The depressive parts of my personality often manifest as nostalgia, and nostalgia makes me sad. It makes me want to date a fat trans man whos at least 3-5 years older than me who remembers the past and is obsessed with 90s / 2000s and early 2010s shit. I want him to tell me of past internet, like tumblr and internet forums, what was cool at the time, etc. I daydream about someone who’s walked through those years and understands my feelings not just conceptually but also viscerally as they were a part of that history. Maybe it's an act of rebellion, a rejection of my rural upbringing and the resulting isolation. In other words, I'm idealising a life I wish I could've lived. With this context, this person in my mind is also perhaps a personification of emotional safety. Maybe I emotionally correlate age and nostalgia with wisdom and safety. I'm only a 21 year old cis guy born in late '03 (nearly 22) so my grasp of this history is tenuous, I only know very little. Does anyone else feel the same way? Sorry if this autistic.
>>41458845>zoomers talking about being a teenager in 2014 like it was a completely foreign timeChat are we cooked
>>41458845I wrote a poorly worded reply to this earlier and deleted it but yeah, pretty similar but from the boomer POV. I am 30 but started using the internet/forums when I was very young, so I kind of got a proto-version of the zoomer "grew up on ipad" experience. And now that I'm older/mostly exist irl, it's very nostalgic, and feels like a lost time kinda
>>41459260OP here, this is because a decade ago IS foreign now, at least the internet of a decade ago is. Good stuff still probably exists but for the most part it's buried under whatever the algorithms push, which is usually content mills, ai slop, engagement bait, etc
>>41459775You people can’t do anything
>>41459260I'm 34, live in LA, and can confirm 2014 was an entirely different world. This city at least had a sort of silver era back then which has collapsed into desperation post 2020. Remembering an affluent SoCal childhood in the 90s/00s is like recalling life on a different planet. The kids are right to feel like they missed out.
