Why Did the 2010s Look Like That?

[@ExtraMintyy]

New outro goes hard 🥶

[@mandybuzz]

here before this blows up loll

[@t.k3579]

It really frutigers my aero

[@M4N14C4L]

Should've added an intro

[@BenPotts]

Gif, not jif. Nyan like "Cyan", please learn your own language

[@adamcurazi2122]

2010’s is My Favourite Era! 😍😍 I wish I could be born in 2000 to let my teenage-hood growing up with these (2010’s) stuff Instead of Skibidi and Sigma stuff. 😔

[@ThrwG49]

2010s was end of the internet's "wild west" phase. While companies used the internet to their advantage, the internet was not yet fully corporatized. Content was still made to be shared and enjoyed, not to be marketable and corporate-friendly. Money was a motivation, but not the the true goal. Kids used the internet, but still played with their toys or outside. 2010s was a time of balance between the real world and the digital world. I know this because I born in the early 2000s. I got my first computer when I was 6, and had to share it with my sister. I remember when cars still had CDs players, and when those CD players still got use out of them. The majority of my childhood was in the 2010s.

[@Boricosa]

I'm not sure the 2010's could be included in the "wild west" era. The 2010's is when the centralization of Facebook, KZbin, Twitter, Tumblr and others quickly consolidated itself and the internet usage habits of most people shifted into only accessing those giant websites. I believe it was a transition era between the personal and the corporate, with the rules of the corporate dictating all content and therefore the culture.

[@tempy-tq3ix]

no it was not the internet has been dying since the early 2000's as anything does when more and more people join it

[@Ulrira]

Nah, that "wild west" phase was well over by the 2010s. I got to use the internet as a kid in the 90s and even then I think that wild west was over

[@sargentthiccboi9333]

It was the best time. Jesus I remember playing happy wheels at school😂

[@UltimitShadelord]

@@BoricosaI kind of have to disagree, it’s true that internet usage began to centralize around the larger sites, but the lack of moderation kind of made these places a Wild West, but now instead of having a “more than ordinary” knowledge of the internet a requirement for finding those bizarre website, it now became centralized and easy to access for younger audiences now early exposed to the internet. I would qualify that maybe the 2010s are akin to the death of cowboys and outlaws in the us. These microcosm groups centralized in population centers (similar to the internet as described in this video) yet their influence was still under under the radar; following government regulation (increase in moderation in the internet example) these groups began to change and adapt; a few of them remained and shifted their ideologies, but most just adapted to their new circumstances and the next generation is born not relating to these experiences and now growing up in a “lawful” time where only a few daring and adaptable individuals create similar “groundbreaking” (skibidi toilet and other new memes (of which I’m not educated anymore)) intellectual properties, where the old who did not adapt faded into obscurity.

[@JordanMillsTracks]

Its so trippy to see someone explain this era to people who have never heard of it whe it feels like yesterday to me

[@WindyWooshes]

Same its really been that much time huh

[@TallicaMan1986]

@@WindyWooshes feels like yesterday to me. I'm 32 though. I was already aware of many things.

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

idk man I'm 18 and it feels like a lifetime ago

[@fuzekle]

@@iiCounted-op5jx thats cause you were too young

[@Raymuk]

now i know how they felt when they saw documentaries of the 80's

[@ignskeletons]

This was also the golden age of mobile games with Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Doodle Jump, Infinity Blade, that beer app, etc. It was just a fun time, there was still some optimism in the world before we got hella depressed.

[@apolloeosphoros4345]

Don't forget that the OG Angry Birds was literally removed from stores by its developer because it wasn't exploiting people with in-app purchases enough

[@phobosanomaly9575]

Pocket God

[@Big-Chungus21]

Such a shame we consider the “golden age” of mobile games at a point where it still never became even close to console gaming. an industry with so much potential, yet nothing.

[@tintincruz8660]

Lol nah I was bullied hard in middle school at 2010 it wasn't a golden age for me 😂😂

[@olapyza]

Pou 🥹

[@somber087]

2010-2012 was like a different era. Its like the world really did end in 2012

[@shittyhaircut]

because it did

[@cornbread3056]

Bro... been saying this fr

[@xerilaun]

🥲

[@mattd5240]

I think it did. Something happened that changed everything.

[@CHerbo773]

I’d say 2019

[@jasmijn799]

my childhood 😭 i miss when the internet was still fun and not just about big companies and social media obsession

[@ThomasWake1]

Similarly how baby boomers made fun of millenials for MySpace and Facebook and now they use it more than anyone

[@gradynpaders-ball4502]

I miss being a teen in the 2010s, every year it felt like we were progressing. Early KZbin was so special

[@karinadelma]

Being a teen in mid 90s or early 00s its much special.

[@nathanrobles9326]

This is a good way to put it - every year felt like we were progressing. I was 6 in 2010 and 15 in 2019 and every year in between I remember feeling the “progress” in terms of internet media and culture. But since Covid I feel like we are more stuck now. Yes the culture on the Internet is evolving but at a very slow rate and it usually involves a corporation and or product. I miss when we felt like we were progressing

[@karinadelma]

@@nathanrobles9326 i was born the same year as you and i cant believe i growing up this shit of a decade for me.

[@macchersl6571]

​@karinadelma I don't know what your mouthing off about but don't talk if you were born in 2004 😂

[@karinadelma]

@@macchersl6571 i sadly was born in 2004 so i guess i was unlucky.

[@theboredprogrammer1114]

I entered my 20s in the early 2010s and I was also into internet culture. It felt that the internet back then seemed like a place to go and provided me some sort of escapism vs the internet now

[@X3RNEA5]

now it feels like Reality is an escape from the Internet.

[@theboredprogrammer1114]

@@X3RNEA5 amen

[@kfstg6535]

nowadays the Internet often feels like a destructive escapism. More like an opiate of which you can't let go

[@x_aquatix_x]

for me, the internet ruined my life.

