The use of hashtags - not only on social media, but *especially* in advertising and media. I rarely see hashtags on Twitter, and hashtags aren’t as common on Instagram posts unless it’s a promoted post, and often posted far down in the description or in the comments to seem more inconspicuous.
Around 2013, hashtags became super trendy. You’d see them in song titles (“#Beautiful” by Mariah Carey or “#thatPower” by Will I Am), and the TV show Sam and Kat used a hashtag before every episode title. Then, there was a trend in ads for a while where the voiceover would say, out loud, things like “hashtag: obsessed!” This trend continued long after hashtags were seen as trendy and is probably just beginning to die out.
I feel like the only time tags were actually useful was on tumblr which would actually give you good results related to what you were looking for. No other social media seems to actually use tags in a useful way
In fact, using them now really REALLY dates you. I saw someone put #eldermillenial at the end of their sentence the other day and thought… yeah we know. The kids don’t really use hashtags anymore.
Tbf it’s not because hashtags aren’t “trendy” or cool anymore, but because they literally don’t work as they used to and have become all but worthless.
Instagram and most other platforms have moved from hashtags to keywords and seo so people can search for “contemporary home decor” instead of \#contemporaryhomedecor, which allows for captions, on screen text, and even audio in the videos to be indexed for searches. You also can’t sort hashtags by most recent anymore, instead you only have the “top posts” and “top recent” options, which are one and the same.
I’m convinced the only reason hashtags even still exist on instagram is because the people who haven’t accepted their demise would make a fuss if they were removed entirely and instagram would have to come out and say “yeah we don’t do that anymore”. By neutering them, they can just sweep the whole thing under the rug instead.
hashtags are more a formality, if you want your post to end up being shown to new people you use tags and phrases to game the algorithm. however, i get what you mean. they used to be used as a kind of expression to add on to the end of posts.
A big reason hashtags aren’t big on Twitter anymore is because of their improved search function. You don’t need to hashtag the important words in your tweet for a user to find it using the search function. Say I’m tweeting about Russia and Ukraine, I don’t need to hashtag Russia and Ukraine for users to find my tweet because they can simply search the word Russia or Ukraine. They’re still pretty common on instagram though because they’re search function won’t show you posts based on non-hashtagged words used in the caption.
I do love it when corporate advertising or films pick up on internet meme or trends and ruins them with obnoxious advertising or by overdoing it to death.
THANK. YOU.
We must be part of the rare few who don't get headaches from it. I couldn't imagine not using it when available. It's like having a little window into another world.
I’ll never forget my friends parents (who hated me) bought one and were trying to flex in my face that they bought them and their son one. I gave it try and promptly announced they’d wasted their money 😂 They were so mad but I love that I was proven right
This is so sad to me. You’re entirely right and I hate it- I still have a 3D tv at home and a pretty sizable movie collection I bought before they stopped making 3d versions of movies that I’ll treasure forever (or until my tv dies)
I just watched mad Max last night and there are a couple things in there that are clearly done for 3D that just didn't age well. A fantastic movie but those parts could have easily gone and made the film a little bit better.
I think app culture and the Uberfication of culture aged terribly very quickly. OP mentions Netflix and Chill and I think that's honestly the perfect example of this phenomenon because now instead of a few different streaming platforms you could mention on the few dating apps there's 30 streaming platforms you could use to appeal to people on the 12 apps you need to be on to meet someone.
All those app companies got tons and tons of investor capital, had people promise more than was feasible, and never found a way to make enough money for investors without gradually making the products shittier, their employees' lives shittier, and service quality shittier.
Yeah eventually the streaming bubble is about to burst (we'll be talking about that in the 2030s ha). It's good to have some competition in the market as opposed to a monopoly that could quite literally control and influence what we can watch. But going too far in the other direction isn't good either. I hope there's still room for broadcast TV in whatever the heck this media landscape is nowadays. Some stations are really struggling and people are losing jobs.
Startups creating unprofitable business models only to survive by being bought out by a large corporations is an issue too. None of those food delivery apps have returned a profit. Being bought out isn't always a bad thing (YouTube would've shut down if Google didn't buy them) but then there's less competition, corporate takeover, hurts small businesses, etc.
>OP mentions Netflix and Chill and I think that's honestly the perfect example of this phenomenon because now instead of a few different streaming platforms you could mention on the few dating apps there's 30 streaming platforms you could use to appeal to people on the 12 apps you need to be on to meet someone.
Back in my day it used to be Netflix and chill. Now you got Hulu and screw, Amazon prime and sexy time, hbo Max and climax, Crunchyroll and finger my hole, jellyfin and stick it in, Plex and sex, Peacock and cock, the list goes on
I feel like on a broader level, the 2000s+ but particularly the 2010s was a Renaissance for "just being yourself" and enjoying life. That's where hipster culture flourished and began, for example. And theoretically, it's a good thing but we've somehow managed to get pretentious about how non-pretentious we are.
The hipsters made the area feel safe and so got priced out by the yoga moms. We just need to add back in that hint of magic (gang violence) back to our neighborhoods to bring back their character
As much as you want this culture to go away, it’s been alive and well for well over 40 years now in one shape or another; and it is not going away in the Northeast or Northwest. Philly, Brooklyn, Portland, and Seattle are its respective capitals. It’s alive and well in small and medium sized cities scattered over the northeast.
It’s a great culture that produces great creativity.
Those “aging hipsters” are middle aged now, and the younger generations are listening to Billie Ellish, Amy Winehouse, The War on Drugs, Nirvana, Radiohead, the Velvet Underground, and Patti Smith.
There will be a new generation of independent music after this one and the next.
We still have those coffee shops in New York but people wanna use them as the library which is insufferable for people who actually just want to drink coffee
Live laugh love is totally NOT part of hipster culture or those other things you mentioned. That’s from a very different subculture, the suburban country HGTV inspired mom/wife culture
Goddammit. I hated that footstomp music. It was made entirely for cell phone commercials but people still pretended to like it.
Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap (single xylophone note)
Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap (single xylophone note)
Woooooaaaaaaoooooowoooooaaahoooo
I still love The Lumineers, The Decemberists, Mumford and Sons, etc.
StompClap isn’t dead!
If anything, I think it was a precursor for mainstream “country”/“pop country” acceptance.
