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.
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?!
Pretty much my whole time in high school was affected because of it, it sucked cuz all the fun stuff that was supposed to happen couldn’t. At least my last year there was actually normal (2023 graduate)
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.
Being a zalpha, and being NINE during the pandemic, (turned 13 this year) I had atleast TWO years of much-needed socialization ripped away from me. I cried so much because my parents, grandpa, and nana were all quarantined, leaving me and my little brother to practically take care of ourselves. WE WERE NINE AND SIX. I watched the news, hearing the stories about people dying from the disease, wondering if my parents and grandparents would survive. my SICK father had to go out and quite literally FIGHT for toilet paper. I can’t believe that these people are romanticizing it.
I was also 9-10 during 2020 and it was the worst year for me including 2021-2022 my dad got covid and almost died from it I just hate how Gen Alpha is wishing for this it's honestly disgusting
I'm 13 now as well. Who tf wants to go back to that time and be like, "everyone dying and being quarantined is asthetic!" We are genuinely doomed if that mindset continues.
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 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'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.
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.
@@freakyzakemiz 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?
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
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.
my sister almost unalived herself cause she couldn’t see her friends or anyone during quarantine. She would stay in her room for days straight not leaving. She got better and opened up to my parents. I just recently heard about the situation. I would give anything to never go through another 2020 experience.
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!!
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.
@@AirTheHuntress Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. If you can make assessments based on those two principles, you'll do just fine at any given time.
Imagine having your entire college experience upended and not being able to do anything fun on your 21st birthday because of the pandemic. Because that happened to me. I fell into a deep depression that I didn't fully recover from until a few months ago. I almost failed out of college because I just didn't do well with remote learning. 2020 and 2021 were the worst two years of my life and I would never want to relive it again.
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
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 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
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.
As a teenager who missed out on their senior year of high school, (prom cancelled, senior trip cancelled, my final season of softball cancelled, my graduation being delayed) not being able to visit my sister who had to given birth to my nephew early so he was in the nicu, having to do online school, and then having to start college during COIVID all while people were DYING it was hell and I'm mad these children are making it into an asethetic.
My daughter was a 2020 senior. No prom, senior award night was in the parking lot. We all had to STAY IN OUR CARS. When names were announced over the loud speaker we BEEPED THE HORN. When they finally had a graduation months later it was also outside. Everyone was 6 feet apart in folding chairs with masks. Melting in the sun. No hugs No pictures. A "parade " through the town in our cars. Her 1st year of college was "online ". No classes. No friends. No dorms. She dropped out. Never went back, and it's now 2024. My son's "graduation " was 100% on a zoom.
I feel you tho I was 6 when it started I had to miss my kindergarten graduation had to leave kindergarten early because of it also I am truly sorry for my generation and what is has caused
as a gen alpha, i never ever ever EVER IN MY LIFE WANT 2020 BACK!! I WANT TO FORGET IT EVER HAPPENED! i have a HUGE fear of diseases and i got covid 3 TIMES and my dad died in 2020! I WANT TO FORGET IT! i was only 6 years old (im 11 now) but i still remember it and that whole entire year was tramatic for me. i want to forget.
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 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 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.
I was 8 years old in 2020, I absolutely hated being in quarantine, Missing my relatives and missing my friends, But the internet was the only thing keeping me sane, But I have no idea why people want Covid to RETURN for another lockdown, Appreciate what you have at these times.
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 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 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 TH-cam 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
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...
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
i was younger but same i dont really remember *anything* just some things and most of them we mostly bad, forgot almost everything even after 2 years that the pandemic ended all that i remember is that it was hard to talk to ppl, while almost everyone moved on i was still stuck there took me long to move on, now Im just waiting to go to another school and start over (Im from a country in EU and we go to high school later than kids in USA and UK do)
Yeah. Me too, I think.... 2022 felt like I was in a trance, too. A war started in my country (Ukraine) that year and it's still ongoing... I was 14. My family basically became homeless for A YEAR AND A HALF when we fleed. I became severely depressed because of that, I thought we would never be able to go home again, tried to kms multiple times (run away, poison myself, stab myself), my parents kept fighting, constantly, I was (and still am a little) scared of THUNDER because the sound reminded me of bombs falling and explosions..... I would give anything to forget about that year altogether and definitely would never want to relive it!!!
I was 19 years old in my 2nd semester of college during March 2020. They shut down the campus and sent us all home to finish our classes online. My mom is a hospital worker so in our time home from school, my sister and I had to be exceptionally cautious. My grandmother passed away during the pandemic (not from the virus) and we had to wait nearly 6 months to have a small family gathering to scatter her ashes because of the danger we all posed to my 90 year old grandfather’s health. When we came back to campus in the fall, everything was completely different. Most classes were hybrid so students had the opportunity to attend online or in person (healthy, fully masked, and socially distanced of course), but some were entirely online. The community we’d had in my dorm was completely different too. We couldn’t visit friends on other floors in the same building or use bathrooms on other floors, and we certainly couldn’t have friends from other dorms over. And all around us people were dying horrible deaths and there was nothing we could do and in America people were fully denying that it was real or that it was anything more than a basic flu; political leaders spread conspiracy theories about the virus that caused very real harm; hate crimes against Asian Americans went up; kids lost years of vital social development and education and millions of people became hopelessly depressed; people were acting absolutely feral over hygiene and cleaning supplies because it literally felt like the world was ending; people were unable to witness the birth of their children or be with their loved ones as they took their dying breath. It was a fucking global crisis, not a fun lil vacay.
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.
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 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.
@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!
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’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
As an introvert who was 12-13 during 2020 I absolutely loved it, spending time with my family, no school, no homework, plenty of time to do anything I wanted (lived in a village so wasn't really forced to stay inside). Best years ngl, and I also had coronavirus, but it was just chilling in my body, only discovered it after all the vaccines were out and I went with my father to get a coronavirus vaccine.
Covid started when I was in 4th grade. My siblings and I thought we were just going to catch a break from school. I was great at first because we were able to get more sleep and do our work when ever we wanted. But every time the quarantine got extended, I wanted to be back a school. I would start the days crying in my bed, hoping it would be over tomorrow. My grades were lower than they've ever been before, especially because I had to share a computer with my brother. I couldn't even see my best friend! I can't believe gen Alpha is treating this like it was Heaven on Earth. I would never want to go back to this!
Frrr i got so sad that my parents made me switch to a private school that allowed kids in because my brother just sat in his bed and stared at the ceiling all day
Covid started when I was in 6th grade, I lost all of 7th grade, and then 8th grade was some weird funky year after COVID. I didn’t get to have a proper middle school life😢😭
The only way I can describe 2020 is being in a constant state of hazy fog. It feels like that time passed with a snap, and yet everything was so slow at the same time. I do believe most of us repressed that time from trauma.
I was paranoid my parents would get sick. I lost my dad yes, but it was from natural causes and not the virus. Everything else though? Yeah, feels crazy how many of us are still here after getting through it, and annoyed how long it took.
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 was 8-9 in 2020 and it fucked with my mental health and honestly it made me extremely introverted now not being able to communicate with my friends. i feel like it made me grow up really fast. i overate because i didn’t have anything better to do and im still struggling with it. i don’t know why everyone else likes 2020
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.
99 here, and I feel like this stems from no sense of self and spending a little too much time online(and I don't mean in the "tech is bad" kind of way), ofc there's way more to this, but that's one of them, 2020 was hell for me because I was trapped with my abusive mom...
