Yeah, when you wanna go home, but you realize you've already there its just slightly off. Some things look the same, but most things have changed, and we can't go back...
as a younger gen z, i can confirm that it was the best time to be alive movie, games, RUclips, playing outside, tv shows, toys, life in general was just top tier😭
I think it’s all based on perspective. As a young millennial born in 1993 (okay, 31 isn’t young to a younger gen Z person, but let me cope! 😭), I had pretty much everything you had except for RUclips. That came out when I was 12 and I started using it a year later at 13. I remember when Google acquired it. To be fair, streaming TV shows is far better than having to be there at a specific time. Not everyone had DVR back then. My parents were divorced and only one of them had it. I’m so glad I no longer have to speedrun going to the bathroom during the commercial break. That was awful. Most of the big game innovations happened during my generation. While games these days look a whole lot better, nothing will beat how impressive some games were for the time back then. Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Super Metroid, Super Mario World, Metroid Prime, Halo, Resident Evil 4. And that’s not all of them. I keep up with gaming these days, but the only modern game I felt had the level of innovation that the games I listed had is Breath of the Wild. And I didn’t even like it all that much. Not a game for me. I know I’m missing some innovative modern masterpieces, so please tell me about them if you wish to. Anyway, TL;DR, perspective is everything. Also, the longer a medium has been around, the less innovation it gets in modern day. We literally went from Super Mario Bros to Super Mario 64 in 11 years. I’m not saying the old days were better. They certainly weren’t (unless you were a middle class adult who could afford a house, which was much easier back then). It’s more we saw the world change at a much faster rate.
@@venmissa I feel like there are innovative games out there, you just have to look for the right places. Persona 5 showed that style could make even underpowered games look incredible. The Yakuza series managed to flawlessly switch their entire genre from 3D beat-em-up to turn-based. The Arkham games redefined combat in video games. RDR 2 gave us an incredibly realistic environment. Hell, Octopath Traveler basically invented an entirely new style with HD-2D or at the very least popularized it. I mean, Undertale, Amnesia, Nier: Automata, The Souls series, Minecraft, The Last of Us, Skyrim, Neon White, Cuphead, Stardew Valley, Inscryption, Doki Doki Literature Club, Sonic Mania, Platinum Games in general.
I'm an old gen z so I don't completely relate to everything in this vid, but still some nostalgia for me here too. I remember watching shrek 2 and the incredibles in theatres in the summer of 2004.. 20 years ago😢
26 here my year was the year everything always changed over I'd have black boards to dry erase board to the projector with the clicky pen on my last year in school they were starting to implement the computers. For the following year. It got old now I just want stuff to stay the same.
I'm basically the youngest a millennial can be so I can relate to your statement some of the early 2000's stuff he was bringing to the table was straight fire core memories for me and then some of it I was like I can't feel nostalgic for this as it feels like it just happened for me. Fortnite for example I was 2 years graduated from school when that came out. However I remember seeing monsters inc in the movie theater it was one of the first movies I saw on the big screen the very first being Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. I would imagine you have some very early 2000's and maybe even some very late 90's memories that when you look back on you can see how fast things have changed in your lifetime. Like how cell phones went from a thing some people had to the absolute life necessity it is today. from a brick with a number pad to a touch screen capable of doing just about anything. Life is definitely a ride. sorry for the long comment lol.
wow that a stupid ass roast dude I'm seriously 14 now I played geometry dash while I was well 9 and dude respect people can you leave me alone please@@boiwhoactuallyareyou
I get what u mean, I felt like that for awhile. Maybe it’s cause we’re growing up, but now I’m just as excited for it as I was when I was a kid, just in a different way!
I remember seeing Beyblade tournaments going on at school back in 2010. I never joined them, but I liked watching them. Not only that, but we traded hockey cards like it was some sort of black market around that time as well. I still have some of the cards I acquired in those trades. Also around that time, I used the 2K Share feature in NHL 2K11 quite a bit. Man, I miss the 2010s.
NAH CAUSE EVERYONE WAS GETTING PISSED WITH ME CAUSE I HAD SIDNEY CROSBY ROOKIE CARD AND EVERYTIME I WOULD SHOW IT OFF PEOPLE WOULD TRY TO STEAL BUT THEY NEVER SUCCEED LMAOO
there were multiple waves of Beyblade so in 2002 we had a similar situation at my school there was another wave in 2008 .but i didn't like it because bullies made fun of me because i had those cheap Beyblades from the chips and not the real ones
Nah my school got so competitive with beyblades they got banned and we had to start setting up secret tournaments until they ended up getting shutdown too
The early 2000's were a great time to grow up in I'm glad I got to experience it. The golden age of flash games, and everything was still colorful and had a lot of personality. I remember playing beyblade with my friends with the arenas, and I went to several yu gi oh tournaments even though older people always beat me, I went to a bakugan tournament at toys r us one time also.
I also fondly remember - Armed with Wings - meez - imvu - wizard 101 - all of the flash game tube sites (shockwave, bubblebox, addicting games, etc) - Capoeira Fighter 3 Ultimate World Tournament - cartoon network's Fusion Fall - adventure quest worlds (artix games) will stop there bc don't wanna make the list too long.
