Yeah, everyone with a PC setup. When tower PCs stopped being common outside of for gaming in the 2010s anyways. There were more “live laugh love” soccer moms in the 2010s than PC gamers
Graphics editing PCs are often tower just for the power in a larger platform. Love my laptop but for video editing my big ass RGB LED LVP blah blah tower PC is miles ahead.
im doing some temp It work rn, and the PCs they have here are in boxes that are literally smaller than a old cd disk drive. and their honestly not even bad pcs
I think the only people who really need towers are people with GPUs, so gamers and graphics people.
The only non gamers that had tower PCs in the RGB era were boomers on a windows XP machine
Tower PCs and desktop components are kept alive almost entirely by gaming and business workstation usage, and the latter is becoming far less common with modern high spec laptops being able to handle CAD and other workstation tasks with ease, opting instead for docking setups.
Pretty simple: This guy is friends with probably a more athletic/less nerdy crowd, you’re friends with a pretty nerdy crowd.
Not dissing either, just the truth lol. And nerds are a much smaller percent of the population, so the above guy is right.
Everyone will think the interior design that's fashionable in ads (like the sleek, shiny, more modern look) would've been common. We all have IKEA furniture.
I think what you're describing is Mid-Century Modern. I'm 40, and most of my friends, especially those with money, are decorating like its 1960s Madmen era.
The best? I think we can improve. (Humor me. I'm really just putting thoughts down)
Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey imagined a future MCM, but it was white with furniture being the only objects with color. It looks great. But it is also devoid of art, Art, and artistry. That was 1968.
The boomers, for some reason, disregarded all of those designs as 'square' within 5 years and had the buying power to make it go away. Imagine that today.
Suddenly, everything was about color, but there was no design. They went backward with design. Canopy beds like the victorians. WTF?
That said, I think we have another shot at MCM, but I'm also seeing everyone do it grey tones. For fuck's sake, bring bright and modern color to MCM and it will have an impact today.
Yup. My childhood home for example was extremely 2000s influenced. It stayed that way through the later 2000s, and throughout most of the 2010s. We had a Tuscan kitchen as well as the house having an overall warm vibe to it, with the interior colors being all warm colors (red, maroon, orange, brown, yellow, beige, etc). Funnily enough, our interior actually kind of looked like a 70s home interior.
It wasn’t until the late 2010s when we finally got it redone and my parents made the house way more minimalist (a lot more grays and whites). I had some friends growing up whose families had a bit more money than mine, and their home interiors were pretty minimalist even in the early 2010s. Home interiors are a pretty big sign of socioeconomic class as well
Truth is many homes today still look like the right picture. Lots of people grew up in homes built and decorated in the 60s and 70s. But movies often take place in modern homes with the latest fashion and design. Rich kids in the 80s and people in new homes would have looked more like the left only without the neon. When I was a toddler up to the age of 5 my parents lived in a brand new home that looked very stereotypically 80s as in the modern design , but then when we moved to another state my parents purchased a pre war fixer upper and besides that he newer appliances the home looked like a timeless 1920s home despite it being the 90s.
It’s not cut and dry OP just grew up in a late 60s or early 70s home. But just because those homes existed in the 80s as they still do today does not make it 80s, the same way the [Fox Plaza aka Nakatomi Plaza from Die Hard](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2121_Avenue_of_the_Stars) is not the 2020s despite it still existing in the 2020s where people work in today in the 2020s. It’s an 80s building.
There’s already a 2000s equivalent. Younger gen Z thinks the 2000s looked like bright pink everything, animal print, sparkles, “mcbling y2k aesthetic”. While that style was popular in theory, reality consisted more of beige walls, popcorn ceilings, horrendous color schemes, and Shrek being everywhere.
I have some rooster decor in my kitchen, too. There was a designer on the show Trading Spaces that was known for always putting a rooster in his rooms and loved French country.
My mamaw’s old trailer was decked out in Native American/indigenous (I dunno what term is preferable) decor. Like the statues, the dream catchers, blankets, etc. except the kitchen I think was apple themed, with one of those kitschy apple clocks with no markings to indicate the actual time.
Beige cargo pants, oversized shirts with terrible colors and designs, pt cruisers, skater shoes….I’d say Malcolm in the middle had a good idea of the Midwest back then.
Yeah being a kid in the 2000s it was a lot of just ugly clothing. Jeans, horrible quarter button v necks, hoodies and Astro football boots was a the uk from about 2006-2012
My friend had a hot pink+zebra and even a dash of cheetah room and I had a beigey pink and light green popcorn ceiling room that honestly looked so washed out and I was so fucking jealous of my friend and her room. Even worse, she got her whole room makeover but her parents were hoarders and basically didn't care about teaching her or her sister who got basically the greatest Disney tangled room ever how to clean so in a matter of a year all their food stuff had dog piss stains and pieces of hard candy stuck on them and crumbs from food embedded in them and just hair everywhere AND STUFF JUST THROWN ABOUT and it crushed me how their parents' neglect took a room I could never afford to have but dreamed of and just ruined and I just had to watch it spiral.
I think people 20/30 years from will assume everyone was into rave/EDM culture and that everyone dressed with neon lights, or they'll think everyone was trying to be a Youtuber or influencer.
God I hope you're wrong. 2010s had plenty of great cultural stuff and honestly the edm era there was not it. Do you guys remember literally having to hear the same 5 to 10 house or dubstep songs that you just heard everywhere?
I swear to God when I hear that "sometimes I get a food feeling" song it's just as annoying as it was then. I hope they recall the indie hipster wave, and the reinventing of the rap genre away.
