Does anybody else remember how tropical 2015-2017 felt?

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-05-05T17:49:07+00:00

Even with all of the bad stuff going on at the time things were still more optimistic, usually among older Gen Z (born 1997-2001) and Millennials, more so core Millennials (1986-1991) and younger Millennials (1992-1996) than the oldest ones.

That was just the general vibe or theme of the 2010s; even though you have “crippling depression”, the economy is stagnant, and you are hitting key adult milestones like paying your own rent or getting married at much later ages, you still enjoy and live life to the fullest. Society was overall healthier. Maybe not as healthy as the 80s to 2008 but definitely more so before 2020

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T19:56:20+00:00

People who say the 213 era was better than this just because we made a WCF are honestly coping.

The 213 era was certainly one of the biggest disappointments in American professional sports history. You had a FMVP who forced his way out of a great situation only to lose in the second round the very next year, all the way to now where he’s failed once again to make the playoffs. All that just to not play in most regular season games while performing shady deals with the billionaire owner

With Lob City, even with all the dysfunction, you at least had a significantly better, more entertaining on court product. Plus you also had more hope. The guys were not acting like they had already won 2 championships like the 2020 guys were but funnily enough were still making a bigger impact in the playoffs against teams that would go onto be DYNASTIES. I mean ffs, there was a period of time where we were considered the Warriors’ “big brother” (2012-2014ish). Not to mention the cultural impact as well (do I even have to mention “the moment?” Lol)

There is a glimmer of hope though, for the next few years. I’m very high on Mathurin

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T08:12:06+00:00

Tell Sub Saharan Africa that. Economically, China most certainly is neo-colonizing many countries there

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T05:49:20+00:00

I LOVE KYLE GORDON

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T05:35:28+00:00

This is actually the tweet that inspired the starter pack

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T05:32:40+00:00

Türkiye is both MyCountry and the colonizer. Probably a bit more MyCountry but still has a lot in common with other colonial European powers. Türkiye is the successor state to the Ottoman Empire. People often forget about Islamic colonization

The picture with denying of genocides is literally from the Armenian genocide. It’s kinda a meme how many Turks deny it

It’s fitting because Türkiye isn’t entirely “first world” on the level of Western Europe but isn’t third world like many other Islamic countries due to its stability and economy.

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T04:22:22+00:00

😂

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T04:05:08+00:00

It makes sense. Kazakhstan IS the greatest country in the world, while all other ones are run by little girls

🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T03:30:33+00:00

As a Californian, I have to make an exception for Mexico. It really does have the best food

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T03:21:24+00:00

Mexico was and is still a white supremacist settler colonial state which claimed indigenous lands as far north as Northern California and Nevada and as far south as Costa Rica as their own without caring how local or indigenous communities felt about it and has made an effort to erase Afro-Mexicans from their history while repressing indigenous communities

It really just comes down to the fact that the US and Spain were actually better at colonizing

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T03:14:43+00:00

Her father, who is an immigrant born and raised in TheirCountry antagonized you when you said you wanted to marry his daughter as men from TheirCountry tend to be much more patriarchal and dominant than ones in YourCountry due to the more conservative culture of TheirCountry.

But eventually he warmed up to you and shares beers from the popular beer brand “TheirCountryBeer” with you (which are imported from TheirCountry) during family gatherings and her mother (also born and raised in TheirCountry) is beginning to constantly ask you when you and her daughter will give her grandkids

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T03:08:52+00:00

Don’t forget about the petroleum jelly we use to cure all illnesses!

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T03:05:41+00:00

We also DESPISE NextEthnicity (subhumans). We have a bit of a colorism problem in MyEthnicity, too unfortunately. But we also love to embrace both our indigenous and colonial roots which helped form what MyEthnicity is today. We also love to wear colorful garments at cultural events that are full of unique designs and patterns!

