Nostalgia can be a pleasant feeling, especially when you’re reminiscing about things like spending time at your grandparents’ or your favorite meals to have as a child.

However, some people seem to take nostalgia a step too far. Instead of recollecting the past as it was, they over-romanticize it, saying that things were better back in the day, erasing—or simply lying about—the things they didn’t want to see through their rose-tinted glasses.

That’s where the ‘Le Wrong Generation’ subreddit comes into play. As per their own description, they’re “dedicated to satirically mocking those people who, blinded by their own nostalgia, believe certain things in the past to be unequivocally better than today.” And if you’d like to see what that entails, you can find a number of examples on the list below. Happy scrolling!

#1 Smarter Than The Previous Generation

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#2 “People Got Along” In The 90s?!

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#3 No One Saw Color In The 70s And 80s?! Wtf?!

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#4 So Millennials Brought Racism Back In The 90s

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#5 People Really Believed That By 1999, Black Celebrities Ended Racism

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#6 The First Gen Z Borns Was On 1996 Or 1997 So This Take Is Not True!

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#7 Millennials Believed That They Will Going To End Racism Forever?

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#8 And Yet Gen X Can’t Stop Whining About How They’re Better Than Millennials!

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#9 Real Men Don’t Use Helmets

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#10 Found This Pic On R/Facepalm

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#11 We Need To Stop These People From Using AI

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#12 So No One Had Problems With Each Other In School In 2004

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#13 The 2000s Were Not All That!

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#14 So He Thinks That In 2005, There Was A Culture Of Happiness And Everyone Had Respect Towards One Another

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#15 R/Memes Always Cooks

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#16 The 70s

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#17 I’m Sorry What?

I found this in a 90s facebook page/probably group. Does the person who made this meme understand that Vinyl existed long before the 90s and before they were born? Like it makes it sound like they seriously think Vinyl is some modern thing that the “kids these days use” and making it sound like a flex that CDs quality wise were better than Vinyl 😆🤣 when that is not the case at all. Like bruh companies brought lt back because they realized you shouldn’t have gotten rid of them to begin with.

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#18 In 1998, Gen X Fixed Racism!

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#19 Was Watching A Scene From Grease And Came Upon This Gem Of A Comment

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#20 Ironically, The Song Is Called Stressed Out

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#21 Found This On R/Im14andthisisdeep, Of All Places

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#22 “Nobody Cared About Race” In The 90s?! Wtf?!

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#23 Gen X Trying To Prove How “Tough” They Are

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#24 So Millennials Had Completely Forgotten About Columbine, 9/11, Bush II, Or The 2008 Recession When They Were In High School

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#25 So Gen Z Ruined The 2000s

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#26 So They Think That Some Gen Z Like Myself Never Went To A Video Rental Store When We Were Younger

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#27 Dae Gen Z And Gen Alpha People Will Never Understand 90s And Early 2000s Animation

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#28 Looks Like Someone Was Born In 1999

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#29 H**flation

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#30 I Found This On R/Genz

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#31 How Do People Still Do This

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#32 Who The F**k Thinks That Kids Aren’t Drawing Suns In The Corners Anymore?

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#33 Tf?

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#34 What’s Wrong With How The Rapper Today Is Dressed?

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#35 Because Every New Game Is Gay & Feminine

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#36 Ah Yes, Woodstock 99 Was Peak Humanity With All Of The Riots That Most Of Gen X Did In That Festival

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#37 No They Don’t 🤦‍♂️

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#38 But For Every Michael Jackson, There Was Also A Milli Vanilli

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#39 Kids Today Are Rookies For Not Bringing Vodka To School

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#40 Way Back When Games Were Played Outside

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#41 Worst Time Of My Life, But Still Better Than Today!

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#42 Kids Today Are Snowflakes

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#43 It Isn’t Even That Old

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#44 Title

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#45 “The Air Isn’t The Same As 10 Years Ago” 🥀🥀

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#46 Rose Tinted Tolerance

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#47 Kids These Days Won’t Understand

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#48 Also You Was Bullied For Watching Anime In The 2000s

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#49 After 9/11, Americans Went On A Full Rampage Against Any Black And Brown Person That They Can Find

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#50 Asking For A Non “Woke” Song On Popheads Is… Stupid 😭

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#51 And The “What Happened To Music” Cycle Continues

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#52 People Already Wishing To Be Born In The 2000s

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#53 I Guess This Millennial Slept Through The Whole LA Race Riots Of 1992 And The Oj Simpson Case In 1995

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#54 Posted To R/Nonpoliticaltwitter

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#55 There’s So Many Things They Do That Would Get Them Beat Up Back Then They Don’t Even Realize

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#56 A Meme That’s 20 Years Too Late

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#57 Western Animation Declined In The 21 Century!

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#58 What’s Happening To Men? 🤔

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#59 We Will Pretend That All 8 Year Olds Twerk Nowadays

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#60 All Of Today’s Music Is Slop 😡

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#61 Sure 3 Years Ago Everything Was Fine 💀

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#62 Didn’t The 80s And 90s Also Have Some Cr**py Animated Movies Back Then?

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#63 Oh Great. Victim-Blaming Modern Femicide Victims

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#64 Millennials, Don’t Become The Next Boomers!

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#65 Not If You’re A Millennial

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#66 Millennials And Gen X Fighting Ghosts With This One

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#67 It’s Not Even That Much Of A Change

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#68 Kids Only Twerk In School In 2025

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#69 The 2nd Picture Has One Of The Dumbest Takes I’ve Seen

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#70 Believing That Mccarthyism Having Class And Sense Is Wild!

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#71 “The Wide-Eyed Optimism Of The 2000s” Is Such An Oxymoron Statement To Make

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#72 Says The Person Who Is Born In 2002 Or 2003

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#73 Bruh Lady Gaga Just Released An Album 😭

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#74 Til That American Culture Peaked From 1998-2004

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#75 This Is Like How Millennials Talked About Myspace And Aol Instant Messenger To Gen Z In The Previous Decade, And Now Zoomers Are Apparently Reciprocating That Ethos To Gen Alpha With S**t Like This

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#76 Um What?!

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#77 2020 Covid Nostalgia Is Not The Flex They Think It Is

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#78 As If I Kissed A Girl Didn’t Get Hate In 2008

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