Which 2020s celebs do you think won’t be able to find success past the current decade that made them? Or, which current celebs of the decade will simply be looked back on as a product of their time/era? (Not saying Sabrina in particular btw just a famous person).

I wonder why almost ever teen show made the characters wear high heels to high school smh, however I guess it made most of us believe that was normal.

There's a style that's been haunting me the last few years. So far, I haven't found a name for it or even that anybody has identified it as a style. The best description I have for it is "2000s vector art". It's typified by

• logos (often used as background elements)
• bright, vibrant colors
• simple shapes, often repeated
• straight lines, stripes, arrows, etc. used to give impression of movement or dynamism

I've attached a few images that I feel represent this style. It feels post-cyberpunk, because it sometimes uses elements that look like they're inspired by computer interfaces, but it's all very clean and polished, not gritty like cyberpunk.

Any information or commentary on this style is appreciated, especially if somebody can tell me that this has been written about and/or named.

Even after 9/11 and DVDs overtaking VHS tapes (at least in the West), the 90s feel never went away until mid 2004.

The Holes movie felt pretty 90s (even the soundtrack and graphics feels more 1996 than 2006), the Neptunes’ music had the same drum beats as older hip hop/R&B, Wacky Pomo was still used, portable CD players were common (with athletic people or dancers still using cassettes), people were still using film cameras, HD was only a novelty or luxury used by rich people and kids went outside unsupervised. Even early 2004 still felt old school.

It stayed that way until mid-2004, when Jetix replaced Fox Kids, Kanye West released the College Dropout, the cover of Black Betty got released, iPods and MP3 players became common, the Athens Olympics happened, HD became common, Frutiger Aero came in, Mr Brightside got released and a lot more.

I went to a K-12 private school, so I have 12 years worth of yearbooks that are nice displays of 2000s/Early 2010s style and fashion (well, as much as you can get for a school with a dress code). I always liked the World Yearbook that was provided by Herff Jones, the yearbook company our school used. We only used them up until 2008 unfortunately, but luckily that's when I actually started paying more attention to current events lol. Here are the books for 2001 and 2002 as an example. I can post more if there's any interest!

to me it’s the coolest Rock look ever it just looks cool and badass

So if I was to post about 1670s fashion or the technology of the 1890s, would that still be appropriate?

No matter how we try to break up trends into eras that fall into ten-year epochal cycles, I'm going to assert that the first two decades of the 21st century were just one 19-year-long era that began on September 11th, 2001 and ended on March 11th, 2020 when the NBA cancelled the remainder of its season due to Covid.

There are no clear break points between 2009 and 2011, no decisive before and after moment separating the 2000's from the 2010's. If you want to peg it to Obama's inauguration, then the 2000's "decade" lasted 8 years. Not acceptable.

I know exactly why this is the case, and it's going to sound kooky, but I am absolutely certain this is the explanation for why the 2010's weren't a distinct decade from the 2000's:

They didn't have catchy names.

I'm not talking about a nickname like "The Roaring Twenties," I just mean it's awkward to talk about those decades, as in, physically awkward to say aloud. If you talk about the 2000's, you have to clarify if you mean the decade or the century. This decade has been saved somewhat by Y2K being appropriated to discuss it, but that typically means turn-of-the-millennium trends, not the actual whole first decade of the century. The 2010's are in an even worse position. It's way too many syllables to say out loud without feeling foolish, and we've all collectively decided it's not okay to call them "The Tens" because in English numbers don't go "ten-one, ten-two," etc. except in the trucker dialect.

This matters because decadeology is fake. Trends and historical events do not, by nature, confine themselves to 10-year-chunks based on a miscalculation of the birth of Christ. We create decades by discussing them, and you can't discuss something if it doesn't have a name.

A cultural decade exists purely as a constructed narrative, and the first two decades of a century having awkward names makes that narrative literally harder to construct. If you don't know what to call a thing, it's harder to describe it. That's human psychology, that's why we have names for things in the first place. Decadeology just represents a very extreme version of this, where the naming of the thing is the only force which brings it into existence.

I got my first home internet connection in 1998. (Actually, college dorm room, but same thing).

Any form of internet is so transformational, and changed the way we look at the world, so much, that all types of internet are closer to each other than they are to not having internet. In 1998, I had dial-up on a 56K modem. It took at least 10 minutes to download a 3 minute song. Webpages loaded 100k pictures bit by bit. There was no file sharing or embedded video.

That 1998 internet is closer to my 2026 internet where I have a smartphone and can watch movies and upload my own videos and where I am getting pinged about social events all the time---all of that, however different it is from 1998, is still closer to 1998 than 1998 was to pre-internet time.

(This is a "Hot take", so I might be overstating the case a little, but I think people that grew up with the internet don't realize how much of a change it made, and focus on differences in formats, rather than how similar any type of internet is)

Maybe it was a hallucination from my part or maybe I'm onto something since I'm seeing he was on X-factor around the time or the Neo-British Invassion of the late 2000s-early 2010s. I remember a lot of his songs from that era, he was quite popular in my household lol. But I feel like since then I haven't heard of him AT ALL. Did he continue releasing music? In what year did he fade away into general obscurity, or is he still popular in the UK? Tell me your experience with this guy's music and if you know other examples of people who were THE thing in the 2010s and then just randomly disappeared lol.

