I'm sick of Gen Alpha literally making everything an aesthetic. If I see one more "2020 aesthetic🤪🤭💅💅" or "This is so 2014 aesthetic🤧💅💅🙏" I will reach my psychological breaking point
Imagine they start doing aesthetic videos of years that haven't even STARTED! Like: GRWM 2035 aesthetic POV making my Gatorade Monster Energy drink Frappe coffee! In fact, I'm kinda sure it will happen. Come back here when it does.
There were more people dying in 2021, 2022, 2023 and even 2024 than in 2020. The death rate has actually increased. Even cancer, myocarditis, sudden adult death, miscarriages, etc are on the rise.
@@leilamb1978 I mean, to be fair, in my opinion, from what I saw, and my 10 year old self's opinion on life, 2021 felt worse than 2020. 2020 was worse, but 2021 was really when the realization sank in for me.
As a 14 year old I am absolutely flabbergasted by this. I had to experience 2020 and lockdown at the age of 10 and those years locked in my house with nowhere to go were one of the most depressing and worst years of my life so far. I only had an I pad and a TV and I would watch constantly every single day and I was so miserable because I would spend days watching on my I pad until my stomach became sick. It always felt like the air I was breathing was filling me up with dust. I couldn’t meet any of my friends, I couldn’t go to the park anymore, I couldn’t hug anyone outside, all I had were electronics to cope. After I got back to school I had to go start middle school. I realized how much the pandemic has effected me. I forgot how to socialize, I became more depressed, I was insecure of showing the lower half of my face (because of masks). I became addicted to social media because I couldn’t socialize anymore. I even had to skip my EQAO test and to me that made me sad because I have ADHD and I really am trying to improve but I can’t catch up anymore because I am so behind.
Can relate, I was your age at the time and 2020 was HELL for me. I wasn’t allowed to have social media and therefore wasn’t allowed to talk with my friends(I had a lot of them before the pandemic). 2020 was a hellhole and these kids romanticizing it is insane
Hey man, I know how you feel. When the pandemic started, I was 15 years old and in the latter half of my sophomore year of high school. It was one of the most isolating experiences of my life having to get up every single day and stare at a screen in order to get my education. The amount of distractions that were prevalent in my life were at an all-time high and I couldn’t process them all. I had suicidal tendencies and had to be admitted into a hospital because of it. The thing that people don’t tell you is that things will get better with time, and you’ll eventually figure things out. When I was put back into school, I learned that computer science was one of the things I was most passionate about. Now I’m interning at a company that’s partnered with Microsoft. I hope things come as easy for you as it did for me. Know that you are strong and loved! ❤
I remember bed rotting in 2020.. It was so bad i started missing ON-LINE CLASSES and then the next year i got covid. The internet was my only escape since i couldnt even leave my house
Who wouldn't love to be a teen in the 2020's, right? Having nearly three years taken out of your best time of your life and getting some very fun mental health problems because of the virus is SOOO great, right? Right?!
I will admit, being an early teenager in 2020 was fun on the INTERNET, the trends were actually fun and we were all weird together. The pandemic WAS NOT. Bring back the trends, but not the pandemic or the tragedy that happened
I so agree. I was around 13-14? So prime age of the teenager years😭 I’m 17 now and will be 18 this year. I loved the trends of 2020, so much was happening, all while trying to bring us together during a difficult time. I was homeschooled so nothing was to out of the ordinary for me, just not being able to travel much, go places with friends, and using face masks everywhere kinda sucked a lot. I remember video calling on zoom with my close friends, having little movie nights and stuff. The pandemic seems like a fever dream for me now.
@@Ariel-lol I was and still am exactly the same age as you, I'm 18 in december, being a teen during covid had its benefits (I wasn't hit too much academically and was too young to have responsibilities) but I also missed out on a lot of socialisation, friendships and other teenage things I should've experienced. Things didn't really open up fully for us and go back to normal until end of 2021, I spent the whole of covid with 1 friend and other than that people I met on discord, it was actually a horrible time for me and my school completely changed up their system, covid helped me find out I'm autistic though which is one thing but the damage it did to me mentally I'm only just getting over honestly, I hate the realisation I literally wasted all my teen years on discord and crying over fictional characters because I literally had 0 contact with the outside world beyond 3 people and my world view ended up a lil wacky 😭
100% agree. I was lucky that covid happened while I was in 7th grade, as it wasn’t that serious in terms of our education compared to those who were juniors and seniors at the time. As much as I miss staying home, skipping classes on zoom, and binging TV shows like there was no tomorrow (literally), you cannot pay me to go through all those terrible things that happened again in 2024.😭 It was a different level of fear knowing that there wasn’t a cure to an airborne virus that was killing millions people including your own relatives, which made it even worse. Plus, as a junior in high school, i don’t want to graduate on a zoom meeting next year, no thanks…
I totally agree what you said about how the trends were fun and all of us were weird, and sharing stuff on the internet! One thing I notice now is that because people were isolated, we were more creative inside our own environment, but now people in 2023-2024 try to fit in with other people than being themselves (?). I just think it’s really sad/ tired to see everyone fit into one standard “society” now because everyone was inside, possibly alone unable to interact with other people. This is kind of a switch of topic, but I also think because of the change during the pandemic, 2020 to mid-2022, people started to realize that we were going back to the norm. Possibly causing this effect of aesthetics to change throughout these past few years. This most likely had to happen because of going back to school/ work and making people scared to be in public spaces again and even being judged. Also the making of new trends and aesthetics comes into play as they made everyone the same these past few months (Sorry if i don’t make any sense making my points and please ignore my bad grammar).
I'm a similar age to Haley, 21 in a couple weeks now, but it was a horror show for me and a lot of my classmates. I remember getting quarantined in my room because my mother was one of the vulnerable and more likely to have to be hospitalised if she were to catch it. We lived every day in anxiety that if we went out we would bring it back and maybe mum would get it and then we would lose her. It was horrible. I was doing my Alevels at the time (for Americans, this is a set of exams in the UK that take place over the course of two years starting from after our GCSEs - another two year course of exams - at 16 and going until about 18.) I remember friends in the year above not being told what was happening with their grades, so many people failed or did worse and didn't get into the universities they wanted because of it. We had to cut out massive portions of our syllabus because even though we did get back to school in our final year, we were not able to catch up, no one in the country was. It wasn't until less than a month before our exams were that we were told what was happening. Sure it was nice to be able to sit outside with a smoothie in the summer while doing your class but. That was like, the only upside. Covid was horrible and stressful for all elder teenagers and young adults at university, especially those studying in a medical field, my elder sister was a frontline radiographer in her final year of university, didn't get a graduation until like two years later.
