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Post by astropoug on May 21, 2021 3:20:23 GMT 10
Decided to do this because I'm interested in seeing when certain cultural eras were most popular, and when they began to fade. The end is when the cultural era by and large has ended and been replaced with a new one, whilst the death is when all influence completely dies off. This is my perspective:
Early 1990s
Defining cultural trends: Grunge, Bush Sr's presidency, dinosaur craze, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Seinfeld, Golden Age Simpsons, Game Boy
Start: 1989 - Nirvana releases Bleach; their first album, The Disney Renaissance starts with The Little Mermaid, first year of Bush Sr presidency, Simpsons airs first episode, Seinfeld premieres and becomes a phenomenon, Sega Genesis is released, Game Boy release, Berlin Wall is torn down, setting the stage for the end of the Cold War
Peak: 1993 - Mortal Kombat is released to home consoles, Jurassic Park is released, Nirvana releases In Utero, Seinfeld at its peak, Link's Awakening released
End: 1994 - Kurt Cobain kills himself, Friends displaces Seinfeld as the most popular sitcom, Sega releases the flop that is the 32X
Death: 1997 - Soundgarden breaks up, Sega Genesis is discontinued, teen pop explodes, ending the dark, introspective atmosphere of the grungy early 90s, 5th gen gaming well underway, end of Golden Age of hip-hop
Mid 1990s
Defining cultural trends: Golden-age hip hop, britpop, Sega Saturn, Donkey Kong Country trilogy, Beavis and Butt-Head, Jim Carrey's peak, Netscape, Windows 95
Start: 1993 - Beavis and Butt-Head premieres, Blur releases Modern Life is Rubbish, 3DO is released, Star Fox is released, Doom is released, Mortal Kombat gets home console ports
Peak: 1995 - Donkey Kong Country 2; the best game in the series is released, Oasis releases (What's the Story) Morning Glory, 2pac releases Me Against the World, Netscape becomes very popular, Windows 95 releases, Sega Saturn is released
End: 1997 - Britpop declines, Beavis and Butt-Head ends, end of Golden Age of Hip-Hop, Spice Girls displaces britpop acts as the cool British artist to like
Death: 1998 - Sega Saturn is discontinued, Windows 98 replaces Windows 95, britpop now completely irrelevant
Late 1990s
Defining cultural trends: Windows 98, teen pop, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, sci-fi renaissance
Start: 1995 - release of Windows 95, release of The Net, Hackers, and Wipeout starts the futuristic/sci-fi aura of the late 90s, PlayStation is released
Peak: 1999 - I Want it That Way is released by Backstreet Boys, peak of teen pop, Windows 98 SE is released, The Matrix comes out
End: 2001 - Fantasy replaces sci-fi as the new cool genre, Windows XP comes out, GameCube and PS2 replace the N64 and PS1
Death: 2002 - teen pop becomes irrelevant, Nintendo 64 discontinued, Rareware purchased by Microsoft, NSync breaks up, Backstreet Boys goes in hiatus
Y2K era
Defining cultural trends: Nu metal, extreme sports culture, Attitude Era WWE, Powerhouse era Cartoon Network, gross-out comedies
Start: 1997 - Limp Bizkit releases first album, Attitude Era WWE begins
Peak: 2000 - Linkin Park releases Hybrid Theory, Limp Bizkit's song Rollin becomes a hit, peak of Attitude Era WWE, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 is released, peak year for Dreamcast, SSX is released, Scary Movie premieres, Road Trip premieres
End: 2002 - End of Attitude Era WWE, nu metal declines in popularity
Death: 2004 - Rocket Power is cancelled, Powerhouse era Cartoon Network ends, nu metal is now completely irrelevant (except Linkin Park), quirky teen comedies like Mean Girls and politically incorrect comedies like Harold & Kumar replace sex and gross-out comedies
Early 2000s
Defining cultural trends: LiveJournal, Game Boy Advance, golden age SpongeBob, PlayStation 2, OG Xbox, GameCube, 3D era GTA, Windows XP, fantasy film craze, post-9/11 politics, iPods, Bush presidency
Start: 2001 - PS2 becomes popular, 9/11 happens and changes politics forever, GTA 3 is released, Windows XP is released, first Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies come out, iPod is released
Peak: 2004 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is released, Halo 2 is released, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is released, SpongeBob movie comes out, Windows XP SP2 comes out, start of GBA Video
End: 2006 - Post-movie SpongeBob, Nintendo DS displaces GBA as most popular handheld, Xbox 360 and Wii displace the OG Xbox and GameCube respectively, PS3 is released, GBA Video is discontinued
Death: 2008 - Dark Knight Trilogy and Iron Man cause superhero films to displace fantasy films as the main craze of Hollywood, PS3 overtakes PS2 in popularity, SpongeBob is now complete shit (Season 6), Obama is elected president, Windows XP stops being sold in stores with Windows Vista as the new popular operating system of choice, GTA 4 comes out, starting the HD era
Mid 2000s
Defining cultural trends: Emo, indie rock, pop-punk peak, crunk, MySpace, CN City Cartoon Network, Iraq War, Nintendo DS, flip phones, The OC, "McBling aesthetic", Drake and Josh, teen comedy renaissance, torture porn movies, a general dark and edgy vibe, edgy/politically incorrect humor
Start: 2003 - Lil Jon's Get Low is released, 50 Cent releases Get Rich or Die Trying, The OC starts, Need for Speed: Underground comes out, Manhunt comes out, Blink-182 releases their self-titled album
Peak: 2004 - American Idiot is released, Nintendo DS is released, My Chemical Romance releases Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Motorola Razr comes out, CN City of Cartoon Network starts, Drake and Josh is released, Mean Girls is released, Napoleon Dynamite is released, peak of indie with albums like The Funeral by Arcade Fire and Good News for People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse, Saw is released
End: 2008 - Pop punk loses popularity, CN City well replaced now, flip phones replaced by smartphones, Great Recession ends McBling era, The OC has ended, indie pop and indietronica begin replacing indie rock, strong emo backlash, flip phones have lost relevance to iPhones, early touchscreen phones, and slider phones, Barack Obama is elected president
Death: 2011 - End of Iraq War, rock in general is well out of the charts, MySpace is a laughing stock now, Nintendo 3DS replaces Nintendo DS, Osama Bin Laden is killed, Saw franchise has finally ended
Late 2000s