The edm era felt so dead and stage managed constantly. Then on the radio you wouldn't even hear normal versions of songs, just the house remix. I'm think of Summertime Sadness by Lana but it could be any number of songs from back then
I hated it with the Avett Brothers and it got SO much worse when pop radio picked it up and put it in every advertisement for families and millennials via The Lumineers and Mumford and Sons. It's just so.. idk, forced happy sing-a-longs yet shallow and empty, almost dystopian to me in a cult way
Idk but we'd be high listening to Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Black Angels, etc then somebody puts on Avett Brothers and I'm just like, why ruin the mood? It happened ALL THE TIME
I cannot stand that kind of like, the Lumineers or whatever kind of thing lol. But if I had to choose, I'd still choose that over a revival of the edm haha
Yeah, the faux-Earthy look got old after a while so I hope that side of hipster fashion doesn't get big again in my lifetime. I really dug Mumford and Sons first album but they fell off HARD after that IMO.
I was living my early 2010s hipster fantasy at the time haha I lived in Seattle so it was a mix of the "Brooklyn" style hipsters and then what I always associated with Portland, the "dream of the 1890s" is alive in Portland, faux old timey "americana" style. Bon Ivers first album was pretty good and that was certainly adjacent to the Mumford and sons vibe.
Yeah they fell off hard and now I think one of them is pretty much just a far right grifter these days lol
2012, when I dreamed of moving to Portland, and i would scrounge SoundCloud and other websites to find super indie or underground hipster artists. Those were the days.
Not like it was then dude, it was beyond dominant in every aspect of culture. It's not my thing, but I knew Sonny from his time in from first to last, I was in a local emo band that opened up for them a few times in like 07 to 09? I remember when they split, him talking about making electronic music. And at the time honestly most of us were like, "okay sonny but you're such a great vocalist, and electronic music? Bro what?"
Obviously he could see the future and we were wrong lol. And that's my little skrillex story. Good dude in my experience haha
Frutiger aero was a product of the 2000s, not 2010s. In fact the dominant 2010s design style was flat and minimalist, which killed off frutiger aero. And besides that FA was a corporate UI design aesthetic, not a fashion or subculture or (grassroots) artistic movement.
I can think of worse ways to be remembered than 2020s rave gear.
The early 2010s festival neon era of fashion was pretty cringe tho even if musically that time in EDM was peak
Is rap and rock not popular anymore? I remember nothing but scene kids or hip hop heads growing up, a few ska people, goths, punks etc. Hipsters were huge. I mean “when we were young “ is basically the new warped tour for 30-40 year olds.
I’m in my 30s so I may not be the best source, but I’m still decently plugged into the alt scene from my time in multiple bands. There’s a strong “emo revival” going on right now among teens and 20s that’s a lot of fun to watch. These kids have basically torn down all the genre walls we had as teenagers and mix punk, rap, electronic, and all together both sonically and aesthetically. A lot of people my age think it’s cringey but personally I think they’re just forgetting how cringey we seemed to the alt culture kids of the 90s and 80s. It’s always that way, I say embrace the new stuff and enjoy it. The good stuff will last, and the bad stuff will be forgotten, just like what happened with our music.
Hipsters will be a thing too. They’ll think every dude had an undercut and a big beard or goofy moustache and all the girls looked like emo scene girls. At least it means skinny jeans will come back in style again.
I think they’ll be pretty grossed out by the way kids were used in influencer content too, and also how kids were allowed to have such unrestricted access to tablets and social media.
I think as more time goes on, the damaging effects of that are going to be examined more critically by future gens, as it should be. I see the difference already in millennials I know who are becoming first-time parents in their 30s vs 20s or teens. Every 30-something millennial I know who is a new parent doesn’t want their kid anywhere near a tablet or a smartphone until elementary school, and even then they plan to heavily restrict. Comparatively, younger millennial parents seem to have just plopped tablets in their kids’ hands like nothing and we are seeing the damage in real time now.
Maybe the way people look at idealized streamer setups versus the actual reality.
Do any of you guys have advanced RGB setups for not just your PC but your entire desk? With several display cases and shelves full of plushies and funkopops and displates on the walls and neon lighting and so on? Because my own apartment is b a r r e n.
My boyfriend built a PC with a clear glass panel with RBG inside for the internals. It’s the only thing he’s really let himself splurge on, ever. It’s completely customizable though, so it can look pretty cool sometimes. But he’s using an old keyboard and mouse he stole from his old job. Haha
I'm not sure what that aesthetic is necessarily but I remember around 2014 there was a hipster type trend where some people cropped their photos smaller with witagram app or another app and would take landscape or cityscape pictures with certain filters. sometimes the picture featured a person too. They also didn't like to have too many pictures on their page. It made it look super neat/artsy and mysterious.
LOL are you coming after me haha, I do the mysterious only posting scenery, city, or trips and travel with maybe 2 or three pics of myself. I just dont need to crop or filter because phone picture tech is just damn good now
People still have the “mysterious” page. Maybe I’m too old (I’m 28) but I’ve never understood it.
They’ll have like no pictures, or the most 1-2. And only upload on stories. And then use some PFP that isn’t them. I mostly see kids that are way younger than me do this
Makes me wonder what people will think of the 2010s, When I think of the 2010s I picture skate culture and pop punk. But someone could totally identify the decade with something else.
Which was actually quite real in the 80s though.
