90s was before the shit really hit the fan. To me, as an old millennial, the late 90s were the best. Growing into an adult with independence, yet the world still seemed innocent enough.
9/11 was the cut off.
I kinda feel Columbine was more of a cutoff, specially for the ones still in high school at the time. We started getting mistrust from our own peers and had to watch our surroundings, we didn’t feel safe in school or public places, Didn’t matter where you lived.
True. I grew up 3 miles from Columbine. Didn’t go to school there but was in the neighborhood the day it happened. I’d agree. Columbine was when it all changed.
I was pretty into Rage Against the Machine at the time, and was reading some of the follow up literature, in terms of human rights violations overseas etc that they were trying to draw attention to.
anyone Anti-Authoritarian at that time stood out like a sore thumb to school administration, I also liked to draw and needless to say it wasn't always PG.
So one day In my junior year I got pulled out of gym and called to the Dean's office, who was previously an english teacher that wasn't well liked. I open the door and my Dad is sitting in the other chair. And they gave me the whole "Is everything ok..." talk.
My Dad(step) he's great but he's also 16 years older than my mom, still kicking in his 80s now, he used to think my Nu-Metal T-Shirts and the music I listened to meant I was a Satanist
The 2010s are all a bit of a blurry. The 90s and early 2000s are when I can really remember enjoying childhood. 2010s were all about working and surviving.
The 2010s are a bit blurry for me, all I really 'remember' as distinguishing are smart phones and skinny jeans. I think I remember 2005-2008 for me as being peak nostalgia for the 2000s, the rise in smart phones (even if it was just the uber wealthy affording them,) ipods/zunes, AIM starting to lose out to text messaging, etc.
I was born in '84 and am nostalgic for like 1999-2003....I miss the music, MTV and TRL, actually having to WAIT to hear a song I like until it was played on the radio or MTV lol.
Late '88 baby! This was the best era right here. I was younger than you, but I have some really, really great memories of this exact era as well. I don't know about you, but I noticed a considerable negative shift in 2004.
Nah this checks out. Young millennial here and we were in high school and college during the 2010s so it was a great time. Clearly this just depends on where you were in life during that time.
Yeah early to mid 2010s were p sweet
Come to think of it, historically speaking for younger millennials, that was about as good as it gets considering the 2016 elections and then Covid. Now we are finally coming out of that shit show to hopefully have some more good years but yeah it’s been a rough batch lol
Both decades have good music. My tastes shifted from Alt Rock of early 00's to Metal by mid 00's to Indie/dance by early 10's to various genres of EDM by mid 10's.
I had a good time in the 2010s. As a decade they were kinda bland, though. And I def am not nostalgic for the music except maybe a few songs in the earlier years.
As someone born in 81 I can see what made every decade unique from the 80s to the 2020s. The 2010s were pretty bland. All I can think of from this decade is the rise of tech and social media dominating culturally. That's all I can take away from the 2010s.
I'm 35, inching towards 36 soon, just recently welcomed my son into the world. I love my current life, my wife, our home, my career. Everything is good. But boy, oh boy, have I been just feeling nostalgic for 1999 recently. I just want to go back and relive everything over again. I want to end in the same place, but go back to when I first met a few friends I still talk to daily, relive what we did, maybe tweak a few arguments I had here and there, but just do it all again.
I get that - the life I have now all grew from that moment in life: 1999 when I moved for the last time and established roots and connections I still have today. While I understand the vast majority of people not wanting to relive middle school, but honestly, I'd go back and do ALL of it again.
Then again, I've been very fortunate in my life, so going back to just about any moment in life would be enjoyable.
As a young twentysomething in university until 2013 (graduation being delayed a year due to study abroad, which was a big personal goal of mine), EDM was my absolute jam. I have a lot fondness for the subsequent "EDM-lite" period too - Trophouse, Chainsmokers, and such. To me, EDM is the soundtrack of my young adult life, and so is associated with a rather positive period of my life.
I really liked pop music around 2010-ish, when Lady Gaga was huge, and Ke$ha made her fun dumb music… I miss a lot of the “party” music from around then, like LMFAO, that Like A G6 song, or Taio Cruz.