During 2020 I was quite young. Like 12? I lived the entirety of March as if in a trance. I do not remember it whatsoever, i feel like it was so terrible my brain just. Erased it. Why someone would want to relive that time is beyond me
I was 13 when lockdown began. I’d just moved house and schools a month before so I didn’t even have friends to text or call during lockdown. I never attended online classes cause the school I went to didn’t fully integrate me into the classes so my teachers didn’t know who I was. I don’t remember anything about the lockdown but I know my mental health was terrible. I lost family members and multiple got long Covid, I can’t believe that gen alpha is romanticising it like it didn’t have a horrible effect on peoples lives
2020 asthetic: being 10-12 and growing up way too fast, bed rotting all day, not leaving the house, quarantining your groceries, falling even further behind in school 🌸✨❤
“I wIsH CoViD wAs BaCk😭” UMMM EXCUSE ME WHAT?! i’m a Gen Z very grateful for how in raised and i speak for all of us we don’t clam yall and waking up during Covid my thoughts were like “Jeez another fucking day” i wasn’t suicid@l but i didn’t want to be in Covid anymore
wish covid was back? you want people to die and die( maybe even including your family) just because you want to be isolated and only be on the internet, not interacting with people irl?? not you btw its the gen alpha’s that are doing this shi
Im gen z to and I do not claim those people either covid just made me feel really suicidal and my social skills worsened and I lost a lot of friends (im an introvert so you can imagine how much more harder it is to make friends or to even speak up for myself at this point) I don't want anything like covid to happen again and if it does that might just be the end of me
I honestly am so sad for all the teenagers in 2020, especially the teens who did not have the chance to have a graduation year. I am so sad you guys did not get to have the experiences you deserved.
Also what in the fuck are they actually talking about? To me as a 22 year old, during the pandemic, with siblings who were teenagers, not ONE thing on their "2020 Lockdown" bs has NOTHING to do with any events or things that happened🤣 They are literally romanticizing the things 10 year olds were interested in.
The real 2020 aesthetic is reliving the same day over and over, worrying about if your parents will be okay if they go outside to get groceries, and sitting down staring at a computer for 20 hours a day 🩷🥰🧚♀️😁☺️
It's so wild to me to see these new kiddies wishing they were my age. I spent my 21st birthday with a bottle of liquor at home and my first presidential election as a voter nearly ended in a coup. I couldn't go to the damn ice cream truck, let alone a bar, without having a full-blown panic attack that that little jaunt might leave me an orphan and/or only child. I sincerely hope they *don't* have to go through that (with the saddest part being that they'll probably go through even worse than that given the state of things). Tbf I did used to wish I was a few years older because I'm *just* too young to have experienced a lot of interesting cultural moments (e.g. I wish I had experienced the hype of Y2K even as a small child with some awareness of what was happening- instead I was a neonate that was supposed to still be a fetus), but like... at least that was 25 years ago and not literally four years ago aka *just happened*
I was 16 for most of 2020, I became depressed to the point of being bedridden, began missing all of my online classes, and had my first ever true mental breakdown and the most vivid contemplations of suicide I’ve ever had. Truly a phenomenal year amirite 🤪
2020-2022 was literally the worst years of my life. So many people dying, relatives dying, and my family are doctors so that was even worse. If Gen Alpha considers worldwide death "sO aEsThEtIc" this is it for society.
As a 15 yr old gen z, I speak for all of us by saying, we do not claim these teens!!! Edit: btw gen z is supposed to be 96'-12' so thats why i said this
I was 10 when the lockdown started, but i hated it so much. I lost my grandmother to covid and my father to suicide. I hated not even being able to travel to their funeral. It was an awful time and the fact that people MY age want it back is so disturbing for me. I will never forget that time and it will always haunt me.
I was 13 when the pandemic breakout happened and it wasn’t all “stay inside and play video games all day” it was literal pain going through every day knowing that one of my relatives might be dying or dead while I had no clue who it was. I lost touch with so many friends and literally cried during one of my zoom calls. It’s NOTHING to wish for.
Wow this is crazy. Suicide rates went up, addiction went up more, depression and anxiety went up. 3 of my mom’s coworkers husbands took their lives. This just shows their age, naïve. Me and my mom are both in the medical field (RN) and there was nothing to romanticize let me tell you. 🤦🏻♀️
@@ethanchasejackson Well yea it happens all the time. Sadly. But it did technically rise more during the pandemic with Covid. People were isolated more then before and people were out of work and relationships were more tense in ways because people didn’t get space to the same degree.
As a kid who experienced 2020, It is so disrespectful that people are romantisizing the worst year ever for me. NO. You don't want to have to experience this, gen alpha. We HATED this year.
As fellow teen who’s been through 2020, this was not only disrespectful but just so unexpected. I saw the thumbnail and I thought the hate was getting to gen alpha and that similar to us, they were insecure about not being born in gen Z and constantly being hated on for that. However, apparently the world thought we needed a “preppy lockdown” trend, and it’s absolutely insane. This isn’t just offensive, it’s putting gen alpha in even more danger by bringing their reputation down, and I do not want another generation of children feeling horrible for not being born before a certain year! Why they want to go back, I have the reason. We often roleplays as people form the 1800’s, biblical times, etc, and they were all really messed up times. Gen alpha is replicating us, the only difference being that we’re replicating people that are well… dead, and can’t retaliate. Another reason could be the interests at the time, the prime of things like Among us and roblox, because nowadays both are considered cringe. They hate school, and also probably enjoy what was trendy at the time (or find them vintage, just like gen z and things form the 1900’s), so of course they think it was the prime of our life when it certainly wasn’t. Just don’t loose faith in humanity my friends, we still have hope for gen alpha, I’ve run into a multitude of sane kids of that generation Even checked on my local gen alpha, he’s completely fine, doesn’t even know what ‘Skibidi’ means
As a part gen alpha, I am tired and sick of these parents letting their unmonitored kids go out. My parents trusts that I am mature enough to go on the internet alone, so I trust them too. These kids aren't gonna have a good future if their parents leave them like this.
Agreed, I’ve met some great gen alpha kids but I’m sick and tired of almost each of them on the internet making one of the most TOXIC times in the WORLD preppy, making it sound like it’s FUN, it’s NOT, sure there’s no school, sure there’s “fReE tImE”but there’s way more awful things then good, people lost their LIVES, THEY LOST THEIR GRADUATIONS, FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS, COVID was NOT FUN, we didn’t get to play outside, we had to resort to isolation so that we didn’t get some awful sickness that could’ve killed us, NOT FUN
i am a gen alpha and i will admit 2020 had its bad sides, I hated it but it meant more time with family. but I also couldn't see my friends, I WOULD LITERALLY ZOOM CALL THEM!!! i didn't have a phone at the time, these kids need to grow up and realize that that year ruined humanity
i’m actually screaming, i was trying to cope with my anxiety during pre pandemic, and practicing social interactions was smth needed for me. 2020 happened and i had to go at home and now my social skills are absolutely asss and my anxiety is worse 🙃
Gen Z should start doing "2008 core" where we all pretend that being a teenager in 2008 was awesome and chill while completely ignoring what it was like
To answer yall’s question, I personally was only 2 in 2008, but my mom talked about it enough to where I was aware of what was happening. I believe it was the stock market crash that they’re referring to, and maybe Obama’s second time in office, as well? The only really prominent issue that 2008 had was the stock market crashing so I’m going to assume that’s what they mean
The only reason I could see ANYONE wanting to revisit 2020 is because of the music, because the music in 2020 was kinda iconic. Aside from that...... WHY?!!!!
