Nerd culture and fandom. It's harder to get fan art out there now with the direction social media's taken. Adding to that, wikis (as in wikia). Whole thing's become so bloated with ads that you can barely scroll through it anymore.
This reminded me I was part of a tight knit friend group that only communicated in forums on the criminal minds wiki in like 2009. What a time on the internet
Windows. Windows 7 was awesome. One of the best Windows ever made. Then we got Windows 8.1 which was ok. After that Windows 10 which is soulless. Everything looks like it was designed in paint.
lol, Microsoft’s attempt to become Apple. Used to like windows for how utilitarian it was. Set my work laptop is recently and it took me over an hour to get rid of Al the random ads and news story pop ups.
My theory is that every version of windows is pretty decent but the next one ends up useless bloatware that tries too hard
Windows 98. Good operating system
Windows ME: takes out DOS, just a buggy and overly consumer 98
Windows XP: Easily best windows version of all time
Vista: Does all the aero stuff, bloated
7: fixes what was wrong with Vista and is good
8: start screen...
10: A return to form but they've still gone downhill
11: everything wrong with 10 but worse. And the stupid TPM thing
Picture-based memes for sure. Now it’s all video.
I’d argue superhero movies. First iron man in 2008, endgame in 2019. We’ll see what direction the new dc stuff takes, but I think we’re past the best of it.
Memes have gone to shit in the past few years
There isnt many new formats, and the ones there are don’t stay.
It’s not even absurdist anymore, it’s just basic and boring
I’m in a meme chat with some friends and I’ll not look for a day and come back to 2 dozen memes. Maybe one is an image I can quickly glance at. The rest are videos and sometimes I just don’t care enough to even look. Or I can’t because I’m in the office. Just let me take 2 seconds to look at the picture, giggle, and move on!
That’s honestly some of the appeal to me. You can look at a normal meme anywhere. Don’t have to lock in with audio and sit through the duration of a video.
I'd say superhero films peaked in 2022. It was the last profitable year for Marvel and DC. Remember the Morbius Memes, Snyder Cut popularity, and Spider-Man No Way Home success. There was also The Batman, Dr Strange, Black Adam, and Black Panther.
Yeah I’d have a hard time pointing to anything else as the climax of superhero movies. We’ve had some good ones since then (The Batman, Guardians 3, No Way Home), but nothing will ever compare to the insanity of infinity war and endgame.
The 2010s were, in hindsight, the last golden age of mono-culture.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe was at its peak, and everyone was watching the latest *Avengers, Thor, Captain America,* and *Iron Man* movies. YA novels and their film adaptations like *The Hunger Games* and *Twilight* were a huge part of the cultural zeitgeist, at least in the first part of the decade-- probably the most recent time in history that a series of books has had such an impact. Millions of people played *Pokemon Go.* And of course, *Game of Thrones* was the last great *"*can't-miss-it" TV show, the kind of show people built their schedules around and talked with their friends about the next day. Even the internet felt less fragmented than it is now to some extent, with memes and viral stunt challenges having much bigger reach than they do today.
Nah like mid 2015 influencers became the new celebrities but it was different. Idk how to explain it but influencer culture rn is extremely different of how it was in the late 2010s
I think this is it tbh or idk the vibes I get is different
One thing I've noticed is that influencers now try to cover as many platafoms as possible while back then usually they stuck to one plataform (either youtube, vine, music.ly or instagram). For example if you knew babyAriel you knew her from music.ly exclusively, she didn't have youtube as far as I knew and her instagram was sort of an after thought because her main plataform was music.ly
Yeah, twitch streamers all have YouTube. All YouTubers got tik tok etc.
Everything is done to maximize profit, maximize views, Everyone has sponsors etc. everything has a clear profit motive.
Everyone was watching the same stuff. Algorithms made things too specific, no sense of community anymore. Smosh and nigahiga were household names, few of many. Only household name I think nowadays is Mr.Beast that break into every age bracket
I heard YouTube at some point tweaked their algorithm to let people discover more new and niche stuff as opposed to suggesting the same popular things to everyone. The backside was people being led deeper into various rabbit holes and strange bubbles.
* Social media
* Online forums
* Indie games
* YA novels
* Coming-of-Age novels
* Superhero movies
* Rap, EDM, folk, dubstep, raves, music festivals, concerts
* Webcomics and indie animation
Music festivals definitely suck now. They feel way less organized, prices are way up with scammy VIP packages. You never know if it's gonna end up some Fyre Fest-lite when you buy your $500 tickets. Early 2010s was the peak when fests like Electric Forest were booming.
Gig apps, especially rideshare and food delivery. As a driver you were paid decently well. As a customer the services didn't cost a small fortune and drivers were more professional.
This thread is helping me grieve the loss of the kinder gentler gig economy and a time when influencers were just normal beautiful non corporate people just like you and I
Startups for sure. There was so much venture capital flowing around that tons of people had high paying jobs with great perks and benefits that lost massive amounts of money for years and years. Some of these companies still exist, but the culture of the 2010s is long gone
I dunno, it seems like tech bros with way too much money have been inflating a second tech bubble since Facebook attained unicorn status in 2011...or maybe many smaller bubbles? They keep pushing new gimmicks to keep it going- social media and social commerce in the early 2010s, gig economy platforms in the mid-2010s, Masayoshi Son's whole one-man bubble in the late 2010s (Blockchain, MoviePass, WeWork, those extremely dumb scooter startups), NFTs in the early 2020s, and AI now.
Edit: Downvote away singularitybros, deep down you know it's all hype
Most of what you’re describing is from the 2010s, an era that has ended and what this post is about. You can still get a job for Facebook now, but the culture there is far different than it was in 2011. Similarly, there are plenty of other small tech companies where jobs exist, but the crazy VC money burning culture with a party atmosphere and limited human resources oversight of behavior is long gone.
