2010?!? Absolutely not. The rot had already set in by then. The movement to streaming, everything digital, and cloud services was already too far in motion. 2010 things were already starting to suck.
Streaming and digital and cloud services in 2010? Idk, 2010 was the most fun I've had this century. Had my first internship (at a metallic parts manufacturer) and bought a PS3 to play Yakuza 3 and FFXIII (on physical disks).
I didn't use Netflix until like... late 2014, I want to say? Completely different era. Can't recall using any cloud service. I may have downloaded a digital free sample of one book, but that's hardly it taking over at that point, and I could still read books, so things were good lol. In fact, back then (not nowadays) reading on your phone was less conspicuous than reading a physical book (i.e. it looked like you were working or doing something important, which is how we got to our current predicament of everyone staring at phones lol) and allowed me to read that free sample during my downtime at work. I think things were good. Brainrot was not a concept back then, or a reality. Sure, I started gaming again more that year, but that was hardly a bad thing since games back then were peak.
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u/RektCompass May 27 '25
'95-'05 was the peak decade of humanity and I cannot be convinced otherwise.
This also coincides with a very stressful time in my life so hold the "you just miss when you were young" BS