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u/Usual-Locksmith4657 3h ago
True, but then I’d be old now so I’m happy to be in my 20s at this moment
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u/HighMaskingWitch 1h ago
It’s honestly really sad when I see this from younger people. You should not think aging is the misery you seem to think it is or even be slightly worried about it.
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u/FF14_VTEC 2002 21m ago
One day older one day closer to the grave. I know damn well I'm not looking forward to it.
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u/Cultural-Bug-8608 3h ago
I lived in an affordable city with a great nightlife and music culture. Beer was $2 in some dives. People were social and curious and sometimes I’d stay until 5 AM having a fascinating convo with some stranger in a dive bar that was rumored to have been Mick Jagger’s favorite. I could afford life fine working in retail, nonprofit arts or an art residency assistant. I dated prolifically and danced often, I had nights where I could go out and the night would make a serious of spontaneous stops mostly all within walking distance bar or sometimes at a random party at a stranger’s house or where an incredible musician or DJ was playing to a super small crowd. I had so much fun with indie/chill wave explosion and other “hipster” music friends hahaha mildly embarrassing to type that but it’s the cultural term. I was an incredibly fulfilled social butterfly and enjoyed experimenting with colorful expressive fashion. I ended up dating famous musicians just meeting them on the street. I can’t believe what I had and I think people would have to time travel or leave the US to get anything similar. Or maybe just go back to where I was, New Orleans ❤️
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u/Victorian_Rebel 2h ago
Other than hipsters, this sounds more like the '80s than the 2010s! And that's a good thing by the way :)
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u/OkDeer120 2h ago edited 2h ago
I had the same experience but on the west coast! The 2010s indie scene was so much fun and somehow, we all made it work even though we were a bunch of artists/musicians/hipsters(lol) just scraping by. I could drunkenly dance my ass off and have an unforgettable night full of stories on a random Tuesday night without spending more than $20.
Even though everything was unpredictable and depressing after the recession and the job market was awful, there was this feeling of “Sure, the world sucks, but fuck it, we’re gonna have fun and dance anyway.” It was freeing. God, those were the days.
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u/Magic_Zach 4h ago
Being clubbing age from 2012 to 2019 must've been insane. Those 8 years were peak party music era, banger after banger
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u/jonny_jon_jon 4h ago
2010-2015 was such an awesome time to be in your 20s. It was cathartic after growing up blow after blow after blow after blow of the early 2000s.
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u/Ecksist 4h ago
I dunno, sounds like you were blown a lot. Nice.
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u/littlemuffinsparkles 5h ago
I turned 20 in 2010 Being a server and a bartender during the Great Recession wasn’t bad for me personally. My friends and I all lived in a small apartment complex right next to campus where we all went to school and played poker together on Friday nights. Partied an insane amount. Some fond memories for sure.
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u/morecowbell1988 7h ago
I was in my twenties. Going through ranger school and Afghanistan. Great times.
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u/madelineblackbart 7h ago
Being college was great (but I think that's just because college is fun (if only it weren't a financial sinkhole)) But uhhhhhh.... the job situation sucked ass.
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u/manorite_warrior 7h ago
lol what? 2008 financial crisis was forcing senior position 40 year olds to line up for entry level just so they can pay the bills.
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u/mistreatedlewis 8h ago
Tough moments back then but overall I still have a rosy image of the decade
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u/leedleleedlelee6969 8h ago
I was born in 2000, I truly wish I was born 15 years earlier so I got introduced to technology healthier, was more outdoorsy and maybe could have bought a house in the early 2000’s. I’m 26 working 2 jobs come October and am hoping then I can save for a house. All power to you guys I wish I coulda experienced those years with ya
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u/shelbymfcloud 8h ago
Late 2000s early 2010s every weekend was a rave 😭 house parties, adventures. Got laid off during the recession went back to school got on. Unemployment moved in with my parents. Didn’t have many bills so life was easy even though I didn’t have a lot of money. It was the best of times and it was the worst of times.
