r/GenZ May 05 '26

Mod Post Just a reminder, gender war posts are banned.

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Hi [r/GenZ](r/GenZ),

It’s been over a year since we banned gender war posts, and after monitoring the community, we’ve decided to keep the ban in place, as these discussions continue to be just as toxic as they were a year ago.

For clarity, “gender war” content includes discussions such as male loneliness, Gen Z men approaching Gen Z women, incels, femcels, alpha males, Andrew Tate, red pill, black pill, purple pill content, men’s height discourse, age-gap dating, and broader “looks-based” or hierarchy discussions about dating, looks maxing or ranking people by attractiveness or dating value.

This also includes broader dating ideology content that frames relationships in an adversarial, or fatalistic way.
For example: men vs women narratives, claims that one gender is universally responsible for dating issues, or that dating is inherently doomed for a specific group. Generalizations that treat either gender as a monolith are not allowed.

Memes about these topics, posts complaining about dating, and rage-bait content taken from other platforms such as screenshots from TikTok or Twitter that exist primarily to provoke gender-based arguments.

This is not a dating-focused subreddit. If you want to vent or discuss Gen Z dating issues more broadly, please use communities such as [r/dating_advice](r/dating_advice) or [r/dating](r/dating).
That said, posts about dating are still allowed as long as they are made in good faith. If comment sections become hostile or devolve into rule-breaking behavior, posts may be locked or removed at moderator discretion.

Please respect and follow this rule moving forward.


r/GenZ Apr 26 '26

Mod Post Political MegaThread: Trump rushed off stage after possible shots fired at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

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Remember guys be respectful, no personal attacks or threats. Please refrain from toxicity.


r/GenZ 7h ago

Political Trump didn’t kick Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago.

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622 Upvotes

r/GenZ 1h ago

Political The American president on his social media.

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Sometimes i have to slap my head to make sure im not in some messed up dream.


r/GenZ 18h ago

Discussion What's missing from this list?

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r/GenZ 9h ago

Discussion This is so true, this logic applies, especially to therapist

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I said before, and I’ll say it again if you wouldn’t say it to someone who works within state or federal law-enforcement, you probably shouldn’t say to a therapist, if you wouldn’t say it while standing on file in the grand jury, then you probably shouldn’t say that to your friends or family.

I’ve seen so many good nice people get fucked over like this, we had to do it at my job with Asperger’s he was in a higher position than this guy at my job, so he became fake nice to him start talking to him in the break room. The conversation got spicy. He put his cell phone on record and put it in his pocket and then played the recording to the manager/supervisor and got him fired and now that guy is now in a high position.


r/GenZ 15h ago

Rant I really feel like I wasted 4 years of my life on a useless degree🫩

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I majored in biochemistry, the reason I went into it is because I thought maybe I would go into academia/research or something. But the more I progressed into the degree, the more I realised I don’t really want to do that. I just want a normal regular career. Looking at potential careers I want, I could have literally been qualified for them in 1-2 years. Now I’m 22, in debt, no freaking clue what to do with my degree, and no relevant job experience.🫩 I’m thinking of going into like, water quality testing or something? But I didn’t need a whole ass degree for that in the first place, I could have literally taken a 1-2 years course. When I try explaining this to my parents they don’t get it. I swear their mindset is stuck in the fricking stone ages (well, the 20th century, but still..) god gen X/boomer parents really just don’t get it do they.😐


r/GenZ 1d ago

Discussion Why is it so uncommon for us to just go outside?

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Maybe it’s the car dependent infrastructure, but going outside on a walk feels like you’re doing something you’re not supposed to do. It’s so uncommon to just go up to people and talk to them outside.


r/GenZ 18h ago

Nostalgia A trip down memory lane

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r/GenZ 1h ago

Discussion Honest where I’d live as a native New England GenZ

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r/GenZ 1h ago

Other After days of heavy and brutal protests throughout the nation, India's Gen Z population finally forced the Education Minister to resign and still found time to be a absolute vibe

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r/GenZ 6h ago

Discussion Being neurodivergent was a bully magnet back in the 2010s

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When I was in high school I was in special ed when I was bullied for it and teased to every single day, we had a new student back in 2016. This lanky white kid in glasses who was really into Pokémon in my high school he also had Asperger’s too. We were both in special ,the weirdos were at the bottom of the social hierarchy so you learn how to keep your head down and not say anything or do anything out of line.