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 16/17 years old in 2020 and the two things that happened to me during the lockdown were getting burnt out by the online classes and the amount of work we had, and then developing an eating disorder. I was never the more outdooring or social person, but this period was absolute hell, and I could never understand anyone wanting to go back to it.
exactly the same for me…somehow this makes me think 2020 was also an epidemic of mental illnesses. when i got to a mental hospital, there were like 40 people of different age with eating disorder it was WILD
I was 7 during it and I had to stay inside all day. I despised mask especially the ones with the animals on them because they burned. And I heard millions of people dying from Covid and I was scared. I am pretty sure one of my family members had it. Thank God I only got Covid when it became less harmful.
Even if you aren't someone who liked going outside being told you cannot really makes you feel depressed because it feels so dystopian to not be allowed outside even though there was valid reasons if you lived in the city was probably even worse because you likely couldn't even see actual nature
I had my entire social life taken away when i was in elementary, soon to be middle schooler. I'm in highschool now. I have no irl friends, I don't have NO childhood friends, I don't have ANYONE to rely on for emotional support, I have NEVER been hugged, I am TOUCH STARVED. The SMALLEST touch or even caress always sends a chill down my spine. Crying alone at night with sad songs from 12 years ago playing in the background is my only way of coping. My parents don't support nothing I do and don't even try to help me. CPS didn't help me. Teachers didn't help me. I'm anemic, disgustingly pale, being starved, and have trouble focusing, (Might be my fault on that one) and I just know I have some sort of crazy disorder or illness. I can't even stay home because my parent's don't believe me when I'm sick. I've been exposed to things a child should NEVER in their ENTIRE childhood be exposed to. G!re, corn, grape, cp, etc. The first thing I was ever exposed to was cp, and it was when I was TEN. Freaking TEN. I remember the video so unironically well it haunts me. I got addicted to corn and WATCHED on the couch NEARLY INFRONT of my parents. I've been exposed to a lot of g!re and grape recently, all because someone sent me a link to a website and idiot little me clicked them. I've been starting to have nightmares and hallucinations. I nearly scared myself so bad one night very recently into a panick attack. Everything was so unexpected for me, that I became loud, angry, irritable, addicted, chronically ill, and chronically online. I literally have to cling to internet friends for dear life because I'm afraid of being lonely again. But.. luckily, I am healing after all of this. I know my lil sob story has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but I just don't have anyone I'm close to that I can vent to, and it feels better getting it off of my chest on here. But anyway.. these kids remind me of when kids back in 2020 were like this but for the 2000s
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 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
I remember I had to go to online school in 1st grade I was so sad bc that was the time I got to go on a field trip… to DISNEY LAND and that’s not even the worst we’re just kids starting at a screen for hours!
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.
I remember being 12 - 13 years old, both my parents being essential workers that worked long hours and my brother locking himself in his room from pure depression, and I don't think I had ever felt more alone. I'd much rather 2020 stays as a fond-ish memory, rather than having to go back and re-live it.
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 graduated from highschool in 2020. I never had a proper end of highschool. We just went back to school one random June day go say goodbye and that's it. No year end party and other festivities. Also I never had a proper first year of university. And litteraly I never really made the transition between high school and university. Lots of people were depressed and anxious. Romantising online school like this just make me so mad. It's the first time I saw people legit missing going to school. I also remember seeing my friend who lives 1 street away from me from her balcony and I just sat on the street and we called each other like this so it's almost like we were together. That was the only social contact we had for months. Seeing kids that want 2020 back just show they don't understand all of it implies.
I feel so bad for you, I'm sorry that happened :( Some of my family members had their graduation taken away as well, I'm so glad my older sister and I are having a (hopefully) normal graduation ceremony same for my younger sisters when they enter High School half a decade from now. None of it was fair for people like you, it must have been heartbreaking knowing that you've waited all your life for this moment and now having to accept the fact that you'll never get to experience that while those older and younger than you will. It's not fair, none of it is :(
it's the same w me, and what's worse is that freshman year is when everyone makes friends in college but since everyone had online classes instead there's a lot more lonely people
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 13 y/o in 2020, it was the day where I think I wouldn't have school and endless summer all the way. I would just be home all day watching tv and play games on my laggy laptop and i always thought tjis is the real apocalypse survival because it is and the sadist that I am, I am not proud to say that the real chaos was an actual action movie to me that everyone gets anticipated on without ever realizing that I and my loved ones could be in a fatal condition if. We aren't careful. The only time I realize that Covid-19 is just worst when it began to bore me and lose my sanity of getting into this routine and never got the chance to be in an auditorium stage as grade 7 to 9 because of the lockdown, it just feels weird. To the teenagers that have different sides into the story of their experience that is way darker than I might think Biggest respect for all of you that you survived and lived to tell your story even if I have differences when facing this long lockdown. Mental Health is never a pun to pick upon.
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 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 🤪
Yeah..... 2022 too. A war started in my country (Ukraine) that year and it's still ongoing... I was 14. My family basically became homeless for A YEAR AND A HALF when we fleed. I became severely depressed because of that, I thought we would never be able to go home again, tried to kms multiple times (run away, poison myself, stab myself), my parents kept fighting, constantly, I was (and still am a little) scared of THUNDER because the sound reminded me of bombs falling and explosions..... I would give anything to forget about that year altogether and definitely would never want to relive it!!!
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
late millenial. same here, thankfully I had a traveling job and we were considered essential in 2020. Plus my state never locked down and I lived in a rural area so I did ok
As someone who was a teen in 2020 I was 14 and my mental health struggled I had depression and couldn’t see my friends. My social interactions became awkward after the lockdown. People always say teenage years are the best years of your life and for three years I had nothing. It broke families and lots of family were lost I don’t think this is something you want for thousands to die. My learning was also put back thankfully I could return to do my gcse.
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.
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
as someone who ALSO TURNED 10 in 2020 (gen zalpha,) the internet trends were fun. everyone was trying to entertain eachother when we were all bored. but that doesnt cancel out everything else. i fell into a zombie-like loophole in constant worry for my family members, and spent my 10th birthday crying my eyes out because i couldn’t meet up with my friends and how i should be at doly moch or kingswood. im turning 15 next april and i’d do anything to have an actual year 5 experience and 10th birthday party at the old play area that shut down due to the pandemic. gen alpha scares me.
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 gen alpha and I HATED 2020. My family was quite poor at the time and because of online classes my parents needed to work hard just to buy me a laptop for Zoom. Now, in November 30th 2024, I don't wanna be in that hell hole again.
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😭😭
@@v4mpilurre 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 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.
i remember having to celebrate my 11th birthday at my house because of lockdown, 2020 was both good and bad for me but mostly bad because i was just stuck at home all day glued on my iPad after online classes, doing tiktoks and just being all lazy. the first time they lifted most of the restrictions (for example, going to school physically) made me realize how much my life has changed and how much the pandemic affected me. i became insecure of my face (because of the usage of masks), i was ADDICTED to social media because my social skills have degraded and i couldn’t focus on my studies anymore. i’m so grateful that i’ve decided to change for the better and seeing these kids romanticizing/wishing that they experienced the 2020 life is so shocking to me.
I turned 16 in September of 2019 and I still remember how excited I was about the new decade, how I wanted to start everything over, how my life really started healing after a rough patch I had earlier and etc. And then this sh*t came and of course ruined everything it could.
@@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.
