Zoomer here, will go to concerts alone once every few months because I have pretentious taste in music + the one friend I have with very similar tastes is a little agoraphobic
Hell all 3 festivals I've been to have also been alone cause people flaking before a big fest is pretty common in general and happened to me all 3 times. Will sometimes try to meet people and hangout, sometimes not depending on what vibe I'm feeling
So many zoomers who find out I do this look at me so weird but like what, am I just not going to enjoy myself and do something I want just because I don't have somebody to go with?
I have a few friends that are 40+ and it sounds like they do stuff alone frequently. The ~30 year old friends aren't doing it a lot but they don't seem to have the same fear zoomers do either. I regularly run into 30+ yo ppl I know at an event there alone but never happens with zoomers
I went to concerts alone at times, but not until I was around 24 or so. As a gen-xer, I’m honestly a little envious of the togetherness the kids at shows have these days (at least it seems like it). I went to a festival-type show with my wife a while back and the youths were moving in groups. It could be that I like to imagine the kids banding together and taking over, though, idk.
It's selection bias imo, I know so many people that cancel if somebody else flakes and they'd have to go alone