i keep seeing a large amount of 13-15 year olds saying this and it's so shocking to me. like i genuinely cannot wrap my head around how they

1) weren't teenagers during the pandemic

2) WANT to have been a teenager during the pandemic?

apparently they romanticize the idea of online high school, the terrible fashion trends (i wont lie though i do want colorful indie to come back) and the overall social culture back then– snapchat videos of empty grocery stores, watching anime all day, sleeping in, zoom call sleepovers, whipped coffee, political division (and unity?).

a current thirteen/fourteen year old would have been 9-10 during the pandemic and that's so interesting to me! i wonder what it was like having elementary school cut off.

unrelated note:

does anyone find themselves using things like tiktok less as they age? i feel like so much of the stuff i see on there is just stupid, ridiculous, or hateful now (not in a bitchy wrong generation way) but it's just the same stuff and it's making me wonder if i'm just growing out of it. i'll argue with someone on there and then check their account and they'll be like 14 😭 or get a fucked up racist hate comment that's from an actual child. so many of the trends aren't funny anymore and it's such a draining platform. idk though! sorry for the yaps.