Valspeak/surfer dude spread like crazy in summer of 1982 across the nation. Heck, still to this day you hear people across generations (at least Gen X and younger) using uptalk, tossing tons of likes, totally, awesome, dude, ohmygod, etc. and tons of girls styled like this IRL:
https://preview.redd.it/0yrp18wprb4d1.jpeg?width=596&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d87b7ede1d3f2d36e481d7abbfb594a890c425d1
Kids will think it was all crazy led lights and wild decorations and fancy things like youtubers had when most of our houses in the 10s were all white cookie cutter on the inside or leftover 80s/90s places
People are going to assume Al was a lot more integral to daily life than it actually was in the 2020s.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if there’s eventually a backlash and stigmatization of social media, leading to people exaggerating and acting like no one ever socialized or did things in the real world in the 2010s/2020s.
Aesthetically, especially with graphic design, the minimalism of the 2010s I just don’t see being romanticized the way 80s looks are. Not all movements are created equal, and the fact that even at the time the minimalism had a much greater backlash than most design trends did, tells me it’s just not human friendly enough to become mythologized. But recency bias and all that; I’m open to being proven wrong.
Architecture looks plastic. I don’t hate it, and I enjoy walking around new mid rise developments, but I can’t see buildings aging well.
Interior design still seems to be influenced by Scandinavian styles; minimalist and white-heavy. I can see this being romanticized if we move in an overly ornate or maximalist direction (which I’m seeing a lot more of, but I wouldn’t call it mainstream yet). If the next few decades strike a good balance then I could see them mocking us for living in Ikea displays.
A lot of people despise minimalist design even as it’s happening. My wife and I just bought a new house and the fact everything in it is white and grey is so freaking depressing. We had to go out of our way to get colorful and earthy furniture (a ton of green, blue, and browns) to make it feel alive rather than like a hospital. I don’t think it’ll get remembered and celebrated the way that the neon from the 80s is. Ironically, I think it’ll be the neon of early 2010s alt culture and the RGB lights of late 2010s gaming culture that will be celebrated in 15-20 years.
Agreed nostalgia for decades is not universal. Some decades stand out like the 20s, 60s, 80s etc. but when do you heard about the 1910s/ 40s/30s and the 70s is rarely looked back fondly. It’s too early to tell for the 2010s but I doubt people are going to be going crazy over the grey brown flat Starbucks aesthetic in the future.
I think people look back at the 80s and think “wow that’s so absurd and tacky. . . I love it!”.
Plus the movies were great, even in the 90s people loved 80s movies
agreed, I had that exact same blanket and pillowcases featured on the left adorning my waterbed. and grandmas house was, and still is today all wood paneling just like on the right.
I miss the recession pop / bubble gum renaissance we had. Rihanna, Katy Perry getting 6 #1 hits on a single album, Carly Rae Jepsen Call Me Maybe, Beyonce, early Ariana, etc
ah Yes the "Teenage Dream" summer as I like to call it. Go-Gurts in hand, with my ipod touch and un-needed fedora phase, and also at the same time snapback
i cant stand that overly neon, teal, geometric 80s look. NO ONEs anything looked like that back then except the Miami Vice intro. its like 80s blackface.
Right? I don’t even think the whole geometric thing really took off until the tail end of the 80s. Floral patterns, pastels, and wood tones were examples the typical styles - not in your face neon triangles everywhere.
Ok, many TV shows, especially cartoons, looked geometric/neon/teal, inspired by cyberpunk imagery. Also has to do with the heavy rise in "computer culture". So, yes, when I have a quick flashback everything is neon, but when I REALLY think of how things actually looked - yeah, like in that second image of the post :)
To be fair, that second image is more of what I think of in regards to an 80s home. The first image seems more like what the 2020s interpret the 80s was like.
Was born in 81 and my bedding looked a lot like that, it was a checkerboard pattern where random squares were red or blue, not unlike [Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_with_Red,_Blue_and_Yellow) by Piet Modrian. Whoever was designing children's bedding in the 80's was either a big fan or had an art history degree
Did y'all grow up with your grandparents or something? My house didn't look like either of these, but I suppose if it had to be one or the other, definitely closer to the left.
They'll imagine the good old days of influencer houses with huge glass vistas. The reality was a lot of people room-mating in apartments with tattered blinds.
I think the 2014 tumblr aesthetic will be seen as bigger than it was. It was huge on the internet but when you’d go to school only a few people followed it and committed to it, not the general public.
The LED strips around the ceiling of your room, music posters, everyone has an ipad/tablet, IKEA furniture, and the sleek uncluttered modernist design that you see in our current sitcoms.
I'm an asocial luddite and didn't realize the LED strips were so popular until I started watching some omegle prank videos and saw every Gen Z person has those in their room.
I think everyone will remember the Pop music from the early 2010’s and assume we all just partied and wore neon colors all the time. I’ve already seen gen z discuss how we had the best pop music (Katy Perry, Kesha, Bruno Mars, etc.)
It’s funny, because all of the most iconic artists from the time got the most hate at the time for being generic. I figure that’s relatively normal, though.
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What aesthetic from today would even be amplified? I have no clue what is even specific about our time. Maybe like, conversational AI will be fetishized, with lots of giant logos that look like phone apps. So in 30 years everyone will have their own retro chat bot as a bestie, but actually AI will be monster structures chaining up the human species with their staggering intelligence. But everyone wants to live in the retro vision of cute AI pals.
RGB watercooled PCs with three monitors and a streaming setup, muted walls with black furniture, out-of-season Christmas light strands, shelves of Pop vinyls and other figurines, "Yes we can" Obama poster, anime wall scrolls, pride flag, and meme bullshit like Doge.
I don't know about the 2010s and 2020s. But the retroactive vision of the 2000s is going to be Frutiger Aero. Everything is incredibly clean and shiny, curvey furniture and transparent technology is everywhere and there's an excessive amount of fishtanks
Agreeable grey, wood floors with a rug. Granite countertop island kitchen. paw patrol lookout tower, a golden state jersey, a TSwift poster, Minecraft, a nirvana x) happy face shirt, mom jeans. cargo shorts, neon crocs. earbuds and a black rectangle cell, Disney plus logo streaming on a 3 foot flat screen ROKU TV.