2020 was actually a good year for me, and i’ve wanted to go back to that year but i only want MYSELF to.i’m aware it was a really bad year, i just want my innocence back man i wanna be happy😭
I was 11 during the pandemic, and even though i do have many great memories from that time and all the tiktok trends back then are so nostalgic now, I would never go back. I was going through depression at such a young age because of the pandemic. Sometimes I wish tiktok had a higher age limit :/
I remember in 2020 when my parents' friend got covid and *DIED* and they didnt get to see him. I refuse to believe anyone with a *functioning brain* would romanticize a time like that.
That’s sad a lot of ppl died and one of my bffs died of Covid I was 9 or 10 at the time so no one told me and last year I just knew and I was sooo sad I cried A lot and ppl are ROPLAYING IT ?!?!
I’m sorry for your loss I was born in 2009 And there are literally 2010s loving 2020 It was hell 4 years ago 4 YEARS AGO OH MY GOSH 5 years ago I was in 4th grade In school Social 😢 The 2010s years were better Even though I was younger and didn’t know much It still agree that back then it was the best part of younger Gen Z’s until Gen Alpha’s popped up and also Gen Z’s got older
As an 18 Year Old Gen Z, I can comfortably confirm that NO ONE in their right mind wants to go back to 2020 OF ALL YEARS!! Like, DO YALL REMEMBER THAT WE WERE LITERALLY LIVING IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC WHERE WE COULDN'T GO OUTSIDE AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES?!!! Yeah, I don't think anyone wants to relive that experience again.
I got covid once and i ended up giving it to my mom and brother and i was scared that i was going to be the cause of losing them which fucked my depression even worse at that time. {i am doing better tho} but like why does Gen alpha have to bring out the worse times in history and try to make it look and sound like it’s paradise like why {idk if someone who is born in 2008 is a gen alpha plz tell me i am not one of them}
That was the worst time ever. My dad got covid once and it was genuinely scary to witness, I was so scared that he was going to die. And on top of that my mother who works in hospitals had so many responsibility on her shoulders, and with all the effort she was doing, it felt like she wasn't given enough credits for her actions.
i lost my sanity during the pandemic. i was scared of going inside a grocery store and i gained a bit of weight too. i was hella miserable. wouldnt wish it upon anyone.
I was twelve in 2020 so while I may not have experienced being a proper teen those couple of years ago, I clearly remember all that was happening. Lockdown was actually a blessing for me as I have extreme social anxiety and was abused by peers at school, but at the same time Covid was hell, especially if you were a hospital patient around that time. I was in the psych ward for two months in early 2022 when there were still covid restrictions in my country (central Europe). I had to spend a night in a literal plastic room on a crappy bed with no shower, an open toilet and no privacy just so my covid test could go through, and then those few weeks were hell. No visitors were allowed so parents quite literally would stand outside before the windows and scream at their kids which were a few floors up just so that they could see their faces through crappy windows. The only contact we had with family was through the two Nokia phones the ward had and let me tell you, people were literally fighting over them to get a minute in with their parents. I’m not kidding, I’d seen people stuff the phones in their underwear just so that they could call their mums. And then a year later I’m admitted again and expect that same sort of crap but instead, the ward is open for visitors, for four hours a day you could see your parents… It was amazing, or at least as amazing as it gets in a mental hospital. Teenagers were so deprived of social interactions… I remember a situation in late 2021 when my school re-opened after A YEAR AND A HALF, but if someone got covid the whole class had quarantine for 2 weeks. Guess who got covid? I did, and my class was literally HARASSING ME for taking two weeks of socializing away from them and I UNDERSTOOD WHY! Kids that are just two or three years younger than me would give anything for two weeks off school, and yet just a few years ago my whole class was pissed at me because they had to stay home. Can you imagine? I sure as hell DO NOT want 2020-2021 back. And these Gen Alpha girlies wouldn’t either if they realised that instead of waking up at 6am to make some wipped coffee before online classes, I was barely passing ART CLASS because I had NO MOTIVATION TO TURN LITERAL PAINTINGS OF FISH IN. Oh, and guess what the cherry on top is? My dad was literally stuck in a different country suffering from a severe case of covid and he couldn’t even go to the hospital because HE WASN’T DYING YET AND IN 2020-2021, YOU ONLY WENT TO THE HOSPITAL IF YOU WERE LITERALLY DYING BECAUSE THEY HAD NO ROOM FOR ANYONE ELSE. My blood is boiling, gosh. I’m truly tempted to make one of these "RoLePLaY 2020” Tiktok accounts just to post about the reality of quarantine.
When they Gen alphas send the “Good old days” I completely lost it. My Grandpa was LITERALLY part of 3.4 million deaths, and they call it the “Good” old days?? What the actual hell??? Want to know what the actual “Good Old Days” were? It was when kids were being kids. When they weren’t influenced by social media, when parents didn’t have their DEVICES babysit kids. Parents need to start parenting, so that their child doesn’t end up like a train wreck. [Edit: i got over my grandpa's deatg long ago but thanks guys :)]
@@Hiidontknowwutimdoing Not to crash the party but they say that about every generation, including our own. Must we continue this? The oldest of gen alpha are still very young.
REAL. These kids are being like " omgg I need my whipped coffee and to make tik toks between zoom classes." Personally i was having panic attacks DAILY. hated waking up. And I STILL cry whenever i hear the civil defence alerts. Bc i knew that meant enough people had died that we needed more rules. My uncle has cystic fibrosis. Hes a teacher. Even nowadays covid would kill him.
As a fellow gen Z (2004), there were SOME aspects of 2020 I liked (being able to work from home, some aspects of online learning for certain classes, etc). Sure the whole lockdown stuff was a pain in the butt (as someone from Victoria, Australia, it was eccentric most of the time considering I live in the middle of nowhere and they based most of the lockdowns on the city and didn't give a crap when it actually hit us), people dying and getting sick was AWFUL but there are some aspects that were okay. People wearing masks to prevent the spread of illness, staying home when you're sick and making sure you have good hygiene, were some of the best takeaways. I'm not saying romanticising the whole thing is the way to go, just that we did learn some stuff.
2020 got me so low that I finally caved and asked my parents for therapy and an official diagnosis for depression and ADHD I had been putting it off since I didn't want them to think I was lying about it, and 2020 is what made me break. All I did was sleep, I lost the daily routine I worked so hard to build, and I still haven't recovered from it. 2020 is not the year to romanticize, and it's literally only been 4 years since it happened
i was a very small child in 2014, the only thing i miss is being completely unaware of everything outside in 2020 i was a child still, i miss ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING I WAS BLIND WITH RAGE BC I COULDN'T SEE MY FRIENDS, all i did was watch youtube, play with barbies, and play wildcraft. I also only got 1 extra month off school unless i had the plague , then i got 1 month and 1 week. thanks to the kids who got my class sick w/ covid on purpose. - my friend
too many people see 2020 as “yay, no school/work!” as if even the most introverted people weren’t sick of not being allowed to go ANYWHERE without the risk of social judgment and/or getting infected. 2020 was my senior year and i’m lucky my graduation wasn’t canceled but the yearly reminder that i didn’t get to have prom very much does hurt
I agree with the prom part ngl. Was looking at dresses already before it all hit .😢I also had my graduation in person, but we were limited on how many each of us could invite.
