Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2010s? - It's very weird to say this since there were even more terrible things compared to it's predecessor but is the Early 2010s at least fairly memorable.

Yeah, just graduated school. Had a job, and finally buying things I wanted. I got into mmorpg's, and anime pretty hard. Then got psychosis due to isolation depression. Still better than today.
 
2010 and 2011 were pretty good. 2012 was fucking horrible, 2013-2016 were not too bad but a lot of drinking, 2017-2019 was a lot of drunken fucked up shit.

I don't really miss it though. What I really want is 2014-2018 circumstances generally in life with current self's knowledge and wisdom.
 
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I think that while good advice is to generally not compare your life to possibilities or what could have been- while I'm nostalgic for parts of the 2010s,

I think its key to remember that the decade should have been so much better. I'd say that as a millennial who graduated in the middle of the financial meltdown, I never really got to experience a pre-2008 crash job market or career ladder.

In some ways, you could say that 08' just accelerated already existing trends, but considering that the early 2010s were the formative years for most millennials to move out, find jobs, look for careers, etc- I think we really missed out on a lot of potential growth.

For me, I saw the rise of 2010 internet culture as very different to pre-2010, lots of old friends embrace neet culture, vaporwave stuff on /mu/ and other last.fm groups, etc

There were a lot of very fun and interesting things in the early 2010s and I think that much of it remained niche still and pretty interesting.

I do think that I made it out of that decade as best as I could, trudged the career path that was available, etc, but I also do wish that things had been easier, and that the 2010s world looked more like the world that our parents told us would exist, and not what actually did.

It was listless, manic at parts, fun at others, but a decade without a really clear purpose or trajectory in my opinion. 2020s are going to be the same, but I think with less fun for the first half.
 
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I will say yes to the prompt. I was going through elementary and middle school during the first half of the decade, so I may have my views heavily skewed compared to older residents of the Farms, but you can feel the decline come 2016. The first and second halves of the 2010s are two different eras in my mind, and we are trapped in the horrid second half.

Early 2010s had a more fun culture. I remember the fun of gaming (mostly Nintendo) and animation personally, both of which have taken extreme nose dives post 2017. The small niche communities grew bigger and are now plagued with the usual /pol/tards, the depressed and consoomers. They are not fun to be around anymore as none of them feel genuine about the hobby and just seem to be there because they are trying to fill a void, want to take over, or are trend chasers.

lolcows and their respective communities are no longer fun. Compare Sonic, anime and MLP to any modern bad fanbase and it is a night-and-day difference in how much more entertaining the bad of the formers are. Nowadays it is what I stated above, no-fun politicos, absolute degenerates that somehow make the pony jar guy look sane, depressed millennial adults, and people who have made a hobby their life, MovieBob style.

YouTube in general had much more life to it. YT had yet to change the algorithm to favor extended vids and punish all questionable content. There are so many classic videos from 2007-2016 in comparison to the modern landscape of drawn-out video essays, rage-bait, and TikTok trends.

IDK. The early 2010s felt like a last gasp of life that made it fun to grow up in, but it comes with getting older and literally watching everything die as you make your way to adulthood. I have a fondness for the CN/Adventure Time revival era, the early YT era and the Wii U era I grew up with, but all those things are long gone by this point.
 
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In some ways, yes I do miss the 2010s.

I really miss the early 2010s because they were the last true remnants of normalcy before the descent into degeneracy. Hobbies and communities were still pretty niche until they blew up.
Even random websites and forums were somewhat popular even though they didn't provide the best answers. Also, PC culture wasn't even a thing. I don't think many people gave a fuck about politics. The Internet was pretty mainstream but was somewhat organic.

Somewhere around 2014-2015 is when PC culture picked up and people started living on the Internet. It was pretty clear that this is when life became worse. All the clown world degeneracy started here with ending gay marriage, "racism" talk everywhere, and nonsensical culture wars over every single thing possible. We're still living through those effects now because of the 2010s.

Admittedly the lead up to the 2016 election and the post-election meltdown was memorable. Also, 2019 was the strongest economy we've had worldwide before the lockdowns happened.

I can't think of a single good year this decade. For me, it's just an extension of the 2010s.
It's all a degenerate mess that somehow gets worse each year. I don't know if there are any redeeming qualities if this is how the rest of the decade is shaped out to be.
 
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The nice thing about 2010s is video games had gotten good enough to be considered normie-tier media that were as good if not better than movies. It was the time of Gears of War, Mass Effect, Dead Space, and Halo. Of course, it was also the birth of subscription based services like WoW, but games back then were generally complete games that could be upgraded with DLC. Whether you consider games like that complete or not has more to do with human psychology than the game itself. Yeah, I'm aware that PS2 is the first mainstream console that everyone had at some point with the longest-running library, but the games were more niche and less cinematic.