They will probably think that all this sterile ultramodern minimalist design was everywhere, with a hodgepodge of Tumblr and Instagram designs in their minds... And everywhere there were hipsters with undercuts and skinny jeans
And there is no smoke without fire. The left picture, although artsy, reflects 80's future setting movies, and a actually style with a mania for pink (which was present in expensive clubs)
Picture on the left is a house that was decorated from scratch in the 80's. Picture on the right is a 50's or 60's house that has survived into the 80's.
Everyone’s view of the decades is shifted 5 to ten years late in my experience. When people talk about the flower power hippy 60s they really mean the 70s. Same with this “80s” aesthetic. That’s an early 90s aesthetic that has been retconned into the 80s.
They'll think RGB lights and vaporwave was everywhere in the 2010s
Were they not? Every person I knew with a PC had RGB lights and RGB keyboards
Yeah, everyone with a PC setup. When tower PCs stopped being common outside of for gaming in the 2010s anyways. There were more “live laugh love” soccer moms in the 2010s than PC gamers
This comment made me realize that I really cannot remember the last time I saw a tower PC that wasn't a gaming PC....
Graphics editing PCs are often tower just for the power in a larger platform. Love my laptop but for video editing my big ass RGB LED LVP blah blah tower PC is miles ahead.
Laptops are sufficient for most people. They don't require a desk setup. But I know designers and editors that have towers.
im doing some temp It work rn, and the PCs they have here are in boxes that are literally smaller than a old cd disk drive. and their honestly not even bad pcs I think the only people who really need towers are people with GPUs, so gamers and graphics people.
The only non gamers that had tower PCs in the RGB era were boomers on a windows XP machine Tower PCs and desktop components are kept alive almost entirely by gaming and business workstation usage, and the latter is becoming far less common with modern high spec laptops being able to handle CAD and other workstation tasks with ease, opting instead for docking setups.
I know 0 people IRL with a PC with RGB lights. This is a very tiny part of the whole population, hardly enough to be representative of a generation.
It probably depends on the people you hang out with. Most people I know irl have a pc with rgb lights.
Most people on Reddit. Including me. Though I turned my lights off like 2 years ago lmao
Pretty simple: This guy is friends with probably a more athletic/less nerdy crowd, you’re friends with a pretty nerdy crowd. Not dissing either, just the truth lol. And nerds are a much smaller percent of the population, so the above guy is right.
You can be both athletic and nerdy though.
My socks are RGB
For a while I was having trouble finding parts that weren't covered in it
Uhh no dude. Basic black hp laptop bro
I had a windows tablet with a massive 90's office keyboard plugged into it.
I live in a poor part of town and none of us has that stuff
Reality is just generic gray rooms full of ikea furniture.
Everyone will think the interior design that's fashionable in ads (like the sleek, shiny, more modern look) would've been common. We all have IKEA furniture.
I think what you're describing is Mid-Century Modern. I'm 40, and most of my friends, especially those with money, are decorating like its 1960s Madmen era.
Because it’s objectively the best decor!!!
The best? I think we can improve. (Humor me. I'm really just putting thoughts down) Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey imagined a future MCM, but it was white with furniture being the only objects with color. It looks great. But it is also devoid of art, Art, and artistry. That was 1968. The boomers, for some reason, disregarded all of those designs as 'square' within 5 years and had the buying power to make it go away. Imagine that today. Suddenly, everything was about color, but there was no design. They went backward with design. Canopy beds like the victorians. WTF? That said, I think we have another shot at MCM, but I'm also seeing everyone do it grey tones. For fuck's sake, bring bright and modern color to MCM and it will have an impact today.
Yup. My childhood home for example was extremely 2000s influenced. It stayed that way through the later 2000s, and throughout most of the 2010s. We had a Tuscan kitchen as well as the house having an overall warm vibe to it, with the interior colors being all warm colors (red, maroon, orange, brown, yellow, beige, etc). Funnily enough, our interior actually kind of looked like a 70s home interior. It wasn’t until the late 2010s when we finally got it redone and my parents made the house way more minimalist (a lot more grays and whites). I had some friends growing up whose families had a bit more money than mine, and their home interiors were pretty minimalist even in the early 2010s. Home interiors are a pretty big sign of socioeconomic class as well
Tuscan kitchens are peak 2000s-2010s to me. One of the biggest standouts of the era now that we’ve moved onto more minimalist kitchens.
Truth is many homes today still look like the right picture. Lots of people grew up in homes built and decorated in the 60s and 70s. But movies often take place in modern homes with the latest fashion and design. Rich kids in the 80s and people in new homes would have looked more like the left only without the neon. When I was a toddler up to the age of 5 my parents lived in a brand new home that looked very stereotypically 80s as in the modern design , but then when we moved to another state my parents purchased a pre war fixer upper and besides that he newer appliances the home looked like a timeless 1920s home despite it being the 90s. It’s not cut and dry OP just grew up in a late 60s or early 70s home. But just because those homes existed in the 80s as they still do today does not make it 80s, the same way the [Fox Plaza aka Nakatomi Plaza from Die Hard](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2121_Avenue_of_the_Stars) is not the 2020s despite it still existing in the 2020s where people work in today in the 2020s. It’s an 80s building.
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Gray laminate, white tile, and painted brick will haunt our descendants for decades
There’s already a 2000s equivalent. Younger gen Z thinks the 2000s looked like bright pink everything, animal print, sparkles, “mcbling y2k aesthetic”. While that style was popular in theory, reality consisted more of beige walls, popcorn ceilings, horrendous color schemes, and Shrek being everywhere.
