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Year referenced as the beginning of a period when internet users went through their phase of discovering hidden truths about society

Mentions (41)
"Just the fact that he gave the movie 2012 three-and-a-half out of four stars shows that he understands what audiences are looking for and the appeal of 'bad' films. You'd be hard-pressed to find a better disaster movie."
I've been reading a lot of Roger Ebert reviews lately · u/thericheat · ↑156 · 2022-12-25
"Around the 2012 elections I thought bad lip readings were peak comedy."
Things you thought were hilarious as a kid · u/Paula-Abdul-Jabbar · ↑93 · 2024-01-25
"When I watched that video for the first time I was so overcome with emotion and had this surge of energy telling me that I **needed** to do something to help."
Kony 2012 might have destroyed my humanity · u/kuduloverlover · ↑85 · 2021-11-24
"Around 2012 this becomes problematic because of the white savior trope"
Kingdom of Heaven. Braveheart. Troy. The Last Samurai. Gladiator. · u/3043812047389 · ↑84 · 2021-12-07
"Ron Paul 2012, also Kony 2012. Big year."
Things I never thought I'd miss about old reddit · u/VocalFryCooker · ↑83 · 2025-11-14
"I always believed in some kind of genuine melodic/artistic decline between 2000 and 2012"
"He showed me a photo of their first date back in 2012...they look the fucking same as they do now."
How the fuck do some of you not age?? · u/AEOD_Goals · ↑75 · 2024-02-02
"we all get sent back to 2012 with choice of whether or not we retain our memories"
/x/ schizos predicting timeline to reset on April 1st · u/Poopoobumhole69 · ↑74 · 2022-03-28
"2012 had the Trayvon Martin killing and its attendant outrage, and the Aurora, CO movie theater shooting"
This has been awfully quiet for an election year · u/GoonGod95 · ↑70 · 2024-07-11
"Now, the pseudolife we percieve ourselves living is one amongst shapes and forms of digitized ideas while our physical existence serves to materially sustain this continuous state of abstract contemplation"
"despite its mainstream peak and hate in 2012 it was already being used ironically and as a meme by as early as 2015"
Dubstep and Skrillex got way too much hate at the time · u/[deleted] · ↑64 · 2021-09-29
"The Mayans were right: the World ended in December 21st, 2012 and we're living in a different timeline now."
"I was born in 94 and I didn't touch a smartphone until 2012 when I went to college"
Mid-90s millennials are truly a once in a century generation · u/Novel_Quantity3189 · ↑56 · 2025-05-05
"If Good Musics iconic 2012 posse cut "Mercy" was about female podcast red scare"
"If you told me in 2012 that "Feel Guy" would be all over Twitter and IG seven years from now I'd be like nahhh lol"
"a phase that all true internet kids got done and dusted between 2012 and 2016"
"Maybe if you've got a gigantic rear end it's more appealing to go out regularly than it was back in 2012."
How have butts gotten so large? · u/UpsideDownChuck · ↑41 · 2023-12-30
"feel like everyone said this in like 2012 and it just silently went away"
feel like people dont say touché any more · u/boobaboy0934 · ↑39 · 2021-05-02
"On February 18, 2012, an acoustic concert was held in the sphere, which gathered about a hundred spectators."
"After 2012, I remember the RNC making a big deal out of doing a postmortem for the GOP following Romney's defeat"
The Democrats don't really have to do anything · u/notrandyjackson · ↑38 · 2024-11-11
"You don't know what's it's like to have a 2012 wigger with rich parents make fun of your shoes"
I developed self esteem issues from wiggers making fun of my shoes · u/kanyewesthasfallen · ↑35 · 2025-04-02
"I miss 2012, how some people believed the world was gonna end and how fun it was to relentlessly make fun of them"
"I remember SOPA and PIPA from 2012-2013 too."
Remember the whole net neutrality thing? · u/kd451 · ↑34 · 2024-08-07
"Reality as it has been since before 2012 is fracturing."
What is your fantasy existence? · u/JordanBPeniserson · ↑32 · 2022-05-14
"Mine would be Sigur Rós back in 2012 in Oakland, CA."
What's the greatest concert you've ever been to? · u/0wlBear916 · ↑32 · 2023-01-13
"I was 10 years old when it started trending but I still remember it, people at school wearing "Kony 2012" shirts"
You guys remember Kony 2012 · u/Quirky_Sentence7554 · ↑31 · 2023-05-13
"Most ambitious people have seen 'The Social Network' by this point in 2012."
12 Years a Privilege · u/TouchdownVirgin · ↑30 · 2023-02-22
"Did you ever in 2012 hear someone claim a tumblr post story happened to them IRL?"
"I had just graduated high school and had a rosy vision and hopes of what turned out to be a pretty dark decade. Was an insufferable overachiever not knowing I would fall apart in uni six months later."
What were you doing at this time in 2012 · u/Optimal_Trade · ↑28 · 2021-06-19
"Rewatched for first time since I was like 12. So good. Carey mulligan singing New York New York while her brother silently cries. Micheal fassbender having the most realistic on screen panic attacks I've ever seen."
Shame (2012) is so major · u/AdvertisingSimilar96 · ↑28 · 2022-09-11
"Or one of those jubilee YouTube videos of those teens debating on 2012esque talking points"
"the Justin Roland assault allegations will lead to Rick and Morty being considered THE 2012-2022 vintage time capsule centerpiece"
"makes me feel like 2012 is alive. what nostalgia for slightly less neolib times do you have?"
love taking benzodiazepines and posting on this subreddit · u/WorshipGuyFieri · ↑26 · 2019-04-10
"In 2012 I was thirteen years old and had just started becoming increasingly online. I legit described myself as a 'libertarian who supports Obamacare'"
What's the first political memory you have? · u/thecatholictouch · ↑23 · 2021-02-26
"Things changed very quickly for everyone in 2008-2012, but it's like the older generations just seemed to have a very prolonged, loud, and hostile adjustment period to it all."
"I found a production from 2012 thru my library search system"
What's up with this modern opera production? · u/9point5inchnails · ↑23 · 2023-12-17
"the gradual IV drip of Harry Potter obsessed blogs to posting about other things. hypothetically it went like this. harry potter blog posts pretty much only harry potter and generique "a book a day keeps the stupid away" quotes"
If you were on tumblargh in2012, do you remember · u/[deleted] · ↑22 · 2023-05-21
"He was recently ordered to pay over one billion dollars in damages for having spread conspiracy theories about the 2012 school shooting in Sandy Hook."
"No one makes statuses like that anymore! That's 2012 Facebook talk, not now Facebook talk!"
2025 Seinfeld Episode · u/Paula-Abdul-Jabbar · ↑22 · 2025-02-15
"fuck you has been making money in ukraine since 2012 hunter should buy us groceries with that $400,000/month paycheck from burisma"
dozen eggs $7 quart of milk $9 joe biden this is your fault · u/[deleted] · ↑21 · 2023-04-22
"amazing spider man (2012): 3.5/4"
Roger Eberts scores of capeshit above 3.5/4 · u/rspgroceryguy · ↑20 · 2024-01-26
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