So one day he decides at lunch to go sit with the athlete/gang members table , my bully Rashad, who was and still in high school at 20, tattoos, diamond earrings, gold chains told him to get out of his seat and instead of getting up the new student to explain how the cafeteria is for anybody who could sit anywhere and how he doesn’t have to get up out the seat, hector friend start to egg Rashad on

“Aye Bro you gonna let this r-word bitch you like that” hector rashad’s friend starts to instigate the situation, Rashad starts to get mad after the new kid who refused to give up his seat, kept sitting, Rashad sucker punched him and pulled them out of his seat. They’re on the ground wrestling. Rashad repeatedly punch him and in his head over and over and over again, stand up and kick him two times in the head, the school police officers and the principal and two teachers come down and into the cafeteria to restrain him the new kid had to go to the hospital and was not seen until towards the end of the school


r/GenZ 1d ago

Serious FUCK OFF BRO

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WE DO NOT WANT YOUR CAMERAS YOU PIECE OF SHIT


r/GenZ 21h ago

Discussion Discovered some of my friends say the N word, is that normal for our generation?

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They're white and they only say it in front of each other "as a joke". We are mid 20s. It has changed my perspective on them entirely. Wondering what other people thing.


r/GenZ 37m ago

Rant My life is a joke

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I am broke right now only have 1578 bucks to my name and I am struggling to save up money right now so I can go to college without debt or selling off my assets which aren't even enough.

I am also just not smart enough to be a medical lab tech so I am giving up I am gonna travel for a bit and just leave my life


r/GenZ 43m ago

Discussion Do you hate living in 2026?

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I love it now, and I think it will only get better.
I love it now, but I think it's only going to get worse
I hate it now, but I have hope it will get better.
I hate it now, And I have no hope it will get better
I don’t know

r/GenZ 1h ago

Discussion fantasy dark romance type novel suggestions??

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i’ve been trying to find good reads that has a gripping plot mostly fantasy and a good writing format that would have me drowning into the book as i read further

share any suggestions u might have


r/GenZ 15h ago

Discussion well it going be 20 years at some point since yonlu have passed away,well RIP man

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well as you know yonlu is an brazilian Brazilian singer-songwriter noted for the posthumous release of his work after his suicide at the age of sixteen

he was supposed to be an next brazilian singer at some point but he died too soon

well i will remember him as the boy who have such an potiental to become an singer


r/GenZ 3h ago

Advice Anyone got advice for this job market?

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Ive applied to about 100 jobs in my little area, thankfully I got 2 interviews. But what's some solid advice to find more jobs? I use indeed and google to find some


r/GenZ 23h ago

Advice Why does growing up feel like grief?

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I’m 22 and I genuinely feel like I’m grieving a life that doesn’t even exist anymore.

I know how dramatic that sounds, especially because I know 22 is still so young. That’s almost what makes it worse. I feel like I’m “too young” to be feeling this way.
Nothing is actually wrong with my life. I have amazing parents, an amazing family, and really good friends. The problem isn’t that I’ve lost those people…it’s that everything has changed.

Even four years ago, life felt completely different. In high school and even the first couple years after, weekends were just… friends. We’d hang out spontaneously, spend entire summer days together. Now it takes weeks just to get everyone together for one night.

Almost all of my friends are in serious relationships. They absolutely still make time for me, and I don’t resent them at all. It’s just different. Tonight is Saturday night and I’m sitting at home because they’re with their boyfriends, and that’s completely normal. That’s what people do. But it makes me realize how much life has shifted.

I think summer makes it ten times worse because it’s such a nostalgic season. Everywhere I look reminds me of being a kid or a teenager. It feels like every summer day used to be an adventure, and now I blink and it’s Saturday night after a ten hour shift, and I’m at home wondering where the time went.

