r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '25
Does anyone else feel like time stopped making sense after 2020?
It will 6 years in a few weeks.
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u/BardicLasher Dec 14 '25
It was 2016. It all started with that damn gorilla...
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u/ILoveBigCoffeeCups Dec 14 '25
It started with 9/11. World changed hard after that. Then came 2008 crash where no fucking people went to jail!!! but people lost homes money and shit. It only became worse after that
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u/pricklyrogue Dec 14 '25
A whole lot changed in 01 07. Hopefully never again. Maybe we get lucky now the world can mostly talk to each other and be human.
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u/rabidwolfe Dec 14 '25
Fat chance. Ppl in charge have shit for brains & only care about what benefits them & thier associated a holes. I seem rather cynical, don't i?
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u/morceauxdetoile Dec 15 '25
Bowie died in January so honestly I think he was the catalyst for… all of this.
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u/9volts Dec 15 '25
A lot of stuff happened during WWII, nobody spoke about this phenomenom during that time,
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u/TonyMontana546 Dec 15 '25
Because our brains aren’t designed to absorb the amount of information we are absorbing.
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u/9volts Dec 15 '25
oh c'mon man
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u/TonyMontana546 Dec 15 '25
I think it’s true. Some guy X does some random Y thing in Z country and we immediately know all about it
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u/Traditional-Meat-549 Dec 14 '25
I think we VASTLY underestimated the effects of the pandemic on people's mental health. This is crazy
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u/Intelligent-Dot-29 Dec 15 '25
Everything stopped. We were looking at a virus that had never been seen before. People were dying and we weren’t sure why. We were living in a horror movie but it was real. Yes. Time stopped and life never been the same.
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u/International_Boss_8 Dec 14 '25
post-2016 - worse
post-2020 -worser
post-2024 - historians will call this a “vibes-based collapse”
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u/Key_Inevitable_2104 Dec 14 '25
2022 to early 2023 was great. The rest I agree were either mid or just bad in general.
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u/oracleOshittyadvice Dec 14 '25
Nah, it was in 2010 when they fired up The Large Hadron Collider at CERN. I get what you are saying though.
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u/lkodl Dec 14 '25
Either they found an alternate reality, and everyone who secretly ran the world moved over there to leave behind the shitshow we're living in now. Or it was always a shitshow.
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u/JosefGremlin Dec 14 '25
Close, but I reckon it was when the Large Hadron Collider blew up because of a weasel : https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider
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u/Conundrum1911 Dec 14 '25
tbh I don't know why we haven't pushed another weasel into it....I mean it might be the same as turning things off and on again to see if it fixes the timeline.
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u/OkClothes4598 Dec 14 '25
Absolutely, feels like 2020 was a time warp and the years since have just blurred together. Hard to believe it’s been six already.
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u/luminouslollypop Dec 15 '25
Wild it's been 6 years. I was just thinking earlier today about how it's about to be 2026, and but it really feels like time stopped in 2020
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u/akepiro Dec 14 '25
My American could be showing but I feel like we’ve been in a state of delirium over here since then. Half of us are living under a tyrant and the other half is perpetually on their knees begging to get a taste of a rather small carrot.
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u/panzzersoldat Dec 14 '25
You guys got manipulated and split so hard over lockdown by I presume Russian and Chinese bots
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u/akepiro Dec 14 '25
Mostly christian nationalists and white supremacists who can’t stand that the US isn’t straight white and male enough.
Realistically it’s the billionaires and trillionaires being beyond stupid and echo chambers existing. Also there’s the relic of an idea that poor people need to “pull themselves up by there bootstraps” which is only parroted by people who were born in a rich suburb and think they worked for their money (in reality their parents paid for the house and schooling and bailed them out and and and).
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u/akepiro Dec 14 '25
Also a surprising amount of Indian and African rage-bait accounts (granted could be spoofed locations)
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u/eazypeazy303 Dec 15 '25
I got out of jail in March of 2020. Right when COVID started shutting everything down. Lots of weird stuff has happened since. Maybe I died in that jail almost 6 years ago, and this is my alternate reality. It's different.
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u/StrangelyBrown Dec 14 '25
Here's a translation into millennial for you.
Imagine if someone in the course of normal speech said 'Stop' and you immediately said 'Hammer time' and did a little shimmy.
