Looking forward to the civil war in chat whether the union should be called the "Northernlion chatters Labour union" or the "Northern Lion Chatters Union" because it has to be a profound 4 letter acronym.
I'm in Ghana right now and it's crazy how much single use plastic (or polythene as they call it here) is on the consumer end. Buy one serving of breakfast porridge they put that shit in 3 plastic bags. Take some fried stuff with it, it adds one or even two bags. Then when I save the bags and pull them out to reuse they look at me like I'm crazy. Even worse, there are no options to get rid of it, so it is either burned everywhere or just ends up directly in nature, the streets, in farms, rivers, everywhere.
The comments on that "ick" tiktok guy are always the worst. It always devolves into insane misogyny of people not understanding how different women think different things.
2:41 This is also just part of what makes us human. The fact that we can be in the "good times" and not realize it. Then wish for those times once again when they pass. Of course we can/could be totally wrong about that.
2008 was a terrible year, but my 11 year old ass didnt know what an economic crisis was because i was vibing in club penguin with my boys so overall it was a good year.
I was 13 and definitely remember it being horrible. Terrible stuff all over the news 24/7, watching and feeling my parents struggling. Those 2 years make a big difference i guess lol
2008 was awesome. Australia's economy actually improved and every had money, the US dollar was actually worse than the AUD for the first time ever. Now everything is shit
Whenever I see "--- was the last good year" the examples almost always make it clear that they are pretty young with little to no responsibilities. Like I saw a tweet nostalgiaposting and the dude was 17. Bro's not even in college yet lol. I dont really get nostalgic since my childhood kinda sucked so maybe that's why, but I'd rather be happy for what I have instead of wishing for some idealized past that revolves entirely of what little I knew about the world at the time. 🤷🏿♂️
@@fgqgqlfqsfsffeff It's harder to understand their lack of introspection in thinking that being an ignorant child meant the world as a whole was a better place. It just takes a little self-awareness to grasp where those feelings are coming from and to not let them overly-warp your perception of how the world's going. They'd rather long for a position of ignorance they can never get back and make themselves sad about it than use their heightened knowledge and maturity to seek a stronger foundation of fulfillment in the present. It's an attitude for 22-year-olds who've barely even figured out adulthood yet, and 45-year-olds who hate their marriages.
Yup, I feel nostalgia for the 90s because that was right on the cusp of old enough to enjoy things but not old enough to really understand the cruelty of the world. It was definitely not a chill time, especially if you lived in big cities. Hopefully the younger generations gain this kind of insight from the internet and the data retention we have access to these days. Fantasizing about the past only serves to blind us to what we can achieve in the future.
My life has consistently improved every year, with some minor setbacks. So fortunately i have no nostalgia for any year since I know this is my best year so far. Idk once my parents die that will probably change but for now its great
A lot of the people who are obsessed with reminiscing about 2016 seem to be younger people who were maybe in high school or college. I think it just simply is that people are nostalgic for their young adult years. (I typed this just before NL basically said this but I’m still posting this comment)
to the guy who showed the tiktok to his wife and gave her the ick, consider what i do: instead of showing my wife my internet humor memes, i show my boyfriend. and then we make out a little.
2016 was matched only (in recent decades) by 2020 in that people were calling it an awful year while it had just started, normally we wait until December to do that. It started with an unusual string of high-profile celebrity deaths and after those everyone started paying attention to anything bad or annoying that happened all year. It was awful and that tweet could only have bewen made by a 7-year-old who doesn't know because they wasn't there.
No it was the first bad one. I've never seen more people celebrating the end of the year before. Compilations of all the beloved celebrities that died and such
@@atomknight8361 year sucked ass, I very clearly remember everyone hating it lol, just the natural passage of time. Kids who were born late enough that 2016-2018 was one of their earliest memories are now making memes about it like how we did about previous years etc.
When I was single and lonely I saw those tiktoks about the ridiculous icks and bought into it and went "yeah, that is ridiculous". Now, I'm at the point where when people complain about the list of icks, I'm just like "freaking get over it already"
Gen Z: it’s my turn on the nostalgia trip Millenials: we barely had a turn because gen X hogged it with 80s nostalgia Gen Z: who cares, you’ll just steal our nostalgia anyway
The thing about the original tweet that a lot of people probably overlooked is that person who made it is probably still in school or just graduated school. So they are probably just nostalgic for simpler times for them, plus pre covid before they were doing online class stuff
so i went to college in 2014 and from what I can tell ten years later everything is exactly the same. 2004 was tangibly different which was also tangibly different from 1994. There hasn't been any major cultural or technological shift that gives the new decade a whole different vibe like every decade in the 20th century brought. Have we not reached societal stagnation?
Chat member Scathighs only writes "northernlion harem" in the chat and has been doing it for a long time. The kick is that he chats normally in other twitch channels.
The American empire is in decline, everything has absolutely been getting worse over the last 25 years in tangible ways. We went from 9/11 to the housing market crash to the rise of open fascism to a president who didn’t even pretend to respect the dignity of the country he led to a global pandemic to the more and more overt pressure to just accept that the government can kill whoever it wants, whenever it wants, for whatever reason it wants. Things are genuinely getting more stressful. We need to make things better
Meh 2020-2022 is about objectively bad as it can get. The most recent peak in hapiness seems to be the 90s but I am not really old enough to give a reason why.
