That can't be true

I'm 25 and I'm here to hear the moans of all +30 basement dwellers, make some room for me!

>>149145369
Fix your shit while you can bro. It's not fun you never just accept your life.

>>149145440
True. It’s cute to be a neet when you’re young, but you hit a certain age and just compare your lack of success to those your age

Stop being a neet!
Start going out more and hitting up local restaurants and bars.
Start going to arcades and bowling alleys.
Wednesday I'm going out to a gringo Mexican place to see how the food is.
I judge them by how good their sopapillas are.

>>149145578
But that's lonely anon.

>>149145604
Nah it's good to get air.

>>149144771 (OP)
Im 40 & it's still true

>>149146004
I can get air while secluding myself in the woods from others that way I don't have to face the mirror of my own social inadequacy.

Do NEETs exist in the US? I can't see American parents tolerating their adult children just staying in their room for years doing nothing. Kicking out your kids at 18 to fend for themselves is much more common here.

>>149145578
>Stop being a neet!
No
>Start going out more and hitting up local restaurants and bars.
Eating out is expensive & bars are full of depressed people. I rather cook ny own food.
>Start going to arcades and bowling alleys.
Arcades ran out of business. The malls were full of them. Now the malls are closing. As for bowling aisles, unless I have someone to go with, bowling by yourself never looks good.
>Wednesday I'm going out to a gringo
Gringos don't want you. Take it from a gringo that knows.
>Mexican place to see how the food is.
So why don't you just go back to Mexico then? If Mexico is all great, then why are you in the states? Go back faggot.

>>149146225
>I can't see American parents tolerating their adult children just staying in their room for years doing nothing.

American parents don't even give a shit about their kids, it's why they have to put so many ratings on everything, so someone else can be responsible, for ex. if a guy sells an R rated game to a kid, it's going to be the guys fault and can in fact be sued over it.

>>149146225
They get disability by saying they have anxiety or some shit.

>>149146268
Uh, okay. I'm just saying I can't imagine American parents putting up with their adult kid just sitting on their ass in their room doing nothing for years like Jap parents do. I know my dad would have thrown me out on my ass if I told him I had no plans for work or study and he'd just have to pay for me to live at home in my room forever.

>>149146277
But the parents still have to let them stay in their home. It's hard for me to picture American parents being okay with that if it wasn't a legit disability like the kid was crippled in an accident or something.

>>149146225
>>149146303
The "Out at 18" meme is pretty outdated if it was ever all that prevalent. Most American parents aren't callous enough to chuck their kids out when they literally don't have any way to support that life besides the most massive of assholes who naturally will also make the most sensational of stories. The issue is much more people

>>149146350
There's a difference between "struggling to find a job/get into school" and the NEET "refusing to do anything". Most parents will of course support the former, but not many the latter. I'm talking about the Jap kind of NEET who refuses to not only find work but even go outside or interact with people.

>>149144771 (OP)
If you're Not in Employment, Education, or Training, by definition you're a NEET

>>149146225
You have to remember, the US, especially the blue states, is insanely expensive to live in. I know people in their 40's who still live with their parents. I also know couples who work a combined 3 jobs to rent a house. There's also the fact that most Americans, especially non whites, are perfectly okay with different generations and families living under 1 roof.

>>149144771 (OP)
I work and study but I live as a NEET desu

>>149146693
no you don't

>>149146679
Yeah, but the point is none of those you describe are NEETs because they are all working or studying. NEETs don't just live at home, they live at home doing nothing.

>>149144771 (OP)
I mean, 20 IS young. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life at that age so I bounced from thing to thing, but I mostly did nothing.

>>149144771 (OP)
she reminds me of Billie from Dashr U except without the large front teeth

>>149144771 (OP)
What is she from OP?

>>149144771 (OP)
Smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos and masturbating do not constitute plans in my book.

>>149146916
20 is the point where your faults start to get more noticeable.
You keep telling yourself that you graduated high school only a few years ago, and there’s nothing wrong gaming all day at mom’s house.
Meanwhile your friends who went straight to university are about to graduate in the next year, already planning their careers and living on their own.

>>149147032
Twitter artist named Heidi/Heytherenrds. He draws a lot of cute girls.

>>149146244
nta but gringo Mexican place just means a white washed gentrified overpriced Mexican restaurant that has millennial guys with a crazy idea place. So white people can eat soulless, flavorless, tacos but not made with BROWN (the horror) hands.

>>149147944
Pablo, it’s not a personal attack against you.

>>149147266
Link?