[@nothanks9503]

Yeah I remember that back when life was worth living good times

[@BobbyCarillo]

Dubstep and EDM was also super popular in the early 10s maybe even a golden era for EDM, the producers and DJs would often wear mascot heads

[@CyanRooper]

They even made their way into other media such as video games (the drug trip mission from Far Cry 3 and the dubstep gun from Saints Row IV are the most obvious examples).

[@NeocadeX]

Skrillex.

[@DJPastaYaY]

Very true!

[@maximilian_at7919]

Id say jes absolutly for dubstep/brostep buuuut general edm is hard to say because its not a normal gonre but a general descriptiom

[@DJPastaYaY]

@@maximilian_at7919 Yeah EDM has been popular for a long time even before the 2010s (and still is now!)

[@williamwade2674]

Internet culture has evolved from millennial 90s nostalgia to gen z 2010s nostalgia, and I’m all for it.

[@BadgerCheese94]

Dont forget Gen X '70s n '80s nostalgia, too

[@NostalgiCrazy]

@@BadgerCheese94 That was 90s-00s internet.

[@BadgerCheese94]

@@NostalgiCrazy The best time

[@gabrielgiguere2108]

Gen X lived the 90s, us millenials were babies or young kids at that time, yes some nostalgia of childhood, but most millenials fully lived the early 2000s as their youth and teen years while the 2010s were their teen and young adults years. I'd put the Zoomers in the 2020 where their childhood was mostly 2010s but their teenage years is lived between late 2010s and now the 2020s

[@williamwade2674]

@@gabrielgiguere2108 so what gen x lived the 90s? they were in their 30s… they aren’t going to be nostalgic for that time at all. people are nostalgic for the time of their youth so gen x would be nostalgic for the 60s-70s.

[@samalass466]

Seeing early 2010s as super nostalgic and “good ol days” in my perspective makes me realize how fucking old I’ve become.

[@_MaZTeR_]

Wonder if people will look at it soon how people view the 80's.

[@goldy-fortnite2452]

@@_MaZTeR_ it already is. the 2010s is just our gen z version of how old people talk about the 80s

[@DraxTrac]

My freshman year of high school was 2011, and boy do I ever miss this era of the Internet, especially KZbin.

[@FordHoard]

2011 was the last half of 7th grade/first of 8th grade for me. Great times!

[@benjamin.kelley]

Same, dude. It was a special era.

[@PoopSqueezenuts]

Christ, and while you guys were living your budding adulthood, I was there, vomiting in early elementary. And here I stand, where you have stood. fuck

[@Pinozism]

Freshman year for me!! Best of times for sure!! Wish y’all the best.

[@adamcurazi2122]

2010’s is My Favourite Era! 😍😍 I wish I could be born in 2000 to let my teenage-hood growing up with these (2010’s) stuff Instead of Skibidi and Sigma stuff. 😔

[@kalebpinkston3495]

I do appreciate how you made clear that vaporwave isn’t dead rather it went back underground where it came. Most just stop at “it’s dead, oh well”

[@oldylad]

Most internet shit goes that way. It starts niche, gets oversaturated to the point that nobody thinks it’s cool, and then Goes back to its niche. It’s the life cycle of popular things online

[@mlgdoge2209]

I still enjoy it too

[@Personarose]

I agree. The newest trend of barber beats is keeping the genre going with the likes of Slowerpace, Mabisyo and Hozokauh.

[@kalebpinkston3495]

@@Personarose gotta check that out now man

[@taerose2222]

@@PersonaroseHaircuts for Men too, always loved his stuff! Fun fact, he actually pioneered that subgenre hence why it’s called “barber” beats.

[@kedamono9212]

I feel like this age is so nostalgic and charming, not only because it was our childhood, but because this was before KZbin really sold out big time and featured all these memes

[@brandonbradford2733]

It was before you could make real money on KZbin, so people did what they wanted and considered fun.

[@CuteAnimalVideos2580]

Nah I was 19 in 2010 and it's still a great era to me. 2013-9 were the best years of my life (with a minor slump in 2017)

[@elektronikschmiede3464]

I still remember Jailbreaking my first iPod Touch, Installing Cydia and Tap Tap Revenge. It was a time when our future was not fully shaped by corporate greed and capitalistic "realism". People created content for fun and not for profit. Now, algorythms have optimized attention span farming and more people start to disconnect. You can see the same thing happening to AAA Gaming Titles, turning more and more into Slot Machines, Loot Boxes, Season Passes, etc. Louis Rossman says it best - vote with your wallet and attention span. I think we can get back the silliness that was stolen from us.

[@DeadSpacedOut]

something from the late 2000's and early 2010's that i personally really loved that you didn't mention here was the Gameplay Commentary. I used to love watching some of my favorite people on KZbin just talk about basically what games they were playing or how their day or life was going with a nice 30 and 6 gameplay from MW3 in the background... those were some of my favorite moments on KZbin.

[@2dbaddiehunter]

then those kinda videos got replaced by Hypebeast videos "I TRAVELED TO JAPAN FOR THE FIRST TIME!" "I GOT HIRED BY NINTENDO!!" "I BOUGHT A NEW MANSION" "I ASKED 100 GIRLS FOR THEIR INSTA" Narcissism everywhere

[@DeadSpacedOut]

@@2dbaddiehunter I never really watched any of those kinds of videos, I just stuck to things I found interesting so I wouldn't know.

[@TrulyToxicGaming]

@@DeadSpacedOut Thats why I love watching people like Jev, that side of youtube may be niche but its still goin strong, just gotta know where to look

[@DeadSpacedOut]

@@TrulyToxicGaming Exactly, Jev is a real one and I still watch him grind those COD Completionist Camo's every damn year lol

[@NovaxExotic]

Being a kid being 10 years old in 2010 and growing up with the internet was sum thing else truly was! it’s just one of those things “you just had to be there”

[@SlapStyleAnims]

Honestly things being better back in the early 2010s doesn’t seem like rose tinted glasses, there definitely were differences in culture, music, memes, and the internet in general that seemed more free, less corporatized, and less depressing compared to today. I definitely did this 3:19 😅

[@thecandlemaker1329]

Things were better than today for sure. But they were already not good.