I'm so glad I deleted tiktok, fr. (I'm Brazilian, so sorry for any spelling mistakes.) I was a kid when the lockdown happened. And before it, I was a confident, smart, and funny kid. But then, half of my childhood was taken away from me, I went through my awkward age alone. And then I changed schools, and being a "weird" kid there was awful. Suddenly I was shy, couldn't look at people in their eyes and was sad about everything. Nowdays everything is fine, I'm able to talk to people properly, and have a lot of friends. But I still feel that I've grown up too fast, and lost years that I could be playing around with my friends, stuck inside home pretending I was paying attention to any online classes.
I was a child in 2020 but I'm still struggling by how much fear and isolation I felt. I was 10, but now as an actual teenager I cry my heart out because I just can't fit back into the world correctly and I failed school several times and harmed myself. It was a fake reality to me. In 2020 I had friends, but I was scared to death and had anxiety that only got worse with the pandemic. I developed an ED starting with not eating anything and only drinking chamomille to calm myself down. I lost all my friends after 2020 because I was just to scared to step outisde of my safe place (my house, out of shame my room) I was scared my parents and friends would die of Covid (they didn't even have it) I'm grateful my brother was born. I despised 2020 with all my heart and every year after it.
You’re not alone. I developed an ED due to really weird reasons during Covid, having a close call with death in the hospital. Covid just screwed me up and it infuriates me that Gen Alpha only remembers/talks about the good from 2020. I dont remember liking anything from this time, I literally hated myself and wanted to die.
Dude it is actually horrifying. I am 15 this year and already experiencing it in middle school was something that caused my anxiety to skyrocket. It’s like they don’t understand how social lives were impacted as well as mental health. It horrifies me that I’m only a year older and get lumped in with this idea.
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.
2020 was the worst time of my life, same with 2021. i was hospitalized and couldnt have anyone there to comfort me. i was 13 maybe 14 at the time and i still wear a mask to this day in fear of being hospitalized again
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 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
As a teenager going into the 8th grade during covid , let me tell you how awful it was. Becauseof online learning we really missed alot of stuff that we should have learned to prepare us for highschool and we didnt. To top it all off , everyone was , you know , dying!! It was an awful for anyone going into or was in highschool and how anyone could want to experience that time again needs to check their priorities.
It was midterm season in my 8th grade year when it happened, it was terrible because we were thinking of formal and end of the year field trips and the Covid happened. I missed my friends so much and losing people in my family sucked so much 😢
I have terrible trauma from being a pre-teen and teen during these times, and I wish i could remember more from my early life, but I went through SERIOUS trauma and I literally have no memories now from 2+ years ago. Sad but good in some ways, I just wish everything could’ve bee different. Time seems to go so fast since then and it’s crazy that i’m not even a kid anymore 😢
I was still under 13 at the time of the pandemic, but that still means that very important childhood years were spent behind a zoom class. I couldn't even go the next door neighboor's house for an outdoor game of basketball without being yelled at. But after we moved, I have no friends in walking distance that I can go hang out with. And now, I'm suicidal, somewhat because of that.
not even me with severe agoraphobia (panic dissorder that made me unable to leave my house) would EVER wish to go back into quarantine NOR 2020!!! ever since 2020 my life BUT ESPECIALLY my mental health went 📉📉📉 and it truly took everything from me. as someone who is turning 17 in few, i celebrated 3 OF MY BIRTHDAYS ON MY OWN. NO FRIENDS. NO ONE!!! it was the most terrible time of my life and if someone who psychically can not leave their house, that not even them would never want to experience quarantine again - YOU KNOW IT WAS *THAT* SERIOUS.
2020/2021 were actually the worst years of my life. I was bullied for being gay and when I went to the teachers they didnt do anything and they actively defended the homophobe. Then when I joined college (UK) THEY SENT HIM TO THE SAME COLLEGE... The teachers at the college didnt care either. My parents had just recently split up and my mum had cancer. I was so scared to give covid to my mum bc of her weak immune system she could die if she got covid. Also she lived in a different house now so I could barely see the one person that supported me the most. Luckily she survived and is still alive. As an autistic person online lessons were really hard but even when I got to go into school I struggled because of my deteriorating mental health and had multiple anxiety attacks so I couldnt even go in when I wanted. I couldnt go to ANYONE for support for literally anything cuz of covid. Honestly I'm proud of myself for making it through. Thats why I find this actually so disgusting. Making a lot of people's traumatic years into an aesthetic... wtf. And the fact I've seen gen z/millenials say they MISS 2020???????? The audacity and privilege is shocking. Sorry for the essay lol
The only millennials I know who missed it were ones that were getting burnt out from working incessantly to pay off homes and loans. 2020 was a hellhole.
I’m Gen Z (born in 2004) and the only reason why I “enjoyed” lockdown was because staying home all day was what I always did on the weekends. Another example: I wasn’t into dances so on the night of homecoming i relaxed in my mom’s room eating pizza while watching season 1 of euphoria. The only times I left the house was to walk my dog or help with an errand here and there. As an introvert I was fine with it, but now that I’m almost 20, i have to face the fact that I lost 2 years of my high school experience. It only became back to “normal” for my senior year. Junior year was just hybrid, going to school from home and the actual building. Doing homework was kinda draining. Even tho I had full access to it, it was still hard to do. Because of my lack of socialization, I’ve been told I’m super naive and trust the wrong people. The first time I went out with friends was going to the gas station and getting a drink, and I was extremely nervous because that was the first time I was out doing something like that on my own, besides school. It felt shitty, but fun that i finally got to go out. The most recent I’ve had going out and meeting new people was going to my friend’s school for halloweekend and it was so much fun! I just wish I could’ve had that during high school. Even if I did have a large social group, it would be nice to experience those “teen things” most teenagers got to experience.
dudeeee I missed out on the entire high school experience, (a lot of circumstances leading me to have to stay doing online school) and I basically completely missed out on my teenage years, this sucks so much, those 4 years from 14-18 have basically been a blur to me, they may as well have never happened, you only get to be young once in life and I missed out on creating all those nostalgic memories that were supposed to last a lifetime
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 12 for the majority of 2020 (I turned 13 that december) and I remember that those first 2ish months was when my current phone addiction started...i'm 16 now, turning 17 in december (Happy birthday Hayley!)
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 agree. 2020 was the worst year for me. I don’t even remember most of it. All I know is that I didn’t get work done, I was stressed out, and over all my work ethic crashed. I came out of the pandemic okay, and now my grades are as high as they used to be. That’s an achievement in my mind.
Okay I’m a gen alpha myself, and I have experienced the 2020 pandemic. All I can say is i understood it and it was really traumatic because everyone was dying because of this, we all had to be in our house inside for so long..it was not fun, idk wtf is wrong with these people, they have seriously lost their mind because the 2020 pandemic is something I NEVER EVER want to go through AGAIN.
I have depression due to the pandemic and I have social anxiety, seperation anxiety because at one point I thought my mom was going to die. I hate my generation.
i BECAME a teenager in 2020 (born in 2007, i turned 13 & i'll be 17 in may) so it's crazy seeing kids younger than me romanticizing quarantine. i still remember 2020 like it was yesterday, i can't believe it's been 4 years. personally, i hated being a social media addicted 7-8 grader being stuck in a house all day, but i also experimented with my style, expanded my music taste, and developed new hobbies (like everyone else during that period). it was a good & terrible at the same time lol
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?!
