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.
Imagine when the 20/30 year nostalgia cycle hits the fucking MCU movies lol
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?
flappybirdcore
Stranger Things but it’s mustache finger tattoos and autotune
The moustache finger tattoos, nightcore and uggs are the trifecta of evil
There’s plenty of people who already are, especially the early gen alphas and such
Poor gen alpha lol
They’re advertising the upcoming capefilms as being “old school MCU” lmao
I mostly just wish the year 2012 would die already
But in Pedro Pascal I trust so…maybe?
AI slop posters and The Thing looks like he’s from a completely different movie that is 100% animated instead of live action. It’s just more slop with a new aesthetic on top of it.
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:
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.
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
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.
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!
Ooooo yeah wasn’t that when Wavves and Best Coast were active? Fuck I’m about to go listen to King of the Beach, what a banger
this is a psyop post to expose posters who are gen-z
True, I am Gen Z.
every once and a while, I meet someone that seems like they haven’t experienced a single day since 2012 and were completely unaffected by the preceding recession and I get really angry at them even when they haven’t done anything to me
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
I was 11 in 2010, but I still hated it. Who cares that I had a PSP when I lived in Southern Europe during Schäuble’s reign of terror?
You’re right comrade, nostalgia is reactionary. I will submit myself to re-education immediately :P
Honestly tho, my parents are labor aristocrats who made it through the recession mostly alright or they hid it well I am not sure. Its no wonder I’m nostalgic for a time when I did not have to worry
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Mid-20’s in 2010 comrade. I had to deliver pizza after graduating college, living at home with my parents. They charged me rent (kind of insane), but I managed to get a PS3 at a close-out sale from Circuit City. Even if the generation was cursed by Brown graphics, there were some very fun games – most of all M A G, which still hasn’t been topped for a military shooter.
Still, it’s not like it was a great time, but I’m starting to realize there were never great times in my life and that’s the way forwards.
I remember using rainwater to flush the toilet, because we could barely afford food the month. We love the european finical crisis dont we?
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
Every decade since the dissolution of the Soviet Union has 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.
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.
Honestly, I enjoy listening to folk and folk punk, but I would like to see more modern music in this genre with a communist focus instead of some anti-capitalist vibes music. It’s partly why I am motivated to learn the acoustic guitar so I can do some performances for protests/rallies and perhaps make some original communist folk music that express truth in the material conditions today and the reality we face. Many modern folk artists are just anti-authoritarian and idealist, and they sing Amerikkka bad, Putin bad, North Korea bad, killing bad, people and love good, etc. without any understanding in theory and historical materialism.
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.
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.