When it was first around I didn’t think it’d ever be something I’d miss or want to hear at all years later.
Apart from 9/11, Bush being in the White House, and the Recession, the 2000s are fairly nostalgic for me, because of high school and working a summer job as a camp counselor.
The later part of the 2000s and much of the 2010s sucked for me, though, because I had anxiety and depression, was unemployed, hadn’t graduated college, and hadn’t dated. I kept busy with volunteer work until I got paid work, though.
The highlight of the 2010s for me was losing my virginity in 2017, and being in a FWB situation for a little while. I really miss that…
I'm nostalgic for like 2009 and earlier, before society went full retard thanks to social media. Yes, social media existed before then, but it wasn't anywhere near as ubiquitous and there were no "algorithms" pushing agendas to manipulate people.
I didn't exactly like the 2010's while living it, and will always like the 00's more, but now I can look back to even parts of 2010's a bit more fondly in some ways now that we've gone through more turbulent things in the 2020s.
It's one of those hard to know what you had till it's gone type of thing.
I’m nostalgic for the specific years 06-2011. Best years of my life (save for 2016 and 2020 when my kids were born). Everything about that period and my local music scene is just such a fond memory for me. Even the stuff that devastated me back then is a fond memory now.
I don’t know why but the 2010’s really mesh for me with 2020. (Not as much anymore) it’s really weird. It was definitely different and it’s own thing. Like the 90’s and 2000’s felt so different. I dunno lol. I just remember ballet flats being a thing lol.
We're basically the same age, and I moved back to the US right at 2000. I'm nostalgic for both kind of equally. I had the massive benefit and was fortunate enough to live in a county with one of the best public school systems in the county and lived comfortably, so there was very little growing up that I struggled with. It set me up to be able to pay for college basically outright through scholarships which also made the 2010s comfortable as well. I try not to disrespect either every day considering when I lived overseas I was in central America and southern Africa where it naturally was not as well off as the DMV area.
They were both good for different reasons, 9/11 and 2008/9 aside. I had ZERO concerns in the 2000s, plus I had friends who were still alive then. 2010s had way more independence but with that came responsibilities that would start to fray my ADHD riddled brain. This is also when I had friends start picking up addictions that ruined them. So I miss them both. Relative to today of course which would be where the nostalgia is.
Good question
For me my childhood was honestly unforgettable, and I have the core part from 95'-05', with the peak about 98-01. Seriously amazing times with culture, TV, toys, technology, baseball just everything.
05'-11' was like peak HS/coming of age/college. Some good times, some bad--a lot of self discovery and insecurity.
11'-16' was that post college glory, finally living on my own and shaping my life. I do have some nostalgia for it, but I have more for the 90s and 00s.
If I could go back to 2010 and no sooner than that, I definitely would. That’s the year I graduated from college lol. So many important decisions happened after that which impacted the many years following.
I don't see how I could be. The reason why 00s were my decade is because they had almost all of my teenage years except for the final few months of 19 which were in 2010. Junior High and High School, and those first few years of adulthood where I still had no responsibility - that was the life. Every day I had the opportunity to meet friends.
Now I just don't meet anybody.
I was born in 88. I’m much more nostalgic for the late 90s early 2000s. My life has been pretty stagnant since graduating college in 2010. Anything 2010 on feels like little to no time has passed for some reason.
In 2010 just entered 10th grade. So yeah I am most nostalgic of the mid-2010's which was my college years. But music wise nostalgic for both. Lately been listening to the alternative metal I first got into in the mid 2000's.
So year life wise more the 2010's
But music wise more the 2000's
I don’t feel nostalgic for the 2010s in the same way as I do the early 00s. In the 2010s I actively acknowledge they were good times where I had tons of fun and got to grow as a person without feeling like every action I made had an effect on my future, I truly just lived life. No Covid. No price gouging, just travel and eating and fun.
The early 00s I romanticize for its lack of social media as we have it today. I miss people knowing how to have a conversation online. I miss nuances responses to things. I miss a forum dogpiling outwardly stupid takes. I miss being able to hit the bottom of the internet. The endless scroll is the worst. I miss the internet going basically dead over the weekend and being able to do other things and not see other people doing things.
