I hated Labubus, I thought they were creepy and ugly.
I also absolutely HATE those weird camel toe looking shoes? I genuinely think they’re hideous lol.

I'm gen z and I make private art and stories centered on sex and other horny crap. The only reason I don't share them publicly is because there's a time and place for it. I actually grown intolerant of people openly thirsting over body parts and other things even when the person themselves isn't dressed sexily or doing anything sexual. I get it, free internet, say what you want but I'm just annoyed by how coomer the internet has gotten which is weird because it felt like yesterday that tumblr just banned porn while other sites starting clamping down on free speech. So why do I keep seeing ai porn ads on youtube? Why do I keep seeing innocuous cosplayers selling their onlyfans? Why is it even debate about someone's partner consuming porn behind their backs?

It's not sex negative to notice our society is hypersexualized, especially in the west, but at the same time so bereft of intimacy that it fears being vulnerable and human. Gen z having less sex isn't bad if you consider that one side feels like it's not even worth it. Sex can be something based in love, sharing a side of yourself you don't show to anyone, and a means to connect with another person.

Companies took that and turned it into a marketing gimmick meant to shock viewers than add something to the story and it's characters. I feel like the only time I can tolerate sex scenes in media are works where sex is a diegetic part of people's lives instead of yet another means to get people talking or glued to their seats. But apparently, it's prudish to point that out?

I feel that most of my late 20s peers felt that they wasted their 20s and are already dreading turning 30. A lot of them feel very depressed about not hitting their milestones like owning a home and having kids. I wonder if that’s a sentiment most of them are feeling.

Edit: I also wasted my 20s experiencing a roller coaster wave of emotions so you’re not alone in this. Everyone is struggling out there. I understand yall. Have hope and don’t give up on your aspirations

I never hear anyone talk about the Legion of Superheroes as that was a pretty soild show looking back. Loonatics Unleashed felt like Teen Titans a bit in that first season until they messed up in the second season. These shows only had two seasons also.

I’m 28F, and lately I’ve been feeling this overwhelming sense of urgency. Like I’m running out of time.i keep thinking, I need to get married. I need to have children. I need to have my own home. I need to accomplish the things I thought I would have accomplished by this age.
And the more I think about it, the more I feel like I’m drowning. What makes it harder is that I just came out of a 4 years of relationship.
4 years is a long time to love someone, build memories with them, imagine a future with them, and slowly start believing that maybe this is the person you’re going to build your life with.
And then suddenly, it’s gone. You’re left trying to pick up the pieces while simultaneously feeling like the clock is ticking. I think that’s what has fucked me up the most. I didn’t just lose a relationship. I lost the future I had imagined around that relationship.
The person I thought I might marry. The home I imagined. The family I pictured. All those little dreams that quietly become attached to someone over four years. And now I’m supposed to start over at 28 and somehow not feel scared?
I know 28 is young. I know people will tell me, “You have so much time.” And logically, I know they’re right. But emotionally, it doesn’t always feel that way. Especially in my culture, where there’s this unspoken expectation that by a certain age, a woman should already have a husband, children, a home, a settled life. You can feel people looking at you differently. The questions. The comparisons.
The subtle comments. The feeling that somehow you’re behind everyone else. And eventually, you start looking at yourself through those same eyes.
I start wondering, What am I doing wrong? Why am I not there yet? Why did I spend four years with someone and still end up here? Sometimes it genuinely feels like I wasted time. And I hate admitting that because those four years weren’t meaningless. They were part of my life. I loved someone. I learned things. I grew. I experienced happiness. I created memories I’ll probably carry with me forever. But there’s still a part of me that grieves the time.
I’m grieving the relationship. I’m grieving the person.
I’m grieving the version of myself that believed she knew where her life was going. And I’m grieving the future I thought was waiting for me.
I don’t want to rush into marriage just because I’m scared of getting older.
I don’t want to choose the wrong person because I’m terrified of starting over.
I want a husband I genuinely love. I want a healthy marriage. I want children because I’m ready to love and raise them, not because society has convinced me I’m late. But at the same time… I’m scared.
Scared that I’ll never find that person. Scared that I’ll never have the family I dream about.
Scared that the years will keep passing while I’m still waiting. And sometimes that fear becomes so loud that I forget everything I’ve already accomplished.
I forget that I’m still becoming who I’m supposed to be. Maybe I’m not behind.
Maybe I’m just in a chapter I never expected to be in.
Maybe starting over at 28 isn’t failure.
Maybe it’s just life forcing me to rebuild with more wisdom than I had before.
I just wish I could stop feeling like I’m racing against a clock that nobody actually gave me.
Because I don’t want to spend the rest of my twenties terrified of turning thirty.
I want to live.
I want to heal.
I want to fall in love again when I’m ready.
And someday, I hope I look back at this version of myself and realize:
**I wasn’t running out of time.
I was simply becoming ready for the life that was actually meant for me.**

one of my favorite NBA season of all time love this season

I was a kid…. But idk why there seemed a lot going on. PS3, Xbox360, PSP were coming along, NBA was big etc

Or is it just me?

For me personally I think taylor swift is incredibly overrated but safe and sound is the one song by her that I absolutely love and still vibe till this day what is one song by her that you love even though you cant stand her

Growing up, we always got asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” 😂

I'm sure some people said doctors, some wanted to be professional athletes, and I'm sure a few of y'all wanted to be firefighters lol.

But it got me thinking: How many of you actually ended up achieving that childhood dream and are doing what you love today? Or did life take you in a completely different direction and you had to shift your goals somewhere along the way?

Just curious lol. What did you want to be as a kid, and what are you doing now?

In terms of dating, do you believe in settling?

I don't. I think settling is the reason why so many people get divorced, especially those who get marry as a teenager or in their early 20s.

What's your take?

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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.

Was talking with my partner and we kind of realized that outside of Jacob Elordi, Gen Z is severely lacking “generational actors” (James McAvoy, Decaprio, Anne Hathaway, etc… people who started young & led really strong, awe-inducing careers)

We ran through a list of all those we could think of and…. it’s not great. Either they’ve already ruined their appearance with botox or the like (ex: Millie Bobbie Brown, Jenna Ortega) or they just aren’t very strong actors to begin with (ex: Sydney Sweeney)

Even Zendaya, who’s a Zoomer, is pretty typecast, she largely just plays herself in her roles and gets brought on projects due to her fanbase and brand

We considered Mia Goth, Florence Pugh, Timothy Chalamet, etc. but they’re Millennials lol… Were Millennials the last great generation for acting?

Edit: Not to be rude, but talent is the main thing we were discussing (not explicitly age) & I don’t think the majority of the Stranger Things cast will have much of a career following that show.

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I remember being in shock seeing the news reporting he had passed away I still remember that first day of freshman year everyone was talking about his unfortunate passing and how shocked everyone was