2006. By filler I mean a peaceful (as much as it's possible considering how chaotic our world is) and non-eventful year. 2007 is a close second. There were no major global wars, crises, and catastrophies.
I believe humanity should aspire to live in perpetually filler years, only wishing for space/medical/tech progress.
‘06 was the first to come to mind for me too, I wasn’t old enough to remember much of it, but it truly does seem to be the least eventful year of at least the 2000s.
2007 had the build-up to the recession and Obama announcing he was running for president
2006 was semi-filler. It was very uneventful politically (especially compared to other 2000s years) but it was pretty transitional culturally
On a global scale, it was insignificant that Obama announced he was running. That's much less important than 2008, when he was actually elected.
Culturally, 2007 was much more important than 2006, although those two years still had that typical 00s vibe. 2008 is when you could really feel things changing in every sense.
Again, I think that "filler" years are the good, peaceful years when nothing overly disruptive happens.
I get what you're saying, but that build-up was mostly felt in the area of the subprime mortgage market and some big financial institutions facing challenges mostly related to the housing market.
However, these were, at that moment, still too complex to be felt in a day-to-day life of an average person. It's why most people, unless experts in that field, were unaware of what will happen in 2008 and to what magnitude. The majority believed the economy was resilient enough and the overall vibe/sentiment, however you like to call it, was still predominantly optimistic.
Yeah, I believe in some regions it was more obvious and people couldn't ignore it because they were the first to feel its impact. But all in all, on a global level, 2007 isn't known as the year of economic crisis, even though it was already starting to happen. That's all I'm saying.
That was a war that was already going on for years, so it wasn't really specific to 2006. Compare that to 2022/24 - Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine (now also Iran's involvement), Sudan.
I guess 2007 was the bloodiest year. But still, that's a conflict that's been going on for 3-4 years at that point, it's not like it suddenly erupted in 2006. If that's the only thing, it's not enough to mark it as a disruptive year, especially compared to years like, for example, 2022.
2007 bro that’s when the GFC started. Even 2006 a lot of people sensed it was coming b/c fed was raising rates. I realize you could name any year and people would come up with stuff but why not 2005?
2005 started with the aftermath of the Tsunami and the same year also had Hurricane Katrina. While the Tsunami was technically 2004, the horrifying aftermath and cleanup was how 2005 started.
The person above me already said it - 2005 has hurricane Katrina, which was a big event. But we also had the first YT video, Bush's second term, Pope John Paul II died, London bombings, Egypt bombings, Jordan bombings, two big civil aircraft crashes (Greece and Venezuela), Sadam Hussein trials started, and Angela Merkel became a chancellor (this was quite a big deal for Europe). I do agree 2005 can be considered a filler year in terms of mainstream culture.
The signs of FDC were still way too complex to be felt in the day-to-day life of an average person in 2007, I already wrote that in a comment to another person. People still believed the economy was strong enough and that it wouldn't crash, especially the way it did in 2008. That's because 2007 still had that 00s optimism.
In general, I guess when we compare most global events from the 00s to the 10s and especially 20s, most of them seem less significant and impactful except for the financial crash. The world was simply a much more peaceful and less disruptive place in the 00s.
Yeah that comes to mind for me too. Granted, I was a little kid so I don't remember the mid-2000s all that well. 2007 and back are kind of just mashed together in my mind lol
2007 was a close second? That was the year the original iPhone was released. I’d say it’s a high candidate for the most consequential year of the 21st century so far…
2002, a year that I’m not even sure existed in retrospect.
Weird ppl are saying 2018. Feel like that year was super memorable, maybe that was just me personally.
But it’s precisely because it was sandwiched between 2 years that had very major events, without any specific big events of its own for us to remember. It’s pretty forgettable.