As an introvert, I kinda enjoyed being alone, together with my family. It's enough for me, but I understand your pov. Sorry that you missed your prom mate :(
I also graduated in 2020, and I bought my prom dress weeks before it was announced that both school and prom would be canceled :( And I actually HATED missing out on going to school as opposed to online classes
Imagine going through a literal pandemic where thousands of people lost people they cared about and loved, struggled to put food on the table and to simply buy toilet paper, people losing their jobs and ruining out of money because their business ended up falling apart, being isolated in your home every day, and being in the worst mental state you have ever been in then a bunch of kids on the internet making it an “aesthetic”
This is what it felt like and if ur talking abt Gen alpha I am apart of it and embarrassed to say it now because of all these other kids and as apart of Gen alpha I apologize and the other regular Gen alphas and me can agree we do not claim these kids bc 2020 was hell for me.
@@Kitaco. Don’t be embarrassed on the behalf of others because as long as you know right from wrong you are smart enough to speak out on what is wrong 🙌
Not to mention the fear of getting Covid yourself. My whole family contracted Covid, and it was hell. It was not fun and terrifying bc for I know, one of us could have died due to it! Especially my parents, aunts, and uncles who are older (if you don't know people who are older were more at risk of dying due to Covid). How is this something to enjoy?! Many people were not in a good financial state. Most of these gen alpha parents were most likely struggling to pay for the most basic things (like toliet paper).
@@jennym81 im gen alpha and I remember my mom was struggling to buy us stuff during the pandemic and before it i was extroverted and not that shy and then after it changed me i became introverted and shy
fr like one of my close neighbours unfortunately passed from covid three years ago. why should 2020, a terrible year with a virus pandemic killing thousands of people, be made an aesthetic by gen alpha?
As a 14 year old This is the most sickening thing ive ever heard. i barely got a social interaction once a week, my grades were dropping like never before, i was struggling with mental health issues, new insecurities, online school, and puberty because i was literally TEN YEARS OLD. i had my first double-digit birthday in a lockdown. i was so miserable, i wasnt focusing in online school, and to top it all off, I lost a relative (not due to COVID, but it still scarred me). i literally had to rebuild myself once lockdown ended, and i was extremely insecure when i started middle school. since i moved to the house im currently living in (in 2017), i had to build up my self-esteem and self-worth, and imagine all of that being ripped from you in a simple few months. taking walks and making whipped coffee wasn't even known back then. this is actually sickening. i refuse to consider myself as part of that generation. hell no.
I was 13. Living ALONE with my cousins who were no older than 12. Because our parents were quarantined away from us because they were taking care of my grandfather who had COVID. We five kids ( aging between 9 to 13) were all alone. I remember crying every night because I wasn't sure whether I was GOING TO SEE MY PARENTS EVER AGAIN!!!??? AND NOW SEEING THESE KIDS DYING TO LIVE IN 2020 AGAIN LITERALLY TRAUMATIZE ME!!
tw i’m a 14 yr old gen z i literally couldnt hang out with friends, had to save my sister from su1c1d3 multiple times witnessing her being sent to the mental hospital 3 times, witness the abuse of my family stuck inside of a house without any form of escape because we’re stuck in lockdown we were so traumatized, yet, they think all of this is something aesthetic to roleplay???
tw (srry for randomly venting i wanna share my experience) in 2020, i was just listening to hatsune miku, my parents went into an argument that resulted in physical violence & my brother nearly ended his life. i was scared, like im still 12 whys everyone acting strange..? im so sick looking at „2020 aesthetic!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤“ as if a deadly virus is cute or quirky or wtv these braindead ppl r thinking
im 14 also and everyone has different experiences, im sorry for what you had to go through but not everyone was traumatized. I think the gen alphas around 10-13 just want their childhood back, because in the covid pandemic all of those 10-13 years now would be in around 4th grade back then. If you think about it ppl did not learn well online because it was new and teachers couldn't not make people cheat. I think that they missed out of about 1 and a half good elementary school days, and now they are all in middle school and feel as if they missed out. that's just my opinion tho:)
I was three days away from being 13 when the world shut down, i got lucky, i was home schooled at the time so my routine didnt change except for having to be stuck inside. I was so thankful that we celebrated my birthday early so that my grandparents could come celebrate with me. I hated being stuck inside, concerned on if my mom and dad were gonna get sick going out. Scrambling for something to do in order to keep my mind off the messed up situation outside (i live in America so there was also that whole debacle), eventually me and my older brother started going on walks around our neighborhood (which we were only allowed to do about three months after lockdown started). Someone help those kids who think that just because some of us got to stay home from school we were happy, and i hope that someone shoves the death toll from the pandemic years in their faces to get them to open up their damn eyes.
Man- i've got no words, 2020 was simply one of my worst phases everi tried to unalive myself couple of times, i couldnt stand the isolation and fr my socializing skills went down hill-
As a 13 year old turning 14 soon, I do not claim these kids. Why would anyone wanna relive a time where so many people died, people were scared for their lives, and couldn’t even see other people!? Edit: I- I go back on RU-vid after a few hours and have so many notifications 👀 Also btw gen z end 2012 so technically I am gen z and anyone under 11 is gen alpha I think
I lost my job, nearly everyone I know developed an alcohol problem, and one of my friends tried to end herself because she couldn't cope with the isolation, but I guess we didn't drink enough whipped coffee...
when i was like 9 (in 2020) i was kinda happy to be staying inside and stuff but i had no clue what was happening i was too young to realize thousands of people were dying. but these people are ROMANTICIZING that. like tf?!?
covid genuinely ruined my life. i was a senior. it took graduating high school away, took prom away, took college away, took my friends away, took my boyfriend away. it was the catalyst for my sister’s bipolar psychosis. it killed my mom. my mental health will never be the same as it was before quarantine, idk how to make friends anymore or how to manage being in groups for more than a couple hours at a time, i cant go to college anymore because of how bad my fear of other people has become. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT CHILDREN WANT THAT. december 2019 was genuinely the last time i felt safe and happy without any underlying fear of covid. even still i feel like that. everything i continue to learn about gen alpha actually makes me feel like im going to blow a gasket good lord
I'm so sorry to hear that! I wasn't nearly as affected as you were! Sending prayers your way, COVID was horrible and I hope nobody goes through the same thing ever again. This video brought back some demons for us all, I hope you find friends that love you, I hope your sister becomes well, and most of all, I hope you and the rest of your family stays healthy for years to come! Sincerely from a young Gen Z
I’m really sorry to hear that. As someone who also struggles with anxiety don’t be afraid to try pushing yourself. The more you fight back the less control it has over you. Of course you don’t have to if you’re not comfortable but either way I hope you’re doing as relatively okay as you can be right now.
Living in fear of an invisible enemy wasn’t fun, and it was legitimately terrifying. Every cough would warrant a covid test, no matter how minimal. Their parents much have done a damn good job shielding from the gravity of the situation.
It wasn’t like that for everywhere where I was at. I didn’t change anything except the big box stage. You had to wear a mask. You still want to work like normal kids kids still went to school
@@ElinWinblad I thought ALL SCHOOLS GLOBALLY were closed from March - May 2020...although most did reopen eventually by August for the next school year....either way there was an interruption in the routine of most school aged children for about 3 months of that year.
