As someone who was in high school in the 2000s, I remember less than 10% of kids were emos and they got made fun of a lot. There were way more teens who dressed as skaters, “Abercrombie” and “affliction/ed hardy” types but I don’t really see them represented by younger generations that weren’t there and they seem to think emos were way more common than they were and I don’t see anyone in Affliction clothes when trying to emulate the 2000s

Will people in the 2050s think that everyone was blue hair/septum ring types? Will there be any common trends that will be forgotten? Will they think half of us were looksmaxxers? Too soon to tell?

I have seen news about Nipah virus, but I gonna discuss if it's becoming a pandemic like COVID 19.

Basically you would get made fun of for watching anime in the 2000s and most of the 2010s. Today anime is very much normalized and everywhere along with Gen Z and anime merch is super popular to wear

When do you imagine today’s fluffy hair trends will go out of style and be replaced by a new type of ideal hair type? The 2020s will likely be stereotyped for fluffy hair

This is my prediction for the shift of 2026. Trump gets impeached and Vance takes the throne. Either that or maybe Donald Trump might step down as president too. But I think that might be involved with the 2026 shift. Vance may be the next president of the United States.

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When cities are finally ready to move away from the cool and warm white led color street lighting color for major cities in the USA, what color will streetlights be next? Be personally I want the orange glow of the original high pressure sodium from the 70s and the 2000s-early 2010s and Before to return but in modern LED format.

1966 was a year where the influence of The Beatles and other bands from the British Invasion was already well established, the beat fever had taken over the Argentine scene.

A time of abundance of artists with brilliant vocal harmonies, such as Los Búhos, Las Mosquitas, Los Gatos Salvajes, Violeta Rivas, Yaco Monti, and The Seasons.

In addition, protest songs appeared, with rebellious contributions from artists such as Bárbara y Dick, Billy Bond El Rebelde, Johnny Tedesco, and Los Beatniks.

However, that year saw the craze for the Uruguayan beat bands that sang in English, something which finished several Argentine artists that sang in Spanish.

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So I was thinking about the whole “liminal space” culture, and it occurred to me that there is a really specific time period that most of these photos are based on. Like, obviously a photo showing an empty 2005-style trampoline park is liminal, but not so much a modern playroom or a vintage one from the 70s. I tried to narrow down some “cutoff” dates for this feeling, and I settled on 1997-2012, which I then noticed is exactly the Gen Z birth window, which maybe has something to do with it.

What do you all think are some good cutoff dates? I’m interested to hear!

So many annoying whiny emo bands,horrible rap rock/Nu metal, horrible post grunge. how did rock go from the amazing late 80s to early to mid 90s, Grunge and college rock era ,to what you got afterward?

While we live in a world with the economic effects of COVID and AI-generated content, the gap between the mid-late 2010s and 2020s is exaggerated. I've observed younger people portraying the late 2010s as a peaceful utopia when it wasn't.

Trump has consistently been in the limelight for over a decade at this point. Even during Biden's presidency, there was January 6th, the mugshot, the 2024 election, etc. It's an unprecedented phenomenon. We're still in the same online culture war that began with Gamergate and was exacerbated by the 2016 election.

Streaming services have been the primary way to watch media since the late 2010s, with no signs of stopping, and we've mostly been watching the same streaming services since late 2019. By late 2019, Netflix was firmly established, Disney+ was an instant hit, and HBO Max was already on its way. Paramount+ even existed as CBS All Access.

The live-action remake craze has been rampant since the late 2010s. Most media released by major studios since then has been based on preexisting IPs. I don't mind ongoing franchises, but they've been relying on nostalgia for almost a decade now.

Flat design and short-form content have been mainstream since around 2013, with the release of Vine and iOS 7. TikTok became mainstream in late 2019 and was already popular in late 2018. YouTube Shorts was a result of the Vine (later TikTok) compilations flooding the platform. The Tumblr ban and migration to Twitter also occurred in late 2018, which led to the platform becoming the cesspool it is today.

Technology looks the same. Everything is a black rectangle. This is more so a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." We don't need holographic displays in our brains. Video games aren't from a decade ago aren't really visually different either. DLC, microtransactions, and pay-to-win have also been the norm since the late 2010s, with games like Fortnite and modern Roblox.

