Do you ever look back at the world 10 years ago and think about how different things were back then...

>2012 is the same world as today.
Nowhere near true.

Wokeshit didn't exist in 2012. Trannies were a fringe group of lunatics in 2012. BLM hadn't yet been founded, and most people still had a mentality of being "blind to race" rather than the 2022 norm of needing to self-flagellate over being white all the time.

Also, yes we had FB and Twitter back then but they were way WAY different to now. They were full of normalfaggots but they were also incredibly politically incorrect. Twitter was close to Any Forums in terms of how savage and edgy it was at times.

That's around the same time Facebook got hyper popular along with Twitter and Instagram. These 3 apps collected all the data and tiktok is finishing you all off rn.
Social media had a severe rapid evolution and we are starting to see the negative side effects now which means, we are one step closer to seeing the system eat itself.

Don't forget the doom porn. Shit made me desensitized to pretty much everything.

You're trying to turn this into a culture wars thing. It's not about that. It's about the general atmosphere of the world.

The Long 20th Century was 1898-2007, because those were the 110 years America was at its height, beginning with its victory in the Spanish-American War, and ending when the Great Recession destroyed every country except China. 2008 was also when iPhones became popular and Facebook really took off, ushering in the corporate social media age.

The last millennium really ended in 2008, heralding a new era of humanity where China is the new leading power and people are more isolated from each other than ever.

It's even weirder to look back to the 80's. I remember those little cartoon shorts that came on between commercials on Saturday morning singing about how we were the "great American melting pot" and how our diversity was our strength and we were all Americans and should be brothers in patriotism.
Now everything is radicalized dichotomies. It seems like all facets of society have become polarized to "you're either with us or against us" and no one wants to get along with anyone anymore. Everything is "join or die" everywhere you look.

When 2012 are your halcyon days, you know you’re a newfag

>The Long 20th Century
Are you ever going to shut the fuck up about that? Centuries are 100 years long, that's why they're called CENTURIES.

>You're trying to turn this into a culture wars thing. It's not about that.
It absolutely is about that. We lived through a cultural revolution during the mid-to-late 2010s. So many things that we previously took for granted, that we never thought were even meant to be questioned, were suddenly upturned in the name of "social progress".

We don't even know how impactful some of this shit is going to be yet. Imagine the kind of world and culture a baby that's been born today is going to grow up in. We aren't going to understand their way of life AT ALL. Those of us who were born in the 20th century are going to be completely left behind by this new hyper-progressive culture that seeks to deconstruct literally EVERYTHING we previously understood about our world.

Yeah if you're literal-minded and can't think about things with more nuance. Words can have more than one meaning in different contexts, deal with it instead of being pedantic.

Early 2010s garbage like Bieber, Party Rock Anthem, The Avengers, and The Hunger Games does not belong to the same world as anything from 2007 and before. The whole vibe is different, you feel me?

>2012 is vastly different than 2022
Stfu zoomer faggot.

I think the exact opposite. All of those relics of early 2010s media you mentioned are, to me, lost fragments of a time when we lived in a more innocent age. The Avengers wasn't drastically different to any other superhero films of the early 00s and late 90s. Bieber was a re-run of the boybands and heartthrob singers of the late 90s. LMFAO was an extension of the dancepop trend that already began around 2006. The Hunger Games is best grouped with something like Harry Potter in terms of its themes and its mood

The hyper-politicised, cynical, schizophrenic media of the post-2016 world is where I begin to feel that we've entered an entirely new age.

You realize this has been the case for about 4000 years of human history? Think they didn't say the same about the steam engine, the radio, cable television? Shit changes, either evolve or get left behind.

Someone’s sour about missing out on the 90s and 00s kek

I was in high school in the 90's. Fuck you, fuck the 90's, and especially fuck Fred Durst.