As a kid in 2020, i was like 9 or smt. it was horrifying. I could'nt go to my grandma's, I could'nt go outside, it was a suffocating enviornment and I, for one am really adventerous. School became way tougher because I vividly remember crying over homework assignments.
I fully support this. Gen Alpha needs to embrace the 2020 lifestyle and just stay in their homes. Leave the rest of us alone. Go inside weirdos! And stay there, please!
Gen Alpha is a bunch of teens or preteens who never went outside or played pretend or mirror play with their friends outside. No offense, but what I am saying is that none is do them were the generation to actually go outside in the sun and play outside while coming home until 10:30 pm. While your mom wants you to come back home for dinner or bed when it is getting dark outside too fast. They grew up with their formative years indoors without any social interaction or any human interaction outside of their immediate family. They don’t understand our society we live in. They don’t know what society was like back at those times. They grew up staying inside not socializing with other people outside of their cellphones and immediate family. Lol, I am trying not to sound like a younger baby boomer, I’m only 18 and I’m not that much older then Generation Alpha. I was born in 2005. But as a core Gen Z’er this is weird and they probably missed out socializing in their formative years of teen hood..
I already stay home enough as a gen alpha not ALL gen alpha's are insane Cause i know quite a few fellow gen alphas at my age group and their not Insane and their pretty cool
I didn't get to have a graduation, I didn't get to have a prom, I didn't get to have a graduation party, I actually became a full blown alcoholic, as many others did, during COVID. millions of people lost their lives, wtf is going ON
@@shmokeyjointssame lol... i see all these people complain about how horrible their life was during covid by listing things i live on the daily/i've gone throught without covid... and i mean that's fair cause i guess it sucks but it lowkey feels insulting? like damn would you really be that unhappy if you had my life the whole time... gee
@@violetbitch9492people are allowed to have bad experiences, just because you've had it bad your whole life doesn't mean it's "insulting" This was a time where everyone and everything had come to a halt, and people were understandably, having hard times
I'm 15 now, I was 10 when the pandemic first hit in 2020, during this time, my dad was diagnosed with cancer (unrealed to covid ofc) he died less than 2 weeks after diagnosis on May 25, 2020 due to a rare mutation that caused the cancer to spread rapidly though his body. Because of the covid quarantine, I never got to say goodbye. The last time I saw him was before he went in for scanning (before they knew it was cancer) I remember hugging him crying, not know what to think. The last words I said to him was "I'm scared". Not I love you, not goodbye, not even it'll be okay. He died alone in the hospital with no family due to the social distancing restrictions that were in place at the time. My sister never got to say goodbye, my grandma never got to say goodbye, I never got to say goodbye. I find it absolutely insane that anyone would want to be stuck in a nightmare like that
2020 as a teenager was horrible. I was a sophomore in high school. I missed out on so many key teenage experiences because of it. These kids are crazy.
Same here. I was a sophomore in High school when it happened, And because of it, my junior year was a complete disaster, the worst year I ever had in High School. I barley managed to graduate, As I was a Junior for the first half of my Senior Year because of my grades. It was so so awful and I never want to go through that again.
Same. I was a sophomore and 15 years old at the time lockdown happened. It upended everything, and I completely missed out on having a normal high school experience. It sucked, but I felt REALLY bad for the seniors who were supposed to graduate in 2020... They couldn't have prom or walk the stage at graduation.
As a 14 year old, 2020 was the worst time in my entire life. I was literally depressed even though we got to go outside more because we were stuck at South Korea. If anything, I want to forget that 2020 and 2021 even existed. I seriously do not understand why these kids think Roblox and animal crossing was the only thing that existed during that time. The low quality of online school is the reason why American schools are having a crisis rn.
Every day I'd ask my mom if they were already vaccinating minors so I could finally feel like it was over. I didn't even care if it hurt. I just wanted that vaccine.
I think the reason why I want it back is because those were the times that I was happiest and I miss it. Yes thousands of people were dying but its so nostalgic to think back at it and look at all of the trends that really were a part of my childhood. I'd give the world to relive that.
I’m gen Z (2007) i was 13, freshly a teen in the time of the pandemic and it genuinely was one of if not the worst years of my life. I will admit two weeks off school sounded fun at first and we did have good, fun culture and community on the internet during that time but THATS BECAUSE WE WERE LITERALLY STUCK INSIDE OUR HOMES AND WAS OUR ONLY CHOICE OF SOCIAL INTERACTION. Mine and many others mental health was at our complete lowest, everyday felt like a endless loop just wasting our lives away. Grocery/essentials stores were EMPTY. Not to mention we had lost so many social and educational opportunities due to lockdowns as well, on top of that being the year my dad was arrested and i had the most family trauma. I understand that these kids may have been to young to understand the severity of COVID/2020 like YALL also missed out on a good portion of your childhoods too😭
I was born in 2009. It was awful. That was also when I struggled most, because my damned therapists were mostly unavailable online. Meaning my ADHD meds? Nonexistent. Can say that the Internet was fun, though.
Bro I was entering puberty and transitioning from a child to a teenager back then 💀, but all I remember is wearing suffocaters (masks) and having no friends because I wasn't used to being back in person, and on top of that this was at a new school. It was only in High School that I went back to normal, but even then I still slacked off in school (still do). So as if my pre-teen/early teen years weren't already awful enough, I can't even imagine what 2020 was like for young adults at the time. Unfortunately, things are continuing to get even worse as the years go on...
as a girl born in 2011 I agree with basically every word you utter. it's crazy because like even at the age I was in 2020 I understood how serious covid was and now I've realized that a lot of others my age didn't and the fact that people in gen alpha and late gen z are trying to romanticize a time where a lot of people were struggling and dying all around them it's an absolutely insane thought that people WANT to relive a time like that.
were these kids... not alive during lockdown?? how do they not remember the hell it was???? jesus christ 😭 i PRAY nothing like that ever happens again. most of us still suffer from mental health because of that.
I feel like we're forgetting that gen alpha missed half of their childhood because of the pandemic. They're equally traumatized as the 'pandemic teens'. They were too young to fully understand just how bad everything was in 2020, so now they're romanticizing the 'good parts' of it. I guess they see it as 'while I spent my childhood without fun things like playdates, birthday parties and time with my grandparents, the teens at least had *some* good things like not waking up at 6am for school, playing videogames and FaceTiming friends all day and doing random stuff like a trampoline sleepover.'
Exactly. I feel like this point is not being brought up enough when people are discussing why gen A is having trouble reading/ learning/ socializing etc... People always act like phones and social media are the main culprits, even though these kids have literally spent half of their lives without any social interaction ...
I was 7-8 years old during Covid and Reception + half of year 1 were my only normal years in school. I totally agree, for me though it was terrifying knowing there was a virus going around and we were locked inside for like 2 years or whatever…. People don’t pay enough attention to this because after covid/during Covid I developed really bad anxiety and a phobia of germs. Sometimes im a bit embarrassed to be gen alpha. Gen Z are not the only kids that suffered in lockdown and some videos like this make it seem that way bc honestly I ‘grew up quicker’ because of lockdown. (Btw I loved having trampoline sleepovers before and after Covid)
Exactly. I can't say this enough, I'd think back in 2022 I'd say "Man! I wish i could go back to 2020" But i said that because i was stupid as hell. I never realized how much i lost out on. I gained some extra weight, became _even more_ socially awkward (I've always had social issues, unfortunately). My relationship with the rest of my family detoriated away. I've lost all the weight, but still working on my social skills. I am 15 now.
