Janet

i miss you, my friends here, but also i've been much calmer and often happier without the rest of this website in my life, it's been a huge drain on my mood and my time

❤️~ I’m deeply in love with you even though we’ve never met Irl

🧡~ I have feelings for you but will never tell you that off anon

💛~ We’re just friends… unless?

💚~ I want to be you

💙~ We’re actually just good friends, but I would die for you

💜~ You’re hot and you intimidate me

🩵~ You’re so cool, and I genuinely want to be besties

🤎~Me, you, and a U-Haul?

❣️~ I don’t know if I hate you or if I’m attracted to you

❤️‍🔥~ Oil up

❤️‍🩹~ Please get help

💌~ Why do you live so far away? 😭

💔~ If we were married we’d get divorced in less than a year

🫀~ You make me go feral

♥️~ You’re my type

💘~ I would fight you in a Wendy’s parking lot

💞~ Enemies to lovers?

💗~ I want to start an intense platonic friendship with you

💓~ We would destroy each other

💕~ You’re my dear old friend (homosexual undertones)

💖~ I’m judging you ☕️

🫶~ We’re bros/besties, but if you asked me out, I wouldn’t necessarily say no…

🫰~ I antagonize you because I care <3

😘~ I have a crush on you, AND I want to be you

🥰~ Pay attention to me 🥺

💑~ Let’s be roommates 😉

🤍~ You scare me, and not in a hot way

🩶~ We would not get along

🖤~ I’m outside your window 😀

reasons for:

there's a very tangible difference between early-mid 2010s and late 2010s

there was a 2017-2022 period of greater international political awareness, protests, and social change

while dividing media eras by decade usually works unreasonably well, it doesn't seem to for the year 2020

eg the era of streaming dominance started in like 2016-2017 and that change in medium has continued to dominate the media landscape for tv shows and movies

similarly the nintendo switch had a big impact on the video game landscape as of 2017

reasons against:

pre-covid and post-covid is a pretty significant milestone

decades are usually ten years long

alternative responses to the same reasons for:

maybe come up with a name for the 2020s plus the last few years of the 2010s? idk what that'd be though

i've been thinking about this since i made the poll, and i think the problem is: most decades are pretty coherent as a group of years, including the 2000s and 2020s, but less so the 2010s, which gets overshadowed by cultural / political (peak of metoo and blm, post-gamergate, post-trump, social media relevance on politics, lots of stuff internationally) and technological (streaming era, handheld home consoles) shifts in its latter half

so you get: 2000s, 2010s part 1 (which arguably ends in 2016 or 2017), 2010s part 2 (which arguably ends in 2022 or 2023), and the 2020s

leaving three questions:

what should the weird period be called?

when does the shift occur (should be clear for a specific usecase, i'll go with 2017 here)?

should it be bundled into the 2010s (2010-202x, 202x-2029), the 2020s (2010-201x, 201x-2029), or cut out of both (2010-201x, 201x-202x, 202x-2029)?