I remember playing this game as a kid where you would save a princess. You would have a gun and get better gear, but now it all feels like a fever dream
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO LOVED VEGGIES AS A KID! Bro people don't understand that steamed Broccoli with a lil' bit of salted butter or some celery with ranch slaps after playing outside all day 😭
I truly miss the "good old days" because I didn't have access to phones or tablets until the 2010s, but up until then I would go to libraries and play on the computer some random games (literally just games to play girls). I would have my first phone, a cute little blackberry with its little physical keyboard and play the brickbreaker game. And phones that would go sideways and slide up to see the keyboard. On my Christmas list I would have 3Ds games and emoji pillows and chubby puppies toys ( which i truly regret not keeping them). Now these kids are growing up, looking up to "influencers" and "trends". Not allowing them to experience a childhood. And I really don't blame the kids but their parents 100%. Sure back then the internet and technology was popular and addictive but it has reached the point today where children who are given access to technology are more vulnerable to the internet and also more addictive to the screen. Of course, this is not applicable to everyone, but just the things that I observe and compare to my own childhood so Im kinda biased.
I'm ground zero for the generation, year one, one of the oldest of us. This video hit me in the feels though some of my nostalgia is for slightly older shit.
Same. I think I technically classify as a millennial, but I’m RIGHT on the cusp (October of 95) So a lot of this is super relatable, but Minecraft was the end of my childhood and Fortnite was my early 20s
1:23 my school never gave posters they just told us in the announcements that there will be a book fair, and they were free, but we could get only get 5
Millenial here. Gen Z has some bangers. Not sure which generation had the best childhood since I'm biased but n64/psx/ps2/dreamcast/gamecube was just so kino. Also 90s alt rock and snicktoons and disney movies? Peak.
post 2000s music is the worst other things were fine. i think the late 2000s and 2010s would have been horrible if your parents don't know much about technology since it became more important .my parents were like that but i was old enough to fix things myself .but i had some really annoying moments having to fix my dads pc if i was younger back then it would be even more annoying. but if you had parents that knew what they were doing the 2010s could have been epic
Some months ago, I rewatched a video I used to watch when it came out in 2007, and I was taken aback by how many commenters said that the video came out before they were even born. One commenter said that he/she was born on the very day it came out.
39:16 I genuinely think it depends on where you live, because in my neck of the woods, Starbucks has maybe one customer ordering and nobody else around except for the employees any time you go in, where as you go into Dunkin' and you've got one table with like 8 stereotypical pumpkin spice latte girls all chatting and sipping Dunkin' coffee together, one table with 3 stereotypically handsome college age guys in sweaters and slacks sipping some coffee of their own, and out of like any of the 15 to 25 people inside on any given day, only two are staying inside with donuts on their plate, and they've _still_ got coffee on the side.
As a 2011 Gen Z, nostalgia hits different at the age of 13! Most, yeah most of my nostalgia, like Minecraft, PvZ, the toys I grew up at ages 3-11, memes, etc.
@@DiamondKillerGDthey can in some ways but early gen z was already in middle/high school by 2011. Kids born in 2011 grew up in a very different time. For early gen Z, phone plans charged by the minute and didn’t have internet, you still had to buy music or listen to the radio in the car, you had to know where you were going because no 24/7 GPS unless you had money. By 2011 I had a Minecraft account and an iPhone. Our friend here literally wasn’t even alive for a very huge chunk of nostalgic music or shows from Gen Z. By 2011 we were on the 5th generation of Pokemon. The 3ds released in 2011, which means he likely missed having any of the earlier ones let alone a gameboy advance. He was still in diapers when the PS4 released. It can’t be overstated how fast things started changing around that 2011 mark, and how much there was before it. I understand wanting to relate but shit was DIFFERENT. Being born in 2011 means you were born into the tech side of gen Z, which is fine, but that’s not usually the part people are nostalgic for, because we’re still basically in that era.
Whenever one of these commercials says "To order call..." it makes me wonder if we can still call those numbers and get those products, or if they are defunct after all these years.
So what happened in my elementry school is after the book fair ended we would play kahoots when you had the library as your related arts or whatever they called it. But anyways if you were to win the kahoot or come in top 3 you could get left over posters and books that they had in there still. And to be honest it was easier winning those than going home and begging my parents for like 40$. But to me the only thing me and my friends wanted were those "Spy Gear" Things with a diary, spy glasses, and a morse code thing. But they were like 15$.
Zillenial here. Grew up in the 2000s graduated high school in 2014. Millennials grew up in the 90s gen z grew up in the 2010s So what about the kids that grew up in the 2000s what are we?
If I may paraphrase SpongeBob here: after the life I've had, if I could die in a freak accident due to the carelessness of a friend, well, that'd just be okay.
Yes, there are times in our lives that we wish we could relive, but if we already lived them perfectly, why live them again? The adventure of life is that there's always something new, new challenges and new experiences. Life isn't about going back, it's about going forward.
The one thing wrong with the thumbnail is that there's ps4 Home Screen when it should be a Xbox 360, PS3 or WII Home Screen. Unless yall parents were rich....
@@arthurgamerpro6585nope, it’s should still be PS3, 360 and Wii. PS4 came out in 2013 and the older gens were more iconic. Me personally look more fondly on the times when I came home from school to play GTAIV online on PS3 or play Minecraft PS3 Edition..
@@ItsVegaSama lie, xbox 360 and ps3 I understand but wii? there are more kids with wii u than you think, besides, if 7th generation is nostalgia of 2010s, then 4th and 5th generation are nostalgia of 2000s then? your answer doesn't make sense, besides, 8th are iconic yes, you 2000s boomer kids
And let's not forget Xiaolin Showdown, Sagwa, Toon Disney, Chalk Zone, Sonic X, Veggietales, Bear in the Big Blue House, Noggin, Treehouse, the Magic School Bus, Harry Potter, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids.
