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It's hard to be nostalgic for something when you're right in the middle of it; give it another 10 years, then you'll be able to tell what that generation means. Do you think people in the 60s would imagine they'd be nostalgic for hippies in 20-30 years? I never thought the dial up modem would hit me right in the nostalgia everytime I heard it, it used to be so boring waiting to connect to the internet.
@@daniella-rc1yy but it's still not over. It's going to take years for people to become nostalgic for this decade. But people will eventually find reasons to
The people of the 1910s, 20s, etc didn't think they could boil down their entire worldview and culture to a single sentence at the time either. With age details are discarded and what you are left with is often a limited subset of the most impactful things among dozens or hundreds of trends. We aren't any better now, just too young to realize it. The little minutia like Chuck Testa are going to be discarded and what matters long term will be defined IN the long term.
it's why so many lewronggenerationers think that we'll never have an era of music that was as good as the 1970s, when in reality it only appears that way because peoples minds have(most likely subconsciously) forgotten all the crap.
honestly, i feel like this era will be known for trumpism. love him or hate him, he's certainly made his mark. i think most people know far more about all the things trump has supposedly done than basically any other president before him.
The music thing is more about the telecommunications act of 1996, which reduced competition and allowed corporations to better control what gets played on radio, so no longer does the best song make it to the top and we get crap like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. Yeah, there is a lot of garbage from the 80s that didn't last into today's nostalgia, we only remember the better songs. But I feel like this decade has not had a good lot of good music in general. I followed country music in the 90s and it started declining in quality after the 2000s when my favorite bands were not being played and certain artists like Alan Jackson, George Strait, Kenny Chensey, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, Keith Urban, etc, got a free pass, while Blackhawk, Diamond Rio, Collin Raye, Randy Travis, etc, still made music and the radio gods just shut them out because they wanted to create a certain brand of pop country that would be more popular. So today, we got terrible pop country, it's all garbage, and they retired most of the people I mentioned and got even less talented artists making the music today.
This is correct. Theres a lot of presentism bias in this video. "Oh our times are too conplex to be simplified like the past decades" His idea that defining a decade by its cultural zeitgeist only started in the 20s is also demonstrably false. People in the 20s were already looking back at previous decades. eg to the "gay 90's" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nineties
Zanny I dont think you can define decades by trends anymore. It has been reduced down to years. The internet has made society and the flow of information move faster, therefore trends come and die faster. Idk about you, but 2013 seems very distinct when compared to 2017.
Honestly I think the cultural Zeitgeist of the 2010s is memes. seriously, we may have had our jokes and images in the 2000s but they were in their infancy, now memes are important to everyday life. They're political, it's completely changed how people consume information and formulate opinions. Donald Trump is called the meme president because he got more free publicity through internet jokes than anyone else, governments and political parties purposely make memes in efforts to influence voters, and nowadays all a musician has to do is make a music video that's so dumb it becomes a viral meme, not a song that's actually good. Ideas rise and fall within days but the trend itself has become our zeitgeist. *Forkknife dances*
the 2010s isnt defined by the decade its defined by the years 2010 - 2013: those memes with the big white text (Silly bands were a thing) 2013-2014: minecraft 2015: modern meme culture starts 2016: pokemon go, election memes 2017: fidget spinners, Bottle flipping 2018: fortnite 2019: airpod memes minecraft comes back pewdiepie v tseries
Underrated post. The biggest difference between the 2010s and every other decade is the huge speed in which internet, trends and subcultures rise and fall. Im going to predict that the rapid speed of modern trends will never allow whole decades to form such strong identities again. Everything just happens too fast these days. Just look how long the "This is sparta meme" was relevant and compare that to any meme or trend of the 2010s. Its also a reason why the average attention span of younger people are ridiculously short.
tbh come to think of it this year there still isn't really anything special about it yet, and we're already in july (talking about 2021 for any commenters in a yr or something)
2010s are the beginning of the stupid ages and they sucked all the joy out of everything couldn't even talk about entertainment like video games, comics, and movies without it turning into a argument about politics bullshit
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@@airyanawaejah2323 I for one welcome our Eastern Civilization masters. We've had our time. Now we can bring back Samurais and more people will know what curry is.
The reason we can’t define the 2010s is not that they’re undefinable, it’s just they happened so recently. As time goes on, our perception of the decade will become more simplified. Maybe the speed of trend rotation will be what defines the 2010s, as internet use in the future becomes more responsible, trends may just slow down a bit.
Yeah i totally agree. Cool video but I dont think he's totally right about the 2010s. We just came out of that decade, so we won't really have a simplified image of it for another few years id imagine. Yes trends come and go much faster but there is so much that could define it. Internet media becoming the new mainstream, mumble rap, crypto, memes, conflict in the middle east, etc.... even Donald Trump lol. Yes these things could continue into the next decade but they were important and defined in the 2010s.
It usually takes a few years into a new decade before you can really define what the previous decade truly was like. That’s why the first few years of a new decade aren’t really that much different from the previous decade. For example, the Vietnam War and the Counterculture movement personify the 1960s, but neither of them are associated with the year 1961 for example. Therefore the early 60s were in many ways an extension of the 1950s. However in many ways the 2020s are so far an obvious exception because Covid changed society (and for the worse) quite literally overnight in early 2020. The 2010s feel like a distant memory now.
