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.

[ToroidalBoat]

Now it's free for all.

Looks like that the 2010s, the economy seemed to take on that same shoddy or "watered down smartphone feel" that just about everything new in Current Year seems to have.

 

[Owen Grady]

I remember some time near the eve of 2020, standing in a grocery store line talking to a stranger and expressing, in a half-joking manner, my disbelief at the knowledge that there were actually teenagers in the world who would look back fondly on the 2010's as a "good decade".

The 2010's were shit. I even remember in the late 2000's looking forward to the 2010's with dread because I just had such a bad feeling in my gut about them. The only really great thing to come out of the 2010's was the 2016 election of Donald Trump. I am not generally a miserable person -- quite the opposite compared to most people, I'd like to think -- but I believe it was genuinely the only moment in my adult life thus far where I have experienced pure, childlike, almost spiritual joy on level comparable to the happiness I felt when I was a kid. However, that event in itself would not have needed to occur if things had not become so bad in the years of the 2010's preceding it.

Wokeshit became popular, migrants flooded Europe and began raping her women, homosexual "marriages" were legalized in the United States. Antinationist sentiment became commonplace as the roots of the west (God and Christianity) were abandoned and love of country became something to be openly loathed, replaced with vague, toxic screeds like "diversity is our strength". The long term effects of cultural relativist philosophy reached its peak and the west lost its identity as a result. Words no longer have any meaning because they can mean anything that anybody chooses them to mean. This is a big part of the reason why younger generations feel so lost and without a foundation and are leaning on fads like becoming trannies and being "genderqueer" to find some semblance of an identity. The reason the cultural elite are able to get away with much of the shit they can now is because of many of the cultural shifts that occured in the 2010's.

Although I am worried for the future, there is still a feeling remaining in my gut, similar to the feelings I had about the 2010's back in the late 2000's. Unlike that feeling, it's small and hopeful, despite the fears that might loom on the horizon, that things will turn around. I believe there is a light at the end of this tunnel of horrors, but we are still in that fucking tunnel, and we wouldn't be there if it wasn't for a lot of the shit we dealt with in the 2010's.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

I miss the early 2010s video game scene, 2012 especially had some great games like Borderlands 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Telltale's The Walking Dead, Dishonored, Black Ops 2, Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed 3, the list goes on. Let's Plays on YouTube were also starting to gain popularity giving us guys like Markiplier and PewDiePie. Minecraft was also popular and hadn't been tainted by pedophiles and Mojang being shitty devs.

 

[Metatron]

Only until 2015.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The 2010s was my teenage years and the end of my childhood. For all the shitiness, there was also a lot of greatness. Trump took office, the economy boomed, car companies were still packing V-8's into cars, and internet meme culture hit its zenith. It was a tumultuous time yes. But in many ways easier. My wallet was certainly fatter back then.

 

[Mewtwo_Rain]

2010-2014 were the final years I thought were great of that set.

2011 was kind of a doozy though I can't remember specifically why I just remember that year being bad for some reason, but outside of that great. Then 2015 led into clown world at an accelerated rate and became awful after even with the good thigs occurring.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

craze

Another thing of the '10s that sucks is that's the real start of the trend towards software and meida being streaming this, "the cloud" that, DLC this, subscription that.

I'm aware that there's streaming, DLC, and "the cloud" before the '10s, but such wasn't too widespread. And AFAIK, that "software as a service" BS wasn't even around yet.

 

[WitchfyndeGeneral]

Not really. The SJW shit all started in the early 2010s. The ”good times” are actually very very short lived and are outnumbered by the “bad times”.

 

[HumbleServantOfRizzler]

I don’t miss the 2010’s, but I would like to be able to go back in time and tell my younger self what to do in order to be happier.

 

[Thiletonomics]

One thing I liked about the 2010s, is how E-Sports were becoming a thing and popping up in so many games. Granted, the VC money that funds those events would dry up eventually, and is drying up now, meaning game companies are massively cutting back on those, but they were still fun to watch.

 

[Neighborhood Janny]

I think our enjoyment of a certain period of time (be it a decade or single year) can be boiled down to how we personally perceive what is happening around us in things we can control and can't control. We will always be more critical of the things we can't control. I see a lot of opinions here that make lots of great points about how shitty of a decade it was, but there's also folks here that look back fondly on good times and feelings. Personally, the 2010s were a massive period of growth for me. My freshman year of high school started in 2009 and I remember having a very optimistic feeling about the future on 12/31/09. I vaguely remember pre-9/11 and it felt kind of similar to the feelings of 12/31/99. The excitement and fear of the unknown is a unique feeling. What I really remember about the 2010s is how distinctly different the beginning half and ending half of the decade were. 2010-2014 were much brighter in comparison to 2015-2019. 2016, for some reason, just happened to be one of those years where EVERYONE was going through the shit and we all came out worse for wear in one way or another.