Bro, I'm from Africa, Malawi and we too did this. Granted I went to the best school in the whole Country which has a Cambridge IGCSE education system and got to also did book fair. I remember ordering some books such as diary of a wimpy kid and just had a good experience. Thanks for bringing out this core memory
I like Gen Z era.There's no Cocomelon,Skibidi Toilet and stupid PAW Patrol show. I used to watch some Gen Z shows mostly 1997-2006 like Dora,Sonic X,Sonic Underground,Ninja Hattori,Gumball,Regular Show,Dexter, and some more shows and they are great.I'm not say I don't like 2010-2020s shows they are good shows in this era like Blue's Clues and You,Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood,Sonic Prime and even SuperKitties.
Watched a little bit of Regular Show and Gumball over at my great-grandmother’s house (RIP to her, she died when I was 16) because well, she was old and didn’t know what I liked so she just saw “Cartoon” in the channel name and turned it on, thought it was a good show but never got into it. I stuck with Phineas and Ferb, Gravity Falls, the Ninja Turtles, and the Fairly Odd Parents. Can’t forget Backyardigans, Arthur, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Sid the Science Kid. Today is nothing compared to 2009-2014.
When i was a kid. I ws playing with my freinds on a game ( i forgot the name of the game) there were these zombies and they sounded HORRIFYING as a kid but now i know that when you reverse it it says " PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE" which is heartbreaking, anyway, i had tons of nightmares from it and playing it i was shitting my pants whenever i saw thoes zombies
Im so so so sad I wasnt born around 1998-2004 range. The small taste I had of life before things just seemed to get worse and bit makes me wish for so much more of that time...time moves way to fast. Genuinely hard to watch with how emotional this stuff makes me, you nailed this video. ♥💔
My friend Zoey had ALL the monster high dolls known to men. And they were the ones with the EXTRA JOINTS TO BEND like the wrist and ankles you name it. I was sooooooo jealous. AND she had a Barbie Doll dream house set 😢
I remember a book like a Where's Waldo book. It was the same concept: looking for stuff in pictures. It may have even been made by the same people. (And no, it was not an I Spy or Can You See What I See? book.) It was Christmas-themed. One of the images was of a forest of candy canes, one with vertical stripes instead of spiral ones and a word bubble that said "Something must have gone wrong"; another one with polka dots instead of stripes and a word bubble that said "I'm not myself today"; and a small one that was pure white and had a word bubble that said "I'm too young to have stripes." That book also had a picture of elves making wreathes on a sort of assembly line, and another one of multiple Santas on different roofs, all of which had word bubbles which said "I'm not real" except for one, whose word bubble said "I'm real." I wish I remembered the title of the book. Does this sound familiar to any of you?
The school book fair was in matched vibes, I used to go to the library to play poptrapica and I used to try to collect all of the wimpy kid books but now that I look at it the book fair WAS A SCAM 😂, I remember I had to read big Nate cause there was no more books
8:35 bro the video was hitting me hard with my childhood and then you pulled this out and i swear i didnt even know it was called an ipod touch! i just remember playing those old ahh apps on it like that croc water pipe puzzle one!
6:40 I am currently a part of Gen Z. I’m about 13 years old and I did watch a bunch of those movies. I watched finding Nemo, Snow White, beauty and the beast, the Incredibles, Aladdin, and Cars
currently crying at the 50 minute mark. my brother used to play club penguin all the time. i would always sit there and watch him while he was babysitting me. he’s been gone for almost 2 years (aug 19th will make it 2 years). i miss him so much also i have been playing subway surfers the whole time
26:00 I remember that I used to be afraid of needles and I know how to overcome it. I wanna coat my advice in a lil' backstory bc I'm neurodivergent and that's the way I communicate😅😂 Actually, my pediatrician gave me this fear in childhood. (Well.. it wasn't really a fear, but it was close to it.) This man was.. a special kind of doctor. I was afraid of him and I visited him regularly. Idk why, my mother brang me to him often. I think he wanted it this way. I can't quite explain it here, what exactly made him special and worth of ausing fear, but I can explain why he made me afraid of needles. He gave me too many vaccines, this was not healthy. And he gave them in a creepy way. He always put the needle too long in my arm. Longer than necessary. I also remember that he sexaully assauted me when I was like 6 or so. There is a blank spot in my memory but I'm happy that he didn't touch me. But he did almost. At some point, we stopped visiting him. ANYWAY At some point in my life I've found out that I require AD(H)D meds bc my undiagnosed mother passed it to me. And I think this is a good cure to this fear bc they need to check your blood every few weeks when you take meds. And if you're in a situation like this, you get to a point where u don't care abt this needle. At least if the nurses get your vains. Like a clean, fast procedure. It's the worst if there's an issue and it takes loads of tries😂 Lil tip: don't let them take your blood if it's winter and very cold. It can result in a shitshow bc the veins pull themselves together when you're cold. The combination of this and being a small, light-weighted woman with low blood pressure is a very shitty experience😂
I accidentally broke my nieces nose rippin the beyblades. she was standing behind me and I fuckin RIPPED IT. elbow smacked the FUCK out of her nose fr. I still feel terrible but that’s a core memory fr
The silly band era was legitimately so scary 😂 shit got so serious so fast. I remember watching girls literally trading them like currency. It felt inescapable and overlooked at the same time because it wasn’t as regularly spoken about as other crazes especially amongst parents, but everyone had them and valued them.
I grew up with all of these. Bro getting The 15 minutes of fame from beating your friends on good Subways surfers round was peak. Then we'd all watch annoying orange.
Back in the day angry birds was soooooo good i remember sitting down and just playing for hours and there were all kinds too like there were so many versions and collabs, it was so fun back in the day.