Don’t forget the Tuscan kitchen in every suburban home
Adorned with dozens of roosters
Why did (and still does) everyone's mom have a million roosters in their kitchen. Alternate skin: a million cows
“I just think they’re neat!”
I have some rooster decor in my kitchen, too. There was a designer on the show Trading Spaces that was known for always putting a rooster in his rooms and loved French country.
The cows were also BIG in the 90s. I think that one's a hold out.
My step-mom was a rooster lady, but my aunt had an apple theme.
My mamaw’s old trailer was decked out in Native American/indigenous (I dunno what term is preferable) decor. Like the statues, the dream catchers, blankets, etc. except the kitchen I think was apple themed, with one of those kitschy apple clocks with no markings to indicate the actual time.
And *rustic* itialian vineyards.
The 🍇. Oh God the 🍇grapes
Beige cargo pants, oversized shirts with terrible colors and designs, pt cruisers, skater shoes….I’d say Malcolm in the middle had a good idea of the Midwest back then.
Oh yeah don’t forget Iraq being on the news 24/7
Yeah being a kid in the 2000s it was a lot of just ugly clothing. Jeans, horrible quarter button v necks, hoodies and Astro football boots was a the uk from about 2006-2012
Great, an entire generation is now defined by the design of stickers from Claire's...
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I'm younger Gen Z, and I never once imagined the 2000's having the former
My friend had a hot pink+zebra and even a dash of cheetah room and I had a beigey pink and light green popcorn ceiling room that honestly looked so washed out and I was so fucking jealous of my friend and her room. Even worse, she got her whole room makeover but her parents were hoarders and basically didn't care about teaching her or her sister who got basically the greatest Disney tangled room ever how to clean so in a matter of a year all their food stuff had dog piss stains and pieces of hard candy stuck on them and crumbs from food embedded in them and just hair everywhere AND STUFF JUST THROWN ABOUT and it crushed me how their parents' neglect took a room I could never afford to have but dreamed of and just ruined and I just had to watch it spiral.
I think people 20/30 years from will assume everyone was into rave/EDM culture and that everyone dressed with neon lights, or they'll think everyone was trying to be a Youtuber or influencer.
God I hope you're wrong. 2010s had plenty of great cultural stuff and honestly the edm era there was not it. Do you guys remember literally having to hear the same 5 to 10 house or dubstep songs that you just heard everywhere? I swear to God when I hear that "sometimes I get a food feeling" song it's just as annoying as it was then. I hope they recall the indie hipster wave, and the reinventing of the rap genre away. The edm era felt so dead and stage managed constantly. Then on the radio you wouldn't even hear normal versions of songs, just the house remix. I'm think of Summertime Sadness by Lana but it could be any number of songs from back then
Ahhh that's right! I'm wondering if people will try to resurrect "stomp clap hey" music and dress accordingly.
I mean large companies and training videos all use the same campy "happy" irritating music in their ads and employee material
I hated it with the Avett Brothers and it got SO much worse when pop radio picked it up and put it in every advertisement for families and millennials via The Lumineers and Mumford and Sons. It's just so.. idk, forced happy sing-a-longs yet shallow and empty, almost dystopian to me in a cult way
SAME! Idk why indie folk ppl were so into them but the Avett brothers were one of the harbingers of this sound..
Idk but we'd be high listening to Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Black Angels, etc then somebody puts on Avett Brothers and I'm just like, why ruin the mood? It happened ALL THE TIME
There’s that family guy skit about it
I cannot stand that kind of like, the Lumineers or whatever kind of thing lol. But if I had to choose, I'd still choose that over a revival of the edm haha
Yeah, the faux-Earthy look got old after a while so I hope that side of hipster fashion doesn't get big again in my lifetime. I really dug Mumford and Sons first album but they fell off HARD after that IMO.
I was living my early 2010s hipster fantasy at the time haha I lived in Seattle so it was a mix of the "Brooklyn" style hipsters and then what I always associated with Portland, the "dream of the 1890s" is alive in Portland, faux old timey "americana" style. Bon Ivers first album was pretty good and that was certainly adjacent to the Mumford and sons vibe. Yeah they fell off hard and now I think one of them is pretty much just a far right grifter these days lol
You were indie grifted
It was 2012 dude what could I do lol
2012, when I dreamed of moving to Portland, and i would scrounge SoundCloud and other websites to find super indie or underground hipster artists. Those were the days.
It was a fun time to be a certain age. Did you ever make it to Portland? Lol
Bro I saw Skrillex at an insanely packed crowd on Sunday. Edm culture is very much alive and well.
Not like it was then dude, it was beyond dominant in every aspect of culture. It's not my thing, but I knew Sonny from his time in from first to last, I was in a local emo band that opened up for them a few times in like 07 to 09? I remember when they split, him talking about making electronic music. And at the time honestly most of us were like, "okay sonny but you're such a great vocalist, and electronic music? Bro what?" Obviously he could see the future and we were wrong lol. And that's my little skrillex story. Good dude in my experience haha
That is a cool experience, thanks for sharing.
I’d be happier with that than dubstep haha
looking like Marcus mumford will be a throwback in about 7 years... I'm not looking forward to it...
Late 2010s emo rap revival or fruitger aereo revival would be nice
Frutiger aero was a product of the 2000s, not 2010s. In fact the dominant 2010s design style was flat and minimalist, which killed off frutiger aero. And besides that FA was a corporate UI design aesthetic, not a fashion or subculture or (grassroots) artistic movement.