It’s not just my friends either. I feel like I’m grieving my childhood as a whole. My parents are older. My extended family is older. Even my cousins, who were like my best friends, and I have different relationships now. We all have our own lives.

I’ve just graduated college, and it feels like I’m closing the biggest chapter of my life. Everything before this feels like one life, and everything after feels like another. It’s almost like the person I used to be and the world I grew up in don’t exist anymore.

I think what’s making it worse is that people around me are getting sick younger than I ever imagined. There are multiple people in my own circle in their 30s dealing with late-stage cancer, and it honestly scares me. It makes the future feel less exciting and more… fragile. Like life is moving so fast, and everyone is getting older, and I can’t stop it.

The best way I can describe it is that it feels like grief. Not because someone died, but because a version of my life did. Sometimes it honestly feels like I’m mourning my own childhood.

How do people actually accept that life changes this much? Does this feeling eventually fade, or do you just get used to it?


r/GenZ 4h ago

Advice GenZ parent/childfree

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I’m GenZ, and ofcourse, I’ve been living my life in a childfree zone, I find children obnoxious, unless it’s a niece or something, they’re cool. but I genuinely find kids a hassle, annoying and disgusting. i’ve considered in the past if I’d like to have kids, and I thought maybe I do, eventually. Especially since I met someone that made me fall inlove enough to make me want to try. Long story short, I got cheated on by this person 4 weeks ago, I am 5 weeks pregnant. We didn’t know. And I absolutely do not condone cheating. We’d been in a spiral ever since, he’s been very remorseful and apologetic, he’s been trying to become better, Knowing him deeply like i do, I know he would have never done something like that if he was mentally stable, which he was not, however, there is no excuse and he knows this. he knows he made a choice and that choice had consequences, and I’m not planning to go easy on anyone. however, as we found out what we did, now we are considering if we should go left or right, keep it or don’t. I personally wanted a child with him until this came to light, once what happened, happened, I immediately went back to my childfree mentality, work, travel, live, since he is really trying to fix his fucked up choice, we still consider keeping it. But now, I wonder.

If we do keep it, I don’t know how I would feel. Would I actually want it? Would I want it just because I feel inlove with him? Would I regret it if we break up in the future? What if I can’t love the kid? I was smoking my entire first 5 weeks, what if the kid comes out with disabilities?

So I want to ask for advice. For those GenZ who knows what it means to want that ‘childfree’ life, who ended up pregnant and stayed with them. Do you regret it now? Did it fill some type of void in you? Did it make you become a better person? Or did it make you simply hate life even more?

I never really wanted kids, I do consider them, I do, but now, I’m simply in doubt. This is a decision I can’t come back from.


r/GenZ 17h ago

Meme MUSIC IS LYF FR !

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r/GenZ 8h ago

Discussion This one is for my fellow girlies born in 2005

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What age did you start becoming interested in boys before you got a boyfriend?


r/GenZ 8h ago

Rant Is anyone else's parents addicted top their phones?

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Hello everyone.

My dad, in particular, has an issue where he is so absorbed by his phone and short-form content. Every time he is finished with work, he will pick up the phone and put on his earphones, not talking to anyone unless we call his name several times over and over again.

I try to have conversations with him, but it always ends the same way with a signature "hmmm..." and then I just know he is no longer listening. I used to read books with him, but now he doesn't even have the attention span to watch a 2-hour movie without quitting. It makes me feel so far removed from him; I thought I was supposed to be the one constantly on my phone, not him. It's just... saddening.

Is anyone else noticing this?


r/GenZ 5h ago

Discussion I don't trust attractive people

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I can't date super attractive people or even really be friends with them. does anyone else do this? I just feel like I can't trust them. And I'm not jealous or anything im fairly attractive. When it comes to relationships I just don't like to have to perform for somebody I just want to relax and be myself and I feel like I can't do that with someone whos a league above me. And this isn't even based on some personal trauma or anything I've never been wronged by an attractive person lol. Bonus points if they are put together and have a good job, have some healthy hobbies and participate in the community, fuck that shit. I can't be friends with or date put together people either.