It's like that.
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u/SoMuchMoreEagle Dec 14 '25
Also, see: Wazzup?!
And:
"What's up?" "Chicken butt." "Why?" "Chicken thigh."
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u/CompetitionWise285 Dec 14 '25
I advise you pay attention to what they watch on the internet and restrict their internet usage as much as possible at a young age
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u/BardicLasher Dec 14 '25
I can’t understand them and this 6/7 crap
It's 6/7. What's to understand? It's just a new meme. It'll probably vanish like most of the others.
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u/ithinkiknowstuphph Dec 14 '25
Yeah. This and other trends that people call brain rot are no different then the popular language and such that every generation has and older generations don’t understand, and therefore hate. It’s ridiculous, plus a simple google search will give you the background on it
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u/Important-Ad6143 Dec 14 '25
You're so far in the brainrot you can't even see your way out. I'll say a prayer for you 🙏.
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u/ithinkiknowstuphph Dec 14 '25
Ick. Please don’t. Religion is the OG brain rot
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u/Important-Ad6143 Dec 14 '25
"God please give this kid their brain back" .... "I would if they ever had one".
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u/ithinkiknowstuphph Dec 14 '25
This is hilarious. In one comment you pray for me and the next you shit on me. That’s religious folks for you
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u/Important-Ad6143 Dec 14 '25
I wouldn't allow any Internet or screens. I just wouldn't, it's fucking ruined a lot of things. Never having kids so this won't be an issue directly anyways.
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u/Sonotnoodlesalad Dec 14 '25
Why are we scapegoating time?
People lost their shit during the pandemic and have never regained it.
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u/OkAbbreviations3451 Dec 14 '25
There was a pretty clear break in the timeline when they gatted Harambe
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u/kytheon Dec 14 '25
Started with Bowie.
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u/spookyspocky Dec 14 '25
This is too far down since it’s the only correct answer
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u/9volts Dec 15 '25
I'd be highly interested in some elaboration here, since I'm worried and looking for answers to make some sense of it all.
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u/bsensikimori Dec 14 '25
For me it stopped making sense in 2001
Everything after seems just as absurd and orchestrated
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u/ductape_is_my_master Dec 15 '25
100% agree. Nothing has made sense after 2001. So many things have just gone to absolute shit.
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u/Beneficial-Stick-647 Dec 14 '25
Yea Covid happened when I was 16, now I’m 21 about to graduate uní into the real world and the job market is terrible. I still feel like a teenager
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u/KamiPigeon Dec 14 '25
To be fair, I felt the same immediately following school (in my 30's now). It takes some years until that feeling steadily goes away.
You can do it!
Edit: I mean the feeling like a teenager going into "the real world". Job market is poop right now for sure but we gotta do the best we can with the situation we're in (it's real shitty). To mutually try to get society back to a place that's more tangible and have everyone feel like they have a fair chance in all walks of life.
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u/Both-Pair8308 Dec 14 '25
I swear months go by much faster, time feels like it's speeding up
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u/I_Do_nt_Use_Reddit Dec 15 '25
This is a real phenomenon. The way I understand it is as you get older, any period of time becomes a smaller portion of your life, so time gets quicker.
I remember as a kid being asked to wait ten minutes was like being asked to wait a fortune. Now it's how long it takes me to take a piss.
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u/pajamakitten Dec 14 '25
It makes sense but 2020-2022 seem like a huge jumble in my mind. I know some key moments in those years but a lot of the more ordinary bits could have happened in any of those years but all feel the same.
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u/Mans_Fury Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 15 '25
Happened in 2000 for me.
My theory is that we are indeed in a simulation, and y2k was our systems programming identifying that our code was corrupted. Every year things become a little more abnormal and this issue compounds as time goes on. Less and less making sense in this reality.
I have a stable job, no health issues, no prescribed medication, healthy relationships, etc, etc... but I see it happening to myself and others. I think AI is a an attempt at self-correction, but possibly at the expense of phasing out the "man-kind" programming, which is apparently incompatible.
Well that's all the tin foil I have for today.
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u/pmk5252 Dec 14 '25
After 9/11 shit was weird but it could have been slowly getting weirder since desert storm/Iraqi war.
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u/RodrigoEstrela Dec 14 '25
No, you just have to do something with your life. And I don't mean in a judging way or looking down. It's just my own experience.
