I’m sick of tedious Gen Z shunning booze, idolising dictators and perving over Bonnie Blue – and have good reason to be
I’m sick of tedious Gen Z shunning booze, idolising dictators and perving over Bonnie Blue – and have good reason to be
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IT was on a lads’ trip to Prague in 2019 that I first caught wind something had gone seriously wrong with my generation. Here we were, in the European capital of boozing and stag dos, surrounded by clubs, beer halls, and partygoers from across the continent, for the big final blowout before uni.
![[Sydney Sweeney at the People's Choice Awards in a red dress.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000880697727.jpg?strip=all&w=710)
But the clock had barely hit midnight when we called it a night, because the rest of them wanted to be up fresh to hit a local GYM in the morning. That’s when it struck me — my generation is screwed. Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) are gripped by a trend more terrifying than any that has come before. It is now cool to be boring.
![[The six Friends cast members posing with a large picture frame.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/matthew-perry-chandler-bing-matt-967169470.jpg?strip=all&w=770)
We’ve replaced drinking, clubs and socialising with staying in, obsessing over health, and scrolling through mindless rubbish on our phones for hours on end. Hunkered down in the bunkers of normality, a few of us GenZers hold out against the onslaught of this puritan “lifestyle” that is attacking from all sides.
![[John Boyega at the NAACP Image Awards.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/john-boyega-attends-55th-naacp-887617241.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
Sometimes it is enough to make me think I am the one going crazy. But the sinister truth is that this celebration of soulless living is the very reason the most social-media obsessed generation is also the loneliest generation. Is it any wonder that studies show one in five of 18 to 24-year-olds have either one or no close friends?.
![[Molly-Mae Hague at the screening of her docuseries.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/molly-mae-hague-attends-special-964243135_969426.jpg?strip=all&w=629)