I think I look more fondly on the early 2010s because that was when I was doing a lot of travel and touring with bands like the Dead and Phish, making friends in parking lots, and eating a ton of grilled cheese and chicken wraps. Most of my summers were spent on the road and I had very little contact with my family outside a bi-weekly phone call. My last full tour year was 2016, and I only stopped because it just started wearing me down. I pretty much got all of the party out of my system before I hit 23. I started working as a custodian at a retiree complex and ended up enjoying the work so much that it is now my career. I've been able to work my way into a position with my local school district and have been there for several years. I get 24% of my salary to a state pension, union benefits, and a decent paycheck. So that later half of the 10s was focused on my professional growth.

I look back fondly on the 2010s, but there was a lot of personal pain there too. I lost my aunt and my grandmother, who were two of the three most important women in my life. I dealt with depression and suicidal ideation. I still have issues getting over it, but the pain has subsided somewhat. Would I go back and change anything? Not at all. Would I go back and do it all again? If I had the chance, yeah I would.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

2010-2011 were pure, like a continuation of the 2000s into a new era, but since then I've constantly been feeling the gradual enshittification of everything in culture, technology, human behavior. Seeing the absolute dogshit that people consider to be acceptable entertainment or acceptable behavior nowadays is just depressing, and all of this shit started in the mid 2010s.

I guess that's why I like to look like a boomer, listen to boomer music, watch boomer movies and play boomer vidya.

 

[Forsaken Wanderer]

I saw the evil coming in the very early 2010s and each year got progressively worse. I absolutely hated it. But when the 2020s started and they were far more horrid I did feel some amount of nostalgia for what felt like simpler days in the previous decade. 00s were far better though.

 

[foam rolla]

Personally I feel like things started getting more insane in the world starting sometime around 2013-14 because that's the most recent point in time when everyone young now first really got a bug up their ass about politics in the current unproductively shrill manner.

I was thinking about that time period recently.
Around those years, a lot of people I knew had their foot in the supporting LGBTQIETC world. A lot of it was just vaguely saying the right slogans and being super empathetic. But then in the following years, they got to know more people from those communities who were unhinged, vindictive and how ended up negatively impacting on their lives. As a result these people now days will not say those slogans or be very political. They just go to work and watch Netflix as their real world experience getting involved with that shit burned them.

Another funny thing I found with that world was the amount of snivelling, hetero, white guys who call themselves allies and used it as a weird power grab of them calling people out for saying the wrong thing and getting people cancelled. They were some of the creepiest little shits.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Not really. The SJW shit all started in the early 2010s. The ”good times” are actually very very short lived and are outnumbered by the “bad times”.

Didn't Anita Sarkeesian have her big debut during that decade?

 

[skykiii]

I miss the early 2010s video game scene, 2012 especially had some great games like Borderlands 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Telltale's The Walking Dead, Dishonored, Black Ops 2, Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed 3, the list goes on. Let's Plays on YouTube were also starting to gain popularity giving us guys like Markiplier and PewDiePie. Minecraft was also popular and hadn't been tainted by pedophiles and Mojang being shitty devs.

Yeah, pretty much--as I said earlier the internet culture was the only positive memory I have of the 2010s.

And even then, a lot of my favorites were going away around 2016. Markiplier, Spoony, and Retsupurae were my guys... Retsupurae sort of unofficially retired, Spoony has a thread on these forums... Markiplier is still around and I'm still internally debating if he's the one that's changed or if I merely "grew out" of him, because these days his style tends to irritate me more than anything.

There really has never been a satisfactory replacement for any of these guys. The closest I found for Mark is Krinx TV though only when both the hosts are present--when its just Mangaminx by herself it tends to be boring (although in cases where you're genuinely interested in the actual game, this can be a blessing). Retsupurae and Spoony? Nobody has been as good since, and in fact their style is never even attempted these days. Too many cocksuckers who want to inject false positivity because pretending to like things you don't is "objective" now.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Absolutely not, the 2010s were an absolutely dogshit decade, anything good about the decade was because of the last bits of 00s that persisted for a little bit into the decade.

Imo not much even persisted, because the rot that defined the 2010s really got going in 2008

 

[AWizard]

Imo not much even persisted, because the rot that defined the 2010s really got going in 2008

I don't know if I'd qualify the rot as rot in 2008. It became rot through the course of 2008-2014. But I get where you're coming from, I personally wouldn't call it rot at the beginning persay.

See attatchment, scale changes things:

 

[The best and greatest]

Not really

 

[Dropsies]

The current year is unironically better culturally than 2015-2019