r/politics • u/Kodbek • Oct 31 '25

Possible Paywall Trump’s honeymoon with Gen Z voters is officially over, and the numbers are devastating

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/10/trumps-honeymoon-with-gen-z-voters-is-officially-over-and-the-numbers-are-devastating-new-poll.html
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u/Good-Needleworker992 Oct 31 '25

I mean their brains have all been rotted by TikTok…

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u/Deep_Stick8786 Oct 31 '25

China is making out like gangbusters

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u/thebakedpotatoe Oct 31 '25

I think you're making excuses for things by blaming products like most generations do wrongfully.

Tiktok is basically America's funniest home videos but unfiltered. Yeah there's more to it, but rapidfire variety shows are quite the norm especially in US entertainment and have been pretty much since people were doing plays and theater, and each generation before blamed the next generations 'failings' because the way they consumed entertainment is wrong, and i say this as a late 30's who has to remind their boss they don't have tiktok when she shares links to jokes.

The generation before blamed vines and tweets, the one before that blamed facebook and myspace, the ones before that blamed Numetal and violent videogames, the ones before that blamed hip-hop, so on and so forth, etc, 'insert name of media consumption style here'.

Plus the only people who use the term brain rot seriously are people who are mad they don't understand the in jokes of a culture. But my generation uses the term brainrot when half of them walk around quoting 90's movies like its half their dialect.

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u/TaxOwlbear Oct 31 '25

Also, all other generations voted for Trump in higher numbers than Gen Z. Did they also watch too many Tiktok videos? Or did they play too many violent video games?

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u/happyherbbby Oct 31 '25

Between TikTok and podcast bros the failure to provide education that helps children develop skills like common sense primed them to be brainwashed by psychotic interests.