Is it me or does anyone else thinks the article is all over the place? One line says men are lonely, then jumps on memes, then jumps women and men are the same rate lonely and then its just saying you need money to have friends. And there isn’t a single like without a hyperlink and its just mish mash of what’s trending on Instagram and Reddit.

It's not X, it's Y

Also you've got some kind of agenda in these comments buddy, the dog whistles are screaming loud.

Unless you win the lottery and have a family or partner who doesn't view you as 'man'.

Please see a licensed therapist. You'll be giving them a run for their money with all they'd have to unpack but, if you don't have anyone in your life you can talk to openly, a therapist can be that person.

I get what you mean but your numbers feel like they are from 30 years ago. I don't think anyone is expected to be on their own at 18 or even after college anymore outside of the dickish parent. I think its just drags on the individual if it drags into the 30's or worse reverts in the 30's. I was not really independent till 28 and that was long ago and I still ended up living with a relative for short spates on two more occasions. one was when I was almost 40 and married.

yeah conventions cost dough. you can ghost but that won't handle travel and such.

going regularly to cons you see the same folks and do make friends. you look forward to the next con and get excited when its close. you go to the board and look to see if your friends you met before are at the one and if they have arrived. but I agree with your other thing that they cost. even in better times myself and many friends bemoaned not being able to go to a con for lack of funds.

Never went regularly enough to build any relationships. Friends seem to have little interest in going any more and I'm too much of a nervous sort to do events like that solo.

my core geek thing is gaming so I go alone and hang out in the gaming room and maybe hit up the movie or anime if its slow. the gaming room is a natural place for someone going to the con solo as games always need players.

Same. I've been getting by on welfare basically my entire life and consider "taking the bus to mcdonalds" to be a quite extravagant luxury, so basically everything i see is so utterly fucking alienating.
Just people driving to work makes me want to scream myself hoarse, people are spending more on their daily transportation than i can afford to spend on food.

hey now, what about LAN parties? You can meet a whole bunch of passionate.. League of legends players...... and asmongold fans...............

I don't know enough people that would be into it, and I've had too many League payers in my life.