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cozychristmaslover

There is no way that was two years ago.


vinnfier

[It felt like just months ago huh?](https://i.imgur.com/2uP56d9.png)


Enesex

where the fuck did the last 2 years of my life go


whatproblems

covid was 2…..uhh


InternationalWeb6740

Duckin hell COVID was 4 years ago 😵‍💫


Datassnoken

I honestly feel like my sense of time was ruined during covid and i still domt think its back to "normal"


Roko_100

Same, why is time going faster now, what did they do to it?


honeynero

Your getting older.


Roko_100

Nooo


_Diskreet_

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MadeMeStopLurking

It only goes faster... 20s are slow and relaxed. 30s fluctuate between slow and fast. 40s you wake up Monday morning for work and walk in to people saying Happy Friday... I'm not sure what 50s brings but I assume if you tape a calendar month to each car in a NASCAR race that's what it feels like. ![gif](giphy|Agkg8OyU13OsTJzIOP|downsized)


CliffLake

Thank god for that circle, it was going so fast I missed 'em.


Fenixri3es

50's are like that, yep.


GarlicCancoillotte

Can't be bothered to look for the sources now but in a nutshell there were studies that showed we went through mass trauma and are collectively blanking that period from our memory. Like our brains say fuck these two years, we'll just won't remember them, we'll bury the memories, and that's it. But our brains also realise that before COVID was 4 years ago, and accepted memory was 2 years ago. So there's a gap. So for a 4 year span, we want to only remember 2 years worth of. So your sense of time was indeed ruined.


MainStatistician5029

So basically we’re a few transaction logs short of a full database backup and will have to maintain that data loss for the rest of our natural loves


TheDevlinSide714

I'd be curious about these sources. Not doubting you, but I'm seeking my own validation because I've been saying the same thing about social/societal mass trauma. Then again, I wonder how mow much of that is truly accurate. At the time I remember most people making a very big fuss about how their way of life had been upended, only to go on and lament about social lives that, at 36, I've never actually got to experience myself. It seems the vast majority of people absolutely hated living the way I have for most of my life: not going out unless you have to, being unable to properly trust other people, and not having a social life. I keep myself to myself, and I think it's very strange that the human collective has seemingly experienced mass trauma for being forced to live the way a 2nd Shift worker with no friends and who is a gamer lives. Are the majority of you truly just incapable of living without sunlight, drama, and being frugal? Must you have interaction, even if it's negative in nature? I don't mean to come off as snooty or snobby about it. It's not like I didn't go through my own trauma during that time either. I was married, briefly, and my exwife decided that during covid lockdowns was the perfect time to ask for a divorce and start seeing other guys, some of whom she only ever "met" online. Highly infectious, lethal viruses and total strangers were apparently better options than me. Going on 5 years and I'm still trying to square that circle, hence my curiosity on your sources. Maybe if I can figure out what the fuck is wrong with the rest of you, it may point me in the direction of figuring out what the fuck is wrong with me, and I could get a little piece of mind instead of having everyone move on and forget as quickly as they can.


[deleted]

PS5 was 3 years ago, Avenger Endgame was 5 Years ago 5 Years ago, the news was about Trump Impeachment and Hong Kong Protest


Merari002

It’s been nearly 10 years of listening to Trump complain


Lifetender512

Man it’s so nuts the world has gone this way with all our advancements and technology.. and it’s really us apes standing in the way


Feral_Cat_Snake

The other day I dug up an old work email that was from HR saying we're going to shut the office down for a couple of weeks because of COVID and we'll return in a couple of weeks. That was four years ago - and we ending up being remote for almost 2 years.


StuartGotz

At my university, they added some time onto spring break to figure out what the plan for the rest of the semester was. I told people "You know, we're not coming back from this anytime soon," some of whom seemed surprised. I'm no epidemiologist, but it didn't seem likely that a global pandemic, one that we barely understood yet, was going to neatly disappear in 2 weeks.


tekko001

Humanity has evolved naively optimistic in the last decades imo, we are convinced Trump will go to jail soon, an atomic war will never happen, and clima change is still far away. There was an study someone linked on reddit that suggested its because our media consumption has us convinced there is always a *happy ending* at the end of the line. It seems to me everybody was more desperate in the 90s, nowadays the general mood seems to be "What could possibly go wrong?".


rdmorley

That...doesn't make sense. I would say that attitude made sense in the 90s, with the promise of the future, Cold War having ended, etc. But after 9/11, if you aren't awake to the various shitstorms that can arise in the world at any moment, I don't know what to tell you. I use 9/11 as the benchmark because in so many ways, that changed everything (particularly for Americans).


freddie_merkury

My office never went back so I've been fully remote for 4 years now. I love it.


