What actually defines the culture of the 2010's compared to the last few decades? Have we reached a new era where nothing is really unified? Twitter: / knowledgehubty
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@@airyanawaejah2323 I for one welcome our Eastern Civilization masters. We've had our time. Now we can bring back Samurais and more people will know what curry is.
The reason we can’t define the 2010s is not that they’re undefinable, it’s just they happened so recently. As time goes on, our perception of the decade will become more simplified. Maybe the speed of trend rotation will be what defines the 2010s, as internet use in the future becomes more responsible, trends may just slow down a bit.
Yeah i totally agree. Cool video but I dont think he's totally right about the 2010s. We just came out of that decade, so we won't really have a simplified image of it for another few years id imagine. Yes trends come and go much faster but there is so much that could define it. Internet media becoming the new mainstream, mumble rap, crypto, memes, conflict in the middle east, etc.... even Donald Trump lol. Yes these things could continue into the next decade but they were important and defined in the 2010s.
It usually takes a few years into a new decade before you can really define what the previous decade truly was like. That’s why the first few years of a new decade aren’t really that much different from the previous decade. For example, the Vietnam War and the Counterculture movement personify the 1960s, but neither of them are associated with the year 1961 for example. Therefore the early 60s were in many ways an extension of the 1950s. However in many ways the 2020s are so far an obvious exception because Covid changed society (and for the worse) quite literally overnight in early 2020. The 2010s feel like a distant memory now.
I think this is partially true but it can’t be denied how rapidly changing culture is due to social media and shrinking attention spans... if we do eventually find something that defines the recent decades it will be rather broad
I completely agree with this. It wasnt until the late 2000's that I personally felt that there was an aesthetic that was "the 90's" and I think once we get closer to the 2030's the 2010's will have this solidified aesthetic that can be pointed to and say look that's the 2010's.
If I said this once, I’ve said it a hundred times, you hate a decade as you’re going through it, but once it ends and you look back, nostalgia will glorify it all. It’s just the way it works. All the pain you experienced, you block it out, you just see it as a happy time. (Rose colored glasses)
I would argue against that. The 80s knew what it was about years before it ended, check out the movie Wall Street if you want proof. If a decades identify is strong enough then you will know what it is during that decade.
I would point to a book written by Zbigniew Brzezinski (top NSA guy and presidential advisor) called Between Two Ages. It was about the rise of the "technotronic era". All the world's people and their lives can be observed from a panopticon spy machine. Privacy is gone forever, everything is recorded
Its pretty obvious what defines the 2010s. 2012, the year Same sex marriage was legalized leading to the LGBT community exploding and was widely accepted around the countries along with the struggles of defending the newly acquired right from states pushback and then the eventual "rubber-banding" to the opposite side of the spectrum half way through at 2015-16.
I think as a whole the 2010s didn’t have anything defining, but the early 2010s had a very distinct party culture. Also just the way people dressed, the early days of CZcams, and primitive memes stand out as well.
2010 was like teen culture. Twilight, hipsters, lmfao, the last few years of emo and alternative, the last few years of guitar hero/rock band, wii, rage comics, COD ect
Early 2010s Really Hits Different. 2011 Hit Songs Were Everywhere !!! 2013 Was The Last Year For Music & Pop Culture After That It All Changed/Shifted.
I remember 80s nostalgia already being exploited in the 2000s: GTA Vice City, VH1's "I Love the 80s", Michael Bay's Transformers, TMNT (2007), Angry Video Game Nerd, etc... It hasn't gone away since, continually being repackaged to the new generations.
@@lamontkhoza2856 Was Daft Punk rooted in 80s nostalgia, though? While the Tron-esque aesthetic invokes the 80s vibes, musically they sort of came into their own defining what Nu Disco would eventually become and pioneering the French House sound. French House was easily more inspired by disco and late 70s funk than 80s synth trends as well. Could make a case for them being inspired by retrofuturism in their character designs, but, ehh....still don't consider them to be a symbol of 80s nostalgia when they were mid 90s as fuck when it came to their musical stylings and the samples used in Discovery were mostly from the mid to late 70s.
@@lamontkhoza2856 The Robot Rock video wasn't really loaded with 80s tropes. Hell, the whole set evoked images of the Old Grey Whistle Test and other empty studio performance type shows, and OGWT was around since early 70s. The robot suits were a retro futuristic style and the video was shot on VHS, but neither of those were as much a direct homage to the 80s as any of the other examples listed. And musically, the whole thing was structured yet again around late 70s music more than the 80s. The backbone of the piece is riffing on a 1979 Breakwater sample, even! Unlike the examples the OP listed in their comment, Daft Punk never exploited nostalgia for the 80s in their work. They may have peppered in elements, but all music borrows from other works. There's a difference between using and expanding upon past elements to create a new work and exploiting nostalgia with remakes and rehashes that don't do much other than point and go "hey, 'member the 80s?" Do I see elements of the 1980s in Daft Punk? Sure. Like I mentioned, their who robot person does have trends of Tron, which they obviously eventually had direct involvement with the franchise later in their career, but the whole concept of robo DJs isn't really a decade trait and as mentioned if any era of music were the biggest influence to Daft Punk it would be the mid 70s disco and funk scene. The 80s were more about synthpop and new wave in the dance circles. The 80s influences with them begin and end purely by the fact that they are house artists.
@@TheAmazingSpiderPunk @@TheAmazingSpiderPunk bro I love daft punk as much as you. I just said that their work(especially their later stuff) evokes a lot of 80s iconography(AT LEAST TO ME), Iever mentioned anything about "exploiting" nostalgia. You clearly have a passion for the band and their music, I appreciate that. Have a good day man
I think you can't define a decade until enough change happens that you can discern the new times from the old times. Once we are far enough away from it, we will be able to contrast current times with the 2010s vs periods before it . Just my 3 cents
What are you talking about? 'Your two cents'? It's easy to distinguish the differences in culture, such as comparing the 2010s party edm music to other decades.
Twiggeh Defined eras of the past weren’t as clean cut as that, though. It’s not like a new decade starts and everyone just decides to start afresh with a different theme. There’s overlap and gradual change. Things need to carry on changing until they’re substantially different to recognise that difference.
The early 2010s (2010-13) had an identity. It felt like a unique extension of the 2000s in the same way that the early 00s felt like an extension of the 90s. 2014-15 were the shifting point, still good, but you could see the cracks forming. 2016-present, hell breaks loose.
Exactly! 2010-2013 were really fun & important years for me even though I got badly bullied then, 2014-2015 was when things went downhill but it still had some good fun things from 2010-2013 but it was very quickly becoming very different & bad. 2016-2019 were shit, now it’s the same but worst.
Agreed. A lot of people think the same about the time period. 2010 to 2013 was dark and edgy with conspiracy culture on the rise and people waking up to the established powers. It was also a time of optimism and consciousness expansion where people were getting into new age stuff, spirituality etc. I think the cause of the decline mid-decade was the divisiveness among people, with wokeness and cancel culture on the rise, the killing of male/female dynamics, and people's obsessive focus on politics. It killed people's sense of unity and the cultural zeitgeist suffered for it.
@@millenniumman7461 The 2010-2013 period have been beneficial if u were an adult but to the kids it couldve been/was a traumatizing period cuz of all these conspiracy theories, creepypastas and what not, given of course that u were actually lookin at this stuff and didn't had the guidance to distinguish what was and what wasnt beneficial. In my Experience, it was actually what awoke anxiety in me and thus suffered cuz of it for yrs after and i think that many people had some shitty Experience like that in that period this becoming some grumpy ass cancel culture privilaged bonkers but apart from that, the 2010-2013 were really an extension of the blessed creativity that 2005+ was and that was truly beautiful if you knew how to truly experience these times ; ) After 2013 it started gettin shit tho ngl but considering the nature of the internet and what of an Effect it had on people and their thinking its not rly that surprising.
In terms of music, the 70s were all about Progressive rock, balled pop, funk, disco and punk. The 70s(and along with the late 60s) were possibly the best decade for film in terms of artistic meaning and talent
Right now, you can't see the forest for the trees. People say this about every decade, when they are in the middle of that decade. Give it ten or twenty years, and the trends will be obvious to everyone
Meh, I don't really see that happening. I've lived through the 2000's and that's almost 10 years since it passed, and almost 20 years since it started . Still I find it hard to pinpoint a culture to it except some music trends and fashion styles.
I was just searching for a comment that stated this so that I could give my like to it! So you're welcome! :) But seriously, we can't examine the decade that we are currently living in the same generalizing ways as we can think of decades that either are way behind or we never got to see. I bet that if you had asked someone in the seventies "what will this decade be remembered of?", they would most likely have thought of it pretty much in the same way we think of 2010s now. It will happen, don't get all existential about this!
Exactly. Who knows what will be next? Electric cars could take over in the 20s making that the identity of the 20s. A new type of smartphone could develope locking the current one in as the 10s. Cant really judge atm.
My words exactly, I have to disagree with this video, saying that '2000s and 2010s has no identity' this early is too soon. My personal theory is we will get a real identity for the 2010s in 2040 when the people who lived in that decade will give it personality, like we are seeing now with the 90s. (synth, tv static, vcrs, neon colors, comic books and 16 bit games) The creators: writers, artists, musicians, film and game makers are still young and have yet to influence media as much as the 90s have.
Love how you totally forget that the 70s housed a time for one of the biggest cinema booms in history, ended the Vietnam war, made some of the most important strides in music, and was the beginning to the deterioration of trust the average civilian had in the US.
People said the same thing about the 90s in 2001 and the 2000s in 2011. Decades' identities are defined in hindsight. We're just too close to it. It all still feels normal to us because we lived it.
I know for a fact that I felt super jealous in the early 2000s when I said "Man, it sucks the 90s (aka my era) isn't nostalgic compared the 80s and before!" Then came the late 2000s/early 2010s and people feel nostalgic for the 90s. Now, we're in 2022 and people are now feeling nostalgic for the 2000s.
I think the 2010's has been one of the most constantly changing decades in american culture for young people. 2010-2013, 2014-2016, and 2017-2019 honestly felt like their own decades just by how people acted, how people interacted with each other, what was popular, how people dressed, and the slang people used in those timespans. I mean, did you ever hear anyone under the age of 13 unironically say swag after 2013? Now that theres only a little more than 2 months left of this decade I can definitely say it will go down in history as one of the most interesting decades. You may not think it now but then again, that's what everyone said about the 2000's for the most part.