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 :/
During 2020 my best friend was in the hospital with cancer and I could only talk to her online, she took her own life because she was alone and didn't feel any need to be here anymore. I almost went down the same path but after losing her I decided to stay for the both of us, I wear her angle pin everywhere I go and during every big event. It's like she's doing them with me, going to our first homecoming, going to high school together, hopefully we'll graduate and go to college. Seeing people on social media and in real life romanticize and glamorize that time brings back all the sadness and hopelessness of 2020.
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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.
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?!
Yeah, or having to be stuck at your parent's job because they still have to work in person due to the nature of that job :/
Dont forget about the difficulties with financial stability and education 🥰
Pretty much my whole time in high school was affected because of it, it sucked cuz all the fun stuff that was supposed to happen couldn’t. At least my last year there was actually normal (2023 graduate)
@ville__ mhm, wow! Youve made such an outstanding point! So inspiring!! Wohh👏👏👏
@@S0REZ He is a gen alpha for sure
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. 🤦🏻♀️
My farts are better than Haylo’s farts 💨
I mean, it's still up
That happens all the time
@@zachbohemian Of course it is. I’m just saying like it was on a rise even more than before when the pandemic came.
@@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.
Being a zalpha, and being NINE during the pandemic, (turned 13 this year) I had atleast TWO years of much-needed socialization ripped away from me. I cried so much because my parents, grandpa, and nana were all quarantined, leaving me and my little brother to practically take care of ourselves. WE WERE NINE AND SIX. I watched the news, hearing the stories about people dying from the disease, wondering if my parents and grandparents would survive. my SICK father had to go out and quite literally FIGHT for toilet paper. I can’t believe that these people are romanticizing it.
I'm so sorry about that D:
I was also 9-10 during 2020 and it was the worst year for me including 2021-2022 my dad got covid and almost died from it I just hate how Gen Alpha is wishing for this it's honestly disgusting
I was about 7 and i absolutely hated it
Edit: Its ruined my mental health entirely
I'm 13 now as well. Who tf wants to go back to that time and be like, "everyone dying and being quarantined is asthetic!" We are genuinely doomed if that mindset continues.
@@arpwcos2011 exactly, what has this world become
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
How was 2008
@@dearestwhispers yeah, I'm a zoomer kiddo (from the last years of Gen Z but still very much a zoomer) and I don't know what it was like
i was 7 in 08 what happened
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
@@rblursedcomments9362 ohh i dont remember much of that tbh
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 🩷🥰🧚♀️😁☺️
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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*
My farts are better than Haylo’s farts 💨
Not showering for several days in a row comes to mind, too.
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
this post is so 2024 aesthetic oh em gee!!💕💕✨✨✨✨😍😍🥰🥰🐒💩💅💅💅💅💅
oMg lIkE, ThIs tIKtOk is sOOOOO 2016 aEsTheTic like ❤❤❤❤😍🥰🥰🥰🥰😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍🤩🤩🤩🤩💅💅💅🤭🤭🤭
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.
this post is like soo 1849 coded 😜😜😜💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻✨✨💗💗💗🎀🎀🎀💖💖🍓🍰🍰🍰🧸🧸😋😋
i... do not even remember the 2014 aesthetic lmao
i dont even have a tiktok account, that shit would just drive me crazy
As a 13 year old gen Z, I apologize for these people. 2020 was a horrible time, and NO ONE should wish to recreate that
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.
@@freakyzakemiz 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?
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
Disagree I loved being alone and if I was feeling lonely I went online
tf you mean ? i absolutely loved being alone all the time
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
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.
I have no hope for Gen Alpha at all. Their parents are part of the reason though
This isn't most of gen alpha. That's B.S.
@@SwiftlyGay we know but it’s enough of them that they give the whole generation a bad name
@@SwiftlyGay this isn't even gen alpha, this is gen z. gen alphas are like 11, these guys are 14
real, i hated 2020-2022, sure there wasn’t school. But i didn’t see any of my friends for so long
my sister almost unalived herself cause she couldn’t see her friends or anyone during quarantine. She would stay in her room for days straight not leaving. She got better and opened up to my parents. I just recently heard about the situation. I would give anything to never go through another 2020 experience.
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!!
i hope everyone in your family is ok 🙏
@@cillshot99 thanks for asking! They are okay but we lost our grandfather.
@@Anshuk22476i’m sorry for your loss💔❤️🩹
@@Anshuk22476I’m so sorry for ur loss. I pray that u and ur family can push through such a hard situation. God bless u ✝️💓
@@Anshuk22476I'm so sorry for hearing that. I hope you're fine and recovering from your trauma. wish you the best of luck
why would ppl romanticize a time when THOUSANDS of ppl were dying??
I just don't get it, and I am Gen Alpha! Like, so many people were sick, my own best friend got it! My aunt got it twice!
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.
Thousands of ppl are always dying, ppl are just ignorant af 🤔
@@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.
@@AirTheHuntress Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
If you can make assessments based on those two principles, you'll do just fine at any given time.
Gen Z: Half brainrotted
Gen A: *Pure. Pure. PURE. Brainrot.*
(most but some are ok)
@ville__ who's gonna take that seriously
I'm on the ok side as a gen alpha
My farts are better than Haylo’s farts 💨
when does gen alpha start? Some sources say 2010, some say 2012 and some say 2015 but i've seen 2012 most
@@Meg69megmeg I'm pretty sure it ends in 2013, bc thats exactly 15 years.
Imagine having your entire college experience upended and not being able to do anything fun on your 21st birthday because of the pandemic. Because that happened to me. I fell into a deep depression that I didn't fully recover from until a few months ago. I almost failed out of college because I just didn't do well with remote learning. 2020 and 2021 were the worst two years of my life and I would never want to relive it again.
Someone said it best: The Late 90s and Early 2000s Gen Z kids were the last sane generation.
me personally as a kid from sep 07, doesnt want to relive 2020 ever
lol
this is so true
I do NOT want to relive 2020 again. I want to go back to when I was 8 and had my entire family and didn't know what happened in 2020.
some sane Gen Alpha Kids exist I met one
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
real
@ville__ 🤡
@ville__ what💀💀
Real
@ville__ tf
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.
When I woke up in 2020, I would look out my window and literally sigh. Just sat in my bed. I would sometimes be on the VERGE OF TEARS.
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
I was 14 in 2020 and my whole first year of high school was just online 💀💀
@@itsatomiccc that must have suckeeed! 😭 i thought 5th grade was bad online.,
Can relate with this. It was awful.
im currently 13 and yh tiktok dances in 202 were fun and stuff but if you think ab it i couldnt see alot of my friends and it was js scary ngl
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
Fear doctrine can have such an effect on ppl, I blame the government for brainwashing you
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.
Class of 2020 will never forgive or forget we got no graduation no nothing 😢
I feel for you guys a lot. You’re the strongest people🥳
As a teenager who missed out on their senior year of high school, (prom cancelled, senior trip cancelled, my final season of softball cancelled, my graduation being delayed) not being able to visit my sister who had to given birth to my nephew early so he was in the nicu, having to do online school, and then having to start college during COIVID all while people were DYING it was hell and I'm mad these children are making it into an asethetic.
I’m sorry that you have to deal with my generation.
It's so messed up that they are making a trend out of one of the worst years.
@@InaQra for real.
If monkey pox actually spreads worldwide then they’ll see why people were mad at them.