I think this is partially true but it can’t be denied how rapidly changing culture is due to social media and shrinking attention spans... if we do eventually find something that defines the recent decades it will be rather broad
I completely agree with this. It wasnt until the late 2000's that I personally felt that there was an aesthetic that was "the 90's" and I think once we get closer to the 2030's the 2010's will have this solidified aesthetic that can be pointed to and say look that's the 2010's.
If I said this once, I’ve said it a hundred times, you hate a decade as you’re going through it, but once it ends and you look back, nostalgia will glorify it all. It’s just the way it works. All the pain you experienced, you block it out, you just see it as a happy time. (Rose colored glasses)
I would argue against that. The 80s knew what it was about years before it ended, check out the movie Wall Street if you want proof. If a decades identify is strong enough then you will know what it is during that decade.
I would point to a book written by Zbigniew Brzezinski (top NSA guy and presidential advisor) called Between Two Ages. It was about the rise of the "technotronic era". All the world's people and their lives can be observed from a panopticon spy machine. Privacy is gone forever, everything is recorded
Its pretty obvious what defines the 2010s. 2012, the year Same sex marriage was legalized leading to the LGBT community exploding and was widely accepted around the countries along with the struggles of defending the newly acquired right from states pushback and then the eventual "rubber-banding" to the opposite side of the spectrum half way through at 2015-16.
@@24klogan86 Same. I've always felt like 2001 was pretty recent. Now it's starting to be a while ago... The fact that the ancient Twin Towers were still there when I was born is pretty crazy to think about, now as I realize it.
I think you can't define a decade until enough change happens that you can discern the new times from the old times. Once we are far enough away from it, we will be able to contrast current times with the 2010s vs periods before it . Just my 3 cents
What are you talking about? 'Your two cents'? It's easy to distinguish the differences in culture, such as comparing the 2010s party edm music to other decades.
The reason for this phenomenon (in my opinion) is due to the lack of experience of living in previous decades... so as young people today, we oversimplify what other generations have experienced into a general idea of that time period. Sure, trends do come and go quicker now with social media, but it’s hard to define the decade you’re living in currently with the retrospect we have with other decades. My mom told me that as a teen she didn’t really think there was a “defining aspect” of the 80s. But now when we look back we can see the decade and visualize in a simpler way, not actually experiencing it firsthand.
I agree. It also depends on the location. I’m pretty sure Argentina or the Phillipines in the 1980s has the same aesthetical nostalgia that USA pop culture had, like we always base it on.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention super hero films and cinematic universes yet. I feel like the concept has nearly completely taken over the film industry. The MCU in particular has lasted a decade so it would be a constant trend that people would point to and say "that was popular in the 2010's"
iamjohnporter67 more like the older generations being brainwashed by social media. My experience is that older people are way easier to fool than young people on the internet.
I think as a whole the 2010s didn’t have anything defining, but the early 2010s had a very distinct party culture. Also just the way people dressed, the early days of RU-vid, and primitive memes stand out as well.
2010 was like teen culture. Twilight, hipsters, lmfao, the last few years of emo and alternative, the last few years of guitar hero/rock band, wii, rage comics, COD ect
Early 2010s Really Hits Different. 2011 Hit Songs Were Everywhere !!! 2013 Was The Last Year For Music & Pop Culture After That It All Changed/Shifted.
@@bielaggs Actually you can. Those who believe that you can't just don't pay enough attention to societal trends and watch for patterns in the world around them. Contrary to what that dumbfuck KnowledgeHub said, one major thing that the 2010's will definitely be remembered for is hipster fashion. Many aspects of hipster fashion are still 100% mainstream for the last 6+ years such as skinny jeans, leggings as pants, plaid & flannel shirts, jean jackets, running shoes as casual shoes, (specifically black 2013 Nike Free Runs and knockoffs of these shoes) brown slip-on shoes or 'boat shoes' w/o socks, oversized scarves, oversized retro-glasses, undercuts, pompadours, free form dreads, taper fades and most importantly HIPSTER BEARDS. Almost every man on the planet in their teens - 40's since 2012 looks like Drake, Zayn Malik, Suge Knight or Richard Karn from Home Improvement with a taper fade. This is what I like to call the hipster-yuppie lumberjack look. (Even Alex Jones, Ted Cruz and Eminem have a hipster beard now, AKA "the studio beard") And the average female Millennial is still either a hipster or a Kardashian/Jenner-wannabe. Hipster fashion is a major decade-defining trend of the 2010's, and in the future we'll look back on it the way we look back at 1970's Disco fashion like big afros, long sideburns, cop 'staches, ascot ties, open-collared shirts, bell bottoms and platform shoes. Home & building interior & exterior design or re-modeling is even hipster-oriented these days. For instance, just look at any brand new or remodeled fast food chains like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and Taco Bell and compare the new interior & exterior designs with old ones from around the 80's. Major aspects of hipster design is wooden flooring, dull colors and Post-Modern, glass buildings & skyscrapers. Another major thing that the 2010's will definitely be remembered for is the insane PC SJW culture and identity politics, the exposing of fake news and the overall Trump era of politics.
