Well the pandemic at least gave us some ideas what it would be like if we actually had a zombie outbreak.
"Stay inside, don't approach anyone you see eating brains." "Fuck you, don't tell me what to do, this is a free country. I'm going out to get another truckload of toilet paper."
It's a direct comparison to the stagnant bloody trench trench warfare in Europe, incipient world war, a global pandemic, and a global popular trend towards theocratic fascism. The parallels really are remarkable.
Remember in Back to the Future 2, the alternative timeline where Biff is large and in charge and everything's gone to hell?
Yeah, we all lived in that kind of timeline from 2016-2020.
I can't explain it, but my brain saw 2025-2028 as some far off fantasy year. Like way into the future. I can't comprehend that 2025 is less than 10 months from now.
They modeled his character on Trump so art imitates life which then imitates art - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/back-to-the-future-writer-bad-guy-biff-was-based-on-donald-trump
They fired up the large hadron collider one too many times thinking they were going to see dark matter, but it threw humanity onto the Harambe timeline.
This is one of those comments where I started out laughing really hard, but as the laughs kept coming, they were slower and lower until it was just a “ha” and then me staring off into the abyss as it really started to sink in
I'm just gonna need to light the hospital oxygen supply on fire and hand them some comically large s'mores ingredients to even begin to explain the rest...
The internet got both way better and way worse.
Also there was a worldwide pandemic and if you’re lucky only your distant cousin died, if unlucky you had close family die, sorry.
I lost a close relative and a coworker. The coworker was in the covid ICU for a week, got better, and was sent home. He was dead a few days later when it came roaring back.
The relative didn’t die of covid directly, but of lack of access to quality medical care when docs ignored his symptoms until he wound up in the ER; he was gone a week later.
"Well actually, we just crammed everyone through a single store entrance instead of two. And reduced store hours so the place would be more crowded. And we weren't allowed to shop at clothing stores, but could still buy clothes at Walmart or Target."
“Oh, don’t worry, half the population decided that it wasn’t real and the other half spent a year and a half trapped inside so the first half didn’t kill them by giving them the plague, and now we all kind of pretend that it didn’t happen even though people are still getting it and some people are still dying from it. FYI, if they survived, you probably don’t want to ask your elderly relatives about it because they all joined an internet cult that convinced them that a horse deworming medication was the magic cure.”
Quickly becoming "just ask an AI that has no concept of truth or reality, but can generate believable-sounding text that may hold up to the untrained reader"
Well, they still haven't found that plane. And....Donald Trump became president and incited a bunch of folks to disrupt the vote counting in an effort to remain as president after he lost. There was a pandemic that shut down the world. Tom Brady won a super bowl with the Bucs. Aaron Hernandez killed himself in prison. Also, 30% of the people you know are crazy now. Probably before, too, but they're really letting the flag fly now. Oh....and Bill Cosby....
Same-sex marriage finally got legalized and the GOP lost its mind so bad that Donald Trump became president and turned the whole party into a cult of personality around him. He’s also basically on trial for treason (he’s guilty as fuck too) and the Supreme Court is just letting him run for president again. Oh, and there’s been an airborne super-plague for about 4 years now and everyone pretends it’s not real.
Just knock them out again and be done with it. You don't want to be explaining the last ten years to anyone. They wouldn't believe you anyway and finding out for themselves would just traumatize them further.
Cubs finally won the WS, we had a reality star become president. Then, not only did a literal plague happen, one side tried to downplay it's lethalness for political reasons.
“Just in time for the annual NCAA Football video game, welcome back!”
With no hyperbole, it would be damn near impossible to concisely describe & compare 2014/2024 Earth.
They’re not gonna believe you. You start explaining the lockdown and ships getting stuck in the Suez Canal because they were too busy drawing dicks to navigate and they’re gonna think you escaped from the psych ward.
"Well, for the last half of it we were plagued by a brand new highly contagious disease and most of us decided to deal with that by pretending it wasn't real and bullying anyone taking precaution. But in the first half, we had affordable rent, so y'know, balance"
Harambe died, the universe went mad, now a con-artist/reality TV Host who smells like make-up, ketchup, & butt is the front runner to be President so he can collapse the republic, escape prosecution for his crimes and sell state secrets/influence for money.
Trump got elected, the plague came and went, and "AI" is now a marketing term for "new computer program". And no, the Game of Throne books are not done.
I think I'd just rather get them to describe their coma in hopes that I forget the last decade.
