A fiery young woman has unleashed on Sydney’s youth in a brutal social media rant, accusing them of killing the city’s nightlife – not because there’s nothing to do, but because they’re too boring to enjoy it.
Sydneysider Tazzy explained her rant was going to ‘really piss a lot of people in Sydney off’ but it was something that needed to be said.
The 30-year-old said Sydney’s nightlife was often described as boring, however the root cause was not a lack of interesting things to do but rather the people who go out in the city.
‘You hear people say all the time that Sydney’s nightlife is boring,’ she said in a video shared to social media.
‘But we need to address the problem at the root. It’s not the nightlife that’s boring. People from Sydney are insufferably boring.’
Tazzy said the demographic included Sydneysiders aged between 18 and 34 years old who were supposed to be having fun but are not.
She said some blame the cost-of-living crisis as the reason they don’t engage in Sydney’s nightlife.
But Tazzy believed that was not an excuse, as young adults across the world were also struggling with the cost of living but still managed to have fun.
Tazzy (pictured) said Sydney’s nightlife was often described as boring however the root cause was not a lack of interesting things to do but rather the people who go out in the city
Tazzy believed Sydneysider’s aged between 18 and 35-years-old were too ‘well adjusted’ and obsessed with health and fitness (pictured, Kings Cross in Sydney)
Tazzy claimed Sydneysiders were ‘well adjusted’, and that meant their prime years were boring.
‘We have a good education system, so everyone gets raised pretty well adjusted. What you end up with is a bunch of 18 to 35-year-olds who are relatively well adjusted, and that just means that they’re extremely boring,’ she said.
She added that Sydneysiders are obsessed with fitness and health, which becomes their only hobby.
‘If you ask most people in Sydney, they don’t have any special interests. They don’t have any passions. They don’t have anything interesting that they can talk to you about,’ she said.
‘They actually just don’t even have things to say, because they are so well adjusted. Their only hobby is physically working out.’
She suggested that for many Australians, grabbing a coffee and walking their dog is often the highlight of their day.
‘That’s why it’s all about dogs, because, like, that’s the only interesting thing that they have to do in their life,’ she said.
Tazzy said there are only four interesting groups of people who enrich Sydney’s nightlife: creatives, queers, drug addicts, and ethnics from out west.
She added cities like New York, Paris, and London stood in stark contrast to Sydney, due to the ‘sheer diversity of people’ which made the environments ‘electric’ (pictured, revellers in Sydney)
She claimed cities like New York, Paris, and London stood in stark contrast to Sydney, as the ‘sheer diversity of people’ made the environments ‘electric.’
The music producer added Sydney’s creative industries were suffering as a result, with not enough creative people in the art and music scenes to support new artists.
She ended her rant by saying she was exhausted trying to make friends in Sydney.
Many social media users agreed with Tazzy’s scathing assessment of Sydneysiders, with many claiming the city was socially empty.
‘Fully agree! 95 per cent just walk around like NPCs (non-player characters in video games), all dressing the same, doing the same things, same music etc,’ one person commented.
‘This is so true, I moved here four-ish years ago and when I met people they’re asking where I went to school. Mind you we’re in our 30s,’ a second person wrote.
A third said, ‘This is so real. I moved here about 18 months ago and honestly, I’ve never experienced a city that feels so socially dry.
‘It’s just crowds of insufferably straighty-180s. There’s almost no eclectic energy, no sense of play or vulnerability. There’s no spontaneity, no vibrant third spaces, and no creativity unless you really go hunting for it.’
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A fourth added: ‘100 per cent agree. Moved here four months ago from Tassie and can’t wait for my contract to end. It’s objectively pretty here but soulless and like 80 per cent of the content from Sydney I see is just 5am run clubs in Bondi. Nothing else.’
Others disagreed with Tazzy, suggesting that if she didn’t like the city, she should move elsewhere.
‘Girl why are you so pressed, just move,’ one person commented.
‘I agree to a degree. We exist where we do have more interests. You just haven’t found your people yet,’ a second person wrote.
A third added: ‘People just have different priorities, it’s not that they’re boring. You just have to find your people. I personally won’t find my people out in the clubs every weekend, that doesn’t make me or my kind of people boring.’
