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The 2000s fucking sucked (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Growing up in the 2000s fucked my brain hard. The sexism, homophobia and racism coupled with the free-range parenting that was simultaneously neglectful while gaslighting everyone into thinking that it was too coddling, and an internet that simply did not give a fuck who it traumatized. All topped off with a resurgence of Western jingoism from the "war in terror".

The only good thing about that period was some of the videogames were okay I guess but only if you avoid ANYTHING remotely military flavoured. A lot of shit outside of Nintendo was afraid of colour and everything was that washed out brown. Just a miserable time. Everyone was so uncreative and the world had some fucked up Southpark brainworms.

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[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Like, the world still sucks now yeah? Like, it for sure sucks less than before. Was it really the Twitter vibe of people being able to talk to each other all the time that let us exorcize a good part of the cold war brainworms we had? I was thinking about it the other day. The culture wars of that time feel so quaint in retrospect

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Was it really the Twitter vibe of people being able to talk to each other all the time that let us exorcize a good part of the cold war brainworms we had?

I think it had more to do with capitalism no longer being able to ride the high of defeating the USSR while making life progressively worse for decades on end

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

That is a good point

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

Oh absolutely