In terms of music, the 70s were all about Progressive rock, balled pop, funk, disco and punk. The 70s(and along with the late 60s) were possibly the best decade for film in terms of artistic meaning and talent
@scot lawrence No dabbing is deep rooted in pop culture trough hip hop and rap, it’s also in a bunch of memes unironic and ironic people won’t forget about dabbing
I remember 80s nostalgia already being exploited in the 2000s: GTA Vice City, VH1's "I Love the 80s", Michael Bay's Transformers, TMNT (2007), Angry Video Game Nerd, etc... It hasn't gone away since, continually being repackaged to the new generations.
@@lamontkhoza2856 Was Daft Punk rooted in 80s nostalgia, though? While the Tron-esque aesthetic invokes the 80s vibes, musically they sort of came into their own defining what Nu Disco would eventually become and pioneering the French House sound. French House was easily more inspired by disco and late 70s funk than 80s synth trends as well. Could make a case for them being inspired by retrofuturism in their character designs, but, ehh....still don't consider them to be a symbol of 80s nostalgia when they were mid 90s as fuck when it came to their musical stylings and the samples used in Discovery were mostly from the mid to late 70s.
@@lamontkhoza2856 The Robot Rock video wasn't really loaded with 80s tropes. Hell, the whole set evoked images of the Old Grey Whistle Test and other empty studio performance type shows, and OGWT was around since early 70s. The robot suits were a retro futuristic style and the video was shot on VHS, but neither of those were as much a direct homage to the 80s as any of the other examples listed. And musically, the whole thing was structured yet again around late 70s music more than the 80s. The backbone of the piece is riffing on a 1979 Breakwater sample, even! Unlike the examples the OP listed in their comment, Daft Punk never exploited nostalgia for the 80s in their work. They may have peppered in elements, but all music borrows from other works. There's a difference between using and expanding upon past elements to create a new work and exploiting nostalgia with remakes and rehashes that don't do much other than point and go "hey, 'member the 80s?" Do I see elements of the 1980s in Daft Punk? Sure. Like I mentioned, their who robot person does have trends of Tron, which they obviously eventually had direct involvement with the franchise later in their career, but the whole concept of robo DJs isn't really a decade trait and as mentioned if any era of music were the biggest influence to Daft Punk it would be the mid 70s disco and funk scene. The 80s were more about synthpop and new wave in the dance circles. The 80s influences with them begin and end purely by the fact that they are house artists.
@@TheAmazingSpiderPunk @@TheAmazingSpiderPunk bro I love daft punk as much as you. I just said that their work(especially their later stuff) evokes a lot of 80s iconography(AT LEAST TO ME), Iever mentioned anything about "exploiting" nostalgia. You clearly have a passion for the band and their music, I appreciate that. Have a good day man
I think the 2010's has been one of the most constantly changing decades in american culture for young people. 2010-2013, 2014-2016, and 2017-2019 honestly felt like their own decades just by how people acted, how people interacted with each other, what was popular, how people dressed, and the slang people used in those timespans. I mean, did you ever hear anyone under the age of 13 unironically say swag after 2013? Now that theres only a little more than 2 months left of this decade I can definitely say it will go down in history as one of the most interesting decades. You may not think it now but then again, that's what everyone said about the 2000's for the most part.
Yes! The world is becoming more dinamic with the internet, and now tendencies are way faster. There are people that are already feeling nostalgia of the early 2010s. Heck, 2011 looks like ages ago (or maybe it's just my impression)
2010s is defined by technology, ultra consumerism, memes, hipsters, increase of mental illness, mumble rap, hype brands, superhero movies. You get the idea.
The early 2010s (2010-13) had an identity. It felt like a unique extension of the 2000s in the same way that the early 00s felt like an extension of the 90s. 2014-15 were the shifting point, still good, but you could see the cracks forming. 2016-present, hell breaks loose.
Exactly! 2010-2013 were really fun & important years for me even though I got badly bullied then, 2014-2015 was when things went downhill but it still had some good fun things from 2010-2013 but it was very quickly becoming very different & bad. 2016-2019 were shit, now it’s the same but worst.
Agreed. A lot of people think the same about the time period. 2010 to 2013 was dark and edgy with conspiracy culture on the rise and people waking up to the established powers. It was also a time of optimism and consciousness expansion where people were getting into new age stuff, spirituality etc. I think the cause of the decline mid-decade was the divisiveness among people, with wokeness and cancel culture on the rise, the killing of male/female dynamics, and people's obsessive focus on politics. It killed people's sense of unity and the cultural zeitgeist suffered for it.
@@millenniumman7461 The 2010-2013 period have been beneficial if u were an adult but to the kids it couldve been/was a traumatizing period cuz of all these conspiracy theories, creepypastas and what not, given of course that u were actually lookin at this stuff and didn't had the guidance to distinguish what was and what wasnt beneficial. In my Experience, it was actually what awoke anxiety in me and thus suffered cuz of it for yrs after and i think that many people had some shitty Experience like that in that period this becoming some grumpy ass cancel culture privilaged bonkers but apart from that, the 2010-2013 were really an extension of the blessed creativity that 2005+ was and that was truly beautiful if you knew how to truly experience these times ; ) After 2013 it started gettin shit tho ngl but considering the nature of the internet and what of an Effect it had on people and their thinking its not rly that surprising.
Right now, you can't see the forest for the trees. People say this about every decade, when they are in the middle of that decade. Give it ten or twenty years, and the trends will be obvious to everyone
Meh, I don't really see that happening. I've lived through the 2000's and that's almost 10 years since it passed, and almost 20 years since it started . Still I find it hard to pinpoint a culture to it except some music trends and fashion styles.
