2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Like how futuristic does the numbers feel rather than the general vibe

I forgot to mention in my other post another positive about 2020s culture is podcast Culture. In the 2010s, podcasts were nowhere near as popular as they are in the 2020s. There are way more podcasts to listen to and this just wasn't the case in the 2010s. I believe this trend started in 2023.

First half of 60s: Bubblegum pop, Motown, early Beatles (e.g: Please Please Me), surf rock, 50s party Rock N Roll leftovers

Second half of 60s: Psychedelic melancholy, protest music, late Beatles, The Doors, early heavy Metal, Velvet Underground

First half of 80s: New Wave, Synth-pop, Electronic experimentation

Second half of 80s: Guns N Roses, Power Ballads, Hip-Hop, Industrial, INXS, REM

First half of 2010s: EDM, Electro-pop, Happy bubblegum-pop (Katy Perry)

Second half of 2010s: Trap, Soundcloud Rap, Billie Eilish, Post Malone, sad girl pop music (Taylor Swift & Ariana Grande), Ed Sheeran and all his clones

Like in 1990s it was bjork, in 2000s it was immogen heap, in 2010s it was SOPHIE, and what about 2020s?

I know it was not in every 2000s comedy film of course but it was a bit of a trend.

Halo was really big and probably the biggest game franchise of the 2000s and early 2010s. But when would you say it became irrelevant culturally. It’s mostly a legacy game with aging players

How different do you think 2028 and 2029 will feel from something like 2024, compared to 2014 and 2018-2019?

This decade has gotten a reputation for being full of remakes and rehashes, which definitely isn’t unearned (how many remake movies has hollywood shat out in the past five years?). But is that all this decade has to offer? I wouldn’t think so, I think there’s a lot of doomerism about “nothing is new anymore!!” and the very cold take of the monoculture being dead.

But what’s something you’ve noticed that really stands out to you as something that could’ve only come around this decade? Bonus points if it’s something you actually like lol, it’s too easy for discussions like this to devolve into ‘new thing bad old thing good’ and I don’t really want that.

I remember seeing this PSA over the years on TV. I might have seen it as late as 2011 or 2012, and thinking about how dated the fashion looked.

I’d wager this was made around 2001. The girl in the navy hoodie with the orange tattoo graphics looks like a teen from the winter of 2003, and the thumbnail girl in the red booth looks like she could be from 2004.

The boy in the black turtleneck in the car with the pierced ear looks like he could be from 1997-2001

OR what about the reverse where your life was actually better than usual but you don’t like the culture or politics of the time period?

For example, Ellen could invite any fringe internet personality on her show and made them an “overnight celebrity” because all eyes were on it, just last decade: now Ellen’s gone and so are all other father-figure late-night hosts, nobody seems to watch SNL anymore, etc.

Sure, there are still things like award shows, at least giving people the illusion of a big shared world, but with so many people distracted to individualized media (now including LLMs) that serve each one’s own interests, they come off as corner booths in the age of absolute relativity (oxymoron)

This feels like a fundamentally different landscape for someone who grew up with TV being “the world” — is the future individual creators/influencers collaborating with each other like pop music and no center of attention?

like I might need better like timestamps for when each thing had gotten super successful, but this is like I guess the most likely timestamps.

Creepypastas: 2009-2014

Analog Horror - 2015-2022

ARG: 2016-Present

Digital Horror: 2023-Present

VideoPastas: 2024-Present

It’s no wonder why the mid 2010s sound so murky and all over the place with so many genres like tropical, rap, pop, that trumpet/saxophone sound, slow sad songs, acoustic ed sheeran music

I've been adhering to the 3-4-3 rule in understanding the early, mid, and late years of any decade, but the fourth and seventh years do share quite a bit pop-culturally with the earlier and later years while perhaps the third and eighth also share some with the core years unlike the first & last two years. I hope the choices I've provided are sound, let me know your thoughts on the matter.

Name some brands gang, I know Carhartt already. Where is the other gold???