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Post by astropoug on Jun 22, 2021 11:13:01 GMT 10
If there's one reason why I'm not a fan of late 2010s culture, it's how same-ish and boring a lot of it is. Everything had this bland slice-of-life vibe, in contrast to the experimental absurdist vibe of the early 2010s. Even triple-A video games became trendy again with games like Overwatch and Fortnite, in contrast to the indie boom games of the early-mid 2010s such as Minecraft, FNAF, and Angry Birds. Many movies are just sequels and remakes such as The Lion King 2019, which is literally considered the highest-grossing animated movie nowadays. Disney's live-action remake trend, the fact nearly every blockbuster is a superhero movie, a lot of Netflix shows are just poorly-written high school series like Riverdale and 13 Reasons Why, even CARTOONS went from the experimental weird shows of the early 2010s like Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Uncle Grandpa, to slice-of-life shows like Harvey Beaks, Craig of the Creek, and We Bare Bears. Even YouTube content, like animations are dominated by storytime YouTubers like Theodd1sout and Jaiden Animations, vs more experimental stuff like asdfmovie and Harry Partridge, or all the video essays and lets play content out there, vs the viral videos of the 2000s and early 2010s, like Nyan Cat and Going to the Store.
Am I the ONLY one who feels this way, or do you think there is genuinely something wrong going on?
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Post by astropoug on Jun 22, 2021 11:15:21 GMT 10
Let's not forget about the fucking corporate art style and oversimplified logos that define graphic design nowadays I'd honestly rather have previous aesthetics like the Gen X/grunge early 90s or McBling mid-2000s aesthetic back, even if they're arguably cringy, because at least they're not boring.
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Post by 10slover on Jun 22, 2021 11:25:54 GMT 10
Eh, this happens to every decade, the latter half always feels oversaturated.
I do agree that the late 10s were abnormally conventional, i think that that is going to change in this decade. The 20s are going to be a pretty experimental decade.
As for the graphic design: people hate it because it's popular (imo) it will die one day, and people are gonna miss it, eventually.
We still had plenty of indie games getting big in the late 10s: cuphead, doki doki literature club, and in 2020 we had among us (ugh).
The bright side: horror movies in the late 10s were way less conventional than horror movies from the early 10s.
Midsummer was such a huge cultural hit, a movie like midsummer would never come out in 2010, when the biggest horror movies were crappy sequels to 80s, 90s and 2000s franchises.
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Post by astropoug on Jun 22, 2021 11:32:35 GMT 10
I agree horror movies in the late 2010s are better than the early 2010s. It and Get Out are also movies I'd like to mention. Among Us is an early 2020s thing, not a late 2010s thing, and also I do think indie games are getting back in vogue. Minecraft is popular again, and we also have games like Friday Night Funkin and Fall Guys taking the internet by storm. However, I'm pointing out how in MAINSTREAM culture, between 2016-2018 triple-A games became the main types of games to be popular again, especially hero shooters and battle royale games. In 2018, school was obsessed with triple-A titles like Fortnite and Smash Ultimate, whilst in 2014, it was all about indie games like Flappy Bird, Minecraft, and ESPECIALLY FNAF, the latter being literally created by just one guy, and became THE craze of the 2014-2015 school year.
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Post by jaydawg89 on Jun 22, 2021 11:50:33 GMT 10
They were kinda boring and I didn't like the social & political direction things were heading. Nuff said.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2021 12:02:38 GMT 10
Nostalgia always has a part to play in culture and any era's zeitgeist, but in the late '10s, nostalgia WAS the culture.
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Post by mc98 on Jun 22, 2021 12:05:14 GMT 10
Yeah, I hate how simplified and minimal this era is; they abused minimalism in the late 2010s. It's also a time when nostalgia and sequels hit new lows in the movie and tv industry.
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Post by John Titor on Jun 22, 2021 12:28:14 GMT 10
Mid 2010s was way worse and are the butt of many jokes on Tik Tok when describing the 2010s, however late 2010s sucked as well lol
As someone who was there LIVE for all of the 90s and 2000s and 2010s, the mid 2010s is by far THE WORST part of any decade I have experienced. As well as the 2010s as a unit being the worst decade I have seen period.
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Post by John Titor on Jun 22, 2021 12:29:59 GMT 10
Yeah, I hate how simplified and minimal this era is; they abused minimalism in the late 2010s. It's also a time when nostalgia and sequels hit new lows in the movie and tv industry. it started being abused in the mid 2010s as well, as soon as yeezy season came out in 2015 all you saw is every chain trying to play catch up and release muted tones. Suddenly everyone u knew looked like Kylie Jenner with their Lip Kit.
