Why made the 2010s so much better than now in your country?
>>216566611People, generally, did a better job at separating the internet from reality, if only in the early parts of the 2010s
>>216566611The only real difference between the 2010s and now is AI was less advanced and prevalent. >>216566667The divide between reality and the internet died with the popularization of social media and mobile phones around the late 2000s. People were terminally online ten years ago too.
Probably the fact that we didn’t shut down societ for 2 years and kick the entire world into 8% inflationLiterally everything shit about yours and my life today is downstream from the lockdowns, the works, everything from dating prospects, jobs, crumbling infrastructure, low trust building, all of it
>>216566611In 2010's the real world and the internet had sanity to make a voice on actually relevant issues such as occupy wall street movements, arab spring, the Paris agreement etcWe today totally have lost the moderate greater good globally sought
>>216566719In 2010 tiktok didnt exist and even youtube was better
>>216566611Who the fuck enjoyed 2010??? Economic crisis, hello!?
>>216566611Being younger makes everything better
>>216566611Really wasn't except for people obsessed with the illusion of consensus and politeness
>>216566611it was the perfect mix of old-millennia sincerity (people unapologetically liking and enjoying things, people still valuing things like honesty and trust, etc.) while also being at the crossroads of having a post-9/11, post-2008 irony and apathy to the sham of our governments and authority. it was lightning in a bottle.that said, it wasn’t perfect. record high immigration across the west, the elction of DJT, brexit, the invasion of Crimea, the bank bailouts, the housing crisis, China’s greatest level of growth, the identity politics/culture war shit etc. all came from the 2010s as well.
Jeet levels were only “ants at a picnic” but now we are are “swarm of locusts” level
>>216566667It was all over once the average person new what a meme was. I really miss that long lost innocent time when just the concept of a meme was some sort of niche internet thing.
90s is the last century I relate to. 2010s might have had a bit more 90s thing going compared to today I guess.>>216567502Love your ass
>>216568550Or decade perhaps. Will never need to not look it up.
>>216566611no jeets and ukrainians
>>216566611The 2010s were shit doe. The 2020s are the direct result of that.>economy went to shit after 2008 and then just stagnated>internet became censored and centralized>social media replaced forums and amateur sites>youtube slowly went from a comfy amateur video site to corporatized slop>google went to shit so searching something is a headache>SJW culture sprung during that time>subcultures died out>all forms of media have become homogenized slop>mass immigration on an unprecedented scale
>>216568411Nicely put
>>216566611The 2010s were complete shit and is when the insanity of (((woke))) culture went mainstream. Thanks to zoomer chuds things are changing though
>>216566611it was better because i was a clueless kid with no responsibilities
>>216566611It wasn't. I was a weak child who couldn't protect myself at that time. Yeah, a lot of bad things happened in my life in the last 15 years, but I'm happy where I am now.
It depends on what part of the 2010s. Culturally there's practically no difference between the current year and 2018 except now people have ChatGPT. That was also when TikTok started to take off. But other than that people were already mixing up the internet with real life. It wasn't like that until 2014 or so. One bigger difference is that prices were still a bit sane compared to what we have now and becoming a codemonkey was still a really great job that was worth getting into.
>>216566611Weaker chuds
Wow
>>216569927Bruh
being 10 years younger
Culture ended when smartphones became a thing. There's no distinct eras anymore, just before and after. Everything after has been soulless slop. People don't even interact anymore everyone is just staring at their phones all the time. There's not even anything to be nostalgic about since smart phones came out because nothing's happened culturally. "Oh man I miss the old days when I used to look at my phone.... But I was younger". Shits dead
culture war wasn't a thing yet
>>216568708This is true
>>216568411>China’s greatest level of growthAnd that's bad because....?
>>216566611I associate 2000-2009 with good times. It probably was a golden age.
>>216573417because, while the USA is definitely flawed and no longer resembles the values it once stood for (freedom, liberty, democratic norms, etc.) the Chinese actively promote and are pushing for a more autocratic world. they’re greatly effective at this and i personally believe they will entirely surpass America very soon. as we already see, their influence is being felt everywhere, with the western world becoming more autocratic, the Latin American, African, and SEA countries becoming HIGHLY trade-dependent upon them, and the rest of Asia and the Middle East (alongside Russia) forming a quasi-unified military and political bloc both in the UN and in numerous other IGOs. this is worrisome because it ushers in the death of democratic norms and may lead to a world where Chinese norms are pushed further. as westerners who are accustomed to democratic norms and liberties, alongside other things like out workplace cultures, free expression, ownership of property, etc. i feel it could become quite ugly. also, power exchanges almost always end (or begin, depending on your view) with massive calamities or wars. look through history. one may hope that the United States/the west will peacefully accept the transition to a Chinese-led world, but it definitely does not look to be going that way.
>>216567502>Literally everything shit about yours and my life today is downstream from the lockdowns, the works, everything from dating prospects, jobs, crumbling infrastructure, low trust building, all of itTrue, that's when my life went to shit tooThough maybe I was destined to be a loser even without the lockdowns maybe it would've been the same
>>216574004This is all in your head
>>216574201no, i just tried to give my objective views on the matter
>>216574004>one may hope that the United States/the west will peacefully accept the transition to a Chinese-led world, but it definitely does not look to be going that way.So you believe once challenged, it's the West that will pull the trigger first?
>>216574004Imagine being this delusional
>>216574299we’re already in the waiting game. i don’t know who will, but probably>>216574426what do you disagree with?
>>216566611Boomers weren't yet experiencing mass dementia.
>>216574641China has zero impact outside the Asia sphere. They send their spies to steal parents but that's about it. No soft power, Korea's got more soft power in the west than China, no military power projection, they aren't much
>>2165666112010s were the start of the shit times retard
>>216568708this. 2008 was the beginning of the end.
>>216574896you genuinely need to look into how they and Russia have utterly reshaped African politics also, soft power doesn’t just mean “culture/entertainment”, it includes economics as well, and their power over much of Latam, much of Africa, and a lot of Asia is currently unparalleled
the 2010s depressed me tbqh, i felt like i was living in a decade of massively ignorant normies who refused to believe the dangers of social media. i remember telling people that a lot of stuff online was astroturfed or possibly even supported by bots, which nobody believed. of course, we know now this is true and that the government always has tech 20-40 years in advance to the public, so a.i being on early social media is entirely possible. i also thought the early 2010s was ruthlessly edgy with very little pushback, going off the shitty low vibes feeling of the late 2000s. i also hated the ugly flat hair, grey clothes, millennial minimalism, corporatization of art and video games, and the normalization of radical politics (left and right).
>>216568708Trvke, anyone romanticizing 2010s was clearly still a baby learning to walk by then
I was already depressed sack of shit by mid 2010s. I don't have rose tinted glasses about that decade like zoom zooms who were kids.
>>216566611less governments and coloreds online and 2010s weren't that great anyway, russia went to shit in 2012
>>216576258Instagram,Vine,Twitter used to be populated by Blacks. the sudden surge of Indians, Latinos, and Russians is definitely new however.
