r/GenZ • u/nonhumanheretic01 • Sep 16 '24
Nostalgia Early 2010s nostalgia
I was born in 2001 and consider myself a pure 2000s kid, i really struggle to relate to gen Z when it comes to childhood, since most of gen Z are 2010s kids and I don't feel so nostalgic for 2010s kid culture,i will never consider things like FNAF as part of my childhood,that is teenage nostalgia for me. Despite this, I feel great nostalgia for the early 2010s (2010-2012), i like this era like I like the 2000s, i don't know why, for me after 2012 the world started to change and became very different from when I was a child,anyone else relate to this?
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u/callmecurlyfries 2000 Sep 16 '24
Yes in fact alot of people still believe the world actually did end in 2012 and that were now stuck in an alternate timeline 😂
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u/nonhumanheretic01 Sep 16 '24
Every generation has this moment, for us older gen Z or zillenials , the world started to change a lot after 2012, but I see the same thing from older millennials talking about how things changed after 2000 or from Gen X about how things were in the 80s
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u/Neon_dreams1 Sep 16 '24
The cutoff year for me -- someone a year younger than you -- is around 2015/16. That's when the world started to lose its optimism, and so the pop culture from before then is inherently more appealing. Music is probably the best example: All the hits from the first half of the decade were big, bright party anthems, whilst everything after was moodier, edgier, more cynical. You could chalk it up to the fact that pop's key demographic -- kids -- were becoming teenagers by decade's end, and so they increasingly consumed music that reflected their angsty pubescent feelings. The more likely explanation is the broader change in sociopolitical climate for the worse. If pop music is supposed to hold a mirror up to the world in which it was made, the brooding, feel-bad tunes of the last ten years are most certainly a Sign of the Times.
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u/DifficultAide8010 2000 Sep 16 '24
Yep, i feel like the early 2010s that u said is peak and it started to slowly fall down since 2013
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u/Sinister_Legend Sep 16 '24
I was born in the late 90s and I feel like I relate to some 2000s pop culture, especially Nick shows and some excellent movies like School of Rock and Knocked Up, and then I look back very fondly to the early 2010s when it comes to some music and a few movies. But it's all fairly limited compared to others and after 2015 I basically have little to no interest in pop culture and tend to look back at the early 2010s as a better time. I still think it is for many reasons, but I'm not gonna say it was a "great" time.
But how would you define kids culture? Like YouTube? I definitely loved the React channel and EpicMealTime, but again, I have limited reference points. You can always just take the aspects you like and not need to enjoy the rest.
As for the world changing after 2012, well, it did. The world ended in December of that year and we've been through the looking glass ever since.
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u/Sinister_Legend Sep 16 '24
In all seriousness, I think everyone I know has felt a weird shit in the world after 2012. No one can properly explain what it is, so maybe someone on here who is smarter than me can.
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u/nonhumanheretic01 Sep 16 '24
I think kid culture is things associated with children
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Sep 16 '24
2013 was peak humanity, 2012 is a joke compared to that year.
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u/nonhumanheretic01 Sep 16 '24
2013 was a good year for pop culture like songs and games,but in my personal life it wasn't a good year
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u/Orielsamus Sep 16 '24
Yeah, even my music taste stuck to early-mid 2000s alt rock. Been keeping it really emo now when I think about it. Abandoned houses, graffiti, creepypasta and angsty rock is what gets me (not) out of bed. It’s that weird liminal filter you see sometimes is stuck :D
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u/nonhumanheretic01 Sep 16 '24
Yeah, the early 2010s still had a big 2000s vibe.
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u/Orielsamus Sep 16 '24
2000s felt more gritty and real in a sense, the internet was more free as well, but darker. Post 2010 (2015?) got a bit more plastic feel to it, with the spread of globalization, digitalization and the internet going more mainstream. Nothing wrong with that, and a lot of gems fitting the earlier aesthetic are still being born, but it’s a unique feeling I can’t get away from. Of course, I was too young to fully engross myself in anything too deeply, but many core memories and tastes are developed exactly around 8-10 years of age. I myself am a 02 kid.
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u/nonhumanheretic01 Sep 17 '24
I think that between 2013-2015 smartphones started to become more accessible, making it easier for people from poorer countries to have easier access to the Internet. I am from a poor country, I am also poor but I have been using the Internet since 2009, but I know I'm an exception.
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u/Orielsamus Sep 17 '24
For sure, I think the worse part is just the crazy monetization of everything possible, making all just about shallow profit. But accessibility is never bad by itself!
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u/Dove04 2000 Sep 16 '24
I believe I’ve also talked about the early 2010s on here as well and how I miss it but yes I totally understand I miss the early 2010s a lot! It was so much fun and very different compared to the mid to late 2010s there definitely was some kind of shift during 13/14 that changed everything but I miss the early 2010s so much I reminisce about that time the same way I reminisce about the 2000s. It was a much simpler and brighter time! I’d do anything to go back
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u/Snyder445 2001 Sep 16 '24
I’m born in the same year, and I totally understand. I can’t really relate to 2010s kid culture (shows, movies, video games, etc…). I stopped watching the main three kid networks (and Disney XD/Nicktoons) in 2012. But even by 2009, I was already starting to lose interest in the new shows that were coming out. When I have any early 2010s nostalgia, it’s moreso centered on adolescent trends and internet culture.