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Post by astropoug on Jun 22, 2021 12:30:32 GMT 10
Eh, this happens to every decade, the latter half always feels oversaturated. I do agree that the late 10s were abnormally conventional, i think that that is going to change in this decade. The 20s are going to be a pretty experimental decade. As for the graphic design: people hate it because it's popular (imo) it will die one day, and people are gonna miss it, eventually. We still had plenty of indie games getting big in the late 10s: cuphead, doki doki literature club, and in 2020 we had among us (ugh). The bright side: horror movies in the late 10s were way less conventional than horror movies from the early 10s. Midsummer was such a huge cultural hit, a movie like midsummer would never come out in 2010, when the biggest horror movies were crappy sequels to 80s, 90s and 2000s franchises. I don't necessarily agree with the whole idea the latter half is more oversaturated/conventional. This is true for the 70s, 80s, and 90s, but not the case for the 2000s and ESPECIALLY 1960s. The 1960s I really don't need to explain why: hippies, counterculture, Revolution 9, 2001: A Space Odyssey, very experimental and weird era. The late 2000s meanwhile was arguably the most experimental part of the 2000s. It had the Wii, a motion control console blowing up in contrast to the more conventional Xbox 360 and PS3, and becoming the best-selling console of its generation. Games like Link's Crossbow Training became big hits despite relatively little in the way of conventional gameplay. There were sandbox games all about being weird and experimental like Garry's Mod and Spore, which were also very popular. Flash games were also in their prime and could often be experimental, and indie games first took off, like Braid and Castle Crashers. You had laugh track-less sitcoms like The Office becoming huge, and even in kid culture, there were shows like Chowder and Flapjack that were notorious for their absurdist humor. You had movies like Up with a man flying a house with balloons and dogs in planes shooting each other. Trying calling THAT conventional. Lady Gaga became an icon, who was OBSESSED with being unconventional with her music videos and image. You had music trends like crunkcore, which were awful, but it's as far from conventional as you can get. Even the commercials were weird, like the infamous PS3 baby ad. The only problem was long-in-the-tooth trends from the 2000s persisting like Harry Potter and Shrek, but outside of that it's definitely not something I'd call bland. In fact, I'd consider a lot of aspects the late 2000s sort of a precursor to the absurdist lol random vibe of the early 2010s. There's lots of late 90s trends I don't like, but it at least felt like it had variety, and there was some unconventional stuff to it, but it's NOWHERE NEAR as bad as the late 2010s in my opinion.
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Post by astropoug on Jun 22, 2021 12:33:40 GMT 10
Yeah, I hate how simplified and minimal this era is; they abused minimalism in the late 2010s. It's also a time when nostalgia and sequels hit new lows in the movie and tv industry. it started being abused in the mid 2010s as well, as soon as yeezy season came out in 2015 all you saw is every chain trying to play catch up and release muted tones. Suddenly everyone u knew looked like Kylie Jenner with their Lip Kit. It was actually being abused all the way back in the early 2010s. Y'all remember Windows 8? Started development in 2011 and came out in 2012. People hated it BECAUSE of how it tried to be all minimalistic, and it ended up looking boring. Xbox 360 also changed it's look to the slow minimalistic Metro design in 2011, which looks like this Prior to this, the Xbox 360 had a much faster and more interesting looking design that looked like this
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Post by John Titor on Jun 22, 2021 12:34:55 GMT 10
it started being abused in the mid 2010s as well, as soon as yeezy season came out in 2015 all you saw is every chain trying to play catch up and release muted tones. Suddenly everyone u knew looked like Kylie Jenner with their Lip Kit. It was actually being abused all the way back in the early 2010s. Y'all remember Windows 8? Started development in 2011 and came out in 2012. People hated it BECAUSE of how it tried to be all minimalistic, and it ended up looking boring. Xbox 360 also changed it's look to the slow minimalistic Metro design in 2011, which looks like this Prior to this, the Xbox 360 had a much faster and more interesting looking design that looked like this I mean fashion wise lol but yeah menus started to look around 2011 and 2012 I thought the 360 blades looked MILES better than the microsoft paint menus of the early 2010s
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Post by 10slover on Jun 22, 2021 12:39:17 GMT 10
it started being abused in the mid 2010s as well, as soon as yeezy season came out in 2015 all you saw is every chain trying to play catch up and release muted tones. Suddenly everyone u knew looked like Kylie Jenner with their Lip Kit. It was actually being abused all the way back in the early 2010s. Y'all remember Windows 8? Started development in 2011 and came out in 2012. People hated it BECAUSE of how it tried to be all minimalistic, and it ended up looking boring. Xbox 360 also changed it's look to the slow minimalistic Metro design in 2011, which looks like this Prior to this, the Xbox 360 had a much faster and more interesting looking design that looked like this I still think windows 8 is very beautiful looking lol Edit: also, back then, minimalist was experimental and new. It wasn't until 2015 that it really became the norm, and it wasn't until '16-'17 that companies started removing details from their logos
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Post by astropoug on Jun 22, 2021 12:39:51 GMT 10
I agree with you John Titor. Also Windows Vista and 7 looked way better than 8. Even the LOGO was better. The whole XP/Vista/7 flag logo will always be the true Windows logo to me (and you can even see it in the older Xbox 360 dashboard in my post).
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Post by 10slover on Jun 22, 2021 12:46:13 GMT 10
I agree with you John Titor. Also Windows Vista and 7 looked way better than 8. Even the LOGO was better. The whole XP/Vista/7 flag logo will always be the true Windows logo to me (and you can even see it in the older Xbox 360 dashboard in my post). Win vista is the most beautiful looking windowns imo
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