I was born in 2010, born inbetween both Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and i relate most of what you said. meanwhile Gen Alpha, most specifically, da weird a$$ idiots born from 2013-2015 or later, are growing up with Cocomelon, Skibidi Toilet, and Lankybox 😭
As a star wars fan myself I can say I probably have some issues. I have a bunch of posters of it, own a bunch of the games, have a ton of the figures, and I've seen all the movies. Glad to see I'm not the only one
clash of clans and boom beach had a grasp on my middle school. I remember being the one to introduce flappy bird to a few people and it literally spread around my whole grade.
I miss the early 2000s it’s just like I wanna go home but home doesn’t really feel like home at all.
Ikr 😔
Me too bro ❤😢
Yeah, when you wanna go home, but you realize you've already there its just slightly off. Some things look the same, but most things have changed, and we can't go back...
Like the song “don’t throw out my Legos” by AJR
I was born in late 2000a 😂 but same I miss the early 2000s
as a younger gen z, i can confirm that it was the best time to be alive
movie, games, RUclips, playing outside, tv shows, toys, life in general was just top tier😭
I think it’s all based on perspective. As a young millennial born in 1993 (okay, 31 isn’t young to a younger gen Z person, but let me cope! 😭), I had pretty much everything you had except for RUclips. That came out when I was 12 and I started using it a year later at 13. I remember when Google acquired it.
To be fair, streaming TV shows is far better than having to be there at a specific time. Not everyone had DVR back then. My parents were divorced and only one of them had it. I’m so glad I no longer have to speedrun going to the bathroom during the commercial break. That was awful.
Most of the big game innovations happened during my generation. While games these days look a whole lot better, nothing will beat how impressive some games were for the time back then. Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Super Metroid, Super Mario World, Metroid Prime, Halo, Resident Evil 4. And that’s not all of them. I keep up with gaming these days, but the only modern game I felt had the level of innovation that the games I listed had is Breath of the Wild. And I didn’t even like it all that much. Not a game for me. I know I’m missing some innovative modern masterpieces, so please tell me about them if you wish to.
Anyway, TL;DR, perspective is everything. Also, the longer a medium has been around, the less innovation it gets in modern day. We literally went from Super Mario Bros to Super Mario 64 in 11 years. I’m not saying the old days were better. They certainly weren’t (unless you were a middle class adult who could afford a house, which was much easier back then). It’s more we saw the world change at a much faster rate.
Same
2010
@@venmissa I feel like there are innovative games out there, you just have to look for the right places. Persona 5 showed that style could make even underpowered games look incredible. The Yakuza series managed to flawlessly switch their entire genre from 3D beat-em-up to turn-based. The Arkham games redefined combat in video games. RDR 2 gave us an incredibly realistic environment. Hell, Octopath Traveler basically invented an entirely new style with HD-2D or at the very least popularized it. I mean, Undertale, Amnesia, Nier: Automata, The Souls series, Minecraft, The Last of Us, Skyrim, Neon White, Cuphead, Stardew Valley, Inscryption, Doki Doki Literature Club, Sonic Mania, Platinum Games in general.
Same
Man I love the 2000s - 2010s. Kids were just so different back then…
u sound like millennials and boomers when we were kids
A lot tighter
@@kimjongun2081would you stfu you’re not funny i promise u that ur cringe and not edgy
@@olikingsley Its almost as if most people look back on their childhood fondly
I miss my younger years in 2000s.
I'm an old gen z so I don't completely relate to everything in this vid, but still some nostalgia for me here too. I remember watching shrek 2 and the incredibles in theatres in the summer of 2004.. 20 years ago😢
Same!
26 here my year was the year everything always changed over I'd have black boards to dry erase board to the projector with the clicky pen on my last year in school they were starting to implement the computers. For the following year. It got old now I just want stuff to stay the same.
SAME.
Bro, I was born in 2004, but I understand I still experienced alot of this stuff minutes the fear of rodents
I'm basically the youngest a millennial can be so I can relate to your statement some of the early 2000's stuff he was bringing to the table was straight fire core memories for me and then some of it I was like I can't feel nostalgic for this as it feels like it just happened for me. Fortnite for example I was 2 years graduated from school when that came out. However I remember seeing monsters inc in the movie theater it was one of the first movies I saw on the big screen the very first being Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. I would imagine you have some very early 2000's and maybe even some very late 90's memories that when you look back on you can see how fast things have changed in your lifetime. Like how cell phones went from a thing some people had to the absolute life necessity it is today. from a brick with a number pad to a touch screen capable of doing just about anything. Life is definitely a ride. sorry for the long comment lol.
2010's was a BANGER
Like Minecraft
my man it is a fucking bange I'm 14 and dude I still struggle at geometry dash!!
@@greenlight385I was struggling with geometry dash while you were still floating around in yo mommas stomach acid 😢😢
wow that a stupid ass roast dude I'm seriously 14 now I played geometry dash while I was well 9 and dude respect people can you leave me alone please@@boiwhoactuallyareyou
Yeah the last few years of gen z
Man, the music of the early 2000s was awesome.
It sucks how Christmas doesn’t feel as exciting anymore, I mean I’m still hyped but it just doesn’t hit the same.
I get what u mean, I felt like that for awhile. Maybe it’s cause we’re growing up, but now I’m just as excited for it as I was when I was a kid, just in a different way!