My daughter was a 2020 senior. No prom, senior award night was in the parking lot. We all had to STAY IN OUR CARS. When names were announced over the loud speaker we BEEPED THE HORN. When they finally had a graduation months later it was also outside. Everyone was 6 feet apart in folding chairs with masks. Melting in the sun. No hugs No pictures. A "parade " through the town in our cars. Her 1st year of college was "online ". No classes. No friends. No dorms. She dropped out. Never went back, and it's now 2024. My son's "graduation " was 100% on a zoom.
I feel you tho I was 6 when it started I had to miss my kindergarten graduation had to leave kindergarten early because of it also I am truly sorry for my generation and what is has caused
as a gen alpha, i never ever ever EVER IN MY LIFE WANT 2020 BACK!! I WANT TO FORGET IT EVER HAPPENED! i have a HUGE fear of diseases and i got covid 3 TIMES and my dad died in 2020! I WANT TO FORGET IT! i was only 6 years old (im 11 now) but i still remember it and that whole entire year was tramatic for me. i want to forget.
Im also 11.. im so sorry to hear you lost someone due to covid 💔
Sorry brother and finally a good gen alpha
@@Becky12bush Thank you :)
Im sorry for your loss, no kid should go through that
I'm really sorry for you man... :(
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.
My farts are better than Haylo’s farts 💨
As a 18 yo I feel like after 4 years I just finally processed that it’s not 2020 anymore
@@p-__ 🧢
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 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...
I hope you all are doing better now
god, that sounds awful i hope you guys are doing better now
Im gen alpha and i fully understood what covid was like it was awful
Like why?
As a late 2009 kid, I 10 during Covid-19 and still wish I was 10 years old. Being a teenager sucks and is no fun.
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 :)]
The future is absolutely screwed if parents don’t start being parents…
I’m so sorry for your loss. This video is soul-crushing
I am sorry for your loss. I couldn't see my grandpa who was dying of cancer because of Covid restrictions. Lost him in May 2020.
@@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.
Jesus loves you sm you and your family I’m very sorry for your loss❤
I was 8 years old in 2020, I absolutely hated being in quarantine, Missing my relatives and missing my friends, But the internet was the only thing keeping me sane, But I have no idea why people want Covid to RETURN for another lockdown, Appreciate what you have at these times.
I mean, a jail cell and a psyc-ward will help them feel EXACTLY how 2020 felt like
“OH MY GOD INSANE AESTHETIC 💅🤩”
Those psychotic little turds would enjoy it
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???
i'm also 14, these children only focus on the no school aspect of 2020, they're fucking weird
@@Cycl1an FRRR if u want no school so bad just drop out at 16
I think everyone’s experience is different.
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 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 actually pretty sad...
May your friend rest in peace. That's awful and yet MOST Gen Alphas decided to romanticize the pandemic.
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 am so sorry for your loss! I hope your friend has peace in StarClan! (heaven)
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
Bro COVID literally turned me from a happy social kid to an antisocial and insecure teen😭 why r these kids wanting to go back to that time
nah fr tho
This is literally me 😭
I was so happy, carefree and i didn't overthink. but because of covid (and school) it all got destructed.
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 TH-cam 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 wanna go back to 2021 👍
@@Im557 REAL
U must’ve been too young to remember. Girl nobody was scared we were vibing 😭
i had fun during quarantine ngl
@@domthegreat815 lmao yeah I wasn't scared but quarantine was still ass ngl
Honestly if being a teenager in the 2010s wasn’t dull enough, turning 18 in 2020 was absolutely mind numbing 😂
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...
I was 13/14 in 2020, horrible year
Same here. Main developmental years stuck in my own house definitely messed with my brain, I feel stuck at thirteen @@hazptmedia
Can confirm this is true, 2 months after I turned 18 in 2020 the world quite literally fell apart lmao
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 fell on a dark place ( I was 12 towards the beginning of the pandemic) I stopped caring stopped working at class. These kids are insane
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
I was 9 and i was rlly scared tbf..i missed alot of my friends and like yh we had some fun tiktok dances and stuff but..
i was younger but same i dont really remember *anything* just some things and most of them we mostly bad, forgot almost everything even after 2 years that the pandemic ended all that i remember is that it was hard to talk to ppl, while almost everyone moved on i was still stuck there took me long to move on, now Im just waiting to go to another school and start over
(Im from a country in EU and we go to high school later than kids in USA and UK do)
Yeah. Me too, I think.... 2022 felt like I was in a trance, too. A war started in my country (Ukraine) that year and it's still ongoing... I was 14. My family basically became homeless for A YEAR AND A HALF when we fleed. I became severely depressed because of that, I thought we would never be able to go home again, tried to kms multiple times (run away, poison myself, stab myself), my parents kept fighting, constantly, I was (and still am a little) scared of THUNDER because the sound reminded me of bombs falling and explosions..... I would give anything to forget about that year altogether and definitely would never want to relive it!!!
I was 19 years old in my 2nd semester of college during March 2020. They shut down the campus and sent us all home to finish our classes online. My mom is a hospital worker so in our time home from school, my sister and I had to be exceptionally cautious. My grandmother passed away during the pandemic (not from the virus) and we had to wait nearly 6 months to have a small family gathering to scatter her ashes because of the danger we all posed to my 90 year old grandfather’s health. When we came back to campus in the fall, everything was completely different. Most classes were hybrid so students had the opportunity to attend online or in person (healthy, fully masked, and socially distanced of course), but some were entirely online. The community we’d had in my dorm was completely different too. We couldn’t visit friends on other floors in the same building or use bathrooms on other floors, and we certainly couldn’t have friends from other dorms over. And all around us people were dying horrible deaths and there was nothing we could do and in America people were fully denying that it was real or that it was anything more than a basic flu; political leaders spread conspiracy theories about the virus that caused very real harm; hate crimes against Asian Americans went up; kids lost years of vital social development and education and millions of people became hopelessly depressed; people were acting absolutely feral over hygiene and cleaning supplies because it literally felt like the world was ending; people were unable to witness the birth of their children or be with their loved ones as they took their dying breath. It was a fucking global crisis, not a fun lil vacay.
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.
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
So sorry about that. Hope you're doing better now
i hope life is back on track for you. best of luck.
@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
My farts are better than Haylo’s farts 💨
@@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 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.
@@willdavis2005
Sorry to hear, hope things are better for you now. 🫶
@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!
@Desiray77
That’s great!
As a gen alpha I feel like my childhood was taken away from me.I WOULD NEVER WANT TO RE-LIVE THAT
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 🌸✨❤
the growing up too fast is so real 😔
Omg the quarantining you groceries is so real😍
yasss so aesthetic!! social isolation and loss of basic social interactions 💖🫶✨️
real tbh
I was 8
I get 2000s, or 1990s but absolutely NOT 2020s
literally
wtf is ur pfp bro
Right now isn't too bad, but 2020-2022 is wild
true
I would do anything to go to the 80s not 2020☠️☠️☠️☠️
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.
Are you in 8th grade like me?
@@ethanchasejackson yeah
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
@@-mayari- the only thing they think 2020 really was is roblox, tiktok and animal crossing
@@candysketchezyt the funny thing is, I never used any of those! :/
As an introvert who was 12-13 during 2020 I absolutely loved it, spending time with my family, no school, no homework, plenty of time to do anything I wanted (lived in a village so wasn't really forced to stay inside). Best years ngl, and I also had coronavirus, but it was just chilling in my body, only discovered it after all the vaccines were out and I went with my father to get a coronavirus vaccine.
