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6/19/2025, 3:54:49 AM
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I'm 30 and the 2010's felt very different from the 2020's.
You just haven't gotten used enough, or haven't noticed, the changes that happened and continue to happen.
Besides, culture does not align perfectly with the decade. There was a period between 2007 or so and 2020 or so that's very distinct from before and from now. Wokism was a part of it, but there were other aspects too. The internet was starting to dominate our lives, and there is a clear aesthetic for that period, including minimalism, corporate art, etc. The Trump election shifted things politically in 2016, but the culture remained mostly the same, which is why it was still essentially forbidden to reveal your support for him even though he was the sitting president.
There was a nice period between, say, 2009 and 2014, when the internet was already very full and you could "live" in it if you wanted, but most people still didn't. Life was half on the internet, half outside of it. Now it's 95% on the internet, even political announcements by the Ayatollah, even many jobs today are fully remote.
Nowadays, AI, the end of wokery, the triumph of Twitter over other social networks and reels/Youtube over other forms of entertainment, not to mention the return of war are, on their own turn, already beginning to generate a new style of life and a new aesthetic but we can't really discern it just yet.
You are mostly right about the surroundings, however. The changes I refer to happened mostly on the internet, not in the material world.
A good example of how the culture changed is Vines. There appeared in 2011 or so this website called Vine which was exactly the same as Tiktok: very short, attention-grabbing videos. It was popular for a few weeks, then promptly forgotten. Tiktok needs a permanently online audience to work, with very low attention spans, and this wasn't the case yet in 2011, although the trend had already started.
I'm 30 and the 2010's felt very different from the 2020's.
You just haven't gotten used enough, or haven't noticed, the changes that happened and continue to happen.
Besides, culture does not align perfectly with the decade. There was a period between 2007 or so and 2020 or so that's very distinct from before and from now. Wokism was a part of it, but there were other aspects too. The internet was starting to dominate our lives, and there is a clear aesthetic for that period, including minimalism, corporate art, etc. The Trump election shifted things politically in 2016, but the culture remained mostly the same, which is why it was still essentially forbidden to reveal your support for him even though he was the sitting president.
There was a nice period between, say, 2009 and 2014, when the internet was already very full and you could "live" in it if you wanted, but most people still didn't. Life was half on the internet, half outside of it. Now it's 95% on the internet, even political announcements by the Ayatollah, even many jobs today are fully remote.
Nowadays, AI, the end of wokery, the triumph of Twitter over other social networks and reels/Youtube over other forms of entertainment, not to mention the return of war are, on their own turn, already beginning to generate a new style of life and a new aesthetic but we can't really discern it just yet.
You are mostly right about the surroundings, however. The changes I refer to happened mostly on the internet, not in the material world.
A good example of how the culture changed is Vines. There appeared in 2011 or so this website called Vine which was exactly the same as Tiktok: very short, attention-grabbing videos. It was popular for a few weeks, then promptly forgotten. Tiktok needs a permanently online audience to work, with very low attention spans, and this wasn't the case yet in 2011, although the trend had already started.
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