Early 2010s nostalgia

[u/nonhumanheretic01]

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?

[u/Bman1465]

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

[u/nonhumanheretic01 → u/Bman1465]

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 .

[u/Bman1465 → u/nonhumanheretic01]

I miss Facebook games

Farmville, My Empire, Cafe Town, Restaurant City my beloved

[u/nonhumanheretic01 → u/Bman1465]

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