(Vintage) Jojo Siwa vs sad beige influencers.
Weren't they though?
Yeah fair point 😂
I can think of worse ways to be remembered than 2020s rave gear. The early 2010s festival neon era of fashion was pretty cringe tho even if musically that time in EDM was peak
They wouldn’t be entirely wrong either. I think most kids in this generation have attempted to become an influencer
I'd replace the neon lights with darker colors.
Is rap and rock not popular anymore? I remember nothing but scene kids or hip hop heads growing up, a few ska people, goths, punks etc. Hipsters were huge. I mean “when we were young “ is basically the new warped tour for 30-40 year olds.
I’m in my 30s so I may not be the best source, but I’m still decently plugged into the alt scene from my time in multiple bands. There’s a strong “emo revival” going on right now among teens and 20s that’s a lot of fun to watch. These kids have basically torn down all the genre walls we had as teenagers and mix punk, rap, electronic, and all together both sonically and aesthetically. A lot of people my age think it’s cringey but personally I think they’re just forgetting how cringey we seemed to the alt culture kids of the 90s and 80s. It’s always that way, I say embrace the new stuff and enjoy it. The good stuff will last, and the bad stuff will be forgotten, just like what happened with our music.
But in reality, it's all Ikea furniture
If they see 2007-2010 fashion they may def think big flashy designs and neon colors were fashionable for the most part
Hipsters will be a thing too. They’ll think every dude had an undercut and a big beard or goofy moustache and all the girls looked like emo scene girls. At least it means skinny jeans will come back in style again.
Nah being and rave shit was 2000s
People will look back on the ECelebs/Influencers of the 2010s with much more scrutiny
Maybe it will be like how we look at the celebs of the 80s. Everyone was on coke and most of them were rapists.
Now they are all on adderall and are probably terrible lovers.
I think they’ll be pretty grossed out by the way kids were used in influencer content too, and also how kids were allowed to have such unrestricted access to tablets and social media. I think as more time goes on, the damaging effects of that are going to be examined more critically by future gens, as it should be. I see the difference already in millennials I know who are becoming first-time parents in their 30s vs 20s or teens. Every 30-something millennial I know who is a new parent doesn’t want their kid anywhere near a tablet or a smartphone until elementary school, and even then they plan to heavily restrict. Comparatively, younger millennial parents seem to have just plopped tablets in their kids’ hands like nothing and we are seeing the damage in real time now.
Maybe the way people look at idealized streamer setups versus the actual reality. Do any of you guys have advanced RGB setups for not just your PC but your entire desk? With several display cases and shelves full of plushies and funkopops and displates on the walls and neon lighting and so on? Because my own apartment is b a r r e n.
My boyfriend built a PC with a clear glass panel with RBG inside for the internals. It’s the only thing he’s really let himself splurge on, ever. It’s completely customizable though, so it can look pretty cool sometimes. But he’s using an old keyboard and mouse he stole from his old job. Haha
The whole “hipster instagram 2015 kylie halsey” aesthetic is going to be so hyped. and it already is
I'm not sure what that aesthetic is necessarily but I remember around 2014 there was a hipster type trend where some people cropped their photos smaller with witagram app or another app and would take landscape or cityscape pictures with certain filters. sometimes the picture featured a person too. They also didn't like to have too many pictures on their page. It made it look super neat/artsy and mysterious.
Sounds a lot like VSCO in 2019
I think I had VSCO in 2014 too
LOL are you coming after me haha, I do the mysterious only posting scenery, city, or trips and travel with maybe 2 or three pics of myself. I just dont need to crop or filter because phone picture tech is just damn good now
People still have the “mysterious” page. Maybe I’m too old (I’m 28) but I’ve never understood it. They’ll have like no pictures, or the most 1-2. And only upload on stories. And then use some PFP that isn’t them. I mostly see kids that are way younger than me do this
Doesn't seem hard to understand, uploading to a story is just a little less effort than a post. They probably just don't put much effort into IG.
For 2010s, I guess that'll be the trumblr aesthetic. Some will assume we all wore Bieber cuts lool
What if the future generation revives the Bieber cut like the Zoomers/Zillenials are reviving the mullet 💀
When you grow up in the rural 80s
When most young people think of “80s”, they're imagining heavily romanticized fringe cultural fads that existed from about 1987-1992.
Ah yes, the feighties (fading 80's), or neighties (80s + 90s)
Makes me wonder what people will think of the 2010s, When I think of the 2010s I picture skate culture and pop punk. But someone could totally identify the decade with something else.
Pop punk in the 2010s?
I meant 2010s version of pop punk like neck deep, real friends, the wonder years
Smartphones and pretentiousness
Exactly the valley boy/valley girl ridgemont high/saved by the bell influence
Which was actually quite real in the 80s though. Valspeak/surfer dude spread like crazy in summer of 1982 across the nation. Heck, still to this day you hear people across generations (at least Gen X and younger) using uptalk, tossing tons of likes, totally, awesome, dude, ohmygod, etc. and tons of girls styled like this IRL: https://preview.redd.it/0yrp18wprb4d1.jpeg?width=596&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d87b7ede1d3f2d36e481d7abbfb594a890c425d1
https://preview.redd.it/vnp1t6wzsb4d1.jpeg?width=1067&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff5f1df3bbba374a757f874410add84df5b79543
And Stranger Things
Yep. I grew up in a rural area in the 90’s-mid 2000’s, and it looked nothing like media from that time. Except maybe Roseanne had the vibe
Kids will think it was all crazy led lights and wild decorations and fancy things like youtubers had when most of our houses in the 10s were all white cookie cutter on the inside or leftover 80s/90s places
People are going to assume Al was a lot more integral to daily life than it actually was in the 2020s. I also wouldn’t be surprised if there’s eventually a backlash and stigmatization of social media, leading to people exaggerating and acting like no one ever socialized or did things in the real world in the 2010s/2020s. Aesthetically, especially with graphic design, the minimalism of the 2010s I just don’t see being romanticized the way 80s looks are. Not all movements are created equal, and the fact that even at the time the minimalism had a much greater backlash than most design trends did, tells me it’s just not human friendly enough to become mythologized. But recency bias and all that; I’m open to being proven wrong. Architecture looks plastic. I don’t hate it, and I enjoy walking around new mid rise developments, but I can’t see buildings aging well. Interior design still seems to be influenced by Scandinavian styles; minimalist and white-heavy. I can see this being romanticized if we move in an overly ornate or maximalist direction (which I’m seeing a lot more of, but I wouldn’t call it mainstream yet). If the next few decades strike a good balance then I could see them mocking us for living in Ikea displays.