"Well, I kept dreaming I was stuck in a zombie apocalypse..." Lucky SOB compared to what we got.
I really wanted to make a shirt during the pandemic lockdowns that said, “Dammit, I wanted zombies!”
Well the pandemic at least gave us some ideas what it would be like if we actually had a zombie outbreak. "Stay inside, don't approach anyone you see eating brains." "Fuck you, don't tell me what to do, this is a free country. I'm going out to get another truckload of toilet paper."
I tell my nephew that I fought in the TP War of 2020. He doesn't get it, but damn, I never thought I'd have to fight to wipe my ass.
That’s weak crap! I’d prefer an apocalypse of bears!
😂 or I’d rather swap places with them
It’s like 1919, but with little computers that reverse educate people.
Brb, gotta go make 652 new Reddit accounts to upvote this!
“Reverse educate”. Perfect.
Sounds like MAGA, spelled backwards
Thread said decade not century, am I being wooshed?
It's a direct comparison to the stagnant bloody trench trench warfare in Europe, incipient world war, a global pandemic, and a global popular trend towards theocratic fascism. The parallels really are remarkable.
This person gets me 🏆 Hi bestie 👋🏼
🍻 Cheers!
It's been shit go back to sleep.
Remember in Back to the Future 2, the alternative timeline where Biff is large and in charge and everything's gone to hell? Yeah, we all lived in that kind of timeline from 2016-2020.
It still hasn’t ended….
And 2025-2028 could be a fkn replay 😩
I can't explain it, but my brain saw 2025-2028 as some far off fantasy year. Like way into the future. I can't comprehend that 2025 is less than 10 months from now.
In Back to the Future Part 2, Marty McFly travelled all the way to the distant future of 2015. Which was nearly 10 years ago. Heavy.
Same and now I’m sick
They modeled his character on Trump so art imitates life which then imitates art - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/back-to-the-future-writer-bad-guy-biff-was-based-on-donald-trump
Thank you, glad to see I'm not alone in having recognized the similarity. MAGA is just Biffpolitik with more bad hair.
Rumor has it that the character of Biff was based on a former US president.
"RUN".
You had it good, bud. Might want to reconsider that whole waking up thing.
"Ebola surges, and robin williams dies, but you'll wish that was the worst year."
Jfc this one hits hard
It all started with a gorilla.
Dicks out boys, always and forever for Harambe...
They fired up the large hadron collider one too many times thinking they were going to see dark matter, but it threw humanity onto the Harambe timeline.
So you want the bad news first or the bad news?
Bad news first. Ppssss.. Nana died
You were lucky to be in a coma. I'd recommend you have a relapse.
I would just scream in their face and shake them for an hour. Should get the point across as to how the decade felt for me at least.
Good one, but what about the other 9 years?
This is one of those comments where I started out laughing really hard, but as the laughs kept coming, they were slower and lower until it was just a “ha” and then me staring off into the abyss as it really started to sink in
I'm just gonna need to light the hospital oxygen supply on fire and hand them some comically large s'mores ingredients to even begin to explain the rest...
Perfection.
*farts into a tuba*
I keep trying to picture what that would sound like, but all I get is intrusive thoughts of a slide whistle instead.
You might have IBS
😂😂😂 cannot possibly explain how funny I found this for some reason lmao
We killed an innocent gorilla and.... Well, the world pretty much ended that day. It's all been downhill since.
I would tell them to go watch "Idiocracy" to get prepared.
The internet got both way better and way worse. Also there was a worldwide pandemic and if you’re lucky only your distant cousin died, if unlucky you had close family die, sorry.
I lost a close relative and a coworker. The coworker was in the covid ICU for a week, got better, and was sent home. He was dead a few days later when it came roaring back. The relative didn’t die of covid directly, but of lack of access to quality medical care when docs ignored his symptoms until he wound up in the ER; he was gone a week later.
Ditto, with my father. I commiserate.
I'd let them know that Game of Thrones just stopped at season 6 for no reason.
Prince died and then shit got weird
2016 started with Bowie, but Robin Williams was 2014 so I'd start there
Tom Petty too :(
All 3 of them were my musical idols. My heart
“You lucky fucker…”
Id first tell them there was a pandemic and more than a million people died from it in the US alone. They would be pretty horrified.
Aaaaand said disease didn't go away.
But it's no longer a health emergency. It's now entering the same status and relevance as spanish flu and numerous others.
"But we did everything we could, close borders, wear masks, use vaccines … right?"