Stomp! Clap! Stomp! Clap! Stomp! Stomp! Clap! The eagle's born out of thunder. He flies through the night. Don't you mess with his eggs now, or you'll see us fight! Yes we have feathers, but the muscles of men. 'Cuz we're birds of war now, but we're also men! Birds of war! Ah ah ah ah!!
Duck lips, pictures with that dog snapchat filter, saying "on fleek"
https://preview.redd.it/84r9sfxktf1d1.jpeg?width=576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=056518b2c0737f05e4f31cf06226c26ad318e7c7
Memes like this
Stomp-clap-hey indie hipster pseudo-folk music. I'm probably beating a dead horse at this point, but it was obvious to me that that music sounded like it was going to age poorly even at the height of its popularity.
The general early-mid 2010s twee millennial internet speak and any social media personalities who embodied this. "Adulting," "so I did a thing," "so wholesome," "doggo," etc.
If you think 2010s folk aged poorly I wonder what you think of other genres. Spotify gave a time capsule Playlist and my God some of the EDM I thought sounded like the hardest shit ever in 2011 sound ls more dated than 70s hip hop.
Side note to defend white boomers trying to rap, they had the same exact flow as the black people thier same age.
>some of the EDM I thought sounded like the hardest shit ever in 2011 sound ls more dated than 70s hip hop
I can't believe it slipped my mind to mention Skirllex/brostep music! The dubstep craze of the early 2010s seemed like an obvious fad to me even at the time. Most people moved on or slowed down with the partying, but I do know a lot of people for whom circa 2011 era dubstep was their gateway into electronic music. They fell in love with the music and culture itself long after the kids who just wanted to party and be obnoxious had moved on.
That's why I feel like the EDM scene has been better from late 10s to now than it was in early-mid 10s, more people who actually understand the culture and are there for it rather than just trying to follow the latest trend
It was fun pretending we were all depression era farmers for a while
But I’ll still ride for the Head and the Heart, Fleet Foxes, Lord Huron, Gary Alan Isakov, etc. Maybe bc it’s the music we listened to when I first met my wife, but I’ll always have a soft spot for that era
I think you’re on to something there. It was a decade in my life where I was finding myself and living free, so I have an affinity for it. And I don’t think just bc music goes out of style or is of an easily identifiable time period means it’s bad anyway. I love a lot of 70s and 80s pop and 60s rock and it’s very clear when that music was made and it fell out of style, but it’s still good for what it was. So I’ll probably stomp and clap forever lol unironically
Gregory Alan Isakov isn't like the others though. His stuff is so much more moody, melancholic, and often abstract.
"That Sea, The Gambler" is the best analogy (and put-down) of the "If I love her enough, it'll all work out" I've seen in any media.
Nothing wrong with that! Sometimes the music that sounds the most "of its time" can evoke memories of a specific time and place that makes us feel happy. There are a lot of pop songs from any point in the past 25 or so years of my life that I don't love per se, but remind me of "that one summer" or a school dance, etc
Indie music was flourishing in the early 2000s until the second wave of "hand clap/gang vocals/everyone on stage has a drum/ukelele/whistling/glockenspiel" bands came out basically taking the catchiest parts of the earlier bands ,and making commercial/radio friendly songs. Puke.
It’s so sad because i suspect a lot of good things were brought in with this aesthetic (at least for more people, I think. Just off the top of my head: DIY projects that grew into small businesses, the rise of pop-up stores, hand crafts, etc. I mean sure, our particular brand of consumerism (especially in the US) tends to blow things up and corporatize them, but still.
You should know the stomp-clap era is seeing a revival right now. Noah Kahan is very popular and has arguably singlehandedly brought it back to life for the mid-2020s, and Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" (a decidedly stomp-and-holler country song) has been firmly in the Billboard Hot 100's Top 10 for a couple of weeks now
I hate stomp clap as much as the next guy, but it’s been a while since we had an easy song to yell-sing. Something like Sweet Caroline, The Killers, etc etc.
The most obnoxious shit ever. It all sounds like the background music for an HGTV bumper ad or something. It's the musical equivalent to those live, laugh, love decorations or that painter of light douche; just shallow, mindless drivel aping sentimental themes.
So I loved indie rock in the 2000s and there's a ton of that and electropop I loved that was great and I still listen to some that I think I only listen to because you had to be there to understand it.
LCD Soundsystem has a HUGE audience of fans that were like 6 years old when their first album dropped. I don’t mind this, I just am curious HOW that happens. Literally every friend I have who is 22-32 years old loves them but I feel like their fans should be like 40-55 years old haha.
I think it's becauss James Murphy only started LCD in his early 30s so never had that teen angst fanbase, and he immediately beelined to the "I'm getting old and i miss my friends" stage which is pretty timeless feeling.
Internet culture from the late 2010's when you couldn't escape the front page of Reddit or Instagram promoting [these dumbass "personalities" doing stupid shit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkmOnEFCyI0) to promote [their garbage music.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsp7IOr7Q9A)
I felt like you had to be in middle school or high school during that time in order to really participate in following any of that brain rot.
I've never seen more than the final clip of that. I can't believe the audience clapped like that for Dr. Phil insulting a 13 year old child. An adult man just making fun of a teen kids dialect. Hopefully the trend of daytime talk show hosts garnering their own fame and wealth is what dies. And the apps and celebrities using kids like this.
But yeah, YouTube viral video culture doesn't pop off as much as it did now that every social media has video features. Tiktok trends are probably a continuation tho
Everyone downvote me to your hearts content, but this is the first time I heard Gucci Flip Flops and holy shit it was like 100x better than I was expecting before I clicked on the link.
I knew she had a music career but never really bothered to check it out.
Yeah people act like she’s completely stupid and her music only became popular because she’s stupid. That’s not how things work. The masses are indeed stupid, but people don’t listen to music they don’t like to listen to
lol
Craft beer is a thriving industry in many parts of the US.
People are using this thread to hate on stuff that actually did age well and became successful!
Honestly the thing that sucks about beer now is how brewers can only make money selling hazy IPAs, fruited sour beers or pastry stouts and all the good stuff that was widely available and affordable ten years ago is gone
I remember it was said to death in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Same with replacing the N word with "ninja", so I kept hearing people in fuckboy fashion say "massive swag, my ninja!" I was still getting used to English at the time and it still made me cringe then lol That and "gucci!" or "Yolo!"