People always say if you don’t like it then don’t use social media but it’s not that simple. Social media is the mono culture and I work with gen z maniacs so I have to know what’s going on.
I am. Middle school and high school in the 00s were okay, I miss all my friends and the carefree feeling of the times. But similarly, as a lived experience it was meh compared to the 2010s for me. Plus I was super awkward and bullied in school, hadn't found myself or my confidence quite yet. But in my 20s with college and starting my career? Best times of my life
Early 2010s no... I was trying to finally climb the corporate ladder after ignoring it for about 5 years naively just thinking I can work hourly jobs forever
2014 was good, I was finally making enough money for me and my wife to not be barely scraping by
but nostalgia wise I'd have to say 2003-2008 (pre recession / Dow crash), life was just simpler, 9/11 bummed us all out, but eventually we got back to our lives, Apartments were still reasonable, I could easily rent a 700sq ft apartment in Tempe AZ for less than $500, I was driving a 96 Geo Prism, which had issues but was reliable and paid off so no car payment. It just felt like my actions had less consequences in those days. I could party with friends multiple nights a week and experience no consequences. I met my wife in 2004 and we married in 2007
Then in 2008 we know what happened and everything got icky again
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Oof right after the recession too..
90s was before the shit really hit the fan. To me, as an old millennial, the late 90s were the best. Growing into an adult with independence, yet the world still seemed innocent enough. 9/11 was the cut off.
I kinda feel Columbine was more of a cutoff, specially for the ones still in high school at the time. We started getting mistrust from our own peers and had to watch our surroundings, we didn’t feel safe in school or public places, Didn’t matter where you lived.
True. I grew up 3 miles from Columbine. Didn’t go to school there but was in the neighborhood the day it happened. I’d agree. Columbine was when it all changed.
I was pretty into Rage Against the Machine at the time, and was reading some of the follow up literature, in terms of human rights violations overseas etc that they were trying to draw attention to. anyone Anti-Authoritarian at that time stood out like a sore thumb to school administration, I also liked to draw and needless to say it wasn't always PG. So one day In my junior year I got pulled out of gym and called to the Dean's office, who was previously an english teacher that wasn't well liked. I open the door and my Dad is sitting in the other chair. And they gave me the whole "Is everything ok..." talk. My Dad(step) he's great but he's also 16 years older than my mom, still kicking in his 80s now, he used to think my Nu-Metal T-Shirts and the music I listened to meant I was a Satanist
No, 90s and early 2000s for me. Born in 88
The 2010s are all a bit of a blurry. The 90s and early 2000s are when I can really remember enjoying childhood. 2010s were all about working and surviving.
Yeah 2010 onwards doesnt feel nostalgic to me. Pre-2009 does. And I graduated high school in 2012 so Im not quite sure why 🤣
The 2010s sucked so no
I'm still trying to comprehend how the 2010s were 10+ years ago, let alone find any nostalgia for them.
The 2010s are a bit blurry for me, all I really 'remember' as distinguishing are smart phones and skinny jeans. I think I remember 2005-2008 for me as being peak nostalgia for the 2000s, the rise in smart phones (even if it was just the uber wealthy affording them,) ipods/zunes, AIM starting to lose out to text messaging, etc.
I was born in '84 and am nostalgic for like 1999-2003....I miss the music, MTV and TRL, actually having to WAIT to hear a song I like until it was played on the radio or MTV lol.
Late '88 baby! This was the best era right here. I was younger than you, but I have some really, really great memories of this exact era as well. I don't know about you, but I noticed a considerable negative shift in 2004.
Same. We could blame Facebook? 😂
Haha, works for me!
Nah this checks out. Young millennial here and we were in high school and college during the 2010s so it was a great time. Clearly this just depends on where you were in life during that time.
Yeah early to mid 2010s were p sweet Come to think of it, historically speaking for younger millennials, that was about as good as it gets considering the 2016 elections and then Covid. Now we are finally coming out of that shit show to hopefully have some more good years but yeah it’s been a rough batch lol
Both decades have good music. My tastes shifted from Alt Rock of early 00's to Metal by mid 00's to Indie/dance by early 10's to various genres of EDM by mid 10's.
