ALBANY – As things tend to do these days, it started on social media.

It was a few scattered Twitter accounts, all belonging to teenagers or 20-somethings who cared deeply about New York policy and held progressive values. As the story goes: they met up in a diner, played the New York politics version of Cards Against Humanity and decided they wanted to do more than just talk about policy – they wanted to influence it.

And so, at the end of October, the Zoomers Caucus was born. Its mission: “Organizing the Gen Z takeover of New York politics.”

Already, the Zoomers have found progressive allies in the state government – State Sens. Brad Hoylman and Julia Salazar and Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, to name a few. All three of those legislators plan to sponsor a bill about eating disorder prevention education written by one of the Zoomers, 19-year-old Katelin Penner.

And that’s just the beginning. The roughly 25 Gen Zers are building a website, boosting their social media presence, devising recruitment strategies and identifying priorities for the upcoming legislative session.

“Watch out for young people,” Penner, the group’s interim events coordinator, said. "Our voices do matter, and they are powerful."

The Zoomers are mainly based in New York City, and several of the issues they have taken up so far are related to city politics. A member of the group spoke at a rally Tuesday outside New York City Hall, where advocates gathered to call for the expulsion of Andy King, a City Council member who was suspended last month over harassment allegations. The caucus has also voiced support for the unionization of City Council staffers.

But that doesn’t mean the Zoomers are turning their backs on Albany – members are discussing trips to the state capital in the spring to meet with legislators during session, and the most detailed policy plans they have already discussed would apply statewide.

“The city is a creature of the state, which means that we have to do a lot of advocacy on the state level, which includes engaging state-level stakeholders,” said 17-year-old Lucy Merriam, the group’s interim executive director. “To effectively do that, you also have to engage people around the state.”

In addition to the eating disorder prevention education legislation, the Zoomers have written bills that would ban discrimination based on someone's weight and mandate that middle and high school students learn about the history of labor unions.

Lydia Green, the group’s state elected officials coordinator, wrote the anti-weight discrimination bill, which she is currently pitching to the Zoomers’ allies in the state Legislature. She modeled the legislation off similar bills that have been introduced previously and turned to her mother, an attorney, for some additional help.

“This bill is meant to make society care about us a little bit more and to remind us all that we are deserving of love and humanity no matter our size,” Green, 23, wrote on Twitter.

The group’s Twitter is the easiest place to find the Zoomers’ policy stances as the website is still under construction. The tweets vary in tone and content, though most are conversational and are geared toward fellow Gen Zers who might be scrolling through their feed.

A sampling of the Twitter content: “unionize the city council xoxoxo,” “We love @bradhoylman,” “#okboomer move over for the zoomers!”. Other tweets are more serious, highlighting political threads or featuring the group’s official statements or press releases on the news of the day.

On Election Day, the perfect medium: “Happy Election Day, Zoomers! If we want to capture political power for young people, we first need to zoom over to the polls. Don’t forget to cast a ballot today if you’re able to do so!”

Meanwhile, state legislators are taking notice. Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat who is sponsoring the eating disorder prevention education bill, tweeted earlier this month that the group’s “passion for and interest in public service is contagious.”

The Zoomers’ grasp on social media and technology is a plus, he added in an interview: “Frankly, it’s the future that we should be looking toward as we try to do good things for our state.”

Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou had a more straightforward message of support: “Zooooooom!”