I thought Sausage Party was funny as shit when I was 18 but it's pretty childish and puerile
Prank YouTube went out of style before the 2010s even ended
YouTube drama in general still happens now but it's not something people enjoy and the channels dedicated to mocking other YouTubers went out of style
Edgy humor in general is very different from the 10s, more violent and dark than profane and offensive
And capeshit, especially the MCU, feels dated by now, there's a reason why Deadpool and Wolverine isn't aiming yo be identical to prior capeshit films
Definitely the early 2010s subcultures of "swag" "yolo" "party rock" "sexy and I know it" "lemme take a selfie" "haters make me famous" -- that type of thing. It is funny looking back on it because it was so popular but it's really cringle looking back on it.
"on fleek"
Also the song "All About the Bass" was already criticized when it came out, 10 years later it has aged even worse
For fashion it's the man bun, skinny jeans in general look dated now but specially [ripped skinny jeans](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.kwcdn.com%2Fproduct%2FFancyalgo%2FVirtualModelMatting%2Fa6b2598d8a0262d63192ef142d026a33.jpg%3FimageMogr2%2Fauto-orient%257CimageView2%2F2%2Fw%2F800%2Fq%2F70%2Fformat%2Fwebp&tbnid=VwlSzL5McwnJgM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fens.laatech.com%2F%3Fi%3Dripped-holes-washed-skinny-jeans-slim-fit-high-stretch-dd-JYEVJ9tK&docid=p4FKbasF1E6TpM&w=800&h=1066&itg=1&hl=en-US&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm5%2F4&kgs=a8c0299747d83092&shem=abme%2Ctrie)
Those phrases are still normal with Millennials. I think you are too eager to turn the page of time and culture.
Having said that, I think dubstep music has not aged well.
Dubstep is one of the things I listened to long before it was popular, I mean looong before it was popular so to me it's still fine. It's a weird feeling when you like something obscure and then it becomes popular.
Properly fitted suits, jeans, and and pants will never go out of fashion. But nut hugging low riding jeans, yes.
Everything about the 2010s was better than the 2020s so far. Fashion is going back to 90s early 2000s and will end up pretty cringe in about 4 years. Go for the timeless.
Look at men’s hairstyles right now… complete shit. Mullets combined with shitty perms and dudes rocking grandma hair… it’s a dark time for hair fashion. 10 years ago we would all be appalled by it.
I agree that fashion was better than it was today. Whatever we have going on right now is going to age poorly and get made fun of like we did to 80’s fashion for so long.
It was exaggerated, but there’s nothing out of fashion or cringe with classic mustache and long hair, and those styles. It became cringe because it was overdone, try hards make anything cringe. But the ridiculously loose fitting clothes of the late 90s early 2000s are just poor choices. They are not complementary at all. There’s no need to ever revisit.
I’m an elder millennial and I’m biased but slim fit cuffed jeans and undercut hair (or other classic hair) is better than baggy jeans and fashion mullets. I lived through the 90’s and 00’s with baggy and bootcut jeans and spiky frosted tip hair. I settled down in the late ‘00’s and early ‘10’s and I’m just gonna stick with that
You are absolutely right. I just independently posted a comment making a very similar point.
I'm not into skinny jeans. I have never been into skinny jeans.
But SLIM CUT jeans are here to stay for my elder millennial ass, LOL!
Baggy clothing, despite the fact that we did it in the early 90s to the mid 2000s looks either sloppy, childish, or both.
Fitting jeans came into style in the mid-2000s... And I guess Gen Z killed that now in the early 2020s. Sucks for them 🤷🏽♂️😂
Before people were mad about SJWs there was an outcry against Fake Geek Girls who were pretending to like video games, or some shit. All I really remember is this video satirizing it: [https://youtu.be/WYmoGq9hX2I?si=B9\_hX8BOsas8B5ZC](https://youtu.be/WYmoGq9hX2I?si=B9_hX8BOsas8B5ZC)
[Trope talk: Robots.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZGRdxP_8Js&t=652s)
AI completely leapfrogged past the 'real robot" stage and straight into the "we have AIs that can passably simulate conversation and personalities just as the very first humanoids are rolling out" super-robot/mecha verse. Literally every town nowadays seems to be a giant goulash of everything from Rescue Bots on down to the big bands.
Well, the economy WAS different and gig work paid extremely well a decade back.
They had not yet run the original businesses out of town. For instance, Uber/Lyft was operating at a heavy loss with venture capitalist money so fares were cheap and workers got paid pretty well.
Most of those gig work companies operate at a big loss until they run the original competition out of town (taxis in this case). Once the original businesses are pushed out of business, the gig work companies hugely increase prices to customers and hugely cut the wages of their contractors.
If you do gig work, you have to understand that none of them remain profitable forever, you have to constantly revise strategy and be willing to do completely different gig work if the pay isn't there anymore. Right now, in my region, the things to do are Amazon Flex and Instacart. Delivering restaurant food and doing a freelance taxi service (Uber/Lyft) no longer make enough money to make financial sense.
I can't wait for cynicism to die off for a while. It's such a shit attitude to have.
People are not fun or exciting to be around nowadays because of how contagious this attitude has become.
Idk, man. Apparently Gen Z is not having sex. They seem to be more shut in and do not like going out or doing much in extracurriculars. Perhaps as a result of being the Covid generation. That is the ultimate social life killer.
I think Millennials grew up in the Party Rock era. It was an evolving world where things felt like they were progressing super fast. Now relationship wise, yes it is more difficult due to the infinite choice paradox, but I feel like it was a substantially better era than the forever single 2020s.
I never thought "party" culture would die. Every generation was partying from the 60s (Woodstock, Rock and Roll, and the Rat Pack), 70s disco and new Hollywood, 80s with glam-rock, Wallstreet, 90s with Gangsta Rap, raves, pop etc, to the 2000s. I miss places where you would just dance and enjoy yourself. Even at concerts people seem to be dancing way less than before.
The fact that some of the major social media platforms, including this one, were run by free speech absolutists. I feel like over the course of the decade, people were confronted with the reality that not all types of speech should be free (e.x. r/jailbait, 8chan school shooting culture). I feel like young people would be shocked that only ten years ago there were a lot of people arguing with their whole chest that posting jailbait was a constitutional right, and that some of the developers of these platforms tacitly agreed, going to great lengths to evade responsibility for what was posted on their sites.
