I feel like maybe around 2012 the whole concept of eras died.

Like I can clearly visualize items/people/media from the 60s/70s/80s/90s/00’s, but everything is homogenized now and there’s really no “style of the time” either. I think everything from 2013+ will just be remembered as a malaise era, if anything. Maybe the style of the 2050’s will be post cyberpunk apocalyptic? I have no idea.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    Nothing ever unfolded neatly by the decade, but a themepark version could be compiled after the fact. It’s harder when you can’t even talk about “the 00s” gracefully, though. How do you say that?

    I’m pretty sure this is a Randall Monroe observation that I’m just repeating. Relevant XKCD, from 2017.

    • turdas@suppo.fi
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      2 days ago

      It’s harder when you can’t even talk about “the 00s” gracefully, though. How do you say that?

      The aughts/oughts/noughts/noughties, depending on where you’re from.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        23 hours ago

        Yeah, and none of them have really fully caught on. In real life I have to say “two-thousands” to definitely be understood, and even then people misread it as the century sometimes and are confused.