@@tokemonGG exactly, merry Christmas man
exactly something weird happened in the 2020s oh and also it never snows for me anymore
EXACTLY BRO
Omg, that Is so true
I remember seeing Beyblade tournaments going on at school back in 2010. I never joined them, but I liked watching them. Not only that, but we traded hockey cards like it was some sort of black market around that time as well. I still have some of the cards I acquired in those trades. Also around that time, I used the 2K Share feature in NHL 2K11 quite a bit.
Man, I miss the 2010s.
Used to beg my mom to buy me beyblades, among other things like slime and Disney infinity characters/skylanders
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NAH CAUSE EVERYONE WAS GETTING PISSED WITH ME CAUSE I HAD SIDNEY CROSBY ROOKIE CARD AND EVERYTIME I WOULD SHOW IT OFF PEOPLE WOULD TRY TO STEAL BUT THEY NEVER SUCCEED LMAOO
there were multiple waves of Beyblade so in 2002 we had a similar situation at my school there was another wave in 2008 .but i didn't like it because bullies made fun of me because i had those cheap Beyblades from the chips and not the real ones
Nah my school got so competitive with beyblades they got banned and we had to start setting up secret tournaments until they ended up getting shutdown too
The early 2000's were a great time to grow up in I'm glad I got to experience it. The golden age of flash games, and everything was still colorful and had a lot of personality. I remember playing beyblade with my friends with the arenas, and I went to several yu gi oh tournaments even though older people always beat me, I went to a bakugan tournament at toys r us one time also.
I also fondly remember
- Armed with Wings
- meez
- imvu
- wizard 101
- all of the flash game tube sites (shockwave, bubblebox, addicting games, etc)
- Capoeira Fighter 3 Ultimate World Tournament
- cartoon network's Fusion Fall
- adventure quest worlds (artix games)
will stop there bc don't wanna make the list too long.
I do not know a single item.
Greetings from Gen Y
Zwinky
I remember playing this game as a kid where you would save a princess. You would have a gun and get better gear, but now it all feels like a fever dream
The one with time travel?
Johnny upgrade?
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FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO LOVED VEGGIES AS A KID! Bro people don't understand that steamed Broccoli with a lil' bit of salted butter or some celery with ranch slaps after playing outside all day 😭
celery always tasted like a nuke went off on my taste buds
Ikr!
FR I use to love broccoli but at school when I said that I would get absolutely trashed on
DUDEEE ME TO LIKE I LOVE LETTUCE PEOPLE WHO SAY LETTUCE HAS NO FLAVOR CAN EAT WOOD
1:34 the books with the Lego mini fig went HARDDDDD
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@@tokemonGGwhat about toys r us
I just commented about this lol
@@yuto.50 ok
Bro how bout that Guinness book of world records too? Haha, man, the book fair. Hollering at yall from NC, I hope this message finds you well
I truly miss the "good old days" because I didn't have access to phones or tablets until the 2010s, but up until then I would go to libraries and play on the computer some random games (literally just games to play girls). I would have my first phone, a cute little blackberry with its little physical keyboard and play the brickbreaker game. And phones that would go sideways and slide up to see the keyboard. On my Christmas list I would have 3Ds games and emoji pillows and chubby puppies toys ( which i truly regret not keeping them).
Now these kids are growing up, looking up to "influencers" and "trends". Not allowing them to experience a childhood. And I really don't blame the kids but their parents 100%. Sure back then the internet and technology was popular and addictive but it has reached the point today where children who are given access to technology are more vulnerable to the internet and also more addictive to the screen.
Of course, this is not applicable to everyone, but just the things that I observe and compare to my own childhood so Im kinda biased.
The holy Grail of books at the book fair is actually the world record book everyone wanted it. No one actually wanted to read it.
Still got mine from 2014
I have 2014 and 2015 World Record: Game Edition
I'm ground zero for the generation, year one, one of the oldest of us. This video hit me in the feels though some of my nostalgia is for slightly older shit.
Same. I think I technically classify as a millennial, but I’m RIGHT on the cusp (October of 95)
So a lot of this is super relatable, but Minecraft was the end of my childhood and Fortnite was my early 20s
bro just casually dropped a hour long video and thought we wouldnt notice 💀
i didn’t notice 💀
@@MadisonPerkins-cc7ud cap
i didnt notice until i saw ur comment LMAO
I didnt
I didnt
1:23 my school never gave posters they just told us in the announcements that there will be a book fair, and they were free, but we could get only get 5
Millenial here. Gen Z has some bangers. Not sure which generation had the best childhood since I'm biased but n64/psx/ps2/dreamcast/gamecube was just so kino. Also 90s alt rock and snicktoons and disney movies? Peak.
Bro, im gen z and my dad made SURE i grew up with 50 odd ps2 games, the original Xmen series and voltron 😂
@@flibbet One of the best parts of having kids is sharing what you love.
Millennial is better. Plus it’s not good enough to just grow up with old stuff since you have to actually be in that time period
Millennials really be coping with the fact they're getting older by comparing themselves to the younger generations
post 2000s music is the worst other things were fine. i think the late 2000s and 2010s would have been horrible if your parents don't know much about technology since it became more important .my parents were like that but i was old enough to fix things myself .but i had some really annoying moments having to fix my dads pc if i was younger back then it would be even more annoying. but if you had parents that knew what they were doing the 2010s could have been epic
Some months ago, I rewatched a video I used to watch when it came out in 2007, and I was taken aback by how many commenters said that the video came out before they were even born. One commenter said that he/she was born on the very day it came out.