I was just searching for a comment that stated this so that I could give my like to it! So you're welcome! :) But seriously, we can't examine the decade that we are currently living in the same generalizing ways as we can think of decades that either are way behind or we never got to see. I bet that if you had asked someone in the seventies "what will this decade be remembered of?", they would most likely have thought of it pretty much in the same way we think of 2010s now. It will happen, don't get all existential about this!
Exactly. Who knows what will be next? Electric cars could take over in the 20s making that the identity of the 20s. A new type of smartphone could develope locking the current one in as the 10s. Cant really judge atm.
My words exactly, I have to disagree with this video, saying that '2000s and 2010s has no identity' this early is too soon. My personal theory is we will get a real identity for the 2010s in 2040 when the people who lived in that decade will give it personality, like we are seeing now with the 90s. (synth, tv static, vcrs, neon colors, comic books and 16 bit games) The creators: writers, artists, musicians, film and game makers are still young and have yet to influence media as much as the 90s have.
30 years?! You think it's gonna take until almost 2050 to define the 2010's?! -- PC SJW culture and its backlash, brexit, hipster fashion & the hipster aesthetic (including undercuts, beards, flannel, skinny jeans & leggings as pants, Pastel hair, etc...), Dubstep, Vaporwave, Dreadhead Mumble Rap, fidget spinners, Facebook, Instagram, Minecraft, Fortnite (and other overrated FPS games), Vines, etc... Come on, don't act like you don't know what defines this lame-ass decade...
That was the 2000s, with sites like Myspace and early Facebook and early RU-vid. The 2010s is the peak of social media, with twitter, Instagram and snapchat
Early 2010s Minecraft- let's play Crazy-pop songs/ oversaturization Rise of RU-vid iPhones were becoming affordable for many Late 2010s Transition towards clout culture and mumble rap Semi blip in EDM popularity Corporate RU-vid MEMES IPhones are crazy expensive again Overly political atmosphere(at least in US) At least from my perspective as a kid born in 2002
The thing that defined the 2010s culturally was *memes*, the mass expansion of them, today even old people can identify and even create memes, it wasn't like that before.
that was my first thought. i think a lot of people have been dropping various social medias since lockdown, after getting frightened by how much time we spent spaced out on the platform of choice, which means that maybe memes will become less common now with fewer people to share them.
I’m pretty sure memes are going to culturally define decades to come, they were a thing in the 2000s, they were a thing in the 2010s, and they’re still a thing today, it’s not like it’s going away like crystal pepsi or something. 2000s memes are associated with the 2000s so I’m pretty sure it’s just going to be “2010s memes” not “memes in general defined the 2010s”
you can't define a decade while you're in it. you need some distance from it to see what things will get stuck in the popular psyche and become a mainstay in the social history annals.. I lived through the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. None of the those decades had an 'image' while I was in them, the image emerged long after the decade passed by. It takes a good 10-15 years distance. I also think the current decade also has some obvious distinguishing features - reality tv stars, memes, the popularity of superhero and 3d films, the rise of social media - facebook, twitter, etc , RU-vid and Instagram stars, right wing politics, talent shows, political correctness and censorship, various movements from transgender rights, to Black Lives Matter, the occupy movement, the arab springs, the me too and times up movement, etc, new ways to monetise aspects of life previously done only by a certain profession - uber, airbnb, go fund me, tenner, etc The list is long. Every age and every generation has its own character. the 10s will be clearly defined by about 2020 - 2035.
Thank you both! Once he started harping on the 2010s but included a bunch of photos and videos that clearly showed we dress differently than elsewhere in history, his argument fell apart. We don't dress like the 2000s or 90s. Our music and movies have taken on different tones. You can't see that from within though. Of all their other great videos, this one felt weaker and less well thought out.
I partially agree, but even the 90s aren't as defined as the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I do think that culturel movements got spread out over time, nowadays theres a movement for almost anything. But maybe your right, Im from 1990 so I might still not have a good view on the previous decades / having experience living in them.
I agree. the 2000s already has an image to me now that it's passed, VHS, old RU-vid, modern cartoons, Pixar, 2003 games. That's what it is to me, and probably will be to a lot of people.
The things that do define the 2010s (Even though they're not over yet.) - EDM - Spotify and Apple Music over physical music - Marvel cinematic universe - Memes becoming massively popular in pop culture - Drake - E-Gaming culture
People said the same thing about the 90s in 2001 and the 2000s in 2011. Decades' identities are defined in hindsight. We're just too close to it. It all still feels normal to us because we lived it.
I know for a fact that I felt super jealous in the early 2000s when I said "Man, it sucks the 90s (aka my era) isn't nostalgic compared the 80s and before!" Then came the late 2000s/early 2010s and people feel nostalgic for the 90s. Now, we're in 2022 and people are now feeling nostalgic for the 2000s.
Twiggeh Defined eras of the past weren’t as clean cut as that, though. It’s not like a new decade starts and everyone just decides to start afresh with a different theme. There’s overlap and gradual change. Things need to carry on changing until they’re substantially different to recognise that difference.
