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Of all the things young people could have latched onto, it's the decade of the great recession almost no place on earth really recovered from, a head bozo in the US that's somehow popular but turned the world into his personal drone playground, while the empire continued as it did.

It was the decade every social movement failed in, and mostly retreated back to moralistic forms of liberalism, just as every equally moralistic right wing reaction grew exponentially, leading to the current issues.

It was the decade climate change was decided to be fixed through a bunch of treaties worth less than the paper they were written on.

It was the decade of the start of the return of the malaise of collapsing empires. Poverty, hunger, climate change caused disasters. War had not went away, but resistance to it did.

Plus, pop culture (the thing most of the nostalgia is directed to - the eternal "It's Christmas ~~1996~~ 2013 and my parents got me ~~a Nintendo 64~~ the new Call of Duty" of obnoxious liberals) sucked ass.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago

Imagine when the 20/30 year nostalgia cycle hits the fucking MCU movies lol

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

They're advertising the upcoming capefilms as being "old school MCU" lmao

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago

Did you read If We Burn? It was a great retrospective on the 2010s protest movements and how they failed, were coopted, or turned into tragedies. Turns out that leaderless horizonslism doesn't work - if you don't pick your leaders they will pick themselves.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

People (myself included) are just nostalgic for it because it’s the time they were old enough to solidly remember but not old enough to understand how fucked everything is

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

This is me so hard. Life was simple. This is what a lot of Amerikkkans feel as adults though as well. Pure ignorance

[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

People are nostalgic for what they enjoyed, I don't think any of us who think fondly on the 2010s are wistfully thinking of the failures. Moments are what I appreciate

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Back when were gleefully consooooming trading card games and MMOs.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

let me zoomer out and be nostalgic for mid 2010's beach pop, its all i have

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

You're allowed to like cool things from your past, just don't create an idealized version of that era in your head!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Ooooo yeah wasn't that when Wavves and Best Coast were active? Fuck I'm about to go listen to King of the Beach, what a banger

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I WAS LIKE 8 LET ME HAVE THIS! I MISS MY DS

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I can physically feel hairs turning grey when someone says their childhood console was a PS4.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Nononono I’ve barely entered my mid 20s and ps4 was like the 3rd gen of consoles i was sapient enough to remember you can’t tell me i’m already on the path to being old nonobono

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

this comment put me in a nursing home doggirl-tears

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

I dread the day that I am in your shoes lol

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I was 11 in 2010, but I still hated it. Who cares that I had a PSP when I lived in Southern Europe during Schäuble's reign of terror?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You're right comrade, nostalgia is reactionary. I will submit myself to re-education immediately :P

Honestly tho, my parents are labor aristocrats who made it through the recession mostly alright or they hid it well I am not sure. Its no wonder I'm nostalgic for a time when I did not have to worry

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

this is a psyop post to expose posters who are gen-z

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

True, I am Gen Z.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

I have some personal reason to be nostalgic for the early 2010s. Besides those, the main thing I liked about that time was that not everyone owned a smartphone yet, so not every single thing was behind a smartphone app. The pop culture of that time isn't something I ever really go back to. Just as an example, Iron Man 2 came out in 2010 and it's an absolutely awful time capsule of Obama-era liberalism.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Every decade since the dissolution of the Soviet Union has sucked ass

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I see this with folk punk. It feels weird, but that genre was sort of a flash in the pan for the mainstream. Seeing someone geek out over a cassette they found in 2010 or so is kinda wild, if a bit understandable.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I think folk punk had it's moment because it was one of the last ways to hang on to an analog world. People definitely want that feeling again, but the time has passed and it just feels wrong now.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Honestly, I enjoy listening to folk and folk punk, but I would like to see more modern music in this genre with a communist focus instead of some anti-capitalist vibes music. It's partly why I am motivated to learn the acoustic guitar so I can do some performances for protests/rallies and perhaps make some original communist folk music that express truth in the material conditions today and the reality we face. Many modern folk artists are just anti-authoritarian and idealist, and they sing Amerikkka bad, Putin bad, North Korea bad, killing bad, people and love good, etc. without any understanding in theory and historical materialism.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't have much nostalgia for 2010s mostly due to my own personal struggles at the time but looking back at slops aired on spike TV for example, it's really hard to look at any of those shows more than "I can't believe the amount of trashy shit that was aired" than having any nostalgia for it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I bet there's a weird millennial out there who is nostalgic for Trump's first term but doesn't like his second for some reason.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Correct, because the 2000s is the only decade worth being nostalgic for *Basshunter intensifies*

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Is the decade of Ubisoft type of games, Activision-Blizzard releasing worst and worst CoDs, every game need to be for every person on earth with the worst holding hands possible, every major game company sequel is a dumb down, less creative version of their predecessor.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

it's the decade of the great recession almost no place on earth

Not to take away from your main point, but the 07-08 recession was more of a western phenomena. China was relatively insulated from it along with plenty of other countries.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

The 2010s had very few things going for it culturally. Some good video games, a good movie here and there. Frutiger Aero? That was kinda cool right? But overall? The 2010s sucked. I was an angsty teen in most of the 2010s, and so naturally I have a bias against that time period. I hated the fashion choices, the uggs, the white woman fallcore aesthetic, curly moustaches, gross. The pop music? Wack. Awful. Mumford and sons were a poison on this earth. Imagine dragon? Eeessshhh. It's like the one decade the Mormons ate good in lol.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Stomp and Holler, an abomination of a music genre. (maybe there's good examples around, but the bands that got big sucked ass)

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, early 2000's, all had a vibe, it wasn't until you hit like 2009 did things start to become grey and dull, the "minimalist" aesthetic maddened

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

the 2010's were a terrible decade for Sonic the Hedgehog, so I agree.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Early 2000s nostalgia is peak. Bring scene back!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

So what about the 2010s are the youth nostalgic for? I don't spend a lot of time around older children and there isn't really anything that comes to mind for me that you'd be nostalgic for.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The particular trend that prompted this rant is me reading posts about why the 2010s nostalgia in pop music - the return of electropop etc., and it being a bunch of annoying redditors praising Obama etc.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Flimsy reason but the latter half of the 2010s looks better in retrospect compared to the world after 2020.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

TBH 2000-2010 of my life was awesome, no amount of bullying me in highschool for my accent can take this away from me.

2010-2020 honestly sucked.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I cherish that point in my life, even as the safety bolts were coming loose in the world

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

ok but hip hop became good again

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