39:16 I genuinely think it depends on where you live, because in my neck of the woods, Starbucks has maybe one customer ordering and nobody else around except for the employees any time you go in, where as you go into Dunkin' and you've got one table with like 8 stereotypical pumpkin spice latte girls all chatting and sipping Dunkin' coffee together, one table with 3 stereotypically handsome college age guys in sweaters and slacks sipping some coffee of their own, and out of like any of the 15 to 25 people inside on any given day, only two are staying inside with donuts on their plate, and they've _still_ got coffee on the side.
As a 2011 Gen Z, nostalgia hits different at the age of 13!
Most, yeah most of my nostalgia, like Minecraft, PvZ, the toys I grew up at ages 3-11, memes, etc.
Holy people born in 2011 are 13! I still think 90% of them were 10 times are passing so fast
your gen alpha bud
@@Pokemon_Lewisthat doesn’t mean they can’t relate to you guys
@Pokemon_Lewis pretty sure 2011 is genz
@@DiamondKillerGDthey can in some ways but early gen z was already in middle/high school by 2011. Kids born in 2011 grew up in a very different time. For early gen Z, phone plans charged by the minute and didn’t have internet, you still had to buy music or listen to the radio in the car, you had to know where you were going because no 24/7 GPS unless you had money. By 2011 I had a Minecraft account and an iPhone. Our friend here literally wasn’t even alive for a very huge chunk of nostalgic music or shows from Gen Z. By 2011 we were on the 5th generation of Pokemon. The 3ds released in 2011, which means he likely missed having any of the earlier ones let alone a gameboy advance. He was still in diapers when the PS4 released. It can’t be overstated how fast things started changing around that 2011 mark, and how much there was before it. I understand wanting to relate but shit was DIFFERENT. Being born in 2011 means you were born into the tech side of gen Z, which is fine, but that’s not usually the part people are nostalgic for, because we’re still basically in that era.
this time length makes me insane
Whenever one of these commercials says "To order call..." it makes me wonder if we can still call those numbers and get those products, or if they are defunct after all these years.
I know it’s been said but life hasn’t felt real since 2012. Maybe the world really did end in 2012
So what happened in my elementry school is after the book fair ended we would play kahoots when you had the library as your related arts or whatever they called it. But anyways if you were to win the kahoot or come in top 3 you could get left over posters and books that they had in there still. And to be honest it was easier winning those than going home and begging my parents for like 40$. But to me the only thing me and my friends wanted were those "Spy Gear" Things with a diary, spy glasses, and a morse code thing. But they were like 15$.
Who else remembers this commercial: "My daughter definitely knows how to use a computer better than I do half the time, and she's three and a half."
The Lego books with the mini figures inside of them at the book fair went hard
My childhood's home I see again, and saddened with the view,
And still, as memory crowds my mind, there's pleasure in it too.
-Abraham Lincoln
I loved arrow fighting games where you aim the arrow at the enemy and hit them, those times were the best.
NAWH this is the best video I've seen in ages
Another banger video!hope you feel better man ,colds are the worst!
2005, golden year for pokemon. I lived a bit from the gens before me with a mix of gen Z culture. I REALLY miss the old internet and it's aesthetic.
Zillenial here. Grew up in the 2000s graduated high school in 2014. Millennials grew up in the 90s gen z grew up in the 2010s
So what about the kids that grew up in the 2000s what are we?
2000s are the GOATS.
I guess Zillenial is a good way to put it. I do feel quite misplaced sometimes generation wise like I can relate more to millennials and gen x
Forgotten lol
We got the best of both worlds
Too young to be a millennial, too old to be Gen Z. Being called a Zillenial is perfect for someone like me born in 1999
"diarrhea of a wimpy kid"
The cheese touch: not even once
Stuff i miss about the 2010s are the classic Lego games like Indiana jones ( I had great memories with that game) and just everything :(
Nothing can compare to those games
yea the first Lego games were mostly bad but they got great in the late 2000s and 2010s
Lego Batman hit so hard. I just used to destroy shit to hear that sound effect.
If I may paraphrase SpongeBob here: after the life I've had, if I could die in a freak accident due to the carelessness of a friend, well, that'd just be okay.
haha its rare that a youtube video actually makes me laugh loudly, keep it up!
Yes, there are times in our lives that we wish we could relive, but if we already lived them perfectly, why live them again? The adventure of life is that there's always something new, new challenges and new experiences. Life isn't about going back, it's about going forward.
i love my mlp poster i bought at the book fair! i still have it to this day!
as an early Gen Z, Seeing these nostalgic moments of my life feels like im old af lol. I feel like gen Z is the golden generation
The one thing wrong with the thumbnail is that there's ps4 Home Screen when it should be a Xbox 360, PS3 or WII Home Screen. Unless yall parents were rich....
Ps4, Xbox one and Wii u can be considered 2010s nostalgia, it's just not that relevant because they are expensive
@@arthurgamerpro6585nope, it’s should still be PS3, 360 and Wii. PS4 came out in 2013 and the older gens were more iconic. Me personally look more fondly on the times when I came home from school to play GTAIV online on PS3 or play Minecraft PS3 Edition..
@@ItsVegaSama lie, xbox 360 and ps3 I understand but wii? there are more kids with wii u than you think, besides, if 7th generation is nostalgia of 2010s, then 4th and 5th generation are nostalgia of 2000s then? your answer doesn't make sense, besides, 8th are iconic yes, you 2000s boomer kids
@@ItsVegaSama 🤣🤣🤣 You are scared because you have no arguments
@@arthurgamerpro6585 it’s not that deep…
And let's not forget Xiaolin Showdown, Sagwa, Toon Disney, Chalk Zone, Sonic X, Veggietales, Bear in the Big Blue House, Noggin, Treehouse, the Magic School Bus, Harry Potter, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids.