Defining cultural trends: Old-school YouTube, Wii, Xbox 360, Noods Cartoon Network, Windows Vista, Great Recession, BlackBerry, The Dark Knight trilogy, scene subculture, iPod Touch, Blu-Ray, Obama presidency
Start: 2005 - PSP is released, Xbox 360 is released, YouTube launched, Batman Begins is released, The Office starts
Peak: 2008 - IMO the most defining old-school YouTube year, launch of annotations, Smosh's most popular video Beef N Go is released, Fred becomes the most subscribed YouTuber, Phineas and Ferb fully premieres, Total Drama premieres in US, The Dark Knight becomes a phenemenon, Brokencyde breaks out in popularity, scene kids displace emos as the new cool subculture, Barack Obama is elected president
End: 2010 - Noods is replaced by Check It, Windows 7 replaces Windows Vista, YouTube replaces ratings with likes/dislikes, marking the early steps toward modern YouTube, Great Recession begins to fade, BlackBerry starts losing popularity to iPhones and Android phones
Death: 2013 - End of old-school YouTube, video responses removed from YouTube, PewDiePie becomes the most subscribed YouTuber, skeuomorphism is dead, Breaking Bad AND The Office end
Early 2010s
Defining cultural trends: PS3, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Check It Cartoon Network, Windows 7, electro house, dubstep, rage comics, trollface memes, Kinect, Nintendo 3DS, bronies, 3D movies, Minecraft
Start: 2010 - Adventure Time and Regular Show come out, electro house gains popularity with songs like Like a G6, dubstep becomes popular with Skrillex's Scary Monsters Nice Sprites, trollface and rage comic memes become popular, Check It era Cartoon Network starts, Kinect accessory for Xbox 360 comes out, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comes out
Peak: 2011 - electro house and dubstep peak with songs like Party Rock Anthem and First of the Year (Equinox) respectively, Nintendo 3DS comes out, peak of trollface and rage comic memes, Minecraft is released
End: 2013 - PS4 replaces PS3, Xbox One replaces Xbox 360, dubstep is now irrelevant, Windows 8 replaces Windows 7, brony fandom dies out, 3D movies are now irrelevant, iOS 7 and the iPhone 5S come out, Steven Universe replaces MLP, Adventure Time, and Regular Show in popularity
Death: 2017 - PS3 is discontinued, Regular Show ends, Kinect is discontinued, games like Fortnite and PUBG replace Minecraft in popularity
Mid 2010s
Defining cultural trends: Vine, Windows 8, Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, dystopian sci-fi films, Filthy Frank, montage parodies, toys-to-life games, Touch ID-era iPhones
Start: 2012 - Windows 8 launches, Wii U launches, The Hunger Games comes out
Peak: 2014 - Divergent comes out, Filthy Frank blows up in popularity, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay comes out, FNAF comes out, lets play trend on YouTube peaks, Amiibo toy line starts
End: 2016 - Disney Infinity is discontinued, Wii U is discontinued, Vine shuts down, montage parodies lose relevance
Death: 2017 - Filthy Frank stops making videos, iPhone X is released, Miiverse shuts down, Nintendo Switch replaces Wii U
Late 2010s
Defining cultural trends: Donald Trump's presidency, emo rap, TikTok
Start: 2016 - Donald Trump becomes president, Lil Peep blows up in popularity
Peak: 2018 - TikTok launches, XXXTentacion dies and ? is released, 6ix9ine becomes popular
End: 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S replaces PS4 and Xbox One respectively, Joe Biden becomes president
Death: Has not happened yet
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Post by John Titor on May 21, 2021 3:24:21 GMT 10
astropoug in 2002 there was no teen pop on the radio anymore, The WWE was in the Ruthless Agression era with people like Brock Lesnar becoming the face of the company, y2k fonts in commercials were phased out by late 2001 in Amercia. The Y2K era was phased out over the Summer of 2001 (shortly before 9/11 happened) In fact many point to Wrestlemania 17 in April 2001 to be the end of the Attitude era. October 2002 music videos you would see on the morning in MTV and MTV 2 Before 9/11 Shakira, Michelle Branch all debuted, Britney went her more mature root. Christina Auglira was already making this transition in early 2001 with Lady Marmalade.NSYNC also stopped being a group in 2002, but by then the Neptunes produced track was their last single and sounded nothing like teen pop. Not to mention 9/11 and anthraxkilled of any remaining y2k era optimism that was there. In fact Pop Punk gained even more traction with bands like Sum 41 and Jimmy Eat World over the summer 2001, and was pretty
much all over the radio by August 2001.
As far as electronics, Apple were developing the Imac g4 in 2000, and was released in 2002, that and Sony Vaio line of computers is the only real y2k thing you can say as far 2002 and 2003 goes lol As far as early 2000s, it lingered on in 2003 and half of 2004 which is known as the ( False mid 2000s era) an era that was the mid 2000s but contained early 2000s elements before being destroyed in Fall 2004 when Emo and Myspace hit the scene. By Fall 2004 the REAL mid 2000s started.
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Post by astropoug on May 21, 2021 3:48:10 GMT 10
astropoug in 2002 there was no teen pop on the radio anymore, The WWE was in the Ruthless Agression era with people like Brock Lesnar becoming the face of the company, y2k fonts in commercials were phased out by late 2001 in Amercia. The Y2K era was phased out over the Summer of 2001 (shortly before 9/11 happened) In fact many point to Wrestlemania 17 in April 2001 to be the end of the Attitude era. October 2002 music videos you would see on the morning in MTV and MTV 2 I said teen pop became irrelevant in 2002. WWF changed their name to WWE that year and stopped using their "Attitude" branding. Y2K still continued in 2001, but was over by 2002. Keep in mind 2001 was a transition between the early 2000s and Y2K era. And nu metal is the defining Y2K genre, teen pop defines the late 90s (it was still very popular in 2000, continuing in 2001 but not as popular, and dead by 2002). Meanwhile, nu metal arguably peaked in 2001, whilst still being somewhat popular in 2002, and then dying off in 2003. Nu metal's popularity spans both the late 90s and early 00s whilst teen pop is primarily late 90s, and died off by the early 2000s. Y2K era is defined by futurism, raunchiness, a sense of macho, and the peak of "X-TREME" culture as a whole.
