Does anyone else see the Late '10s & Early '20s as one era?

The mid 2010s and late 2010s( today) are both materialistic

people still have the materialistic attitude it’s just a bit less obvious in the last 10 months strictly because of pandemic, it’s more behind closed doors or a bit less at most.

Also trump was president just recently, his followers and their influence are still here and the late 2010s vibe related to the alt right or populist conversative culture never shaped the base or overall pop culture for almost everyone like the liberalism of the Obama era, but the trump era coexisted with liberalism in so many ways that started in the Obama era. Also the trump energy and influence has lessened but has not been erased or dated yet.

None of things you guys have listed has actually changed the overall actual make up of pop culture enough to call it a different era, beyond numerical progression

2019 is nearly identical to the current day with some very very minor differences. There hasn’t been a single thing that has altered the overall pop culture vibe to shift us into a distinct new period since then.

2017-2018 had a tiny bit more visible dying but hanging mid and some core 2010s culture left, and more political divisiveness related to the early Trump era and at most late 2018 very early 2019 to a much lesser extent , since then it’s mostly been similar to the current period.

That’s the most

Yup removed. 

No I’m not an introvert. I’ve never judged pop culture just by music and internet culture lol.

I’m barely into Internet culture. I can’t stand social media culture. I mostly use it for work. You probably know more about the latest viral things, celebrity news and social media happenings, online pop charts and bands.

Things like nightlife, food trucks, street festivals, faux artsy culture doesn’t have anything to do with pop culture or shift in pop culture other than possibly reflecting some of it or possibly reflecting some of it when a change occurs.

You could say a lot of these things indeed did peak and were somewhat more unique in the 2010s however many are still existing while others aren’t but regardless they are still not the base elements of what defines pop culture in the first place. 

“If you an Introvert who mostly lives your life online” what are you even talking about. I’m not going to even react.Totally baseless and odd and a bit rude, even if it wasn’t intended. It’s kinda of odd to assume things when you yourself have been claiming you are in the closet and in a religious household/area and possibly unable to fully experience some of these things you have mentioned. I could be wrong but I wish you the best. Just a strange assumption imo.

I’d agree I prefer hanging out in a pre covid atmosphere where I can visit more food trucks and go out more often drinking often however none of that means pop culture isn’t different though. 

“The death of the vibrant 2010s culture centered around nightlife, downtown living, eating and drinking local, food trucks, street festivals, faux artsy culture, etc is a huge thing that sets 2020- present apart from the late 2010s.

Again the lack of this has nothing to do with pop culture 

Pop culture is a combination of fashion, popular graphics, popular film style, music, social attitudes, tech trends  and the like that forms a particular zeitgeist. 

Late 2010s seeming like another planet has little to do with popular culture. 

Nobody is saying that pop culture is only the media we consume, but it’s not like 2010’s culture completely ended on March 13, 2020. COVID is more comparable to the 2008 Recession than 9/11. There’s a reason why most people call 2008 a transitional year and not a cultural 2010’s year. Despite the Recession, the fashion and music was still overwhelmingly 2000’s. People *do* pay attention to these things believe it or not. You can say these are just “little” things that don’t matter as much as a pandemic, but these “little” things all make up pop culture as a whole. And the fact that music hasn’t changed since the late 2010’s is why I call 2020 a transitional year. It’s a transitional year because we have a pandemic impacting our culture, but music and fashion are still exactly the same as it was in the late 2010’s. You can say that COVID marked the beginning of the cultural early 2020’s, which would make sense, but it didn’t mark the complete end of the cultural late 2010’s IMO.

I’m just saying that COVID didn’t mark the complete end of the cultural late 2010’s. There were still way too many late 2010’s aspects to call it a full on cultural early 2020’s year. At the same time, we have a pandemic and it isn’t the same as say 2018, so it’s a transitional year. But it’s annoying when people act like pop culture is a light switch and think that COVID alone ended all 2010’s culture and the early 2020’s began right there and then. Not saying anyone here said that, but that’s certainly what people think on inthe00s. These are the same people who said in 2017 that pop culture hasn’t changed much since late 2008.

I would still argue that we witnessed and immediate shift last year. A transition implies that we start with one thing and it slowly morphs into something else. Lockdown/quarantine began fairly suddenly during March and April and provided no time for a gradual transition to happen (along with the other crazy shit that happened in 2020). And as of right now its clear that we're in for the long haul with Covid. So yes late 2010's attributes are still here, but they're kinda just awkwardly lingering since they don't really have an opportunity to significantly grow/change. The mood and atmosphere of that era is completely gone. The pandemic likely won't end until late this year or the beginning of 2022, meaning Covid will be at least half of the main identity of the early 20's. To say that the late 2010's lasted until 2022 solely because the fashion, music, and movies changed seems tone deaf.     

But those things you mentioned are still significant in their own right, we can't just choose to look the other way and not take note of the fact that the music, movies and fashion trends are no different from what they were during the late 2010s. Why should 2020/21 be any different when we judge other eras by their pop cultural trends? Pop culture still exists, even if the way in which we are interacting with it has changed.