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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.

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[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

We talking Taylor or Jonathan?

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're forgetting about all of the AI slop

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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."

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree. The 1970s were disco, the 1980s were punk, the 1990s was New Wave, and the 2000's was the 2000's.

I'm old enough to remember Spice Girl mania.

People who never brought a record knew all the songs, because they were played on the radio, and every store and restaurant played local stations. They were in the newspapers and in magazines. They were mentioned on the local news shows.

I've never heard a Taylor Swift song played in public. All the stores and restaurants that have radio play dedicated oldies stations. No new music at all. I haven't watched the local news in years, and newspapers and magazines are gone.

I think you're going to see smaller and smaller groups getting excited by niche interests. You're not going to see Beatlemania ever again.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

nah, new wave was very 80s, I'd divide the 90s between grunge and rave

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