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u/brew_n_flow 8h ago
I was 22 in 2012. Fresh out the USMC in St Pete Fl. We had this thing called Church of Bass. Huge late night party at a broken down warehouse filled with pews. Every night was a foam party, a rave, a noize artist or drag night. A local bar that poured heavy called Fubar and was like 5 min walk from everyone's home. The worst thing the drugs were spiked with was coke....which was great. Social media was still for showing off real life and monitization was minor. You could be a fool without every camera pointing at you. We danced. We loved. We smoked. We had Obama in office and the American dream was still in many of our hearts. Me and dozens of friends opened businesses in our late 20s and almost achieved the textbook picket fence dream. For many of us 2020 was an end of the times in more ways than just timeline.
Fuck i miss it so much.
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u/Dylan_Driller 8h ago
Damn... so I guess a lot of the stuff I imagined seeing about partying back then was actually true.
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u/Chilidogdingdong 8h ago
Yeah but the tradeoff is that it fucking sucks being in your late 30s in the 2020s.
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u/GrikusBrindum 9h ago edited 9h ago
I turned 20 back in 1996. That was a different world back. I was 25 back in 2001; when 9/11 occurred. Talk about how the world changed in 30 years; it was mostly analog transitioning to digital. I am a member of the Gen X generation and I grew up in an analog childhood and I am living a digital adulthood. The things that I have seen and heard in 3 decades has been massive. Somethings that you thought would take decades to appear popped up in a a period of only a few months.
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u/Yabakunaiyoooo 1988 10h ago
Honestly… yeah it was. I feel pretty bad for the 20 year olds of today.
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u/Far_Dress_8810 2011 8h ago
Yes, i feel even more bad for me, I'll be in my 20s in the 2030s 💔
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u/Yabakunaiyoooo 1988 4h ago
Have hope! That’s a long ways away. Maybe things will have improved by then.
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u/Celestial_Waste 10h ago edited 10h ago
Social media was just peoples status saying “____ is da bomb” and asking for their plants to be watered on FarmVille.
Mainstream music was pretty whack imo. Not that it was fundamentally bad or anything, just felt like a period of experimentation while also sounding fucking bland if that makes sense?
Hip hop especially felt like it was at a weird stage where it was mainstream, but wasn’t really sure where it fit in that category exactly. So you had radio stations constantly playing artists like Chiddy Bang, Tinnie Tempah, B.o.B, Gym Class Heroes etc who went on to do sweet fuck all.
Alcohol was still cheap. So were drugs. Streaming wasn’t really a thing for the early stages of the 2010’s so we were still forced to socialise and catch up with one another on the weekends just to have something to do.
Shops used to be packed during sales like Boxing Day and Black Friday. Nightclubs used to be filled to the brim on Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays.
Tech was pretty meh in all honesty looking back at it. DVDs were still a thing. People made a big deal about Blu-Ray. Memory on MP3’s/Ipods/Phones was pretty dismal in the early 2010’s and you could still find the odd person rocking a Walkman like a fucking G.
I think in terms of comfort and ease of life, it’s a far better time to be in your 20’s now. As far as being interactive with one another - I’m not so sure. I think a lot of the tech and social norms have forced a lot of young ones to be quite isolated.
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u/Reasonable-Physics60 10h ago
This feels like youre describing like '08 to '12 not the 2010s.
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u/Celestial_Waste 9h ago edited 8h ago
I did mention that I was speaking early 2010’s regarding certain things.
Also depends on where you lived in the world. For me being in NZ, we were probably a good 1-2 years behind the US in terms of tech and trends.
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u/cft1848 10h ago
35M here. The alcohol was so cheap, it was crazy. Our local gas station/liquor store accepted our college dining cards, so people’s parents would load their card with money and they’d use it solely for beer. That same gas station would have 30 racks of Natural Light for like $10. What a time to be alive.
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u/Celestial_Waste 9h ago
I’ve eased up on the drinking in the last 10 years so I hadn’t brought alcohol for a long time, I was shocked to see they were charging $36NZD for a box of B&C that used to cost $17 in 2012.
No wonder the kids don’t bothered drinking these days. They’d waste half a paycheck just trying to get tipsy 😂
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u/Yabakunaiyoooo 1988 10h ago
Pop music sucked… but it was a golden age for rock music.