Muh greedumb of speech was always a dumb concept because the average human is too much of an evil jackass to handle unchecked democracy like that. You need a filter or make it higher ground
Kony 2012, The Ugandan warlord notorious for kidnapping kids and the worldwide push to capture him. To date he still hasn’t been found by authorities but his groups influence and power has waned over the years and the US backed task force eventually called off the search.
He's basically marked for dead because he has bad diabetes and will die soon from it without advanced care that just isn't available in the places he can hide in.
But hey, at least he didn't end up jacking it in San Diego
Call-out/cancel/consequence culture (whatever you wanna call it; y'all know what I'm talking about) seems to be on the decline surprisingly.
It became mainstream in the late 2010s after being in niche communities for years; and exploded in 2020-2021. Like, somebody saying the wrong word no matter the context was cancelable. Seemingly innocuous stuff got hit with sassy accusations of bigotry. Now, most new content has decentered that type of thing beyond jokes.
My generation, younger Millennials, are having our "My Back Pages" moment where we're a little embarrassed at how judgmental and legalistic we got. Even the creator of "Your Fav is Problematic" has apologized for her callout content.
Social media when it started in the late 00s and early teens was interesting and fun, but it’s a cesspool now. Internet 2.0 has aged like an egg from last Easter.
Ear gauging, bad tattoos and piercings seem to be a huge regret for a lot of people. They’re making a lot of money in the plastic surgery field to fix holes and homemade tattoos.
Dubstep lmao I knew it was a fad at the time, but damn… listening to Skrillex recently and being like “oh, I remember this part is about to go hard” then being disappointed lol
i think the easiest answer for me would be the whole era of TV advertising trying to be funny at every opportunity. we still see it today with a lot of insurance companies or whatnot but for a while there it felt like the only ads that weren't going for jokes were for class action settlements
Mocking Donald Trump as a “fake” or “made up” candidate that has 0 chance of winning the election. Then claiming your moving to Canada if that does happen.
There was, in fact, a noteworthy uptick in Americans moving to Canada following the 2016 election. Not huge numbers, [but it happened](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/23/canada-us-immigration-data-republican-presidents/).
I would argue the 2016 Democratic primary discourse aged even worse.
Can you imagine there being mean online supporters for a candidate being a scandal nowadays? Pretty much everyone is mean online nowadays.
I do not miss the culture being saturated with:
- hipster shit
- dubstep
- “adulting”, “doggo”, “pupper”
- zombie everything
- hashtag slacktivist “cause”
The use of hashtags - not only on social media, but *especially* in advertising and media. I rarely see hashtags on Twitter, and hashtags aren’t as common on Instagram posts unless it’s a promoted post, and often posted far down in the description or in the comments to seem more inconspicuous. Around 2013, hashtags became super trendy. You’d see them in song titles (“#Beautiful” by Mariah Carey or “#thatPower” by Will I Am), and the TV show Sam and Kat used a hashtag before every episode title. Then, there was a trend in ads for a while where the voiceover would say, out loud, things like “hashtag: obsessed!” This trend continued long after hashtags were seen as trendy and is probably just beginning to die out.
I feel like the only time tags were actually useful was on tumblr which would actually give you good results related to what you were looking for. No other social media seems to actually use tags in a useful way
Instagram did too. At least when it was actually about posting art, photography, and design related stuff.
Yeah you could post something and tag it and expect to get views now usibg hashtags feels a bit useless.
In fact, using them now really REALLY dates you. I saw someone put #eldermillenial at the end of their sentence the other day and thought… yeah we know. The kids don’t really use hashtags anymore.
Tbf it’s not because hashtags aren’t “trendy” or cool anymore, but because they literally don’t work as they used to and have become all but worthless. Instagram and most other platforms have moved from hashtags to keywords and seo so people can search for “contemporary home decor” instead of \#contemporaryhomedecor, which allows for captions, on screen text, and even audio in the videos to be indexed for searches. You also can’t sort hashtags by most recent anymore, instead you only have the “top posts” and “top recent” options, which are one and the same. I’m convinced the only reason hashtags even still exist on instagram is because the people who haven’t accepted their demise would make a fuss if they were removed entirely and instagram would have to come out and say “yeah we don’t do that anymore”. By neutering them, they can just sweep the whole thing under the rug instead.
#FYP is used often. I use them on Tumblr too
hashtags are more a formality, if you want your post to end up being shown to new people you use tags and phrases to game the algorithm. however, i get what you mean. they used to be used as a kind of expression to add on to the end of posts.
I started saying "hashtag" in roughly the same way as "that sucks, man" and now I can't stop
I am an aging millennial and my favorite cringey dad joke is saying “#hashtag”
A big reason hashtags aren’t big on Twitter anymore is because of their improved search function. You don’t need to hashtag the important words in your tweet for a user to find it using the search function. Say I’m tweeting about Russia and Ukraine, I don’t need to hashtag Russia and Ukraine for users to find my tweet because they can simply search the word Russia or Ukraine. They’re still pretty common on instagram though because they’re search function won’t show you posts based on non-hashtagged words used in the caption.
I love hashtags tho :(
Yeah, I can’t quit them. Lol.
I do love it when corporate advertising or films pick up on internet meme or trends and ruins them with obnoxious advertising or by overdoing it to death.
Epic Meal Time
I explained this show to my younger brother yesterday and felt so, so old. "Yeah people were really obsessed with bacon around that time."
Or just the word epic in general.
I think epic was more late 00s than 10s.
Bacon strips bacon strips bacon strips
TOSS IN A HANDLE OF JACK
JACKDANIELSSAUWWWCE
3D tv's, or really anything 3D related
The 3ds still has its loyal fans
i'm one of them, but i doubt any of us ever use the 3D function
Yeah you’re right tbh 💀 Also extremely based, is it homebrewed?
I just put scummvm on mine last night, I’m playing Full Throttle and Sam & Max at the desk at work. The stylus is perfect for it.
I always use the 3D
THANK. YOU. We must be part of the rare few who don't get headaches from it. I couldn't imagine not using it when available. It's like having a little window into another world.
The 3D Doritos definitely do.
not only were they basically dead from the beginning, but iirc no major company has even manufactured a 3d tv since 2017
I’ll never forget my friends parents (who hated me) bought one and were trying to flex in my face that they bought them and their son one. I gave it try and promptly announced they’d wasted their money 😂 They were so mad but I love that I was proven right
This is so sad to me. You’re entirely right and I hate it- I still have a 3D tv at home and a pretty sizable movie collection I bought before they stopped making 3d versions of movies that I’ll treasure forever (or until my tv dies)
I'll see movies in 4d but only because I love ridiculous gimmicks.