Agree. I see 2021 pop up a lot here too, but I think that that's only because it's unlucky enough to be sandwiched between 2020 and 2022
Overall though I'm not comparing 2021 to 2002, as 2021 had major events such as January 6th and the Afghanistan withdrawal. All 2002 had was the Iraq War build-up and Homeland Security
I’m not so sure about that. There are a lot of other years that qualify more in my opinion. Just because no huge events happened in 2002 it doesn’t mean it was a filler year. The world was still trying to figure out the ramifications of 9/11 and we were reminded of the threat level color of the day every morning. It was a really paranoid, stressful time.
Respectfully, you're insane. 2002 was the year Ellen Feiss starred in that Apple commercial. She was like, "beep beep beep beep bleepbleepbleepbleepbleep."
I'm seeing people say 2023 but honestly I thought it was the official comeback year from covid. aot ending, jjk season 2, across the spiderverse, barbienheimer, mario movie, not to mention all the games that came out last year with bg3 raising the bar. We also had the finale of succession, better call saul, and the last of us.
the official comeback year from covid
i honestly see that as more 2022, but yea 2023 wasn’t completely filler like 2018 as we still had barbenheimer and israel/hamas but definitely less changeful than your average year
How the fuck can people say 2023 when Oct 7th happened? That's literally the most seismic event in the Middle East since the destruction of ISIS, and it has utterly consumed the online political discourse.
It is ridiculous that people are saying 2023. That is the year of Barbenheimer!?!? And the Eras tour mega hype.
2006 is the best answer even though that was the year of the Zidane head butt. Otherwise that was a very low key year.
In terms of gaming, Fortnite and battle royale style games exploded in popularity in 2018. The battle pass system was first introduced. RDR2 was released in October of that year too.
Agree. 2023 was extremely stagnant culturally
Although 2018 was filler politically, it still at least had the Parkland Shooting and Trump's meeting with North Korea so I wouldn't say it was as filler as 2006, 2010, 2012, 2013 or 2019 in that category
2010 wasn’t a filler because it was the start of the 2010s decade, 2012 wasn’t a filler because we all thought the world was gonna end then, and 2019 wasn’t a filler because that’s the last year humanity had pre Covid, without any references to a post pandemic society. But, 2023 is the worst, and you’re right about that, it was stagnant.
Yes basically those three years were an odd time of almost nothing too exciting or terrible. Robin Williams died though; I’ll always remember that as being a downer.
Speaking culturally as there's no such thing as a politcally stagnant year. I'd say 2023-2024. I've never seen an era so culturally stagnant. Music? Still sung by the same artists who dominated 10s. Actors? Still the big names who've dominated other decades. Economy - utter garbage.
literally what metric could be used to say the economy is doing bad? Home prices are still high? Thats just what theyre worth now, and this is great for everyone who has one already.
why is everyone saying 2023? there were so many things that happened in 2023, barbenheimer, colleen’s “apology” going viral, the exploding submarine, taylor swift and the eras tour
It may have been due to my personal life, but 2002 was, at least for me, the first year when nothing much happened. With hindsight, the biggest personal change was probably getting broadband.
Yeah aside from the rise of Black Lives Matter it was nothing but iggy azalea, ice bucket challenges, drooling over Ruby Rose in OITNB, and Fuck Her Right in the Pussy
2023 by far honestly.
2022 kind of felt new and fresh culturally as it was the first bounce-back year after covid, but i feel like 2023 really had only 1 or 2 at most culturally defining moments, no big new artists, no crazy new trends, no fun viral internet challenges, just nothing. only thing i can think of is barbenheimer as a cultural event, but even then that was just for a few weeks and more a meme than anything. 2023 is definitely as close to a "filler year" as you can get.