>>149145490
Honestly almost nobody I went to college with is successful or worth envying

>>149147977
Go back to eating ox testicles and haddock in a can

>>149144771 (OP)
The cutoff point for "young" is 24.

As a 38 year old neet who never worked a day in his life...
Feels pretty fucking good man.
I wake up at 1 pm and watch cartoons/youtube/twitch and play videogames all day.
Just finished my 5th run of deltarune chapters 3/4 today to get all the secrets.

>>149144771 (OP)
20 is definitely young. What are you, 12?

>taking one online course from a college towards my bachelor's so I'm not a NEET by technicality
Still feels empty.

How old are you guys?
26 here.

>>149149016
>turning 24 in two months
>in basically the exact same station in life as I was five years ago, just balder and even less focused
I screencapped this as an underageb& almost nine years ago and I didn't heed any of its advice

>>149144771 (OP)
20s on the edge of getting your life together.

>>149149183
I don't really get all those people who are like "i'm nothing" like bitch you think you're something with a job?
We're all gonna be dust in the end, just enjoy your time instead of being miserable.
If you're miserable while free and with the ability to do anything you want, you'll be even more miserable when less free and forced to toil for some company that doesn't care about you.
Like shut the fuck up bitch, you being a sad sack of shit doesn't have anything to do with what you do that's just a you problem.

>t. neet who got a job to see what all the hubub was about and then quit again when realized it was worse than being a neet

>>149144771 (OP)
>26
>Still stuck in a dead end job because I never had any clue on what to do with my life.
>No dreams, goals or ambitions.
I am going to die in a retirement home alone.
>>149149183
>>in basically the exact same station in life as I was five years ago, just balder and even less focused
Me too pal.

>>149149200
this is the biggest truthpill
if you're unhappy with your life as a neet, you won't ever be happy with your life because that's the freest you can ever be
literally unlimited time to do any hobby you want

WAS living on my own but after I lost my job from Covid and my money ran out I ended up having to move back in with the family. Got another job but it doesn't make enough money to move into another apartment.

Still trying to find a better job, but still paying my own personal bills and student loans while I do so.

>>149149241
>>149149200
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THFxLLcM3aM

I have something to say.
So shut the fuck up and listen.
I spent thirteen years half-cut up to my eyeballs.
Drunk, to put it mildly.
Then suddenly I saw it, a streetlight shining in my face.
500 Gigawatts of the power of God.
A vision of my bloated body found in some ditch.
Scared me straight.
So I got a collar shirt, mortgage and a credit card.
All the things that make a good man.
I hoped I could raise my children to be better than their old man.
I wanted to believe I was never one setback away from my worst self.
But the truth is.
Discipline.
Drive.
Routine.
The endless fucking desperation to get shit done.
A loving wife? Great kids?
Sobriety?
I’m telling you.
You.
Accomplishments I’d been chasing all my life.
Never felt as good as I expected when I crossed the finish line.
…
So now that we’re at the end. Takin’ inventory.
Those nights spinning out of my head, sinking into the sofa.
Broken glass in my palms. Bleeding dry the funniest thing ever.
Old dogs laughing and snarling on a waterbed floor, mocking the moon for daring to show its face.
All nausea and wreckage and vomit and ugly cruelty.
The only problem in the world an empty bottle.
Those were the best days of my life.
Yeah.
…Those were the best days of my life.
I got nothing to hide. Ready to face the music.
I can see myself for what I am.
But you? A cowardly, selfish motherfucker and you can’t even see it.

>>149146225
It changed a lot with later Gen X parents, particularly those that raised younger millennials and older zoomers.

I was neet until 31

>>149146244
>suddenly, racism
You have zero friends

>>149146225
As long as the family has money, it's fairly easy to manipulate separated parents who are afraid of being alone.

>>149146225
A lot of the "neets" are just lazy millennials pretending to have autism and ADHD so they don't have to do actual work.

Like I can smell a fake autist a mile away, it's like a super power.

>>149144771 (OP)
>spent my entire 20s busting ass going from poor white trash to a basic middle-class American
>for the past 7 months after quitting i cannot find a new job on par or better with my last 1
>30yo
Amazing how this time period has completely shattered any self-confidence I ever had about myself.
>tfw things will probably get worse as well

>>149144771 (OP)
Projecting your disgusting life onto drawings of attractive girls doesn’t make your life any less disgusting.

>>149149712
Explain what the differences are between fake and real. Like 5 differences per mental problem.

>all the neets complaining how their lives suck
>all the wagies complaining how their lives suck
Yeah that one anon is right, it's really not about either of those, it's literally just a you problem.