@Sakura-High-official I have the exact same issue. I was eight when Covid began and it seriously changed my life. Honestly, it's also because Gen Alpha's lives were simpler back then. People act like we never missed out on anything and we had the dandiest lives of them all. Back then, we wouldn't be bullied over anything we did. We were actually living our lives as kids, as we should be now. However, we just act like we're teenagers because the media consumed us when we were younger (e.g. when Covid started). I don't think that anybody understands that now, most of us hate the trends that go around. We don't want to be associated with skincare kids and Andrew Tate. We just want to live our lives like how we did in 2020, which was when life was most simple for us. We would play among us and roblox, we would go on online school where we usually weren't bullied or laughed at, and we would spend our time being young. Although I understand that us Gen Alpha's missed out on our childhood, I genuinely don't understand the need to romanticise it. I feel like we obviously didn't understand what was going on, but it would hurt so badly for the people who died or lost out on those years. But, then again, everybody lost time. We can't forget that Gen Z had wanted to go back to the late 2000s because time was simpler for them. This is literally the exact same thing in my eyes (as a Gen Alpha, obviously).
I'm late Gen Z (born late 90s) and I am seriously concerned for these kids. In 2020 was not a fun time for ANYONE, especially kids and teenagers. Edit: My bad, I'm Early Gen Z.
Year 97 Z here. 2020 was the time I was making the most money in my life, gas was cheap and my depression seem to disappear for most of it. Still wouldn't do it again
Honestly, 2020 was one of the best times of my life, my social anxiety like went away cuz everything was online, also bike riding in an empty city was a amazing. 2021 is when my hapiness crashed. I was like 2020? ppl gonna get depressed imma make my life better then 2021 was like HA u thought.
as a young gen Z who is from a third world country - and suffered a lot from the pandemic (for parents getting very poor, losing basic social interactions, total isolation, etc), these people are INSANE.
as a 14 years old now i hated 2020 one of my family member died from covid and we weren’t even able to go see them or be there for their family i remember being so social awkward when we went back to school i didnt even make any friends for half a year the i was a quiet kid and only had 1 friend before covid and after it i dont even know if he's alive??? and idk why other ppl my age are making it a "aesthetic"
Real, I’m 14 too, i lost family members and knew some ppl who lost their parents and their siblings which hit them very hard I got Covid 3 times and it was very traumatising and I completely changed and even after lockdown was over it took me a while to start talking to ppl im still very introverted which is like a major change from my personality before Covid and I even get anxiety attacks sometimes like are these ppl that removed from real life??? Like I don’t think I know any people like them irl I feel so angry at these ppl who are trying to make it an aesthetic
as someone who was born 2009, and is in fact a late gen z, who in there right mind wants to go back to 2020, that was the year I questioned my mental health, and my own damn gender at some point, not to mention that I had to do summer camp online and that also did some damage to my mental health, late 2020 in augest I had in person school, and I hated it, I would fake being sick just to stay out of there. I have a gen alpha brother, and he has never said anything about wanting to be a teenager in 2020. these kids need to go and touch some grass.
Sadly we were not only affected by the lack of activities but our excessive online presence during that time was truly causing many of us mental issues. Some of those issues we may never of had without the added online time. I don't think people realize how dangerous the internet is in large doses, I mean is your gender something you think you would truly have thought as much about if it wasn't being shoved down our throats so heavily online during that time? Maybe so, but I bet you would have been better mentally prepared to handle it during a normal time. Glad u made it out ok😊
I remember during covid I was actually so upset, I would cry like almost every day. I would wonder when the next time I would see my friends would be, or wanted to get out of my house so badly
@@headphonesaxolotl to put it short, it would be in the evening and we would get sent a box with the stuff for activities, it wasn't very fun, we did for I think 3 years before sitting back to in person, it sucked so much doing it online
i was 15 & 16 during lockdown, literally prime teenage years. i literally had one normal year of highschool before covid. after covid, high school wasnt the same and i was already about to graduate soon. i remember being scared for my family members and concerned that my mom got laid off along with many other workers in 2020. my social skills have definitely gotten worse during it. idk how being a teenager during covid changes anything, it was the same fearful experience gen alpha probably had??
I was 11-12 during the pandemic and I can kinda see where they're coming from, but it still doesn't make much sense. Personally, I vaguely miss 2020 because being 11-12 I hadn't quite gotten old enough to realise the depressing truth about the world, it still seemed like a wonderful place where I could just play all day in the sunshine. And I feel like thats where alot of these feelings are coming from: they don't want to actually relive a time where millions of people died and everyone was worried sick about themselves and their relatives, they just wamt to go back to a time where they thought the world was heaven. They don't remember the fact people were severely depressed and anxious from not being allowed to see anyone or leave their homes, they just remember the fact that they got to miss a bit of school and enjoy being free from responsibility . At least, that's how I spent 2020 as a little 11 year old. I managed to dodge the mental health decline of 2020 and just enjoyed being at home rather than in maths class (I was still in elementary/primary school and my school didn't really enforce online learning). I think there are plenty of kids in the 11-15 age group who didn't enjoy 2020, or recognise that not everybody was as happy as they were because they were teens and asults who were actually aware of what was going on. But the problem is is some of these children are really ignorant and just don't realise that not everyone was as young and careless in 2020 as they were. They just remember it as a time when there was no school and they could sit at home and play video games and watch tiktok all day
I’m gen z/alpha (2010) and I wish 2020 never happened. Online school sucked, being stuck at home sucked, constantly being hungry cause you have no money and the store is closed sucked. Why would ANYONE wanna go back??? Yeah, playing animal crossing for hours on end was fun. But that was because it was all we had. 5th grade was supposed to be the greatest year of my life in elementary cause after that I would be going to middle school, but Covid took that away from me and made 5th grade the worst year of my life.
I am around your age, and it was absolutely horrific! School was depressing, I had no friends. My family was in a constant state of stress, and these kids want to go BACK to that??? They are so delusional
I developed ED during the lockdown because of all the anxiety it was causing me, it wasn’t very “aesthetic” as these young girls are making it out to be, and I most certainly didn’t wake up every morning thinking about “whipped coffee” I didn’t even know what that was
I remember in zoom my mom but me a wobble chair bless her but every thing else depressing. My crappy headphones were wired so if it was in the wrong position I couldn’t hear a thing my eyes would hurt my moms friends left her because they thought Covid was fake and I didn’t have any games to play so I would just sit and question life.
If you mean Eating Disorder, same thing happened to me as an 11-12 year old in 2020. In 2021 everything got to me and I developed the disorder, and I started hating my body and life and wishing my teen years could have been different, I starved myself and impulsively vomited food until before I knew it I was in the ICU at 60 lbs. Somehow I’ve forgotten everything from the Covid years, but that’s a good thing I guess. Just know you’re not alone and people are still experiencing the effects of not experiencing their teen/preteen years right, and dumb things like TikTok are in the middle of it. Everything will go back to normal soon, so just keep moving forward and know you’re cared about and we can all get thru this together!
