We're in the era of misinformation.
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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.
Fascism sure draws a line in the sand.
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.
In the age of broadcast media, that is of TV, newspaper, etc., there is a common perspective and culture being set. Now we're in the "feed" age. There is greater variety and speed.
I think eras are less obvious when you're living through them
You don't know what you got till it's gone..
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.
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.
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.
I'd call this the "late stage capitalism era".
pre-2020 and post-2020 definitely feels like a different era.
(The pandemic and the global shift towards being more authoritarian)
Yeah I'd almost say the 2020s are the best defined era, everything literally changed overnight.
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.
In the late 1970's bell bottoms went out of style.
In the 1990's a different style of bell-bottoms became fashionable again for women in particular.
In the 1990's a popular look was the giant baggy jeans like JNCOs, which were technically a type of "bell-bottom."
In the 2020's, big giant baggy jeans like JNCOs are back in style again.
Further, did everyone forget the entire scene kid/emo kid styles of the early 2000's because that style was very unique and I don't see anyone who looks like this these days.
Haircuts like this were the thing in the early 2000's for women and men until about 2010ish when everyone put their three wolf t-shirts up in the closet and cringed at why they thought being ironic cringe was so great.
Both the 1980's and early 2000's were "skinny jeans" eras.
Just like how the broccoli headed boys are a thing for the 2020's.
And even the broccoli head boys are a natural re-occurence of the permed haircuts in the 1980's
I can think of plenty more examples but these are just a few.
Further, did everyone forget the entire scene kid/emo kid styles of the early 2000’s because that style was very unique and I don’t see anyone who looks like this these days
Oh emo's gonna come back someday. And along with it, I fully expect these to comeback to.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Trosor-bakifr%C3%A5n.png
Very astute and the whale tails themselves were a consequence of the low rise jeans era for women where now we are in a high waist jeans era for women.
Low rise jeans are making a comeback, I bought a couple pair recently because I prefer the low vs high rise, I hate high rise so much. They are definitely not the ultra low rise of my youth, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this style also comes back eventually.
Scene girls were my favorite.
Just had to keep them away from razor blades.
The early 2000's style you like is still very much alive... In the furry community.
"Under this fursuit, I have an amazing haircut."
Chances are equally good their fursuit character will look like a 90s/2000s kid, too lol
But actually having just spent a whole week with 4 suiters with hella good hair: I have no idea how they do it. You're wearing a balaclava and a big foam head for several hours, sweating like crazy, but when you finally pop that shit off, you look like a shampoo model. How?!
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Also alive and well in the rave scene, but we've always dressed funny
Edit: also, these communities probably overlap a lot...
These communities probably over lap a lot
Hell yeah they do. I just got back home from a furry con that was basically a 5-day long rave.
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.
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
Nope, you just can't put your finger on what's distinct now and you lack the contrast of what the future brings.
Hair styles, fashion, design, colors, music, phones and other devices, all of that will be different in 10 years.
Remember, facebook was all the rage in a different era and is now uncool. Same for twitter. That's era defining as well.
No.
You say the Facebook Ear has past, but there are still literally billions of people logging in everyday.
Your small set of friends might have passed on Facebook, but it hasn't gone away.
Moreover, when I say "hippie era" you think of certain clothes, certain music, etc etc.
There's no one style that defines the 'Facebook Era.'
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.
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.
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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
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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 are probably just completely out of touch with youth culture
Older Gen Z here, it's just a consequence of everyone in a social niche now. There's no one theme to unite them all, so it's hard to picture in your head a theme, although I can think of what I was a part of in the 00s and 10s.
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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.
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Nothing ever unfolded neatly by the decade, but a themepark version could be compiled after the fact. It's harder when you can't even talk about "the 00s" gracefully, though. How do you say that?
I'm pretty sure this is a Randall Monroe observation that I'm just repeating. Relevant XKCD, from 2017.
It's harder when you can't even talk about "the 00s" gracefully, though. How do you say that?
The aughts/oughts/noughts/noughties, depending on where you're from.
Yeah, and none of them have really fully caught on. In real life I have to say "two-thousands" to definitely be understood, and even then people misread it as the century sometimes and are confused.
It’s the death of the macro culture. All the styles from all the previous eras now coexist and are very much in depending on what sub culture you belong too. Like if you are the edgy kind of teen right now you are wearing y2k style clothing, but if you are more of a normie you wear more classic street wear. If you’re a fashion forward guy in his late 20’s or early 30’s, 40’s to 60’s inspired menswear is the thing to wear. And so on.
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