If you went into a coma in 2005 and woke up today in 2025, what things would shock you?

[IHaveRespawned]

This didn't actually happen. Just imagine this as a scenario.

I would be disgusted by the snowflake culture and the "professionally offended" uptight PC crowd. To be corrected for saying "that's gay" or "that's retarded" would be highly annoying.

The excessive boundaries people have now and the crazy lefties would drive me nuts.

I would be amazed by the technological advances, but would be irritated by everyone glued to their phones. The lack of organic interpersonal conversations, the ghosting culture, and isolation would be depressing.

It would almost seem borderline dystopian to me, even more so than it seems like now.

Wbu?

[Stevepro68]

Music videos no longer exist. No one knows what a pager is. Playboy no longer has a magazine. Free internet porn is everywhere. They missed their chance to go to the observation floor of the twin towers. Mitch McConnell is still in the Senate and alive. Oh and the guy who banged marla maples is president with a cult like following.

[exitseven]

Yes, I always say that I would not have been a very successful adolescent in the current decade. I was considered anti social back in the 80s. Today I would be locked up.

[IHaveRespawned]

Right? Same with me. I was very antisocial and introverted. The way everyone is so hypersensitive and has ridiculously high boundaries, I would have been in deep shit. No wonder why I am convicted of stalking. For whatever reason, persistence is considered "harassment" and "stalking" now.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[kitkatto]

I was only 1 yo in 2005 but if I only just gained consciousness now in 2025 I would freak out. The internet is not like how it used to be, then there’s VR, AIs, robots, etc. Also, the they/them crowd lol

[IHaveRespawned]

Shit, you make me feel old af!

[kitkatto]

Lol but I grew up in a third world country so the tech was kinda lagging behind, I can still relate to the millennials

[kitkatto]

Oh and I’m actually 21. I just realized that my age is wrong 😅

[IHaveRespawned]

I figured you were probably from Vietnam or Thailand or somewhere like that, if your profile picture is really you that is. Youths here don't smoke cigarettes at all anymore. It is all vaping now, but even that is less common than it used to be.

[kitkatto]

Yep I’m Vietnamese lol and I agree, vaping is all the rage now. I think it’s a waste of money 😅

[MisterWack]

Wait wait wait you are telling me we could’ve got the first female President and the first nonwhite female President after our first Black President…. But the first woman lost to a possible rapist who said questionable things on an Access Hollywood tape also was later found to be on Epstein’s Jet flight log with Former President Bill Clinton.

Then you are telling me Elderly Joe Biden who couldn’t keep the swears in his mouth shut was elected from a global Pandemic?

Then the prosecuted indicted convicted felon proved guilty of doing illegal activities to hide proof of an NDA for banging a pornstar while his wife was going to have a kid, did a Capitol Riot to throw out the last election’s results after SCOTUS unanimously declined to throw out the results, while this guy was conning people into buying $60 China Bibles, $100k guitars, $300 Gold Painted Sneakers, and more useless junk beat who would be the first female President & first nonwhite female President in American History who is the same moron who beat the first female President back in 2016?

Damn. This country went to Hell since I’ve been asleep.

[MisterWack]

*the Joe Biden part should be ‘plagiarism’ not the swearing stuff since he wouldn’t know about it in this hypothetical. Sorry for ruining your immersion.

[jshm2]

I would wonder why bigots like you have not been shot down.

[IHaveRespawned]

I would wonder why hypersensitive snowflakes like you would even emerge. Shit, and even I was considered sensitive during that time, but you sir and a lot of these leftist loonies have surpassed me now.

[loveslongnails]

I would be amazed at how I went into a coma in 2005, USA and woke up in 1939 Germany.

[DrPepper12]

That HIV has been effectively cured. That's mind blowing.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I think you need some actual friends

[IHaveRespawned]

I have a fiance. I have some friends but they are always too busy.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Yeah, spend time with your actual friends instead of being disappointed by putting all of your social needs on one person who obviously can’t fill them

[katiesmuff]

Most everything!