Well, for adults, there's NOTHING to really have nostalgia for in the 2010s. But us kids, growing up in the era, we had things like newgrounds, flash animations, games like black ops 1 and 2, the ps3 and xbox 360, etc. That's what can define US. But adults really have nothing. That's why no one really knows.
Most of the stuff you listed is more 2000's stuff than 2010's. There's really not much to be nostalgic about from the 2010's. The only thing I can think of is the early 2010's car scene. That was pretty cool and had a vibe of its own that disappeared after 2012. Still got pics saved of modified cars from that era and they make me feel nostalgic af.
In combination with that, the decentralization of the production of information, but not the decentralization of the review of the truthfulness of information.
nope memes were around way befor the timeline of this video starts and are goign to be around way after the 2010, it's not what defines the 2010 especially
I would say the 80s was a culture ecstasy of bright colors loud experimental music and drugs and considering the cold war was still a thing people literally party like there was no tomorrow because too them there probably wasn't a tommorw mabye thats why everyone is so depressed right now its like a culture hang over
@ABC 123 How, exactly? I was just curious, because it doesn't seem like the kind of terminology people would have used back then. Can _you_ provide any sources for this?
Memes are gonna stay don’t worry they will still exist in the 2020s And no they are not dead they are bigger than ever as there are 6 million people in r/memes and you could see posts from minutes ago
@FourTwenty Back in the 90s as well people hated on the 90s but as time went on people now miss the 90s and feel very nostalgic for it. Pretty much the same thing for every decade and era
Perhaps the reason older decades have more defined themes is because we've had more time to reflect on them? To say that the decade we are currently living in won't have any memorable traits to us in 30 years seems like a prediction I wouldn't bet on.
Crazycatsbackboi , don’t forget crazy people having the ability to meet other crazy people online and create virtual crazy people communities. The village idiot has never had friends. But now he can meet other village idiots online and create a virtual Village Idiot Village.
Mr. Beat Kinda, but I feel that's too early to say because I feel that only became really noticeable as a cultural zeitgeist fairly recently, and we don't know if that's exactly going to be looked back on fondly enough for people to want to remember, "Hey remember when the it felt like the entire world was at each other's throat and thought everyone who disagrees with them as a soulless automaton? Doesn't that make you Nostalgic?"
@@InquisitorThomas i mean, that's exactly why we remember the 40's and twenties though. the massive bloody wars fought in them. i doubt there were many that ENJOYED the world wars, a few, certainly, but not many. mad jack churchill comes to mind...
Love how you totally forget that the 70s housed a time for one of the biggest cinema booms in history, ended the Vietnam war, made some of the most important strides in music, and was the beginning to the deterioration of trust the average civilian had in the US.
@@dullknifefactory you dont know maybe a war could start that would again define our decade lets hope yhe 2020's are better but with how depraved american society is i doubt it.
@@IStreamDre I wouldnt call sexual content horrifically devious. Exploitation is another matter of course. But nothing wrong with sex really. Or dirty jokes.
Sebastian Lund Nielsen we have had approximately 9 years for anything to show up. If there was anything that defines 2010s culture it would show up now.
but that's a lot like what he said about 9/11, it is a major event that could define the decade, but it doesn't define it in the same way as the earlier decades
I agreed with this video when I first watched it. But then I was thinking about it the next day whilst I was in the shower and I think there are a few things that will define this era. I'll try and break it down in chunks: Music: The 10's saw the rise of Hip/Hop, it was popular before but in the 10's it was the first time Hip/Hop became more popular than Rock music according to Billboard. The rise of streaming over physical sales The rise and fall of Pop music (as in Kesha, Katy Perry, Britney Spears no longer regularly topping the charts) The resurgence of boybands and girl bands, it was very strong in the first 4 years of the 10's until it fizzled out midway Music from 2015 became a lot slower, more authentic and slightly more depressing to coincide with society. Fashion: At the start of the era, chinos and skinny jeans were very much in style thanks to a few indie bands and the likes of One Direction. The Bieber swoop seemed to be everywhere as well. He would then reinvent himself with the blond hair in 2015 which I saw * a lot* of guys copy. The same for girls with Rihanna's red hair during her Loud era (in later years girls would go on to dye their hair pastel colours like greys, violets etc). But in general, fashion was very minimalist and pastel colours were on trend taking inspiration perhaps from 80's nostalgia. Men in general took even more care of themselves than they did in the 00's. Politics: The youth became more involved within politics once again similar to the 60s. President Trump coming into power sparked a social change I believe, especially after going from Barack Obama worrying times were ahead. Brexit happened shocking the nation once again. Terrorism was seemingly on the rise Fake News was huge this era but it may continue into the next era. Teens: Teens were having the least sex ever thanks to the rise in social media Mental health seemed to be on the rise also thanks to social media Became more individualist than ever thanks to social media Teens trust and identify with RU-vidrs over celebrities More socially aware Films & TV: Netflix became massively popular and competes with normal television. The Marvel universe sums up the cinema era of the 10's The film industry becomes obsessed with remakes of old classics Internet: Basically memes and viral trends. The political correctness era boom The "cancelled" culture I think a lot of these trends will stay within the 10's. Some will transcend into the 20's but overall, the 10's did have an era, but due to lack of money in general it isn't as iconic as say the 80's 50's or 60's. When I think about it, the 10's could be split into two halves as 2010-2015 seems strikingly different to 2015-2020
Raheem D I agree with a lot of things u said but I was born in 2004 and I’m quite a big fan of trump so can u explain what you mean by “worrying times”
@@vroomvroom3624 To be fair I don't know the full statistics on which age range voted for who but I believe a lot of young adults voted for Hilary as opposed to Trump. In general, I believe Pop culture was against Trump so a lot of people were shocked and worried when he came into power since he was the antithesis to Obama.