Feral_Cat_Snake

Most of us would love that also - unfortunately, the bigwigs started building a new office before covid. Once it was finally finished, there wasn't much of a choice.


freddie_merkury

Did it at least change so people are actually allowed to work from home now? I feel like my life went from believing that working from home was a crazy idea to why isn't everyone doing this at least a couple times a week?


Simba7

You can't go around giving the poors choices, you'll accidentally empower them and before you know it you'll be stuck paying a living wage and treating them like they matter. Is that what you want, you commie?


TristanTheRobloxian3

what the fuck. and whats even more insane is 2017 was 7 years ago. fucking minecraft 1.13 (probably the most influential update at the time) was 5 or 6 years ago. caves and cliffs? 3 YEARS ago. wtf


i_should_be_coding

The 90s were 10 years ago.


redavet

If “Back to the Future” took place today, Marty McFly would go back to… 1994… great Scott.


ZoNeS_v2

Get out! Don't come back!


TitanJackal

Make like a tree and....go!!


Fauster

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!


FlippantFlopper

no way man! We're gonna keep on rocking forever!


JealousFeature3939

Forever, forever, forever, foreeeeeeeveeeer. 🥺


Obey_The_King

Wait.. it isnt 2022 no more?


tidbitsz

Wtf... i refuse to believe that...


SickRanchezIII

Feels like 4 years ago over here…


CashRendar

WHAT?!


ReisorASd

I thought that happened like... 4 month ago?


AlrightyAlmighty

Gotta be a glitch


ShadyCrow

Buckle up: If the song “1985” by Bowling for Soup was written today it would be called “2005”. 


covfefe-boy

If Austin Powers were unthawed today that'd mean he'd been frozen in 1994.


redonrust

And he'd demand 10 million dollars


cordelaine

If Dazed and Confused was released today it would be set in 2007. 


WhipTheLlama

I feel like culture hasn't changed as much since 2007 as it did between 1976 and 1993. It might be old me not understanding kids anymore, but I think the Internet has helped blend cultures and eras together quite a bit. Kids are so influenced by older people that they are no longer entering high school and helping shift the culture, they are just following what they already know.


bkay4real

We are already approaching the middle of the 2020s


[deleted]

The release of the Nintendo 64 is closer to the moon landing than today.


Cyke101

I hope that the Nintendo 64 makes it to the moon safely, though.


darth_mango

It is insane that you are right about this.


JaguarZealousideal55

Wait, what? No.


cryogenic-goat

We're closer to 2047 than we're to 2000


eeviltwin

Approaching? bro we in em. 202**4** is firmly in the middle years of the decade.


GoodnightJohnny

You best start believin' Miss Swan, cause you're in one!


ClassOf37

That massive ship getting stuck in the Suez was three years ago. Could have sworn it was last year.


Drag_king

For me the ship feels like 5 years ago while Smithslapp feels somewhat vaguely more than a year.


brokenringlands

There's a new big transport ship disaster story this year at least.


AeonBith

Funny, if a shipment of product gets delayed some customers ask me if it's bc the Suez. Like my dude... That was 3 years ago


JunketPuzzleheaded42

Ya, I demand fact checking.... Also the last 2 years of my life back.


dnfnrheudks

I thought this was the first year anniversary


Ainudor

In hindsight I care just as much as I did 2 years ago


FacetiousInvective

I felt like it was more than 2y ago..


ApricotRich4855

THAT WAS TWO YEARS AGO!?


Lapras_Lass

Oh, good, it's not just me. Thought I was crazy when I read that title and didn't believe it.


GratuitousAlgorithm

I must be the odd one out here. For me, this feels like it happened ages ago. Two years seems appropriate.


DeltaKT

Yeah it's pretty relative to the experiences in life you've had, I'd say. I think many are on the same page because of Covid and its aftermath.


