I feel like maybe around 2012 the whole concept of eras died.
Like I can clearly visualize items/people/media from the 60s/70s/80s/90s/00’s, but everything is homogenized now and there’s really no “style of the time” either. I think everything from 2013+ will just be remembered as a malaise era, if anything. Maybe the style of the 2050’s will be post cyberpunk apocalyptic? I have no idea.
We’re in the era of misinformation.
No, not at all. It’s just easier to draw lines on where things start and stop once they change, so you may not feel like you’re “in” an era.
In the age of broadcast media, that is of TV, newspaper, etc., there is a common perspective and culture being set. Now we’re in the “feed” age. There is greater variety and speed.
Fascism sure draws a line in the sand.
Definitely not. I am playing timeguesser and there is distinct change pre 2020 and post 2020
Ah well I guess we will just be known as the ai slop and facism age that welcomed the downfall of civilization then.
I’d call this the “late stage capitalism era”.
Stylistically, I’d give the 2010s to hipsters. Damn I do not miss skinny jeans.
Item and sociologically? The smartphone is now ubiquitous.
Sadly, I think the late 10s + a bit will be known as the trump/covid era. (Or, if things get much worse, the beginning of the end.)
No, you’re just used to things that are going on now so you don’t see how it’ll look in 20 years. I remember seeing people saying similar things back in, like, 2009
But 2009 is around where the plateau started, I feel.
It’s the death of the macro culture. All the styles from all the previous eras now coexist and are very much in depending on what sub culture you belong too. Like if you are the edgy kind of teen right now you are wearing y2k style clothing, but if you are more of a normie you wear more classic street wear. If you’re a fashion forward guy in his late 20’s or early 30’s, 40’s to 60’s inspired menswear is the thing to wear. And so on.
Nothing ever unfolded neatly by the decade, but a themepark version could be compiled after the fact. It’s harder when you can’t even talk about “the 00s” gracefully, though. How do you say that?
I’m pretty sure this is a Randall Monroe observation that I’m just repeating. Relevant XKCD, from 2017.
It’s harder when you can’t even talk about “the 00s” gracefully, though. How do you say that?
The aughts/oughts/noughts/noughties, depending on where you’re from.
Yeah, and none of them have really fully caught on. In real life I have to say “two-thousands” to definitely be understood, and even then people misread it as the century sometimes and are confused.
pre-2020 and post-2020 definitely feels like a different era.
(The pandemic and the global shift towards being more authoritarian)
Yeah I’d almost say the 2020s are the best defined era, everything literally changed overnight.
According to Swift, eras just became personalised, and rather than everyone entering a new one every ten years, you enter one after a breakup when you change your hairstyle.
I think eras are less obvious when you’re living through them
You don’t know what you got till it’s gone…
I dunno. The 80s had a very particular vibe. When the 90s came along, it just felt different, even as I lived through it.
I think the 2000’s didn’t feel that much different than that 2010’s.
But yeah maybe it’s recency bias.
The 2000s were very different to the 2010s which were different to the 2020s for me.
2000s, internet (mostly) without facebook. Myspace, bebo, internet forums, MSN messenger.
2010s - Facebook, widespread internet use among parents and grandparents.
2020s - huge work culture shift. Huge political culture shift.
When the 90s came along, it just felt different
Yeah, that’s their point.
I wasn’t replying to OP though. I was replying to someone saying that living through an era makes it harder to discern the changes. I didn’t really agree with that because the 90s felt different from the 80s, even as I lived through them.
But you didn’t know that until it changed to the 90s
Nope, you just can’t put your finger on what’s distinct now and you lack the contrast of what the future brings.
Hair styles, fashion, design, colors, music, phones and other devices, all of that will be different in 10 years.
Remember, facebook was all the rage in a different era and is now uncool. Same for twitter. That’s era defining as well.
No.
You say the Facebook Ear has past, but there are still literally billions of people logging in everyday.
Your small set of friends might have passed on Facebook, but it hasn’t gone away.
Moreover, when I say “hippie era” you think of certain clothes, certain music, etc etc.
There’s no one style that defines the ‘Facebook Era.’