Raheem D yeah I believe that people in their 20s and maybe 30s are the only ages that voted for Hilary over trump so yeah it may be worrying for them but not really for a lot of other people
It will last forever if you guys keep calling anything analog synth or akin to it like that. People just like how it sounds get over it, it's not going anywhere, there was also a huge fascination with the 70s since the 2000s going on, 2000s had the garage rock revival then in the 10s, neo-psychedelia and folk singer songwriters everywhere.
@ippos_khloros Can confirm. I graduated high school in 1998 and my classmates (and myself) were already nostalgic for the 80s while still in high school.
The 80's = the greatest cultural decade ever. It should and will hopefully remain the primary source of youth culture inspiration. Though the kids of today may get the fashion, they def don't get the energy.
People in the 2080's: Hey I found this old RU-vid video from the 2010's where they thought they were some special finality of cultural zeitgeists. Ah the decade of entitlement. Good times. Good times.
I gotta harshly disagree with you regarding the 1970's, Cody. On top of Disco, the 70's were defined by long hair, cut off jeans, cynicism, urban decay, early heavy metal and progressive rock, funk, shit. The 70's has a more distinct identity for a longer time than the 60's. The whole counter-culture aspects of the 60's really only define the tale end of that decade. The majority of the 60's looks hauntingly similar to the 50's in style and aesthetics.
In the 1970s in the UK was defined by rising strikes, high inflation, and fractious politics. The Labour left was building up its power within the party, 4 general elections in 10 years, the Liberal party was back: winning almost 20% of the vote in the two elections of 1974, and Margaret Thatcher took over the Conservative party. The 1970s became the story of the fall of the post-war consensus and the rise of Thatcherism.
True. 1962 and 1968 were totally different. Basically, the "Greater 1950s" was around 1950-1964 (JFK's assassination), and the next era (1960s-1970s turnover) was around 1964-1977. The 1980s could be from 1978-1991 or something like that.
@@eyeamjulian they were still living through it same with gen x in the Early 1980s and also late 90s and early 2000s was more millennials gen z is 2010s and 2020s
Nostalgia has literally always beena thing. Did you know, people in the 50s were nostalgic about the roaring 20s? And people in the Roaring 20s were nostalgic about the 1890s, they even called it "fun 90s"
Unironically meme culture defines this decade. I know it sounds ridiculous as 'meme's have been thought to be nothing more than online jokes until very recently, but they've become a modern way of communication. The cultural zeitgeist is happening online, the political debate is happening online, social networking is happening online, and how are they socialising, politicising and expressing themselves? With memes
Yeah I do think memes are going to die. Memes lasted longer in the early part of the decade - theres a reason why people still Doge or use Impact but don't 🅱️oneless, memes lasted longer but didn't burn as bright as in 2016/17. I think we reached peak meme in 2016-2017. Where one meme dominated over the others, there were new ones every month. And they were mainstream amongst teens. Maybe it's just because I'm a bit older but I don't think we get that to the same level no more. Yeah memes still are a thing but I think their decline is being timed perfectly with the end of the decade. Social media trends will still be a thing, but the Meme will not. Just like how the Mixtape was replaced by the Playlist.
@@NAGxxOUT Piffle. Memes are no more prevalent than they were ten, twenty, or even fifty years ago. They just weren't _called_ memes, but the behavior was exactly the same: Communicating via excerpts of shared experience. It's all "Darmok & Gilad, at Tinagra" even when it's in emoji form.
@@linkalogan I mean yea, if someone asked me when the internet was popularized. But if someone just asked me to think about the 90s I wouldn't think about computers, at least not right away
nobody knew what defined the 2000s in 2009 either. But since then, looking back, we've gained clarity by what had risen to prominence in that decade and has fizzled out since. -Emo/Scene culture -The last of the beige computers -PS2/PS3 Xbox/360 game nostalgia -Pre-Dubstep EDM -The classic meme formats including rage comics & bottom text -The diminishing of online subcultures through forums & chatboards and gradual amalgamation of online interaction into generalised social media platforms. -The beginning of every genre of music beginning to be split into a million different subgenres to appeal to specific niches - Metal was the canary down the mine -WoW and CoD bringing videogames into more mainstream and pop-cultural awareness -The introduction of smartphones and later tablets making things previously accessible only through computing more accessible to the less technologically literate. My predictions for the 2010s -Every damn thing has a virulent subculture attached, but they congregate in spaces within social media platforms and on specific online communities almost like nation states -Related to the above, every damn thing has an app -The rise & fall of Dubstep & Trap EDM -Increasing detachment from geography and increasing attachment to subsets of interests, belief systems and ideologies enabled by online spaces where social circles and social movements are far more scattered. -The commodification of social justice issues for both market and social currency. The 2020s will see a cynical rejection of this by Gen Z -Cameras everywhere begin the culture where everybody is watched by everyone else. Government institutions don't become more censorious, but collectively the kangaroo court of public opinion try & sentence people the moment a piece of media gains a large degree of attention. -The geographic public square becomes more obsolete than ever, evidenced by the #Occupy movement. Social causes move to privatised online space. Late in the decade, this juxtaposition of private platforms effectively usurping the public square and traditional media has yet to be reconciled, as there are no viable alternatives to these platforms. -The watershed of algorithms directing people toward confirmation-bias content leading to increasingly splintered, polarised and fragmented societies increasingly insulated from contradictory views, becoming less capable of dealing with them effectively, and becoming useful idiots for whichever way the algorith decides to prod them.