Covid started when I was in 4th grade. My siblings and I thought we were just going to catch a break from school. I was great at first because we were able to get more sleep and do our work when ever we wanted. But every time the quarantine got extended, I wanted to be back a school. I would start the days crying in my bed, hoping it would be over tomorrow. My grades were lower than they've ever been before, especially because I had to share a computer with my brother. I couldn't even see my best friend! I can't believe gen Alpha is treating this like it was Heaven on Earth. I would never want to go back to this!
Same. At first it seemed so fun but gradually it got so depressing since we were forbidden from even leaving our house. I was so paranoid.
Frrr i got so sad that my parents made me switch to a private school that allowed kids in because my brother just sat in his bed and stared at the ceiling all day
My school stayed open and I was also in 4th grade when it started.
They also didn’t believe in mental illnesses or actually being sick
Same but I was in 5th grade
Covid started when I was in 6th grade, I lost all of 7th grade, and then 8th grade was some weird funky year after COVID. I didn’t get to have a proper middle school life😢😭
The only way I can describe 2020 is being in a constant state of hazy fog. It feels like that time passed with a snap, and yet everything was so slow at the same time. I do believe most of us repressed that time from trauma.
I was paranoid my parents would get sick. I lost my dad yes, but it was from natural causes and not the virus. Everything else though? Yeah, feels crazy how many of us are still here after getting through it, and annoyed how long it took.
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.
I think everyone’s experience is different.
@@ethanchasejackson yeah probably, but why does gen alpha want to go back to that time? Did they seriously forget how boring it was?
@@laeticialana As a early gen Alpha I don’t understand it either
@@ethanchasejackson as a gen alpha, I dont understand why my fellow gen alphas are making a time where tons of people DIED an aesthetic
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 was 8-9 in 2020 and it fucked with my mental health and honestly it made me extremely introverted now not being able to communicate with my friends. i feel like it made me grow up really fast. i overate because i didn’t have anything better to do and im still struggling with it. i don’t know why everyone else likes 2020
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
*if late gen Z is late 90s than whats the gen Z born in 2000s supposed to be*
You got it backwards. All 90's gen Z (96/97 to 99) are EARLY gen z.
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.
99 here, and I feel like this stems from no sense of self and spending a little too much time online(and I don't mean in the "tech is bad" kind of way), ofc there's way more to this, but that's one of them, 2020 was hell for me because I was trapped with my abusive mom...
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 can relate so much to this comment
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
How do you even DO online summer camp? Eat breakfast on zoom instead of in the mess hall?
@@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 16/17 years old in 2020 and the two things that happened to me during the lockdown were getting burnt out by the online classes and the amount of work we had, and then developing an eating disorder. I was never the more outdooring or social person, but this period was absolute hell, and I could never understand anyone wanting to go back to it.
exactly the same for me…somehow this makes me think 2020 was also an epidemic of mental illnesses. when i got to a mental hospital, there were like 40 people of different age with eating disorder it was WILD
I was 7 during it and I had to stay inside all day. I despised mask especially the ones with the animals on them because they burned. And I heard millions of people dying from Covid and I was scared. I am pretty sure one of my family members had it. Thank God I only got Covid when it became less harmful.
Even if you aren't someone who liked going outside being told you cannot really makes you feel depressed because it feels so dystopian to not be allowed outside even though there was valid reasons if you lived in the city was probably even worse because you likely couldn't even see actual nature
I had my entire social life taken away when i was in elementary, soon to be middle schooler.
I'm in highschool now. I have no irl friends, I don't have NO childhood friends, I don't have ANYONE to rely on for emotional support, I have NEVER been hugged, I am TOUCH STARVED. The SMALLEST touch or even caress always sends a chill down my spine. Crying alone at night with sad songs from 12 years ago playing in the background is my only way of coping. My parents don't support nothing I do and don't even try to help me. CPS didn't help me. Teachers didn't help me. I'm anemic, disgustingly pale, being starved, and have trouble focusing, (Might be my fault on that one) and I just know I have some sort of crazy disorder or illness. I can't even stay home because my parent's don't believe me when I'm sick. I've been exposed to things a child should NEVER in their ENTIRE childhood be exposed to. G!re, corn, grape, cp, etc. The first thing I was ever exposed to was cp, and it was when I was TEN. Freaking TEN. I remember the video so unironically well it haunts me. I got addicted to corn and WATCHED on the couch NEARLY INFRONT of my parents. I've been exposed to a lot of g!re and grape recently, all because someone sent me a link to a website and idiot little me clicked them. I've been starting to have nightmares and hallucinations. I nearly scared myself so bad one night very recently into a panick attack. Everything was so unexpected for me, that I became loud, angry, irritable, addicted, chronically ill, and chronically online. I literally have to cling to internet friends for dear life because I'm afraid of being lonely again. But.. luckily, I am healing after all of this. I know my lil sob story has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but I just don't have anyone I'm close to that I can vent to, and it feels better getting it off of my chest on here.
But anyway.. these kids remind me of when kids back in 2020 were like this but for the 2000s
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!
Y'know that's a good spin on it. Haven't thought of that
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..
Gen Z did it first 😂
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
My farts are better than Haylo’s farts 💨
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
I was in a horrible place mentally and physically in 2020 I hope nothing like that happens again
@ALEX_MALEX289 me too worst time of my life
I remember I had to go to online school in 1st grade I was so sad bc that was the time I got to go on a field trip… to DISNEY LAND and that’s not even the worst we’re just kids starting at a screen for hours!
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.
I remember being 12 - 13 years old, both my parents being essential workers that worked long hours and my brother locking himself in his room from pure depression, and I don't think I had ever felt more alone. I'd much rather 2020 stays as a fond-ish memory, rather than having to go back and re-live it.
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. 🤦🏼♀️
My dad literally had a stroke during that year :(
I (as an actual gen alpha) don't wanna experience 2020 again. Like who in my generation would actually wanna relive that. Not me , that's for sure
I graduated from highschool in 2020. I never had a proper end of highschool. We just went back to school one random June day go say goodbye and that's it. No year end party and other festivities. Also I never had a proper first year of university. And litteraly I never really made the transition between high school and university. Lots of people were depressed and anxious. Romantising online school like this just make me so mad. It's the first time I saw people legit missing going to school.
I also remember seeing my friend who lives 1 street away from me from her balcony and I just sat on the street and we called each other like this so it's almost like we were together. That was the only social contact we had for months. Seeing kids that want 2020 back just show they don't understand all of it implies.
I feel so bad for you, I'm sorry that happened :(
Some of my family members had their graduation taken away as well, I'm so glad my older sister and I are having a (hopefully) normal graduation ceremony same for my younger sisters when they enter High School half a decade from now. None of it was fair for people like you, it must have been heartbreaking knowing that you've waited all your life for this moment and now having to accept the fact that you'll never get to experience that while those older and younger than you will. It's not fair, none of it is :(
it's the same w me, and what's worse is that freshman year is when everyone makes friends in college but since everyone had online classes instead there's a lot more lonely people
Same with me on elementary school. All of my classes during 4th-6th grade were just on online.
@@towerofhelluse1 I never got to experience middle school, just online school. High school is so hard
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.
I was a Freshman towards the end of 2020, you are 💯 correct. Sophomore year was worst ☹️
!!!!!!!!!!
Agreed. I missed all the big school events because of it. Prom, Graduation... Never getting those memories.
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 13 y/o in 2020, it was the day where I think I wouldn't have school and endless summer all the way.