>>149144771 (OP)
>Not in Employment, Education or Training
I don't see age mentioned anywhere in the acronym.

if society and the world gave me a reason to leave my house as an unattractive, undesirable straight white man that literally everyone hates and demonizes i would.
>GIVE ALL YOUR FREE TIME TO SHEKELBERG ANON THAT FOURTH YACHT WON'T PAY FOR ITSELF CHOP CHOP PLEB
i'm good. give me a reason to slave my life away besides an empty apartment.

>>149149183
>24
>Balding
Couldn't be me

>>149151415
>give me a reason
eating food?
paying bills?
???
what do you mean
are you homeless?
you need a job to earn money

>>149145490
>>149145440
Yeah... It's not so bad in your early 20's, but it's a slippery slope.
Suddenly you're on you 30's+, and everyone has moved on and up in life, but you.
The friends that you had try to reach and talk to you, but you feel embarrassed to talk to them, which make you retreat and isolate yourself even more, until you are stuck in a perpetual loop, contemplating how did things ever get to this point.

>>149151439
skill issue
all my friends are also neets and we gaman on discord every day
recently cleared out nightreign

>>149151422
i'm on disability and live with my parents. i don't ever plan on contributing to a society that has always hated me. i can leech off it though.

>>149151439
i haven't had friends in over a decade because i generally do not care about people since life is infinitely easier and less stressful when you don't have to deal with people for any reason. get a dog if you want companionship.

>>149149214
>26
>Still stuck in a dead end job because I never had any clue on what to do with my life.
>No dreams, goals or ambitions.
>I am going to die in a retirement home alone.
Kek, what you have is what I was hoping to be able to achieve when I was a kid. Took me until 31 until I found a dead end job that can put up with until I die.

>>149151469
>i'm on disability and live with my parents. i don't ever plan on contributing to a society that has always hated me. i can leech off it though.
your parents will die eventually anon
and then what?
you'll be homeless with no money and not job to pay the bills and too old to be hired by anyone
you plan to die on the street at 40-50?

>>149151486
>and then what?
i'll get into low income housing well before they die and my disability will pay for rent. i plan on living a life with zero obligations to anyone. if i wasn't given a shit hand since day 1 that then continued to get worse and worse maybe things would have ended up differently, but i plan on interacting and contributing to a rigged rotten decaying society as little as possible while leeching off it. society has told me time and time again i am not wanted so i will exit it and leech off it with zero shame.

>>149151458
I still talk with my non-neet friends, we talk and watch animes together on discord every week, and sometimes play some co-op, but it's embarassing. I hate when they ask about my life. I kind of wish I could tell them I don't want to talk about it, but I suppose it's a normal thing to ask, so I don't want to be rude.

Many are married, some have kids, they all have successful careers. Sometimes the paranoia settles in, and I find myself wondering if they keep me around just so that they can feel better about themselves.

>>149151524
you can't pay rent with disability money anon jesus christ
you're so screwed

>>149146218
>I don't have to face the mirror of my own social inadequacy.
Literally just learn not to care.

people always tell me i should feel bad and ashamed for being isolated and alone and a NEET wizard but i tried to reach out and was always rejected. it's very telling when people complain because this would imply they had chances they fucked up. i didn't have any friends to lose or career or academic prospects to fumble. is it really so unbelievable that some people would retreat into lifelong solitude because they were simply ostracized and gatekept due to various life circumstances. not everyone is desperate to be a normalfag because said normalfag life shut them out at the starting line.

>>149151554
>you can't pay rent with disability money
clearly you're not a leaf and have zero clue about what you're talking about. sorry you live in a shithole that lets their least fortunate with legitimate physical disabilities die in the street with zero help.

If you have a job, even a shitty one, you can't be a neet, you fucking retards. Learn the definition of a word before using it.

>>149151601
>leaf
oh jesus fucking christ anon
they'll put you into a medically assisted suicide chamber lmao
they literally offer it to people who are relatively well off with like a minor injury in leafland
that's so fucked up you don't even know that

>>149151634
fell for /pol/ propaganda award

>>149151601
Canadians literally have suicide as an option and you gotta wait 8 years for a doctor to even acknowledge your existence.
Not to mention they're getting ethnically replaced by Indians so i wouldn't be talking frostback.
What are you fuckers gonna do when all the moneys gone?

>>149151631
i don't have a job though

>>149151601
my condolences anon, you're already dead and don't even know it yet
your own government will kill you

>>149151643
>>149151668

>>149151642

>>149151679
No one cares ice jeet.

>>149151701
i don't know why people call this /co/mblr when it's infested with /pol/ shitposters like literally every other board.