[@griefwizard]

I can't remember anything bad from that time that made me go "err" but today there are a bunch of those from the last month

[@kingofgames7001]

Definitely better. Those were halcyon days I tell ya.

[@oldylad]

@@thecandlemaker1329debatable, we were already exiting the golden age, but it was still generally really good

[@jeanivanjohnson]

well these were more stable times for the western world. after that there was crimea, trump and things like that and then we got into the disastrous 2020-s which are both escalation of these problems and also new problems like covid

[@ooky4986]

"Ooooh baby a TRIPLE! "

[@wikipediafollower]

"DAMN son where'd you find this!?"

[@romanrytp]

"Happy feet, Wombo Combo!"

[@chrisjvas]

In the same vein as “SUPRISE MOTHAFUCKA” and “ah shit, here we go again”

[@Demon-D-King]

"Here come dat boi, O SHIT whaddup!"

[@Boricosa]

"Oh... Oh my God... OHHH! OH MY FUCKING GOD! MOM GET THE CAMERA!"

[@getinthedamnrobot6440]

today's bullshit, tomorrow's nostalgia

[@oldylad]

It’s not just nostalgia, things have gotten sterile. The internet is more widespread than it was, but it feels limited now. That’s the difference

[@MercilessBug]

​@@oldylad corporations didn't have such a firm grip on the internet back then yet. It still served as a nice escape from reality, now the internet is just another extension of it...

[@MikeForce111]

Somehow I doubt the 2020's will have the same nostalgic appeal like the 2010's and 2000's did and still do. "Time will tell..." blah blah.

[@viannizvnv7222]

amen

[@Al_Boogie]

Exactly, I'm born in 2000 and I remember how all of this was seen as cringe and people were nostalgic for the 90s. Now this is seen as nostalgia.

[@realMoistNugget]

When I was a kid, "only 90's kids remember..." was always the joke. It's crazy seeing that shift to "only 2010's kids remember" over time

[@snoeleopard0]

everything u say makes so much sense and it explains so many feelings of nostalgia and elements of aesthetics and trends really well 😭😭 its SO cool and its really accurate too lol

[@four-en-tee]

"pyrocynical was responsible for furry inflation art" is my new favorite disinformation quote

[@blu_nades]

He invented fat smelly furries

[@rmw9420]

disinformation..?

[@langustajableczna]

that's a joke but he is a furry with nasty fetishes and questionable info regarding him and underage girls and allegations. Who would have thought?

[@captainjohnprice4474]

I mean, it's true tho

[@ONEDUMMYBOI]

Wdym disinformation bro

[@Spongyboi897]

One thing I'm surprised no-one really talks about the 2010's is the huge animation boom at the middle and end of it BFB, storytime animators, Brain Dump, ASDFmovie still going strong, I could go on and on about it

[@someuser4166]

A lot of the animators got killed of when KZbin started to favor watch time over quality, thus all the let's players

[@Big-Chungus21]

That was more-so an early - mid 2010s thing. BFDI, ASDFmovie, story time animators, as well as cartoons like Regular Show, Adventure Time and Gumball. Childrens animation quality definitely dropped towards the end of the decade, though has recently had a comeback.

[@oldylad]

The animation renaissance happened in the 00s imo. New grounds is what started it, and the animations of that era felt loose and unique, unlike much of the animation in the 2010s. Many of the greats of today got started there as well, so I think the 2010s were when the internet got more saturated with things generally as the young people of the 00s got older, but the 00s were the golden age

[@Pumpkinbyte]

that and daily uploads ​@@someuser4166

[@AwesomeYena]

BFB is the 4th season. BFDI is the term used to refer to all of the seasons, for some reason.

[@salt8044]

best era of the internet for me. just people being goofy and having fun

[@maryn4150]

I second this 😊

[@Neddicus]

no reason to stop either!

[@currentcommerce4774]

cant wait for this guy to cover sigma males and patrick bateman in 6 years

[@ltsaudio6390]

What a great time to grow up. I was a kid in the early 2010s. The best memories I had with the internet at the time was with my friends in elementary school. I remember my friend introducing me to Minecraft on Xbox 360, and I remember thinking that I would hate the game, but then I became obsessed with it. I downloaded many games on my IPod, Angry Birds, the Annoying Orange Blender, Air Penguin, and Minecraft Pocket Edition Lite. Those were genuinely fun simple games that were fun to pass the time with during long road trips or just hanging out with friends. I will miss those times, but it’s nice that we can still archive these memories together.

[@_MaZTeR_]

Oh man, I remember I recreated (badly) the camp from the Terra Nova show in 2012 in the Pocket Edition on my iPod. Another thing that was great were the Call of Duty World at War and Black Ops zombies mobile versions, practically my introduction to the whole CoD zombies genre, until I got my hands on the actual real versions some time later. Dead Space Mobile was also THE shit at the time, such a shame that game became buggy with subsequent OS versions.

[@ArchieN1761]

I always loved old internet, always hated the notion of memes "dying" and stuff being out of fashion, dont just miss all of this my friends, keep using it all

[@AwesomeYena]

I'm still going to use the word "swag", makes me laugh a little when I do. I must be uber behind the times, because I'm even using Millennial netspeak, too. :D-))

[@ArchieN1761]

​@@AwesomeYena yeah, we must own what we like/liked, be true with ourselves instead of shaping it all with what will others say or think

[@ZaTripster]

@@ArchieN1761amazing and true. Completely agree it will form our generation

[@acog_quarks8753]

@@AwesomeYenaat this point I’ve only heard swag used when talking about items from the company store lmao

[@AwesomeYena]

@@acog_quarks8753 Swaglious XDD

[@Fatbobcat8]

Man growing up in the 2010s was something, the internet culture was felt overwhelming but yet it had a lot of character, like all of the memes and subcultures that came from this era are very memorable and iconic. Comparing that to modern internet culture were a lot of memes and trends feel more forgettable. Nice vid btw

[@karinadelma]

Compared to 90s and 00s, kids who grow up 2 decades are mostly something than 2010s through i don’t blame them.

