Millennial Woman Leaves Viewers Speechless With Gen Z Dating Story

A video of a woman's dating story has left viewers lost for words, proving age differences really do matter, especially when a millennial and a Gen Z are involved.

A viral, nearly 10-minute TikTok video posted by Molly Rutter (@mollyerutter) revealed her story of organizing a date with a Gen Z person as a millennial, which left her ghosted and eventually completely stood up. Since it was posted five days ago, the video has received nearly 300,000 likes and over 16,000 comments.

"Come with me to get ghosted then stood up," Rutter captioned the video. "Someone take me off this ride."

The story begins with Rutter, 32, texting with a 23-year-old to set up a date. The pair were meant to grab a drink after the man helped Rutter with her taxes, as he was a "finance bro," she said.

The video went on to capture Rutter at various stages of the evening. First, she was ghosted because he fell asleep before their date. Then, after she got ready and went to the bar, she was stood up for the actual date.

"I definitely don't like that he's late," Rutter said in the video in real-time. "He said he would be here in three minutes, but it's been like an hour. I tried to call him, and it went straight to voicemail, so he's probably dead, right?"

After the date didn't go ahead, Rutter was disappointed: "Honestly just what a terrible evening. I can't believe people. It would take me more mental energy to ghost someone to that elaborate of an extent minutes before we're supposed to see each other...than just saying, 'Hey I'm not really feeling it tonight, I'm just going to stay in'. How hard is it to send that kind of text?"

Rutter revealed other things about the man's communication that she didn't like after the date failed. The first was about him calling her "love" and "ma'am" before they knew each other well, while the second was about his self-deprecating comments.

"Dude, if you're going to hang with me, the self-deprecation has got to go," she said into the camera. "How is someone else supposed to like you if you don't even like yourself?"

Rutter chalked a lot of it up to age, saying that it was potentially her mistake to begin with because of his age: "I hate dating in this generation...Maybe it was my mistake, because he was very young...He did a very 23-year-old thing."

Viewers in the comments were not having it, though. Many said there was "a lot to unpack" and that generational differences were not only to blame—but so was Rutter for not seeing them.

"The generational gap is pretty clear here because 'love' and 'yes ma'am' are perfectly normal things to say," @sana.xvx wrote.

Ultimately, Rutter said she regrets letting the incident take up so much of her mental energy.

"It's just frustrating because this occupied a lot of space in my brain today...I hate when that's wasted on people that don't deserve it," she said.

Newsweek reached out to @mollyerutter for comment via TikTok.