Yes! The world is becoming more dinamic with the internet, and now tendencies are way faster. There are people that are already feeling nostalgia of the early 2010s. Heck, 2011 looks like ages ago (or maybe it's just my impression)
The thing that defined the 2010s culturally was *memes*, the mass expansion of them, today even old people can identify and even create memes, it wasn't like that before.
that was my first thought. i think a lot of people have been dropping various social medias since lockdown, after getting frightened by how much time we spent spaced out on the platform of choice, which means that maybe memes will become less common now with fewer people to share them.
I’m pretty sure memes are going to culturally define decades to come, they were a thing in the 2000s, they were a thing in the 2010s, and they’re still a thing today, it’s not like it’s going away like crystal pepsi or something. 2000s memes are associated with the 2000s so I’m pretty sure it’s just going to be “2010s memes” not “memes in general defined the 2010s”
2010s is defined by technology, ultra consumerism, memes, hipsters, increase of mental illness, mumble rap, hype brands, superhero movies. You get the idea.
Well, for adults, there's NOTHING to really have nostalgia for in the 2010s. But us kids, growing up in the era, we had things like newgrounds, flash animations, games like black ops 1 and 2, the ps3 and xbox 360, etc. That's what can define US. But adults really have nothing. That's why no one really knows.
Most of the stuff you listed is more 2000's stuff than 2010's. There's really not much to be nostalgic about from the 2010's. The only thing I can think of is the early 2010's car scene. That was pretty cool and had a vibe of its own that disappeared after 2012. Still got pics saved of modified cars from that era and they make me feel nostalgic af.
Memes are gonna stay don’t worry they will still exist in the 2020s And no they are not dead they are bigger than ever as there are 6 million people in r/memes and you could see posts from minutes ago
@@24klogan86 Same. I've always felt like 2001 was pretty recent. Now it's starting to be a while ago... The fact that the ancient Twin Towers were still there when I was born is pretty crazy to think about, now as I realize it.
It will last forever if you guys keep calling anything analog synth or akin to it like that. People just like how it sounds get over it, it's not going anywhere, there was also a huge fascination with the 70s since the 2000s going on, 2000s had the garage rock revival then in the 10s, neo-psychedelia and folk singer songwriters everywhere.
@ippos_khloros Can confirm. I graduated high school in 1998 and my classmates (and myself) were already nostalgic for the 80s while still in high school.
The 80's = the greatest cultural decade ever. It should and will hopefully remain the primary source of youth culture inspiration. Though the kids of today may get the fashion, they def don't get the energy.
@scot lawrence No dabbing is deep rooted in pop culture trough hip hop and rap, it’s also in a bunch of memes unironic and ironic people won’t forget about dabbing
iamjohnporter67 more like the older generations being brainwashed by social media. My experience is that older people are way easier to fool than young people on the internet.
@FourTwenty Back in the 90s as well people hated on the 90s but as time went on people now miss the 90s and feel very nostalgic for it. Pretty much the same thing for every decade and era
Mr. Beat Kinda, but I feel that's too early to say because I feel that only became really noticeable as a cultural zeitgeist fairly recently, and we don't know if that's exactly going to be looked back on fondly enough for people to want to remember, "Hey remember when the it felt like the entire world was at each other's throat and thought everyone who disagrees with them as a soulless automaton? Doesn't that make you Nostalgic?"
@@InquisitorThomas i mean, that's exactly why we remember the 40's and twenties though. the massive bloody wars fought in them. i doubt there were many that ENJOYED the world wars, a few, certainly, but not many. mad jack churchill comes to mind...
The reason for this phenomenon (in my opinion) is due to the lack of experience of living in previous decades... so as young people today, we oversimplify what other generations have experienced into a general idea of that time period. Sure, trends do come and go quicker now with social media, but it’s hard to define the decade you’re living in currently with the retrospect we have with other decades. My mom told me that as a teen she didn’t really think there was a “defining aspect” of the 80s. But now when we look back we can see the decade and visualize in a simpler way, not actually experiencing it firsthand.
I agree. It also depends on the location. I’m pretty sure Argentina or the Phillipines in the 1980s has the same aesthetical nostalgia that USA pop culture had, like we always base it on.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention super hero films and cinematic universes yet. I feel like the concept has nearly completely taken over the film industry. The MCU in particular has lasted a decade so it would be a constant trend that people would point to and say "that was popular in the 2010's"
The early 2010s,mid 2010s,and late 2010s are basically their own decades. As someone born in 2007,I can confirm that in 10 years,the 2010s will be looked back on the same way the 2000s are today,but in divided chunks.
In combination with that, the decentralization of the production of information, but not the decentralization of the review of the truthfulness of information.
The 2010’s still had pop culture, fashion, and key elements that people will remember. I think it’s just that kind of “you had to be there” thing. An example being killer clowns in 2016. If u don’t know, it won’t be nostalgic in 10+ years. But if you were there to witness certain aspects of social media, fashion, music, pop culture, and political things, it won’t be so hard to give the 2010’s a defining idea or trait.
nobody knew what defined the 2000s in 2009 either. But since then, looking back, we've gained clarity by what had risen to prominence in that decade and has fizzled out since. -Emo/Scene culture -The last of the beige computers -PS2/PS3 Xbox/360 game nostalgia -Pre-Dubstep EDM -The classic meme formats including rage comics & bottom text -The diminishing of online subcultures through forums & chatboards and gradual amalgamation of online interaction into generalised social media platforms. -The beginning of every genre of music beginning to be split into a million different subgenres to appeal to specific niches - Metal was the canary down the mine -WoW and CoD bringing videogames into more mainstream and pop-cultural awareness -The introduction of smartphones and later tablets making things previously accessible only through computing more accessible to the less technologically literate. My predictions for the 2010s -Every damn thing has a virulent subculture attached, but they congregate in spaces within social media platforms and on specific online communities almost like nation states -Related to the above, every damn thing has an app -The rise & fall of Dubstep & Trap EDM -Increasing detachment from geography and increasing attachment to subsets of interests, belief systems and ideologies enabled by online spaces where social circles and social movements are far more scattered. -The commodification of social justice issues for both market and social currency. The 2020s will see a cynical rejection of this by Gen Z -Cameras everywhere begin the culture where everybody is watched by everyone else. Government institutions don't become more censorious, but collectively the kangaroo court of public opinion try & sentence people the moment a piece of media gains a large degree of attention. -The geographic public square becomes more obsolete than ever, evidenced by the #Occupy movement. Social causes move to privatised online space. Late in the decade, this juxtaposition of private platforms effectively usurping the public square and traditional media has yet to be reconciled, as there are no viable alternatives to these platforms. -The watershed of algorithms directing people toward confirmation-bias content leading to increasingly splintered, polarised and fragmented societies increasingly insulated from contradictory views, becoming less capable of dealing with them effectively, and becoming useful idiots for whichever way the algorith decides to prod them.
Uh, it was pretty clear that Facebook was the number one thing that defined that decade..like the internet that defined the 90's. CZcams has defined the 2010's.
@@danielyoung2027 Facebook didn't exist to the general public until 2006, and didn't really start picking up steam to be recognisable as the platform we know today until 2008-9 or so, and even then, its social and political impact weren't felt yet, at least not nearly enough to be remotely as defining as it has been of the 2010s CZcams is on a similar timeline. It has a huge social impact, but that social impact is more segmented than facebook.
Clement Moraschi 99’ kid here, I can vote now. Fuck millennials and fuck everything they’ve fucked up in our already fucked up world. Fuck social justice. Fuck political correctness. It’s about time we free ourselves up from made up superficial trend-like societal values. Trump was only elected in America because black and gay millennials enjoy the attention gained from being victimized. Black people greatly over exaggerate the levels of racism and gay people want to force their values down other people’s throats, people hate this, but the media enables and promotes this behaviour. The media then proceeeds to promote Hillary who then also proceeds to enable and promote the same behaviour. As a result the people say fuck Hillary, I’ll take garbage over shit, so they elect Trump. That’s all I have to say, and no I’m not white or American but politics is the same around the world, your Gen Z comment really brought out the pure hatred I have for millennials.
I couldnt agree more with your "Gen Z" rebound point. Culture is like a pendulum, it kind of oscillates because of the establishment and breakdown of cultures and subsequent establishment of counterculture as the new status quo. I think we're seeing social justice movements' prominence because millenials are rejecting the "raciness" of the previous status quo. This rejection will then be the new norm and the following generations will naturally counter it.
Perhaps the reason older decades have more defined themes is because we've had more time to reflect on them? To say that the decade we are currently living in won't have any memorable traits to us in 30 years seems like a prediction I wouldn't bet on.
Crazycatsbackboi , don’t forget crazy people having the ability to meet other crazy people online and create virtual crazy people communities. The village idiot has never had friends. But now he can meet other village idiots online and create a virtual Village Idiot Village.
That was the 2000s, with sites like Myspace and early Facebook and early CZcams. The 2010s is the peak of social media, with twitter, Instagram and snapchat
The 2010s might lack a bit of identity looking back, but oh boy people will remember the 2020s for the catastrophes that happened in just 2 years (we all know what) just like we remember the 1910s and 1940s because of the world wars
People in the 2080's: Hey I found this old CZcams video from the 2010's where they thought they were some special finality of cultural zeitgeists. Ah the decade of entitlement. Good times. Good times.
It's hard to be nostalgic for something when you're right in the middle of it; give it another 10 years, then you'll be able to tell what that generation means. Do you think people in the 60s would imagine they'd be nostalgic for hippies in 20-30 years? I never thought the dial up modem would hit me right in the nostalgia everytime I heard it, it used to be so boring waiting to connect to the internet.
@@daniella-rc1yy but it's still not over. It's going to take years for people to become nostalgic for this decade. But people will eventually find reasons to
The "Premium Mediocre" millennial aesthetic might be the only thing that defines the 2010s. Avocado toast, millennial pink, succulents, horn rimmed glasses.
That's not even mediocre, just plain garbage. Those spherical sunglasses and eyewear from earlier century looks so nerdy and old fashioned. Look at 2000s eyewear, men wore rectangular eyewear sometimes even rimless and even aviators. Hipster culture and woke culture combined with EDM and excessive use of trap in hip hop destroyed the pop culture. Everything started to suck after 2017.
