I feel like maybe around 2012 the whole concept of eras died.
Like I can clearly visualize items/people/media from the 60s/70s/80s/90s/00’s, but everything is homogenized now and there’s really no “style of the time” either. I think everything from 2013+ will just be remembered as a malaise era, if anything. Maybe the style of the 2050’s will be post cyberpunk apocalyptic? I have no idea.
No, you’re just used to things that are going on now so you don’t see how it’ll look in 20 years. I remember seeing people saying similar things back in, like, 2009
But 2009 is around where the plateau started, I feel.
I’ve been thinking about exactly this lately, and I’m open to the possibility that I’m just getting old and just falling into the “everything new is all the same crap!”
But… Imagine what you would wear to a 70s themed party, how about 80s, 90s?
I’m confident three distinct styles popped in your head.
But what about a 2010s party? Sure, some trends come and go, but I don’t feel like the 10s party would look much different from a 2020 or 2000s party.
Feel free to tell me if I’m just old.
2000s was very emo-/scene-heavy. Lots of bracelets and mixing of black and neon.
2010s are the best argument for you, probably. It was more of a blend of things 🤷♂️ hipsters and preppy looks got pretty big, but nowhere near as homogenous
2020s will be COVID themed with broccoli hair
All that can be said has been said. All that can be done has been done. Nothing is new under the Sun.
You’re just old.
Doesn’t take much to convince me of that!
Hey we’re all old here, ain’t no shame in the aging game.
Im not even that old. And I still recognized it like you did.
A huge part of it is likely just tech. Tech plateaud around 2010 ish, 99% of things a normal person does with computers could be done fine on a 2010 computer (if sites weren’t total bogged java slop now which is just dev laziness but anyway)
I think you’re wrong because there were things unique to those decades, but I think what makes your argument hold weight is that not everyone would agree what was the most relevant, especially depending on what social niche you were apart of.
Post 00s, we have a lot of subcultures and much less of a monoculture for nations as a whole, so you could have, say, a 00s or 10s Anime/Game cosplay night, but if you ask everyone to wear “average clothes for the time” there would be no predictable pattern.
The subculture is a good point. I would not have been paying close enough attention to those to really appreciate their nuances.
According to Swift, eras just became personalised, and rather than everyone entering a new one every ten years, you enter one after a breakup when you change your hairstyle.
We talking Taylor or Jonathan?
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Eras still happen. It’s generations being separated by decades that you’re missing, and those ended in 2000 because nobody had a catchy name for the decade and it’s been fucked up ever since.
those ended in 2000 because nobody had a catchy name for the decade
I usually heard it called the “noughties”. But, yeah, that’s kind of unwieldy, plus easy to confuse with the “nineties”.
I just call them the two-thousands and people understand what I mean
I’d call this the “late stage capitalism era”.
I feel like maybe around 2012 the whole concept of eras died.
It’s the end of an era.
I did have to laugh at my own ironic ness.
Also, Rachel popped into mind
Stylistically, I’d give the 2010s to hipsters. Damn I do not miss skinny jeans.
Item and sociologically? The smartphone is now ubiquitous.
Sadly, I think the late 10s + a bit will be known as the trump/covid era. (Or, if things get much worse, the beginning of the end.)
We’re in the era of misinformation.
No, not at all. It’s just easier to draw lines on where things start and stop once they change, so you may not feel like you’re “in” an era.
Maybe, but if it is people will still choose arbitrary boundaries like decades to create categories around even if they aren’t bound under some specific properties or common experience, we’re social animals and prefer inclusion even if it’s just for fun. Regional dialects and accents are diminishing, but there are still linguistic changes happening across large geographical regions for example.
Definitely not. I am playing timeguesser and there is distinct change pre 2020 and post 2020
Ah well I guess we will just be known as the ai slop and facism age that welcomed the downfall of civilization then.
I think eras are less obvious when you’re living through them
I dunno. The 80s had a very particular vibe. When the 90s came along, it just felt different, even as I lived through it.
I think the 2000’s didn’t feel that much different than that 2010’s.
But yeah maybe it’s recency bias.
When the 90s came along, it just felt different
Yeah, that’s their point.
I wasn’t replying to OP though. I was replying to someone saying that living through an era makes it harder to discern the changes. I didn’t really agree with that because the 90s felt different from the 80s, even as I lived through them.
But you didn’t know that until it changed to the 90s
Yes, but I felt I was living through a different era. My point was that recently it hasn’t felt that way. Maybe not in 20 years.
The 2000s were very different to the 2010s which were different to the 2020s for me.
2000s, internet (mostly) without facebook. Myspace, bebo, internet forums, MSN messenger.
2010s - Facebook, widespread internet use among parents and grandparents.
2020s - huge work culture shift. Huge political culture shift.
You don’t know what you got till it’s gone…
You’re forgetting about all of the AI slop
A lot of us still manage to live in the real world and the clothing real people wear and the way they style their hair and makeup isn’t really an “AI slop” thing.
If you want to define the 2020’s by AI you’re self categorizing as “extremely online/terminally online/chronically online.”
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You do realize ai will drive all future styles and anything kids do right? Its already happening. Good for them but im not into it.
There’s literally ai paintings being sold in stores right now. Tons of online videos are just slop now.
Fascism sure draws a line in the sand.