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Post by John Titor on May 21, 2021 3:52:20 GMT 10
astropoug in 2002 there was no teen pop on the radio anymore, The WWE was in the Ruthless Agression era with people like Brock Lesnar becoming the face of the company, y2k fonts in commercials were phased out by late 2001 in Amercia. The Y2K era was phased out over the Summer of 2001 (shortly before 9/11 happened) In fact many point to Wrestlemania 17 in April 2001 to be the end of the Attitude era. October 2002 music videos you would see on the morning in MTV and MTV 2 I said teen pop became irrelevant in 2002. WWF changed their name to WWE that year and stopped using their "Attitude" branding. Y2K still continued in 2001, but was over by 2002. Keep in mind 2001 was a transition between the early 2000s and Y2K era. And nu metal is the defining Y2K genre, teen pop defines the late 90s (it was still very popular in 2000, continuing in 2001 but not as popular, and dead by 2002). Meanwhile, nu metal arguably peaked in 2001, whilst still being somewhat popular in 2002, and then dying off in 2003. Nu metal's popularity spans both the late 90s and early 00s whilst teen pop is primarily late 90s, and died off by the early 2000s. Y2K era is defined by futurism, raunchiness, a sense of macho, and the peak of "X-TREME" culture as a whole. in your chart you listed as y2k ending in 2002 when it ended in Summer 2001, you should change it to end = summer 2001. It was no longer the Attitude era no more in 2002, WCW ended and Austin did a heel turn in 2001. WWE always used "attitude " in the branding they even used it from 2002 - 2005 in the signature did not mean we were still in the attitude era.
Also the fashions of y2k were dead before March 2002, the ONLY thing you can really say is frosted tips. G-Strings, Low ride jeans, Bling, Trucker hats
(all 2000s staples) took off in 2002 and in 2003.
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Post by slashpop on May 21, 2021 4:07:16 GMT 10
astropoug in 2002 there was no teen pop on the radio anymore, The WWE was in the Ruthless Agression era with people like Brock Lesnar becoming the face of the company, y2k fonts in commercials were phased out by late 2001 in Amercia. The Y2K era was phased out over the Summer of 2001 (shortly before 9/11 happened) In fact many point to Wrestlemania 17 in April 2001 to be the end of the Attitude era. October 2002 music videos you would see on the morning in MTV and MTV 2 I said teen pop became irrelevant in 2002. WWF changed their name to WWE that year and stopped using their "Attitude" branding. Y2K still continued in 2001, but was over by 2002. Keep in mind 2001 was a transition between the early 2000s and Y2K era. And nu metal is the defining Y2K genre, teen pop defines the late 90s (it was still very popular in 2000, continuing in 2001 but not as popular, and dead by 2002). Meanwhile, nu metal arguably peaked in 2001, whilst still being somewhat popular in 2002, and then dying off in 2003. Nu metal's popularity spans both the late 90s and early 00s whilst teen pop is primarily late 90s, and died off by the early 2000s. Y2K era is defined by futurism, raunchiness, a sense of macho, and the peak of "X-TREME" culture as a whole. Nu metal was really getting even more popular by late 1996 to mid 1998 and again from 1998 to 99/00 even more however by 2001 it was still huge but it was more notable for being overplayed and too commercialized like boy bands and techno then again it was towards the end of it. Late 1994 has some pretty solid late 90s starting points a few of which would be the start of modern internet ( even if it wasn’t as big as 1995-97) the explosion of pop punk and start of post grunge, nu metal, trip hop and electronica , a closer leaning to what would become late 90s casual fashion, small but enough 3d games in arcades and consoles ( 3do) in the midst of a 2d world while the PS1 and Saturn are released in Japan.
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Post by astropoug on May 21, 2021 4:16:52 GMT 10
I said teen pop became irrelevant in 2002. WWF changed their name to WWE that year and stopped using their "Attitude" branding. Y2K still continued in 2001, but was over by 2002. Keep in mind 2001 was a transition between the early 2000s and Y2K era. And nu metal is the defining Y2K genre, teen pop defines the late 90s (it was still very popular in 2000, continuing in 2001 but not as popular, and dead by 2002). Meanwhile, nu metal arguably peaked in 2001, whilst still being somewhat popular in 2002, and then dying off in 2003. Nu metal's popularity spans both the late 90s and early 00s whilst teen pop is primarily late 90s, and died off by the early 2000s. Y2K era is defined by futurism, raunchiness, a sense of macho, and the peak of "X-TREME" culture as a whole. Nu metal was really popular by late 1996 to mid 1998 and really popular 1998 to 99/00 by 2001 it was big but it was more notable for being overplayed and overcommericalized like boy bands and techno than a true reflection of the times. Late 1994 has some pretty solid late 90s starting points a few of which would be then start of modern internet ( even if it wasn’t as big as 1995-97) the explosion of pop punk and start of post grunge, nu metal, trip hop and electronica , late 90s casual fashion, enough 3d games in arcades and consoles while the PS1 and Saturn are released in Japan. OK but PS1 and Saturn weren't released in the US until 1995. The Saturn is more of a mid-90s console, as it was already discontinued in 1998. PS1 didn't blow up until 1996, and it stayed popular until 2001. Nu metal wasn't really much of a thing until 1997. Yeah you had Korn and Deftones in the mid-90s but at the time they were only really popular among metalheads rather than edgy teens. It wasn't until 1997 that nu metal became trendy. It stayed popular until 2002. 2003 is when Limp Bizkit released their awful Results May Vary. Evanescence came on the scene whilst Linkin Park released Meteora, becoming the only two nu metal bands to remain relevant by 2003. Again, the absolute peak of nu metal was 2000 when albums like Chocolate Starfish, Infest, and most importantly, Hybrid Theory were all released.