30 years?! You think it's gonna take until almost 2050 to define the 2010's?! -- PC SJW culture and its backlash, brexit, hipster fashion & the hipster aesthetic (including undercuts, beards, flannel, skinny jeans & leggings as pants, Pastel hair, etc...), Dubstep, Vaporwave, Dreadhead Mumble Rap, fidget spinners, Facebook, Instagram, Minecraft, Fortnite (and other overrated FPS games), Vines, etc... Come on, don't act like you don't know what defines this lame-ass decade...
@@dullknifefactory you dont know maybe a war could start that would again define our decade lets hope yhe 2020's are better but with how depraved american society is i doubt it.
@@IStreamDre I wouldnt call sexual content horrifically devious. Exploitation is another matter of course. But nothing wrong with sex really. Or dirty jokes.
Sebastian Lund Nielsen we have had approximately 9 years for anything to show up. If there was anything that defines 2010s culture it would show up now.
@rikibyle Exactly like The early 2010s mid 2010s and late 2010s all have an identity of its own. Lots of things changed throughout the decade. Like 2010 compared to even 2017 feels like two different worlds imo
2000's nostalgia has already arrived. There is a huge amount of videos on CZcams remembering 2000's cartoons. At clubs they are now playing songs or song mixes that were popular 10 years ago. Gen Z is starting to grow right about now and they are getting nostalgic.
But what comes after that ? Nostalgia for bongo cat ? i don't think bongo cat has the same market value as for example helo kitty etc. Pop art and the whole system could be crashing because the consumer market gets so much individualized that the system might collapse and never recovers. We already see that old companys are dying in great waves with no replacement. But i guess that means those products of those old companies were useless in the first place.
I'm millennial, but being born in early 90s, the 00s still consumed all of my middle and high school years plus some elementary. I get nostalgia about all the flash videos we would watch, like homestar running and legendary frog. The early days of social media, our parents generation didn't really use myspace while that was short lived, I miss the pre web 2.0 days sometimes! We would show off our geocities pages to friends, if you were dorky enough for that. When youtube showed up in the mid 00s it was far from maturing into what it is now, was almost exclusively for meme videos and watching things that the uploader clearly didn't hold the rights for. Music piracy was a lot more common, and most who were developing their music taste in the 00s will remember P2P programs.
Nostalgia has literally always beena thing. Did you know, people in the 50s were nostalgic about the roaring 20s? And people in the Roaring 20s were nostalgic about the 1890s, they even called it "fun 90s"
I gotta harshly disagree with you regarding the 1970's, Cody. On top of Disco, the 70's were defined by long hair, cut off jeans, cynicism, urban decay, early heavy metal and progressive rock, funk, shit. The 70's has a more distinct identity for a longer time than the 60's. The whole counter-culture aspects of the 60's really only define the tale end of that decade. The majority of the 60's looks hauntingly similar to the 50's in style and aesthetics.
In the 1970s in the UK was defined by rising strikes, high inflation, and fractious politics. The Labour left was building up its power within the party, 4 general elections in 10 years, the Liberal party was back: winning almost 20% of the vote in the two elections of 1974, and Margaret Thatcher took over the Conservative party. The 1970s became the story of the fall of the post-war consensus and the rise of Thatcherism.
True. 1962 and 1968 were totally different. Basically, the "Greater 1950s" was around 1950-1964 (JFK's assassination), and the next era (1960s-1970s turnover) was around 1964-1977. The 1980s could be from 1978-1991 or something like that.
How do I define the 2010s? Smart devices, crap pop music, rapid and corporate growth of social media, and the rise of cancel culture. The latter half of that decade was incredibly hostile, and I hope people just learn to chill out in the 2020s.
Early 2010s Minecraft- let's play Crazy-pop songs/ oversaturization Rise of CZcams iPhones were becoming affordable for many Late 2010s Transition towards clout culture and mumble rap Semi blip in EDM popularity Corporate CZcams MEMES IPhones are crazy expensive again Overly political atmosphere(at least in US) At least from my perspective as a kid born in 2002
I feel like the 2010's has 3 things that define it, but I'll only mention one because it is the easiest to explain and is connected to all the rest: The rise of meta-humor
An Aesthetic for the 2010s sort of is starting to exist, based off of the fashion, music and trends of the decade. Vaporwave was a 2010s aesthetic - it was heavily inspired by the 80s and 90s, though it didnt exactly copy anything from that period. One thing I see mentioned a lot for the 2010s is the commonality of a sort of purpleish “galaxy” visual style, there were galaxy pants, galaxy backpacks, a lot of music albums had galaxies in the background alongside those weird skinny and tall fonts, and pastel colours. A very clear 2000s aesthetic has come to become nostalgic and reminisced on in the early 2020s, this is despite the fact that I honestly had similar opinions of there not really being an “aesthetic” or visual style of the 2000s. For the 2010s, the visual style is heavily influenced by the rise of social media, growing accessibility to tech, early 2010s UI design, mid 2010s fashion and music etc. The 2010s visual style will only become more obvious as we remember less of the details - im sure the same thing was thought in the 80s.
Honestly I think the cultural Zeitgeist of the 2010s is memes. seriously, we may have had our jokes and images in the 2000s but they were in their infancy, now memes are important to everyday life. They're political, it's completely changed how people consume information and formulate opinions. Donald Trump is called the meme president because he got more free publicity through internet jokes than anyone else, governments and political parties purposely make memes in efforts to influence voters, and nowadays all a musician has to do is make a music video that's so dumb it becomes a viral meme, not a song that's actually good. Ideas rise and fall within days but the trend itself has become our zeitgeist. *Forkknife dances*
The things that do define the 2010s (Even though they're not over yet.) - EDM - Spotify and Apple Music over physical music - Marvel cinematic universe - Memes becoming massively popular in pop culture - Drake - E-Gaming culture
What defined the 2010s was that in this video, it was the only decade where everything you said also applied to countries that are not the USA. Pretty much every other decade you described was from a US perspective.
“What was the style of the 70s” Punk, at least in the UK, the impacts of government failure and rising economic downturn saw the rise of punk, which would eventually culminate into post punk in the late 70s, and eventually new wave in the 80s
The people of the 1910s, 20s, etc didn't think they could boil down their entire worldview and culture to a single sentence at the time either. With age details are discarded and what you are left with is often a limited subset of the most impactful things among dozens or hundreds of trends. We aren't any better now, just too young to realize it. The little minutia like Chuck Testa are going to be discarded and what matters long term will be defined IN the long term.
it's why so many lewronggenerationers think that we'll never have an era of music that was as good as the 1970s, when in reality it only appears that way because peoples minds have(most likely subconsciously) forgotten all the crap.
honestly, i feel like this era will be known for trumpism. love him or hate him, he's certainly made his mark. i think most people know far more about all the things trump has supposedly done than basically any other president before him.
The music thing is more about the telecommunications act of 1996, which reduced competition and allowed corporations to better control what gets played on radio, so no longer does the best song make it to the top and we get crap like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. Yeah, there is a lot of garbage from the 80s that didn't last into today's nostalgia, we only remember the better songs. But I feel like this decade has not had a good lot of good music in general. I followed country music in the 90s and it started declining in quality after the 2000s when my favorite bands were not being played and certain artists like Alan Jackson, George Strait, Kenny Chensey, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, Keith Urban, etc, got a free pass, while Blackhawk, Diamond Rio, Collin Raye, Randy Travis, etc, still made music and the radio gods just shut them out because they wanted to create a certain brand of pop country that would be more popular. So today, we got terrible pop country, it's all garbage, and they retired most of the people I mentioned and got even less talented artists making the music today.
This is correct. Theres a lot of presentism bias in this video. "Oh our times are too conplex to be simplified like the past decades" His idea that defining a decade by its cultural zeitgeist only started in the 20s is also demonstrably false. People in the 20s were already looking back at previous decades. eg to the "gay 90's" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nineties
Zanny I dont think you can define decades by trends anymore. It has been reduced down to years. The internet has made society and the flow of information move faster, therefore trends come and die faster. Idk about you, but 2013 seems very distinct when compared to 2017.
@ABC 123 How, exactly? I was just curious, because it doesn't seem like the kind of terminology people would have used back then. Can _you_ provide any sources for this?
you can't define a decade while you're in it. you need some distance from it to see what things will get stuck in the popular psyche and become a mainstay in the social history annals.. I lived through the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. None of the those decades had an 'image' while I was in them, the image emerged long after the decade passed by. It takes a good 10-15 years distance. I also think the current decade also has some obvious distinguishing features - reality tv stars, memes, the popularity of superhero and 3d films, the rise of social media - facebook, twitter, etc , CZcams and Instagram stars, right wing politics, talent shows, political correctness and censorship, various movements from transgender rights, to Black Lives Matter, the occupy movement, the arab springs, the me too and times up movement, etc, new ways to monetise aspects of life previously done only by a certain profession - uber, airbnb, go fund me, tenner, etc The list is long. Every age and every generation has its own character. the 10s will be clearly defined by about 2020 - 2035.
Thank you both! Once he started harping on the 2010s but included a bunch of photos and videos that clearly showed we dress differently than elsewhere in history, his argument fell apart. We don't dress like the 2000s or 90s. Our music and movies have taken on different tones. You can't see that from within though. Of all their other great videos, this one felt weaker and less well thought out.
I partially agree, but even the 90s aren't as defined as the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I do think that culturel movements got spread out over time, nowadays theres a movement for almost anything. But maybe your right, Im from 1990 so I might still not have a good view on the previous decades / having experience living in them.
I agree. the 2000s already has an image to me now that it's passed, VHS, old CZcams, modern cartoons, Pixar, 2003 games. That's what it is to me, and probably will be to a lot of people.
@@eyeamjulian they were still living through it same with gen x in the Early 1980s and also late 90s and early 2000s was more millennials gen z is 2010s and 2020s
but that's a lot like what he said about 9/11, it is a major event that could define the decade, but it doesn't define it in the same way as the earlier decades
early 2010s: a soft version of the late 2000s (skeuomorphism design too) mid 2010s: metro design, smartphones, more flat tv's, memes, MLG and vaporwave aesthetic late 2010s: flat design, vaporwave, politic changes social media rising Actually i think 2010's aesthetic was vaporwave the 2020's actually changed the whole thing if you see it on another point.
I was a teen in the 90s, and spent most of that time obsessed with the culture of the 70s. There was a lot more to it than disco, and you can get a lot of it my watching television and films and reading books and magazines from that era. Also, other 70s music like folk-rock. I fell in love with Supertramp in middle school.