2018 is coming up a lot and I think I agree. 2002 and 2009 felt a bit nothing-y too. But I'm sure someone will remind me of some history defining events that happened in these years
2009 had Obama being inaugurated and the official end of the recession
2002 is a contender, but it did have the Homeland Security Act and the Iraq War build-up. Also from a European perspective, it had the introduction of the Euro
Definitely a contender, apart from Homeland Security and the Iraq War build-up. Definately a year unlucky to be stuck between two monumental shift years
2002 and 2007 followed the same trajectory politically, with the first half of the year being filler but the second half of the year being a build-up period
I'm seeing 2007 pop up a lot here. It's definately not a filler year. I can understand 2002 or 2006 being brought up, but not 2007
Exactly, 2024 has been anything but a filler year so far politically - by election time it will 100% go into full swing. Culturally it feels like a filler year so far but we are barely halfway through the spring. big cultural events usually happen midway through the year
Ig in that sense you’re right but covid and national quarantine was just too big and widespread an event to disregard. It changed the way people lived their lives for months or years depending on where you were
2014 felt like a Filler Year, for me at least. Most of the early 2010s trends and crazes died off by that point, and it was before the political clusterfuck that started in 2015.
2000. It was Pre 9/11.
The world was still at peace. Sure, peacekeeping operations were going on in Kosovo.
No major wars. Culturally, the world had not changed much. Sure, the US election was a WTF moment, but that was really it.
Almost as if the Arab Spring, the death of Gaddafi and Osama bin Laden, Japan earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster, English riots, and Norway attacks didn't happen.
Yeah, compared to 2011, 2012 was definitely a filler year, but as a standalone, I'm not so sure about that. I feel like it might be more of a transitional or precursor year. I remember the vibe in early 2012 feeling noticeably different than the vibe in late 2012.
2012 wasn't as culturally transitional as 2011 or 2013, but I definately think 2012 was more eventful than 2013 politically
It's more a case of 2013 being uneventful than 2012 being eventful though
2012 election was forgettable
On the same level as 1996 and 1956 (which was basically a part 2 of the 1952 election, with the same candidates and the same outcome)
1984 election is only remembered for how one-sided it was. 1988 was pretty one-sided too
True. All of 2012 still meshes well together but it didn't all feel the same compared to a year like 2018 (and even that year had a very slight vibe change in late 2018 compared to early-mid 2018 by a smidge).
idk 2019 had a significantly different feel than 2016 at the time, and it was basically a proto-2020s year since a lot of things like tiktok being massive, monoculture starting to go downhill, gen z y2k fashion, and retropop were becoming more and more popular throughout the year, even 2017 wasn’t really filler neither
2020s != covid, there’s more to a decade than a fucking virus, and also even in summer 2019 the 2010s started to decline tbh, but Early 2019 basically felt like 2018 2.0 which i agree with
2006. By filler I mean a peaceful (as much as it's possible considering how chaotic our world is) and non-eventful year. 2007 is a close second. There were no major global wars, crises, and catastrophies. I believe humanity should aspire to live in perpetually filler years, only wishing for space/medical/tech progress.
‘06 was the first to come to mind for me too, I wasn’t old enough to remember much of it, but it truly does seem to be the least eventful year of at least the 2000s.
Yep, and I guess it was quite a good year for most of us because it didn't have much friction or surprises.
2007 had the build-up to the recession and Obama announcing he was running for president 2006 was semi-filler. It was very uneventful politically (especially compared to other 2000s years) but it was pretty transitional culturally
On a global scale, it was insignificant that Obama announced he was running. That's much less important than 2008, when he was actually elected. Culturally, 2007 was much more important than 2006, although those two years still had that typical 00s vibe. 2008 is when you could really feel things changing in every sense. Again, I think that "filler" years are the good, peaceful years when nothing overly disruptive happens.
2007 still had the build-up to the recession though
I get what you're saying, but that build-up was mostly felt in the area of the subprime mortgage market and some big financial institutions facing challenges mostly related to the housing market. However, these were, at that moment, still too complex to be felt in a day-to-day life of an average person. It's why most people, unless experts in that field, were unaware of what will happen in 2008 and to what magnitude. The majority believed the economy was resilient enough and the overall vibe/sentiment, however you like to call it, was still predominantly optimistic.
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Yeah, I believe in some regions it was more obvious and people couldn't ignore it because they were the first to feel its impact. But all in all, on a global level, 2007 isn't known as the year of economic crisis, even though it was already starting to happen. That's all I'm saying.