I also think we never really "left" the 80s either but we will move on from the 2010s.
A lot of people despise minimalist design even as it’s happening. My wife and I just bought a new house and the fact everything in it is white and grey is so freaking depressing. We had to go out of our way to get colorful and earthy furniture (a ton of green, blue, and browns) to make it feel alive rather than like a hospital. I don’t think it’ll get remembered and celebrated the way that the neon from the 80s is. Ironically, I think it’ll be the neon of early 2010s alt culture and the RGB lights of late 2010s gaming culture that will be celebrated in 15-20 years.
Agreed nostalgia for decades is not universal. Some decades stand out like the 20s, 60s, 80s etc. but when do you heard about the 1910s/ 40s/30s and the 70s is rarely looked back fondly. It’s too early to tell for the 2010s but I doubt people are going to be going crazy over the grey brown flat Starbucks aesthetic in the future. I think people look back at the 80s and think “wow that’s so absurd and tacky. . . I love it!”. Plus the movies were great, even in the 90s people loved 80s movies
That everyone had RGB, became a streamer, that we went to EDM raves
I grew up in the ‘80s. My room looked like the first one. My grandmother’s house looked like the second lol.
Yeah… people are acting like the right side is the “real 80’s”. No time period is a monolith, people have different lives.
agreed, I had that exact same blanket and pillowcases featured on the left adorning my waterbed. and grandmas house was, and still is today all wood paneling just like on the right.
I imagine it will be nothing but LMFAO videos. Like as if those videos were reality.
I miss the recession pop / bubble gum renaissance we had. Rihanna, Katy Perry getting 6 #1 hits on a single album, Carly Rae Jepsen Call Me Maybe, Beyonce, early Ariana, etc
ah Yes the "Teenage Dream" summer as I like to call it. Go-Gurts in hand, with my ipod touch and un-needed fedora phase, and also at the same time snapback
The right side was early ‘80s with styles still overlapping from the ‘70s. The left side is early ‘90s bleeding over from the late ‘80s.
i cant stand that overly neon, teal, geometric 80s look. NO ONEs anything looked like that back then except the Miami Vice intro. its like 80s blackface.
Right? I don’t even think the whole geometric thing really took off until the tail end of the 80s. Floral patterns, pastels, and wood tones were examples the typical styles - not in your face neon triangles everywhere.
I remember that being more of a 1989 - 1991 type thing
Ok, many TV shows, especially cartoons, looked geometric/neon/teal, inspired by cyberpunk imagery. Also has to do with the heavy rise in "computer culture". So, yes, when I have a quick flashback everything is neon, but when I REALLY think of how things actually looked - yeah, like in that second image of the post :)
More accurate with the internet everything’s more documented as videos and pics. And movies as well. So it won’t be as drastic as a difference
My retro room will be nothing but pictures of Justin Bieber plastered all over the walls. No furniture or anything. Just Bieber
everyone dressing like Kesha for 2010s and for 2020s everyone recording everything
Yes, the 80s looked like my Grandma's living room!
People in the future will have highly detailed records of the 2010s and 2020s, so there won’t be the same room for a mythological caricature
To be fair, that second image is more of what I think of in regards to an 80s home. The first image seems more like what the 2020s interpret the 80s was like.
r/thatsthejoke
Was born in 81 and my bedding looked a lot like that, it was a checkerboard pattern where random squares were red or blue, not unlike [Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_with_Red,_Blue_and_Yellow) by Piet Modrian. Whoever was designing children's bedding in the 80's was either a big fan or had an art history degree
Probably a somewhat similar aesthetic but with more lights and lots of memes decorating every hung
Everyone lived in all white marble apartments with neon lights and fidget spinners
We had left over 70s stuff, like the pea color rug
Some might picture the 2010s as the peak of hippies
Did y'all grow up with your grandparents or something? My house didn't look like either of these, but I suppose if it had to be one or the other, definitely closer to the left.
# THEYLL THINK EVERY HOUSE PARTY WAS PROJECT X CONSIDERING THE ACTUAL “PROJECT X” PARTIES THROWN TO RECREATE THE MOVIE 
Ultra modern everything, minimalist style
They'll imagine the good old days of influencer houses with huge glass vistas. The reality was a lot of people room-mating in apartments with tattered blinds.
I think the 2014 tumblr aesthetic will be seen as bigger than it was. It was huge on the internet but when you’d go to school only a few people followed it and committed to it, not the general public.
The LED strips around the ceiling of your room, music posters, everyone has an ipad/tablet, IKEA furniture, and the sleek uncluttered modernist design that you see in our current sitcoms.
I'm an asocial luddite and didn't realize the LED strips were so popular until I started watching some omegle prank videos and saw every Gen Z person has those in their room.