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Post by slashpop on May 21, 2021 4:33:39 GMT 10
Nu metal was really popular by late 1996 to mid 1998 and really popular 1998 to 99/00 by 2001 it was big but it was more notable for being overplayed and overcommericalized like boy bands and techno than a true reflection of the times. Late 1994 has some pretty solid late 90s starting points a few of which would be then start of modern internet ( even if it wasn’t as big as 1995-97) the explosion of pop punk and start of post grunge, nu metal, trip hop and electronica , late 90s casual fashion, enough 3d games in arcades and consoles while the PS1 and Saturn are released in Japan. OK but PS1 and Saturn weren't released in the US until 1995. The Saturn is more of a mid-90s console, as it was already discontinued in 1998. PS1 didn't blow up until 1996, and it stayed popular until 2001. Nu metal wasn't really much of a thing until 1997. Yeah you had Korn and Deftones in the mid-90s but at the time they were only really popular among metalheads rather than edgy teens. It wasn't until 1997 that nu metal became trendy. It stayed popular until 2002. 2003 is when Limp Bizkit released their awful Results May Vary. Evanescence came on the scene whilst Linkin Park released Meteora, becoming the only two nu metal bands to remain relevant by 2003. Again, the absolute peak of nu metal was 2000 when albums like Chocolate Starfish, Infest, and most importantly, Hybrid Theory were all released. I said they were released in Japan. I said late 1994 starting points not when the PS1 or Saturn peaked. Greenday was regularly on MTV in 1994 and played Woodstock 94. Nu was popular in late 94-mid 96 but it started to get much more popular in late 1996 compared to earlier and it wasn’t just metalheads as much as anyone into alternative including edgy teens, I remember pseudo goth kids in 1995 and 1996 at my school wearing life is peachy and korn shirts with greenday and Marilyn Manson patches. And people into rock music discussing them Korn had two massive records out that sold millions then, incubus sepultura, sugar ray ( yes they were Nu metal were huge. Traditional metalheads always frowned upon them. Nothing really happened in 1997. It then exploded in late 1998-mid 1999. No 1999 as a whole was the peak of Nu metal in its more genuine form . 2000 was a watered down more manufactured version of it. You could argue sales figures might be high in 2000 or 2001 for groups like linkin park and limp bizkit but then so are Britney and nickelback singles from around that time it doesn’t mean that post grunge was peaking. Those albums were manufactured overplayed pop hits not genuine examples of the genre. late 2001 to fall 2002 pop nu metal from earlier was already starting to lose popularity.
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Post by slashpop on May 21, 2021 6:52:35 GMT 10
Decided to do this because I'm interested in seeing when certain cultural eras were most popular, and when they began to fade. The end is when the cultural era by and large has ended and been replaced with a new one, whilst the death is when all influence completely dies off. This is my perspective: Early 1990sDefining cultural trends: Grunge, Bush Sr's presidency, dinosaur craze, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Seinfeld, Golden Age Simpsons, Game Boy Start: 1989 - Nirvana releases Bleach; their first album, The Disney Renaissance starts with The Little Mermaid, first year of Bush Sr presidency, Simpsons airs first episode, Seinfeld premieres and becomes a phenomenon, Sega Genesis is released, Game Boy release, Berlin Wall is torn down, setting the stage for the end of the Cold War Peak: 1993 - Mortal Kombat is released to home consoles, Jurassic Park is released, Nirvana releases In Utero, Seinfeld at its peak, Link's Awakening released End: 1994 - Kurt Cobain kills himself, Friends displaces Seinfeld as the most popular sitcom, Sega releases the flop that is the 32X Death: 1997 - Soundgarden breaks up, Sega Genesis is discontinued, teen pop explodes, ending the dark, introspective atmosphere of the grungy early 90s, 5th gen gaming well underway, end of Golden Age of hip-hop Mid 1990sDefining cultural trends: Golden-age hip hop, britpop, Sega Saturn, Donkey Kong Country trilogy, Beavis and Butt-Head, Jim Carrey's peak, Netscape, Windows 95 Start: 1993 - Beavis and Butt-Head premieres, Blur releases Modern Life is Rubbish, 3DO is released, Star Fox is released, Doom is released, Mortal Kombat gets home console ports Peak: 1995 - Donkey Kong Country 2; the best game in the series is released, Oasis releases (What's the Story) Morning Glory, 2pac releases Me Against the World, Netscape becomes very popular, Windows 95 releases, Sega Saturn is released End: 1997 - Britpop declines, Beavis and Butt-Head ends, end of Golden Age of Hip-Hop, Spice Girls displaces britpop acts as the cool British artist to like Death: 1998 - Sega Saturn is discontinued, Windows 98 replaces Windows 95, britpop now completely irrelevant Late 1990sDefining cultural trends: Windows 98, teen pop, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, sci-fi renaissance Start: 1995 - release of Windows 95, release of The Net, Hackers, and Wipeout starts the futuristic/sci-fi aura of the late 90s, PlayStation is released Peak: 1999 - I Want it That Way is released by Backstreet Boys, peak of teen pop, Windows 98 SE is released, The Matrix comes out End: 2001 - Fantasy replaces sci-fi as the new cool genre, Windows XP comes out, GameCube and PS2 replace the N64 and PS1 Death: 2002 - teen pop becomes irrelevant, Nintendo 64 discontinued, Rareware purchased by Microsoft, NSync breaks up, Backstreet Boys goes in hiatus Y2K eraDefining cultural trends: Nu metal, extreme sports culture, Attitude Era WWE, Powerhouse era Cartoon Network, gross-out comedies Start: 1997 - Limp Bizkit releases first album, Attitude Era WWE begins Peak: 2000 - Linkin Park releases Hybrid Theory, Limp Bizkit's song Rollin becomes a hit, peak of Attitude Era WWE, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 is released, peak year for Dreamcast, SSX is released, Scary Movie premieres, Road Trip premieres End: 2002 - End of Attitude Era WWE, nu metal declines in popularity Death: 2004 - Rocket Power is cancelled, Powerhouse era Cartoon Network ends, nu metal is now completely irrelevant (except Linkin Park), quirky teen comedies like Mean Girls and politically incorrect comedies