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Post by astropoug on May 29, 2021 15:07:58 GMT 10
You got this aura of 2019 feeling like the end of an era - Avengers: Endgame, Game of Thrones finale, Toy Story 4. So many things ending in 2019, like the 2010s were ABSOLUTELY over.  Just look at everything here, most of which ran through nearly the entire decade, like the 2010s was truly over after the summer of 2019. Honestly I wish I graduated in 2019 rather than 2021 because it would've fit so perfectly with the tone of the era.
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Post by John Titor on May 29, 2021 15:38:00 GMT 10
You got this aura of 2019 feeling like the end of an era - Avengers: Endgame, Game of Thrones finale, Toy Story 4. So many things ending in 2019, like the 2010s were ABSOLUTELY over. Just look at everything here, most of which ran through nearly the entire decade, like the 2010s was truly over after the summer of 2019. Honestly I wish I graduated in 2019 rather than 2021 because it would've fit so perfectly with the tone of the era. I made a post on here back in 2019 that it felt like the end of the 2010s, in hindsight it was the end of the 2010s and also a BETA what if 2020 year had covid not happened in a few months down the line.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2021 6:00:13 GMT 10
Covid/2020 put an abrupt end to the culture of 2019 and the 2010s in general. Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Lil Wayne, and many others all had albums/songs that year that felt like the end of an era.
I was quite dissatisfied with the 2010s but they seemed like a dream compared to what was about to come. It really sucks that 2020 turned out to be so bad and that the future right now looks so uncertain (possible US civil war/fundamentalist Christian coup).
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Post by mc98 on May 30, 2021 11:45:56 GMT 10
Yeah, many of these shows and movies coincidentally ended in 2019.
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Post by sman12 on May 30, 2021 16:34:56 GMT 10
It was a finale year for pop culture and the world for sure. In fact, these shows ending in 2019 make the year the last pure late 2010s cultural year imo. 2020 was half late 2010s before COVID and leaned 2020s culturally during the height of the pandemic and later on with Biden's victory, 9th gen gaming, etc.
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Post by slashpop on May 31, 2021 6:14:29 GMT 10
Most of 2019-2021 feel the same.
Biden, mini Y2K trends like jeans and shoes, vaccines, PS5 and pop punk are making progress but haven’t changed the system enough to create a dividing line yet.
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Post by astropoug on May 31, 2021 10:14:50 GMT 10
2019 felt like the time when late 2010s culture began to wind down. 2019 was peak late 2010s personally, but not culturally. 2018 was peak late 2010s culturally. IMO The slow transition from late 2010s into early 2020s culture began in spring 2019 with the ending of 2010s franchises. Bilie Eilish, TikTok and AirPods became household names in spring 2019, which all were unthinkable a year prior. I thought AirPods would be a craze that will die out soon, but they only grew in popularity. Disney Plus came out in late 2019 which might kick off 2020s streaming wars. Disney Plus is already popular now. I will not be surprised if that replaces Disney Channel in the 2020s. Some pop culture that debuted in 2019 would have been out of place if released in 2018. 2019 felt like a light at the end of a tunnel, only to enter another tunnel in 2020. I really loved the vibe and energy of 2019. 2019 felt refreshing, bright, fresh, optimistic, energetic, innocent and hopeful. 2019 reminded me of 2004 in a strange way because 2004 was when 1990s, early 2000s and Cartoon Network Powerhouse era shows ended. 2004 was also a finale year since that's when the Friends finale aired.
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Post by John Titor on May 31, 2021 11:11:34 GMT 10
2004 was also a finale year since that's when the Friends finale aired. Frasier too. No wonder why we get stupid memes of 1990s not ending until 2004. The 1990s were dying as early as 1998 around the time of the Clinton sex scandal and dead by Bush inauguration or 9/11/2001. Seinfeld, Family Matters and Step by Step ended in 98 as well
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Post by astropoug on May 31, 2021 11:20:37 GMT 10
Frasier too. No wonder why we get stupid memes of 1990s not ending until 2004. The 1990s were dying as early as 1998 around the time of the Clinton sex scandal and dead by Bush inauguration or 9/11/2001. Seinfeld, Family Matters and Step by Step ended in 98 as well Yeah, a lot more things ended in 1998 then we think. I think 1998 was the TOTAL end of early 90s culture. By then, only things from 1993/1994 onward like Friends were relevant. That's why 1997 was the last core 90s year.
