r/decadeology • u/icey_sawg0034 Early 2010s were the best • Feb 13 '25

Discussion 💭🗯️ What caused the decline of black sitcoms in the 90s and early 2000s?

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So this post on Twitter tells us that black sitcoms in the 90s and early 2000s were so popular that that became a part of many people’s childhoods of all backgrounds and then after that, they just stopped being made. I want to find out what could have caused black sitcoms into stopped being made.

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u/icey_sawg0034 Early 2010s were the best Feb 13 '25

I hate how they took the word “woke” and bastardized it.

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u/Cool_Dust_4563 Feb 16 '25

Thank you!! I remember the word woke as in “I’ve woke up from sleeping”.

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u/mlo9109 Feb 13 '25

Same... Though, I do wish I had the free time and lack of problems these freaks seem to have in order to spew BS over the internet and worry about things like mermaids in movies.

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u/PaulMakesThings1 Feb 13 '25

They do it very actively and aggressively. While the masses of trumpers themselves are not very smart, I have no doubt that in the republican party and in the think tanks funded by billionaires there are some very skilled propaganda experts who are paying attention to any cultural movement, grass roots effort, or new concept that is working against their authoritarian agenda and find effective ways to re-frame and warp it into something else.

It's not conspiracy-nut thinking when it only takes a small group, you can see the benefit, and they have the means and motive to do it. Especially when you can see all the effects of it happening.