[@matthewmedina6534]

@@karinadelmawhat are you trying to say here?

[@lotus_flower2001]

i havent even seen a popular youtube mem in like 3 years.. youtubes super personalized homepage really killed them, no more "we are number one" level memes.

[@brugges]

So what made the 2010s an unforgetable era are memes... 🤤

[@Zmok]

@@brugges Memes that everone knew. Personification kinda killed common grounds.

[@ultimateampharos292]

The internet was at its best around the late 2000s-early 2010s and I can’t deny it

[@oldylad]

It was at the climax where it was accessible and advanced enough to support just about anything while also still being unregulated and relatively niche

[@UncleTony2]

True

[@errorx_x1063]

Essentially Myspace

[@JamesGilbert_]

I was born in 2004, so the 2010s is the decade I remember the most and overall have the most amount of nostalgia for. That period of 2012 to about 2016 or 2017 in particular will forever live in my memory, so seeing a video like this that, strangely, breaks down in a fairly intelligent light a lot of the clichés and trends of that period is just really fun.

[@ExtraMintyy]

Thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it.

[@TheMasterofDisaster48]

Its natural for people to have their peak nostalgia around the age of 10. Because its the age before you become a mopey hipster teenager "born in the wrong generation" and its after your snot nosed kid years where you barely have memories from to remember.

[@ayem8709]

i'm 31 now and this still feels like yesterday. i get asked a lot by my students what life was like when i was a teen. this is going to be added to that 'what it was like' playlist lol

[@belstar1128]

i want to apologise to the early 2010s

[@SlapStyleAnims]

I never hated them to begin with

[@billyLego4855]

Why apologise? It's the 2020s should apologise for. 2010s was the best! Whoever says it was cringe didn't know what happiness is

[@thecandlemaker1329]

I don't. The only way they can look good is in comparison to the corporate minimalist hell.

[@belstar1128]

@@thecandlemaker1329 only the early 2010s were first the 2nd half is just bad. I think this year and 2023 were quite similar to 2019. 2020 and 21 and 22 were ultra bad. And even the early 2010s were not great because of minor things like me not liking the music and videos games from the era. but that really doesn't matter compared to the bigger issues

[@IndigoVoltage]

I don't regret being early 2010s

[@DeadSpecimen]

I grew up right in the midst of the 2010s and it definitely shaped my core personality with my love for dubstep/edm, sketch comedy, and casual lets plays. I'm definitely missing it hard

[@vampsk84]

dubstep and edm is making a hard comeback especially with all the tiktok djs

[@michaelgooden6249]

Brother, I'm too young for a retrospective video to be made about my middle/high school years.

[@v5g6yb4]

Same

[@neutwho]

It begins. You will never stop feeling this way. Gen Alphas rise to power over the next 15 years will only make you more painfully aware of your own mortality.

[@canihavethesauce]

Mid to late 20s type-beat

[@lovelyasmodeus5978]

As a 09 kid this video spoke to my heart. I miss the old internet.

[@rico2815]

You were born in 2009? 😭 Sorry but you don't even remember the old internet.

[@v5g6yb4]

@@rico2815 you are wrong. When we were 4 years old we had computers and we watched the same things watch you do. Someone started watching Let's Plays before they learned to write

[@rico2815]

@@v5g6yb4 Doesn't really matter, I also watched tv shows from the 90s growing up but that still doesn't mean I relate to people that grew up in the 90s.

[@Osito-69]

How the fuck can you miss the old internet?????

[@TheInfamousDante]

synthwave and vaporwave had a big influence on the cyberpunk genre and i have a theory that it contributed to cyberpunk and retrofuturism becoming mainstream in a wide range of things.

[@TallicaMan1986]

@@TheInfamousDante cyberpunk has been mainstream since Akira and Ghost in the shell hit America. Especially since The matrix released and hype for that quite literally never died.

[@JNAB0212]

Frutiger Metro is one of my favourite aesthetics and I’m very happy to have a name for it now

[@mofomiko]

Damn, basically Lumines and Splatoons entire aesthetic design. I love it too!

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Frutiger Metro also featured Domo as the aesthetic's mascot. I remember first introduced to him through a Flash game called "Duck Life".

[@DannyK1992]

A video about the 2010s that is 20:20 long Cool

[@mr._entertainment_ilikeemjay]

saw that too

[@bcj842]

I still say "Oh Baby A Triple" whenever I get 3 subsequent kills in any online game I play... It's a reflex like breathing.

[@animeloveer97]

I say it when joking with my fiance 😂

[@SuperTomtom1995]

Was at a rave the other day and they stacked 3 drops and played that clip too 😂

[@marklopez7775]

Hello. Good morning. My name is Brian López. I was born in 2000. I love music from early 2002 until late 2015. As for the 2010's, it's such a great year for me to watch Annoying Orange videos on KZbin. And there are a lot of good shows from the 2010's, too. I'm talking Team Umizoomi, Regular Show, Clarence, My Big Big Friend (a Brazilian-Canadian children's cartoon show), Clarence, Star vs. The Forces of Evil, oh, the list goes on and on and on and on and on! Thanks for the video!

[@abdulkhujliwal786]

2010s was the last good decade, where we still had hope for our future, people still had sanity left in them, and enshittification wasn't noticable. Now, with each passing day, it feels like people have lost their minds and everything has become corporatised. Life just feels empty, meaningless & futile, and nothing makes sense anymore.