>>149149527
Friends are for women & children. I'm neither so I'll be fine.

>>149149016
>24 is the cutoff point
That only applies to women, retard. There's a reason why the Japs call them "Christmas cakes" because no one buys Christmas cakes after the 25th. For men it's different. They're just starting their lives in their late 20s.

>>149152162
>They're just starting their lives in their late 20s.
bit of a cope. i think the average woman would think you're a massive loser if you don't have an established career by near 30. women have inherent value but men have to prove their value if they're not insanely attractive.

>>149146350
The funniest part is many millennials moved back into their parents after college due increasing home & rent costs. I predict zoomerfags who feel for the college meme will do the same.

>>149152177
>but men have to prove their value
to whom?
to whamen?
you sound pussy whipped

>>149152177
I don't give a shit what some hole thinks of me. I don't care.
Im in my 40s. Have a full head of hair, slim, have money, & I get hit on by girls in their 20s. I literally dgaf what betacucks like you think either. And the best part is Im a NEET

>>149152210
yeah if you can't secure pussy there's not much reason to do anything but the bare minimum. sky high standards will just have more men seeking isolation and exiting the dating market since the juice isn't worth the squeeze nowadays for most men.

>>149152221
>if they're not insanely attractive.
you didn't even read my post. attractive men can get away with anything.

>>149152228
No pussy, no work. It's that shrimple.

>>149152162
NTA but it applies to both.
The UN classifies youth as anyone 24 and under.
US medical systems also have you as ‘young adult’ from 18-24, after that you are grouped as ‘adult’.

>>149152228
as a good looking guy it's not worth getting pussy for anyone these days
the holes are so nasty they rode like 1000 cocks by the time they're 20, i ain't going anywhere near that if approached
and they all only want you for some gain like getting clingy and asking for gibs/money and if you ghost them they'll just post a #metoo i was raped by this guy on twitter

>>149152285
>as a good looking guy
why do you think i want the opinion of someone who's always lived in a different reality than me with different rules?

>>149152177
Those women will still consider you a "loser" even if you have career prospects. Those women are all looking to settle diwn as their looks start fading when they're past their prime. I'd rather take my chances with the younger girls.

>>149152285
My autism protected me from nonvirgin girls. For some reason, i couldn't never hook up with them knowing some other guy was in her holes first. You just know her pussy isn't tight anymore. Oh plus the STD risk is higher too.

>>149152356
true but you'll never find a virgin unless you go to like some boonies and look for mormons (and even they they most likely got diddled by their brothers/fathers)

>>149152356
so your autism actually didn't affect you negatively at all if you only got laid with virgin women, something the vast majority of men will never experience. why even bring it up.

>>149152379
Because nonvirgin women are gross & are a massive liability. A nonvirgin is more likely to divorce rape than a virgin woman. I don't want used up hole.

>>149145578
>t. pedo anime-spamming NEET

>>149152443
okay. just saying if you're able to regularly get laid with virgin women that's better than what 99% of men will ever experience.

>>149152162
What a dumbass you are.
For a women ceasing being young negatively affects her value.
For a man, no such thing happens.
I bet that you are coping and seething that you are way above 24 but weren't able to even begin to work on raising yours.

>>149149712
Yeah, you would know, since you really are a mentally ill NEET who spams anime on /co/.

>>149152478
>For a man, no such thing happens.
if you're good looking sure.

>>149152512
What?
Men have little to none intrinsic value to women or society, all our value is gained through hard work and/or luck.
Being good looking will certainly help with that, but even ugly bastards can and routinely do accrue plenty of it.

>>149152478
Massive cope
Women age like milk, while men age like fine wine. A guy is not as dependable on his looks as women are. That's why the wall hits women & not men. As we get older, our wealth & status increases. For women, they are born with status when they are young. At 24, they lose their status because they depended on their looks. As men, we don't suffer from the problem. We get better with age.

>>149152773
>while men age like fine wine.
entirely depends on the man. plenty of zoomers already look like shit.

>>149152464
I gatekeep my balls & seeds from those stupid harpies that think they can have it all. Seen too many guys get fucked over by them.

>>149152773
Did you even read anything that I've written?
Keep coping, I suppose.

>>149152773
>Women age like milk
Cheese?

>>149152854
case in point: my hairline, which will only get worse from here

>>149146225
My cousin is 26 dropped out of college and only held a job once for a short period while he was going to college and after he dropped out years ago he straight up isn't actively looking for work so hes been a NEET for awhile and his mom and dad pay for everything and his brother even has a job but not him.

So yeah they do exist I guess.