I would just be home all day watching tv and play games on my laggy laptop and i always thought tjis is the real apocalypse survival because it is and the sadist that I am,
I am not proud to say that the real chaos was an actual action movie to me that everyone gets anticipated on without ever realizing that I and my loved ones could be in a fatal condition if. We aren't careful.
The only time I realize that Covid-19 is just worst when it began to bore me and lose my sanity of getting into this routine and never got the chance to be in an auditorium stage as grade 7 to 9 because of the lockdown, it just feels weird.
To the teenagers that have different sides into the story of their experience that is way darker than I might think
Biggest respect for all of you that you survived and lived to tell your story even if I have differences when facing this long lockdown.
Mental Health is never a pun to pick upon.
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.
At 9-10 you ain’t a little child anymore so you can definitely understand things like sickness or people suffering because of it.
I was in 2 grade. I knew what was going on, it was scary. I’m pretty sure I’m still afraid of another COIVID happening.
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 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 🤪
Yeah..... 2022 too. A war started in my country (Ukraine) that year and it's still ongoing... I was 14. My family basically became homeless for A YEAR AND A HALF when we fleed. I became severely depressed because of that, I thought we would never be able to go home again, tried to kms multiple times (run away, poison myself, stab myself), my parents kept fighting, constantly, I was (and still am a little) scared of THUNDER because the sound reminded me of bombs falling and explosions..... I would give anything to forget about that year altogether and definitely would never want to relive it!!!
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.
My farts are better than Haylo’s farts 💨
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
Millennial here and same, can't imagine how horrible being a teen in 2020 was for zoomers...
i was 17 but i didn't mind it, i was isolated in 2018 and 2019, still isolated in 2024 so it makes no difference to me
late millenial. same here, thankfully I had a traveling job and we were considered essential in 2020. Plus my state never locked down and I lived in a rural area so I did ok
As someone who was a teen in 2020 I was 14 and my mental health struggled I had depression and couldn’t see my friends. My social interactions became awkward after the lockdown. People always say teenage years are the best years of your life and for three years I had nothing. It broke families and lots of family were lost I don’t think this is something you want for thousands to die. My learning was also put back thankfully I could return to do my gcse.
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😭
Yeah i was 11, and before covid i had a social life. My social life never recovered to its pre covid time.😢
Is it ok if I ask why your dad was arrested? :)
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.
As a 2001 Gen Z guy, I’m worried where we are heading as a society.
As a 2005 Gen Z, I'm worried too
And on a side note, I feel like I'm 30 y/o with how I look at everything Gen Alpha is doing lol
@@crayondevourer2267Same 😂
BRO AS THE YOUNGEST GEN Z (2009) and the last to experiance a decent childhood, IM SCARED FOR THE WORLD TOO
My farts are better than Haylo’s farts 💨
Same my guy, same. 2001 guy here as well.
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?
No one is romanticizing your grandmas bad state bffr
@@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
as someone who ALSO TURNED 10 in 2020 (gen zalpha,) the internet trends were fun. everyone was trying to entertain eachother when we were all bored. but that doesnt cancel out everything else. i fell into a zombie-like loophole in constant worry for my family members, and spent my 10th birthday crying my eyes out because i couldn’t meet up with my friends and how i should be at doly moch or kingswood. im turning 15 next april and i’d do anything to have an actual year 5 experience and 10th birthday party at the old play area that shut down due to the pandemic. gen alpha scares me.
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!
So many people couldn’t go to their high school graduations, to funerals, to see their families for MONTHS, holy cow
They don’t miss 2020, they miss not being judged. They see 2020 as a time of no judgement.
Probably
I'm gen alpha and I HATED 2020. My family was quite poor at the time and because of online classes my parents needed to work hard just to buy me a laptop for Zoom. Now, in November 30th 2024, I don't wanna be in that hell hole again.
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😭😭
me too! these kids that do this are really… something else
@@v4mpilurre 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 :/
@@v4mpilurre but yeah i cant believe people are actually WISHING and making whole accounts pretending to be in 2020
@@ItsArklin exactly
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.
And also developing kids, that were 7~9 years old, since it's also very impactating as well.
i remember having to celebrate my 11th birthday at my house because of lockdown, 2020 was both good and bad for me but mostly bad because i was just stuck at home all day glued on my iPad after online classes, doing tiktoks and just being all lazy. the first time they lifted most of the restrictions (for example, going to school physically) made me realize how much my life has changed and how much the pandemic affected me. i became insecure of my face (because of the usage of masks), i was ADDICTED to social media because my social skills have degraded and i couldn’t focus on my studies anymore. i’m so grateful that i’ve decided to change for the better and seeing these kids romanticizing/wishing that they experienced the 2020 life is so shocking to me.
I turned 16 in September of 2019 and I still remember how excited I was about the new decade, how I wanted to start everything over, how my life really started healing after a rough patch I had earlier and etc. And then this sh*t came and of course ruined everything it could.
I WILL TELL YOU MY JAW DROPPED AND MY EYES BULGED WHEN I SAW KILLING STALKING. LIKE WHAT? YOU WANT TO READ THAT? OH HELL NO YOU DON’T.
Devil’s Advocate: the author, Koogi, stated that KS wasn’t a romance multiple times but the fandom decided that it WAS a romance in some form
@@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.
@@taylorslade8080 Why is it BL manhwa then
@@GentaroYumeno It's not BL its psychological horror/thriller, we don't even get told if Sangwoo is gay or not
I'm so glad I deleted tiktok, fr.
(I'm Brazilian, so sorry for any spelling mistakes.)
I was a kid when the lockdown happened. And before it, I was a confident, smart, and funny kid. But then, half of my childhood was taken away from me, I went through my awkward age alone. And then I changed schools, and being a "weird" kid there was awful. Suddenly I was shy, couldn't look at people in their eyes and was sad about everything. Nowdays everything is fine, I'm able to talk to people properly, and have a lot of friends. But I still feel that I've grown up too fast, and lost years that I could be playing around with my friends, stuck inside home pretending I was paying attention to any online classes.
i have the same story but i found Jesus and i’m not shy and snail up anymore!!!!’ believe in Jesus!
I was a child in 2020 but I'm still struggling by how much fear and isolation I felt. I was 10, but now as an actual teenager I cry my heart out because I just can't fit back into the world correctly and I failed school several times and harmed myself. It was a fake reality to me. In 2020 I had friends, but I was scared to death and had anxiety that only got worse with the pandemic. I developed an ED starting with not eating anything and only drinking chamomille to calm myself down. I lost all my friends after 2020 because I was just to scared to step outisde of my safe place (my house, out of shame my room) I was scared my parents and friends would die of Covid (they didn't even have it) I'm grateful my brother was born. I despised 2020 with all my heart and every year after it.
You’re not alone. I developed an ED due to really weird reasons during Covid, having a close call with death in the hospital. Covid just screwed me up and it infuriates me that Gen Alpha only remembers/talks about the good from 2020. I dont remember liking anything from this time, I literally hated myself and wanted to die.
Dude it is actually horrifying. I am 15 this year and already experiencing it in middle school was something that caused my anxiety to skyrocket. It’s like they don’t understand how social lives were impacted as well as mental health. It horrifies me that I’m only a year older and get lumped in with this idea.
“I wish COVID was back”
You said WHAT
that phrase is a cuss in the dictionary
@@gekota3xyz bro what
I hated being a young girl in 2020 but I felt even worse for my cousins who were teens.