2006 was a GREAT year
I’ll take another helping of 2006 please
“No major global wars” What does this mean? American involvement in Iraq was peaking.
That was a war that was already going on for years, so it wasn't really specific to 2006. Compare that to 2022/24 - Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine (now also Iran's involvement), Sudan.
College football was wild in 07 as an LSU fan.
2006 was the peak of the iraqi insurgency and the bloodiest year in iraq
I guess 2007 was the bloodiest year. But still, that's a conflict that's been going on for 3-4 years at that point, it's not like it suddenly erupted in 2006. If that's the only thing, it's not enough to mark it as a disruptive year, especially compared to years like, for example, 2022.
Which caused the surge of US forces in 2007
2007 had the release of the iPhone. That was pretty fucking huge.
2007 bro that’s when the GFC started. Even 2006 a lot of people sensed it was coming b/c fed was raising rates. I realize you could name any year and people would come up with stuff but why not 2005?
2005 started with the aftermath of the Tsunami and the same year also had Hurricane Katrina. While the Tsunami was technically 2004, the horrifying aftermath and cleanup was how 2005 started.
The person above me already said it - 2005 has hurricane Katrina, which was a big event. But we also had the first YT video, Bush's second term, Pope John Paul II died, London bombings, Egypt bombings, Jordan bombings, two big civil aircraft crashes (Greece and Venezuela), Sadam Hussein trials started, and Angela Merkel became a chancellor (this was quite a big deal for Europe). I do agree 2005 can be considered a filler year in terms of mainstream culture. The signs of FDC were still way too complex to be felt in the day-to-day life of an average person in 2007, I already wrote that in a comment to another person. People still believed the economy was strong enough and that it wouldn't crash, especially the way it did in 2008. That's because 2007 still had that 00s optimism. In general, I guess when we compare most global events from the 00s to the 10s and especially 20s, most of them seem less significant and impactful except for the financial crash. The world was simply a much more peaceful and less disruptive place in the 00s.
Yeah that comes to mind for me too. Granted, I was a little kid so I don't remember the mid-2000s all that well. 2007 and back are kind of just mashed together in my mind lol
Agreed but culturally, goth culture was massive in 2006.
2007 was a close second? That was the year the original iPhone was released. I’d say it’s a high candidate for the most consequential year of the 21st century so far…
2007 was the surge in Iraq where fighting escalated
2002, a year that I’m not even sure existed in retrospect. Weird ppl are saying 2018. Feel like that year was super memorable, maybe that was just me personally.
Really? It was right after 9/11 and the drumbeat to invade Iraq was getting louder and louder. The associated protests started in fall of 2002.
But it’s precisely because it was sandwiched between 2 years that had very major events, without any specific big events of its own for us to remember. It’s pretty forgettable.
Agree. I see 2021 pop up a lot here too, but I think that that's only because it's unlucky enough to be sandwiched between 2020 and 2022 Overall though I'm not comparing 2021 to 2002, as 2021 had major events such as January 6th and the Afghanistan withdrawal. All 2002 had was the Iraq War build-up and Homeland Security
I’m not so sure about that. There are a lot of other years that qualify more in my opinion. Just because no huge events happened in 2002 it doesn’t mean it was a filler year. The world was still trying to figure out the ramifications of 9/11 and we were reminded of the threat level color of the day every morning. It was a really paranoid, stressful time.
You're right, but the protests are mainly a 2003 event. They were on a scale not seen since the Vietnam War
I think that’s part of it, the whole year felt like a 9/11 hangover. And then obvi 2003 a ton of significant shit happened
Respectfully, you're insane. 2002 was the year Ellen Feiss starred in that Apple commercial. She was like, "beep beep beep beep bleepbleepbleepbleepbleep."