P.S: That fuck-ass hat is the most early 2010s thing ever oml, that's how I remember him in every video.

I believe that the Biden era 2020s (2021-2024) was almost a breather between 2020 and 2025-now because it was caught up between the two chaotic Trump eras and people want a return of normal politics. Do you agree that the 2020s Biden era felt like a breather between 2020 and 2025-now?

To the older generation: When did you first hear about Dubai? Was it well-known or popular 30-50 years ago?

nothing will ever come in and out of fashion

no aesthetic will ever get old or die

time will stop pulling ideas apart limb from limb

the generation gap will cease to exist

nobody will ever lose their childhood

the only trend will be expressing yourself

Is it just me, or does it feel like the 2030s could be the peak of the Western world before everything begins to plateau? From technology and music to Hollywood, culture, and society as a whole, I have this feeling that we're approaching a high point in Western civilization. I can't quite explain why, but does anyone else feel the same way?

Every decade gets its own completely inaccurate historical rebrand. The 80s become neon and leg warmers, the 90s become grunge even though that was only a fraction of the decade, the 60s become one giant hippie commune. Like what weird revisionist bullshit are the new gens gonna project onto the 2010s and 2020s? What random aesthetic is gonna become the entire historical identity of these decades? I already see them doing this with the 2000s now and labelling the entire decade as “y2k”

Has anyone else noticed that there's been an upward rising trend in celebrity tell-all memoirs, ever since the pandemic started ?

I personally feel like it's an inflection point in our American culture and society, seeing as how a lot of these celebrities went through massive and serious amounts of abuse, and a lot of them are still alive and well enough to tell the story.

That being said, why are there so many of them in this decade specifically compared to decades past ? Is it a reflection of how disgusting the 2000s were in terms of celebrity treatment and how that bled into the 2010s, only for all of us as a collective culture and society to notice that it's really not okay to abuse celebrities, since they're just like us too ?

Here is an excerpt from an article from 1939:

( https://archive.org/details/sensation-v-01n-01-1939-11-darwination-mc-coy/page/n4/mode/1up )

"Women's addresses to women belong to the bygone era when women occupied a sphere largely of their own and in most ways distinct from that occupied by men. Today the once separated spheres are, for better ог worse, practically one. Women-manufactured counsel for women is therefore just about as sensible and workable an idea as a separate and distinct set of drinks for the two sexes...If present-day women are fascinated or even remotely fetched by such rococo wham, my calendar is wrong and this is the Year of Our Lord, 1895.

Women do not want to read other women's advice on how to captivate men: they want to get the dope, if they want it at all, straight from headquarters. They do not care to read articles on how to hold their husbands nearly so much as articles on how gracefully to get rid of them, albeit maybe only periodically. They do not crave photographs of Mrs. Dionne, or of Mrs. Roosevelt, or of the late Carrie Chapman Catt half so much as they do those of Enzo Fiermonte, Captain Anthony Eden and Ramon Ramirez, the rhumba dancer with the dirty look.

They like to read of booze and sex, of scandal and fifteen-million-dollar available bachelors with slick hair, and not of the way kitchens are scrubbed in Lithuania or of Mistinguette’s passion for cream on her apple strudel. They are not interested in pieces telling them what a great family man the King of England is: what they are interested in are the latest didoes of the Duke of Windsor. They want, in short, not women’s stuff but men’s stuff—and with a bang."

And another from 1948:

( https://archive.org/details/todays-woman-v-18-n-107-1948-09/page/29/mode/1up )

"An attractive young woman standing near me while we waited at the appointments desk of a Chicago beauty salon introduced herself and reminded me we had met at the last national political convention, I then recognized her, one of the most brilliant and famous newspaper women in America.

As we walked the half block to Michigan Avenue I couldn’t edge in a word. She was telling me how thrilled she and her husband were over their sixteen-months’ old baby. At the corner, before we parted, I boldly interrupted to say that the next day I was addressing the LaPorte Women’s Literary Society on that old subject, "A Woman’s Place Is in the Home".

I was anxious to know how she, a smart and informed young wife, felt about the question. “Of course,” I apologized, “an especially gifted woman like yourself is an exception. You can be a successful wife and mother and career girl all at once."

Her answer surprised me. “No,” she said, “every woman’s place is in the home if she is to be happy. I have certain family responsibilities I don’t want to put on my husband. But I shall give up my job and shift to free-lance writing at the earliest possible moment so I can be at home. I don’t want an office blurring my first objective—the success and welfare of my husband and child.”

“You would give up your column, so widely read by men as well as women?” I asked.

“Why not?” she said. “I didn’t marry until I was thirty-four. I found out how lonely and empty a career girl’s life is.”

“But you are so successful!” I persisted.

“Success can’t fill up the hollowness,” was her answer.

After I left her I thought of another attractive young newspaper woman who in her first ten years out of college made her name famous in the Middle West. She conducted a women’s page on a metropolitan newspaper and organized a women’s conference for which she obtained as speakers outstanding people from all over the country. She seemed set for a career.

Then one day the governor of a near-by state came to address the conference. He brought with him his bachelor brother. The brother fell in love with her at first sight and soon afterward they were married. The girl abandoned her career and went to live in the small town where her husband’s business is located. She has three adorable children and is one of the happiest persons I know."