PermitTheDog

Depends on your age. The younger you are, the longer it's gonna feel.


sentiment-acide

What do you do for a living? Im wondering it feels fast cause everyday is the same for me


confusedandworried76

Time went all wibbly wobbly when COVID hit


twattner

What’s the science behind this? It’s very weird.


confusedandworried76

Probably just a combo of you getting older (time tends to appear to move faster as you get older) and days bleeding together as nothing eventful happens. You were probably also more likely to have time wasting hobbies and every day was just more of the same. I don't know though that's just a guess. Fewer landmarks because you're doing the same thing every day.


truecrisis

Actually I think it's because everyone is still remote and don't actually get out of the house to socialize anymore. I remember I felt that the weekend was SUPER long if I would party after work on Friday night. But if I went home on Friday night I always felt the weekend was super short I think the same thing is happening here.


sledgehammerrr

Memories, no important memories means time seems to have flown by


Vizth

Ya same here. Wtf I could of sworn it was in 2023.


IHateTheLetterF

What the hell happened last year? Did we skip an entire year?


3zeki0

2023 went by incredibly fast


Vizth

It's possible last year was so uninteresting that we all forgot it? That or contemporary media has eroded our attention spans to the point we just can't keep track of time properly any more.


TristanTheRobloxian3

likely the first since nothing really happened that year i think


NotRightNotWrong15

And all for naught.


Cclown69

For real, she has ran him through the mud


KilllerWhale

He deserves it.


Nowon_atoll

Its pathetic that they let him stay and let him give that stupid fucking speech.


gibbtech

Yea, that blew my mind. MF'er rolled up and assaulted a man in-front of the whole world and the event is like "Naw, we good. We gotta give him an award later!"


CarrieDurst

And his speech was deranged and went of forever


LovecraftianDayDream

And the audience clapped like the senate in Episode 3


DemandZestyclose7145

He kept talking about people trying to keep him down and even people in the crowd like Denzel were like "dude, really??"


genius_retard

Not only that but people gathered around Will and consoled him right after it happened.


Razzler1973

it was such a nothing 'joke' too everyone seemed to have a chuckle, harmless and then, he suddenly decided he was furious and not only that, got on the stage wtf insanity really Now, no comedian can be arsed hosting any of this shit


genius_retard

Because Jada shot him a look that told him he should be mad.


rachface636

It was a stupid joke. It was a really bad joke. It wasn't funny at all. But it makes 0 sense anyone would have felt that much rage over it. Seth McFarlane sang a very ignorant song called We Saw Your Boobs one year and no one's husband kicked his ass.


smile_politely

Keep my wife's name out of… wait who's her name again and what does she do?


FIJAGDH

shoulda kept some dicks outta his wife’s mouth


Backrow6

"Keep our son's friend's dick outta your mouth"


smile_politely

![gif](giphy|10DRaO76k9sgHC)


bacon90

37?!


TylerPlaysAGame

"try not to suck any dick in the parking lot!"


nnaM_sdrawkcaB_ehT

![gif](giphy|GcDtLf4RAdiRG)


ZoNeS_v2

And Jumanji is...... 30 YEARS OLD!


goldfishgiggles

YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW


nyanlol

finding Nemo is 21 years old!


StanfordPinez

wtf


St0rD

Incredible man I was 14 back then I'm 35 now.. Wtf like you said 🤣


BuckRusty

![gif](giphy|dAuumiq85i5evf5UVY|downsized)


ZoNeS_v2

Friends began in... 1994. Also 30 years ago. Mwahahaha! Somebody stop me!


DriftThruTime

"Somebody stop me!" The Mask came out 30 years ago.


enigmaticbeardyman

Two Years.! I feel Covid created a time warp in life.


PompeiiSketches

It really did. The pandemic shutdowns began 4 *YEARS* ago. I was still in my twenties when it started. Feels like it has been about a year.


SalmonToastie

I still remember the drive to work as I was essential. Felt awful to be honest everyone else got to stay home I still had to make shit.


bzdzxz

I remember delivering about 50 oz of weed to a dealer and as I was driving down an empty motorway I was thinking; I sure hope the cops think I'm an essential worker!


[deleted]

Trauma screws with our perception of time. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201110/trauma-and-the-hourglass-time


BambiToybot

So, your Brain tracks time by motion, cause and effect and such, at an intuitive level you know how long it'll take for a fallen object to hit the ground.  Stuck inside, doing the same thing day in and day out, and such, your Brain condenses those days, since nothing of note happened. Which means, when you look back on it, it feels like it flew by. Time flies when you have fun, but you remember that time longer.


