Might sound like an odd question. But 2020 is going on so mindblowingly so far that it makes 2019 already pretty much dated and actually feel closer to two years before it rather than a year directly adjacent to it. Am I the only one feeling this way :(?

Nope. I miss the normal life where people went on their daily business.

So I'm obviously going for 2017, because it didn't have the pandemic, lol.

2017 by a longshot.

This one is easier to work out, 2020!

By one day, New Year's Eve 2019 to New Year's Day 2020.

2020

2020, because besides the obvious stuff it's not all that much different.       

This one is easier to work out, 2020!

By one day, New Year's Eve 2019 to New Year's Day 2020.


Yeah, but everything literally changed overnight on New Years Day. Australia was on fire and World War III almost started. Then the Coronavirus started to spread. It's funny how it's namesake is associated with 2019 (COVID-19), but the first few cases were at the very end of the year in Wuhan.

2017-2019 were like the "calm before the storm" years.

2020, because besides the obvious stuff it's not all that much different.     


I'll agree somewhat to your point that there are cultural carryovers from the late 2010s, but what we're living in now is a new era of dread and suffering unlike humanity has seen for over a century.

2017 in a heart beat!

Even December 2019/January 2020 already seemed like a "simpler time" or "nostalgic" to me... only 3-4 months later...

Even January 2020 already feel closer to 2017-18 than now... it feels like it was 4-5 years ago...

(normally it's like 2-4 years ago for me to feel "nostalgic")


February was good too, with Doja Cat, Sonic the Hedgehog movie, Bad Boys For Life, and the Superbowl in Miami. At the time we were mourning the loss of Kobe. March was when everything went downhill.

February was good too, with Doja Cat, Sonic the Hedgehog movie, Bad Boys For Life, and the Superbowl in Miami. At the time we were mourning the loss of Kobe. March was when everything went downhill.


February was the most decent month out of the four so far. The coronavirus was still spreading around more countries, including the U.S. But the federal government didn't do anything major about it until mid-March (which was too late imo).

But regardless, I liked February. The Chiefs won the Super Bowl (Andy Reid is the coach for the team and was also the former coach of my home team, the Eagles), "The Box" and "Don't Start Now" were still hit songs, and people went on with their normal lives.

Unlike now.  >:(

I mean it is a leap year so in theory. 2020 is a year culturally skipped from 2021, and 2021 is the new 2022.

I’d like to think we’re definitely culturally in the 2020’s and the Coronavirus is the 9/11ish narrative that sets it off.

I’d like to think we’re definitely culturally in the 2020’s and the Coronavirus is the 9/11ish narrative that sets it off.


That's what I'm thinking too. We might not have full normal life in America until at least 2021 (CDC director says a second wave of coronavirus could be possible as it's spreading along with the seasonal flu).

2019 already felt different from 2017 at least for me. Even though 2020 has the coronavirus going on. 2019 still feels quite different from 2017 for one AEW didn't exist in 2017, 8th generation of gaming was really peaking (even with the switch launch) the ps5 still felt far away, I was still in college, Discord was way more popular in 2019 than 2017, Fidget spinners was already dead by 2019, Lil Yacthy and Lil Uzi were not the dominant players in rap in 2019, Tiktok was still music.ly in 2017 and only little kids really knew about it. For personal reasons: 2019 I moved to Jacksonville Flordia after 12 years in NC, 2019 was my first full year not being in school, I lost my mom last August, and I got into the Fortnite community last year whereas in 2017 I didn't know Fortnite even existed. 2020 to me is kinda like how people felt when 2000 arrived just that it was y2k and the dot.com crash versus a pandemic. By the time this gets over (hopefully soon which it seems to be the case in the southern states) 2020 will feel more like a continuation of late 2019 versus a completely different world that everyone is expecting, sure we'll look at social-gatherings differently but wait a few years i.e 2022-23 before we can say how different the 2020s are from the 2010s

Except for Wuhan, there wasn't a massive quarantine in 2019 that hijacked everyone and everything. So 2017.

I'd say 2020 but only by a slight margin.

Except for Wuhan, there wasn't a massive quarantine in 2019 that hijacked everyone and everything. So 2017.
Technically there wasn't even a quarantine in Wuhan back then. They had just discovered that the cause of the strange cases of pneumonia was a novel virus in the last few days of December (hard to think this was only 5 months ago) and the city wouldn't get quarantined until well into January of this year.