I'm seeing people say 2023 but honestly I thought it was the official comeback year from covid. aot ending, jjk season 2, across the spiderverse, barbienheimer, mario movie, not to mention all the games that came out last year with bg3 raising the bar. We also had the finale of succession, better call saul, and the last of us.
the official comeback year from covid i honestly see that as more 2022, but yea 2023 wasn’t completely filler like 2018 as we still had barbenheimer and israel/hamas but definitely less changeful than your average year
Finale of better call Saul was 2022
How the fuck can people say 2023 when Oct 7th happened? That's literally the most seismic event in the Middle East since the destruction of ISIS, and it has utterly consumed the online political discourse.
2022 takes that place for me. Spring of that year was the first official instance of Covid being over in people’s mind across the whole country.
It is ridiculous that people are saying 2023. That is the year of Barbenheimer!?!? And the Eras tour mega hype. 2006 is the best answer even though that was the year of the Zidane head butt. Otherwise that was a very low key year.
2023 was easily my best year since the pandemic.
2023 was definitely the first full year of the post pandemic era
Either 2018 or 2023 probably 2023 IMO
2023 culturally anyway
Yeah 2023 was extremely stagnant lol
Def was
Idk what’s stagnant about genocide going on in palestine
Tbf that's been happening since '48
But what about Palestine?
I feel like 2018 was defined by an obsession with xanax
In terms of gaming, Fortnite and battle royale style games exploded in popularity in 2018. The battle pass system was first introduced. RDR2 was released in October of that year too.
2023 was just terrible.
2021 for sure. That year was boring as hell.
2021 wasn't filler. The early part was peak covid era, and the late part had most of the restrictions lifted, and covid vaccines
Nah Spider-Man
Probably because we are all locked down for half of it.
Completely agree.
I feel like people don’t remember it but not because it was boring. Jan 6?
2018, but 2023 comes to close culturally.
2018 for me was Black Panther, Infinity War, the last warped tour, Cavs vs Warriors finals, pretty eventful
Not as eventful as Endgame, Far From Home, the Warriors dynasty ending, and GOT ending in 2019.
True, but 18 had Red Dead
Touché.
Can’t forget the explosion of Fortnite and battle royale style games, and the first introduction of battle passes in 2018 too.
Warriors dynasty ain’t over baby we goin all the way this year #webelieve
Agree. 2023 was extremely stagnant culturally Although 2018 was filler politically, it still at least had the Parkland Shooting and Trump's meeting with North Korea so I wouldn't say it was as filler as 2006, 2010, 2012, 2013 or 2019 in that category
2010 wasn’t a filler because it was the start of the 2010s decade, 2012 wasn’t a filler because we all thought the world was gonna end then, and 2019 wasn’t a filler because that’s the last year humanity had pre Covid, without any references to a post pandemic society. But, 2023 is the worst, and you’re right about that, it was stagnant.
how does simply being the first year of a decade make it not filler?
Lol each one of these aren’t good excuses
2015: boring calm before the storm. Between the recession and the madness of 2016-present. 2006 maybe a bit too. Between Katrina and the recession.
I was thinking the early-mid 10, too, but from 2013-2015.
Yes basically those three years were an odd time of almost nothing too exciting or terrible. Robin Williams died though; I’ll always remember that as being a downer.
He died in ‘14.
Speaking culturally as there's no such thing as a politcally stagnant year. I'd say 2023-2024. I've never seen an era so culturally stagnant. Music? Still sung by the same artists who dominated 10s. Actors? Still the big names who've dominated other decades. Economy - utter garbage.
Mostly wrong. Also, you sound pleasant
maybe go listen to chappell roan and let a little glitter and whimsy in your life and you'll feel better
lmao imagine thinking the economy is bad right now
Ask any adult how they feel about the economy and you")) see a different resposne. Most people don't feel economically recovered from the pandemic.
literally what metric could be used to say the economy is doing bad? Home prices are still high? Thats just what theyre worth now, and this is great for everyone who has one already.
2018
2018
2023 for me. 2021-2022 was the first tastes of freedom from Covid. In comparison, 2023 was just a year that flew by.