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Post by John Titor on May 31, 2021 11:25:07 GMT 10
Seinfeld, Family Matters and Step by Step ended in 98 as well Yeah, a lot more things ended in 1998 then we think. I think 1998 was the TOTAL end of early 90s culture. By then, only things from 1993/1994 onward like Friends were relevant. That's why 1997 was the last core 90s year. I was there live as it happened, to be fair no one gave a F anymore about Family Matters in 98 due to CBS getting new episodes in 1997 along with Step by Step. Seinfeld was a big deal. It was in all the newspapers and TV guide covers at the time. Sega Saturn was already dead by 98 and it came out in 1995 lol
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Post by astropoug on May 31, 2021 11:34:29 GMT 10
Yeah, a lot more things ended in 1998 then we think. I think 1998 was the TOTAL end of early 90s culture. By then, only things from 1993/1994 onward like Friends were relevant. That's why 1997 was the last core 90s year. I was there live as it happened, to be fair no one gave a F anymore about Family Matters in 98 due to CBS getting new episodes in 1997 along with Step by Step. Seinfeld was a big deal. It was in all the newspapers and TV guide covers at the time. Sega Saturn was already dead by 98 and it came out in 1995 lol 1998-1999 was the DEFINITIVE late 90s school year - Pokemania, peak 5th gen gaming (and possibly the greatest school year in gaming history), peak-era Friends, The Matrix, Britney Spears blows up, arguably the peak of teen pop, Furbies, GeoCities at its peak. Only PS1 and N64 were competitors, as Saturn was already gone, but the Dreamcast had yet to come out. No wonder Sega flopped, they literally had NO console for an entire school year - in what was one of the greatest years in gaming history, that's basically a death sentence.
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Post by John Titor on May 31, 2021 11:37:36 GMT 10
I was there live as it happened, to be fair no one gave a F anymore about Family Matters in 98 due to CBS getting new episodes in 1997 along with Step by Step. Seinfeld was a big deal. It was in all the newspapers and TV guide covers at the time. Sega Saturn was already dead by 98 and it came out in 1995 lol 1998-1999 was the DEFINITIVE late 90s school year - Pokemania, peak 5th gen gaming (and possibly the greatest school year in gaming history), peak-era Friends, The Matrix, Britney Spears blows up, arguably the peak of teen pop, Furbies, GeoCities at its peak. Only PS1 and N64 were competitors, as Saturn was already gone, but the Dreamcast had yet to come out. No wonder Sega flopped, they literally had NO console for an entire school year. I was not the biggest fan of the 98-99 school year, I did like when Britney Came out, Pokemon blew up in syndication in fall 98 before moving to the WB in early 99. Boy meet World was still around which was a plus. I prefer other 90s school years to this lol
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Post by John Titor on May 31, 2021 12:50:53 GMT 10
Seinfeld, Family Matters and Step by Step ended in 98 as well 1998 is also another one of those “end of era” years. Core 1990s influences were pretty much dead by late 1998. yupp To me the 1997-1998 was the very early stages of the y2k era with core mid 90s things fading out - WWF Attitude era in full swing - Playstation and N64 in full force along with Final Fantasy JRPG explosion - Debut of Digital Pets (Tamagotchi & Bandai's Digimon both debut in Fall 97) Yes Digimon debuted before Pokemon - Spice Girls and Backstreet boys in full force -y2k design in advertisements - Robyn's songs all over the radio (sounds exactly like proto Britney Spears) - Sonic The Hedgehog rebrands with his modern look in 1997 - Teen Witch fad ( Buffy, You wish) etc - y2k fashions officially hit stores - Frosted tips blow up - Y2k BUG becomes a thing in Fall 1997 - TRL debuts in Fall 1997 as MTV LIVE Then you had as we mentioned the core 90s things still lingering a bit, but it was very washed ,you can call it BETA y2k if you wan't but to me it is still Level 0 of y2k era.
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Post by jaydawg89 on May 31, 2021 14:30:24 GMT 10
2019 was culturally and literally a finale year lol.
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Post by astropoug on Jul 4, 2021 18:46:28 GMT 10
Finale years for cultural decades
1950s - 1963
1960s - 1971
1970s - 1983
1980s - 1992
1990s - 1998
2000s - 2010 (I should make a thread about this one LMAO)
2010s - 2019
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