Uh, it was pretty clear that Facebook was the number one thing that defined that decade..like the internet that defined the 90's. RU-vid has defined the 2010's.
@@danielyoung2027 Facebook didn't exist to the general public until 2006, and didn't really start picking up steam to be recognisable as the platform we know today until 2008-9 or so, and even then, its social and political impact weren't felt yet, at least not nearly enough to be remotely as defining as it has been of the 2010s RU-vid is on a similar timeline. It has a huge social impact, but that social impact is more segmented than facebook.
Clement Moraschi 99’ kid here, I can vote now. Fuck millennials and fuck everything they’ve fucked up in our already fucked up world. Fuck social justice. Fuck political correctness. It’s about time we free ourselves up from made up superficial trend-like societal values. Trump was only elected in America because black and gay millennials enjoy the attention gained from being victimized. Black people greatly over exaggerate the levels of racism and gay people want to force their values down other people’s throats, people hate this, but the media enables and promotes this behaviour. The media then proceeeds to promote Hillary who then also proceeds to enable and promote the same behaviour. As a result the people say fuck Hillary, I’ll take garbage over shit, so they elect Trump. That’s all I have to say, and no I’m not white or American but politics is the same around the world, your Gen Z comment really brought out the pure hatred I have for millennials.
I couldnt agree more with your "Gen Z" rebound point. Culture is like a pendulum, it kind of oscillates because of the establishment and breakdown of cultures and subsequent establishment of counterculture as the new status quo. I think we're seeing social justice movements' prominence because millenials are rejecting the "raciness" of the previous status quo. This rejection will then be the new norm and the following generations will naturally counter it.
It’s not hard to say nothing defines the 2010’s when we’re still IN the 2010s. Once the 2010’s end and we know what will remains and what will disappear we will know what defines the 2010’s.
but like he said, the 2010s are ending, we have already had 9 of the 10 years. so unless something REALLY big will happen in the next year you can pretty much define it already...
Lifeisgood72 I think its probably gonna be a growing amount of political division and social media. Along with questions of what happens to the big tech -companies- monopolies.
@@qyvonl5876 But like Lifeisgood72 said, in the 2020's we will see what carried over from the 2010's and what didn't, and THEN we will be able to properly define the decade.
@@ReformedSooner24 But that would be so big that it would definatly span into the 2020s, and like with ww2 would count in as in the one where it is in longest, which would probably be the 2020s...
You just don't feel like anything defines this decade because you're too busy living it to notice. The traits of the decade will become more noticeable later on when they're gone. Oh and mark my words, EDM and Marvel movies will be two things people remember. I'd like to say hip hop too, but I fear it will still be around for a quite a while to come.
EDM hasn’t been big since like 2013 it’s niche now but I do see it coming back in the future as technology progresses.... then again maybe not idk but sound cloud rap is Definitly more of a phase if anything
Its the rise of social media and smartphones. Yes, it will still be here in the 2020s, but in a different way. 2010s had transition from blackberry to smartphones. 2020s has full decade with smartphones with bluetooth devices. 2010s pop culture also was clearly defined by femal pop stars until nesr the end of the decade. Come on guys. Saying that social media and smartphones cant define 2010s because they still exist in 2020 is like saying the ipod and wired headphones dont define the 2000s because they still existed well into the 2010s. As for nostalgia? 1000% corporations will find 2010 nostalgia. Theres so much there!! Skinny jeans, hightops, red flannels, youtube video formats, pop culture... i could go on. I dont know what this video was on about. Its clearly so wrong.
@@nathandrake5544 yeah but PC of the 90s was completely different from what it was/is in the 2010s. In the 90s being PC meant being colorblind and striving for equality for all members of society, whereas in the 2010s colorblindness suddenly was labelled "racist" and in order to be "woke" you *have to* divide people into groups according to their race and gender identity and treat each group differently, reinvent the rules as you go along and basically throw equality in the trash while pretending to still be fighting for equality. I would say that the 2010's is best defined by the culture war if woke vs. red-pilled.
i actually think memes are slowly going away. memes are dying faster than ever. 2016 was the peak of memes and now they only last like 2 days. so yeah, this is the decade of memes
@@amayasnep sure, memes will probably never disapear. But over the 2010s, the paradigms behind how they form shifted dramatically. Just look at how far content on youtube has changed between 2008 and 2018 if you want to see it in action.
d1jezek I actually miss how the Mid 80's to the Mid 00's tried to be cool and 'extreme to the max'. The 2010's is so lame, boring, minimalistic and serious in almost every aspect besides memes, especially when it comes to fashion, Pop music, advertising and logo & web design... Companies hardly even make catchy jingles for commercials anymore or put Rock music in it like back in the day. Nowadays, you usually just hear corny, acoustic hipster music with whistling in the background, like in those BP Invigorate commercials with the lazy Flash/Go Animate type design... If I could make some changes in the world, I'd make everything "extreme to the max" again.
