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?

  • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmygrad.ml
    15•1 year ago

    GamerGirl incident and the explosion of alt-right with Sargon of Akkad, Tim Pool, Trump and the likes killed most of it around 2015-16. The effects started to be seen around 2017 correctly as you observe. Chans like 4chan, 8chan, 2ch and the likes were intact until then, and there was almost no obsession with destruction of internet history, or as much Twitter cancel culture as there is now.

    I think this carefree-ness is celebrated so much because most of us who remember it, lived these times until we became adults, and as the last of millenials or the earliest zoomers, enjoyed arguably the best childhood to pre-adult spanning years in human history.

    To add a little to this time span celebrated so much, I would say 2007-2012 was even better in this regard. However, as we now know, life is a lot more than the little fantasy world we lived in as kids or young adults, and we just did not see, feel and understand the horrors of western capitalist entities and infrastructure behind this fantasy world playground we enjoyed so much. It was our circus in the “bread and circus”.