Every generation thinks they had it the worst. At least we didn't live through the first world war, great depression, 2nd world war, the peak of the cold war, etc. All that shit was in the 1900s, now we complain that we don't have socialism and that the cost of living is a bit high even thought home ownership rates for our generation is higher than our parents and around the same as the baby boomers. Yeah there's some parts of life that sucks but god damn we need to calm down and quit being so pessimistic.
@@joe8133 1. That pessimism and the whole idea that "it's all corrupt"(even tho most people don't even understand how the political system of the USA works) turns people from "let's try to change things" to "fuck it tear it all down". Those things are not constructive they're destructive, look at how few of us even vote. Also if those stats are true how the fuck are genz home ownership rates so high? Most importantly what the fuck did all that have to do with my picture?
2016 actually had reasons to be goated if you had time to pay attention to our culture. Rap music changed a lot, memes decided full throttle into brain rot, and politics were spicy af.
i just want to draw your attention to the fact that people with just as much faith, conviction, and intelligence as you have been making this claim for centuries. not saying anything in particular, just stating a fact.
the “mission impossible” kid went to my high school, very sad situation. his mother went a bit crazy and ended up not letting the kids dad see him before he passed. i’m pretty sure she still comes to football games and begs for donations
really loving this new genre of youtube video where a different youtuber describes & re-enacts a video posted on twitter, and then we watch it. thats not sarcasm, i click on these as soon as i see them lol
If your memes aren't created on 4chan, posted on tiktok, shared on twitter, condensed by my streamer, clipped by my librarian and distilled through 4 different discord meme channels, passing through 3 of them twice, I don't want your memes man
What bugs me about the mission impossible thing is like, you guys couldn’t bring a bigger tv? The kid is dying and you’re gonna make him watch the movie on a postage stamp
I keenly aware that all the times for which I'm nostalgic sucked shit for everybody else. For instance I was so poor that the stimulus and unemployment extensions meant to alleviate the 2008 financial crisis actually made my situation demonstrably better than it had been.
It is both true that 2016 was much worse than previous years before it, and that these last few years are much worse than what 2016 was. We are nostalgic for a slightly higher point on this downhill trend. It's hindsight of "we thought times were bad then, they're really bad now".
And then people like him get mad at us for being depressed. Like goddamn must be nice being rich working from home in a socialist country when those of us in the real world have none of those luxuries and have to struggle to make a percent of what he does all the while our government is actively making life worse for everyone
The microsplastics segment freaked me the fuck out in a good way for one, because its scary to learn but I like being educated. For two, im not a car owner so i just learned i can be a type of guy that jumps into NLs chat and try to humiliate him for being a car owner now. But im not going to do that, bc as enjoyable as it is from a content side seeing NL ward off peoples anti car opinions etc. I actually care about the mans mental health.
I feel like it's rational to be a little nostalgic for any pre-pandemic period, like yeah 2016 sucked but I didn't flinch a little whenever someone coughed near me
I won’t lie, 2016 was good or bad fully dependant on how involved in american political discourse someone was. But it was better than we’ve had it since 2020. Cost of living is hell rn.
commenting on this video a little late so idk if anyone will actually see this; but the thing that makes the 2016 era different from others for Americans at least, is that it was a time of easy investor money for startups. It was the era of cheap ubers/delivery for food, cheap electric scooters, and other stuff like that that ended up either struggling or failing to turn a profit. The peak example imo is the 2017-2019 MoviePass thing. 2016 was part of the era of money being spent without thinking much by investors.
I remember it was said on the internet every year since like 2015 that the next year couldn't be as bad as the last and then covid hit and people realized how much worse it could get lmao. I imagine it was even before 2015, i just remember it being said more on the internet then tho
The microplastics bit is super shitty reading comprehension from Twitter. 80% of all microplastics come from city dust, textiles, and tires. It’s not just 70% ALL TIRES, there’s a lot more to it.
it's a mixed bag. On one hand every generation thinks they have it the worst. On the other hand we have stats now, and my parents paid for school working at mcdonalds. So yeah it's different lmao.
2016 was the year that I, and maybe a lot of other people, realized how messed up America was when Trump got elected. Out of all of the years, I definitely wouldn't pick 2016 to be nostalgic about...
8:18 grocery store clerk here, idrc if people dont bring reusable bags but they can be way nicer than plastic bags for cans and boxes and whatnot. funnily enough people tend to assume that im gonna get on their case for forgetting their bags theyre always like Im so sorry. I know. I know. which is confusing. but i do think part of this response is cuz i have a septum piercing LOL
9:05 its not about food touching its about the fact that because grapes, oranges etc tend to be sold by weight, keeping them in the same bag means that your cashier has to first separate the grapes from the oranges before weighing them separately to get an accurate price. get mesh produce bags if you can find em though theyre kinda awesome even though you cant scan through them
