Parent confused why Gen Z 20-year-olds don't prioritize dating

My 20 year old son doesn't date. His friends don't date. My friends kids don't date. What is going on? When I was in my late teens and early 20s, life for my friends and me revolved around meeting girls. My son and his friends, who are athletic and outgoing, don't seem to put a lot of emphasis on dating. They play a lot of online video games, and have boys outtings. Once in a while one will hook up with a random girl they met on an app. Rarely does one have a girlfriend. This seems to be the norm for my friends' kids too. What is going on?

This image is a text screenshot of a user post from the Reddit subreddit r/NoStupidQuestions. The post, written by a parent, asks why their 20-year-old son, his peers, and other children of the parent's friends largely avoid dating, unlike when the parent was in their late teens and early 20s when dating and meeting partners was the core of their social life. The parent notes that the young people in question are athletic and outgoing, but prioritize playing online video games, all-male group outings, and only occasionally hook up with people met on dating apps, very rarely entering committed romantic relationships, and asks for an explanation for this observed trend.

The original content is a user-submitted question posted on the Reddit community r/NoStupidQuestions by user u/PluckPubes. This screenshot of the post was later reposted on the humor and entertainment platform 9Gag via its RSS feed, with the 9Gag post titled 'Maybe because they can't bother ..'. The post has gone viral as it sparks widespread discussion about generational shifts in dating, socialization, and priority setting between older generations and Gen Z.