[@Osito-69]

Hell no the last decent decade was between 2000 - 2011 after that point all goes into shit

[@blueface]

I graduated highschool in 2010 and god damn, from 2010-2013 my friend and I had a field day on the internet. We had an edgy humor page on Facebook that got shut down multiple times, highest we ever got to was 70k likes and trolled so many scene metal bands. It was a crazy time, looking back on it, it was incredibly cringy but we had a lot of fun. While I’m glad we grew up and moved on from our immature humor, I can’t deny that this era was full of fun and interesting times.

[@LordVarkson]

The meme groups on facebook were surprisingly vibrant at the time, to the point that they'd often be ahead of places like Reddit. It was a weird time.

[@DonBugatti]

Any creme de la meme fans here? Orange memes ? Damn I fucking miss those days, there's also a very high chance I followed your meme page back then. Good times.

[@TallicaMan1986]

@@LordVarkson because Facebook was still a youth thing as it was for university students.

[@Kisseyhersh123]

The late 2000s and early 2010s were when the Internet became truly accessible. Speeds just fast enough to allow for people to do more, but still held back technically

[@GoldenEmperor5Manifest]

Yep and all the worst people got on the internet, then corporations molded it in their image. It's been rough.

[@ethanparker7900]

yah like since 2007 or so when the first iphone came out they've dominated our world

[@user-fv7nw7pl3b]

I was born in 1990. How different it all is from the start of everyone getting on KZbin to now is crazy as hell. Seeing how different my niece grows up (she's 15) to how we did blows my mind.

[@marysupernova7780]

I'm from 1989, and I totally agree. We're from a very small slice of middle ground when the internet was first being used on computers by almost all teenagers for more than just homework. As little kids, life was so much like how things were for generations before us- playing outside largely without adult oversight with a bunch of other kids, & going home when the street lights came on... But by the time we became adults, cell phones were about as common as house phones & Myspace was peaking- people who were already totally adulty-adults before the Obama administration so often had both lol. Was just talking with my sister about how many of us destroyed a desktop computer, just trying to kazaa or limewire-burn CDs / fill their iPod or zune lol. Now we all take the ability to find & hear any and all music whenever & wherever for granted!

[@Harmonic_shift]

Good video. Lots of nostalgia. Synthwave/Vaporwave and all that inspired me to make my own unique style of things.

[@GroovyStrawberry]

In 2013 I used to put #swag #yolo #yoloswag (yes, all three) under almost every instagram post for literally no reason💀💀💀

[@Minifeta]

i still have the "illuminati confirmed" playing everytime i do a stealth kill in Skyrim

[@fouxcus2382]

Must have been the wind

[@oldylad]

The internet was, even as we entered the 2010s, an escapist Wild West. Things were fun, and nothing was super serious. As corporations sterilize and more people started to use the internet more often, however, things got more focused on reality

[@aurorasun-qs1pg]

Exactly. With smart phones it sent from being niche escapism to something everyone and their grandma uses and judgmental of eccentricity.

[@Soniti1324]

The Wild West days of the internet died with the smartphone, which reached widespread acceptance in 2008 with the release of the iPhone 3G.

[@TallicaMan1986]

@@Soniti1324 all these kids trying to include themselves into something they don't know. If you wanna know if you existed in the wild west days? Where not just kids computers got infected with Pr0n viruses bur your dads too. Not only that, but you saw a lot of chicks with horses doing you know what and a lot of uncensored intense gore. And youtube had Full Movies that were still in theaters.

[@woodsie315]

It's crazy how rearward looking society is these days. I grew up in the late 1980s and we were excited about the future, not anxious about it. Things got better and better every year for most of my life. I couldn't wait to leave each year behind and get into all the new stuff that the next year would bring, particularly in the 90s and 00s. I hate to see kids now feel like things are getting worse and worse these days to the point that they are nostalgic for the 2010s already but we only have ourselves to blame. Kids are having middle aged crises in their 20s now for crying out loud.

[@karinadelma]

Very agree. Kids who grow up 80s and 90s are definitely better than growing up to these days.

[@MultiParallelGirl]

True I’m 24 and particularly in the last 7 years I have had a stronger and stronger aversion towards the future..I have always felt nostalgia really strong but now I just feel so scared for the future I really try not to think about it. I’m sure good things are happening but I don’t feel hopeful at all really. I am worried about the world, people, environment, people just keep buying things and designs are boring, I suck at interacting with people, I have bad anxiety but I do yearn for the world to be more..connected..I can’t imagine myself ever having kids because how I don’t feel hopeful for the future. I don’t feel connected to the future at all. I am purely trying to live in the present which helps a lot with anxiety about all this but still. I’m just one person but growing up in the 2000s I still lived in a world where the internet wasn’t infiltrating our lives 24/7..yeah I had pretty much unrestricted internet access and I saw some messed up stuff because of that but it was like, real life still felt like it mattered more than how it kinda feels now. A lot of The internet feels just so shallow now. I’m so grateful that I have never used tik tok. I had instagram and Facebook but a few months ago I stopped using them and I just feel so much better. I’m sick of seeing ads all the time. A lot of the internet now just feels like “you need this product” and it’s not fun anymore. I’m very selective about what I watch on KZbin.

[@jebediahkerman8245]

>Kids are having middle aged crises in their 20s What do you mean?

[@woodsie315]

@@jebediahkerman8245 What I mean is that I'm seeing a ton of people on the internet these days who are wistful for the "good old days" and they are only in their 20s. I'm in my 40s for reference and when I was in my 20s, I wasn't nostalgic for anything yet nor had I met anyone my age that was. We were living in the moment and looking forward to the future. It's normal for people to get into their 40s and beyond and start thinking about things in nostalgic terms but for younger people to be doing that is a new phenomenon as far as I can tell. A "middle aged crisis" is often characterized by older people desperately trying to revert back to their youth. I'm very familiar with it because I'm right in the middle of mine but I'm doing it at a typical age.

