Kermit, Usenet, and such. Then, HTML came along in 1994. It wasn’t earth shattering, just an easier way to format and navigate. It was this that gen-x took and used to create “the web”.
Although it was boomers that created the transport protocols and text formatting code, it was gen-x that took that relic of the cold war and used it to literally change the world.
Gen X also here… I never did the clubbing scene. I can’t drink, hate most modern “music”, and dislike crowds. Back when I was that age there weren’t smoking bans either and I hate that shit too…
So what even was the point? Meh.
I’ve never been to a club, but I did a nice ten years of raving. I’ll still go to one every so often, but I don’t drop X in public anymore. Those were some magical days, though!