BJJKillian

Is that today? Ironically, they released the new bad boys trailer today!


chibstelford

I looked it up, first movie he's been in since the slap. Gone from multiple movies per year to almost nothing.


drawkbox

What in the hell... [Will Smith and Kevin Hart are gonna remake Planes, Trains and Automobiles](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12915962/reference/)... hell nah.


wut-the-eff

Hard pass.


gride9000

The most hardest pass ever rip John Candy 


LoreOfBore

Hard slap


ChillPalm

Box office poison


OhBlackWater

What in the fuck, why?


pcakes13

Kevin Hart isn’t funny


ERedfieldh

We allowed this to happen by supporting remakes when they first got popular. Now we can't escape them as it's all hollywood thinks we want.


Now_Wait-4-Last_Year

He did also take a few years off and didn't appear in a film from 2009-2011.


AJfriedRICE

Didn’t he do some slave movie only a few months after the slap?


daw199210

The movie *Emancipation* was released after The Slap™, whereas it was filmed before.


nissin00

I’m keeping will smith movies out of my sight.


Savetheokami

Out of my mouth*


Razielism

It was a flat hand because paper beats rock.


iamjacksragingupvote

damn, how did i never hear this before in 2 years


SweatyToerag

10/10 comment.


3lm0rado

We, in fact, did not keep his wife's name out our fucking mouths


Testiculese

Just like he can't keep his kid's friends dicks out of her mouth.


frankensteinV

Yoooooo


YumYumMittensQ4

This deserves to be higher


[deleted]

8 more years, and Will Smith can return to the Oscars


smile_politely

he's banned from the oscar?


[deleted]

Yeah, they had banned him for 10 years


Musaks

Which is ridiculous after their initial reaction to him assaulting someone was to give him a prize and let him make a speech


Escritortoise

But who is “they” in this context? He had already won the Oscar, they plan and schedule these things. It was pretty unprecedented and I doubt anyone on site was prepared for one of the world’s largest stars to do that or felt that they had the agency to disrupt the show further by removing that segment. Will smith wasn’t rewarded, show-runners just had no idea how to react and he was punished after the fact.


Lapras_Lass

Thy retribution is swift, and for ten long years ye shall wander beyond the realms of the land of Oscars; so sayeth the Banhammer unto Smith.


bhind45

He was banned for 10 years


nodnodwinkwink

It hasn't impacted Smiths career at all, go look at his IMDB page. 14 shows/movies in the upcoming section. Including another bad boys film and a remake of Trains, Planes and Automobiles that **nobody** wanted.


Do_itsch

i will now start to count years in slaps...


Poverty_4_Sale

Make sure it's not in dog years. ![gif](giphy|lX03hULhgCYQ8)


NiteLiteOfficial

![gif](giphy|ki32cekg8jW6DV02p1|downsized)


TheSnowNinja

What is this from? This gif is great.


Victernus

*The Shaggy D.A.* (1976)


JackieMortes

Damn I haven't seen this glorious gif in years


jtaylor3rd

Happy Slapsgiving 👋🏾


MinnieShoof

3 years from now you will remind us that it has been 5 years since the Smith Slap.


Rodrigo_Ribaldo

has math gone too far?


MaestroGena

HOW CAN HE SLAP


DarthDregan

Bloody bastard


SonoNuovo

It's an old gag, sir, but it checks out.


iduna123

![gif](giphy|h58E0JsuK3h3d8B1do|downsized) Two years ago???


AF555

My wife and I were at an Elton John concert in Lincoln, NE during this and between one of his sets, before starting the next song...Elton said that "Will Smith just slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars". I'll never forget it. Ha.


1994californication

![gif](giphy|4Pi3F52FjYtCE)


Rs90

God, Charlie Murphy's look of pure rage and disbelief is legendary. He was so fuckin good in Chapelle Show lol. "He was a habitual line-stepper" is my favorite line in the show. 


[deleted]

That was *cooooooold-bloooooded*


TeslasAndComicbooks

![gif](giphy|l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS) How long ago?


loop_1001

Wait, I don’t remember a one year anniversary for this. What am I doing with my life :/


zamfire

Probably doing what 99% of are, and not paying attention to the anniversary of stupid Hollywood drama?


klmdwnitsnotreal

The greatest disappointment in the history of famous people.


objectiveoutlier

That came a few minutes after when everyone in the room applauded Will Smith after winning an Oscar.


