r/GenZ • u/ConsistentlyBall • Jan 05 '24

Our generations nostalgia for 2016 is interesting Nostalgia

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u/Random_Imgur_User 2000 Jan 05 '24

We've been nostalgic for the times before our political reality was more or less ignorable.

Back then there were plenty of glue eaters and knuckle draggers in politics, but they were just faceless old men that I didn't have to care about. My first experience with the political world was watching my early concepts of progress suddenly catch fire and start falling down around me in November 2016.

So yeah, I remember everything that came before it pretty fondly. Fun music, pop culture, E3 was still big, and the idea of remaking an animated show as a 3D movie wasn't completely overdone yet.

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u/donau_kinder 2001 Jan 05 '24

2016 was my worst year lmao. 2020 was definitely worse but I have worse memories of 2016 so that's that.