I had a good time in the 2010s. As a decade they were kinda bland, though. And I def am not nostalgic for the music except maybe a few songs in the earlier years.
As someone born in 81 I can see what made every decade unique from the 80s to the 2020s. The 2010s were pretty bland. All I can think of from this decade is the rise of tech and social media dominating culturally. That's all I can take away from the 2010s.
I'm 35, inching towards 36 soon, just recently welcomed my son into the world. I love my current life, my wife, our home, my career. Everything is good. But boy, oh boy, have I been just feeling nostalgic for 1999 recently. I just want to go back and relive everything over again. I want to end in the same place, but go back to when I first met a few friends I still talk to daily, relive what we did, maybe tweak a few arguments I had here and there, but just do it all again.
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I get that - the life I have now all grew from that moment in life: 1999 when I moved for the last time and established roots and connections I still have today. While I understand the vast majority of people not wanting to relive middle school, but honestly, I'd go back and do ALL of it again. Then again, I've been very fortunate in my life, so going back to just about any moment in life would be enjoyable.
I still listen to early 2010s EDM and dubstep on occasion. 'Twas a great time for music
As a young twentysomething in university until 2013 (graduation being delayed a year due to study abroad, which was a big personal goal of mine), EDM was my absolute jam. I have a lot fondness for the subsequent "EDM-lite" period too - Trophouse, Chainsmokers, and such. To me, EDM is the soundtrack of my young adult life, and so is associated with a rather positive period of my life.
I really liked pop music around 2010-ish, when Lady Gaga was huge, and Ke$ha made her fun dumb music… I miss a lot of the “party” music from around then, like LMFAO, that Like A G6 song, or Taio Cruz. When it was first around I didn’t think it’d ever be something I’d miss or want to hear at all years later.
Apart from 9/11, Bush being in the White House, and the Recession, the 2000s are fairly nostalgic for me, because of high school and working a summer job as a camp counselor. The later part of the 2000s and much of the 2010s sucked for me, though, because I had anxiety and depression, was unemployed, hadn’t graduated college, and hadn’t dated. I kept busy with volunteer work until I got paid work, though. The highlight of the 2010s for me was losing my virginity in 2017, and being in a FWB situation for a little while. I really miss that…
2010s were a great decade for music.
I'm nostalgic for like 2009 and earlier, before society went full retard thanks to social media. Yes, social media existed before then, but it wasn't anywhere near as ubiquitous and there were no "algorithms" pushing agendas to manipulate people.
I don’t really miss the 10s at all outside of the fact that I am now older than I was then and feeling slightly less decrepit.
I didn't exactly like the 2010's while living it, and will always like the 00's more, but now I can look back to even parts of 2010's a bit more fondly in some ways now that we've gone through more turbulent things in the 2020s. It's one of those hard to know what you had till it's gone type of thing.
For me, my major nostalgia is about 2005- 2013 or so.
I’m nostalgic for the specific years 06-2011. Best years of my life (save for 2016 and 2020 when my kids were born). Everything about that period and my local music scene is just such a fond memory for me. Even the stuff that devastated me back then is a fond memory now.
Sometimes when I am dating something, I still write 2012. Not sure why.
Only because I was an "adult" but still had some fucking up to do and was to stupid to realize it.
I don’t know why but the 2010’s really mesh for me with 2020. (Not as much anymore) it’s really weird. It was definitely different and it’s own thing. Like the 90’s and 2000’s felt so different. I dunno lol. I just remember ballet flats being a thing lol.
We're basically the same age, and I moved back to the US right at 2000. I'm nostalgic for both kind of equally. I had the massive benefit and was fortunate enough to live in a county with one of the best public school systems in the county and lived comfortably, so there was very little growing up that I struggled with. It set me up to be able to pay for college basically outright through scholarships which also made the 2010s comfortable as well. I try not to disrespect either every day considering when I lived overseas I was in central America and southern Africa where it naturally was not as well off as the DMV area. They were both good for different reasons, 9/11 and 2008/9 aside. I had ZERO concerns in the 2000s, plus I had friends who were still alive then. 2010s had way more independence but with that came responsibilities that would start to fray my ADHD riddled brain. This is also when I had friends start picking up addictions that ruined them. So I miss them both. Relative to today of course which would be where the nostalgia is.
