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.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
I think people are misunderstanding me, just because I think my childhood sucks doesn’t mean I’m not saying it’s just as bad now. It’s just a different kind of bad. The purpose of this post was to make fun of my own nostalgia.
To be clear I wasn’t thinking you thought things are better now, just adding or riffing off what you said that got me thinking about related stuff. Not that there’s any way you could have known that because of the imperfections of communicating like this