Early 2000s nostalgia is peak. Bring scene back!
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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.
Stomp and Holler, an abomination of a music genre. (maybe there's good examples around, but the bands that got big sucked ass)
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.
Imagine when the 20/30 year nostalgia cycle hits the fucking MCU movies lol
They're advertising the upcoming capefilms as being "old school MCU" lmao
I mostly just wish the year 2012 would die already
I'm dreading when people get nostalgic for phone games
Subway Surfer revival
This will be the aesthetic in 2042
A wave of 2040 indie games that are inspired by those shitty phone ad games lol
Stranger Things but it's mustache finger tattoos and autotune
The moustache finger tattoos, nightcore and uggs are the trifecta of evil
this is a psyop post to expose posters who are gen-z
True, I am Gen Z.
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
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.
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
Every decade since the dissolution of the Soviet Union has sucked ass
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.
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.
It was the peak of celebrity and gossip culture.
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
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.
Hey young people, here's why you're not allowed to enjoy your childhood!
I'm a young person. I hated my childhood.
Also "not allowed". I'm not scolding anyone for it, I'm complaining.
CW: misogyny
Ah yes, the decade where the most popular word on the internet was femin*zi and the most popular games were US army recruitment ads. What a wholesome time.
The propaganda had 12 year old me hating myself for being brown after getting forced to watch a 9/11 film as a field trip.
let me zoomer out and be nostalgic for mid 2010's beach pop, its all i have
You're allowed to like cool things from your past, just don't create an idealized version of that era in your head!
the 2010's were a terrible decade for Sonic the Hedgehog, so I agree.
Correct, because the 2000s is the only decade worth being nostalgic for *Basshunter intensifies*
I WAS LIKE 8 LET ME HAVE THIS! I MISS MY DS
I WAS LIKE 8
I can physically feel hairs turning grey when someone says their childhood console was a PS4.
this comment put me in a nursing home
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
I remember consoles like PS3 were hecking important political debate among the boyfriends back in the day, but like the distinction between PS3-4-5 has always been a total blur to me.
I got bullied because I had a game cube and not a PS3/4, like it was serious for the kids
I dread the day that I am in your shoes lol
oh don't worry, my shoes will long be dust by the time you're my age
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.
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.
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.