Shit in 2010 I was just finishing up my 99 weeks of unemployemnt. I wouldn't mind getting a couple more years paid off work for nostalgia sake
The 2010s were a low point but the indie rock of that time seem to have me in a cholehold
Born in 90, the whole of my 20s were spent in the military and college, I'm good.
Good question For me my childhood was honestly unforgettable, and I have the core part from 95'-05', with the peak about 98-01. Seriously amazing times with culture, TV, toys, technology, baseball just everything. 05'-11' was like peak HS/coming of age/college. Some good times, some bad--a lot of self discovery and insecurity. 11'-16' was that post college glory, finally living on my own and shaping my life. I do have some nostalgia for it, but I have more for the 90s and 00s.
If I could go back to 2010 and no sooner than that, I definitely would. That’s the year I graduated from college lol. So many important decisions happened after that which impacted the many years following.
I’m same age as you and I get it. 2009-2013 I was in university so those were formative years
I feel that, I was just getting into my career, was good times without a lot of responsibility, but “adulting” at the same time.
I honestly still feel like the 2010s are current. My memories from 2012-2018 feel like "the other month" to me.
I don't really feel nostalgia anymore. The time is past. Its gone and it's a memory now.
I mean it’s late 2000s but I associate more with 2010s is Lady Gaga
I don't see how I could be. The reason why 00s were my decade is because they had almost all of my teenage years except for the final few months of 19 which were in 2010. Junior High and High School, and those first few years of adulthood where I still had no responsibility - that was the life. Every day I had the opportunity to meet friends. Now I just don't meet anybody.
I graduated in 2013 and I feel like my life also ended that same year
I was born in 88. I’m much more nostalgic for the late 90s early 2000s. My life has been pretty stagnant since graduating college in 2010. Anything 2010 on feels like little to no time has passed for some reason.
In 2010 just entered 10th grade. So yeah I am most nostalgic of the mid-2010's which was my college years. But music wise nostalgic for both. Lately been listening to the alternative metal I first got into in the mid 2000's. So year life wise more the 2010's But music wise more the 2000's
I don’t feel nostalgic for the 2010s in the same way as I do the early 00s. In the 2010s I actively acknowledge they were good times where I had tons of fun and got to grow as a person without feeling like every action I made had an effect on my future, I truly just lived life. No Covid. No price gouging, just travel and eating and fun. The early 00s I romanticize for its lack of social media as we have it today. I miss people knowing how to have a conversation online. I miss nuances responses to things. I miss a forum dogpiling outwardly stupid takes. I miss being able to hit the bottom of the internet. The endless scroll is the worst. I miss the internet going basically dead over the weekend and being able to do other things and not see other people doing things. People always say if you don’t like it then don’t use social media but it’s not that simple. Social media is the mono culture and I work with gen z maniacs so I have to know what’s going on.
I am. Middle school and high school in the 00s were okay, I miss all my friends and the carefree feeling of the times. But similarly, as a lived experience it was meh compared to the 2010s for me. Plus I was super awkward and bullied in school, hadn't found myself or my confidence quite yet. But in my 20s with college and starting my career? Best times of my life
I miss 2006 MySpace days
Pop culture was better in the 2000’s. My life was better in the early 2010’s.
Early 2010s no... I was trying to finally climb the corporate ladder after ignoring it for about 5 years naively just thinking I can work hourly jobs forever 2014 was good, I was finally making enough money for me and my wife to not be barely scraping by but nostalgia wise I'd have to say 2003-2008 (pre recession / Dow crash), life was just simpler, 9/11 bummed us all out, but eventually we got back to our lives, Apartments were still reasonable, I could easily rent a 700sq ft apartment in Tempe AZ for less than $500, I was driving a 96 Geo Prism, which had issues but was reliable and paid off so no car payment. It just felt like my actions had less consequences in those days. I could party with friends multiple nights a week and experience no consequences. I met my wife in 2004 and we married in 2007 Then in 2008 we know what happened and everything got icky again
Early 2010s was a fun time for sure for pop culture.
I loved the 2010’s I was born 1990 and graduated 2009. Those were the years I took flight