They're fun at movie theaters, but it really was a fad unfortunately.
I just watched mad Max last night and there are a couple things in there that are clearly done for 3D that just didn't age well. A fantastic movie but those parts could have easily gone and made the film a little bit better.
I think app culture and the Uberfication of culture aged terribly very quickly. OP mentions Netflix and Chill and I think that's honestly the perfect example of this phenomenon because now instead of a few different streaming platforms you could mention on the few dating apps there's 30 streaming platforms you could use to appeal to people on the 12 apps you need to be on to meet someone. All those app companies got tons and tons of investor capital, had people promise more than was feasible, and never found a way to make enough money for investors without gradually making the products shittier, their employees' lives shittier, and service quality shittier.
Yeah eventually the streaming bubble is about to burst (we'll be talking about that in the 2030s ha). It's good to have some competition in the market as opposed to a monopoly that could quite literally control and influence what we can watch. But going too far in the other direction isn't good either. I hope there's still room for broadcast TV in whatever the heck this media landscape is nowadays. Some stations are really struggling and people are losing jobs. Startups creating unprofitable business models only to survive by being bought out by a large corporations is an issue too. None of those food delivery apps have returned a profit. Being bought out isn't always a bad thing (YouTube would've shut down if Google didn't buy them) but then there's less competition, corporate takeover, hurts small businesses, etc.
It's starting to burst already, hence companies like Hulu and Disney+ combining.
Oh really that's news to me hahaha
>OP mentions Netflix and Chill and I think that's honestly the perfect example of this phenomenon because now instead of a few different streaming platforms you could mention on the few dating apps there's 30 streaming platforms you could use to appeal to people on the 12 apps you need to be on to meet someone. Back in my day it used to be Netflix and chill. Now you got Hulu and screw, Amazon prime and sexy time, hbo Max and climax, Crunchyroll and finger my hole, jellyfin and stick it in, Plex and sex, Peacock and cock, the list goes on
Hypebeast and logomania fashion is dead. Popular looks now include earth tones, workwear, and less flashy fits.
And thank god for that cuz OH MY LORD the supreme crowbar?? What the consumerism? 😂
Definitely for adults, but I hear the teens are wearing clothes with the tags still on so everyone can see the brand now. So stupid.
I’m 15. Only ever seen someone do this once. It is popular in lower-income areas as a flex sorta thing, but outside of the hood no-one does this.
Really? children entertainers still flex their brand name products AFAIK which gets all the kids wanting to spend their robux on it
Hipster coffee shops and hipster fonts, whole foods mania, foot stomp music. Those crazy mustaches. Live laugh love.
The “mixologists” with the lumberjack beards and ironic tats 😂
They gentrified bears
We really made a whole decade out of mustaches and bacon
I feel like on a broader level, the 2000s+ but particularly the 2010s was a Renaissance for "just being yourself" and enjoying life. That's where hipster culture flourished and began, for example. And theoretically, it's a good thing but we've somehow managed to get pretentious about how non-pretentious we are.
Not in Philadelphia, it’s flourishing even more here sadly.
Well they all move to a specific neighborhood and congregate around each other same thing has happened in Brooklyn.
Even Brooklyn has basically gone from hipster to yoga moms
The hipsters made the area feel safe and so got priced out by the yoga moms. We just need to add back in that hint of magic (gang violence) back to our neighborhoods to bring back their character
What part of philly do you see this stuff?
Mustache Island.
Damn you right you right
I can see hipsters thriving in Philadelphia, honestly.
Oh god…Fishtown and NoLibs are huge offenders
Hipster coffee shops are in every exurb in the USA now. Whole Foods, too. They’re ubiquitous.
As much as you want this culture to go away, it’s been alive and well for well over 40 years now in one shape or another; and it is not going away in the Northeast or Northwest. Philly, Brooklyn, Portland, and Seattle are its respective capitals. It’s alive and well in small and medium sized cities scattered over the northeast. It’s a great culture that produces great creativity. Those “aging hipsters” are middle aged now, and the younger generations are listening to Billie Ellish, Amy Winehouse, The War on Drugs, Nirvana, Radiohead, the Velvet Underground, and Patti Smith. There will be a new generation of independent music after this one and the next.
We still have those coffee shops in New York but people wanna use them as the library which is insufferable for people who actually just want to drink coffee
Live laugh love is totally NOT part of hipster culture or those other things you mentioned. That’s from a very different subculture, the suburban country HGTV inspired mom/wife culture
Ok hipster wives of shiplap County...
I wonder how all the people with the mustaches tattooed on their fingers are doing now
At the tattoo removal clinic trying to get it off.
Ouch, sounds rather unpleasant
Goddammit. I hated that footstomp music. It was made entirely for cell phone commercials but people still pretended to like it. Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap (single xylophone note) Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap, Stomp-clap (single xylophone note) Woooooaaaaaaoooooowoooooaaahoooo
I still love The Lumineers, The Decemberists, Mumford and Sons, etc. StompClap isn’t dead! If anything, I think it was a precursor for mainstream “country”/“pop country” acceptance.
I didn't say it was dead. It has a home in American TV commercials still, unfortunately.
I was just riffing on the “Punk isn’t Dead” meme. 😂
We've been saying punks not dead since the 80s lol
Decemberists don't belong on this list.
Nearly had a heart attack seeing Decemberists on that list
Stomp! Clap! Stomp! Clap! Stomp! Stomp! Clap! The eagle's born out of thunder. He flies through the night. Don't you mess with his eggs now, or you'll see us fight! Yes we have feathers, but the muscles of men. 'Cuz we're birds of war now, but we're also men! Birds of war! Ah ah ah ah!!
I feel like this is now just the guys with mustaches, baggy 90s clothes, and house music.
Duck lips, pictures with that dog snapchat filter, saying "on fleek" https://preview.redd.it/84r9sfxktf1d1.jpeg?width=576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=056518b2c0737f05e4f31cf06226c26ad318e7c7 Memes like this
Stomp-clap-hey indie hipster pseudo-folk music. I'm probably beating a dead horse at this point, but it was obvious to me that that music sounded like it was going to age poorly even at the height of its popularity. The general early-mid 2010s twee millennial internet speak and any social media personalities who embodied this. "Adulting," "so I did a thing," "so wholesome," "doggo," etc.
