Gen Z doesn’t necessarily have the best reputation for being hard workers. And while the stereotypes about young people are largely untrue, you do occasionally get a few special snowflakes that reinforce all the negative ideas people have about the generation. For instance, 20-year-old Zoe Wynns is an aspiring musician with a lot of talent and big dreams. However, she really doesn’t have to have to work a 9-to-5 job while she tries to achieve them — and she thinks she’ll “die” if she’s forced to do so.
Zoe describes herself as an “artsy creative.”
In a TikTok video, she shares that she bursts into tears if she has to complete tasks that don’t have to do with her art. As a result, she can’t imagine ever having to work a 9-to-5 and feels like she would literally perish if she was forced to do so.
“I know this is gonna sound spoiled, I know this is gonna sound like some artsy creative who you know just doesn’t wanna put in the hard work and hours, but I physically do not think I can do it,” she explains in the clip.
“I start to cry if I have more than like three non-creative tasks to do in a day and imagine doing eight hours-a-day of something that I don’t really love for the rest of my life… So there’s no other option. This has to work.”
She seems to be living by some pretty disconnected ideals.
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Later in the video, Zoe says she once heard a quote “in a show” that says, “People like us can’t live normal lives. If we try, it kills us.” Sounds exactly like the type of quote I would have thought was deep and meaningful when I was her age, and Zoe is going all-in on it and taking it very literally.
“Honestly? I am throwing myself into that category’ cos I think I will simply die.”
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We can keep Zoe Wynn alive by streaming her music, apparently.
Zoe says that in order to avoid having to work 9-to-5 which would simply be far too torturous, everyone should come together to stream her music on all available platforms so she can make a living from her art.
“So if you want to listen to my music and help me, you know, one step in the process of me not literally dying, please stream it. I love you guys,” she says at the end of the clip.
Needless to say, not everyone was sympathetic to her plea.
“Not the trust fund kids coming up with philosophical ways to accept and identify with their laziness,” one person said.
Another wrote: “As someone who is disabled and has to work eight hour shifts that actually do try to kill me, everything you’re saying is so selfish and it is arrogant. ‘Oh I don’t want to work eight hours a day I will LiTeRaLlY DiE’ well tough s**t that’s life. I’m an artist and I would love to live off of commissions and not have to work another job because I love drawing and that doesn’t cause me any pain.”
“But that’s not how it works and you can’t just go up and post on social media ‘hey I don’t wanna work because I’m special and I don’t deserve to work because I’m creative go support my content’ like there’s thousands of better ways to promote your content that being entitled and thinking you don’t have to work because you don’t want to.”
Of course, a little empathy goes a long way.
Zoe Wynn may be idealistic and completely disconnected from reality, but she’s also really young. Think back to all the completely misguided and delusional things you thought at 20 and you’d probably be embarrassed. However, you learned and grew and have a lot more perspective now, and that only comes with life experience.
Hopefully, Zoe will get acquainted with reality in the near future. In the meantime, I do sincerely wish her luck with her music. As a creative person, I know how great it would be to make a living completely off what I love to do. However, it’s also great to be able to pay rent and buy groceries.