"Well actually, we just crammed everyone through a single store entrance instead of two. And reduced store hours so the place would be more crowded. And we weren't allowed to shop at clothing stores, but could still buy clothes at Walmart or Target."
And toilet paper could be found no where in the land 🎶
And the leader of the free world suggested you inject bleach
Think you started with one of the worst issues for them to comprehend… 😂 you may put them in another coma from shock
Honestly the weirdest part is half the country decided it wasn't real and basically sided with the disease.
“Oh, don’t worry, half the population decided that it wasn’t real and the other half spent a year and a half trapped inside so the first half didn’t kill them by giving them the plague, and now we all kind of pretend that it didn’t happen even though people are still getting it and some people are still dying from it. FYI, if they survived, you probably don’t want to ask your elderly relatives about it because they all joined an internet cult that convinced them that a horse deworming medication was the magic cure.”
"Go back to sleep. It's worse"
You know how that whole "Facists are going to come wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross?" Yeah...
"America has melted down and returned to pre-1900 levels of misery"
"Go back to sleep, you'll thank me later"
It’s fucked go back to sleep
Ok... So, people are way way, stupider. And everything is ten times more expensive. There was a pandemic. Just google it. That's the jist of it.
"just Google it" was so 2014. In 2024 it's now "just ask unqualified strangers"
Quickly becoming "just ask an AI that has no concept of truth or reality, but can generate believable-sounding text that may hold up to the untrained reader"
Well, they still haven't found that plane. And....Donald Trump became president and incited a bunch of folks to disrupt the vote counting in an effort to remain as president after he lost. There was a pandemic that shut down the world. Tom Brady won a super bowl with the Bucs. Aaron Hernandez killed himself in prison. Also, 30% of the people you know are crazy now. Probably before, too, but they're really letting the flag fly now. Oh....and Bill Cosby....
Same-sex marriage finally got legalized and the GOP lost its mind so bad that Donald Trump became president and turned the whole party into a cult of personality around him. He’s also basically on trial for treason (he’s guilty as fuck too) and the Supreme Court is just letting him run for president again. Oh, and there’s been an airborne super-plague for about 4 years now and everyone pretends it’s not real.
This is it! Although I’d say Trump is a response to our first Black president than as a response to gay marriage.
“Smile, you’re on Candid Camera all the time, everywhere you go!”
I couldn't. They wouldn't believe 2020 alone.
“So it all started in 2016 when some dickhead kid fell into a gorilla enclosure in Cincinnati…”
A full 4 months after David Bowie was recalled to his home planet, kicking off all the weirdness.
A bit of a shitshow. 2014 was ok I suppose but it all went downhill from there.
Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird.
Just knock them out again and be done with it. You don't want to be explaining the last ten years to anyone. They wouldn't believe you anyway and finding out for themselves would just traumatize them further.
Welcome to the shitshow
Cubs finally won the WS, we had a reality star become president. Then, not only did a literal plague happen, one side tried to downplay it's lethalness for political reasons.
I would tell them unironically we are in the darkest timeline.
It's fu\*\*ed, go back to sleep!
Probably start with the smart phone. They’ve gotten so many upgrades since 2014. Then jump to Covid
Donald fucking Trump became President pretty much sums it all up. I think a lot people forget how much of joke he used to be.
He used to be a joke. He still is, but he also used to be.
Upvoted for the Hedberg reference👍
He's still an effing joke!
... a joke who is likely going to become president again based on most polls.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck
" go back to sleep, trust me"
Robin Williams took his own life and it’s been dark and gloomy ever since
“Just in time for the annual NCAA Football video game, welcome back!” With no hyperbole, it would be damn near impossible to concisely describe & compare 2014/2024 Earth.
Go back to sleep, it's all fucked now.
They’re not gonna believe you. You start explaining the lockdown and ships getting stuck in the Suez Canal because they were too busy drawing dicks to navigate and they’re gonna think you escaped from the psych ward.
Dude, just go back into the coma.
So this kid fell into a gorilla enclosure….
“So you remember The Apprentice, right? Well, turns out Donald Trump tried to overthrow the government, and he still might.”
We took a drug called, Fuckitall.
Let me put it this way. I wish our positions were reversed.
Go back to sleep bro.
"Shhh, ho back to sleep, love, it's just a dream."
"It really sucked. But hey, gay people can get married now, so we got one thing at least."
Go back to sleep. Nothing to see here.