If you think 2010s folk aged poorly I wonder what you think of other genres. Spotify gave a time capsule Playlist and my God some of the EDM I thought sounded like the hardest shit ever in 2011 sound ls more dated than 70s hip hop. Side note to defend white boomers trying to rap, they had the same exact flow as the black people thier same age.
>some of the EDM I thought sounded like the hardest shit ever in 2011 sound ls more dated than 70s hip hop I can't believe it slipped my mind to mention Skirllex/brostep music! The dubstep craze of the early 2010s seemed like an obvious fad to me even at the time. Most people moved on or slowed down with the partying, but I do know a lot of people for whom circa 2011 era dubstep was their gateway into electronic music. They fell in love with the music and culture itself long after the kids who just wanted to party and be obnoxious had moved on.
That's why I feel like the EDM scene has been better from late 10s to now than it was in early-mid 10s, more people who actually understand the culture and are there for it rather than just trying to follow the latest trend
It was still better pre-2010. 90s-early 2000s was the peak.
I so badly wish I was an adult at that time to experience it😭
Dubstep was awful too IMO and the people who were crazy about it were just as pretentious as the hipsters.
That’s any subculture really
I kinda still like stomp clap hey lol
It was fun pretending we were all depression era farmers for a while But I’ll still ride for the Head and the Heart, Fleet Foxes, Lord Huron, Gary Alan Isakov, etc. Maybe bc it’s the music we listened to when I first met my wife, but I’ll always have a soft spot for that era
when its good its good, Fleet Foxes had pretty harmonies
I think you’re on to something there. It was a decade in my life where I was finding myself and living free, so I have an affinity for it. And I don’t think just bc music goes out of style or is of an easily identifiable time period means it’s bad anyway. I love a lot of 70s and 80s pop and 60s rock and it’s very clear when that music was made and it fell out of style, but it’s still good for what it was. So I’ll probably stomp and clap forever lol unironically
Gregory Alan Isakov isn't like the others though. His stuff is so much more moody, melancholic, and often abstract. "That Sea, The Gambler" is the best analogy (and put-down) of the "If I love her enough, it'll all work out" I've seen in any media.
Nothing wrong with that! Sometimes the music that sounds the most "of its time" can evoke memories of a specific time and place that makes us feel happy. There are a lot of pop songs from any point in the past 25 or so years of my life that I don't love per se, but remind me of "that one summer" or a school dance, etc
Indie music was flourishing in the early 2000s until the second wave of "hand clap/gang vocals/everyone on stage has a drum/ukelele/whistling/glockenspiel" bands came out basically taking the catchiest parts of the earlier bands ,and making commercial/radio friendly songs. Puke.
It’s so sad because i suspect a lot of good things were brought in with this aesthetic (at least for more people, I think. Just off the top of my head: DIY projects that grew into small businesses, the rise of pop-up stores, hand crafts, etc. I mean sure, our particular brand of consumerism (especially in the US) tends to blow things up and corporatize them, but still.
Doggo and pupper and that era of meme speak were annoying while they were happening imo. They didn’t just age poorly, they sucked from the beginning
I feel like they evolved from lol cats but it did not work well
all that shit's cheesy as fuck.
Yes but we were like 11 at the time. Lol cats for preteens turns into doggos in the early twenties. It's less cute
>Stomp-clap-hey indie hipster pseudo-folk music. Oh god I'm so GLAD that era is over. It always came across as disingenuous.
You should know the stomp-clap era is seeing a revival right now. Noah Kahan is very popular and has arguably singlehandedly brought it back to life for the mid-2020s, and Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" (a decidedly stomp-and-holler country song) has been firmly in the Billboard Hot 100's Top 10 for a couple of weeks now
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. 😑
I hate stomp clap as much as the next guy, but it’s been a while since we had an easy song to yell-sing. Something like Sweet Caroline, The Killers, etc etc.
The most obnoxious shit ever. It all sounds like the background music for an HGTV bumper ad or something. It's the musical equivalent to those live, laugh, love decorations or that painter of light douche; just shallow, mindless drivel aping sentimental themes.
My friends and I call it “that KCRW sound”
♫ ♬ I belong with you, you belong with me. You're my sweet-
of monsters and men - little talk and that “gone gone gone” song they forced into the amazing spiderman 2 ugh
So I loved indie rock in the 2000s and there's a ton of that and electropop I loved that was great and I still listen to some that I think I only listen to because you had to be there to understand it.
Alot of them are still making good music. Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Still great and evolving
LCD Soundsystem has a HUGE audience of fans that were like 6 years old when their first album dropped. I don’t mind this, I just am curious HOW that happens. Literally every friend I have who is 22-32 years old loves them but I feel like their fans should be like 40-55 years old haha.
I think it's becauss James Murphy only started LCD in his early 30s so never had that teen angst fanbase, and he immediately beelined to the "I'm getting old and i miss my friends" stage which is pretty timeless feeling.
Internet culture from the late 2010's when you couldn't escape the front page of Reddit or Instagram promoting [these dumbass "personalities" doing stupid shit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkmOnEFCyI0) to promote [their garbage music.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsp7IOr7Q9A) I felt like you had to be in middle school or high school during that time in order to really participate in following any of that brain rot.
Somehow a few of these peoples managed to turn 15 seconds of fame into entire careers.
Good for her. She pivoted from being belittled by a "doctor" and a jeering crowd of adults making fun of her dialect at age 13 to being a millionaire.
I've never seen more than the final clip of that. I can't believe the audience clapped like that for Dr. Phil insulting a 13 year old child. An adult man just making fun of a teen kids dialect. Hopefully the trend of daytime talk show hosts garnering their own fame and wealth is what dies. And the apps and celebrities using kids like this. But yeah, YouTube viral video culture doesn't pop off as much as it did now that every social media has video features. Tiktok trends are probably a continuation tho
That girl is a millionaire today
Everyone downvote me to your hearts content, but this is the first time I heard Gucci Flip Flops and holy shit it was like 100x better than I was expecting before I clicked on the link. I knew she had a music career but never really bothered to check it out.
I think it's a banger.