like Harold & Kumar replace sex and gross-out comedies Early 2000sDefining cultural trends: LiveJournal, Game Boy Advance, golden age SpongeBob, PlayStation 2, OG Xbox, GameCube, 3D era GTA, Windows XP, fantasy film craze, post-9/11 politics, iPods, Bush presidency Start: 2001 - PS2 becomes popular, 9/11 happens and changes politics forever, GTA 3 is released, Windows XP is released, first Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies come out, iPod is released Peak: 2004 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is released, Halo 2 is released, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is released, SpongeBob movie comes out, Windows XP SP2 comes out, start of GBA Video End: 2006 - Post-movie SpongeBob, Nintendo DS displaces GBA as most popular handheld, Xbox 360 and Wii displace the OG Xbox and GameCube respectively, PS3 is released, GBA Video is discontinued Death: 2008 - Dark Knight Trilogy and Iron Man cause superhero films to displace fantasy films as the main craze of Hollywood, PS3 overtakes PS2 in popularity, SpongeBob is now complete shit (Season 6), Obama is elected president, Windows XP stops being sold in stores with Windows Vista as the new popular operating system of choice, GTA 4 comes out, starting the HD era Mid 2000sDefining cultural trends: Emo, indie rock, pop-punk peak, crunk, MySpace, CN City Cartoon Network, Iraq War, Nintendo DS, flip phones, The OC, "McBling aesthetic", Drake and Josh, teen comedy renaissance, torture porn movies, a general dark and edgy vibe, edgy/politically incorrect humor Start: 2003 - Lil Jon's Get Low is released, 50 Cent releases Get Rich or Die Trying, The OC starts, Need for Speed: Underground comes out, Manhunt comes out, Blink-182 releases their self-titled album Peak: 2004 - American Idiot is released, Nintendo DS is released, My Chemical Romance releases Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Motorola Razr comes out, CN City of Cartoon Network starts, Drake and Josh is released, Mean Girls is released, Napoleon Dynamite is released, peak of indie with albums like The Funeral by Arcade Fire and Good News for People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse, Saw is released End: 2008 - Pop punk loses popularity, CN City well replaced now, flip phones replaced by smartphones, Great Recession ends McBling era, The OC has ended, indie pop and indietronica begin replacing indie rock, strong emo backlash, flip phones have lost relevance to iPhones, early touchscreen phones, and slider phones, Barack Obama is elected president Death: 2011 - End of Iraq War, rock in general is well out of the charts, MySpace is a laughing stock now, Nintendo 3DS replaces Nintendo DS, Osama Bin Laden is killed, Saw franchise has finally ended Late 2000s
Defining cultural trends: Old-school YouTube, Wii, Xbox 360, Noods Cartoon Network, Windows Vista, Great Recession, BlackBerry, The Dark Knight trilogy, scene subculture, iPod Touch, Blu-Ray, Obama presidency Start: 2005 - PSP is released, Xbox 360 is released, YouTube launched, Batman Begins is released, The Office starts Peak: 2008 - IMO the most defining old-school YouTube year, launch of annotations, Smosh's most popular video Beef N Go is released, Fred becomes the most subscribed YouTuber, Phineas and Ferb fully premieres, Total Drama premieres in US, The Dark Knight becomes a phenemenon, Brokencyde breaks out in popularity, scene kids displace emos as the new cool subculture, Barack Obama is elected president End: 2010 - Noods is replaced by Check It, Windows 7 replaces Windows Vista, YouTube replaces ratings with likes/dislikes, marking the early steps toward modern YouTube, Great Recession begins to fade, BlackBerry starts losing popularity to iPhones and Android phones Death: 2013 - End of old-school YouTube, video responses removed from YouTube, PewDiePie becomes the most subscribed YouTuber, skeuomorphism is dead, Breaking Bad AND The Office end Early 2010s
Defining cultural trends: PS3, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Check It Cartoon Network, Windows 7, electro house, dubstep, rage comics, trollface memes, Kinect, Nintendo 3DS, bronies, 3D movies, Minecraft Start: 2010 - Adventure Time and Regular Show come out, electro house gains popularity with songs like Like a G6, dubstep becomes popular with Skrillex's Scary Monsters Nice Sprites, trollface and rage comic memes become popular, Check It era Cartoon Network starts, Kinect accessory for Xbox 360 comes out, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comes out Peak: 2011 - electro house and dubstep peak with songs like Party Rock Anthem and First of the Year (Equinox) respectively, Nintendo 3DS comes out, peak of trollface and rage comic memes, Minecraft is released End: 2013 - PS4 replaces PS3, Xbox One replaces Xbox 360, dubstep is now irrelevant, Windows 8 replaces Windows 7, brony fandom dies out, 3D movies are now irrelevant, iOS 7 and the iPhone 5S come out, Steven Universe replaces MLP, Adventure Time, and Regular Show in popularity Death: 2017 - PS3 is discontinued, Regular Show ends, Kinect is discontinued, games like Fortnite and PUBG replace Minecraft in popularity Mid 2010s
Defining cultural trends: Vine, Windows 8, Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, dystopian sci-fi films, Filthy Frank, montage parodies, toys-to-life games, Touch ID-era iPhones Start: 2012 - Windows 8 launches, Wii U launches, The Hunger Games comes out Peak: 2014 - Divergent comes out, Filthy Frank blows up in popularity, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay comes out, FNAF comes out, lets play trend on YouTube peaks, Amiibo toy line starts End: 2016 - Disney Infinity is discontinued, Wii U is discontinued, Vine shuts down, montage parodies lose relevance Death: 2017 - Filthy Frank stops making videos, iPhone X is released, Miiverse shuts down, Nintendo Switch replaces Wii U Late 2010s
Defining cultural trends: Donald Trump's presidency, emo rap, TikTok Start: 2016 - Donald Trump becomes president, Lil Peep blows up in popularity Peak: 2018 - TikTok launches, XXXTentacion dies and ? is released, 6ix9ine becomes popular End: 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S replaces PS4 and Xbox One respectively, Joe Biden becomes president Death: Has not happened yet Ipods werent popular in the early 2000s. Pop punk did not first peak in the mid 2000s but rather in the mid to late 90s and then 99-04. Emo was bigger than pop punk in the mid 2000s.
