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Post by John Titor on Apr 26, 2021 9:15:58 GMT 10
Does anyone else feel like this ? I feel like it could have been way better. It does not really "pop" like other decades do.
Like it has culture and sub culture ( hipster etc) But It feels very washed out. It had a few MEGA water shed moments like
The Pokemon Go Summer of 2016 & all those movies in 2019.........but ehh guys I can't say I am a fan of the 2010s.
2010 & 2011 are the only years that at least attempted to deliver on a pop culture level.
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Post by John Titor on Apr 27, 2021 3:40:33 GMT 10
I feel the same too. The 2000s were better, exciting and interesting pop culturally no question. The 2010s tried and failed to rehash every past era like the 1980s and 1990s. The sequel and reboot trend got way out of hand during the second half of the 2010s, so originality in terms of movies and TV died. Mainstream music was no good in the 2010s, however the underground music scene was. 2010s were stale and stagnant with not many changes. The technology balance in the 2000s were broken in the 2010s with the death of physical media, closure of Blockbuster, Hollywood Videos, Blockbuster and Toys R Us, the rise of streaming and online shopping. In the 2010s, malls and physical stores’ decline were really noticeable with huge department stores closing throughout the mid to late 2010s. I remember 2017-2019 were really horrible years in terms of the amount of store closures, even worse than the late 2000s and early 2010s. Mass shootings peaked in the late 2010s. The 2010s ruined the great aspects about my childhood. The 2010s got better for me personally as the decade went on with 2019 being my favorite year. I’d never want to return to the years 2010-2018. yeah it just was very bland and just drawn out.
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Post by slashpop on Apr 27, 2021 4:00:12 GMT 10
I feel the same too. The 2000s were better, exciting and interesting pop culturally no question. The 2010s tried and failed to rehash every past era like the 1980s and 1990s. The sequel and reboot trend got way out of hand during the second half of the 2010s, so originality in terms of movies and TV died. Mainstream music was no good in the 2010s, however the underground music scene was. 2010s were stale and stagnant with not many changes. The technology balance in the 2000s were broken in the 2010s with the death of physical media, closure of Blockbuster, Hollywood Videos, Blockbuster and Toys R Us, the rise of streaming and online shopping. In the 2010s, malls and physical stores’ decline were really noticeable with huge department stores closing throughout the mid to late 2010s. I remember 2017-2019 were really horrible years in terms of the amount of store closures, even worse than the late 2000s and early 2010s. Mass shootings peaked in the late 2010s. The 2010s ruined the great aspects about my childhood. The 2010s got better for me personally as the decade went on with 2019 being my favorite year. I’d never want to return to the years 2010-2018. yeah it just was very bland and just drawn out. It felt like there were only four years and everything was was an extension of those years. It didn’t feel like a full or real decade. Fake inside out. Late 2009 (2010-early 2013) 2013 (2014-2018) 2016 (2017-2020) 2019 (2020-2021)
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Post by kev2000sfan on Apr 27, 2021 12:11:33 GMT 10
The 2010s may feel like a flawed decade, but it does have a special touch you can appreciate about it.
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Post by John Titor on May 27, 2021 13:13:16 GMT 10
the 2010s can burn in a trash can
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Post by Early2010sGuy on May 29, 2021 1:16:03 GMT 10
I loved most of the 2010s 😅 It's my childhood decade
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Post by slashpop on May 29, 2021 2:41:17 GMT 10
Honestly pop culture hasn’t been genuine for a very long time before the 2010s for sure. I think people get it wrong when they think the 70s to the 90s are overrated. What made those periods great was because things were more genuine and had better social dynamics despite cheesy or overrated pop culture and things which may get annoying to revisit after a while.
Very late 90s to the present all have their pros and cons but have the same persistent issue. Fakeness, digital culture replacing non digital culture in a negative way, lower quality and less creative entertainment media, and more corporate influence.
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Post by Telso on Jun 3, 2021 4:12:35 GMT 10
Fakeness, digital culture replacing non digital culture in a negative way, lower quality and less creative entertainment media, and more corporate influence. All these "negatives" can be easily applied to the 80s and 90s too
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Post by astropoug on Jun 22, 2021 11:20:01 GMT 10
I agree only for the late 2010s. Early 2010s were actually really cool: indie games like Minecraft and Angry Birds, experimental weird cartoons like Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball, and Uncle Grandpa, YouTube still in its prime, shows like Community, EDM like Avicii, Skrillex, and Excision, and the fact app culture was still relatively fresh and new. The late 2010s felt VERY conventional and boring. Literally made an entire thread about it: popedia.boards.net/thread/4936/late-2010s-felt-conventionalEven the 2010s and 2020s aesthetic is awful. Fucking shitty corporate art style and oversimplified logos.
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Post by John Titor on Jun 22, 2021 12:24:00 GMT 10
The mid 2010s were the worst just boring fake and lame and are the huge portion of the 2010s Gen Z is making front of on Tik Tok
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Post by astropoug on Jun 22, 2021 20:59:24 GMT 10
One thing I will say, comparing the Pixar movies of the 2000s to the 2010s, you can definitely tell things have been far more about mediocre sequels than about creativity and originality. In the 2000s, they made movies like WALL-E, which was literally like a silent film for most of it, and had these really profound messages about consumer culture and environmentalism, not to mention blending the genres of sci-fi and romance in a way never truly seen before. They made movies like Monsters Inc, known for its very unique premise of monsters going through kids' closets to scare them, and there are all these great scenes where they literally use doors to travel throughout the world, culminating in a really cool climax. There are movies like Up, with Carl flying his house with balloons and talking dogs with collars flying planes shooting at each other. You just didn't GET shit like that in the 2010s. The same goes for films by the likes of Disney and Dreamworks. For fucks sake the 2000s is literally CALLED the experimental era of Disney by many (they didn't make fairytale musical movies, but rather weird movies like Dinosaur, Meet the Robinsons, and Lilo & Stitch). The 2000s just had more of this experimental alternative culture vibe to it that sadly doesn't exist anymore. It seems the 2010s have slowly and sadly transitioned back to a bland monoculture. The 2000s on the other hand had the really cool MySpace alternative/indie culture plus the rise of spacey glossy aesthetics like Windows Vista, Mac OS X Leopard, early iOS, logos like the CBS Television Distribution logo. The 2010s have a much blander corporate look to them, that really got started with the release of Windows 8, YouTube's new YouTube One look, and the replacement of MySpace with Facebook.
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