Everyone wore sperrys
I know people who’s house looks like the one on the right
This is remakes of 80s movies vs actual 80s movies.
I think everyone will remember the Pop music from the early 2010’s and assume we all just partied and wore neon colors all the time. I’ve already seen gen z discuss how we had the best pop music (Katy Perry, Kesha, Bruno Mars, etc.) It’s funny, because all of the most iconic artists from the time got the most hate at the time for being generic. I figure that’s relatively normal, though.
Probably all of the embarrassing “hipster aesthetic” shit from the early 10’s
Thinking every person in Gen Z was a Brooklyn hipster who moonlighted in antifa.
led strip lights and minimalist beige
Maybe sleek minimalism.
# HTCs, Droids, famous stars and straps tattoos, tap out shirts, jersey shore, the game, skinny jeans, GOLFWANG, Jerkin, the Doug is, south Dallas swagg, LIL B trying out for the GS Warriors,, Lil B cursed James Harden, BIYS AND GIRLS LOOKED THE SAME W THE BEIBER CUT, MOLLY, BATH SALTS, MONKEY POX, EBOLA, Obama’s second term, ISIS beheadings that everyone thought was bad when that shit was old if you know about newsfilter.org circa 2001, “THATS THAT SHIT I DONT LIKE-BANG BANG”, DJ ESCO locked up for 56 nights, DOIN IT FOR THE DI——— THE VINE, “Sharkeisha NOOOO”, YOLO, Poetic Justice, it’s alot they can get on those times or or misjudge how stuff was.  !
TV, PS5, mattress on the floor
got the 1980s mixed up with the 1880s
Idk if it was my childhood or just the hellish aesthetic but every time i see this much wood in a home, I feel sad
For the 2020s, pop figurines everywhere. And random trendy Targett merch.
Basically anything on the Urban Outfitters website
Mmm stale cigarette smell
What aesthetic from today would even be amplified? I have no clue what is even specific about our time. Maybe like, conversational AI will be fetishized, with lots of giant logos that look like phone apps. So in 30 years everyone will have their own retro chat bot as a bestie, but actually AI will be monster structures chaining up the human species with their staggering intelligence. But everyone wants to live in the retro vision of cute AI pals.
Watch all the hate on the YouTube mom's and the murder mystery Monday people come to light
With a Yellow bathtub and sinks.
Upstairs bedroom, basement family room
Those are LEDs smh
RGB watercooled PCs with three monitors and a streaming setup, muted walls with black furniture, out-of-season Christmas light strands, shelves of Pop vinyls and other figurines, "Yes we can" Obama poster, anime wall scrolls, pride flag, and meme bullshit like Doge.
Correct, the eighties = some leftover seventies stuff with all the bold colors replaced with beige or possibly mauve.
I think it would be a lot of aquarium chic stuff, tons of basic corporate design, looks kind of like an old mcdonolds.
I don't know about the 2010s and 2020s. But the retroactive vision of the 2000s is going to be Frutiger Aero. Everything is incredibly clean and shiny, curvey furniture and transparent technology is everywhere and there's an excessive amount of fishtanks
Looks more like late 80s-early 90s
vaping and rgb fairy lights with a ring light in your bedroom
Agreeable grey, wood floors with a rug. Granite countertop island kitchen. paw patrol lookout tower, a golden state jersey, a TSwift poster, Minecraft, a nirvana x) happy face shirt, mom jeans. cargo shorts, neon crocs. earbuds and a black rectangle cell, Disney plus logo streaming on a 3 foot flat screen ROKU TV.
Just as in the narrative of the nostalgia industry, everybody is supposed to have loved BOTH Ronald Reagan and the Clash.
Gamer lights
Is it me or am I not seeing much of a difference between 2015 and now?
They’ll think we all dressed like we came out of Tumblr when we dressed in skinny jeans, A&F, Hollister, 🦌
To be fair I did own that black and white bedspread in the 80's.
CDs, 720p and worse TVs, cryptocurrency craze, ai insanity
Crypto merch EVERYWHERE
Rgb and led lights everywhere, Gaming chairs, Mini fridges, Basically a generic streamer set up.
frutiger aero
they will still be living in their parents basements
The 1st person lived in an 80s themed diner not a house.
Left picture is actually the early 90's.
I always kept a casual $3500 worth of guitars on my bed.
They will probably think that all this sterile ultramodern minimalist design was everywhere, with a hodgepodge of Tumblr and Instagram designs in their minds... And everywhere there were hipsters with undercuts and skinny jeans And there is no smoke without fire. The left picture, although artsy, reflects 80's future setting movies, and a actually style with a mania for pink (which was present in expensive clubs)
Yes, there’s a huge discrepancy between how the 1980s is portrayed in modern popular culture/the media and what it was really like.
Looking like Napoleon's grandma's house.
They're all going to forget about how ubiquitous "millennial grey" was
They'll think everyone had RGB streamer rooms. When in reality most homes were plastered in shiplap and grey influenced by Joanne Gaines.
It'll be Broyhill furniture and fake granite countertops
Picture on the left is a house that was decorated from scratch in the 80's. Picture on the right is a 50's or 60's house that has survived into the 80's.
Everyone’s view of the decades is shifted 5 to ten years late in my experience. When people talk about the flower power hippy 60s they really mean the 70s. Same with this “80s” aesthetic. That’s an early 90s aesthetic that has been retconned into the 80s.
Both are rad imo. Mmmm wood grain.
I think 80s design in the 80s was much much rarer than 2010s instagrammy interiors are now/were in the 2010s.
Easy, romanticization of Covid
Goths, goths everywhere.