I miss the 2010's bro it was a good year
Same
Bro, I'm from Africa, Malawi and we too did this. Granted I went to the best school in the whole Country which has a Cambridge IGCSE education system and got to also did book fair. I remember ordering some books such as diary of a wimpy kid and just had a good experience. Thanks for bringing out this core memory
There's no such thing as nostalgia when you're a kid.
Team Edward vs Team Jacob was just one of the "shipping wars" of the era. There was also Amy vs Sally, Knuckles vs Shadow, Zutara vs Kataang, etc.
I like Gen Z era.There's no Cocomelon,Skibidi Toilet and stupid PAW Patrol show.
I used to watch some Gen Z shows mostly 1997-2006 like Dora,Sonic X,Sonic Underground,Ninja Hattori,Gumball,Regular Show,Dexter, and some more shows and they are great.I'm not say I don't like 2010-2020s shows they are good shows in this era like Blue's Clues and You,Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood,Sonic Prime and even SuperKitties.
Watched a little bit of Regular Show and Gumball over at my great-grandmother’s house (RIP to her, she died when I was 16) because well, she was old and didn’t know what I liked so she just saw “Cartoon” in the channel name and turned it on, thought it was a good show but never got into it. I stuck with Phineas and Ferb, Gravity Falls, the Ninja Turtles, and the Fairly Odd Parents. Can’t forget Backyardigans, Arthur, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Sid the Science Kid. Today is nothing compared to 2009-2014.
When i was a kid. I ws playing with my freinds on a game ( i forgot the name of the game) there were these zombies and they sounded HORRIFYING as a kid but now i know that when you reverse it it says " PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE" which is heartbreaking, anyway, i had tons of nightmares from it and playing it i was shitting my pants whenever i saw thoes zombies
It's scary how relatable this is 😂
23:29 my ears are in pain, i constantly get flashbacks to this moment, i am scarred.
Im so so so sad I wasnt born around 1998-2004 range. The small taste I had of life before things just seemed to get worse and bit makes me wish for so much more of that time...time moves way to fast. Genuinely hard to watch with how emotional this stuff makes me, you nailed this video. ♥💔
The 2010s were the years
I am young gen z and tbh this all very nostalgic back then was so much better
I feel you on the book fairs
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I noticed Diary of a Wimpy Kid and a few other books in the lineup, and I can't help but wonder how many kids today read books.
My friend Zoey had ALL the monster high dolls known to men. And they were the ones with the EXTRA JOINTS TO BEND like the wrist and ankles you name it. I was sooooooo jealous. AND she had a Barbie Doll dream house set 😢
I remember a book like a Where's Waldo book. It was the same concept: looking for stuff in pictures. It may have even been made by the same people. (And no, it was not an I Spy or Can You See What I See? book.) It was Christmas-themed. One of the images was of a forest of candy canes, one with vertical stripes instead of spiral ones and a word bubble that said "Something must have gone wrong"; another one with polka dots instead of stripes and a word bubble that said "I'm not myself today"; and a small one that was pure white and had a word bubble that said "I'm too young to have stripes." That book also had a picture of elves making wreathes on a sort of assembly line, and another one of multiple Santas on different roofs, all of which had word bubbles which said "I'm not real" except for one, whose word bubble said "I'm real." I wish I remembered the title of the book. Does this sound familiar to any of you?
The school book fair was in matched vibes, I used to go to the library to play poptrapica and I used to try to collect all of the wimpy kid books but now that I look at it the book fair WAS A SCAM 😂, I remember I had to read big Nate cause there was no more books
8:35
bro the video was hitting me hard with my childhood and then you pulled this out and i swear i didnt even know it was called an ipod touch! i just remember playing those old ahh apps on it like that croc water pipe puzzle one!
Where's my water
The fact you forgot TapTap Revenge, Jellycar, Doodlejump, My Singing Monsters, Plants vs Zombies, and Fruit Ninja is appalling.
6:40 I am currently a part of Gen Z. I’m about 13 years old and I did watch a bunch of those movies. I watched finding Nemo, Snow White, beauty and the beast, the Incredibles, Aladdin, and Cars
Many people also liked Marcelline from adventure time and Wendy from gravity falls
currently crying at the 50 minute mark. my brother used to play club penguin all the time. i would always sit there and watch him while he was babysitting me. he’s been gone for almost 2 years (aug 19th will make it 2 years). i miss him so much
also i have been playing subway surfers the whole time
Just not gonna mention 2007 Megan Fox, transformers changed the game for child hood crushes
I remember a computer game called 3D Planet Attack.
26:00 I remember that I used to be afraid of needles and I know how to overcome it.
I wanna coat my advice in a lil' backstory bc I'm neurodivergent and that's the way I communicate😅😂
Actually, my pediatrician gave me this fear in childhood.
(Well.. it wasn't really a fear, but it was close to it.)
This man was.. a special kind of doctor. I was afraid of him and I visited him regularly. Idk why, my mother brang me to him often. I think he wanted it this way. I can't quite explain it here, what exactly made him special and worth of ausing fear, but I can explain why he made me afraid of needles.
He gave me too many vaccines, this was not healthy. And he gave them in a creepy way. He always put the needle too long in my arm. Longer than necessary.
I also remember that he sexaully assauted me when I was like 6 or so. There is a blank spot in my memory but I'm happy that he didn't touch me. But he did almost.
At some point, we stopped visiting him.
ANYWAY
At some point in my life I've found out that I require AD(H)D meds bc my undiagnosed mother passed it to me.
