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.
Early 2000s nostalgia is peak. Bring scene back!
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
If any of those actually existed as presented, no monkey’s pawsing (ads, microtransactions, pay to win, etc.), are we even sure they’d have long-term replayability?
Stranger Things but it’s mustache finger tattoos and autotune
The moustache finger tattoos, nightcore and uggs are the trifecta of evil
flappybirdcore
There’s plenty of people who already are, especially the early gen alphas and such
Poor gen alpha lol
But in Pedro Pascal I trust so…maybe?
I adore the man, but uhhh Wonder Woman 1984 is proof enough he can be in shit movies lol
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
this is a psyop post to expose posters who are gen-z
True, I am Gen Z.
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 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
Back when were gleefully consooooming trading card games and MMOs.
Every decade since the dissolution of the Soviet Union has sucked ass
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
This is me so hard. Life was simple. This is what a lot of Amerikkkans feel as adults though as well. Pure ignorance
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
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.
I’ve got an idea for an electric jet
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.
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.
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.