Yeah, for me when it comes to the 70s, disco is almost the last thing on my mind. I've looked into it so muc that I'm even starting to see the ways that 70s culture influence 90s culture in a nostalgia loop.
exactly two things that defined for me was the gritty new york vibe as seen on taxi driver but out of inner city had groovey vibe you might see in brady bunch the red carpet the wooden tv and psychadelic couches
I would say the 80s was a culture ecstasy of bright colors loud experimental music and drugs and considering the cold war was still a thing people literally party like there was no tomorrow because too them there probably wasn't a tommorw mabye thats why everyone is so depressed right now its like a culture hang over
nope memes were around way befor the timeline of this video starts and are goign to be around way after the 2010, it's not what defines the 2010 especially
Now that I think about it, the reason we think the 2010s can’t be defined is because there’s not much difference between now and the last 5 years(at least). The farther we progress into a new decade we will see change and more differences between the past and now(future now lol)
You just don't feel like anything defines this decade because you're too busy living it to notice. The traits of the decade will become more noticeable later on when they're gone. Oh and mark my words, EDM and Marvel movies will be two things people remember. I'd like to say hip hop too, but I fear it will still be around for a quite a while to come.
EDM hasn’t been big since like 2013 it’s niche now but I do see it coming back in the future as technology progresses.... then again maybe not idk but sound cloud rap is Definitly more of a phase if anything
2000s : wild west of the internet
2010s : corporate internet
That's a good way to put it.
@@boudtroutepicanimations2323 2020s : The Rise of the Dark Web
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw When all of the most popular sites belong to big companies the internet becomes corporate internet
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Yes! The out of control double-ads before and after videos on yt alone spell this out! It's all about the money now. Even the early 10's(11-13) yt clips were halfway ad-free.
@@OfMiceAndMegabytes I miss pre-adpocalypse youtube
Next year we're gonna see “only 2010's kids will remember” comments
Haha 😃😞😢
only 2010s kids will remember the nuclear treaties ending
Andrea Vivaldi only 2000’s*
lmao yes
Well at least we have something to relate to now
2080: 1950’s nostalgia is now trending. US has nuclear exchange with China. The Fallout games have become real life.
I don't think the US will survive this decade
Oh yeah baby power armour!
@@tnix80 western civilization won't survive this decade, let alone united state.
@@airyanawaejah2323 I for one welcome our Eastern Civilization masters. We've had our time. Now we can bring back Samurais and more people will know what curry is.
@@airyanawaejah2323 why is that
The reason we can’t define the 2010s is not that they’re undefinable, it’s just they happened so recently. As time goes on, our perception of the decade will become more simplified. Maybe the speed of trend rotation will be what defines the 2010s, as internet use in the future becomes more responsible, trends may just slow down a bit.
Yeah i totally agree. Cool video but I dont think he's totally right about the 2010s. We just came out of that decade, so we won't really have a simplified image of it for another few years id imagine. Yes trends come and go much faster but there is so much that could define it. Internet media becoming the new mainstream, mumble rap, crypto, memes, conflict in the middle east, etc.... even Donald Trump lol. Yes these things could continue into the next decade but they were important and defined in the 2010s.
It usually takes a few years into a new decade before you can really define what the previous decade truly was like. That’s why the first few years of a new decade aren’t really that much different from the previous decade. For example, the Vietnam War and the Counterculture movement personify the 1960s, but neither of them are associated with the year 1961 for example. Therefore the early 60s were in many ways an extension of the 1950s.
However in many ways the 2020s are so far an obvious exception because Covid changed society (and for the worse) quite literally overnight in early 2020. The 2010s feel like a distant memory now.
I think this is partially true but it can’t be denied how rapidly changing culture is due to social media and shrinking attention spans... if we do eventually find something that defines the recent decades it will be rather broad
I completely agree with this. It wasnt until the late 2000's that I personally felt that there was an aesthetic that was "the 90's" and I think once we get closer to the 2030's the 2010's will have this solidified aesthetic that can be pointed to and say look that's the 2010's.
If I said this once, I’ve said it a hundred times, you hate a decade as you’re going through it, but once it ends and you look back, nostalgia will glorify it all. It’s just the way it works. All the pain you experienced, you block it out, you just see it as a happy time. (Rose colored glasses)
We can only define the 2010's when we're well into the 2020's
I somewhat disagree. Millenials who grew up in the 90s, knew *exactly* what the 90's aesthetic was; by 1998.
I would argue against that. The 80s knew what it was about years before it ended, check out the movie Wall Street if you want proof. If a decades identify is strong enough then you will know what it is during that decade.
Charles13000 we could define it as internet era
I would divide our current decade into 2 parts (2010 - 12, & the 20Teens)
Cable Brook I would agree but the latter half is clearly defined as outrage culture
To define 2010 you would need to finish 2020 to understand the changes.
I've done it!..... but I'm still confused
I would point to a book written by Zbigniew Brzezinski (top NSA guy and presidential advisor) called Between Two Ages. It was about the rise of the "technotronic era". All the world's people and their lives can be observed from a panopticon spy machine. Privacy is gone forever, everything is recorded
Its pretty obvious what defines the 2010s. 2012, the year Same sex marriage was legalized leading to the LGBT community exploding and was widely accepted around the countries along with the struggles of defending the newly acquired right from states pushback and then the eventual "rubber-banding" to the opposite side of the spectrum half way through at 2015-16.
2010 was the wild west of the internet. Its becoming too PC and corporate now
Butt Mash but when will it end
I think as a whole the 2010s didn’t have anything defining, but the early 2010s had a very distinct party culture. Also just the way people dressed, the early days of CZcams, and primitive memes stand out as well.
Also e girls, hipstars and memes
gxdfiend Yes! Calvin Harris, Avicii, David Guetta, Kugo, Skrillex
2010 was like teen culture. Twilight, hipsters, lmfao, the last few years of emo and alternative, the last few years of guitar hero/rock band, wii, rage comics, COD ect
good times
Early 2010s Really Hits Different. 2011 Hit Songs Were Everywhere !!!
2013 Was The Last Year For Music & Pop Culture After That It All Changed/Shifted.
Memes define this decade. Like legitimately. They're one of the greatest cultural contributions our generation has produced.
Very Dank Memes!
Very true, very very true
And this century
I was gonna say that
and Dark Humor
What a horrifying Crash Bandicoot
#MailRoyalCaneStaBene ❓
Very Cool, Thank you Cody!
Duck
Wah
Crush Bandicoke
I remember 80s nostalgia already being exploited in the 2000s: GTA Vice City, VH1's "I Love the 80s", Michael Bay's Transformers, TMNT (2007), Angry Video Game Nerd, etc... It hasn't gone away since, continually being repackaged to the new generations.
You forgot Daft Punk
@@lamontkhoza2856 Was Daft Punk rooted in 80s nostalgia, though? While the Tron-esque aesthetic invokes the 80s vibes, musically they sort of came into their own defining what Nu Disco would eventually become and pioneering the French House sound. French House was easily more inspired by disco and late 70s funk than 80s synth trends as well. Could make a case for them being inspired by retrofuturism in their character designs, but, ehh....still don't consider them to be a symbol of 80s nostalgia when they were mid 90s as fuck when it came to their musical stylings and the samples used in Discovery were mostly from the mid to late 70s.
@@TheAmazingSpiderPunk watch the music video for Robot Rock
@@lamontkhoza2856 The Robot Rock video wasn't really loaded with 80s tropes. Hell, the whole set evoked images of the Old Grey Whistle Test and other empty studio performance type shows, and OGWT was around since early 70s. The robot suits were a retro futuristic style and the video was shot on VHS, but neither of those were as much a direct homage to the 80s as any of the other examples listed. And musically, the whole thing was structured yet again around late 70s music more than the 80s. The backbone of the piece is riffing on a 1979 Breakwater sample, even! Unlike the examples the OP listed in their comment, Daft Punk never exploited nostalgia for the 80s in their work. They may have peppered in elements, but all music borrows from other works. There's a difference between using and expanding upon past elements to create a new work and exploiting nostalgia with remakes and rehashes that don't do much other than point and go "hey, 'member the 80s?"
Do I see elements of the 1980s in Daft Punk? Sure. Like I mentioned, their who robot person does have trends of Tron, which they obviously eventually had direct involvement with the franchise later in their career, but the whole concept of robo DJs isn't really a decade trait and as mentioned if any era of music were the biggest influence to Daft Punk it would be the mid 70s disco and funk scene. The 80s were more about synthpop and new wave in the dance circles. The 80s influences with them begin and end purely by the fact that they are house artists.
@@TheAmazingSpiderPunk @@TheAmazingSpiderPunk bro I love daft punk as much as you. I just said that their work(especially their later stuff) evokes a lot of 80s iconography(AT LEAST TO ME), Iever mentioned anything about "exploiting" nostalgia. You clearly have a passion for the band and their music, I appreciate that. Have a good day man
I think you can't define a decade until enough change happens that you can discern the new times from the old times. Once we are far enough away from it, we will be able to contrast current times with the 2010s vs periods before it . Just my 3 cents
Yeah, it’s like how Historians don’t fully discuss events until like, 30 years have passed. Just need room to think
@fish texture You can't make a rise and fall video without a fall
What are you talking about? 'Your two cents'? It's easy to distinguish the differences in culture, such as comparing the 2010s party edm music to other decades.
The tone of the 30s can somewhat be used to describe this decade in a more literal way. “The Big Sad”
Then 2010s is the big gay.
Because everyone wants to be a hot girl. And we're saying boys make the best girls.
I thought the same thing. I've been referring to it as "The Saddening"
Decade of memes
I feel nostalgia over the 80s and 90’s even though im born in the 00's...why?
Well we had 20gayteen, but something that also means "happy" may not be entirely accurate to define the decade.
You cant define a decade during the decade
Tom Murga right
Dude we're 90% though it, i think its safe to start theorizing at this point.
Twiggeh Defined eras of the past weren’t as clean cut as that, though. It’s not like a new decade starts and everyone just decides to start afresh with a different theme. There’s overlap and gradual change. Things need to carry on changing until they’re substantially different to recognise that difference.
@@thriftyfreebies well, if you want to reach a definitive conclusion, yes. But i said "theorize" - not "define".
Twiggeh No it's not. What we theorize could be a defining factor of the 2010s could be just as important in the 2020s and 2030s.
The early 2010s (2010-13) had an identity. It felt like a unique extension of the 2000s in the same way that the early 00s felt like an extension of the 90s.
