It's been downhill since 2020

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

In 2015?

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

Well I know it wasn't gay marriage... Must've been caused by the iPhone 5.

[turret3857@infosec.pub]

And harambe

[yermaw@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah its been a wild ride since 2001. I'm not even American but it felt like the whole world kinda shifted gears after that.

[sadsadsatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

It says 2019 to trick the viewer into commenting "no 2012" or 2016, since no real human thinks everything was great until 2019. It's bait for interactions.

This is an ad for McDonald's

[dasus@lemmy.world]

He was so pure of soul the Lord had to take him away before the world got fouled.

[infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I wouldn't say things were great up until 2019, but 2020 and beyond is when things really seemed to go to shit

[9point6@lemmy.world]

Ah youngins

It's been downhill for quite some time

[tino@lemmy.world]

2005 was the best year: France had a hot and dry summer, so the grapes got a high concentration in sugars and tannins, which gave to most wines of that year an extreme deepness and complexity.
Oh, I miss 2005 so much.

[drunkanroot@sh.itjust.works]

2016 as a gen z i reamber the xanax epidemic of the time and it was bad

[aesthelete@lemmy.world]

Same but with 2012.

Maybe the Mayan apocalypse people were right.

[glorious_goldfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

It’s absolutely social media to blame imo. 10 years ago they were only just starting with the aggressive algorithms we know today. This combined with the rise of TikTok and its own algorithm has lead to a resurgence of the right. I believe this was a direct response to how progressive we seemed to be getting in the 2010s. The wealthy right were getting scared. I occasionally accidentally see YouTube “recommendations” and it’s usually unhinged right wing shit with millions of views.

[pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip]

I think the last normal year was either 2012 or 2013.

[skisnow@lemmy.ca]

Yeah 2005 was good.

It felt like maybe the 2nd Gulf War was starting to wind down a bit, and there was some hope that maybe both the US and Al-Qaeda/Islamic State were going to chill their boots a little.

The internet was at its peak in terms of usefulness versus not having been taken over and enshittified by a tiny collection of megacorporations.

The UK had just passed the Civil Partnership Act for same-sex couples, and a few other countries had something similar.

TV was getting pretty good as well.

Yeah, the 90s were still best, but 2005 was the best year since then.

[mikedd@lemmy.world]

I feel like that about 2016. I'm telling you, it all started with Harambe. It all went downhill from there XD

[greenknight23@lemmy.world]

hhhooo boy...let me tell you about how it felt to live in the world before September 11th 2001...

it was freaking amazing.

[berengaria_of_navarre@lemmy.world]

Actually that was 1997

[callouscomic@lemmy.zip]

I've always found it some form of narcissism or something that people always find some way to interpret something during their time as the most/best/worst whatever.

Kind of like how every election is always the most important election ever.

Or today is the most or least safe or all of these ridiculous things people suggest anecdotally. Your average person has little knowledge or context of history and just selfishly presumes, yes, NOW, this time, OUR time is the most crazy.

I'm well aware I'm thinking too much for a shitpost.

[realitista@piefed.world]

I left the US after Bush Jr was elected and it was the best decision of my life. That's when fascism started it's slow ramp up in the USA

[wanderwisley@lemmy.world]

The timelines been screwed since harambe was murdered.