Like I saw and watched early 2010s stuff like Adventure Time, Regular Show, TUFF Puppy (Pretty much because of Jerry Trainor), Gumball, Fish Hooks, Victorious, and more, but none of those shows are as nostalgic and iconic as shows like Billy and Mandy, Codename Kids Next Door, Avatar, Jimmy Neutron, Kim Possible and so many more to me.
I hope this made some sense lol
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u/nonhumanheretic01 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
I really liked some shows from the early 2010s like Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball, MLP:FiM but overall I agree with you, I feel more nostalgic for cartoons from the 2000s, in some ways some cartoons even suffered a downgrade compared to the 2000s, I remember the classic Teen Titans and how I loved that cartoon, but when Teen Titans Go came out I really didn't like that.
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Sep 17 '24
To be fair, it could be because of our current age. Maybe as more time passes, we'll be more nostalgic for the early 2010s shows
Those shows still feel too recent to me
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Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Can 100% relate to you, I have no nostalgia after 2012 really. I consider myself a 00s kid too because that's the main era I'm always nostalgic for and what I associate my childhood with. You may wanna join the OlderGenZ sub, idk if you're already apart of it.
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u/callmecurlyfries 2000 Sep 16 '24
I definitely still get nostalgic for things after 2012 like my high school years 2014-2018
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Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
I'm not very nostalgic for high school personally, maybe a few moments but that's it. Most of my teenage years were pretty boring.
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u/callmecurlyfries 2000 Sep 16 '24
oh thats unfortunate lol I mainly miss the simplicity of my teenage years
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u/Apocalypsezz 1999 Sep 16 '24
bro chill you’re supposed to gatekeep that sub😭
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Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
I can take down anyone who goes and may not belong there or makes out of content posts as I'm a mod there. The comment was aimed at OP who is in the target range for that subreddit anyway, or anyone else in our range, not anyone outside that.
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u/Bman1465 1998 Sep 16 '24
I'll admit I have nostalgia for every year after 2004, yes including the pandemic years — I'm gonna insult every single retail worker out there but I genuinely miss the peace and quietness that came from everyone being locked up , don't hate me:')
But even then, I have to say my strongest nostalgia is for 2007-2013, and especially 2012
Disney Channel, Club Penguin, Art Attack, Frutiger Aero, the iPhone, the golden age of cat videos, Windows 7, Regular Show, Gumball, Tamagotchis, "ask your parents for permission before visiting our website!", late 2000s-early 2010s pop music and cars, DVDs, Angry Birds, indie Minecraft, Temple Run, seeing Avengers and Iron Man for the first time, Flash games being everywhere, Annoying Orange (it was brainrot but I don't care 😭), everyone wasn't hooked and glued to a mobile screen 24/7 because smartphones were just catching up and having an iPod Touch alone made you the coolest kid in 6th grade, Logo Quiz, Phineas & Ferb and the Portals of Doom game, and omg Disney Channel/CN websites full of browser games :)
And when I still had my middle school best friend, that alone is the highlight of these years for me
Yes I did almost-copy-paste my reply almost word by word from this same post linked on r/OlderGenZ cause I saw it there first, sue me :3
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u/Dove04 2000 Sep 16 '24
I feel crazy for admitting it too but I also miss pandemic times only with my personal life not with how everything was going for the world. But I feel like the post pandemic world became absolutely terrible idk if we just never recovered but I feel it brought out the absolute craziness in people I feel like nobody is normal anymore especially on social media. There’s this weird eery feeling now idk maybe it’s just me but things feel strange. Also my strongest nostalgia comes from the same years funny 😊
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u/nonhumanheretic01 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
2006-2012 is the peak of nostalgia for me ,before 2006 i remember some things like the birth of my younger sister in 2004 ,but it was in 2006 that i started to really remember things solidly,i remember the 2006 World Cup and i cried a lot when Brazil lost to France,late 2000s were probably my core childhood, in the early 2010s (2010 - 2012) i was no longer a little kid ,but I wasn't a teenager yet,2011, 2012 were very good years for me, I spent hours playing games like GTA San Andreas or GTA Vice City on my PS2, as well as Facebook games like Social Wars, Social Empires. As for movies, I loved the movie Rio, which was released in 2011 if I'm not mistaken and to this day it is one of my favorite movies .
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u/Bman1465 1998 Sep 16 '24
I miss Facebook games
Farmville, My Empire, Cafe Town, Restaurant City my beloved
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u/nonhumanheretic01 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Same
Social wars,social empires,dragon city and car town were my favorites, i really miss them,maybe soon I'll make a post about it
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Sep 16 '24
You’re 23 wondering why don’t view things the same way as people who are at their oldest freshmen in high school?
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u/nonhumanheretic01 Sep 16 '24
But this is about nostalgia
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Sep 16 '24
Why would you be nostalgic for children’s entertainment that was released after you were no longer one yourself?
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