And I think this is a good cure to this fear bc they need to check your blood every few weeks when you take meds.
And if you're in a situation like this, you get to a point where u don't care abt this needle.
At least if the nurses get your vains. Like a clean, fast procedure. It's the worst if there's an issue and it takes loads of tries😂
Lil tip: don't let them take your blood if it's winter and very cold. It can result in a shitshow bc the veins pull themselves together when you're cold.
The combination of this and being a small, light-weighted woman with low blood pressure is a very shitty experience😂
Imagine if you grew up at this time but your parents wouldn't let you have any of them. Imagine how sad you'd be.
From an actual fifth grader in 2024, I can confirm they still do book fairs and everyone still hyped for the new captain underpants and a Wimpy kid
Same bro I am fifth grade
The nostalgia trip that this took me through was insane 😭 great video!
Bro really dropped a hour long video out of nowhere.💀
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@@tokemonGGYour videos are really good, I also make videos on RUclips, you are amazing 👍🏼?😮?
@@tokemonGGI watched it all
5:30 brings back the nostelgia on when on my lovely yellow amazon fire I'd make worlds and try and summon hero brine at 8yrs old lol
I accidentally broke my nieces nose rippin the beyblades. she was standing behind me and I fuckin RIPPED IT. elbow smacked the FUCK out of her nose fr. I still feel terrible but that’s a core memory fr
as a 2012 kid being the literal last year of gen z i can say ive lived through all of these
honestly 2020 and covid was the down fall after that people started acted weird and just not the same also for some reason inflation happened
I agree
The silly band era was legitimately so scary 😂 shit got so serious so fast. I remember watching girls literally trading them like currency. It felt inescapable and overlooked at the same time because it wasn’t as regularly spoken about as other crazes especially amongst parents, but everyone had them and valued them.
I grew up with all of these. Bro getting The 15 minutes of fame from beating your friends on good Subways surfers round was peak. Then we'd all watch annoying orange.
Back in the day angry birds was soooooo good i remember sitting down and just playing for hours and there were all kinds too like there were so many versions and collabs, it was so fun back in the day.
Meanwhile in Gen Alpha, they’re growing up with Skibidi Toilet and Cocomelon 💀
lmao trueeee, mostly true for the 2013-2015 or later Gen Alphas.
As a young millennial on the cusp, this is so cool seeing a mix of nostalgia and things I was just barely out of age range for at the time :')
Was it me only or did other people watch pingu as a gen z
2000-2019 was the good old days 😢
He forgot about battle cats 💀
Maybe he didn’t play but it was a disappointment to not see it
The fact that I’m looking back on all this stuff with nostalgia and a flood of old memories is the real sign that we’ve grown up 😢
People say I'm gen alpha cause I'm born in 2010, I GREW UP WITH THIS SHI🔥
its cuz your are alpha where gen z is 01-09
@@QueenKitty-kz5re'97-2012 get it right kid
@@Darth_yapper 1996-2009.
@@lovecupcakex642bro gen Z is from 1997-2012 and your not right
my friends don't remember any of this. they have TikTok brains and its actually frustrating sometimes lol
saw toy story 3 in preschool and still have complete recolection of it
I used to find the 2000s nostalgic, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
I was born in 2011 and even if I’m Generation Alpha, I grew up with the same things and relate to the things in this video.
you're Gen Z mate
@Clippedlel achktually its 1996 to 2010, but theyre still gen alpha
yoo same! i was born in 2011 aswell
@Clippedlelgen z is basically anyone who grew up with the same things we did so we won’t know for sure for a couple of more years
@@Piano_Board Lies, Gen Z goes from 1997 - 2012, dude.
Nice to see a fellow Big Nate enjoyer.
Nostalgia chain
At least you didn't say first
@@CroatiaBall273 I did 👍😅 🫵😂
👏😊
Nostalgia
Nostalgia
Nostalgia
One of the most nostalgic thing about minecraft for me is the mini games, like the online play mini games like the spleef. I miss that
15:38 What about PvZ?
Yea what about pvz? Its great!!!
Flappy bird ???
@@Stabb3dByAJAX he did flappybird
I was born in 2011 and experienced the last of this and this was the best
And the fact that they renamed angry birds
Those who miss angry birds go 😔
Real
I was born in 2010, born inbetween both Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and i relate most of what you said.
meanwhile Gen Alpha, most specifically, da weird a$$ idiots born from 2013-2015 or later, are growing up with Cocomelon, Skibidi Toilet, and Lankybox 😭
Same
good thing im a 2012 kid but i can still relate
@@KirbyFan-js4uxThis is the Worst RUclipsr!!
Lankybox, Pride, Furry, Vore!!
you're in the skibidi toilet generation, unlucky lmao, i was off gen alpha by 1 year im 2011@@bean_yes
@@bean_yes lol no not even close to gen z that like 06 you def little toddler gen alpha with brain rot
As a star wars fan myself I can say I probably have some issues. I have a bunch of posters of it, own a bunch of the games, have a ton of the figures, and I've seen all the movies. Glad to see I'm not the only one
bro lost me at fortnight
Do not act like you weren’t playing Fortnite when u were 10 💀
@@qwart2210 is crazy talk
@@qwart22I’m not
@@OCDQLIFE AINT ABT U BRO 💀 he was NOT talking to u, and your prob younger
@@RogerM-vk6xi I’m 15
clash of clans and boom beach had a grasp on my middle school. I remember being the one to introduce flappy bird to a few people and it literally spread around my whole grade.
Early 2000s is such a specific vibe, a strange transitional time with earlyish internet aka my home.