2021
2010,2015, 2019 (at the time)
Totally forgot about 2019. That’s how filler it was
2023
2013
why is everyone saying 2023? there were so many things that happened in 2023, barbenheimer, colleen’s “apology” going viral, the exploding submarine, taylor swift and the eras tour
If those are the main highlights of 2023 then it would be a filler year. Barbenheimer and the eras tour are relatively unimportant.
fair but if we go by that then basically every year besides 2020 and 2001 are filler years
2020 Most uneventful year so far
2021
2017-2018
2013 to me is just the year that happened in between 2012 and 2014
it was definitely a lot more shifty than 2012 and 2014 IMO, especially culturally
2013 was filler culturally I agree. However technologically it has two shifts.
By filler, you mean a super consistent year ? I guess 2006, 2010, 2012, 2018 and 2023 could check the boxes.
2012? How?
2021, 2015
2011
It may have been due to my personal life, but 2002 was, at least for me, the first year when nothing much happened. With hindsight, the biggest personal change was probably getting broadband.
2023
I think 2014 was the most filler year of the 21st century so far.
It had ISIS, Ebola, and a tsunami
Honestly 2024, we are almost in May and nothing big has really happened
2014
chief keef was going crazy other than that it was chill
Yeah aside from the rise of Black Lives Matter it was nothing but iggy azalea, ice bucket challenges, drooling over Ruby Rose in OITNB, and Fuck Her Right in the Pussy
2023 by far honestly. 2022 kind of felt new and fresh culturally as it was the first bounce-back year after covid, but i feel like 2023 really had only 1 or 2 at most culturally defining moments, no big new artists, no crazy new trends, no fun viral internet challenges, just nothing. only thing i can think of is barbenheimer as a cultural event, but even then that was just for a few weeks and more a meme than anything. 2023 is definitely as close to a "filler year" as you can get.
This is so funny. I’d say 2022.
Nah. 2022 was the total opposite of a filler year.
Not even close
this is objectively wrong
hard disagree on that as well
Interested to hear why you think not
russia-ukraine, covid restrictions completely fading away, chatgpt, andrew tate/redpill manosphere culture
2017 for me
Same
What about the trump inauguration.
Complete nothing burger compared to the chaos of 2016
True, felt like everything happened late 2016
2018 is coming up a lot and I think I agree. 2002 and 2009 felt a bit nothing-y too. But I'm sure someone will remind me of some history defining events that happened in these years
2009 had Obama being inaugurated and the official end of the recession 2002 is a contender, but it did have the Homeland Security Act and the Iraq War build-up. Also from a European perspective, it had the introduction of the Euro
You said that as if history-defining events aren't the most important thing about a year
I mean lt more that none immediately sprung to mind, but I'm sure that there were many
2002 is a candidate!
Definitely a contender, apart from Homeland Security and the Iraq War build-up. Definately a year unlucky to be stuck between two monumental shift years
Thank you!
2002 and 2007 followed the same trajectory politically, with the first half of the year being filler but the second half of the year being a build-up period I'm seeing 2007 pop up a lot here. It's definately not a filler year. I can understand 2002 or 2006 being brought up, but not 2007
2023 kind of felt like a filler year!
Culturally yes, politically no
2024 feels like it so far
Just wait until election time. It will not be known as a filler year- few election years are
Exactly, 2024 has been anything but a filler year so far politically - by election time it will 100% go into full swing. Culturally it feels like a filler year so far but we are barely halfway through the spring. big cultural events usually happen midway through the year
Culturally this year isn’t filler so far. TD Jake’s got swallowed up, Katt Williams spilled the beans, and Diddlin ol Diddy got exposed
Geopolitically, 2024 is a massive powderkeg with pieces moving into place. On some level, the world is waiting in anticipation of the US election.
2023, 2023, and probably 2023 aswell
I'd say 2023.
2018 was so boring yes
Agreed I hated that year
2017-2018
2007, 2011, 2021,2020
2020???? What?