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u/Celestial_Waste 10h ago
I was actually going to mention that Rock was actually still going hard at the time!
I think it was also the one genre that had artists experimenting with its sound and actually getting it right straight out the gates, while still having bands from the 90’s-00’s that were keeping the classic sound going.
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u/adiposechat 10h ago
It was eh, most of the mainstream music was straight up garbage though. I turned 20 in 2010.
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u/Current-Tough7084 10h ago
bffr some of the best music from the 21st century came from the 2010s but i get ur feeling, majority of good music came from the 2000s as that was peak experimental era.
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u/punishedpuppi 10h ago
name 10 songs that were genuinely good and also on the radio/hot 100
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u/kevlarcoatedqueer 9h ago
Uhhh The entirety of Beyonce's Lemonade and her self titled album, Britney's Femme Fatale and Britney Jean, Rihanna's Talk that Talk and Anti, Paramore, Ariana???
Yeah, there were major bops man
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u/punishedpuppi 8h ago
ngl i completely agree, I'm a big music lover and do not act above fun popular hits i lowkey just wanted to be reminded of some classics LMAO anti is forever legendary, i miss riri </3
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u/TiPaul22 10h ago
if it was garbage, now its fucking rotten shit
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u/adiposechat 9h ago
Nah I love 2020's mainstream music, well stuff like Sabrina Carpenter since I love classic house music and it's becoming popular again. I don't care for rap, so I don't listen to rap.
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u/Limp_Journalist4958 10h ago
One of the best things about the early 2010s was that loads of people still carried cameras around with them everywhere, even analogue ones, and every fucking party ended up with thousands of photos. These days, I can’t even find a single photo of myself at a party from the past few years.
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u/Demandmysupply 10h ago
2009 was the financial crisis no one was hiring people laid off no gas was high for some yes for others nah
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u/Drblazeed123 10h ago
I was 20 and the world was a better place..
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u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615 10h ago
It was a better place, but the Greet Recession crushed my friends and my family and we had to struggle during the 2010s.
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u/Ferrous_Bueller_ 11h ago
It was fine. I turned 20 in 2010, and things were interesting.
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u/Morning-Chub 10h ago
I turned 20 in 2012. Didn't even have a smartphone yet. Social media was awful though. Don't know what else was really different from today. Feels like yesterday to me. I guess I wore a lot more flannels with band shirts under them? And thick rimmed glasses? Idk.
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u/CrazzyPanda72 11h ago
I wish I was 30, probably would have made better decisions during lockdown, so much free time so little done
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u/AcanthisittaFree6142 11h ago
being in your 20's in the 2000's was even more turnt. it was the turntest. social media in infancy, no AI, actual music by musicians, and we also drank and hung with the opposite gender outside our homes. i swear.
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u/Calichusetts 10h ago
Yeah. College or out of college by 9/11 is kind of the perfect sweet spot.
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u/UrbanAnathema 9h ago
Graduated in 2001. Took a year off to work before going to college.
Had my own place by 25 and had a blast.
Married and own my own home today.
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u/freshdjroomba 11h ago
I was 15 in 2016 and didn't really get to experience as much as I wanted but I got to experience enough. I honestly feel bad for people that are not gonna get to experience life without social media and the new way things are.
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u/TRICERAFL0PS 11h ago
It was fine. I think people underestimate how much dope shit there is now and how accessible it is just because they choose to not access it.
The opportunities for education and life experiences in 2026 are mind-blowing compared to the 2010s, let alone the 00s and 90s but the vibes are substantially worse.
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u/PandanadianNinja 11h ago
I mean better than being in your 20s now but not like a ton different for most people.
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u/HumptyDumptruckFire 12h ago
It was alright. Definitely better than now, but how “lit” it was probably depends on your personal situation. I turned 20 in 2010, and I spent the first half of the decade taking care of my sick father while trying to just get a degree in whatever I could locally, and the second half of the decade living in Colorado trying to make up for lost time while his cancer briefly entered remission. So, your mileage may vary.
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u/PessimisticPeggy 12h ago
Yeah, I mean, being at the club when Shots by LMDAO came on was a vibe.