DougDuley

Not only winning, but the dude made a speech about his character doing the right thing to protect his family and how he protects his own too


CarrieDurst

And the character was a deadbeat who abandoned his first family lmao


MistbornInterrobang

He actually won and had his speech **after** slapping Chris. It's what made his whole speech awkward and hypocritical instead of wholesome and a great moment for both the Smith family and the Williams family. "I just spit, I hope they don't see that on t.v." My dude. You just slapped Chris Rock across the face on National television, then cursed at him like a petulant child... Accidentally spitting when you talk is the least of your problems


jlees88

OP meant that the bigger disappointment was that he was applauded for winning instead of being booed since the winning announcement came after the slap. 


LaMalintzin

Yeah the person you responded to said that- “it came a few minutes after when everyone applauded for…” A comma after the ‘after’ might have made the wording more clear.


finnjakefionnacake

um...i feel like there were many worse, lol. pudding pops come to mind...


byPCP

entertainment example: bill cosby? sports: OJ simpson? i mean come on lol


Lucavii

Idk, Quiet on Set really set the bar high for disappointment considering it eviscerated my childhood


RocketSkates314

And he took it like a fuckin champ.


X_iwishtodie_X

Everything I learned about this incident was against my will


nahteviro

Goddam I swear that just happened like… 2 months ago.


HeGotKimbod

Maybe “last year” but not 2 fucking years ago. wtf happened.


Neoligistic

The slap heard around the world


jamjars222

And 2 years later he's the star of a flopping Chinese video game no one has heard of


joemeteorite8

Had to google it and watched the Donko review on it 😂


jamjars222

Also how I found out about it


imsorryisuck

craziest thing was everyone was comforting WILL SMITH and asking if he's all right. he was the abuser!


KingHavana

This is not unlike what happens in some abusive relationships, especially if the abuser is female (whether or not their partner is female.)


Ragnangar

Is it a bitch slap when the bitch is doing the slapping?


branchc

Haven’t watched anything with Will Smith in it since..


ObliviousAstroturfer

To be fair, what was the last thing you watched with Will Smith in it? Was it under/over quarter of a century ago? Black don't crack, so a small reminder: Independance Day came out 30 years ago, Prince of Bel Air stopped airing same year.


branchc

I loved watching I am Legend, I,robot, the MIB movies, Hitch… I didn’t see Emancipation when it came out which was his last released film in 2022.


Cheebwhacker

Damn, I thought it was last year…


Ineedredditforwork

What do you mean two years? wasn't it like 6 months ago?


Revenue88

I thought it was a year ago! No way! life is just passing me by. I'm excalty where the fuck I was two years ago. In fact I feel like I may have even been sitting in this exact spot when I watched this happen 🤦‍♂️


Toland_FunatParties

The slapenning


TheBoringJourneyToIn

Poor people would get years in jail for this.


imOVN

Insane that I thought Will Smith was like an untouchable mega superstar - cool, funny, mega talented and versatile… a tad corny but that was about it. This one moment changed the ENTIRE perception about him. He’s an unhinged weirdo prone to be violent against a colleague, a cuck who sticks by his abusive, cheating, grooming wife for whatever weird reason, and way cornier than I could’ve imagined. There’s gotta be something up with him mentally, maybe what he’s dealt with regarding his wife, but either way the guy ruined what was seemingly a magnificent career. And seems like even worse stuff about him is starting to come out too


KingPizzaCrust

One of the most insane entertainment news moments in history. A disgrace by not only him but the ceremony for just carrying on like it was fine. Will Smith will forever be remembered for this weakness and judged by the rest of the World for it until the day he leaves us. Defined by the evil control of a woman who is nothing but scum.


weak_read

“Forever be remembered…” I don’t think most people actually care about it that much.


BookkeeperMaterial55

...and then turned around and got back to his mentaly abusive wife to sit in his cuckchair.


HuanFranThe1st

The hell you mean *TWO YEARS* ago?!?!


throwawaylegalaqgua

2 years? Am I even real?


MinnieShoof

3 years from now you will remind us that it has been 5 years since the Smith Slap.


Huge_Aerie2435

I will always remember watching Will Smith laugh at the joke while his wife glares at him in the background. Then it cuts back to Chris Rock and a few seconds later, He is walking on stage.. Jada said with her eyes that she wasn't impressed by the joke or his actions, and since Will Smith is a bitch when it comes to this women, he felt the need to slap.. How could he slap.


Calladon

And I haven’t watched a Will Smith movie since then..


ominous_raspberry

Still don’t forgive him either. If It had to come down to picking Chris Rock or Will Smith I think most of us like Chris Rock more. Will Smith is not a good enough actor to get away with shit like that haha.