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Post by rainbow on Sept 28, 2019 8:46:05 GMT 10
A lot of people on this website, especially older members, seem to believe that the difference between 2010 and 2019 isn't that big. And while there are some things that haven't gone through a lot of change since the beginning of this decade, I do, however, feel like changes in fashion, music, and hell, even technology, are underestimated. This is one of the biggest reasons why I make 2010's atmosphere threads. It's there to emphasize the cultural differences of this decade each by year. If you've seen my January 2010 thread, you probably thought it looked very dated by today's standards, especially if you've also seen my March 2019 thread. There is just no way the pictures from 2010 would be able to fit in to 2019 and vice versa. If you're interested, take a look at all my atmosphere threads (in order) and notice the changes in fashion and vibes that you see: January 2010April 2011August 2012February 2013April 2014June 2015January 2016July 2016January 2017October 2017May 2018March 2019In terms of technology and social media, Facebook was the biggest thing with teenagers and Snapchat didn't even exist yet. Instagram wasn't a thing for the vast majority of that year and wasn't even gaining popularity until about 2012 or so. It wasn't uncommon to see blackberry phones everywhere. Nowadays, even the earliest iPhones are extremely dated by today's standards. It's not about the 2000's being more transitional than the 2010's. That is a completely different subject and irrelevant to this discussion. The point I'm trying to make is that people vastly underestimate just how much change this decade has had. We've really come a long way in terms of fashion, social media, and LGBT acceptance. If you told someone in 2010 that Trump would be president in 2019, you'd never in your whole life be taken seriously. The politics of 2010 is like a whole different universe (and it's one of the few things that has actually gotten worse).
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Post by Cassie on Sept 28, 2019 9:26:29 GMT 10
The difference between 2010 and 2019 is very big.
2011 and 2018's differences are apparent and big but there are a few similarities.
2012 and 2017 are quite different. Somewhat apparent, but similarities aren't too hard to find.
2013 and 2016 have differences, but somewhat similar to each other.
2014 and 2015 are almost the same as each other. The differences are very few.
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Post by broadstreet223 on Sept 28, 2019 9:51:23 GMT 10
I agree. Compared to now, 2010 seems like a different world. In 2010, flip phones were more popular than smartphones, everyone still had iPods and downloaded their music on their computer, Snapchat didn’t exist, Instagram didn’t exist until the end of the year (nobody used it back then anyway), Siri didn’t exist, rock music was still popular in mainstream, club music was everywhere, and everyone was emo. Now in 2019, music is mostly trap, technology is almost as good as it can possibly be, there’s so many superheroes movies, and memes are everything.
Overall, if you don’t think 2010 and 2019 have no differences you need to wake up.
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Post by mc98 on Sept 28, 2019 9:55:31 GMT 10
I agree. Compared to now, 2010 seems like a different world. In 2010, flip phones were more popular than smartphones, everyone still had iPods and downloaded their music on their computer, Snapchat didn’t exist, Instagram didn’t exist until the end of the year (nobody used it back then anyway), Siri didn’t exist, rock music was still popular in mainstream, club music was everywhere, and everyone was emo. Now in 2019, music is mostly trap, technology is almost as good as it can possibly be, there’s so many superheroes movies, and memes are everything. Overall, if you don’t think 2010 and 2019 have no differences you need to wake up. I would say keyboard/slider phones because flip phones were kinda dead in 2010.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 28, 2019 9:56:47 GMT 10
Emo was mostly dead by 2010. There were still some lingering fashion trends from the Emo scene during the early years of this decade, but Emo itself started to fall out of favour around the first-half of 2009. It was at it's peak during 2007.
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Post by broadstreet223 on Sept 28, 2019 9:58:31 GMT 10
I agree. Compared to now, 2010 seems like a different world. In 2010, flip phones were more popular than smartphones, everyone still had iPods and downloaded their music on their computer, Snapchat didn’t exist, Instagram didn’t exist until the end of the year (nobody used it back then anyway), Siri didn’t exist, rock music was still popular in mainstream, club music was everywhere, and everyone was emo. Now in 2019, music is mostly trap, technology is almost as good as it can possibly be, there’s so many superheroes movies, and memes are everything. Overall, if you don’t think 2010 and 2019 have no differences you need to wake up. I would say keyboard/slider phones because flip phones were kinda dead in 2010. Well those too, but I mean come on, flip phones were still super popular. Heck, it’s 2019 and I still see some older people with flip phones.
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Post by al on Sept 28, 2019 12:54:56 GMT 10
Forgive me but I’m going to be a total butt and say that the 2000’s appearing more transitional is relevant to the discussion. But I’m not going to use that to lessen the argument about there being significant changes in the 2010’s. Why I think it’s important to mention is because our collective idea of what decade identity or societal transformation is is still fairly outdated. There is a certain “post modern” we have reached, at least for the time being, that is causing things to look more stagnant than in the latter half of the twentieth century. This includes anything from computers to a basic style of dress. While these things in decades not terribly long ago came to significantly mark decades, we are now on to bigger and better things. That would be like, continually trying to define the early twentieth century by electricity or toilets. Once it’s adopted, we have to move on.