I wasn't allowed much fun let alone teens.
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.
2020 was the worst time of my life, same with 2021. i was hospitalized and couldnt have anyone there to comfort me. i was 13 maybe 14 at the time and i still wear a mask to this day in fear of being hospitalized again
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.
Sounds like a trauma response. If something was too stressful for the brain, it just shuts parts of the memories down to protect you.
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
As a teenager going into the 8th grade during covid , let me tell you how awful it was. Becauseof online learning we really missed alot of stuff that we should have learned to prepare us for highschool and we didnt. To top it all off , everyone was , you know , dying!! It was an awful for anyone going into or was in highschool and how anyone could want to experience that time again needs to check their priorities.
It was midterm season in my 8th grade year when it happened, it was terrible because we were thinking of formal and end of the year field trips and the Covid happened. I missed my friends so much and losing people in my family sucked so much 😢
I have terrible trauma from being a pre-teen and teen during these times, and I wish i could remember more from my early life, but I went through SERIOUS trauma and I literally have no memories now from 2+ years ago. Sad but good in some ways, I just wish everything could’ve bee different. Time seems to go so fast since then and it’s crazy that i’m not even a kid anymore 😢
I was still under 13 at the time of the pandemic, but that still means that very important childhood years were spent behind a zoom class. I couldn't even go the next door neighboor's house for an outdoor game of basketball without being yelled at. But after we moved, I have no friends in walking distance that I can go hang out with. And now, I'm suicidal, somewhat because of that.
not even me with severe agoraphobia (panic dissorder that made me unable to leave my house) would EVER wish to go back into quarantine NOR 2020!!!
ever since 2020 my life BUT ESPECIALLY my mental health went 📉📉📉 and it truly took everything from me.
as someone who is turning 17 in few, i celebrated 3 OF MY BIRTHDAYS ON MY OWN. NO FRIENDS. NO ONE!!!
it was the most terrible time of my life and if someone who psychically can not leave their house, that not even them would never want to experience quarantine again - YOU KNOW IT WAS *THAT* SERIOUS.
2020/2021 were actually the worst years of my life. I was bullied for being gay and when I went to the teachers they didnt do anything and they actively defended the homophobe. Then when I joined college (UK) THEY SENT HIM TO THE SAME COLLEGE... The teachers at the college didnt care either. My parents had just recently split up and my mum had cancer. I was so scared to give covid to my mum bc of her weak immune system she could die if she got covid. Also she lived in a different house now so I could barely see the one person that supported me the most. Luckily she survived and is still alive. As an autistic person online lessons were really hard but even when I got to go into school I struggled because of my deteriorating mental health and had multiple anxiety attacks so I couldnt even go in when I wanted. I couldnt go to ANYONE for support for literally anything cuz of covid. Honestly I'm proud of myself for making it through. Thats why I find this actually so disgusting. Making a lot of people's traumatic years into an aesthetic... wtf. And the fact I've seen gen z/millenials say they MISS 2020???????? The audacity and privilege is shocking. Sorry for the essay lol
The only millennials I know who missed it were ones that were getting burnt out from working incessantly to pay off homes and loans. 2020 was a hellhole.
I’m Gen Z (born in 2004) and the only reason why I “enjoyed” lockdown was because staying home all day was what I always did on the weekends. Another example: I wasn’t into dances so on the night of homecoming i relaxed in my mom’s room eating pizza while watching season 1 of euphoria. The only times I left the house was to walk my dog or help with an errand here and there. As an introvert I was fine with it, but now that I’m almost 20, i have to face the fact that I lost 2 years of my high school experience. It only became back to “normal” for my senior year. Junior year was just hybrid, going to school from home and the actual building. Doing homework was kinda draining. Even tho I had full access to it, it was still hard to do. Because of my lack of socialization, I’ve been told I’m super naive and trust the wrong people. The first time I went out with friends was going to the gas station and getting a drink, and I was extremely nervous because that was the first time I was out doing something like that on my own, besides school. It felt shitty, but fun that i finally got to go out. The most recent I’ve had going out and meeting new people was going to my friend’s school for halloweekend and it was so much fun! I just wish I could’ve had that during high school. Even if I did have a large social group, it would be nice to experience those “teen things” most teenagers got to experience.
dudeeee I missed out on the entire high school experience, (a lot of circumstances leading me to have to stay doing online school) and I basically completely missed out on my teenage years, this sucks so much, those 4 years from 14-18 have basically been a blur to me, they may as well have never happened, you only get to be young once in life and I missed out on creating all those nostalgic memories that were supposed to last a lifetime
Same
as a gen alpha WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE BRO?? I FEEL LIKE I'M THE ONLY GEN ALPHA WHO ACTUALLY HAS A BRAIN BRO😭😭😭😭
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.
@Ichijou_Matsomoku308 blud stfu also 14yr olds are allowed on YT
@Ichijou_Matsomoku308if they were 10 in march 2020, theyd be 14, and im 90% sure coppa is only for kids 12 and under
@Ichijou_Matsomoku308 if they were ten in 2020 and they created their acc two months ago they are 13 or older
Oh God, I’m so sorry😢
@Ichijou_Matsomoku308 bro graduated from squidward community college
I was 12 for the majority of 2020 (I turned 13 that december) and I remember that those first 2ish months was when my current phone addiction started...i'm 16 now, turning 17 in december (Happy birthday Hayley!)
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 agree. 2020 was the worst year for me. I don’t even remember most of it. All I know is that I didn’t get work done, I was stressed out, and over all my work ethic crashed. I came out of the pandemic okay, and now my grades are as high as they used to be. That’s an achievement in my mind.
ur gen alpha, just the unbrainrotted side
@@rishav7461 their not gen alpha gen alpha is 2012+ (12 and younger)
I was 12 I had the last year of my childhood ripped away from me
Okay I’m a gen alpha myself, and I have experienced the 2020 pandemic. All I can say is i understood it and it was really traumatic because everyone was dying because of this, we all had to be in our house inside for so long..it was not fun, idk wtf is wrong with these people, they have seriously lost their mind because the 2020 pandemic is something I NEVER EVER want to go through AGAIN.
I have depression due to the pandemic and I have social anxiety, seperation anxiety because at one point I thought my mom was going to die. I hate my generation.
@@sarinaotero568 I am sorry :(
i BECAME a teenager in 2020 (born in 2007, i turned 13 & i'll be 17 in may) so it's crazy seeing kids younger than me romanticizing quarantine. i still remember 2020 like it was yesterday, i can't believe it's been 4 years. personally, i hated being a social media addicted 7-8 grader being stuck in a house all day, but i also experimented with my style, expanded my music taste, and developed new hobbies (like everyone else during that period). it was a good & terrible at the same time lol
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?!
Yeah I still have like no friends because those couple years taught me to rely on digital life for socialization
I dislike talking on the phone now 💀
@@willdavis2005 same, and real friends are so annoyingly difficult to come by too. It sucks.
@@Goddess-vo7sv me too, I never talk on the phone
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 :/
During 2020 my best friend was in the hospital with cancer and I could only talk to her online, she took her own life because she was alone and didn't feel any need to be here anymore. I almost went down the same path but after losing her I decided to stay for the both of us, I wear her angle pin everywhere I go and during every big event. It's like she's doing them with me, going to our first homecoming, going to high school together, hopefully we'll graduate and go to college. Seeing people on social media and in real life romanticize and glamorize that time brings back all the sadness and hopelessness of 2020.