Disturbing article on toxic modern youth culture in The New Yorker. Today's kids are image-obsessed, addicted to social media and embrace queer identities openly. They also engage in deranged new subcultures. >There are clean girls, tomato girls, vanilla girls, office sirens, femboys, e-boys, looksmaxxers; one can be avant basic, old money, new money, quiet luxury, cottagecore, goblincore, fairycore. Adolescent anxiety and depression have been on the rise for years, and there is abundant public debate about why: economic inequality, strained family ties, sleep deprivation, smartphones. Childhood has never been easy, but these days the on-ramp to adulthood seems somehow shorter and more perilous.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/11/the-life-and-times-of-an-american-tweenhttps://web.archive.org/web/20260505153231/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/11/the-life-and-times-of-an-american-tween
>>534568159Why can't they be cute and clean and suck cock like in the 90s?
>>534568735well they certain do a lot of that on the island
Do these people not know growing up fast was normal for like all of human history?
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>>534568735Because they all eat to much, tattoo to much, makeup maxx to much and talk like children with an over emphasis on their pronunciations.
>>534568159>Today's kids are image-obsessed, addicted to social media and embrace queer identities openly.So basically OP?
>“I don’t really like anyone,” Mira told me. “All the guys in my school are, like, either jerks, ugly, or both. There’s not great variety.” I inquired about another sixth grader Mira had mentioned previously, but she waved the idea off. “We’re ninety-five per cent sure he’s gay,” she said, as if this had ever precluded the affections of a middle-school girl. “He’s really zesty.” She and her friends had been joking with him about this, but Mira reassured me, “I’m bi, so it’s O.K.” She was drinking a strawberry matcha, a slurry of fruit, milk, and L-theanine, and slurped the jammy dregs. I asked when she first understood that she was bisexual. “Because men are just annoying,” she said, shrugging. This spring, she said that her celebrity crush was Sabrina Carpenter.
>>534568159Yeah teenagers today are pretty much just a bunch of mental asylum patients that everyone else is forced to be around. Not really their faults though.
>>534568159just like they planned it's why they've been pushing shallow and narcissistic (((influencers))) for years life in this country is gonna get way worse especially when there are relatively few people that even remember the high quality and standard of living back in the 80s and 90s
What?
>>534568159>an American Tween>interracial Kalergi mutt with trans siblingI don't know whether to mock the article for being out of touch, or cry in fear that this is more representative than I thought possible.
>>534569195The end of history already happened, globohomo won
>>534569292I’m afraid this is all very normal now
>>534569059Young women would rather be bisexuals than give a 43 year old chud like me a chance.
>>534568159>onramp to adulthood is shorterFucking WHAT? Adulthood isn't reached until 30 now, and many are postponing it past 35.The kidult phenomenon is visible everywhere.
>>534569059>an 11 year old is jaded by a lack of suitable romantic optionsWhat in the fuck are these kids being taught and who is behind it all?
>>534568159>Lust provoking image.>3pbtid.
>>534568979>over emphasis on their pronunciationsWhat do you mean?
>>534568967This dude doesn't realize that it's WOMEN who primp themselves up to look younger and younger.Women do what WORKS. It's not men's fault.Take 50 women who don't shave their legs and give them 5 men. All it takes is one woman who puts a little effort into her looks, and suddenly all 5 men are chasing after her.So what happens then? The other women are watching and they go>What's she have that I haven't got?And the answer is that she shaves her legs and armpits and brushes her hair smooth and puts red on her lipsSo the next woman copies that style, and suddenly half of the guys are chatting her up. So a 3rd woman does it, and she gets attention.Beauty is an arms race. Why do you think so many women and girls obsess over fashion and makeup? Yeah, they like to impress one another, but the best way to do that is to be the girl all the guys drool over.It's like getting mad that some weaker guy figured out a pointy stick makes the musclebound alpha stop moving. People do what works.
>>534569450They seem to be imbibing a lot of bad lessons taught by influencers and the like. Homeschooling and Amish-level technological scrutiny may be the only solutions
>>534569450social media. its the only real change thats influencing their way of thinking this much. sure theres been a lot of shit becoming more and more accepted like faggotry and other sexual deviencies, but its their constant immersion in that hyper socialized online world thats doing this.
