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2016 was our 1980s and I'm slowly realizing that we can never truly replicating it and now I'm sobbing uncontrollably
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Anonymous 4w

I don’t think 2016 was special on its own. I think we were. We were kids with barely any real responsibility, seeing everything through a sunshine-and-rainbows filter because we didn’t know any better yet. Life felt lighter because it actually was. You can’t recreate that time because you can’t recreate being unaware of how heavy things get. It’s not that the world changed into something worse, we just grew up and started seeing it clearly. And that kind of magic only exists once.

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Anonymous 4w

the entirety of 2010’s lowkey

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Anonymous 4w

2016 is when I gained consciousness that the world is bigger than what goes on around me and the rainbow filter was peak vibrancy, after that things have faded. I’m doing my best to find the magic daily and think that’s what everyone should do🫶

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Anonymous 4w

I agree. So y'all remember what happened at the end of 2016 right

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Anonymous 4w

2016 was the most united America has ever been. Down hill from there.

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Anonymous 4w

hits as a gay person but in the opposite way lol

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Anonymous 4w

wait shit you're right

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Anonymous 4w

nostalgic for something that wasn’t that great bc the present is a nightmare. Dont fall for the nostalgia it’s a lie

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

And realizing that feels like a quiet kind of loss. 💔

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

Exactly. And the 80s are seen by its respective people like we see 2016, and for the same reason: life was simpler, not because the world was but because we were. Our innocence was still somewhat intact and it's hard to let that go

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

You have such a way with words #1

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 4w

2016 was not even CLOSE to being the most united America has ever been. It was just what you remember. America has been wildly divided since the 1980s, with huge culture wars going on constantly. But if you didn’t live through it and you don’t read/watch history, you idealize 2016 as the “start” of where we are now, when it was going downhill for decades before that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4w

Start=end, in this case. Also the 90s and 80s get glamorized but the truth is there was high crime, high interest rates, virtually no culturally appreciation for anybody else culture and low human rights for many groups of people. Almost all along that was corrected by 2012 and peaked in 2016.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

Speak for yourself. When you get bullied and assaulted on a regular basis and watch it happen to others, it changes you so much as a helpless kid 💔

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