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I drank two cups of coffee when I woke up so I wrote this meandering screed about some nostalgia post. Enjoy or don't ✌️

No hate if this was one of my mutuals' sideblogs but I got notifications from a y2k nostalgia blog and one of the reblogs was like a photo of a walmart video game section in 2007 and the caption read like "I wish I could wake up in 2005 (❌), no crazy elections (❌😐), good television (❌), and good video games without a constant stream of remasters (❌)" Let's go through this step by step. First of all the photo was mostly wii games so they got the year wrong off the bat. Second of all, no crazy elections⁉️ Like most nostalgiaposting, tumblrposting, and anglophone webposting in general, this is surely from a US perspective. No crazy elections, in the united states of america, in recent memory, in 2005? Maybe I just don't understand the poster's twisted mind. (Or maybe they are just stupid.) Third of all, good television? The torture porn propaganda era of television? The shitty sitcom saturation era? The era of cheap, tacky reality shows? Of course the real fact is they're probably talking about cartoons. I was a child in this era, and I remember it well as I spent the majority of my time in front of our silver widescreen Panasonic crt watching american cartoons on cable, when my parents decided to pay the bill of course (the real crux of this post is that us nostalgia posting will never work on me because we had 16:9 crt televisions in Europe). The mid-2000s was kind of a lull in quality for cartoons, after the really high quality late 90s stuff was mostly off the air and before the explosion of rly creative cartoon network shows at the turn of the decade. All there was worth watching was like, spongebob and that was going downhill fast (and also perhaps my most controversial opinion, of which, if you haven't noticed, I have many, even early spongebob doesn't hold up). Fourth of all, I would never buy a video game but I think the trend of remastering good video games is slightly better than the trends at the time, which can clearly be seen in the photo as the bee movie game and madagascar 2 for the ds are on full display. Was this not kind of an infamously bad era for real video games too? The height of easy over-tutorialised railroaded bullshit and sequels that are the same game over and over again. Nostalgia of this kind is always stupid imo but the fact that it's nostalgia over the 2000s, a decade I associate with shit-awful taste in almost all forms of art and media (I will give flowers to consumer electronics design, a lot of design in general, some of the fashion especially of the minimalist kind and electronic music, american RnB, electroclash and the kind of European house music that is often schlocky but makes Me legitimately nostalgic) makes it really egregious. But that's the twenty year cycle. God It's gonna be a fucking nightmare in like ten years time when people start playing like, the chainsmokers or that fucking "seven years old" song again in fast food restaurants and people will be saying "This is real music, not like now". 🤢

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Sony NW-E505 mp3 player 2005

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Apple iMac G3 + keyboard (upside down), both in Strawberry with an Apple Pro Mouse 2000

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rebel sends you a selfie after you've begged 5 minutes straight for it

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This old man fursuiter comes up to you, wyd?

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coworker 1: okay this will be fun let's see everyone's spotify frontpage

coworker 2: omg no y'all will think i'm weird as fuck... okay I actually liked the new drake album

song in my earbud:

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one of my favourite artists put ✝️ in his twitter bio and i discovered it on the first so i was like haha that's rly funny cause it's kinda plausible but that's what makes it funny right like funny uh, but it's still there 😐

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This tumblr blog is the same age I was when I made it. I've spent half my life on this site. Crazy. I hope the site goes down still tho lol

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Deborah Sengl — American Dream, serie „Trouble in Paradise“ [acrylic on canvas, 2025]

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yeah man

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painted it ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡

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Incredible new graphic from PETA

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Maya Beaudry, Childhood Home, 2024, Digital pigment print on cotton, 33 x 51 x 3 in.

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puppies go up the stairs! (disaster)