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Does anyone else just ... not have nostalgia for any time period? Like, middle school was shit, high school was shit, and then 9/11 happened. Where in the span of my life am I supposed to fit in a motherfucking golden glow?
I have fond memories of individual bits of media, but the emotions there are wrapped up with the time period when I discovered them, or revisited them, which could have been years or decades after they first came out.
Thinking about it a bit, I suspect you're not alone - whilst the '00s were pretty great for me (I was born in 2000, remember), the '10s were a complicated mess (for a long list of reasons), and the '20s have been one wash after another - and thanks to the 'Net, I'm aware how much hot garbage the '00s and earlier decades had.
I do also have individual bits of media which I've got fond memories of, but that's about it. Thinking about it, my general soft spot for Y2K stuff is probably a lot less rooted in nostalgia than I thought.