2014-15 were the shifting point, still good, but you could see the cracks forming. 2016-present, hell breaks loose.
Agreed
Exactly! 2010-2013 were really fun & important years for me even though I got badly bullied then, 2014-2015 was when things went downhill but it still had some good fun things from 2010-2013 but it was very quickly becoming very different & bad. 2016-2019 were shit, now it’s the same but worst.
Agreed. A lot of people think the same about the time period. 2010 to 2013 was dark and edgy with conspiracy culture on the rise and people waking up to the established powers. It was also a time of optimism and consciousness expansion where people were getting into new age stuff, spirituality etc. I think the cause of the decline mid-decade was the divisiveness among people, with wokeness and cancel culture on the rise, the killing of male/female dynamics, and people's obsessive focus on politics. It killed people's sense of unity and the cultural zeitgeist suffered for it.
@𝐀The best you'll ever have
@@millenniumman7461 The 2010-2013 period have been beneficial if u were an adult but to the kids it couldve been/was a traumatizing period cuz of all these conspiracy theories, creepypastas and what not, given of course that u were actually lookin at this stuff and didn't had the guidance to distinguish what was and what wasnt beneficial.
In my Experience, it was actually what awoke anxiety in me and thus suffered cuz of it for yrs after and i think that many people had some shitty Experience like that in that period this becoming some grumpy ass cancel culture privilaged bonkers but apart from that, the 2010-2013 were really an extension of the blessed creativity that 2005+ was and that was truly beautiful if you knew how to truly experience these times ; )
After 2013 it started gettin shit tho ngl but considering the nature of the internet and what of an Effect it had on people and their thinking its not rly that surprising.
Had to bail when you said 70s weren’t defined by anything beyond disco. That’s some quality research you’ve done there.
Yep, this.
In terms of music, the 70s were all about Progressive rock, balled pop, funk, disco and punk.
The 70s(and along with the late 60s) were possibly the best decade for film in terms of artistic meaning and talent
I was hoping I wasn't the only one feeling this. Hurt me physically when he just glazed over the whole decade.
The whole video is not really a very thought out take honestly
I disagreed with this too. Some of the best music came from this era that's not disco.
60s: Hippies
70s: Disco
80s: Cocaine
90s: Edginess
00s: Rise of technology
10s: Anxiety
20s: Collapse
30’s: Depressed people that want to go back to the 10’s
10s: Smartphones
my mom was born in the 70s (early 70s)
20s corona, spacex , joe exotic,karen
I see the 60s more as a pop music, Beatles kind of Mod culture era
Right now, you can't see the forest for the trees. People say this about every decade, when they are in the middle of that decade. Give it ten or twenty years, and the trends will be obvious to everyone
Meh, I don't really see that happening. I've lived through the 2000's and that's almost 10 years since it passed, and almost 20 years since it started . Still I find it hard to pinpoint a culture to it except some music trends and fashion styles.
I was just searching for a comment that stated this so that I could give my like to it! So you're welcome! :) But seriously, we can't examine the decade that we are currently living in the same generalizing ways as we can think of decades that either are way behind or we never got to see. I bet that if you had asked someone in the seventies "what will this decade be remembered of?", they would most likely have thought of it pretty much in the same way we think of 2010s now. It will happen, don't get all existential about this!
Exactly. Who knows what will be next? Electric cars could take over in the 20s making that the identity of the 20s. A new type of smartphone could develope locking the current one in as the 10s. Cant really judge atm.
I'm saying
My words exactly, I have to disagree with this video, saying that '2000s and 2010s has no identity' this early is too soon. My personal theory is we will get a real identity for the 2010s in 2040 when the people who lived in that decade will give it personality, like we are seeing now with the 90s. (synth, tv static, vcrs, neon colors, comic books and 16 bit games)
The creators: writers, artists, musicians, film and game makers are still young and have yet to influence media as much as the 90s have.
Love how you totally forget that the 70s housed a time for one of the biggest cinema booms in history, ended the Vietnam war, made some of the most important strides in music, and was the beginning to the deterioration of trust the average civilian had in the US.
People said the same thing about the 90s in 2001 and the 2000s in 2011. Decades' identities are defined in hindsight. We're just too close to it. It all still feels normal to us because we lived it.
2000's doesn't really have an identity.
I know for a fact that I felt super jealous in the early 2000s when I said "Man, it sucks the 90s (aka my era) isn't nostalgic compared the 80s and before!" Then came the late 2000s/early 2010s and people feel nostalgic for the 90s. Now, we're in 2022 and people are now feeling nostalgic for the 2000s.
not really, Back to the future predicted pretty well how there would be 1980s nostalgia in the 2010s and the things that were iconic of the decade
@@TheListenerCanon People are being nostalgic for as far as 2015 already, beyond that the people are creating their nostalgic times
@@TheListenerCanon and next decade people will feel nostalgic for 2010s
I think the 2010's has been one of the most constantly changing decades in american culture for young people. 2010-2013, 2014-2016, and 2017-2019 honestly felt like their own decades just by how people acted, how people interacted with each other, what was popular, how people dressed, and the slang people used in those timespans. I mean, did you ever hear anyone under the age of 13 unironically say swag after 2013? Now that theres only a little more than 2 months left of this decade I can definitely say it will go down in history as one of the most interesting decades. You may not think it now but then again, that's what everyone said about the 2000's for the most part.
Yes! The world is becoming more dinamic with the internet, and now tendencies are way faster. There are people that are already feeling nostalgia of the early 2010s. Heck, 2011 looks like ages ago (or maybe it's just my impression)
Nathan i would change and make it 2010-2012
I totally agree
Reder Khalifa yeah two year periods feel more appropriate for defining culture at this point.
every change you can name is actually something people just forgot already existed
People were literally saying this exact thing on message boards in the 2000s. I saw a discussion about around 2007 or so. You have to give it time
Nor will 1 year define a whole decade...
Nothing’s going to change culturally until like 2-3 years from now
fuck no. we are approaching end times
What about now?
Damon Day big agree
I have no idea how you go through both the 70s and 80s and not mention punk once. Is it because it was a subculture defined by being broke?
Yes. He looked at punk and went “Nah, you can’t be in the video; too broke.”
Punks were what defined the late 90's Early 00's in Argentina, we were all fucking broke and most kids at that time people listened to hardcore punk
Heavy metal, weird haircuts, STDs, computers, coldwar, technology and silver age of cinema
Its probably because nobody cares about punks
Right!
The thing that defined the 2010s culturally was *memes*, the mass expansion of them, today even old people can identify and even create memes, it wasn't like that before.
that was my first thought. i think a lot of people have been dropping various social medias since lockdown, after getting frightened by how much time we spent spaced out on the platform of choice, which means that maybe memes will become less common now with fewer people to share them.
I’m pretty sure memes are going to culturally define decades to come, they were a thing in the 2000s, they were a thing in the 2010s, and they’re still a thing today, it’s not like it’s going away like crystal pepsi or something. 2000s memes are associated with the 2000s so I’m pretty sure it’s just going to be “2010s memes” not “memes in general defined the 2010s”
So worst most meaningless decade
yeah but memes are still a thing, its like the 60s aren't iconic for watching television because we still watch it today,
The 2000's and the 2010's in one simple quote:
"My generation is going to be known for wanting to die and memes"
Change my mind
daniel reznik You arent wrong
True
daniel reznik 😂I refuse to change your mind
Memes you need a high IQ to get the E . pingspoofing Chicago IL, 14 thincrusted pizzas
That's the 2010's and it's more irony, absurdity, and mental illness
2010s is defined by technology, ultra consumerism, memes, hipsters, increase of mental illness, mumble rap, hype brands, superhero movies. You get the idea.
Fast fashion
Xanax
Khalil Pontikes // mental illness hasn’t increased, it’s just been more normalised therefore it seems to have increased.
@@sutopbrr8891I think there are actual mental illnesses that are increasing. Kind of like food alergies, that are going up so much.
Mumble rap and increase of mental illness are the same thing
Well, for adults, there's NOTHING to really have nostalgia for in the 2010s. But us kids, growing up in the era, we had things like newgrounds, flash animations, games like black ops 1 and 2, the ps3 and xbox 360, etc. That's what can define US. But adults really have nothing. That's why no one really knows.
that's only for americans
@@gangsterburger Where a likely majority of people watching this are from.
Newgrounds have been around since the very late 90s
@@jaysonklein6018 But I wonder when it was most popular...
Most of the stuff you listed is more 2000's stuff than 2010's. There's really not much to be nostalgic about from the 2010's. The only thing I can think of is the early 2010's car scene. That was pretty cool and had a vibe of its own that disappeared after 2012. Still got pics saved of modified cars from that era and they make me feel nostalgic af.
2020: Corona virus is everywhere!!
2029: are you still whining about that??
Well, 2029, what do YOU have to define YOUR year?! Long lines? Expensive bread?
50's: Rock and roll
60's: Hippies
70's: Disco
80's: Vaporwave and Retro
90's: Counter-culture
00's: Technology
10's: Memes
Memes are gonna stay don’t worry they will still exist in the 2020s
And no they are not dead they are bigger than ever as there are 6 million people in r/memes and you could see posts from minutes ago
70s had the best cars, the muscle car era.
Vaporwave wasn't a thing in the 80s
Vexirn Yes! I'm glad someone said this! Vapor wave is just a dumb, uncultured imitation of 80's music.
Vaporwave actually came out in the early 2010s
I can't believe the 2000s is about to be two decades ago😩😵
I didn't really think about that but the fact that I was born in 2001 makes me feel old after you said that lol
Shakarus Sanders i feel so old now 😩
@@pcgamerz3081 bro the fact that the 2000s ended 10 years ago is crazy
I feel old af
@@24klogan86 Same. I've always felt like 2001 was pretty recent. Now it's starting to be a while ago...
The fact that the ancient Twin Towers were still there when I was born is pretty crazy to think about, now as I realize it.
"Maybe people will get nostalgic for 80's and 90's nostalgia."
80's Nostalgia has lasted over ten years at this point, so yes.
It will last forever if you guys keep calling anything analog synth or akin to it like that.
People just like how it sounds get over it, it's not going anywhere, there was also a huge fascination with the 70s since the 2000s going on, 2000s had the garage rock revival then in the 10s, neo-psychedelia and folk singer songwriters everywhere.
@ippos_khloros Can confirm. I graduated high school in 1998 and my classmates (and myself) were already nostalgic for the 80s while still in high school.