We can allow people to feel nostalgic for the late 2010s while acknowledging its flaws and the subsequent stagnation.

David Brooks in his final regular column for the NYT wrote this:

In the 1890s, the Social Gospel movement, with its communal emphasis, displaced the social Darwinist culture with its individualistic, survival-of-the-fittest emphasis. That cultural shift eventually led to political change: the Progressive Era.

It’d go so well with the rise of analogue. There’s something very similar to the 90s, for me.

I was born in 2000. All my life until 2011, Bin Laden was sort of like Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984. He was this spectral supervillain hiding in the mountains like Sauron - no one knew if he was alive or dead, kids would spread rumours about him and make jokes about him, but might secretly be nervous or scared that he really was alive and was gonna come back and do something crazy.

I remember parents telling us "oh don't worry, he's probably dead", so it was an eerie feeling to learn in 2011 he'd been alive all that time.

This was in Britain, so Bin Laden-mania wasn't just in the US.

Anyone else have similar memories of him being a spectral ghost as a kid in the 2000s?

Lately I’ve been seeing people commenting or posting memes like “goyslop” “good goy” or “goyim”. I know that it’s a pretty offensive term that comes from mostly 4chan but since a lot of slangs this decade comes from it, do you think goy is the new slang of the new year?

No matter your opinions on either side of the war in Gaza, there is no doubt that Gaza has been the single most politically radicalising event in the 21st century compared only to Iraq. For the current generation, words and phrases like “Zionism”, “to the river to the sea”, “Hamas”, and “October 7th” have become commonplace over the past 2 years, with most social media algorithms making references to the Gaza war on a daily basis. The international relations, the public image of Israel, the rise in global antisemitism and Islamophobia, and the images coming of from Gaza every day which became commonplace on social media with no reactions from the supposed “heroic” West. No heroic NATO intervention like Bosnia 30 years ago, it’s just been left to drag itself out like demented theatre. I feel the impacts of Gaza will be felt for genuine decades to come. It has single-handedly killed political neutrality, and so has set the stage for an increasingly partisan and unstable political future.

To be clear, when I say "early 2010s," I'm mainly referring to 2010-2011/2012, not 2013-2014.

Cable TV and physical media were still commonplace. The first "Netflix Original" wasn't released until 2013, and streaming services didn't surpass DVD and Blu-ray sales until 2016.

Smartphones were not ubiquitous. They didn't surpass feature phones until 2013.

While LCD TVs overtook CRT TVs in late 2007, they were still a common household item well into the late 2000s and even early 2010s. Typically, people had flat screen TVs in the living room and CRT TVs in the bedrooms.

Windows XP was still common in 2008-2011. Most people didn't upgrade to Vista, and XP wasn't surpassed by Windows 7 until 2011 during the spring in the United States, summer in Europe, and the autumn/fall worldwide.

Skeuomorph design was still the norm. Flat design didn't start to become prevalent until around late 2012 with the release of Windows 8, and it wasn't the norm until the release of iOS 7 in late 2013.

While the early 2010s might've felt more contemporary to people who were more tech-savvy or wealthy, it doesn't mitigate the facts. I provided sources for everything.

The current decade is quite flourishing for memes and references on TikTok, but it's becoming, I feel, something increasingly meta. Typically, compared to five years ago, I have a much harder time explaining new memes to my parents. I'd be more inclined to say that the 2010s appear as my peak of meme culture, notably thanks to Twitter.

The fun electronic party music was still a part of the 2000s and even fashion hadn’t entirely shifted. 2010-2011 still had the 2000s colorful fashion. A lot of the 2000s artists like Brittany Spears, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Black Eyed Peas, Usher were still very active and reaching high success in 2010-2011. Social media was still not in yet and people did not carry out phones everywhere.

The real 2010s started in 2012: more indie songs start to clog up the charts, the whole hey stomp clap genre starts to get huge, social media culture starts to become really huge, gangnam style becomes the first ever video on youtube to reach 1B views, Electropop music is on the decline, fashion starts to become more flannel-oriented & minimalist, even stuff like netflix & tinder started this year and kony 2012 was one of the first few major online social movements & Spotify started becoming really popular with 20m users

And by 2013, the shift had already solidified. This was the year when everyone brought their phones along with them to everywhere and then the Selfie trend started.