like yeah it definitely feels like it happened in the past, looking back at fashions or events from that time is like looking at something out of a history book
but looking back at stuff that happened in my own life it's like, man what have i been doing all this time? how can it have been eight years?
i feel that, too, although the break from the previous era wasn't instantaneous (the Brexit referendum and before that the GamerGate movement were omens that the end was nigh)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Summer of 2016 is a very obvious breaking point for me, for reasons I'm sure you're all familiar with.
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In fact, the mid 00s feel recent to me.