80s nostalgia has been ongoing literally since the 2000s up until now. Some decades are just very popular
The 80's = the greatest cultural decade ever. It should and will hopefully remain the primary source of youth culture inspiration. Though the kids of today may get the fashion, they def don't get the energy.
nostalgia for the 80s nostalgia of the 00s and the 90s nostalgia of the 10s are definitely already things
There's much more than just "disco" that you can associate with the 70's lol
Yeah, but no one's really nostalgic for stagflation, Vietnam, Watergate, or the energy crisis.
@@normanclatcher well there was a bunch of rock music and its the early days of metal and punk
and funk
@@Beeraltar pretty much what I meant
Wait, so you're telling me that in 30 years people will be nostalgic for dabbing?
Yes
unfortunately
"How dabbing started WW3"
No, because dabbing lasted 5 minutes. No one will remember it. ;)
@scot lawrence
No dabbing is deep rooted in pop culture trough hip hop and rap, it’s also in a bunch of memes unironic and ironic people won’t forget about dabbing
What defines the 2010s?
*DOING THINGS IRONICALLY*
ah, so the BULLSHIT decade!
Also the year of the young generation being brainwashed by social media.
iamjohnporter67 more like the older generations being brainwashed by social media. My experience is that older people are way easier to fool than young people on the internet.
@@AndysTake Actually, younger people are more impressionable than older people.
Xenotaris I don’t believe that’s true for the internet
Man I miss the early 2010s
For real man early 2010s and before was the shit
@FourTwenty Back in the 90s as well people hated on the 90s but as time went on people now miss the 90s and feel very nostalgic for it. Pretty much the same thing for every decade and era
early 2010: swag era, snap backs, partying, I love my haters”
Late 2010s: hypebeast, SoundCloud, mumble rap,
2010s- The Great Populist Return and the Rise of Reactionism
Mr. Beat No sir
not bad
Mr. Beat you mean the pregnancy
Mr. Beat Kinda, but I feel that's too early to say because I feel that only became really noticeable as a cultural zeitgeist fairly recently, and we don't know if that's exactly going to be looked back on fondly enough for people to want to remember, "Hey remember when the it felt like the entire world was at each other's throat and thought everyone who disagrees with them as a soulless automaton? Doesn't that make you Nostalgic?"
@@InquisitorThomas i mean, that's exactly why we remember the 40's and twenties though. the massive bloody wars fought in them.
i doubt there were many that ENJOYED the world wars, a few, certainly, but not many.
mad jack churchill comes to mind...
The reason for this phenomenon (in my opinion) is due to the lack of experience of living in previous decades... so as young people today, we oversimplify what other generations have experienced into a general idea of that time period. Sure, trends do come and go quicker now with social media, but it’s hard to define the decade you’re living in currently with the retrospect we have with other decades. My mom told me that as a teen she didn’t really think there was a “defining aspect” of the 80s. But now when we look back we can see the decade and visualize in a simpler way, not actually experiencing it firsthand.
Autumn Coulter I completely agree with you on this. Time will tell. Just wait and see.
I agree. It also depends on the location. I’m pretty sure Argentina or the Phillipines in the 1980s has the same aesthetical nostalgia that USA pop culture had, like we always base it on.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention super hero films and cinematic universes yet. I feel like the concept has nearly completely taken over the film industry. The MCU in particular has lasted a decade so it would be a constant trend that people would point to and say "that was popular in the 2010's"
Politics became pop culture in the 2010s and the 2010s will be remembered for its wild politics.
trump could have ben president with vice president opra in the 2000
Late 2010s*
@@k-kraft2055 na fam, you for got about Libya
@@ilebillybobjoe I'm talking about North American
@@ilebillybobjoe Trump would have never become president in 2000, because back in 2000 people were still sane
Should’ve probably waited til after the 2010s ended before making this lol
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the 2010's is the generation of *M E M E S*
And shitty memes at that. 2012 marked the death of memes, normification brought us the end of good memes.
@@dixienormous2512 I agree. Meme era was 2010-2012. Maybe it started earlier, was too young so not sure.
well 2014-present is the age of dank memes. The offensive ones and the right subreddits still can provide that
The DNA of the soul
@@zeffery101 By "dank memes" you mean MLG and Here Comes Dat Boi type of shitposting? Because those died a good time ago by now
The early 2010s,mid 2010s,and late 2010s are basically their own decades. As someone born in 2007,I can confirm that in 10 years,the 2010s will be looked back on the same way the 2000s are today,but in divided chunks.
As someone born in 2007, I can also confirm
2004 here your all young.
@@miasowkers4101 2002, I feel old
@@miasowkers4101 I was also born in 2004, and I can’t remember shit about the late 2000’s, all I’m left with is memories of the 2010’s instead
@@NonbinaryFelineArtistoof, that must be rough. I was born in 2004 and remember some stuff from 2007
The 2010s was defined by longing for the previous decades, and envying those who lived through those decades, and who died of old age before the 2010s
Isn’t that just any decade though?
Litterally every single decade was like this. Humans like to fantasize about the past.
The 2010s are the era of memes that make literally no sense but still make you laugh
E
Weird flex but ok
ur mom gay
Very few memes in the last few years are even remotely funny.
Valentin T Memes have gone into a sort of post ironic phase that’s an acquired taste
The rise of smartphones was the key defining moment of the 2010s in my opinion
Rajesh Nagle ya for us in India or Asia but in the US they were already over smartphones by 2012
@@mnikhk I am in the US, people were using flip phones until mid 2012
Ease of access to technology
In combination with that, the decentralization of the production of information, but not the decentralization of the review of the truthfulness of information.
Essentially, the rise of electronic everything. Music, shopping, all that stuff.
The 2010's was defined by "The Lonely Island" humor.
Day-Day...
The 2010’s still had pop culture, fashion, and key elements that people will remember. I think it’s just that kind of “you had to be there” thing. An example being killer clowns in 2016. If u don’t know, it won’t be nostalgic in 10+ years. But if you were there to witness certain aspects of social media, fashion, music, pop culture, and political things, it won’t be so hard to give the 2010’s a defining idea or trait.
nobody knew what defined the 2000s in 2009 either. But since then, looking back, we've gained clarity by what had risen to prominence in that decade and has fizzled out since.
-Emo/Scene culture
-The last of the beige computers
-PS2/PS3 Xbox/360 game nostalgia
-Pre-Dubstep EDM
-The classic meme formats including rage comics & bottom text
-The diminishing of online subcultures through forums & chatboards and gradual amalgamation of online interaction into generalised social media platforms.
-The beginning of every genre of music beginning to be split into a million different subgenres to appeal to specific niches - Metal was the canary down the mine
-WoW and CoD bringing videogames into more mainstream and pop-cultural awareness
-The introduction of smartphones and later tablets making things previously accessible only through computing more accessible to the less technologically literate.
My predictions for the 2010s
-Every damn thing has a virulent subculture attached, but they congregate in spaces within social media platforms and on specific online communities almost like nation states
-Related to the above, every damn thing has an app
-The rise & fall of Dubstep & Trap EDM
-Increasing detachment from geography and increasing attachment to subsets of interests, belief systems and ideologies enabled by online spaces where social circles and social movements are far more scattered.
-The commodification of social justice issues for both market and social currency. The 2020s will see a cynical rejection of this by Gen Z
-Cameras everywhere begin the culture where everybody is watched by everyone else. Government institutions don't become more censorious, but collectively the kangaroo court of public opinion try & sentence people the moment a piece of media gains a large degree of attention.
-The geographic public square becomes more obsolete than ever, evidenced by the #Occupy movement. Social causes move to privatised online space. Late in the decade, this juxtaposition of private platforms effectively usurping the public square and traditional media has yet to be reconciled, as there are no viable alternatives to these platforms.
-The watershed of algorithms directing people toward confirmation-bias content leading to increasingly splintered, polarised and fragmented societies increasingly insulated from contradictory views, becoming less capable of dealing with them effectively, and becoming useful idiots for whichever way the algorith decides to prod them.
Uh, it was pretty clear that Facebook was the number one thing that defined that decade..like the internet that defined the 90's.
CZcams has defined the 2010's.
@@danielyoung2027 Facebook didn't exist to the general public until 2006, and didn't really start picking up steam to be recognisable as the platform we know today until 2008-9 or so, and even then, its social and political impact weren't felt yet, at least not nearly enough to be remotely as defining as it has been of the 2010s
CZcams is on a similar timeline. It has a huge social impact, but that social impact is more segmented than facebook.
The prophet has spoken
Clement Moraschi 99’ kid here, I can vote now. Fuck millennials and fuck everything they’ve fucked up in our already fucked up world. Fuck social justice. Fuck political correctness. It’s about time we free ourselves up from made up superficial trend-like societal values.
Trump was only elected in America because black and gay millennials enjoy the attention gained from being victimized. Black people greatly over exaggerate the levels of racism and gay people want to force their values down other people’s throats, people hate this, but the media enables and promotes this behaviour. The media then proceeeds to promote Hillary who then also proceeds to enable and promote the same behaviour. As a result the people say fuck Hillary, I’ll take garbage over shit, so they elect Trump.
That’s all I have to say, and no I’m not white or American but politics is the same around the world, your Gen Z comment really brought out the pure hatred I have for millennials.
I couldnt agree more with your "Gen Z" rebound point. Culture is like a pendulum, it kind of oscillates because of the establishment and breakdown of cultures and subsequent establishment of counterculture as the new status quo. I think we're seeing social justice movements' prominence because millenials are rejecting the "raciness" of the previous status quo. This rejection will then be the new norm and the following generations will naturally counter it.
Perhaps the reason older decades have more defined themes is because we've had more time to reflect on them? To say that the decade we are currently living in won't have any memorable traits to us in 30 years seems like a prediction I wouldn't bet on.
@Crazycatsbackboi , Memes, Microtransactions, shitty video game developers, and SJWs. There's your defining of the 2010s.
Yes, also it is easier to make broad strokes and stereotypes on decades further in the past that we have fewer memories of.
Crazycatsbackboi , don’t forget crazy people having the ability to meet other crazy people online and create virtual crazy people communities. The village idiot has never had friends. But now he can meet other village idiots online and create a virtual Village Idiot Village.
Daniel L. I read this as more defined memes. Damn whats. Happening to me
2010's: memes, being "quirky", logomania, and galaxy print. oh my god the galaxy print.