[@jebediahkerman8245]

@@woodsie315 I'm in my thirties and feel nostalgic for the 2010-2015 era as well.

[@rudydaberry122]

I never realized how fantastic and beautiful life was from 2012-2016 until I got older and graduated high school and became an adult. Crazy how something as simple as the passage of time can throughly change you as an individual

[@Soniti1324]

The "Golden Age of the Internet" was 1997 - 2007. The Wild West days of the internet died with the democratization of it, which happened at the hands of the smartphone.

[@viviangarcia5696]

Also the corporate companies and advertising increased their online presence as well, trying to make it a profit

[@darkspyofficial]

The 2010s was my childhood

[@9852323]

The late 90s early 2000s was mine.

[@IndigoVoltage]

So was mine

[@SuperMario-eq8ik]

The late 2000's-early 2010's were mine.

[@DaACTUALLYREALReddie]

yeah same, 2010s (as a whole) was my childhood too.

[@Maxine07]

Mine were most of the 2000s and early 2010s

[@jesterprofilepic]

I unironically think these videos are really important

[@ThomasWake1]

I unironically think it’s sad we have to say unironically

[@skitariisoldier7367]

The good days before Goolag censored the shit out of You Tube..

[@JosephShemelewski]

Don't worry they let the bots destroy people's comment sections to make up for it

[@cyntdestroyer69xd]

I mean, TO BE FAIR, there are still people like Keemstar and his podcast, whom say whatever they want. Hell, there still people, making extremely edgy jokes. The only difference is that this stuff is age restricted and demonetized. It's not just KZbin - people started treated KZbin as career, instead of early 2010's, when it was site to broadcast yourself. Nowadays, all the interesting and non PC stuff is either on Tiktok or Instagram (where basically there's no monetary incentive).

[@JosephShemelewski]

KZbin took down my comment just talking about their bot problem lets see if they take this one down too

[@_MaZTeR_]

Not just KZbin but Google search

[@everythingisnand]

Watching this as someone who's been active in the memeculture since the motivational posters types is absolutely hilarious. Love it :D

[@SparksHardcoreMusic]

Me as a old graphic designer: Oh I remember that style, I can still find examples of me doing that back in 2006. By the 2010s that style was pretty dead lol.

[@Big-Chungus21]

Club Penguin, Moshi Monsters, ROBLOX, Animal Jam, and Minecraft were some of the largest online games in the 2010s. Quite a few of those like Club Penguin, AJ, and Moshi Monsters were flash games designed to be a safe place for children to experience the internet and interact with each other, with strict moderation and filtering. I think because the internet back then had a lot more safe spaces for children, there is a misconception now that the internet is safe for children or even toddlers today, which it is not. ROBLOX was one of the biggest offenders out of the games I just mentioned for poor moderation and generally not being safe for children to use. While I recall enjoying it back then, it is extremely unfortunate that it has essentially replaced all of the games I just mentioned as it is not a controlled, heavily moderated safe space for children to have their first experience with the internet in. Also there was this kind of look alongside Frutiger Metro, inspired by geometric Vinyl figures, art / designer toys and such, with shows like Strange Hill High and Hero 108. Overall there was a slightly edgy, punk kind of look with a focus on creativity, bright colours, and a sort of rebellious yet optimistic nature to it as well. Games like LittleBigPlanet 2 and ROBLOX (at the time) also fit that.

[@ImAPersonHehehehaw]

As someone apart of the LBP community, thanks for mentioning LBP2. But back then was pretty edgy, I mean look at most 2000s games. Dark. Even the kids games were darkish.

[@yaboifrankie]

Bro 2017 roblox didn't have censorship you could type whatever you wanted but everyone was so much nicer and friendly back then

[@ileutur6863]

Man, I hate the fact that twitch streaming has almost completely replaced let's plays. I don't know who watches streams or how they're entertained by them, but they're sa much less engaging and slow paced than let's play videos. Its just chat spamming endless nonsense while the streamer murmurs half hearted thanks for donations every few minutes. So insanely boring.

[@Ashikawahong]

Yeah, and some people have really annoying alerts

[@ilTHfeaa]

the appeal of streaming is you can directly interact with the creator while they’re playing instead of just commenting on a video and never knowing if they’ll read it

[@secretangels333]

same

[@moogreal]

@@ilTHfeaaparasocial relationships is a bonus?

[@Reiiven]

This is why I only watch clips and VODS of my favourite streamers, and mostly stick to let’s players

[@Cyranek]

feels like yesterday...

[@sweetkoalakisses]

late 2009-2011 was my innocent early internet era. 2012-2014 was my movie/gaming era. 2015-2018 was my musically internet baddie era. I miss it all so much, but the 2009-2011 era will always hit different for me.

[@KingJeffKiller]

It's so sad that's it's gone R.I.P Real Internet

[@mlgdoge2209]

My profile picture is also set like 10+ years ago, makes perfect sense to me

[@RadioactiveBowl]

Name checks out too

[@efafe4972]

in 10 years you're gonna be doing a video on skibidy toilet. but man this vid takes me back to my childhood

[@greebrotf8724]

I'm killing myself

[@RealMasterKush420]

wtf even is skibidy toilet? skibidy is a word I've been randomly using for over 20 years and recently I said it and my niece was like: wow you know skibidy toilet!!!? Ummm no.

[@dustyboialex]

disturbing lack of references to it's over 9 thousand

[@euphemius_X]

And shoop da whoop

[@kingofcrap4414]

I believe because it was more of a late 2000s thing than a 2010s thing.

[@jakeguy33]

4:13 OHHHHHH BABY A TRIPLE Had that on my soundboard downloaded on my school issued laptop Yes I was that guy. My timing was exquisite, actually him

[@shirleam]

The 2010s were some of the last free years or wild west years of the Internet. After that, the corporations took over and the Internet has been slowly getting more sanitized since. It's a shame really.