So, tldr; we have to move on from massive fashion trends, to styles of cell phones, etc., being major markers in societal shifts. Minor factoids, yeah sure. What had major affects on society in the 2000’s and before are often what’s not relevant.
That said, I do think a lot has changed in the 2010’s. But the most significant of it is what we can’t see. How we communicate and form relationships, how we purchase and receive goods and services, how we receive our entertainment. Our tolerance, our politics, our transparency. Back in 2010, I’d say we had started on this road, though we hadn’t seen the real fruits of it yet. Looking at the atmosphere threads, it’s the sum of all parts where you can really feel the changes. Sure it’s fun to compare jeans and iPhones, but it’s when you consider the differences in what we think and are willing to discuss, you notice it.
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Post by Telso on Sept 28, 2019 21:16:02 GMT 10
Regardless of technology and fashion which have obviously shifted since 2010, I would say the way of consuming media is one aspect that has shifted the most this decade. At the beginning of the decade, digital downloads were ruling supreme when it came to consuming music with all of people still carying iPods and mp3-players, standard tv channels were still in their ages old rule at the top of entertainment while the internet was still seen as an simple alternative to that, and not to mention DVDs were still a flourishing market with Blue-Ray sales having yet to peak. Almost a decade later, it's basically an all-consuming streaming market, with digital downloads being a now dead market (iTunes' days of existance are now counted), classic tv watching being mostly seen as old-fashioned now with netflix binge-watching having totally replaced it and DVDs sales having dropped to catastrophic levels.
I won't be surprised that in 10 years or so, the 21st century would be split in pre-2013 and post-2013 periods for multimedia.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 28, 2019 21:42:45 GMT 10
To add on from some of the points raised, I feel as though the 2010s will one day be remembered as having established the foundations for what is likely to come in the mid-21st Century. What we are witnessing now is only the very beginnings of what will be a new evolutionary phase in human history, and these advancements are only going to accelerate in the next 5-10 years. Think of it this way; the 2010s have had developments which have resulted in streaming services rendering physical media obsolete, cryptocurrency and pay-wave becoming the main methods of making purchases, driverless cars becoming a viable industry and continued advancements in virtual reality. The way in which we go about our day to day lives has changed so much from the start of this decade. At the turn of the 2010s, smartphones were not even commonplace yet and 3G mobile technology was still standard. Now we can text someone from the other side of the world just by using the Apple iWatch on our wrists.
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Post by mwalker96 on Sept 29, 2019 19:48:23 GMT 10
I would say keyboard/slider phones because flip phones were kinda dead in 2010. Well those too, but I mean come on, flip phones were still super popular. Heck, it’s 2019 and I still see some older people with flip phones. I knew more people with smartphones than fliphones in 2010. 2008 was the last year where fliphones were really in style. Blackberries and slider phones were all the rage from 2007-10.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2019 2:12:18 GMT 10
Eh, it’s a little of column A and a little of column B. Maybe there’s a good reason the older members see fewer changes over time in this decade?
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Post by mc98 on Sept 30, 2019 2:16:26 GMT 10
Well those too, but I mean come on, flip phones were still super popular. Heck, it’s 2019 and I still see some older people with flip phones. I knew more people with smartphones than fliphones in 2010. 2008 was the last year where fliphones were really in style. Blackberries and slider phones were all the rage from 2007-10. I agree, 2008 was the last year when it was still cool to have a flip phone.
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Post by Cassie on Oct 1, 2019 2:03:05 GMT 10
I knew more people with smartphones than fliphones in 2010. 2008 was the last year where fliphones were really in style. Blackberries and slider phones were all the rage from 2007-10. I agree, 2008 was the last year when it was still cool to have a flip phone. I knew many people in 2009 that had flip phones
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Post by mh on Oct 1, 2019 2:49:27 GMT 10
Yeah, there have been more changes over this decade than I had noticed even a year ago. The more I've looked at it, the more these changes have become obvious.
Given that I've been an adult for this entire decade, I'm probably a bit biased. Going from 22 to 32 is not the same going from being a kid to an adult, like many of this decades teens have done, so the change doesn't seem nearly as big to me as it would to somebody younger.
The tech shift is pretty obvious, though. For the first couple years of the decade, I still had a flip-phone, and actually still had an old TV set from the '90s as my primary TV until 2011. That's not even mentioning the rise of online streaming. Back then I watched online videos on YouTube, but still watched pretty much everything else on traditional TV.
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Post by mc98 on Oct 1, 2019 3:39:13 GMT 10
I agree, 2008 was the last year when it was still cool to have a flip phone. I knew many people in 2009 that had flip phones Maybe older folks but many young people were switching to Blackberries and other keyboard/slider phones in 2009, especially by the second half.
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