When I think "2010s" I think pop music, youtube celebrities, skinny Jean's, fedoras, memes and video games
I predict in the 2030s there will be meme nostalgia
In the future I believe there will be water wars
Make sense if Article 13 truly bring the end of memes.
Memes will never die, even if they try to kill them. We might have nostalgia for types of memes, or maybe websites.
That's insanity. In such a case you have no chance to survive make your time. Meme nostalgia, hmph.
There already kinda is.
I would argue 2010's are the decade of social media's rise
and in 2020 it will fall
@@nowmos
Do you know you said that on a social media right?
That was the 2000s, with sites like Myspace and early Facebook and early CZcams.
The 2010s is the peak of social media, with twitter, Instagram and snapchat
@@cathacker13 I wouldn't consider youtube a social media. It's just a medium for entertainment
@@usuarionormal6778 Hopefully
The 2010s might lack a bit of identity looking back, but oh boy people will remember the 2020s for the catastrophes that happened in just 2 years (we all know what) just like we remember the 1910s and 1940s because of the world wars
Maybe we're too close to the 2010's to see what defined them
People in the 2080's: Hey I found this old CZcams video from the 2010's where they thought they were some special finality of cultural zeitgeists. Ah the decade of entitlement. Good times. Good times.
Just realized yt is a masive archive
damn, i can smell that shit from here
2090s Kids: TF is CZcams? Something my Great Grandpa used?
@@slazeblaze319 toktik is the future. Miss and hit my fellow youth.
@@rainnydaay2116 given how the older viral videos from the past decade is still here, you're not wrong
It's hard to be nostalgic for something when you're right in the middle of it; give it another 10 years, then you'll be able to tell what that generation means.
Do you think people in the 60s would imagine they'd be nostalgic for hippies in 20-30 years? I never thought the dial up modem would hit me right in the nostalgia everytime I heard it, it used to be so boring waiting to connect to the internet.
I don't disagree with you here, but "in the middle"? It'll be over in 11 months.
dani yeah not only will the year be over but the decade will be over in 11 months
maximiliano elam yeah that’s what I was saying
now only in 8 months, wow time flies
@@daniella-rc1yy but it's still not over. It's going to take years for people to become nostalgic for this decade. But people will eventually find reasons to
The first half of the 2010s looks nothing similar to the second half damn
More like the early 2010s vs the mid 2010s or late 2010s
The "Premium Mediocre" millennial aesthetic might be the only thing that defines the 2010s. Avocado toast, millennial pink, succulents, horn rimmed glasses.
That's not even mediocre, just plain garbage.
Those spherical sunglasses and eyewear from earlier century looks so nerdy and old fashioned.
Look at 2000s eyewear, men wore rectangular eyewear sometimes even rimless and even aviators.
Hipster culture and woke culture combined with EDM and excessive use of trap in hip hop destroyed the pop culture.
Everything started to suck after 2017.
People are already nostalgic about the 2000’s and early 2010’s
I was already nostalgic for 2000-2005 in 2014. 2010s decade sucked
Before you know it, late 2010s will super nostalgic for some
Gecko Kosai Actually for mid they will nostalgic for early to mid 2010s
What the hell was the early 2010s? Mumford and Sons?
Im glad you said early 2010s because im not really nostalgic about late 2010s yet more like early and mid
In 30 years they will have a defined Zeitgeist for nowadays
Because hindsight is...
2020.
30 years?! You think it's gonna take until almost 2050 to define the 2010's?! -- PC SJW culture and its backlash, brexit, hipster fashion & the hipster aesthetic (including undercuts, beards, flannel, skinny jeans & leggings as pants, Pastel hair, etc...), Dubstep, Vaporwave, Dreadhead Mumble Rap, fidget spinners, Facebook, Instagram, Minecraft, Fortnite (and other overrated FPS games), Vines, etc... Come on, don't act like you don't know what defines this lame-ass decade...
@Lurker M The 2020's is even worse so far, but hopefully things'll get better soon...
The fact that he says there's no general music trend over this decade with trap music playing in the background
The 2010s is the last decade to have some sense of normalcy, characterized by hope and optimism. Thus making it the most nostalgic.
Flex tape is succeeding as a company by becoming a meme
It's actually a really good adhesive too surprisingly
It's hard to define a decade before it's over.
@@dullknifefactory you dont know maybe a war could start that would again define our decade lets hope yhe 2020's are better but with how depraved american society is i doubt it.
@@IStreamDre depraved? What do you mean by that
@@thatonestormtrooper2760 i mean how messed up and sexualized the west really is.
@@IStreamDre I wouldnt call sexual content horrifically devious. Exploitation is another matter of course. But nothing wrong with sex really. Or dirty jokes.
Sebastian Lund Nielsen we have had approximately 9 years for anything to show up. If there was anything that defines 2010s culture it would show up now.
Here in 2024, and you absolutely can
The early 2010s mid 2010s and late 2010s. All had an identity of its own in my opinion
@rikibyle Exactly like The early 2010s mid 2010s and late 2010s all have an identity of its own. Lots of things changed throughout the decade. Like 2010 compared to even 2017 feels like two different worlds imo
2000's nostalgia has already arrived. There is a huge amount of videos on CZcams remembering 2000's cartoons. At clubs they are now playing songs or song mixes that were popular 10 years ago. Gen Z is starting to grow right about now and they are getting nostalgic.
Yes, I too get nostalgic when Pitbull starts playing at a party.
Or things like Stickfigures on Crack and Crazy Stickfigure Randomness. Ffs i remember watching it in school when it came out. Good times
But what comes after that ? Nostalgia for bongo cat ? i don't think bongo cat has the same market value as for example helo kitty etc. Pop art and the whole system could be crashing because the consumer market gets so much individualized that the system might collapse and never recovers. We already see that old companys are dying in great waves with no replacement. But i guess that means those products of those old companies were useless in the first place.
hell ya, 2000 baby right here. I never believed people telling me they hate getting older, but BIG FACTS
I'm millennial, but being born in early 90s, the 00s still consumed all of my middle and high school years plus some elementary. I get nostalgia about all the flash videos we would watch, like homestar running and legendary frog. The early days of social media, our parents generation didn't really use myspace while that was short lived, I miss the pre web 2.0 days sometimes! We would show off our geocities pages to friends, if you were dorky enough for that. When youtube showed up in the mid 00s it was far from maturing into what it is now, was almost exclusively for meme videos and watching things that the uploader clearly didn't hold the rights for. Music piracy was a lot more common, and most who were developing their music taste in the 00s will remember P2P programs.
Nostalgia was a big thing in the 2010s
Nostalgia has always been a big thing regardless of the decade mane
Bruh you had people in the 1990s saying they miss the old days like the 1980s and 70s
Yeah....in the form of the great man Donald Trump...2010s.the Trump era
Nostalgia has literally always beena thing. Did you know, people in the 50s were nostalgic about the roaring 20s? And people in the Roaring 20s were nostalgic about the 1890s, they even called it "fun 90s"
You say that like we didn’t grow up having millennials shove their supposed best childhood ever down our throats
early 2010s- hipsters
mid 2010s - hypebeasts
late 2010s- eboys
1 year into the 2020s and we already knew how this decade would be defined.
Jesus...
The decade of memes, wanting to die, and cringey social media personalities.
Yessss
@Alex Apger
Nooooooooo
Wanting to die is soo 2015
@@waq5258 too bad it came back in 2018
Mason A.D. The “wanting to die” thing wasn’t popular until 2016.
I gotta harshly disagree with you regarding the 1970's, Cody.
On top of Disco, the 70's were defined by long hair, cut off jeans, cynicism, urban decay, early heavy metal and progressive rock, funk, shit. The 70's has a more distinct identity for a longer time than the 60's. The whole counter-culture aspects of the 60's really only define the tale end of that decade. The majority of the 60's looks hauntingly similar to the 50's in style and aesthetics.
I think the decades can be defined more like 96-2005 for the 90s
mountain jew, concentrate your flavor!
In the 1970s in the UK was defined by rising strikes, high inflation, and fractious politics. The Labour left was building up its power within the party, 4 general elections in 10 years, the Liberal party was back: winning almost 20% of the vote in the two elections of 1974, and Margaret Thatcher took over the Conservative party. The 1970s became the story of the fall of the post-war consensus and the rise of Thatcherism.
Well like always there’s some spillover from previous decades
True. 1962 and 1968 were totally different. Basically, the "Greater 1950s" was around 1950-1964 (JFK's assassination), and the next era (1960s-1970s turnover) was around 1964-1977. The 1980s could be from 1978-1991 or something like that.
2010s just feels like 2000s DLC
this comment is under-rated LOL
Hmm, now we're talking.
How do I define the 2010s?
Smart devices, crap pop music, rapid and corporate growth of social media, and the rise of cancel culture. The latter half of that decade was incredibly hostile, and I hope people just learn to chill out in the 2020s.
Not sure now but 2020-2022 was like the peak of cancel culture. It hasn't gotten little better.
Early 2010s
Minecraft- let's play
Crazy-pop songs/ oversaturization
Rise of CZcams
iPhones were becoming affordable for many
Late 2010s
Transition towards clout culture and mumble rap
Semi blip in EDM popularity
Corporate CZcams
MEMES
IPhones are crazy expensive again
Overly political atmosphere(at least in US)
At least from my perspective as a kid born in 2002
Bryan Valencia i was born in 96
Bryan Valencia the first half was great the second half is shit
That isn't defining a decade though
anon2k10 he likely got his pfp from maxamillinous and not from knowing about that game
@@RexRowStrike1234 Sadly. Getting sick of seeing these pfps
See you in 2028 when this gets recommended to everyone
"who's watching this in 2028"
@@UnitedPacci hopefully not me
You are were 8 years off
@@ryanhopf8324 nope, I bet it will get recommended to even more people than now in 2028
@@giannibleya7690 true
I feel like the 2010's has 3 things that define it, but I'll only mention one because it is the easiest to explain and is connected to all the rest:
The rise of meta-humor
Futurama, Simpsons and pretty much half of adult swim entered the chat
An Aesthetic for the 2010s sort of is starting to exist, based off of the fashion, music and trends of the decade. Vaporwave was a 2010s aesthetic - it was heavily inspired by the 80s and 90s, though it didnt exactly copy anything from that period. One thing I see mentioned a lot for the 2010s is the commonality of a sort of purpleish “galaxy” visual style, there were galaxy pants, galaxy backpacks, a lot of music albums had galaxies in the background alongside those weird skinny and tall fonts, and pastel colours.
