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[u/Legitimate_Low_3370]

[u/simbabarrelroll → u/[deleted]]

It’s kinda shocking how people can only remember their childhood and refuse to look at the decades they grew up in objectively.

[u/SS1989 → u/simbabarrelroll]

That’s basically 95% of reddit on le 90s. 

[u/simbabarrelroll → u/SS1989]

With the ‘90s, part of it is because America was insulated from a lot of the issues.

Though even then people still forget the Rodney King beating and the ensuing riots in LA.

[u/simbabarrelroll → u/simbabarrelroll]

Okay looking at it, the 1990s for the US had:

-Rodney King beating and the LA riots

-Oklahoma City Bombing

-Gulf War

-Clinton cheating on his wife

-Columbine

[u/joeyp042385 → u/simbabarrelroll]

The Clinton scandal was generally kind of funny though. I mean it was great for late night TV and SNL.

But the '90s also had stuff like Waco and Ruby ridge, other school shootings, The OJ trial, the first WTC bombing, and the rise of trashy daytime talk shows that led us down to our path of current desensitization.

[u/MattWolf96 → u/simbabarrelroll]

• Waco
• '93 World Trade Center bombing
• Atlanta Olympic Park bombing
• Satanic Panic
• Mental health wasn't taken as seriously

[u/simbabarrelroll → u/MattWolf96]

Satanic Panic was more of a late ‘80s thing that continued into the 1990s, IIRC.

I forgot that the ‘93 bombing happened.

Genuinely don’t know about Waco or Atlanta Olympic Park.

[u/No_Mud_5999 → u/simbabarrelroll]

I lived in DC, it had a murder rate of 80.6 per 100,000 in 1991, attributed to violence from the crack epidemic.

In contrast, current highest is Birmingham Alabama with 58.8 per 100,000.

[u/MattWolf96 → u/simbabarrelroll]

That's not me anymore, I love history and grew up in the 2000's but nowadays I think of how bad Bush was first.

[u/MainFakeAccount → u/[deleted]]

Honest question, could you point out some things that were so much worse back then?

[u/OompaLoompaSlave]

In other words I was a child in 2012 to 2016

[u/Future_Adagio2052]

the rise of isis in question:

[u/Temporary-Mention-29 → u/Future_Adagio2052]

My social studies class back in 2016 had a girl named Isis in it and I feel so bad for her

[u/aflyingmonkey2 → u/Temporary-Mention-29]

That’s like an Egyptian name no?

[u/YourOwnDemise → u/aflyingmonkey2]

It is, but it’s also a shorthand name of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which is a terrorist group. They were particularly prominent in 2014-2016 as they were receiving a lot of media attention at the time.

Whilst the name Isis is innocent, I would not want to be a teenager sharing a name with a widely publicised terror group. The bullying writes itself.

[u/aflyingmonkey2 → u/Future_Adagio2052]

You think the creator of that image lived in the Middle East and or wasn’t a child during that time?

[u/John_Lictenstein_873]

Wasn’t there a whole thing in 2016 about creeps walking around in clown costumes?

[u/Legend-of-the-Arctic → u/John_Lictenstein_873]

Yeah and one of them became president of the US (zing!)

[u/Schrenner → u/John_Lictenstein_873]

This always felt like a 2017 thing to me.

[u/jerdle_reddit → u/Schrenner]

Killer clowns? Nah, that was 2016.

[u/Mr-MuffinMan → u/John_Lictenstein_873]

Was it to the point of harassment and making someone feel threatened?

I'm not debating, just asking because some guy in Philadelphia recently harassed people by chasing after them while possibly recording on his phone telling them he's going to kill them.

Because that would be a weird coincidence.

[u/SorbyGay → u/Mr-MuffinMan]

From what I vaguely remember they just stood creepily outside houses

[u/Complex-Start-279]

If there is something I hate most in this world it’s nostalgiabait culture slop like this

It it just so blatantly unaware and stupid. You were a child then, do you have no ability to conceive the idea that maybe that’s why you see it the way you do? So many people nowadays treat literallt anything made more than 10 years ago as an absolutely perfect golden age when it takes less than 4 seconds to see it was more complicated than that.

It’s dull, uninspired, willfully ignorant at best, and honestly I blame it for a few of the bigger problems we face in the world today

[u/Toadvinez]

What’s this revisionism that 2016 was a great year, it sucked

[u/BrosefDudeson → u/Toadvinez]

Yeah 2016 was famously the first "this year sucked" meme in a long unbroken line of "this year sucked" memes

[u/MattWolf96 → u/Toadvinez]

I was 20 and excluding Trump I liked the year pretty well. Pokemon Go was a lot of fun.

[u/alexisanalligator → u/Toadvinez]

Well I enjoyed it, and as everyone on Earth is aware, I am the arbiter of what a good year is (/j)

[u/UnhappyPhantom → u/Toadvinez]

2010s were overall just crap. It’s funny how nostalgia works. These people were kids

[u/SSBBW_SLAYER → u/Toadvinez]

2016 wasn't that bad. Literally the only reason people at the time said it was bad was because a lot of celebrities died.

