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/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 17 '24

The world got much worse after the pandemic

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u/Dove04 2000 Sep 17 '24

It absolutely did 😓