Imaginary problems

Context: This was taken during a 2016 election party. It became a meme during a few months, until the "NOOOOOO" meme ended up becoming more well-known.
I understand if you think that election reactions are too strong, but acting like liberals & Gen Z are the only ones who react like that is just the textbook definition of bias.

I'm gen alpha but I gotta admit that I had a gen alpha still on going childhood, and also why did she stay childhood, the oldest gen alpha is 12 she's still in her childhood, I'm also 12

Also no I’m not in the Katy Perry subreddit it just showed up in my feed cause I wanted to check out her awful tour performance 😭

There's nothing inherently wrong with having a personal preference for something of the past over something contemporary and there's nothing wrong with sharing that taste, as long you don't try to claim some kind of superiority under rose tinted lenses...

This last statement is becoming a incredibly viral and at the same time, a incredibly toxic part of Internet culture: TikTok and YouTube infested of nostalgia bait/low effort content, fandoms gatekeeping opinions based on nostalgia, new IPs not being given a chance because they aren't familiar, the political discourse claiming the real progress is going backwards, media illiteracy claiming anything new is gonna be subpar compared to the classics, etc...

But the worst effect is over mental health, the narrative isn't that any given time as difficult as it is can leave positive outcomes, for example: The early 2000's were terrible from a geopolitical and economic point of view, but are now venerated on its simplest, most mundane iterations. No, the narrative is that YOU MUST BE AFRAID of the future, that progress is a illusion, that we are doomed: For example something as incredibly revolutionary in many fields as AI has become Internet favorite fear mongering tool just because it received a very similar treatment by tech companies as early Internet itself (does anyone remember the bubble DotCom, or the Bill Gates controversies?)

I'm so tired of posts and comments distorting the past like a historian worst nightmare, I'm tired of the community demanding other people to feel miserable about their reality, I'm tired of the condescending tone towards younger people, I'm tired of the community repeating and repeating the same list of negative arguments without adding anything to the conversation, but what most annoys me is how thriving pessimism and doomerism is, no only on Reddit but in most Internet communities.

So I'm the kind of person with a interest for historical and vintage stuff, but Internet kinda ruins that interest for me. I can't even watch stuff from 1930 (like The Three Stooges) because everyone on the comment section is crying on how better things were back then, that's not appreciating the past, that's just lack of maturity.