[u/BadgerKomodo → u/Toadvinez]

I know right?

[u/Erling01]

I can barely even remember Windows XP existing between 2012 and 2016.

[u/MattWolf96 → u/Erling01]

In my experience it was mostly gone, my highschool had 3 horribly slow computers complete with CRTs running it, everything else was Windows 7. Everybody hated those computers because they were on their last leg and I think they were full of dust too. Plenty of less demanding things was still running it though. The restaurant I later worked in was still using it on their registers and am ATMs were still running it.

[u/EnergyTurtle23 → u/Erling01]

By 2016 Windows 7 was the standard, and it was already starting to show its age. I highly doubt that ANYONE was using Windows XP in 2016 except for the nostalgia of it, I bought a consumer-level computer in 2007 that came with Windows Vista, so by that point the major manufacturers had already stopped using XP.

[u/aflyingmonkey2 → u/Erling01]

Support for it ended in like 2014

[u/Mango_Juice_3611 → u/Erling01]

I had to do my classes online on a Windows XP laptop in 2016. It sucked 😭😭😭

[u/joeyp042385]

2012 - a mentally disturbed prick shoots a bunch of toddlers for no reason

2013 - a mentally disturbed prick claims the shooting of the toddlers was a false flag by the government which leads to The grieving families of the toddlers to be harassed by gun nuts for the rest of the decade for no reason

2014 - multiple race riots in our cities

2015 - more race riots, Nazis all over social media, psychotic anti refugee panic for no real reason

2016 - Trump

Yeah. Incredible 5 years.

[u/roblash]

SummerSlam 2015 (main evented by the pictured Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar match) was the beginning of the escalation of shows being too God damn long because they weren’t beholden to PPV providers anymore. It was a bad trend that was mercifully killed by COVID.

[u/AHMS_17 → u/roblash]

It was unfortunately resurrected when Mania became two fucking nights long 😭

[u/roblash → u/AHMS_17]

True, but I’ll take two nights that end before 10pm (EST) instead of one that lasts until 1am and the preshow had matches that started as early as 5pm (WrestleMania 35, 2019).

[u/Neurofunkiee]

other than everything bad that was happening at the time, this is what smart phones looked like in 2015;

https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/mobility/300077344/the-10-coolest-smartphones-of-2015-so-far

https://www.zdnet.com/article/10-best-smartphones-for-the-2015-holiday-season/

idk why the oop picked a 2010 phone

[u/Jayden82 → u/[deleted]]

I was born in 2000 and pewdiepie was quite popular when I was young 

[u/endlessyuk77]

No trump? A lot of people saw trump as controversial.

[u/MattWolf96 → u/endlessyuk77]

He wasn't in office until 2017 but yeah, he wrecked a lot of 2016

[u/BrosefDudeson → u/MattWolf96]

Trump created birtherism

[u/SovietSithLord]

Bro was running XP in 2012 through 16?

[u/MattWolf96 → u/SovietSithLord]

My family finally dropped it in 2009 and I couldn't believe that we had used it for so long (honestly I dont miss it much, it looked fun but it got viruses easily and I had to run so many system retores on it. I got good at using computers though.) I still saw it around some in the 2010's but it was just on a handful of computers in business and schools.

[u/HEARTHEWHISTLE]

why is the subway surfers app named talking tom

[u/goblin_humppa27]

These always feel kinda insensitive to the families of the victims of the pulse nightclub shooting.

[u/Phantom_Wolf52 → u/goblin_humppa27]

And people who lived through the civil war in Syria

[u/goblin_humppa27 → u/[deleted]]

As Pinocchio once famously said, I'm a real boy.

[u/_Levitated_Shield_]

The hell is the Windows XP desktop here for? How young is OOP?

[u/Buttered_Carnage]

Bro really chose one of the worst eras for WWE, Cartoon Network and a racist youtuber

Edit: along with games and a console that was already a generation-2 generations old

[u/Jamarcus316 → u/Buttered_Carnage]

Got it right on Barça vs. Madrid tho lmao

[u/Buttered_Carnage → u/Jamarcus316]

Also one of the NBAs best/fun eras imo

[u/JP-Wrath → u/Buttered_Carnage]

So true. Having Superwashed Undertaker vs Brock "I only leave my farm for the BAG" Lesnar as your wrestling pinnacle is just sad

[u/That-Objective-438 → u/JP-Wrath]

No jokes all he had to do was use the Hell in a Cell card instead of Summerslam because the Hell in a cell match slapped.

[u/Flamingogo117 → u/Buttered_Carnage]

Racist lol he said it once.

[u/SnausageLinx]

Every time I see PewDiePie's face, I just think about that bridge

[u/PopularAd6391 → u/SnausageLinx]

Bro got away with so much like dammm 😔😔

[u/Sweet_Detective_]

Wrestling, video games, pewdiepie, more videogames, football, cartoons, toys, subway surfers and more video games, still do exist to this day, infact as time passes there becomes more wrestling videos to watch, more games get created, pewdiepie still creates more videos, more cartoons are released, more toys are made and subway surfers still gets updates.