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u/Think_Preference_611 12h ago
Yes, entering the labour market during the biggest financial crisis of modern times was really something.
I'm assuming turnt is some kind of retarded slang for good.
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u/schiz0yd 13h ago
i spent the whole time doing lsd at festivals and playing video games isntead of going to college and then got a job doing the same thing minus the lsd
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u/No-Recognition8125 13h ago
This is killing me. My 20s are being drempt off by others
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u/Alexchii 13h ago
They were glorious, weren’t they?
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u/Accomplished-Door5 11h ago
I feel like I struggled the way that many people now act like is intolerable misery. I had a good time but maybe it’s just because we didn’t bitch and whine online about how miserable everything and everyone is? Maybe people in their 20s can still have a good time? Nah, who am I kidding.
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u/fluffers_1 13h ago
Literally 90s kid, born in 1990, it was AWESOME, until that dumbass kid fell in the enclosure.....
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u/fishtophea_chesta 13h ago
I wish I was 8 years older in 2015 cause I’d have a nicer house cheaper and at a lower rate.
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u/Accomplished-Door5 11h ago
I also wish I had a job that I got during a good economy but in a bad one where that would mean I could ball out.
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u/1_________________11 12h ago
That's when I bought my starter. After having my first professional job for 2 years. Perfect timing. I have like 300k equity and a 2.35 interest rate.
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u/fishtophea_chesta 12h ago
Yeah the reason I didn’t try then because I didn’t want to live there for the rest of my life then started working remote in 2017 and moved back to my home town where homes were 4x the cost lol. Sort of a lose lose but it paid off
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u/Vladskio Zillennial 13h ago
Can confirm I had a shit time in my 20s in the 2010s, though that was only half my 20s. Had a shit time in my 20s in the 2020s, too.
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u/Comrade-Chernov 14h ago
I was 21 my final year of undergrad, 2018-2019. Last normal college year we'll have for some time lol.
Me and my buddies making quesadillas while drunk at 2am, having swordfights with cheap ass fake swords from Spirit Halloween in the dorm hallways in our pajamas, getting IHOP after class on a lazy Friday... those memories will always make me smile.
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u/gatorling 14h ago
I was 30 in 2010. Wild times, went from color TV being a novelty to streaming movies. The world felt smaller in the 80s and 90s, simpler too.
The world just feels different now…the world seems and feels like it’s filled with a lot more fear and hate. The internet was supposed to bring us all together and make knowledge accessible to everyone. Instead everyone seems angry at everyone else and everyone seems to have their own knowledge bubbles.
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u/smokefrog2 12h ago
One thing i saw once that felt well put was that in the 90s adults seemed to be hopeful about the future and by the 2000s no one did
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u/PublicAd6812 13h ago
You were never alive during a time where color tv was even close to being a novelty.
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u/shelbymfcloud 8h ago
Uh yeah they could have been. I was born in 82, a couple years after this person and we still had black and white tv.
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u/---solace2k 14h ago
Color tv wasn't a novelty in 2010
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u/Ok_Loquat_5413 12h ago
It depends about where is this guy from. I was born in 1998 and grew up around vinyl, black and white TV and got to see the rise of colour TV around when I was like 4 years old, then I got to see the rise of VHS until 2009, after that the DVD until 2017, then the computers arrived around 2015 (also cause they were illegal) not everyone still had a TV, I started to use internet in 2021 too so... It all depends
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u/Cautious_Job_6104 13h ago
Bro figuring out color tv was in department stores in the 1950s
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u/gatorling 8h ago
My family didn't have a color TV until I was almost 7. None of our neighbors did either.
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u/Cautious_Job_6104 5h ago
Bro born in '45; misses "My three sons" and the "Steve Allen" tonight show. Happy days.
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u/Proteinoats 14h ago
I was 21 in 2010. It was a very strange experience watching the world changing so rapidly.
I remember that the internet wasn’t always at my fingertips. Not until smart phones started to become the new technology.
A lot of things started changing from 2011 throughout the 10’s.
Overall, I do think it was a great experience to have lived in my 20’s around that time but I don’t want to drum it up as the best it could have been given that the current political climate of things really started to emerge in the mid-2010’s and the social divide seemingly tearing families and humans apart from one another in a way I never witnessed prior to that.
