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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] 6 points 9 hours ago

Early 2000s nostalgia is peak. Bring scene back!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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] 6 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours 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] 54 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

I mostly just wish the year 2012 would die already

[–] [email protected] 31 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

I'm dreading when people get nostalgic for phone games

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

This will be the aesthetic in 2042

[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

A wave of 2040 indie games that are inspired by those shitty phone ad games lol

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Stranger Things but it's mustache finger tattoos and autotune

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

The moustache finger tattoos, nightcore and uggs are the trifecta of evil

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

True, I am Gen Z.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours 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] 35 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 16 hours 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] 15 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

It was the peak of celebrity and gossip culture.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours 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] 10 points 13 hours 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] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Hey young people, here's why you're not allowed to enjoy your childhood!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

I'm a young person. I hated my childhood.

Also "not allowed". I'm not scolding anyone for it, I'm complaining.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

this comment put me in a nursing home doggirl-tears

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I got bullied because I had a game cube and not a PS3/4, like it was serious for the kids

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I dread the day that I am in your shoes lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

oh don't worry, my shoes will long be dust by the time you're my age agony-deep

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours 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] 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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