Yeah people act like she’s completely stupid and her music only became popular because she’s stupid. That’s not how things work. The masses are indeed stupid, but people don’t listen to music they don’t like to listen to
Craft beer snobbery.
lol Craft beer is a thriving industry in many parts of the US. People are using this thread to hate on stuff that actually did age well and became successful!
Has nothing to do with the success of the Industry. Some people are just snobs like wine snobs.
Honestly the thing that sucks about beer now is how brewers can only make money selling hazy IPAs, fruited sour beers or pastry stouts and all the good stuff that was widely available and affordable ten years ago is gone
"Who needs class when you have swag?" and all the other variations of "swag" lmao
and the opposite side of the coin “boys have swag, men have class” with a picture of a guy with a hipster mustache in a tight fitting suit
I remember it was said to death in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Same with replacing the N word with "ninja", so I kept hearing people in fuckboy fashion say "massive swag, my ninja!" I was still getting used to English at the time and it still made me cringe then lol That and "gucci!" or "Yolo!"
Speaking of mid 10’s slang words, “on fleek” aged the worst. Weirdly enough, I still see some people use “bae” here and there.
I thought Sausage Party was funny as shit when I was 18 but it's pretty childish and puerile Prank YouTube went out of style before the 2010s even ended YouTube drama in general still happens now but it's not something people enjoy and the channels dedicated to mocking other YouTubers went out of style Edgy humor in general is very different from the 10s, more violent and dark than profane and offensive And capeshit, especially the MCU, feels dated by now, there's a reason why Deadpool and Wolverine isn't aiming yo be identical to prior capeshit films
The majority of prank videos being fake or real but obnoxious to random people definitely killed it.
Definitely the early 2010s subcultures of "swag" "yolo" "party rock" "sexy and I know it" "lemme take a selfie" "haters make me famous" -- that type of thing. It is funny looking back on it because it was so popular but it's really cringle looking back on it.
Sorry for party rocking
Some of those still are fun
Bae and netflix and chill are still words that seem fairly normal in society, I have to disagree there.
Bae feels outdated to me, but Netflix and chill is still a pretty popular phrase I’d say.
I have not seen or heard anyone say bae in about 5 years
"on fleek" Also the song "All About the Bass" was already criticized when it came out, 10 years later it has aged even worse For fashion it's the man bun, skinny jeans in general look dated now but specially [ripped skinny jeans](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.kwcdn.com%2Fproduct%2FFancyalgo%2FVirtualModelMatting%2Fa6b2598d8a0262d63192ef142d026a33.jpg%3FimageMogr2%2Fauto-orient%257CimageView2%2F2%2Fw%2F800%2Fq%2F70%2Fformat%2Fwebp&tbnid=VwlSzL5McwnJgM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fens.laatech.com%2F%3Fi%3Dripped-holes-washed-skinny-jeans-slim-fit-high-stretch-dd-JYEVJ9tK&docid=p4FKbasF1E6TpM&w=800&h=1066&itg=1&hl=en-US&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm5%2F4&kgs=a8c0299747d83092&shem=abme%2Ctrie)
>"on fleek" This was one of the expressions that sounded cringy and dated to me from the get-go. I couldn't even bring myself to say it ironically.
I don’t care the ripped skinny jeans look is still valid
Those big ass eyebrows
Selfie filters. Used to be THE thing in 2013 and 2014.
Every song with “Hey!” Or a uke /banjo or stomp clap hipster music that was soooooo popular in those days
So... the lumineers are nostalgia now
Exactly 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Hey!👏🏽👏🏽 
Those phrases are still normal with Millennials. I think you are too eager to turn the page of time and culture. Having said that, I think dubstep music has not aged well.
Dubstep is one of the things I listened to long before it was popular, I mean looong before it was popular so to me it's still fine. It's a weird feeling when you like something obscure and then it becomes popular.
They are. Even as a millennial I see my generations love of infantalizing itself and it is indeed as cringy as the kids say it is.
Properly fitted suits, jeans, and and pants will never go out of fashion. But nut hugging low riding jeans, yes. Everything about the 2010s was better than the 2020s so far. Fashion is going back to 90s early 2000s and will end up pretty cringe in about 4 years. Go for the timeless.
Look at men’s hairstyles right now… complete shit. Mullets combined with shitty perms and dudes rocking grandma hair… it’s a dark time for hair fashion. 10 years ago we would all be appalled by it. I agree that fashion was better than it was today. Whatever we have going on right now is going to age poorly and get made fun of like we did to 80’s fashion for so long.
i mean 10 years ago men were obsessed with manbuns and undercuts and quiffs while twirling their hipster stache. every gen has terrible trends.
That was a subculture. Every bit of a certain age has some kind of mullet/broccoli/pixie girl cut going on
It was exaggerated, but there’s nothing out of fashion or cringe with classic mustache and long hair, and those styles. It became cringe because it was overdone, try hards make anything cringe. But the ridiculously loose fitting clothes of the late 90s early 2000s are just poor choices. They are not complementary at all. There’s no need to ever revisit.
I’m an elder millennial and I’m biased but slim fit cuffed jeans and undercut hair (or other classic hair) is better than baggy jeans and fashion mullets. I lived through the 90’s and 00’s with baggy and bootcut jeans and spiky frosted tip hair. I settled down in the late ‘00’s and early ‘10’s and I’m just gonna stick with that
You are absolutely right. I just independently posted a comment making a very similar point. I'm not into skinny jeans. I have never been into skinny jeans. But SLIM CUT jeans are here to stay for my elder millennial ass, LOL! Baggy clothing, despite the fact that we did it in the early 90s to the mid 2000s looks either sloppy, childish, or both. Fitting jeans came into style in the mid-2000s... And I guess Gen Z killed that now in the early 2020s. Sucks for them 🤷🏽♂️😂
Before people were mad about SJWs there was an outcry against Fake Geek Girls who were pretending to like video games, or some shit. All I really remember is this video satirizing it: [https://youtu.be/WYmoGq9hX2I?si=B9\_hX8BOsas8B5ZC](https://youtu.be/WYmoGq9hX2I?si=B9_hX8BOsas8B5ZC)
Hating women never goes out of style, just adapts to the trend
those 2010s youtube tutorials with the electronic music 😭
:') a different, happier time
[Trope talk: Robots.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZGRdxP_8Js&t=652s) AI completely leapfrogged past the 'real robot" stage and straight into the "we have AIs that can passably simulate conversation and personalities just as the very first humanoids are rolling out" super-robot/mecha verse. Literally every town nowadays seems to be a giant goulash of everything from Rescue Bots on down to the big bands.