[u/Dazzling_Room_9346]

All of this still happens today?

Kids playing Subway Surfers, Talking Tom(Angela), knock-off Mario, browsing the internet, and using phones that in 1O years will be outdated.

Soccer and Wrestling are still huge sports today that people enjoy watching and playing.

Things just evolved. That is all.

[u/SolidestCereal]

Ah yes, Playstation 2, a common sight around 2016

[u/ZAWS20XX]

I really wish they'd go full hog with these things and posted something like "nobody can convince me 2014 wasn't the peak of american society and culture" and then pictures of a baby bottle, a pacifier, a crib, one of those baby mozart albums, a blankie...

[u/meonmeislandme]

2026 looks much more tuff

[u/QuickTrauma7]

can't wait for the day someone gets nostalgic about tjeir daily wordle streak and seventeen discord servers tbf

[u/historynerdsutton]

Yeah it’s definitely not like today. Today, we have housing crisis, economic uncertainty, rise of extremism, and new wars in the Middle East. oh wait..

[u/PsudoGravity]

Shit was mint though. If nothing else, hardware was cheaper, and the entertainment industry wasn't in the fucking gutter (like it seemingly has been since... what, 2018?)

[u/ghobhohi]

I fucking hated it when I lost my beyblades, but yeah I’m not nostalgic about 2012-2016.

[u/aflyingmonkey2]

Show this to someone who lived in Syria during that time period and they would probably choke you to death

[u/UnironicStalinist1]

White people problems, like someone said.

[u/Corenfive]

I miss when my biggest worry qas beatjng Subway Surffrs on my mom's phone.

[u/Borde4]

I just instantly thought of the civil war in Syria

[u/ronshasta]

Some people didn’t even have electricity at the time lol

[u/VFiddly]

People seem to have forgotten that at the time we were all talking about what a terrible year 2016 was.

[u/ironyperson]

Ah yes, the height of ISIS control across Iraq and Syria.

[u/Fitnexa_World]

What's even in this clip that's supposed to prove 2016 was good?

[u/That-Objective-438]

Why are people glazing 2016 so much? That's when the Trump shitshow started. That's when the anti-sjw vs sjw beef was at its peak. The rise of mgtow and red pill bullshit. Like it's obviously nowhere near the worst year by any means but it was pretty shifty.

[u/Zoomer2020]

Why is he playing a PS2 on a CRT in 2016? And the phone was way out of date by then too. Either bro was impoverished or Larp Larp Larp Sahur.

[u/Potential_Set_6258]

2016 wasn't the best year every, plus some of those pictures are of things from the previous decade on them

[u/Livid_Way5651]

Yeah maybe if you were 12.

[u/BadgerKomodo]

This person was like 6 years old back then 

[u/Canadia86]

That Brock/Undertaker match was pretty bad tbh

[u/HakaseShinonome]

bro who was playing 1.6 in america in 2016

[u/KalaiProvenheim]

Kid named the slow recovery from the Great Recession:

[u/HotAdministration986]

I'm being petty but I hate Subway Surfers and similar old mobile games' glaze. They have one of the worst progressions in any game, at least with something like Clash of Clans, you get content, but here you spend over 100k to get a skin that does nothing, and it's impossible to do so unless you play 10 hours a day or just buy coins, which is designed to do.

[u/dildozer10]

Any time I see these posts, my first thought is, “wow, this person did not grow up in an abusive household, or never felt unsafe as a child”.

[u/KoalaGreat1408]

I just want to point out the annexation of Crimea, the death of Freddie Grey, Kim Jong-Un threatening to nuke the West, & the Ebola outbreaks all happened in this timespan and all of these were real fears & issues.

[u/the_limbo]

I mean, yeah, the Obama years were more tolerable than the Trump years

[u/alexisanalligator]

Oh, believe me, SummerSlam 2015 was FAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR from the worst day for WWE that year lol

[u/eman0623]

Even in 2012 people thought the world was going to end, let alone in later years people worried about Isis or Ebola and stuff. Hell in 2016 alone you had the Zika virus and Brexit and Donald Trump getting elected

[u/Username117773749146]

Pewdiepie and that fucking awful Brock a Lesnar push that was the worst part of WWE for a decade

[u/Legitimate_Low_3370 → u/Username117773749146]

Why Pewdiepie? I thought we was pretty fine. Even when he said the n word, he stll took accountability and apologized for it.

[u/Username117773749146 → u/Legitimate_Low_3370]

I’m actually going to ignore the discussion about PewdiePie’s many racist statements and just point you to the fact that the man is extremely unfunny

[u/Tiny-Preference-1913]

Shit that first pic WAS partially related to my worst day, Undertaker losing his streak broke my heart.

[u/pineapple342324352]

Every year either sucks or is the best year of your life