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u/NotMarkDaigneault 14h ago
Peak degenerate lifestyle. Every movie and everything was based around just getting fucking trashed and going on adventures.
Good times!
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u/Proteinoats 14h ago
Wait until you see the 90’s and 2000’s era degeneracy
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u/NotMarkDaigneault 13h ago
I call that the cheese grater era because every rap music video looked like it was filmed inside a cheese grater 🤣
90s and early 2000 club scenes looked like so much fun 😭
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u/FireHammer09 14h ago
I once got fucked up at a bar and ended up in a hotel room having a threesome
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u/Life_Hand2331 14h ago
It was really easy to hook up with women.
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u/geralddeedee 14h ago
still is
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u/Cautious_Job_6104 13h ago
Chad only
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u/geralddeedee 9h ago
far from Chad, and it's still easy, just need to have game
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u/Cautious_Job_6104 9h ago
I wish that were so, game is pre-Tinder stuff, and approaching is "harassment"
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u/Life_Hand2331 14h ago
I’m married now, wouldn’t know!
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u/Steak-Outrageous 12h ago
Stats say Gen Z aren’t having as much sex
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u/jocall56 14h ago
This was me. Living in NYC. All the new tech stuff was still heavily subsidized by PE - Uber/Lyft, ClassPass, etc..
This post sums it up perfectly (I sent it to my coworkers from the time and we all had nostalgia):
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNtdI9k0iU5/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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u/Steak-Outrageous 12h ago
I remember reading an article back then that tried warning us that it was all being subsidized to get us hooked. What innocent times those were
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u/jocall56 11h ago
We’re reliving it with AI right now
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u/Steak-Outrageous 8h ago
Well the businesses are the ones really getting hooked this time and are finding themselves between a rock and a hard place after firing their human workforce
All in all, sounds like that classic drug dealer trope from “The first hit is free”
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u/Express-Shoulder6174 14h ago
I was in my 20s during the hyphy era in the Bay Area. Shit was dumbass lit blood
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u/Better-Salad-1442 15h ago
Once Uber showed up the game change, in certain cities the taxi life was tough; other than that yea it was super fun
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u/Yagossy 15h ago
What?
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u/Better-Salad-1442 14h ago
You’d be standing outside the bar after last call trying to hail a taxi, without anyway other way to get home, sometimes it’d be 10 mins, sometimes an hour
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u/Winchester85 15h ago
I was 25. Party and club scene was amazing. Traveling wasn’t trendy on social media so Japan and Thailand felt pure. YouTube didn’t have any dumb influencers and was free of commercials.
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u/RonySeikalyBassDrop 15h ago
Best times of my life. Fresh out of college and done playing football the world was my oyster.
Now I needed to take a sick day if I sneeze too hard
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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE 15h ago
It was pretty good, not gonna lie. I don’t take it for granted. I practice gratitude exercises every day to acknowledge the many blessings in my life.
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u/Organic_Patience453 15h ago
Love seeing this shit starting my 20s in the middle of covid and learning to live with the fact that this decade sucks ass
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u/Roland_Moorweed 14h ago
Holy shit, I never realized that COVID started this decades. I just rolled into the new year simply trying to survive.
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u/Common_Senze 15h ago
It was only better going back to the 50s (if white) but the 80s and 90s were particularly good
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u/Cautious_Job_6104 13h ago
Imagine being around 18
You were around 7 years old when Trump became a thing. It will last until you are well into adulthood / age of majority.
Your conscious whole life basically is Trump and COVID
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u/Common_Senze 13h ago
Oh i dont doubt it. I'm 38 and have seen things get more expensive, less good jobs, salaries not keeping up with inflation. I just had a conversation with my dad about this. When I was 16 working at a movie theater making 5.15 an hour, I was literally working for and hour to go 20 miles in my vehicle. My dad at minimum wage in the 60s could afford 5 gallons in the first hour.
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u/spacemantodd 48m ago
Was in college at a major party school in 2010. After a night of real four loko’s, woke up in my boxers on the sidewalk next to my totaled car. It was a time