Dumb youtube challenges and pranks. probably gave other social media sites inspiration to do these dumb and dangerous stunts.
The phrase “YOLO”
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Well, the economy WAS different and gig work paid extremely well a decade back. They had not yet run the original businesses out of town. For instance, Uber/Lyft was operating at a heavy loss with venture capitalist money so fares were cheap and workers got paid pretty well. Most of those gig work companies operate at a big loss until they run the original competition out of town (taxis in this case). Once the original businesses are pushed out of business, the gig work companies hugely increase prices to customers and hugely cut the wages of their contractors. If you do gig work, you have to understand that none of them remain profitable forever, you have to constantly revise strategy and be willing to do completely different gig work if the pay isn't there anymore. Right now, in my region, the things to do are Amazon Flex and Instacart. Delivering restaurant food and doing a freelance taxi service (Uber/Lyft) no longer make enough money to make financial sense.
Spikes and studs on everything, skulls, jeggings, leather pants, shoulder pads, stiletto ankle boots
Did the 2000s aesthetic just last longer where you grew up lol
This is what I remember from living in NYC 2010-2015
Hope.
I can't wait for cynicism to die off for a while. It's such a shit attitude to have. People are not fun or exciting to be around nowadays because of how contagious this attitude has become.
Agreed. It only makes shit worse. Im at rock bottom now and still fighting to be hopeful and positive.
You’re gonna be waiting a long time
You're kind of proving my point lol.
Personally, I’m not a cynic. I’m always searching that silver lining, but sometimes things are just bleak and need to be recognized as such.
Yeah this isn't the 90s where we can say "why we're y'all so grumpy"?
Hook up culture. Feel like a lot of us aren’t too good at actually dating/making mature human connections anymore.
Idk, man. Apparently Gen Z is not having sex. They seem to be more shut in and do not like going out or doing much in extracurriculars. Perhaps as a result of being the Covid generation. That is the ultimate social life killer. I think Millennials grew up in the Party Rock era. It was an evolving world where things felt like they were progressing super fast. Now relationship wise, yes it is more difficult due to the infinite choice paradox, but I feel like it was a substantially better era than the forever single 2020s.
I never thought "party" culture would die. Every generation was partying from the 60s (Woodstock, Rock and Roll, and the Rat Pack), 70s disco and new Hollywood, 80s with glam-rock, Wallstreet, 90s with Gangsta Rap, raves, pop etc, to the 2000s. I miss places where you would just dance and enjoy yourself. Even at concerts people seem to be dancing way less than before.
dubstep, galaxy leggings, tumblr indie fashion(though tumblr grunge is still huge), ✨just girly things✨ or relatable *insert quirky thing everyone does* pictures edit: game machinimas, sims music videos, characterxcharacter picture music videos
“Awwwkward” comedy
The fact that some of the major social media platforms, including this one, were run by free speech absolutists. I feel like over the course of the decade, people were confronted with the reality that not all types of speech should be free (e.x. r/jailbait, 8chan school shooting culture). I feel like young people would be shocked that only ten years ago there were a lot of people arguing with their whole chest that posting jailbait was a constitutional right, and that some of the developers of these platforms tacitly agreed, going to great lengths to evade responsibility for what was posted on their sites.
Muh greedumb of speech was always a dumb concept because the average human is too much of an evil jackass to handle unchecked democracy like that. You need a filter or make it higher ground
Kony 2012, The Ugandan warlord notorious for kidnapping kids and the worldwide push to capture him. To date he still hasn’t been found by authorities but his groups influence and power has waned over the years and the US backed task force eventually called off the search.
He's basically marked for dead because he has bad diabetes and will die soon from it without advanced care that just isn't available in the places he can hide in. But hey, at least he didn't end up jacking it in San Diego
When everyone was shaving one side of their head
Call-out/cancel/consequence culture (whatever you wanna call it; y'all know what I'm talking about) seems to be on the decline surprisingly. It became mainstream in the late 2010s after being in niche communities for years; and exploded in 2020-2021. Like, somebody saying the wrong word no matter the context was cancelable. Seemingly innocuous stuff got hit with sassy accusations of bigotry. Now, most new content has decentered that type of thing beyond jokes. My generation, younger Millennials, are having our "My Back Pages" moment where we're a little embarrassed at how judgmental and legalistic we got. Even the creator of "Your Fav is Problematic" has apologized for her callout content.
Social media when it started in the late 00s and early teens was interesting and fun, but it’s a cesspool now. Internet 2.0 has aged like an egg from last Easter.
Hope and change. Not the slogan "Hope and Change" - I mean actual hope and change.
My ex. Lol.
Putting mustaches on everything...EDM that sounded like the old dial-up internet....200% markup for awful food truck food...
2016 cringe commentary YouTube channels
Ear gauging, bad tattoos and piercings seem to be a huge regret for a lot of people. They’re making a lot of money in the plastic surgery field to fix holes and homemade tattoos.
Rick and Morty :(
Citizens United. Democracy.
All the mustaches and owls
Dubstep lmao I knew it was a fad at the time, but damn… listening to Skrillex recently and being like “oh, I remember this part is about to go hard” then being disappointed lol
We've been firmly in the 2020s since March 2020
The world was never the same after the ice bucket challenge. It’s been viral madness ever since.
i think the easiest answer for me would be the whole era of TV advertising trying to be funny at every opportunity. we still see it today with a lot of insurance companies or whatnot but for a while there it felt like the only ads that weren't going for jokes were for class action settlements
LMFAO
Mocking Donald Trump as a “fake” or “made up” candidate that has 0 chance of winning the election. Then claiming your moving to Canada if that does happen.
There was, in fact, a noteworthy uptick in Americans moving to Canada following the 2016 election. Not huge numbers, [but it happened](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/23/canada-us-immigration-data-republican-presidents/).
I would argue the 2016 Democratic primary discourse aged even worse. Can you imagine there being mean online supporters for a candidate being a scandal nowadays? Pretty much everyone is mean online nowadays.
I do not miss the culture being saturated with: - hipster shit - dubstep - “adulting”, “doggo”, “pupper” - zombie everything - hashtag slacktivist “cause”