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Post by astropoug on May 21, 2021 7:26:39 GMT 10
Decided to do this because I'm interested in seeing when certain cultural eras were most popular, and when they began to fade. The end is when the cultural era by and large has ended and been replaced with a new one, whilst the death is when all influence completely dies off. This is my perspective: Early 1990sDefining cultural trends: Grunge, Bush Sr's presidency, dinosaur craze, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Seinfeld, Golden Age Simpsons, Game Boy Start: 1989 - Nirvana releases Bleach; their first album, The Disney Renaissance starts with The Little Mermaid, first year of Bush Sr presidency, Simpsons airs first episode, Seinfeld premieres and becomes a phenomenon, Sega Genesis is released, Game Boy release, Berlin Wall is torn down, setting the stage for the end of the Cold War Peak: 1993 - Mortal Kombat is released to home consoles, Jurassic Park is released, Nirvana releases In Utero, Seinfeld at its peak, Link's Awakening released End: 1994 - Kurt Cobain kills himself, Friends displaces Seinfeld as the most popular sitcom, Sega releases the flop that is the 32X Death: 1997 - Soundgarden breaks up, Sega Genesis is discontinued, teen pop explodes, ending the dark, introspective atmosphere of the grungy early 90s, 5th gen gaming well underway, end of Golden Age of hip-hop Mid 1990sDefining cultural trends: Golden-age hip hop, britpop, Sega Saturn, Donkey Kong Country trilogy, Beavis and Butt-Head, Jim Carrey's peak, Netscape, Windows 95 Start: 1993 - Beavis and Butt-Head premieres, Blur releases Modern Life is Rubbish, 3DO is released, Star Fox is released, Doom is released, Mortal Kombat gets home console ports Peak: 1995 - Donkey Kong Country 2; the best game in the series is released, Oasis releases (What's the Story) Morning Glory, 2pac releases Me Against the World, Netscape becomes very popular, Windows 95 releases, Sega Saturn is released End: 1997 - Britpop declines, Beavis and Butt-Head ends, end of Golden Age of Hip-Hop, Spice Girls displaces britpop acts as the cool British artist to like Death: 1998 - Sega Saturn is discontinued, Windows 98 replaces Windows 95, britpop now completely irrelevant Late 1990sDefining cultural trends: Windows 98, teen pop, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, sci-fi renaissance Start: 1995 - release of Windows 95, release of The Net, Hackers, and Wipeout starts the futuristic/sci-fi aura of the late 90s, PlayStation is released Peak: 1999 - I Want it That Way is released by Backstreet Boys, peak of teen pop, Windows 98 SE is released, The Matrix comes out End: 2001 - Fantasy replaces sci-fi as the new cool genre, Windows XP comes out, GameCube and PS2 replace the N64 and PS1 Death: 2002 - teen pop becomes irrelevant, Nintendo 64 discontinued, Rareware purchased by Microsoft, NSync breaks up, Backstreet Boys goes in hiatus Y2K eraDefining cultural trends: Nu metal, extreme sports culture, Attitude Era WWE, Powerhouse era Cartoon Network, gross-out comedies Start: 1997 - Limp Bizkit releases first album, Attitude Era WWE begins Peak: 2000 - Linkin Park releases Hybrid Theory, Limp Bizkit's song Rollin becomes a hit, peak of Attitude Era WWE, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 is released, peak year for Dreamcast, SSX is released, Scary Movie premieres, Road Trip premieres End: 2002 - End of Attitude Era WWE, nu metal declines in popularity Death: 2004 - Rocket Power is cancelled, Powerhouse era Cartoon Network ends, nu metal is now completely irrelevant (except Linkin Park), quirky teen comedies like Mean Girls and politically incorrect comedies like Harold & Kumar replace sex and gross-out comedies Early 2000sDefining cultural trends: LiveJournal, Game Boy Advance, golden age SpongeBob, PlayStation 2, OG Xbox, GameCube, 3D era GTA, Windows XP, fantasy film craze, post-9/11 politics, iPods, Bush presidency Start: 2001 - PS2 becomes popular, 9/11 happens and changes politics forever, GTA 3 is released, Windows XP is released, first Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies come out, iPod is released Peak: 2004 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is released, Halo 2 is released, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is released, SpongeBob movie comes out, Windows XP SP2 comes out, start of GBA Video End: 2006 - Post-movie SpongeBob, Nintendo DS displaces GBA as most popular handheld, Xbox 360 and Wii displace the OG Xbox and GameCube respectively, PS3 is released, GBA Video is discontinued Death: 2008 - Dark Knight Trilogy and Iron Man cause superhero films to displace fantasy films as the main craze of Hollywood, PS3 overtakes PS2 in popularity, SpongeBob is now complete shit (Season 6), Obama is elected president, Windows XP stops being sold in stores with Windows Vista as the new popular operating system of choice, GTA 4 comes out, starting the HD era Mid 2000sDefining cultural trends: Emo, indie rock, pop-punk peak, crunk, MySpace, CN City Cartoon Network, Iraq War, Nintendo DS, flip phones, The OC, "McBling aesthetic", Drake and Josh, teen comedy renaissance, torture porn movies, a general dark and edgy vibe, edgy/politically incorrect humor Start: 2003 - Lil Jon's Get Low is released, 50 Cent releases Get Rich or Die Trying, The OC starts, Need for Speed: Underground comes out, Manhunt comes out, Blink-182 releases their self-titled album Peak: 2004 - American Idiot is released, Nintendo DS is released, My Chemical Romance releases Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Motorola Razr comes out, CN City of Cartoon Network starts, Drake and Josh is released, Mean Girls is released, Napoleon Dynamite is released, peak of indie with albums like The Funeral by Arcade Fire and Good News for People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse, Saw is released End: 2008 - Pop punk loses popularity, CN City well replaced now, flip phones replaced by smartphones, Great Recession ends McBling era, The OC has ended, indie pop and indietronica begin replacing indie rock, strong emo backlash, flip phones have lost relevance to iPhones, early touchscreen phones, and slider phones, Barack Obama is elected president Death: 2011 - End of Iraq War, rock in general is well out of the charts, MySpace is a laughing stock now, Nintendo 3DS replaces Nintendo DS, Osama Bin Laden is killed, Saw franchise has finally ended Late 2000s
