This has nothing to do with politics at all, just casual thoughts, I had to vent somewhere. Maybe it’s just me being a bit doomer or something, but my siblings, almost all of my friends and most of the people I know usually agree. You know how older people say that they miss 1980s for example, that’s basically how I view first half of 2010s for newer generation.

Everything was so much better then: internet, movies, TV shows, games, popular stuff, as for the internet, most of popular trash today was non existent including cringe ‘‘trends’’ etc, reddit wasn’t as popular and as talked about as today, there was Google+ and YouTube was best with Markiplier playing horror games being mainstream, Balkan YouTube being at it’s peak(anyone who is from countries of ex-Yugoslavia will know about what I’m talking about), Minecraft, GTA V, ARK Survival Evolved, Creepypastas, indie games, Pokemons everywhere, you name it. Movies were better and better every year (props to Cocaine Bear and few more recent movies which are actually good ofc), while today most of the movies are either boring sequels, ruining originals or terrible remakes, with newer games also doing the same thing.

It was 2017 when everything started going to shit on the internet, very early 2017 started good, but then in about mid 2017 everything changed: dramas and cringe trends started on internet, open racism on social media started becoming more frequent, people complaining about everything etc, reddit and TikTok becoming more popular, good social media getting shut down or ruined with updates, cringe games becoming popular while old ones including literal Minecraft went into irrelevancy(it came back later thankfully) etc.

And life was so much better then in general, not everyone was complaining and depressed irl, I remember every day after school going with siblings and friends on sports center across the street from school and spending whole day there. Today, it wouldn’t be even possible since almost everyone I know is depressed and very closed in, including new people I meet, everyone is basically just looking after themselves closed and not giving a shit about anyone or anything if you know what I mean. People are just becoming depressed shells more and more, what is up with that? Not so long ago before a few years, this would be unimaginable and here we are. I’m saying 2012-2016 since that was the best time imo. As I said, my siblings agree with me, most of my friends also but they just kind of don’t know why is that.

Does anyone else feel the same or similar about that time?

  • @TeezyZeezy
    9•1 year ago

    I definitely agree with you, maybe not on the same timeline, but the phenomenon itself definitely exists. I think it is a mixture of the current social conditions and also our stages in brain development that create these times in our heads where things were much “better.”

    I think there comes with life an inherent nostalgia for certain epochs of our lives, no matter how shit they were in reality. I can remember times in my life where I was completely miserable, yet I still look at the past with rose-colored glasses. This is not to invalidate the way you feel at all, it may have just been objectively better for you at that time. I’m just saying personally, this phenomenon happens for me regardless of the circumstances and I only realized it after taking a deep look at what went down in my life and how I feel about my life now.

    I think you should, like others said, cherish those moments because (as hard as this is to hear and accept) they are never coming back. Focus on creating a better future for yourself and society today, make these moments now a memory for future you to enjoy (I think that makes sense).

    <3

    Edit: this is not saying at all that things did not change. They absolutely did. I’m just saying these changes happen throughout human history and it’s more a matter of where we are in our lives that determine how big the blow is to our psyche