When We Thought The Future Would be Fine

We didn’t know it at the time, but the early 2010s were the last era of collective optimism—skinny jeans, fixie bikes, and all. It wasn’t perfect (far from it), but there was a distinct vibe in the air that’s impossible to recreate. Gen Z, you really had to be there.

#MillennialCore #2010sNostalgia #Early2010s #GenZvsMillennials #ThrowbackCulture

Joe Lilli
 

  • @ricashaye22 says:

    Nailed it 🙌

  • @skatergirl6764 says:

    i loved 2010-2019.

  • @soumitrasarkar says:

    Collective Delusion is the most accurate view of that time period I’ve heard yet!

  • @AppalachianLumberjack says:

    No there absolutely was not lady😅

  • @ThatGuy-jj3kz says:

    That was Obama’s “Hope” and “Yes We Can” campaign everyone was feeling. People believed in a better future. Then, the mid-2010s happened, and we haven’t been able to escape this nihilism that seems everywhere.

  • @Unused.napkin says:

    A full time job writing listicles is THE millennial experience

  • @rashidanicole5309 says:

    *blasts Tongue Tied by Grouplove” boy we had a TIME back in our day!

  • @sparklebijou says:

    As someone who graduated high school in 2005, and who knows I was broke and objectively miserable from about 2008 – 2015, I also felt something in the air *at the time* (my diary says so!) and miss those years regardless!

  • @buuuuuuuuuu says:

    Also most of gen z were pre teens/teens during that time,,,, not a fun or hopeful time are all for us

  • @NamhadiNdemufayo says:

    After the market crash? We thought that the industrial world was going to collapse.

  • @Siann656 says:

    It was the complete opposite for me – Ireland was in the depths of a recession with severe austerity measures in place. I just graduated from college with loads of debt, no prospect of securing a job and did not qualify for job seekers allowance under the new austerity measures. It was the most bleak, pessimistic and wasted years of my life. As hard as things are now I’m so grateful it’s not as dire as the early 2010s

  • @mfvieira89 says:

    True… It seemed the World (at least the West) had left behind (or was leaving behind) such things like bigotry, hate, and so on. Every month something technologically new and better appeared, mentalities were wide open, …

  • @jacksonb6674 says:

    We remember the hand

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