Defining cultural trends: Old-school YouTube, Wii, Xbox 360, Noods Cartoon Network, Windows Vista, Great Recession, BlackBerry, The Dark Knight trilogy, scene subculture, iPod Touch, Blu-Ray, Obama presidency Start: 2005 - PSP is released, Xbox 360 is released, YouTube launched, Batman Begins is released, The Office starts Peak: 2008 - IMO the most defining old-school YouTube year, launch of annotations, Smosh's most popular video Beef N Go is released, Fred becomes the most subscribed YouTuber, Phineas and Ferb fully premieres, Total Drama premieres in US, The Dark Knight becomes a phenemenon, Brokencyde breaks out in popularity, scene kids displace emos as the new cool subculture, Barack Obama is elected president End: 2010 - Noods is replaced by Check It, Windows 7 replaces Windows Vista, YouTube replaces ratings with likes/dislikes, marking the early steps toward modern YouTube, Great Recession begins to fade, BlackBerry starts losing popularity to iPhones and Android phones Death: 2013 - End of old-school YouTube, video responses removed from YouTube, PewDiePie becomes the most subscribed YouTuber, skeuomorphism is dead, Breaking Bad AND The Office end Early 2010s
Defining cultural trends: PS3, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Check It Cartoon Network, Windows 7, electro house, dubstep, rage comics, trollface memes, Kinect, Nintendo 3DS, bronies, 3D movies, Minecraft Start: 2010 - Adventure Time and Regular Show come out, electro house gains popularity with songs like Like a G6, dubstep becomes popular with Skrillex's Scary Monsters Nice Sprites, trollface and rage comic memes become popular, Check It era Cartoon Network starts, Kinect accessory for Xbox 360 comes out, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comes out Peak: 2011 - electro house and dubstep peak with songs like Party Rock Anthem and First of the Year (Equinox) respectively, Nintendo 3DS comes out, peak of trollface and rage comic memes, Minecraft is released End: 2013 - PS4 replaces PS3, Xbox One replaces Xbox 360, dubstep is now irrelevant, Windows 8 replaces Windows 7, brony fandom dies out, 3D movies are now irrelevant, iOS 7 and the iPhone 5S come out, Steven Universe replaces MLP, Adventure Time, and Regular Show in popularity Death: 2017 - PS3 is discontinued, Regular Show ends, Kinect is discontinued, games like Fortnite and PUBG replace Minecraft in popularity Mid 2010s
Defining cultural trends: Vine, Windows 8, Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, dystopian sci-fi films, Filthy Frank, montage parodies, toys-to-life games, Touch ID-era iPhones Start: 2012 - Windows 8 launches, Wii U launches, The Hunger Games comes out Peak: 2014 - Divergent comes out, Filthy Frank blows up in popularity, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay comes out, FNAF comes out, lets play trend on YouTube peaks, Amiibo toy line starts End: 2016 - Disney Infinity is discontinued, Wii U is discontinued, Vine shuts down, montage parodies lose relevance Death: 2017 - Filthy Frank stops making videos, iPhone X is released, Miiverse shuts down, Nintendo Switch replaces Wii U Late 2010s
Defining cultural trends: Donald Trump's presidency, emo rap, TikTok Start: 2016 - Donald Trump becomes president, Lil Peep blows up in popularity Peak: 2018 - TikTok launches, XXXTentacion dies and ? is released, 6ix9ine becomes popular End: 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S replaces PS4 and Xbox One respectively, Joe Biden becomes president Death: Has not happened yet iPods weren't popular in the early 2000s. Pop punk did not first peak in the mid 2000s but rather in the mid to late 90s and then 99-04. Emo was bigger than pop punk in the mid 2000s. Aren't bands like My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! pop punk too? Go on any pop punk playlist and they'll be there. Even Spotify's playlist about pop punk had MCR as the cover band for a while. Besides, even if they're emo, they're also pop punk too. The popularity of emo in the mid 2000s didn't mean non-emo pop punk wasn't popular. Green Day's American Idiot was very popular. Just because a lot of it was darker and angstier didn't mean it was not pop punk. Even Enema of the State, a quintessential pop punk album, had angsty tracks like Adam's Song that really wouldn't feel out of place in the mid-2000s (and it wasn't, I remember hearing that song a lot around then). By and large, pop punk peaked around 2004-2005. That's when it was absolutely everywhere, including video games like Burnout 3 and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. Pop punk didn't actually decline until 2008. That's when bands like Green Day and MCR began to drop out of popularity. There was a huge backlash directly connected to the emo backlash too. There were a few pop punk records that got big that year like Dear Maria, Count Me In, and Gives You Hell, but those are more exceptions rather than the rule. Point is, you compare 2004 or 2005 to 2008 or 2009, and there's really no comparison. Try going back to the mid-2000s and not hearing a pop punk band or song being name-dropped.