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

for real, everything feels too modern and bland now

[@_MaZTeR_]

Even website and app logos are sterilized as hell. Just a single shape with 3 colors.

[@ThierryRocksTV]

Zillennial here! At the time I hated the 2010s because of how bright and colourful media was compared to the 2000s. Rock music falling off the mainstream was also something I disliked with less interesting new bands and artists. However, enough time has passed where I am nostalgic for the decade now, well mostly for the early half of the 2010s. I had a difficult time at school adjusting to being a teenager. Then college (2017 - 2019) was the most depressing time for me. Say what you want about nowadays but I have grown up and appreciate everything much more thankfully. But it was still a great time for KZbin with good anime, movies and video games releasing as well. Although I spent most of that decade enjoying 2000s media which seems to have come back into fashion lol

[@Cheddsar]

"Zillenial" 🤓

[@ThierryRocksTV]

@@Cheddsar Early Gen Z

[@Cheddsar]

@@ThierryRocksTV bro your gen z, no fucking thing like zillennial exists

[@ThierryRocksTV]

@@Cheddsar But I relate to Millennials a lot more I don't have a lot in common with Gen Z especially since most of them are still teenagers and I prefer not talking to them

[@mr.hedgehog420]

you looked 14-15 four years ago, so you're what, 19 or maybe 20 now? That's just gen z man

[@YISP7]

Why? Because it (mostly) was peak internet and not a dystopian corpo hell.

[@osakanone]

Eternal september

[@acechimera7394]

>Why did the 2010s look like that? >Because it's an 80s neon revival Hence why everyone in the 2020s dress like it's 1976

[@XandrY2K05]

wait What

[@MrPolandball]

Oversized jeans and shirts aren’t 70s

[@davidthebest3443]

the 2020s is more of 80s

[@RoyalTy37]

@@davidthebest3443nah

[@Der_Quatschtuetenwuerger]

would be cool if people dress like 1976, but they don't. baggy jeans, tracksuits and kitten heels everywhere. more 90s fashion i guess

[@fubunm]

Answering the title without watching: because people were using the internet to have fun and/OR escape reality into a new world of unexplored and unexpected content and freedom where you could do and watch anything people experimented with, while it was also growing exponentially in users, everyone felt part of a new exciting thing. Fast track into the future now everyone is minmaxxing revenue and clickbait, most sites arent even real and offer useless content, videos are awful, shorter and shorter hollow content is constantly being perfected and shoved into you, people get angry at others and use social media to spread hate and judge others, censorship is more and more imposed, sites are more corporative, even brand logos are boring nowadays instead of eye catching, the golden age is gone and those times will never return unless society collapses as a whole (which could very well happen if we keep the pace we currently have, without getting political or anything)

[@DithanBeatz]

Just here to underline how huge Synthwave is. It has creeped into the mainstream years ago and it's still everywhere. The biggest pop songs in recent memory all came from that emerging synthwave sound: Blinding Lights by The Weeknd, STAY by Justin Bieber and The Kid Laroi. That type of sound is still everywhere.

[@wa2k530]

Damn, the 2010s was the decade I turned into a teen and an adult. Miss the old shit I used to do.

[@cinnamonbiscuit727]

I miss the stuff I couldn’t appreciate while it was there :( My excuse was ignorant youth (that rhymed 😂)

[@mellowedkenny1051]

I have officially reached Unc Status

[@Shik0njuul934]

Yup

[@user-vi5kf3qr8e]

The Internet back then was perfect, no fake comedy sketches trying to promote some girls onlyfans, no alpha male coaches trying to sell you courses and no femcels and incels that never leave twitter arguing about gender. Take me back bro, take me back

[@brugges]

You're free to go anywhere you want on internet you know, i personally never come across the stuff you're talking about.

[@mattd5240]

​@@bruggesWhere do you go?

[@MerkhVision]

@mattd5240 anywhere except social media! All that bullshit is pretty much only on lame ass social media. Get the fuck off of twitter/IG/TikTok and you’ll be sooo much better off lol

[@captainpep3]

⁠@@bruggesI’m genuinely surprised you don’t come across that stuff. I myself don’t go looking for it but it keeps showing up (not the only fans stuff really, or the alpha male crap, but the gender stuff I see a LOT of)

[@lilquakeroats554]

@@captainpep3 the gender stuff was bound to happen, because never in human history have women have so many options to pick from, due to the overwhelming number of thirsty men on the internet. This has caused some women to take men for granted and not as an equal (ex: the picking the bear thing lol). Whenever a human no matter the gender gets a lot of attention, what usually happens? They develop an ego and get ego boosts.

[@theeggen]

We've reached the point where retrospective videos are being made of my own childhood. My bones ache.

[@loganmaddocks4703]

Man, flash games, addicting games, new grounds, nostalgia in word format. Frutiger Aero was lit.

[@NinoDerungs]

started good in 2010, peaked in 2018 and was brutally killed in 2020 by people who got too bored in lockdown and learned about reddit... What a decade, i really miss it!

[@MrPolandball]

I think 2015 was peak, anything after that is downfall

[@TacticalRuse]

2017

[@frenchp5435]

This era ended with the first mainstream absurdism meme of a frog on a unicycle aka "dat boi" When 2017 rolled around we got Meme Man on 5 layers of irony, boneless pizza, and deep fried memes. That was the end of the classic Advice Animal style with structured joke formats and top/bottom text in the Impact font.

[@nadavvvv]

​@@frenchp5435 Good that time period was cringe af. I always despised those memes around 2012 they were just people humblebragging

[@frenchp5435]

@@nadavvvv places like 9GAG and reddit were always cringe, but internet humor in general was more fun and honest these days it's stuff like surreal memes where the joke is that there's no joke and it's just supposed to be perplexing or hood irony & other brainrot but yeah the early 2010s had similar memes too with gmod SFM and other lolsorandomXD videos like asdfmovie

[@loremastr276]

I literally was having this thought earlier this week. The internet was a separate “reality” during the 2010s and a lot of jokes were either you get it or it went over your head, including the more raunchy ones but hardly anyone had issue with what was done on the internet. There was a level of respect and trust that not everyone is a suspect to be an awful person. Now everyone cares about their digital footprint (which they should, of course), witch hunts and destroying peoples lives for things done years ago in a different era, where in reality, everyone at the very least, engaged in something that could be ARGUED to be unsavory.