But yes, it was a time where all the Clown World stuff was born whether it was Obama leaning into identity politics and BLM to avoid the persistent post-Great Recession economy and all the color revolutions he was involved in the Middle East or SJWs getting groomed and normies saying that they wouldn't get anywhere. It was a milder version of what we have now, so I don't really miss it.

EDIT: Addendum, the 2010s as a culture, such as it is, was killed by Mainstream Media and Feminism. That's when the Left went into overdrive and whipped everyone into TDS. Normies don't like to think it, but the Left is the monster of the current age and the survival of Western civilization as a whole is dependent on neutering or wiping their influence out. Why is that? Because corporate culture is DEI shit and that started in 2010s. It's in all the required social media businesses require you to have and now your personal life is your political life. You cannot avoid it like in the past where we had a sense of professionalism.
 
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2010 had the best media, the last of the great TV shows and games and we got 1080p but I have to remind myself this was also the recession. So while I prefer it, it's still got issues.
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I miss @Dom Cruise. He'd love this thread. My headcanon is that he successfully figured out a way to go back in time.
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That's the asshole who stole my car?!
 
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The nice thing about 2010s is video games had gotten good enough to be considered normie-tier media that were as good if not better than movies. It was the time of Gears of War, Mass Effect, Dead Space, and Halo. Of course, it was also the birth of subscription based services like WoW, but games back then were generally complete games that could be upgraded with DLC. Whether you consider games like that complete or not has more to do with human psychology than the game itself. Yeah, I'm aware that PS2 is the first mainstream console that everyone had at some point with the longest-running library, but the games were more niche and less cinematic.
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And playing games was being a nerd but not a D&D basement type of nerd. Shit should've stayed gatekept. It's why we got bimbo tourists who make a career out of grifting an audience playing exclusively mainstream BG3/Apex type games. There needs to be a sense of exclusivity to a hobby for it to nurture a dedicated fanbase, whereas now that games are as common as having a favorite music genre, there's nothing to it. In the 10s you'd meet someone who says "I play games" and they'd have an interesting and unique story of their first playstation games, pc games, whether they played warcraft, wow, guild wars, counter strike and what have you. Now, it's "whatever's popular on twitch" or "the same shit as 12 years ago".
 
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And playing games was being a nerd but not a D&D basement type of nerd. Shit should've stayed gatekept. It's why we got bimbo tourists who make a career out of grifting an audience playing exclusively mainstream BG3/Apex type games. There needs to be a sense of exclusivity to a hobby for it to nurture a dedicated fanbase, whereas now that games are as common as having a favorite music genre, there's nothing to it. In the 10s you'd meet someone who says "I play games" and they'd have an interesting and unique story of their first playstation games, pc games, whether they played warcraft, wow, guild wars, counter strike and what have you. Now, it's "whatever's popular on twitch" or "the same shit as 12 years ago".
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Sure, but it was before your average gamer learned just how insidious SJWs are. Back then, I had these vague libertarian notions and Classical Liberalism was the default state of thinking for most Americans. The average Democrat back then was some person who voted for Obama, not tranny feminist weirdos, so gatekeeping back then would have been treated as overreacting.
 
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No I miss the 80s and 90s more.
 
I miss the 90's. The only thing I miss from the 2010's was all the PCMR shit that started in that decade. PC's were still relatively cheap to build. You had those fun potato smasher videos on YouTube where some guy would build a PC with the specs that would blow a PS3 or 360 away. I don't think crypto currency was a big thing yet. so GPU's were still cheap. You could get a decent mid range GPU for a reasonable price. There were still good games being released and most of them were free of any woke garbage. At least in the early 2010's.

I have been feeling a little nostalgic for the early mid and late 2000's though. Though I was in high school in the early 2000's and I hated high school. I spent most of my time in the early 2000's as a broke high school student and then as a broke adult after. I think it's because of shit things are now. Like I explain to my Zoomer nephew what stuff was like in the early and mid 2000's. He was born in 2005. He frequently asks me about stuff like culture and clothing/fashion. I just go to YouTube and show him videos from that time. I showed him the Dell dude.
 
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I only miss the 2010s because I miss being a kid during that decade. If I were an adult during that time, especially after the 2008 recession and the sluggish economic recovery that followed, my perspective would be different. You have to remember how terrible the job market was for young adults straight out of college for most of the decade. The only good thing I could say is that the 2010s were a wake-up call for a lot of people in regard to how fucked things truly are.
 
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