>>534568159>femboy groupW-Where can I find that?
>>534568159>>534568159It's framed as a profile of the tween, but the more telling character is the father. He seems like a relatively normal white guy who got hammered down by a hideous goblina wife (he presumably fell for the 'attractive young Latina' trap, which promptly ballooned into a 200lb monster after 30 and a couple kids), plus a tech company that replaced him with Indians. Now his life is spiraling into this hell of dealing with two children being indoctrinated by the San Francisco school system while having no respect or authority at home. It's a very grim reality. He would probably be better off killing himself at this point.
>>534569790It’s true that he’s a very puzzling part of this. He is described as (and appears to be) quite good looking, and working at a high paying tech job he presumably had his pick of women. But his wife is an absolute dog. I’d be interested to know exactly how that happened, but maybe having Mira trapped him
>>534568159>hyper surreal niche internet culture is brainwashing the youth to be retardedlet the faggot wreck his ass and catch the aids. then when he cries that martin shkreli has unfairly played the game of life banking off his sickness. just remember that almost every religion and every normal person has warned you do drop the faggot shit.
>>534568159>tomato girls
>>534568159>thiscore thatcoreBrainrot.
>>534570511This of course implies they had brains to begin with but as we now know zoomers are the dumbest generation by a country mile.
>>534568904Oh man I love this cope now, let's throw the worst of society and societal trends at adolescents because dem youngins' were toiling the mines 150 years ago and dying from bronchitis at the ripe age of 20. Hey, isn't this the thing we tried to move the entirety of human civilization away from, and what were told only barbarian third world shitholes did? Why are Republicans on /pol/ trying to say this is just normal, now?
>>534569059What the absolute fuck
>>534570463I looked it up. Bitches have too much free time and giving women tiktok will go down as the biggest society destroying act of subversion since the CIA gave crack to niggers.
>>534570802Life finds a way, now zoomers and memelennials are dying early due to butt cancer and laced drugs
>>534570511I think it's funny
>>534569059Horrible writing
>>534568159>The Life and Times of an American TweenGot any pics of her feet?
>>534570987Seems to be at least partially the result of recent mass hysteria >One evening, I asked Mira if she ever felt anxious in social situations. What I had in mind was pedestrian: cliques, drama, new people. She was leaning in the doorframe of her kitchen, eating dessert, and took a moment to think. “When there are men,” she said. “Old men. Like Dad’s age and older.” Patrick and Michalle, who were sitting with me at the dining table, looked surprised. “Why?” I asked. “Because I don’t like men, they’re weird,” she said. “We live in a world of pedophiles and rapists. And I don’t want that.”
>>534571290Yes, the magazine’s standards have fallen significantly under Remnick
>>534571372>women defend when the CIA flood you with retarded 3rd world rapists>tell girls it's all men's faultFucking moronic bitches
>>534568967Maybe I'm just a deviant, but I find a completely natural woman the most appealing. Women naturally have hair on their legs, armpits, and crotch. Shaving/waxing it doesn't make a woman more womanly, it just makes it fucking weird. Then again I also don't see the appeal of most porn. That's not to say I don't watch porn; I'm as horny as your average mid 30s guy, but I'd much rather just look at pics of women with natural bodies when I do my thing.
>>534571372Damn these women are going to be in for a bad time when they wake up one day to find a 60yo husband sleeping next to them.
>>534571372This is what happens when you never get beat as a child
>>534569059They see grown women say it's cool to be bi so they're bi. I guarantee you that she had no physical attraction to Carpenter. She just thinks she's pretty and cool.
>>534568159>hmm let's strip all traditional identity away from the population>wtf why are these new generations acting like schizo retards?truly a mystery
>>534571819You have to understand the effects of the modern porn industry being dominated by depraved kikes making anti goy fantasy material. Most erotica for most of history is just pictures of ordinary naked girls taken at face value.