A very clear 2000s aesthetic has come to become nostalgic and reminisced on in the early 2020s, this is despite the fact that I honestly had similar opinions of there not really being an “aesthetic” or visual style of the 2000s. For the 2010s, the visual style is heavily influenced by the rise of social media, growing accessibility to tech, early 2010s UI design, mid 2010s fashion and music etc. The 2010s visual style will only become more obvious as we remember less of the details - im sure the same thing was thought in the 80s.
Honestly I think the cultural Zeitgeist of the 2010s is memes. seriously, we may have had our jokes and images in the 2000s but they were in their infancy, now memes are important to everyday life. They're political, it's completely changed how people consume information and formulate opinions. Donald Trump is called the meme president because he got more free publicity through internet jokes than anyone else, governments and political parties purposely make memes in efforts to influence voters, and nowadays all a musician has to do is make a music video that's so dumb it becomes a viral meme, not a song that's actually good. Ideas rise and fall within days but the trend itself has become our zeitgeist.
*Forkknife dances*
SBBwasaight Vuong you had such a good point until you said *Forkknife*
*dabs in the background*
I agree... Memes are what truly defined this decade...
Oh yeah your right
Good meme decade
The things that do define the 2010s (Even though they're not over yet.)
- EDM
- Spotify and Apple Music over physical music
- Marvel cinematic universe
- Memes becoming massively popular in pop culture
- Drake
- E-Gaming culture
edm was only good from 2010-2015
E stands for epic right?
@@cheekypop it's still good you just to do some deep dives to get to good ones
Things that define the 2010s:
-2016
-2016
-2016
-2016
and
-2016
The Trump effect, bucko, don't forget it
What defined the 2010s was that in this video, it was the only decade where everything you said also applied to countries that are not the USA. Pretty much every other decade you described was from a US perspective.
“What was the style of the 70s” Punk, at least in the UK, the impacts of government failure and rising economic downturn saw the rise of punk, which would eventually culminate into post punk in the late 70s, and eventually new wave in the 80s
Exactly, well said
But it wasn't a general and cohesive cultural movement that marked the decade.
@@thepedrothethethe6151 it was for the UK, not only did it mark the decade but it permanently changed British culture
The people of the 1910s, 20s, etc didn't think they could boil down their entire worldview and culture to a single sentence at the time either.
With age details are discarded and what you are left with is often a limited subset of the most impactful things among dozens or hundreds of trends.
We aren't any better now, just too young to realize it. The little minutia like Chuck Testa are going to be discarded and what matters long term will be defined IN the long term.
it's why so many lewronggenerationers think that we'll never have an era of music that was as good as the 1970s, when in reality it only appears that way because peoples minds have(most likely subconsciously) forgotten all the crap.
honestly, i feel like this era will be known for trumpism. love him or hate him, he's certainly made his mark. i think most people know far more about all the things trump has supposedly done than basically any other president before him.
The music thing is more about the telecommunications act of 1996, which reduced competition and allowed corporations to better control what gets played on radio, so no longer does the best song make it to the top and we get crap like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. Yeah, there is a lot of garbage from the 80s that didn't last into today's nostalgia, we only remember the better songs. But I feel like this decade has not had a good lot of good music in general. I followed country music in the 90s and it started declining in quality after the 2000s when my favorite bands were not being played and certain artists like Alan Jackson, George Strait, Kenny Chensey, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, Keith Urban, etc, got a free pass, while Blackhawk, Diamond Rio, Collin Raye, Randy Travis, etc, still made music and the radio gods just shut them out because they wanted to create a certain brand of pop country that would be more popular. So today, we got terrible pop country, it's all garbage, and they retired most of the people I mentioned and got even less talented artists making the music today.
This is correct. Theres a lot of presentism bias in this video. "Oh our times are too conplex to be simplified like the past decades"
His idea that defining a decade by its cultural zeitgeist only started in the 20s is also demonstrably false. People in the 20s were already looking back at previous decades. eg to the "gay 90's"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nineties
Zanny I dont think you can define decades by trends anymore. It has been reduced down to years. The internet has made society and the flow of information move faster, therefore trends come and die faster. Idk about you, but 2013 seems very distinct when compared to 2017.
The 2010's are defined by shit posting
Thot Removal actually yes, I mean politics is essentially defined by real life shit posting
Shitposting and a longing for death.
MEMES
this is also what i've been thinking
Constantly shit posting by everyone in every minutes on all media and the news.
2020s: you hear the same music since 10 years and if not its a remix of it
I’m nostalgic for the 2010’s internet
Do you know what's gonna be really weird? Referring to the next decade as the '20s.
The Voice Of Showgun I prefer the 2020s
Well, in the mid 20th century people used to refer to something that happened in 1886 as in the '80s
@@jaojao1768 Are you sure about that?
@ABC 123 How, exactly? I was just curious, because it doesn't seem like the kind of terminology people would have used back then. Can _you_ provide any sources for this?
Well we're in the 10's now and doesn't sound weird
you can't define a decade while you're in it. you need some distance from it to see what things will get stuck in the popular psyche and become a mainstay in the social history annals.. I lived through the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. None of the those decades had an 'image' while I was in them, the image emerged long after the decade passed by. It takes a good 10-15 years distance. I also think the current decade also has some obvious distinguishing features - reality tv stars, memes, the popularity of superhero and 3d films, the rise of social media - facebook, twitter, etc , CZcams and Instagram stars, right wing politics, talent shows, political correctness and censorship, various movements from transgender rights, to Black Lives Matter, the occupy movement, the arab springs, the me too and times up movement, etc, new ways to monetise aspects of life previously done only by a certain profession - uber, airbnb, go fund me, tenner, etc The list is long. Every age and every generation has its own character. the 10s will be clearly defined by about 2020 - 2035.
Thank you both! Once he started harping on the 2010s but included a bunch of photos and videos that clearly showed we dress differently than elsewhere in history, his argument fell apart. We don't dress like the 2000s or 90s. Our music and movies have taken on different tones. You can't see that from within though. Of all their other great videos, this one felt weaker and less well thought out.
I partially agree, but even the 90s aren't as defined as the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I do think that culturel movements got spread out over time, nowadays theres a movement for almost anything. But maybe your right, Im from 1990 so I might still not have a good view on the previous decades / having experience living in them.
muggedinmadrid Dude you’re actually right I remember even in the 2000s I couldn’t think what image the 90s actually had but now it’s crystal clear
@@randombro89 What's your cystal clear view of the 90s?
I agree. the 2000s already has an image to me now that it's passed, VHS, old CZcams, modern cartoons, Pixar, 2003 games. That's what it is to me, and probably will be to a lot of people.
The style of 2010s was "casual" everyone wore blue jeans and a t-shirt. Now everyone is dressing like they did in the 80s
As a Gen-Z I can say that the 2010s is defined by 3 things: 1. Memes, 2. Internet and youth culture and 3. Social justice. All in chronological order
@@eyeamjulian they were still living through it same with gen x in the Early 1980s and also late 90s and early 2000s was more millennials gen z is 2010s and 2020s
@Earth nah they were gen z millennials had artists in the 2000s and 90s gen z has 2010s and 2020s and gen x had late 1970s and 1980s
@Earth lol yes
@Earth lol
Yeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssss
Has a meme profile pic
It's crazy that I'm going to be a old man in the 2060s
SUPERMAN PRIME how old bro?
Im gonna be 95 in 2100
@Олег Петров 2000 babies will be seen as boomers 😂🤧 by future generations and are technology will seem as ancient.
@@supermanprime1281 ngl but that's awesome .
If you survive
"Nothing will ever define a decade ever again"
2020's: "Hold my Corona"
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but that's a lot like what he said about 9/11, it is a major event that could define the decade, but it doesn't define it in the same way as the earlier decades
Yeah but every month will be a new define
Covid-19 will be associated with the year, not the decade.
I come from one month in the future. We are no longer talking about Corona.
early 2010s: a soft version of the late 2000s (skeuomorphism design too)
mid 2010s: metro design, smartphones, more flat tv's, memes, MLG and vaporwave aesthetic
late 2010s: flat design, vaporwave, politic changes social media rising
Actually i think 2010's aesthetic was vaporwave
the 2020's actually changed the whole thing if you see it on another point.
I was a teen in the 90s, and spent most of that time obsessed with the culture of the 70s. There was a lot more to it than disco, and you can get a lot of it my watching television and films and reading books and magazines from that era. Also, other 70s music like folk-rock. I fell in love with Supertramp in middle school.
Yeah, for me when it comes to the 70s, disco is almost the last thing on my mind. I've looked into it so muc that I'm even starting to see the ways that 70s culture influence 90s culture in a nostalgia loop.
exactly two things that defined for me was the gritty new york vibe as seen on taxi driver but out of inner city had groovey vibe you might see in brady bunch the red carpet the wooden tv and psychadelic couches
I thought the 80s was driven by cocaine
I thought it was defined by AIDS
I thought it was crack
They moved a lot of paper back then
I thought it was defined by Ronald Reagan
I would say the 80s was a culture ecstasy of bright colors loud experimental music and drugs and considering the cold war was still a thing people literally party like there was no tomorrow because too them there probably wasn't a tommorw mabye thats why everyone is so depressed right now its like a culture hang over
What defines our culture is memes. Not even joking
Why isnt this top comment XDDD
Memes: DNA of the soul.
Seriously.
I literally commented this before I read the comments
nope memes were around way befor the timeline of this video starts and are goign to be around way after the 2010, it's not what defines the 2010 especially
Now that I think about it, the reason we think the 2010s can’t be defined is because there’s not much difference between now and the last 5 years(at least). The farther we progress into a new decade we will see change and more differences between the past and now(future now lol)
It's almost like every year in the 2010 s has its own definition
You just don't feel like anything defines this decade because you're too busy living it to notice. The traits of the decade will become more noticeable later on when they're gone.
Oh and mark my words, EDM and Marvel movies will be two things people remember. I'd like to say hip hop too, but I fear it will still be around for a quite a while to come.
i absolutely agree, just like western movies died out in the 50's, superhero movies are starting to feel super stale and will be out the door soon
Seba westerns were still big in the 60s and 70s but yeah I agree
EDM hasn’t been big since like 2013 it’s niche now but I do see it coming back in the future as technology progresses.... then again maybe not idk but sound cloud rap is Definitly more of a phase if anything
EDM is trash
Exactly. This obviously the case. We need some distance from the 2010's to see what it was about.