I think all the 80s and below people are jealous that they didn't have the internet to search for shit and relive their childhood from an earlier age. You can be nostalgic as a teenager, in fact that's pretty much when it starts.

If you're from the early 2000s no matter how much you age people here are gonna tell you that it's not retro until they're blue in the face. Simply because they weren't kids then and therefore too fucking old to realize it. It's really sad lol.

]lmao, no

lmao yes

It depends on the topic. Some things in 2000 seem older than others. For instance, people don't view the game cube as retro yet, but they would consider a N64 game from the same time retro. Plus, as the people who view this site get older, so do the younger people who view it as well. There's a growing group out there that grew up mainly during the 2000's.

On the other hand, I consider 2001 a cutting off point to modern day. As 2001 seems to be when our culture shifted for better or worse. This can be blamed on a few things, but I'd say 9/11 is mainly responsible. Once that happened, it kind of snapped us all back to reality and things changed.

Basically, I'm of the opinion that retro is relative. Strictly policing the retrocity of content is beginning to be baseless and more subjective. The users should be more of a judge about what's retro.

A good example: Is The Lord of the Rings (movies) retro?

It started in early 2000, but ended in 2003-2004, and still is going on today with the Hobbit. It's the most updated version of the material, but yet it was shot over 10 years ago.

In my opinion, if you are under 18. You are probably too young to consider something retro (unless it's retro in regard to your parents).