Crimea River the early 2010’s were still kind of holding onto that 2000s style of music so that’s why I always confuse myself when thinking some songs made in the 2010s were made in the 2000s and why im always listening to 2000’s songs. (Even though I was born in 2005 so im basically growing up in the 2010s)
@@Galidorquest Same. Also, the mid-late 2000's had a dark, gritty aesthetic to them and I liked that. GTA IV, Fallout 3, Sin City, The Spirit and Batman Begins for example. I'd bring that aesthetic back in a heartbeat. Everything being bright and colourful has become the new grey. I think people want a bit of darkness again because it would be more fitting for times we're living in rather than the pastel colours that corporations are forcing down our throats, desperately trying to convince us that everything is fine when it's far from it.
I'd have to disagree with you on that. It's definitely important for technology moving forward, however, the video focuses more on cultural trends as opposed to technological developments. It is likely the 2010s will be known for the onslaught of memes, short-lived cultural trends, superhero franchises, and contemporary RU-vid channels. Granted modern technology is instrumental in making this possible, for instance, we needed large-scale networking to make RU-vid so things like Jake Paul could come about, but the technology in itself isn't a cultural trend. I think the 2010s will also be remembered for the numberless hordes of people who hate new media and feel depressed about things. Plus the extreme political tension with the 2016 us presidential election will give us another interesting thing to look back on.
No... throughout our entire history each decade had a flavor or flare to it. Maybe you’re too young but in the 90s I thought this decade has no style or flare that will be iconic when looking back from the future... now that we are far past the 90s it definitely did have a style... you won’t notice it until you are way out of the current decade and I’m sure when we are far in the 2020s you will realize the 2000s had a distinct style and later the 2010s will.
@@hhhhhhhng4380 True. We are starting to see it, especially the early 2000s. really Baggy clothes. Eminem, 50cent, gunit etc, white Airforce 1s, flip phones, skateboarding etc. Great Japanese cars(end of the 90s start of the 2000s), Evo, Nissan Skyline
Jeffie Jeff's Art One can easily pinpoint all of the current decade's most popular fashion trends by the 4th - 7th year if they watch for patterns in society. Some fashion trends that define the 2010's are: The man-bun, the Dan TDM hairstyle, the pompadour, Justin Timberlake's undercut, free form dreads, taper fades, Chief Keef type dreads, the Rick Ross/Drake beard and "the studio beard" as Wikipedia calls it, oversized Palestinian scarves in all weather conditions to complete the hipster look, jean jackets (part of the bs Grunge Revival hipster style), patterned button-up shirts (usually floral), skinny jeans (a trend that was popularized by emo/scene kids and The New Boyz, just a little fun fact), leggings as pants without a skirt, running shoes as casual shoes (typically the black 2013 Nike Free Runs) and those tacky brown slip-on shoes or "boat shoes" w/o socks with the pant-legs rolled up like Steve Urkel. Skinny jeans and leggings as pants are the modern-day equivalent of Bell Bottoms in the 70's. The average male in their teens - 40's since 2012 to the present looks like Richard Karn from Home Improvement with a taper fade. (Even Eminem, Alex Jones and Ted Cruz are doing the hipster beard now. Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest have tried it as well.) And the average female Millennial is either a predictable, cookie-cutter hipster-geek or a Kardashian/Jenner-wannabe. Badda Bing. A quick rundown of our lame, crappy fashion trends before the decade ends. We see these trends all the time, online and offline and they certainly won't age well 20+ years from now if they look bad already. Decade-defining music trends: Corny Indie/Hipster music (usually with whistling, corny instruments like the ukulele and/or dramatic echo effects like in Adele's songs and "Take Me To Church") Dubstep, Trap and dreadhead Mumble Rap. Game trends since the release of the PS3: Heavily dominated by hyper-realistic first person shooters with a long story line. Movie trends: Mostly either superhero or sci-fi related or a bad reboot like the third wave feminist Ghost Busters. Logo design: Bland and lacks 3D popart design. Just look at how the Google logo evolved, or devolved, rather. Trends in Home and Building design, interior & exterior: Wooden flooring, dull colors, hipster art and glass, Post-Modern design. Culture trends: Insane PC SJW culture and identity politics that's pushed by the emboldened left after the election of the first colored, pro-gay, liberal POTUS. And also the exposing of fake, biased news. There you have it, the 2010's in a nutshell from 2019.
i was going to say meme culture as well, but this decade wasn't the "birth" of it. It was more the expansion and mainstreamization of the meme culture itself.
the rise of the right through that monopoly on meme culture as well. Thumbs up if it'd be increadibly easy for corporations to capitalize on your nostalgia for 1930's Germany
What do you mean possibly ww3 with a year and a mount left if a war did happen it would be more of a 2020’s thing and plus it’s unlikely that WW3 is going to happen that fast out of nowhere.
Didn't see it at the time, but the early 2010s were truly something special, "the calm before the storm". 2015 + has been nothing but degeneracy, bickering, and disaster.
@ippos_khloros this comment reminds me of Trey Parker in regards to South park becoming "less hyperbolic than real life" essentially meaning its hard nowadays to create impactful satire because life has become so blatantly and overtly satirical