I’m a Gen A myself but the one thing I hate about it is always getting categorized w/ the skibidi toilet people, Sephora tends to year olds, and the other things like that. It really breaks my heart about the kids wanting to relive 2022 I was pretty young then (not gonna say my age) but I still found it horrific.
As a gen alpha who was young around the time of the pandemic, I agree that these kids are insane. I lived in constant worry for my family, well of course to the extent a child is capable of.. I didn’t get the situation fully, but I knew it had to have been bad. These kids are only seeing the “fun” parts.. anime, among us, all that shit. They’re ignoring the part where everyone was stuck inside their houses, living in fear.
My niece graduated from high school during 2020. The graduation ceremony was a line of cars around the school. Each car contained a graduate and three other family members. Your car pulled up in front of the school. The graduate got out walked to a platform was handed their diploma. One family member could stand right outside the car and take a picture. Then everyone got back in and drove away. That was it. No parties, no dinner out, no senior trip with friends. Also my autistic son was crawling the walls because we couldn't go to any of his therapists and online tutoring with the special education department was a joke. He is a senior this year and doing amazing now
That was my middle school graduation when I left 8th grade it was awful I feel bad for all the seniors in 2020 like they descends a real graduation a real prom they all were deprived of all that
The same thing happened to me and I was very bummed to say the least. And they went back to normal grad celebrations 2 years later not even inviting us for a proper redo. At least I got my diploma
My stepdaughter didn't even get that. Diplomas were delivered via mail. The local volunteer fire Co drove the engine around town hitting the lights and siren outside each graduates house.
as a 09 late genz girlie, i was like 11-12 during lockdown and it was litteraly the worst time of my life, i didnt get to experience things like the end of primary school and that like transition into highschool that my siblings got to experience and it was so painful and id literally kill for that to NEVER happen ever again. i was forced to stay inside for months and i never got to see any of my friends or experience my preteen years properly i do not know how ANYONE would want to live or relive that.
I'm as old as you and 2020 traumatized me.I got COVID and I couldn't move my body at all.Like literally I felt like a ZOMBIE.After healing I literally had to take therapy to move my left leg.I don't even wanna relive that year
Gen Alpha at this point is just young people impersonating celebrities and the elite class,trying to live their life around a random pinterest image they saw
i’m also an 09 gen z, i experienced the same thing. it ruined my life. i didn’t even want to live anymore because i already had depression and anxiety. someone romanticizing a time that ruined everyone’s lives and genuinely made everyone want to die is absolutely insane to me. what has this world come to. Jesus take the wheel. 🤦🏼♀️
I was around 12 when quarantine hit, but I was aware of everything that was happening around me, the lockdowns the people dying and I'm gonna say this. 2020 was not sunshine at all. As a kid all you wanna do is go outside talk with friends do anything but even as a kid I had to realize that not all life is sunshine and rainbows. My house was hit HARD during COVID-19 and it was a very bad time. Even if my parents tried to make me live in ignorance I pieced things and realized everything. If gen alpha wants to go through all the trouble we had to go through ( as kids or teenagers. Even the parents during quarantine.) and " make it an aesthetic" I think they better realize that they're dreaming.
i was like 13 during the pandemic ? (i’m 17 now) honestly sometimes i miss it. i don’t miss worldwide tragedy, i just miss having more free time, and being alone helped me explore myself, my identity, and helped my mental health a lot. school also felt easier, because a lot of my anxiety was around school and online school helped me have more time to concentrate on assignments, longer deadlines, etc, i could also relax more during classes, and just pay attention without the layer of anxiety i used to have with being around others. but the truth is if the pandemic were to happen now, i could not handle it. in a sense the pandemic helped me appreciate things like going outside, hanging out with my friends, meeting new people, going to class, exploring my city, doing fun activities with my friends, etc. and im sad i missed out so much of it back then. and if i lost that now i wouldn’t be able to cope. i’m really thankful that those years weren’t as traumatic for me as they were for the majority, but i still feel guilty that the years where my mental health was healing were the years were so many people died, suffered, had their lives ruined.
I was 15 in 2020, had an identity crisis because I didn’t have any social interaction and was suddenly catapulted into adulthood which led to an emotional breakdown. Trust me. *You did not want to be around in 2020, we as a generation are still recovering from it.*
I almost lost my life (not exaggerating or being sarcastic) and had to have counseling for a whole year because of mental health issues after this and I was a fresh teenager.
@@willdavis2005 Sorry you went through that. My anxiety skyrocketed during that time and I’m only now starting to feel human again. I hope things are better for you now.
I’m younger but I feel the same. When it ended It felt like I was suddenly a teenager and had more expectations for my age, even though I didn’t have any social interaction for 2 years.
@@Desiray77 I know how you feel, coming out of something so horrible and scary and suddenly having expectations placed on me that almost feel unreachable did not do well for my mental health. I am doing better now and I hope you are too!
As somebody who was 9-10 around 2020, Even I, A CHILD, Understood the severity of it, Do these people NOT remember what it WAS like as a young child in 2020? It was hell, From the zoom meetings, Isolation, I dont know why anyone would want to even think about 2020 again, I can only imagine how much worse it would be as a teen in 2020, Your never gonna get back being a teen or being that young again so i dont understand why people would want to experience that, Its ridiculous.
I am in my late 40s. No covid when I was younger but I did experience the HIV/AIDS crisis when I was 6. That was incredibly scary. At first no one knew what it was, how it was spread, etc. I just remember seeing a bunch of pictures and videos of men on the news who were wasting away to skin and bones and covered in lesions from Kaposi sarcoma. Then the misinformation started. That is one thing that was similar about both times. As virologists started to get more definitive information people refused to believe it. There was an excess of vile homophobia. 2 of my favorite teachers were kicked out of their churches for being gay and it devastated them. The same type of people spreading covid misinfo today while mocking everyone wearing a mask, were wearing masks during the HIV/AIDS crisis after being assured it wasn’t an airborne virus. Several things within the culture and political climate were identical but no lockdowns. We were told we would die if we had intercourse for several years. Of course it took many years to get the first meds that really started helping people and several more to get to the place people are at today with management (if they can afford it). I have to wonder if more time with family/closer family time was special to some of Gen A kids being sentimental today. I hope they will handle the next epidemic/pandemic well. Going through it when you are younger does somehow help when the next situation hits. I work 911. We experienced the worst staffing shortages I have ever seen in my 2 decades on the job and I care for my almost 80 year old mother. I was on the go 24-7. I did all the shopping and trips out and I worked an insane amount of hours. I couldn’t take a day off for 3 years. Definitely don’t want a repeat.
I don’t think we (as in my embarrassing generation) understand how horrible this was. MY GRANDMA WAS DYING AND I COULDN’T EVEN TALK TO HER. WHAT IS “AESTHETIC” ABOUT THAT, HUH?