>>534571819patrician taste
>>534572310shaving is natural
>>534568159>embrace queer identities openly.>>534568159>They also engage in deranged new subcultures.WTF! As if parasite riddled homosexuality isn't a weird deviant sick subculture?You don't hate the leftist jewish socialist media enough.
>>534570802That's a lot of words for you to say that you still live at home.
>>534570802>Why are Republicans on /pol/ trying to say this is just normal, now?You won't do shit.
>>534572476certain hispanics and asians can be hairless naturally
>>534571819>Maybe I'm just a deviant, but I find a completely natural woman the most appealing. Women naturally have hair on their legs, armpits, and crotch. Shaving/waxing it doesn't make a woman more womanly, it just makes it fucking weird. Then again I also don't see the appeal of most porn. That's not to say I don't watch porn; I'm as horny as your average mid 30s guy, but I'd much rather just look at pics of women with natural bodies when I do my thing.So you want to PSYOP women into ugly nasty maxxing so you aren't so sick looking by comparison?
>>534568159>>534569059>that green text Wew lad, no wonder the Chinese are winning and going to continue to win.
>>534571819I’m with you on bush and maybe even armpits but hairy legs are fucking revolting, you look like a man bitch
>>534572604nice
>>534568159Transexuals are to be shunned and ignored.
>>534569790>>534570034Only marry Asian, fuck this “Latina” grift. They are low-iq, overweight, emotionally unbalanced, poor, and brown.
>>534571978Oh my god AND you’re a (((Sabrina shartenter))) defender? You need to fucking kill yourself man.
>>534569386To be fair, that's the position of the ramp, not the length. Going from 18-25 to 35-35 is technically "shorter.">>534569059>strawberry matcha, a slurry of fruit, milk, and L-theanineThe author trying to make "green tea" sound somehow dystopian is enough to disregard the whole piece.
>>534569519Like *lip smack* oh myyyyy god are you for real right now. Like guuuurl I know right. They don't talk normal.
>>534573193Their new thing is calling things microplastic slop despite the fact we’ve been sucking on plastic since the 1950s.
With AI tech making most human schooling/work obsolete, fucking and crime will become the standard form of entertainment for children and teens.What else are they good for? What use does your average modern human have?
>>534568159pedo thread
>>534572604Also not a problem for real blondes and redheads.
>>534573482Then why are my pants zipped up? Diddle me that, flatman?
>>534573631you got him
>>534573423Well it’s more of an accumulation thing. The microplastics in the water supply have been building up for decades
>>534572755Come home white man
>>534568967 Women have literally removed their body hair with bee wax 3500 years ago in ancient Egypt. Less hairy women have been a beauty standard since ancient times, because the older a woman get, the more body hair she develops.
>>534573892>The microplastics in the water supply have been building up for decadessafe and effective goyim!stop questioning the science!
>>534574024Yikes
>>534568159>Nooooooooooooooooo you have to be le ebin puritan and go to factory like prussian prison enviroment educated you everything else is a distraction that depresses you!
>>534574917This but unironically
>>534575234NEETs must make you sooooo mad with their existence
>>534569059lmao pedos must have it hard these days because look at these fucking clowns and how they talk,I bet they also smoke and swear like truck drivers.t someone who lives around a grade and middle school and see and hear these things every day
>>534575769Yes I am seething
>>534574917>Ok boomer, my 8 hours of scrolling while high and the nervous breakdown i get every time i need to do homework have nothing to do with each other, okay? Rap is like, real music, not obscene gorilla hooting to make my panic attacks stop. Skibidy the fuck off, unc, i need to vape again before my stream, i'm trying to hustle!
>>534575769Literally nobody cares about NEETS, in fact it is the NEETS themselves that refuse to take their own advice and truly check out of society. Much like women their underdevolped brains seem to crave constant validation. A mental abnormality I believe is derived from a severe lack of self esteem leading to severe anxiety at being held responsible for anything, in this case their own decisions. So long as you don't leave a mess when you go, I believe your goal of societal non-existence is easily obtainable. The only pushback coming from what friends and family, you maintain contact with, who don't want to watch you rot away into obscurity. That concern itself born from a form of narcissism or ego that drives mankind to prove existence. It is why Descartes had such a breakdown and was forced to flub the answer to his question of existence with a dishonest gloss over and refusal to dwell on the topic any longer.
