I’m in the “Z-lennial” group, it’s mostly just the cost for me. Why would I spend $20 on 2 drinks at a bar when I can get a 12 pack for $16 and play terraria with my friends?
There’s also the fact that games and Internet are a social option for your generation at all. Previous generations didn’t even have that option the same way. Even as a millennial it wasn’t nearly as accessible as it is now.
For sure. My 8yr old plays with his friends on FaceTime and Roblox as soon as he gets up. In the winter online play is probably 75% of how they play. When the weather is better that changes to 25%.
Not in the same way, but I made a lot of friends on MUDs and local BBSes in the early 90s.
Yeah there were options but they were not convenient or mainstream. When I was a kid I played online games with friends, but that involved calling them on a land line phone, logging into the Internet, which meant turning off your house phone for most people without dual phonelines, and no video call and text chat only.
Or by myself, even better!
Got space on your server?
$10+ drinks is the more likely cause.
Nightclubs aren’t on the brink, the idea that one can open a night club and charge $$$ to get in as well as an absurd amount of money to buy drinks is. On a side note, as an elder millennial, I have never really been attracted to loud and dirty places where I can’t have a conversation with anyone and every surface is slippery or sticky with god knows what.
A lot of them are reacting to the decreased number of customers by…raising drink prices. Doesn’t really help the situation. I’m too old to go to clubs regularly but if there’s an act I want to see, I just get drunk beforehand.
Of course a lot of this is actually because of ridiculous rents anywhere where a club might actually get patrons. Clubs are no small square footage and they need to bring in a lot of money to stay open.
Average cocktail around here is $15 + 20% tip = $18.
if you microdose mushrooms when you go out you only need like 1/3 of the normal number of drinks to have a great time trust
Clean living Gen Z? Lol ok sure
There’s been a lot written about how Gen Z has been less prone to premarital sex and less prone to drinking (they prefer weed over alcohol and find bars too expensive) than millennials.
Good.
Never actually been to one. No real reason.
Gen Z is just less outgoing in general. More computers, less nightclubs.
Thank god.
No money.
Definitely not less outgoing. Just social in a different way since they have loads more options.
Less knife fights in 50’s danceoffs, too!