@@Czipsiara what ..?? Maybe it doesn’t sound like it, but they are literally romanticizing the whole year/ “era”? And what is characteristic of 2020? A WHOLE PANDEMIC THAT KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE , call me sensitive but that is a very inconsiderate comment for them and everyone who had family suffer
i am 15. so i was 11 when covid hit. it started when i was in year 6 (primary school graduation year). idk about everyone else but every single Aussie kid is so excited for the day when they get to go to yr 6 camp. (i didn't get to go). i did way more work than i usually did. i would sit in my room for hours just doing work. and to make it worse since i went to a strict school we had to wear our uniform and we were definitely not allowed to be in our beds when on call. next year: i was going into my very first year of high school a week late and had to wear a mask. every weekend I would have to pack up all my books and take them home in fear that there might be another lockdown. i remember once i was in the middle of a test with a mask on and i got a bloody nose, i finished the test but it was awful. I'm not saying i had it the worst because i definitely didn't but it still impacted me mentally and there is things i will never get to do because i missed out on it due to covid. so don't think it was so #aesthetic because it wasn't. not me but other people lost family members to this virus so it definitely wasn't a good time in anyone's lives. be more considerate please.
I can't believe this. My mum almost went crazy. We couldn't spend Easter/Christmas with family. We were all traumatised. I'm a gen Alpha and I can't believe my generation misses this time.
I'm old (at least for internet spaces, I'm a Millennial) but I'm so, so glad I wasn't a teen in 2020, that just seems like an utter nightmare. No socializing, no going out to do fun adventures with friends, no movies, and I can't learn for crap online. I would have 100% been more messed up than I already am if I was 20 years younger without a doubt.
BRUUUUUUTAL, this comment really puts into perspective how much covid ruined my teen years, from 14-18 I was completely isolated and stuck at home, those 4 years may as well have never happened as they were nothing but a blur now I'm 18 with no friends, no social life, and missed out on making nostalgic memories that were supposed to last a lifetime
During the pandemic, my school had a thing where you could attend school in-person or online. My mother always forced me to go to school no matter what, so I was forced to go. I was the only one of my whole 24 student class, to be there in person. So many people died during that time, I can't believe how people would fantasize about that happening.
I mean, I’m 14 and my family would consider me “in between”. I could be gen z but I’m not as internet dependent and obsessed with 2020 as gen alpha, even though i was 10 in 2020 I still know how chaotic and upsetting it was, especially being locked in my room all day with hardly anything to do
I admittedly do kind of want to go back to 2017, if for nothing more than to see "The Lego Batman Movie" in theaters again and to visit Family Video again.
well....i don't blame them for that one. I mean, I think all anyone wanted in 2020 was for things to go back to normal. And when we looked back, 2017 was just that. Normal.
@@taylorslade8080 Yeah I know I finished it and I cried my eyes out, it was truly one of the most beautiful but awful things I’ve ever seen. It was written so well but the themes and events are awful is what I mean. I don’t romanticize it btw.
Yeah. Killing Stalking is a great story! But not suitable for children. We really don't need a new cluster of people who don't understand that KS is not a romance. Also, of course, totally inappropriate for children. My physical copies of KS are my only books I have hidden away for when nieces and nephews come over.
During Covid time I was 14-15. Before covid I was A's student, during it I lost all motivation. My parents were also going trough divorce and were arguing about selling our home, so I was really at breaking point. 2 of my grandparents died bcs of covid. Yes sometimes me and my friends joked about having year without school but when I remember this It just ruins me.
As a 2009 Gen Z (on the cusp of Gen alpha) who was 10-11 at the time of the Covid -19 pandemic, i cant at all relate to the people wanting to go back to 2020. All I can remember from those times was the sheer panic and chaos that were the grocery stores and the feeling of being stuck inside and unable to see friends or family. My friends and I were so lonely that at the times that would usually be recess and lunch, we had massive facetime calls to simulate being together. At the end of the day, i FaceTimed my cousins and we would play roblox games together. Keep in mind that I was 10-11, around yr 6-7 at this point, and yet I still would HATE to go back to 2020 because of how lonely I felt during that year and for as long as the bulk of the panic lasted
REAL. 2020/2021 was one of the worst times in my life. i can’t remember most of it because it was so horrible that my mind felt the need to block it out. (i was dealing with a lot of stuff with my disability not just covid) i’m 15, 2009, also on the cusp of gen alpha (bear in mind gen alpha starts 2012) and i’ve been way too mature for my age for a very long time (i was forced to grow up too fast). 2020 is not to be glorified or romanticised i can’t believe people are doing that😭😭
@@maliceart the real ‘punch in the guts’ is for the older gen Z’s or early millennial who might have had problems with work, income, housing and other stressful, life altering things happen to them during the covid 19 pandemic, and then they see some of the gen alphas romanticise and say they wished they could experience it again. These people acting like covid wasnt a global pandemic that killed millions around the world and sent the world spiralling backwards, leading to low economic growth, then a giant spike in inflation after covid, which really kicked those struggling financially/ or even those just trying to recover while they were down :/
I actually don’t even remember 2020??? Everything just felt like a blur to me, and it’s probably because I went through some shit. I gained and lost too many friends, my great grandma died, me and my sister had a falling out, more than one of my friends committed suicide. I would never want to go back.
I wasn't even a teen during the pandemic but I absolutely hated it. I don't like going out that much, but having online school everyday 5 days a week without being able to see my friends in person *ever* was absolutely agonizing.
Hey, im 14 i was born in 2010 and I truly don’t understand how they act like this on social media,I got Covid 3 times and the pandemic was truly traumatising for me ,sure maybe not all the time cause in the end I was only 10 in 2020 but I truly don’t understand how people who are my age (born in 2010)want Covid back like I thought we were more mature or at least I feel like it cause the lockdown made me grow up too fast, I didn’t have that tween phase that I used to read about and see in movies, go to middle school for the first time and that whole happy moment of turning double digits. I’m rlly disgusted by these ppl on social media like the people in my class, my grade are also way more mature than this overall I can say that we are all at least relatively normal teens but more aware of what is going on in the world unlike maybe past generations cause we have access to to technology and social media but still not influenced by them like these ppl I’m seeing shown in this video is rlly shocking for me. Idk maybe they got THAT influenced by all these influencers maybe they aware rlly spoiled and shielded from all this, cause right now sure I have social media and stuff but I have other commitments to do in real life like studying and I’m trying to train for marathons, the way I’m using social media is to help me and sure for entertainment too but that doesn’t mean I’ll be delulu
During lockdown I had multiple mental breakdowns and I gained social anxiety, general anxiety, and insomnia from that *wonderful* experience. And I also became an introvert and scared to talk to people. Wtf is WRONG with these kids?!
As a 14 year old Gen Alpha this is just genuinely embarrassing. Oh my god, I cannot believe there are actually people like this right now. I was AWARE of the terrible situation, I knew my parents and everyone else were going through awful things. I have never been so grateful that I was only in primary school while this crap was going on. I know what it’s like to get covid, and a time like that SHOULDN’T be considered “aesthetic”.
I'm 14 turning 15 in July, I could never be these kids. I was forced to grow up in 2020 because not only did I have to stay at my aunt's with the rest of my family because issues with my father, I was panicked and scared knowing there was a virus going around that you could drop dead from. I don't understand how people could wish to relive 2020. If anything I'd wish to relive the time before COVID