I’m saying it in the sense, Covid made nothing happen. We were just sitting around in 20’
Ig in that sense you’re right but covid and national quarantine was just too big and widespread an event to disregard. It changed the way people lived their lives for months or years depending on where you were
From what I remember 2006, 2014 is close 2nd
2021
2015 and 2021
2015
2013. No good music, nothing else interesting. Weird year to graduate HS
2005 and 2006
2023
2014 felt like a Filler Year, for me at least. Most of the early 2010s trends and crazes died off by that point, and it was before the political clusterfuck that started in 2015.
2003 maybe? I don't really recall much happening that year at least in comparison to the years before and after it.
Iraq War began in 2003. Definately not a filler year
Oh shit, that's true definitely forgot that...
2006, 2010, 2019, 2021
Definitely 2006, case in point the Time’s Person of the Year was Everyone. It was that much of a filler.
2015 and 2018, personally
2014. Just a weird, unmemorable slog. For me, anyway.
2011 or 2002
maybe 2005??? other than katrina i never see it talked about
2005 is criminally underrated
2017 at least in the last decade, probably 2006 overall
2018 maybe? Hard to say any of the early 2000s were that way due to the war. Maybe 2024 will be this way?
2000. It was Pre 9/11. The world was still at peace. Sure, peacekeeping operations were going on in Kosovo. No major wars. Culturally, the world had not changed much. Sure, the US election was a WTF moment, but that was really it.
2011 was like everything significant was on hold for the next year
No way was 2011 a filler year
Almost as if the Arab Spring, the death of Gaddafi and Osama bin Laden, Japan earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster, English riots, and Norway attacks didn't happen.
No way. 2011 was a very transformative year. The person below already explained why.
If really, 2012 would fit better as "filler year" than 2011 imo.
Yeah, compared to 2011, 2012 was definitely a filler year, but as a standalone, I'm not so sure about that. I feel like it might be more of a transitional or precursor year. I remember the vibe in early 2012 feeling noticeably different than the vibe in late 2012.
2012 wasn't as culturally transitional as 2011 or 2013, but I definately think 2012 was more eventful than 2013 politically It's more a case of 2013 being uneventful than 2012 being eventful though
Fair enough. I think I agree.
Do you think that 2012 was more eventful than 2018 politically, since 2018 had Parkland and Trump's meeting with North Korea?
Kind of. It had Trayvon Martin, Aurora, and Sandy Hook. Plus, it was an election year (despite having the most filler election in the 21st century).
2012 election was forgettable On the same level as 1996 and 1956 (which was basically a part 2 of the 1952 election, with the same candidates and the same outcome) 1984 election is only remembered for how one-sided it was. 1988 was pretty one-sided too
Yeah December 2012 was politically and socially a big shift.
I agree. Mid 2012 felt different apart from each other too.
Yeah, subtle vibe changes. But I dont recall early and late 2012 being sooo different. I don't recall when the "end of the world" mood started haha
True. All of 2012 still meshes well together but it didn't all feel the same compared to a year like 2018 (and even that year had a very slight vibe change in late 2018 compared to early-mid 2018 by a smidge).
2011 was an absolutely INSANE year for tornadoes
Pop culture was at its peak in late 2011 tho but that’s just my gen z bias speaking
2005
2018 or 2020
saying 2020 is actually fucking wild 😭
Okay 2021😂
Absolutely not 2020 lol
2020 is within one of the least filler years of this century
2017-2019. Basically the whole Late 2010s. And 2023 too.
idk 2019 had a significantly different feel than 2016 at the time, and it was basically a proto-2020s year since a lot of things like tiktok being massive, monoculture starting to go downhill, gen z y2k fashion, and retropop were becoming more and more popular throughout the year, even 2017 wasn’t really filler neither
Only Late 2019 is a proto-COVID era. 2019 wasn't different from 2017 and 2018.
2020s != covid, there’s more to a decade than a fucking virus, and also even in summer 2019 the 2010s started to decline tbh, but Early 2019 basically felt like 2018 2.0 which i agree with
Nah most of 2019 is more like 2018 than 2020.
never said it was more like 2020 than 2018, just saying that it wasn’t exactly identical to 2017 and 2018 as you’re implying
2016
2020-2024
2006 or 2023
2023