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Post by slashpop on May 21, 2021 7:38:12 GMT 10
iPods weren't popular in the early 2000s. Pop punk did not first peak in the mid 2000s but rather in the mid to late 90s and then 99-04. Emo was bigger than pop punk in the mid 2000s. Aren't bands like My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! pop punk too? Go on any pop punk playlist and they'll be there. Even Spotify's playlist about pop punk had MCR as the cover band for a while. Besides, even if they're emo, they're also pop punk too. The popularity of emo in the mid 2000s didn't mean non-emo pop punk wasn't popular. Green Day's American Idiot was very popular. Just because a lot of it was darker and angstier didn't mean it was not pop punk. Even Enema of the State, a quintessential pop punk album, had angsty tracks like Adam's Song that really wouldn't feel out of place in the mid-2000s (and it wasn't, I remember hearing that song a lot around then). By and large, pop punk peaked around 2004-2005. That's when it was absolutely everywhere, including video games like Burnout 3 and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. Pop punk didn't actually decline until 2008. That's when bands like Green Day and MCR began to drop out of popularity. There was a huge backlash directly connected to the emo backlash too. There were a few pop punk records that got big that year like Dear Maria, Count Me In, and Gives You Hell, but those are more exceptions rather than the rule. Point is, you compare 2004 or 2005 to 2008 or 2009, and there's really no comparison. Try going back to the mid-2000s and not hearing a pop punk band or song being name-dropped. I never said it wasn’t popular, it just wasn’t as big as emo. It also did not first peak then
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Post by John Titor on May 21, 2021 8:10:11 GMT 10
Despite what is said here about WWF, The Attitude era started in March 1997 when Raw got a Raw is War Titantron set, it ended on Wrestlemania 17 April 2001 when Stone Cold turned bad and shook Vince's hand and WCW was bought. In between April 2 2001 and Late March 2002 was the Post Attitude mini era (consisted on the WCW & ECW Alliance Invasion) This mini era ended April 1 2002 when Raw debuted the new Stage and the brand extension draft was in effect and became known as the Ruthless Aggression era. Just LOL @saying the Attitude era was still a thing in late 2001, but Late 2001 Smackdown! already had it's fist stage. Go on Reddit sub reddits ask ANYONE when the attitude era ended and everyone will give you the same answer Wrestlemania 17. Even STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN himself in his podcast says Wrestlemania 17 was the end of the attitude era. There is a whole video on this topic.
As far as pop punk''s decline, it declined because of Disney taking advantage of it in commercials + Scene sub culture starting to replace Emo sub culture + Hipster growing slowly.
That is what killed pop punk. I would say it's peak was 2006 to coincide with the year Myspace was the most visited website in the world. You still saw pop punk in
commercials, bumpers for networks and on peoples myspace's and the charts. Pop Punk was still somewhat of a force in 2007 & 2008 but it's highest highs were already
reached. Scene also kind of merged with hipster as well. Pop Punk had many things going against it in the late 2000s.. OH and Electropop was on the rise.
I started working at E! news around 2009 and I remember pop punk got groans and sighs whenever it was played. At the time Electropop was the "cool thing"
pop punk was dead in the water at the time.
astropoug is not getting the facts straight
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Post by John Titor on May 21, 2021 11:48:01 GMT 10
@$t1nkyP00t willing to bet rn we are in a transition thats almost complete by Fall 2021 similar to 2001.
Pop Punk is now in commercials and top 10 on radio, w even artists that weren't pop punk ( Willow Smith, Olivia )
now making the pop punk jump.
Now while Covid is not finished, Mask rules have been laxed and State of emergency is being lifted in various states,
lowest Covid numbers ever being reported, sporting events are bringing back full capacity. Looking like we got our summer back.
The Vaccines have been a 100% success.
Also movies like Dune are reversing their decsion to be on HBO max first and many are opting for Theaters only because of the pandemic getting MUCH better in the usa
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Post by John Titor on May 21, 2021 14:40:23 GMT 10
@$t1nkyP00t willing to bet rn we are in a transition thats almost complete by Fall 2021 similar to 2001. Pop Punk is now in commercials and top 10 on radio, w even artists that weren't pop punk ( Willow Smith, Olivia ) now making the pop punk jump. Now while Covid is not finished, Mask rules have been laxed and State of emergency is being lifted in various states, lowest Covid numbers ever being reported, sporting events are bringing back full capacity. Looking like we got our summer back. The Vaccines have been a 100% success. Also movies like Dune are reversing their decsion to be on HBO max first and many are opting for Theaters only because of the pandemic getting MUCH better in the usa Yes @johntitor I’m willing to accept that bet . I agree that 2021 is uncannily similar to 2001. I have a feeling the 2020s will play out like the 2000s did. I’ve def noticed the pop punk vibe and aesthetic exploding. I figured it’ll get bigger as 2021 goes on and into the early 2020s. 2021 is turning things around for the better. It does feel like we got our summer back, even if not as carefree as 2019 and back. I’ll admit the vaccines have improved the COVID situation quite a bit. I’m glad movies are deciding to drop in theaters first because they need the business. 2021 seems to be better than 2020. Right now it seems as if we’re in the Pseudo Early 2020s era. The vibe will be more clear in fall 2021 which is when I predict the cultural early 2020s will officially begin. 2022 or 2023 will likely be the peak early 2020s year. Yeah, I read this on Bustle that talks about some early 2000s energy that is coming
www.bustle.com/life/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-astrology-double-leo-connection
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Post by John Titor on May 21, 2021 23:50:58 GMT 10
Interesting, but scary and coincidental. I don’t know why but I always thought of 19 year theories. That and the ps5 shortages are mirroring the ps2 shortages of 2001, I don't know exactly what else is going on astro wise to cause this ( even if it is coincidence) but I will have to look into it, there does seem like some sort of pattern going on
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Post by John Titor on May 22, 2021 7:20:12 GMT 10
That and the ps5 shortages are mirroring the ps2 shortages of 2001, I don't know exactly what else is going on astro wise to cause this ( even if it is coincidence) but I will have to look into it, there does seem like some sort of pattern going on Yes the PS2 came out in late 2000, but shortages persisted until late 2001. PS5 came out in late 2020, but shortages may persist until sometime around late 2021-2023 because of silicon shortage. 2020 reminded me of 2000 because of how excited people were for the new decade, but were underwhelmed when it started. This Disney store closures in 2021 reminded me of Warner Bros store closures in 2001. Plus we got a new president in 2021 like we did in 2001. Maybe there is a 19-20 year cycle. Fashion trends from the early 2000s are coming back in style. I remember seeing your fashion forecast for 2021. Here is the article that talks about silicone shortage if you’re interested: www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2021/05/09/chip-semiconductor-shortage-global-end/amp/oh this is def going to go on until 2022, I heard Sony is remaking the ps5 to not have the same chipsets or something to make demand. I am thinking about doing a 2021 - 2022 school year PREVIEW forecast , I mean I think I have a good reputable track record lol
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