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I feel similarly, though I was mostly speaking in regards to lost media and information. Growing up sheltered and out of touch, which is how I was and still am to an extent, means you'll have missed out on a lot of good things. You won't have been there during mass hypestorms, or fandom shitstorms, or threads of nonstop discussion and Original Content generation and porn art and more. Those are buried under years of material and matter and data, left behind in the flow of time and the endless junk carried along with it.
But all that said... anybody can learn how to torrent, research where to obtain downloads of shows and comics and whatever media one wants, and simply acquire it for oneself to experience for oneself on one's own time. The "good times" might have long since ended, and you might be born too late to experience the dank energy in the air - but that doesn't mean you can't get into a thing by yourself for the first time. For example, and to be thread relevant: I never got into Kim Possible or Disney shows, but what's stopping me from downloading the entire thing and watching it all in a month or less, outside of my own time and work and other factors? Nothing at all.
And to be more thread relevant, I wonder sometimes what fictional characters themselves would think about the state of their own series/franchise and viewer/community reactions and sentiments towards them. I am reminded of this work in particular https://e-hentai.org/g/809169/26d3665cdc/ in regards to that meta-idea.
I hope I'm getting some points across instead of seeming like some schizo nutter. I tend to get melancholy and philosophical when in these moods and about these topics.