I get such a wave of nostalgia and warm fuzziness watching Jackass again now. It represented a time before any real responsibility, skateboarding 10 hours a day

I get such a wave of nostalgia and warm fuzziness watching Jackass again now. It represented a time before any real responsibility, skateboarding 10 hours a day, trying to emulate them with dumb pranks and shopping trolley 'stunts'. I've found most people my age have a similar reaction. It's like the Jackass era was a bit of a sweet spot for millennials. We were the last generation growing up before social media, where we had nothing better to do than to hang around skateparks all day. And things were undeniably simpler in that sense. I think for me Jackass represents the last days of young people being allowed to be bored, making up their own entertainment, dicking around, throwing mud bombs at cars, whatever. A joyful aimlessness. I'll stop before I reach boomer level nostalgia.