>>534572234>Most erotica for most of history is just pictures of ordinary naked girls taken at face value.Ordinary girls didn't pose for naked pictures for most of history. Those were whores and you're delusional if you think whores that posed for naked pictures in the past were different in the past from whores of todaynwho pose for naked pictures.
none of these are actually subcultures, they just read these words online and spam them. young gen Z / old gen A seem to believe that something's most superficial appearance in images makes it real somehow, like they can shop and filter things into existence >>534573193>>534571819>>534571372I'm 36, can I still get a young wife who isn't jaded and cynical? I did date a zoomer for a while but she was crazy and constantly talked to me like we were on camera 24/7
>>534576612are you retarded? The problem with NEETs is that someone has to feed them and keep the lights on, while full time working people struggle to buy groceries
>>534576682>I'm 36, can I still get a young wife who isn't jaded and cynical?You can, easily. But give up on white women and i would say give up on city living wholesale.
>>534568159So same as it ever was then. Yawn.
>>534576736Got any tips? I've actually been thinking about homesteading, but I'm concerned that that will just lead to a hermit lifestyle. I'm already socially stunted enough.
>>534576682>I'm 36, can I still get a young wife who isn't jaded and cynical? No. Despite what pedos claim, young girls think old men are gross
My girl got lazer treatment on her pussy and no hair grows there. None at all. I often wish there was a squirrely bush down there I could hide my nuts in but women are strange creatures and you can't talk much sense into them.
>>534572823>Only marry Asianfuck of chink. chink women are repulsive
>>534569059we are cooked.
>>534576516>you have to focus on prussian education system because who will produce my boomerbux ok? Everything else but the prussian education system and the wageslave aftermath give you depression and anxiety ok?>>534576612Thats a lot of seething over the N word
>>534571066>butt cancerThis is quite literally from pesticides. Some pesticide used since the 1960s is the biggest cause, followed by glyphosate. Most of the people affected are gonna be millenials, Zoomers, and alfalfas who've been eating that shit from birth through formula and breastmilk, and goyslop thereafter
>>534573482>>534575974Every girl on those school grounds that you stalk has Cp on their phones every girl from 13-18 has naked pictures of themselves and other girls on their personal devices making every single one of them guilty in court.Make sure to report them to your local authorities or YOU are the problem,they deserve it for being sick disgusting little freaks. Lock those little pedo bitches up NOW!
>>534568967how many fat feminists were there 1000 years ago?
>We made our way to Salt Tree, a Californian chain boutique. By this point, I had read enough prescriptive nonfiction about raising adolescent girls that I understood sexy clothing to be distinct from sexuality in practice; I had consulted parents of teen-agers, who explained that their daughters’ revealing clothing was not a capitulation to the male gaze but a refutation of its power. This did not prepare me for Salt Tree. The store was blazingly lit; metal racks overflowed with petroleum-based fabrics and shivered to the bass line of throbbing pop music. There were crop tops in fuchsia mesh, tube tops in cheetah print, chain-mail halters, and puff-sleeved sweaters. There were plaid miniskirts in multiple colorways, pleather shorts, and denim corsets. There were distressed jeans, and cargo jeans, and jeans studded with pearls and rhinestones. There were tiny shirts that said “Be Kind” and “Tequila Made Me Do It,” and nostalgic shirts with vintage lettering that read “ ’76” and, appallingly, “ ’93.” There were body chains. It felt like an A.I. hallucination of nineties fashion.Horrifying
>>534572521Landlord fingers typed this post
>>534568967>The only women in the village without hair are under 11 years oldAnd legal to marry
>>534580172>and, appallingly, “ ’93.”Welcome to the inexorable march of time old man.
>>534568967it's so fucking funny how normies think that in the middle ages people were living like animals and shit like scissors or blades didn't exist,
>>534568159>New Yorker>Article sexualizing Tweens>Calls them all degenerate, pansexual, fetish loving slutsHans...
>>534569281RIP