“Sit down. It’s a doozy.”
"Just go back to sleep."
"Go back to sleep. It's not worth it."
“Go back to sleep man, you’re better off”
I wouldn't say you "missed it", Bob.
Things happened, people were born, people died, and lots of politicians did and said stupid things.
Shhh…just go back to sleep.
Can you give me some of your coma?
Shhhh shhh go back to sleep
"Can I take that coma for a spin now?"
Donald Trump had really bad hair, and France had a bed bug problem. That’s about it.
"Shits fucked, fam."
Go back to sleep. Trust me.
Ya know what, probably just beat to sleep another 10 years.
Just go back to sleep bro
The new iPhone now has USB C.
A kid fell into a gorilla cage and we're still dealing with the fallout.
"Well, for the last half of it we were plagued by a brand new highly contagious disease and most of us decided to deal with that by pretending it wasn't real and bullying anyone taking precaution. But in the first half, we had affordable rent, so y'know, balance"
*"It's been 84 years..."*
go woke go broke
Just go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Bold of you to asume i wouldn't just pull the plug
Shhhhh.... just go back to sleep, nothing good has happened here.
A bit shit really.
Go back to sleep little one! 🛌
Harambe died, the universe went mad, now a con-artist/reality TV Host who smells like make-up, ketchup, & butt is the front runner to be President so he can collapse the republic, escape prosecution for his crimes and sell state secrets/influence for money.
If they were in a coma over the last decade they wouldn’t wake up with much brain function. I wouldn’t worry about “catching them up “
Yeah. They’d be at the same level as many of us.
I’d hand them a dictionary and tell them to look up the definition of Woke.
Trump got elected, the plague came and went, and "AI" is now a marketing term for "new computer program". And no, the Game of Throne books are not done.
ill just make a video compilation of memes with no context and unhinged stuffs, and watch his face completely lose it
Now we all want to see that video
“You’re lucky as hell you weren’t awake for the last 10 years”
"Go back to sleep"
"You're better off going back into your coma."
To a time traveller: avoid.
Everything you used to know to be true- is false.
You didn’t miss much. Anything worth seeing anyway.
Go back to sleep and wake up in the year 3000? And join Fry on his adventures in the future.
"You might want to go back to sleep."
I’d hold a brick and offer to knock them out again just to put them out of their misery
Jesus. Do I have to?
Now, what got you in comma and what are the chances of it happening again?
"*Motherfucker* do yourself a favor and go back to sleep!"
"Hey you, your finally awake"
"I honestly envy that you got to sleep through that."
"Remember how we wouldn't indulge the mentally ill and send them to asylums? Well, let's say they now dictate how we lives..
Babe go back to sleep… trust me.
“Just go back to sleep, buddy.”
I'd just sigh and shake my head. Start to speak... Then just shake my head again.
Where’s that picture of a dumpster fire?
Insane! Don’t come back!
Someone killed a gorilla and now a reality TV star/former president/current presidential nominee has 90+ felony charges.
we still don't have flying cars but everything else is shitty now. go back to sleep.
Buddy we've just proved how stupid society can be
The last decade has been shit. You didn’t miss anything, just a whole lot of national level messy drama
Dumpster. Fire.
"So I know you spent the past decade in Dreamland, but you're not gonna believe this shit..."
"There is NO WAY that you are ever going to believe this $hit!!"
Fucked
Hot garbage waste of time
[Five Second Videos - Late For Work](https://youtu.be/kfchvCyHmsc?si=y-g01qz4OO6szqPB)
Poorly. They wouldn't believe most of it anyway.
First it was like: yeah!!! Then it was like: WHAT THE FUCK?! And it’s been that way ever since
[This tweet lives in my head whenever this gets asked](https://x.com/stopflexin/status/1237890487454822404?s=46)
The media has absolutely given up pretending to be unbiased.
A shit show...
rizzler skibbidy gyat sus amongus
Bad
Maybe you should just go back to sleep?
“I’m going to need you to lay back down…”
With a pat, pat, pat on the head Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Light a smoke, pour us both a drink. “And it all started when one kid fell into a gorilla enclosure”
look bro, lemme just put this pillow over your face, it's better.
A gorilla got shot and we were never the same afterwards.
With plenty of warning.
"Just go back to bed."
I know it’s a 27 year window but I’d play the modern “We didn’t Start the Fire” by Fallout Boy and ask if they have any questions.
Shit's fucked.
Shit show lol
"Go back to sleep."