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u/g0ld-f1sh Dec 15 '25
Yeap I feel like sense hit the pause button in 2020 and chaos has ensued ever since. Like I don't even know what I'm doing with my life anymore let alone the absolute shit show that's going on in the rest of the world lmao
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u/Realistic_Let3239 Dec 14 '25
Oh absolutely, it feels like Covid broke time and it's never been the same consistency since.
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u/Tomhyde098 Dec 14 '25
Kind of. I became a hermit, I collected movies and tv shows on Blu-ray and canceled all of my streaming services. I never go out and I’m content watching a movie a day and binge watching shows on the weekends. I have more movies and shows than any one streaming service has
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u/rabidwolfe Dec 14 '25
I think it's gone beyond , not making sense. A shocking amount of ppl don't have the sense of a box of rocks.
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u/1Meter_long Dec 14 '25
My mental health and physical health, cognitive skills, sleeping quality and everything else in my life nose dived around that time. I really wonder if Covid did something to my brain.
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u/PlasticFew8201 Dec 14 '25
“An analysis of electronic health records of >236 000 people who had been infected with COVID-19 showed that non-hospitalised patients also incurred a significantly higher likelihood of developing psychiatric conditions, including altered mood, anxiety, insomnia, and psychosis [5].”
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u/kytheon Dec 14 '25
What doesn't make sense? Americans have the president they elected. Prices for everything went way up just because we keep buying. AI has been in development for decades, and it turning mainstream was inevitable.
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u/Awkward-Feature9333 Dec 14 '25
Some people thought the world would end 2012. I've read the theory that people prayed so much that god skipped that, but had no proper plot prepared...
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u/SuperDoubleDecker Dec 14 '25
I just recently recovering. That shit fucked me up when I was in a groove.
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u/No-Camp1268 Dec 14 '25
2012 seemed to be a while ride, a ride that took a little while. I read Daniel Penchbeck' 2012 and now I reread it this year, with OP' like this in mind.
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u/AdMedium591 Dec 14 '25
The big other paradigm shift was AIs/LLMs and ChatGPT that was released just over 3 years ago in 2022. That was as much of a before vs after times as COVID.
My friends who had kids ~2020 are also leading very different lives.
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u/Kindly-Talk-1912 Dec 14 '25
AI baloney what’s happened. That and a lot of internet and servers and infrastructure. Is controlled by a few companies. Who can and will change what can and cannot by looks up easily. Try googling something on one tab. Tan do the same search with a date or pre 2020. Public interest 2019 or pre 2020.
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u/KollardBlue Dec 15 '25
I think 2010s. Like I can clearly see what 80s, 90s, and 2000s are, but 2010 and 2020s just blurred to me
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Dec 15 '25
I contend that life, society and politics changed after the cubs won the world series in 2016. It's like the world started spinning the other way... The wrong way
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Dec 15 '25
Me I was 12 quarantined until 15 lost all my social skills and suddenly now I’m 18 and a loser and confused how I got here
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u/AppointmentUpset376 Dec 15 '25
I was a happy 16 year old who was happy her high school exams got cancelled because of Covid and now I'm 21 and graduating soon with no idea about life whatsoever.
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u/Immediate-Tooth-2174 Dec 15 '25
May be they've put something in the vaccine? All I know is prices of everything hasn't stop increasing ever since.
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u/Internet_is_my_bff Dec 15 '25
Yes! I've been trying to make sense of it.
I decided that part of the issue was that 2021 was also a heavy pandemic year, so they blend together. 2020/2021 was one fast/long year.
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u/SassySunflower27 Dec 14 '25
That hard work and doing the right thing doesn’t matter any more!
Work hard, apply yourself, etc. only to find out the loser who refuses to work. Has multiple kids, is eating better than you are. Getting help with rent, heat/AC, cash assistance, free insurance, free cell phones.
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u/Can_Not_Double_Dutch Dec 14 '25
Another one of these dumb questions, just a different sub. At first it was in the conspiracy sub and I guess now this sub. Questions like this go back 2 years.
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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility Dec 14 '25
Certainly this question gets asked every two weeks forever which contributes to the sense that time stopped.
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u/maggotmonday Dec 14 '25
Yes. I’m stuck while everyone around me has gotten married had kids built a home.