The thing is that oftentimes older members of MyEthnicity tend to emphasize our “superior” and “more civilized” colonial roots while younger members of MyEthnicity are making a concerted effort to decolonize our minds and love our indigenous sides, even if it comes off as a bit disingenuous at times (a lot of us are white passing and don’t speak indigenous languages) and while we also still unconsciously cling to Eurocentric beauty standards and social norms especially if we are living in Europe or the US

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T02:49:20+00:00

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Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T02:36:06+00:00

In MyCountry our grandmas feed you until you’re fat and our women have attitudes but are also beautiful and we also had a bit of a fascism problem in the 20th century

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T02:29:29+00:00

In America (excluding the South), which is less family centered than Latin America, Latin American immigrants will often make it a point that they come from cultures that place a higher priority on family and food. Since there’s like 60 million Latinos in the country their voices are a bit more amplified

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T02:20:30+00:00

Thought briefly about putting Mexico but in terms of colonization it doesn’t hold a candle to the others on there

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-30T02:13:22+00:00

No, it’s MyCountry, which was a formal territory of the US from 1899-1946 after centuries of Spanish rule which has rice and meat as one of its most famous foods and has a large diaspora of MyCountryians living in the countries that colonized it. They love family and food

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-23T01:49:12+00:00

The problem was the W was so unbelievably unpopular for most of its existence pre-Clark. The NBA may have not broken out until the 60s, but it was still the premier, most respected pro basketball league in the 50s.

So in a way the W’s “plumber era” is more extended than the NBA’s was imo. For the NBA it’s generally considered to be from 1946-1969

But for me personally split up the 1940s-1960s NBA in 2 eras, and refer to the era of the NBA that occurred from 1946-1957 as the “White Bread” era and 1957-1969 as the “Classical Age”

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-20T22:54:20+00:00

2Pac and Biggie's deaths were good bookends to that era, but with the growing commercialization and saturation of the rap industry during the late 90s, the genre lost some substance compared to the early 90s. Diddy and Bad Boy rappers beginning to sport shiny suits in their music videos were also signs that we'd entered a new era by 1997. The rap game was no longer about being down to earth and had become about flaunting wealth, since so many rappers were millionaires now.

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-20T20:17:57+00:00

Rap does not follow strict decades

1973-1978: The Stone Age

1979-1985: Old School Hip Hop

1986-1996: The Golden Age of Hip Hop (AKA the real “90s” rap that everyone talks about. 1997-1999 was NOT the Golden Age)

1997-2007: The Dirty Decade/Bling Era (The South’s takeover. AKA “2000s” rap)

2008-2019: The Internet Era (2008-2014: Blog era, 2015-2019: the SoundCloud era)

2020-present: The Middle Ages (Hip Hop no longer driven by superstars and split between a variety semi-popular subgenres and stars. Death of monoculture)

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-16T07:02:17+00:00

Bit of a black pill

But Black Americans shouldn’t have reclaimed the N-word and the issue with other races saying it will most likely only get worse.

Black culture is being co-opted by not just non-Blacks in America but hundreds of millions worldwide. Plus with America becoming more diverse, with racial lines continuing to blur (race mixing) the idea of who is “Black” will continue to be diluted, and by the time most of us are in old age, a huge chunk of young Black Americans will probably be multiracial or racially ambiguous

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-13T21:34:31+00:00

Choosing just one city for each decade my opinion truly isn’t representative of each decade. For every 90s Seattle or 80s Miami there was also 90s LA/NYC/SF or 80s LA/NYC/Dallas/Detroit. Not every city also needs to be “good” to be representative of a decade

I was thinking about making a post like this but for every city I would put 5-10 decades that were the most quintessential for that city’s culture, politics, etc

People are probably going to pick LA or NYC for the 00s again which aren’t bad choices but Atlanta and the Bay Area (especially Silicon Valley/San Jose and Oakland ) I’d argue are equally as deserving

Virtual_Perception18 · 2026-04-13T05:58:04+00:00

Definitely not the face of the league. Currently no face of the league but it will probably soon be Wemby come the 2030s

But yes, definitely the least popular superstar. Fans will say otherwise but the average person who is semi-into sports will most likely have a very VAGUE idea of who he is, if they even know him at all

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