>>149152854
I’m convinced this isn’t true and it’s zoomers who are now noticing aging among their own peers, or millennials coping by shitting on zoomers.

I'm 22 years old and a NEET. My life is over.

>>149153262
zoomers blame millennials for the state of absolutely everything. just like gen x and boomers do.

>>149147093
You must've had real smart friends. I figured my shit out at 20 and am still the most put together of my high school friends.

>>149152854
That's because of porn addiction. Why do think so many of them have tattoos & 1/3rd of them identify as LGBTs aka faggot? It's the porn addiction.

>>149153057
No, milk. Women have a shelf life, just like milk. 25 is their expiration date.

>>149147093
More like living back with their parents

Sure is comics and cartoons in here

>>149146290
Throwing your kid out of the house is exclusively dumb white boomer behavior.

>>149144771 (OP)
NEET isn't an age thing tho
Not in Education, Employment, or Training

It is notable that one can be a NEET without being a hikki

>>149153262
Zoomers wish their adolescent diet had half the preservatives mine did
Anthropologists will exhume my mummy and I'll still look 36

>>149144771 (OP)
She's a cute girlfailure neet. I wonder what the other anons in the thread think of her.

>>149144771 (OP)
yeah no 20 is young

>>149154547
what comic is she from?

>>149144771 (OP)
Women like this don't exist anymore, They'd just start an onlyfans account

>>149146225
>Do NEETs exist in the US
They exist everywhere a person can not be in education, employment, or training

>>149144771 (OP)
i wish i was still 20. ageing is shit

>>149156716
They're still exactly the same but now there's also pictures of their pussy online that earned them less than the price of a used toaster.

Does it still count as being a NEET if you're making money to live off of through art commissions? I'm unsure if self-employment counts as employment.

>>149153319
No!
Go outside and go out more.
Go out to random hole in the wall restaurants and movie theaters and start hitting up arcades.
Stop staying inside all the time.
You can be lonely but not miserable, and the walking will build morale especially if you live in a city.

>>149157814
Idk.
It would matter if you had your own place.

I feel like having your own place doesn't disqualify you from being a NEET if it's an apartment

>>149147093
Very very few people did this in my old highschool/College that were 21. You had to be real smart, be born into money, have connections to be that career focused. Most people took a year off to fuck around and enjoy their youth. People that are way too obsessed with being rich straight out of highschool either fell for hr hustle culture meme or are Indian/chinese

>>149151579
This is the situation I'm in. It wasn't perfect, but I still spent my 20s really trying to not be a neet. I had friends, hobbies, a good job, a gf and bought a house but the moment I turned 30 I lost fucking all of it and haven't recovered. Every attempt at trying to "better myself" and get it all back blows up 10 fold and I just end up losing more and more. I still have my house but I live pay check to pay check and not a single person gives 2 shits about me. Worse yet is I constantly see people who are absolute daemons getting everything while I fuck up once and get sent to hell. 4chan is barely a good place to even vent because just like in real life anytime you try to seek help or even just release some steam everyone just calls you a fagot. In all honesty if you aren't fucking perfect or have a pussy no one gives a shit about you.

>>149152162
>>149152478
>>149152773
All of you are fucking retarded. There are differences yes but it's not actually black and white. The real truth is that no matter what people say the moment you hit 30 anything you don't have you will not get and anything you lose you will not get back. The "30 is the new 20!" or "age is just a number!" is total bullshit. This goes for both sexes, hence why you have shit like feminisim or incels on here spouting "MeN aGe LiKe FiNe WiNe!" neither side can actually cope with the fact that they failed at life and try to find something to blame it on.

>>149158623
Brutal
Anyways I got my dream job at 30

>>149144771 (OP)
it's hard to find motivation to escape NEETdom when you don't have anything to look forward to in life. i live in the middle of nowhere in some Eastern European retirement town, don't have any friends and haven't had any since middle school, and no places like arcades or cons to go to so i could try to make friends. if i were to work some minimum wage job, my life would be work, followed by rotting away at home, which would make me even more depressed than the life i have right now.

>>149158623
Exactly, now is the time to fix your lives.
People spend way to much time at home and don't go out.
>But it's lonely to go out by yourself.
Any excuse to be away from the internet and having fun is great when you live in the city.
People are such doomers these days, they just sit and sulk all day.

>>149156716
>>149157172
people used to do it for free. Tumblr used to have people in their 20s and 30s post nudes of themselves to boost their confidence and express their sexuality since they were mostly repressed nerds in their real lives. now there's a profit motive around it.

>>149151579
same here. i also had an abusive family which fucked me up.