The last normal year

2008 was pretty good for me

Won best student in my school
Had a good social life
Did not feel depressed each day
Social media was not dominant yet, so it was easy to make friends.

Now I am a pretty much sit at home wondering what went wrong in my life with acne scars all over my face. I guess it could be worst.

>1999
this is the correct answer because 2000 already had the dotcom bust happening
>although thinking that 2011 is in the vicinity of a sane world speaks volumes to where we are today.
yes, it's hopeless. The younger generations don't even know what normal actually is

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2013 is the correct answer

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At least we did not have tranny and gay propaganda shoved down our throats back then.

IG was launched in 2010

Generally speaking, three years in the 21st centuary changed everything.

>2001
Obvious
>2008
This was the year of matrix. Everyone seemed to plug in. FB going mainstream, HD era changeover ect.
>2012
Felt like a unreal parody of 2011. Something changed in the final hours of 2011.

I think everything became fucked in 2012 during/because of Occupy Wallstreet

The correct year is 2000.

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>gay propaganda
this did exist in the 90's, but it was nowhere near what it is today. Anyone old enough will remember Pedro from the Real World on MTV. And trannies were not normalized at all

2000 was the political downfall, 2008 was the economic downfall. In 2001, the world became paranoid and the security apparatus ballooned, in 2008, the economy collapsed and didn't recover since. It must be unbelievable to zoomers now, but before 2008, you got 3-5% interest on your bank account instead of 0.001%. We have been in a depresion for over 10 years now and it does not end because the powers that be refuse to let unproductive ventures collapse, instead juicing housing and the stock market.

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>in 2008, the economy collapsed and didn't recover since
I think it actually collapsed in 2000 with the dotcom blowup, the housing boom after that was a result of the ultra accommodating monetary policy put in place after 2000, and boomers looking to repeat the stock run up in something "safer". rates were only 5% for a matter of months before it blew up again in 2008. We're on year 22 of denying the reality of the dotcom bust. I think this is all driven by boomers and we won't truly be out of this malaise until they are gone.

1999 is the 303rd prime number

in 1999,
-The Matrix was released
-Dr Dre's "2001" album was released in 1999, 666 days before 9/11/2001
-The Columbine shooting also happened in 1999

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2012-2013 was when help arrived. Others called it the end of the world.

The dotcom bust was just the deflation of a stock market bubble, but it didn't tank the much more important credit markets which provide liquidity for the economy. It is true that Greenspan lowered rates to cause a housing bubble on purpose after 2000, though.

the last year was
if you're the parents of the silent gen, 1939
If you are the silent gen, it's 1966
If you're a boomer, it's 1984
if you're a genX it's 1999
if you're genY it's 2012
If you're GenZ it's 2020

>The dotcom bust was just the deflation of a stock market bubble, but it didn't tank the much more important credit markets which provide liquidity for the economy. It is true that Greenspan lowered rates to cause a housing bubble on purpose after 2000, though.
I agree, that's my general point, we are still dealing with consequences of avoiding the pain from a very normal stock market mania and correction. Instead of taking that, huge systemic risk was created by financializing and encouraging rampant speculation in a normally fairly conservative area of the economy. Boomers gonna boomer