[@YeahIDontKn0wEither]

Then in 2033, a video essay of 'Why Did The 2020s Look Like That' discussing e-aesthetics, hyperpop and minimal art will get over a million views. And the comments will ignore the stagnation of entertainment in the 2020s, and cry that it was 'just better'.

[@terryh.9238]

No matter how shit it seems right now, it could always get worse. So I don't deny our 2033s counterparts their nostalgia.

[@kingofcrap4414]

I hope not. That implies that the 2030s will be even worse.

[@AstridLeveans]

I hope the 2030s are better. I swear I'll lose my damn mind

[@JahreHydra]

4:10 OOOHHHH BABY A TRIPLE OHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHH ah the good old days i remember these memes great video

[@Frost0ne_]

I wouldn't say it was better before but.... It was more like a community of similar people having fun together easily, not carrying about anything. No dramas, no mental health, nothing, just gaming and fun.

[@alphakakcmeddlakadoofahkii3362]

Damn, I miss the time when the internet felt like its place, without all the seriousness, moderation, and bad energy around

[@oddtick]

We didn't love the 2010s as it happened but looking back; it's my whole childhood and it was awesome.

[@Njsr]

Dude you found your niche, I hope the best for your channel. Really cool stuff your analisys on eras and styles. Keep them coming!

[@PrismTheKiwii]

Man what a trip down memory lane that was.

[@rcf483]

The 2010s was a period of growing up for me. Becoming a teenage wouldn’t be easy if I didn’t have the internet to thank. The KZbinrs, the memes, the music, the video games, vine, all of it helped become less anxious about growing up and helped me become more of a person. It will always be my favorite decade. I’m still into vaporwave and synthwave and I love it still today

[@pittooslim8619]

Bro I remember being 11 years old and falling asleep to Nyan Cat 10 hours

[@Shik0njuul934]

Legend. I remember playing the web game after school. Good times

[@user-em3dp9qw4x]

I hate advertisers for stifling creativity in KZbin.

[@leoregular1707]

A part of 2010s that I think about some times is the non online part, maybe it's just me but existing and just sitting there in reality felt different. A lot of 2010 european alternative music videos incapacitate that feeling perfectly. Specifically the previous lost wave The Burns - avail is a music video that I recently watched that gets that feeling perfectly. Flash games also is something I think about

[@jimmea6317]

for me paragonx9 and dimrain77 give me the feels for that era with flash games culture

[@mofomiko]

That's basically how the entire Discography of Oberhofer reminds me of/sounds like to me. Still remember when I randomly stumbled across his song Dead Girls Dance in 2010

[@KillerKingTy23]

Same here, but with some other different stuff. TV shows like GOT and TWD when they were in their height, Cartoons like Adventure Time, Gumball, Regular Show, and Gravity Falls, and Party music that dominated the early half of the decade like Party Rock Anthem, and artists like Bruno Mars, Jason Derulo, Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga. It was also the peak of mobile games in the first half of the decade before the medium became the ad hellscape it is today, same with comic book movies, the MCU absolutely dominated the decade.

[@mattQa]

My first youth, Meaning the late childhood and all of my teen years had happened in the 2010's. Maybe the detail I miss the most about the old internet is how people back then weren't so invested in monetizing everything they were doing... The "unapologetic" nature of it. everything felt more real. The internet wasn't homogeneous so finding other ways of community like forums or blogs was possible. Man, I really miss those days.

[@levoGAMES]

I entered the internet in 2011 (with having secured regular access to our home computer) at age 15. That decade truly left its mark on me and I fondly look back to a free and wild internet before corporatization, censorship, hype culture and cancel culture.

[@IINo1goodII]

Yeah I feel that one I mean I was around people who used the internet and i started playing Runescape in 2004, had my Xbox360 hooked up to the internet around 2008 but I didn't start using the internet until 2010/2011 Good times.

[@Trippledtx96]

Being a teen in the 2010s was honestly the greatest thing ever call of duty and KZbin was all I needed

[@MustyYew]

Your channel is an absolute goldmine my guy, remind me to binge all your videos at some point

[@tim_the_traveler]

We will never get these days back, but we can still weather the storm that are these dark days to make a new bright era of the internet.

[@lilquakeroats554]

The Internet is too big, to be confined on this planet only. We must start colonizing other parts of space. That's the only way, otherwise we humans will kill each other here on Earth lol

[@chrispchips2721]

Back then being viral was like having 70k views and being popular was like 100k subs on YT. Nowadays there are channels with like 2 million or even 10 million subs that you ain't ever heard of.

[@alexrush918]

Had to watch from the thumbnail great work!

[@xXSLDGHAMRXx]

3:00 To this day my gamertag is… well that ↖️

[@zecora4241]

Legend!

[@CosmicSteph]

From 2010-2015 I was 11-16. I started off just using the internet for flash games and downloading songs off MP3Skull. Once I hit 14 is when I got more in touch with memes and KZbin. My god I was CRINGE AF. I remember one time at school my friends and I just randomly burst into song at lunch and we sang that narwhal song. 😭😭

[@paulhowell6430]

Whoa, editing masterclass! Laughed hard at the visual behind the word "performance". I would love to see a tree diagram showing how these styles link up, it's like the evolution of life! Best vid yet.

[@possibleproblem479]

i feel like covid was to the 2010s optimism what 9-11 was to y2k optimism. it really threw a wrench in societal culture and sent it in another direction entirely. pre-covid a lot of the aesthetics in this video were still very much alive.