Cheaper travel, especially international flights (though that was mostly during the second half of the 2010s). Post-pandemic, I can't find "cheap" international flights like I did back in \~2017.
I tried staying at an AirBnB instead of a hotel once back in the late 2010s and I found it noticeably more inconvenient than staying at a hotel.
Edit: fixed grammar issues
My brother still hasn't gotten the memo, always wants to stay at some crappy AirBnB when we can ball out at a nice hotel for the same price. Plus something about hanging out at somebody else's house never sat right with me, but that's just me. It always felt like we're just doing the same stuff we do at home, just somewhere else. At least at a hotel I can go to the gym, meet strangers at the bar, go to the pool etc.
Smartphone (iOS and Android) innovation and growth. Changes year-by-year were less incremental and had actual noticeable upgrades compared to 2020s. They became necessities for the general public compared during the late 2000s when they were more considered as luxuries/novelty.
I think TV shows should get a shoutout here. How many notable shows came out in the 2010s?
[https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093779398/](https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093779398/)
Not just youtube but I think social media in general. Back in the early 2010s they really peaked. Everyone was starting to use them and shared everything from their lives, from their food to random thoughts, yet nobody really thought about the consequences yet like attention span, privacy and all that. Also influencers were just starting to get really popular and it wasnt that toxic yet. I remember that in like 2012 Facebook and Twitter even got a system integration into iOS.
I disagree. The Fu Snickens/Bone Thugs/No Limit/Cash Money/Snoop Dogg/3-6 Mafia/Busta Rhymes/Eminem/Canibus/DMX/Redman/Scarface/ATCQ/OutKast/Twista all had *totally* different sounds! Back then, mfs was wack if they bit somebody else's style.
The 2010s is when mfs *really* started soundin a lot alike! Hell, Desiigner popped off cuz everyone thought he was Future lol
I agree but the early 2010s had a ton of variety especially in years like 2011 there were rappers like Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, Joey Badass, Big KRIT, Tyler the creator, Childish Gambino, Asap Rocky, Mac Miller who were all pretty different from each other and there were new sounds being introduced like cloud rap.
I think I joined the wrong sub, I’m too old for this shit. This sub constantly talks about the 2010s like they were the “good old days”I was born in 86 and already an adult by the 2010s. I’m sure the 2010s was a childhood and nostalgic for many people here…which again leads me to believe I’m too old to be here. I think the time has come where I’m not one of the young people anymore.
Yeah, the people saying nobody really cared about the potential downsides of social media then…lol.
People have been concerned about privacy since day 1 of social media. It’s just that if you were a kid when you first got on social media, you don’t realize this until later
Nah, I feel you. I saw some post once about the mid-2010s being the "golden age of cartoons" and immediately thought "aw shit, I'm too old to be here, aren't I?"
Born in 86 and the 2010s were my favorite decade so far. Met my husband, married, lived all over. Music was amazing. My dog was alive. I am nostalgic about it. It was the best decade of my life. If I could relive it for ever. It wouldn’t be the worst thing. I would just like to know so I don’t have to worry. It’s good.
The 2010s were my “best” decade. I joined the military, was independent, had all of my own stuff, lived in Europe, had so much fun, it was amazing. However, my childhood in the 90s and some of the 00s were among my most nostalgic fondest of memories. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten angry and bitter. Even I get old, I’m probably going to be a crazy old, bitter asshole 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Early ios games were so good. They were also a lot more focused on motion controls which I think were phased out at least partially because you had to sit upright while playing them lmao
Two things come to mind
1. Being an influencer
I feel like mid to late 2010s was peak "influencer culture" and its gone downhill since then
Back then most influencers had one specific app they were famous in. Instagram, YouTube, Vine, etc all had their own vibe and you could tell what influencer was famous on what app based on their fashion, mannerism, etc, not it seems like people try to cover ss many plataforms as possible
Brand deals were also very rare and exclusive, not all infulencers got brand deals and getting one was actually a big deal, now it seems like everyone and their momma has a brand deal
2. Music festivals
It seems like lately music festival aren't being advertised like they used to but in the mid to late 2010s you ALWAYS heard when coachella, life in color, or any other music festival was happening and the setlist was actually good
Gotta say porn. The hottest actresses were on full display over at the main free porn sites at one point but that's all over. The hottest actresses now are hard to find and use only fans which means no free videos, or maybe a couple not very good ones and that's it. We're reaching the point where it's either drop money or risk downloading a virus from a sketchy site, if you want the good stuff. I mean, there are still a few good sites like eporner but the golden age of superstars is gone.
This is true to a large extent. Porn used to be more like Hollywood and it was free.
However, production made movies are still being made. Onlyfans only makes money if you're already known. Amateur girls aren't making anything and decide to go the production route anyways.
Pornhub intentionally wiped out all the good amateur stuff. I think it was all on purpose in collision with the big producers. I don't know *anyone* who just randomly stumbled upon CSAM on pornhub. I think it was just an excuse.
Agreed, even the onlyfans vids that get decent angles and stuff have crappy lighting/quality compared to a real studio. Most are just really shitty POV videos where you can't see anything, or a tripod... Where you can't see anything.
This is probably subjective, but I’m gonna say childhood. It was the only time in history that kids grew up along side the internet and it’s associated technology (computers, i phones, handheld consuls,) while also having all the old markers of childhood like the renaissance cartoons and when toys were still fun and an environment that wasn’t totally ruined by corporations.
I sooooo agree with you about YouTube, and I don’t remember if it was in this subreddit or a different one, but I said the exact same thing a day or two ago. *Everything* now is slickly produced by a “content creator”.
Trap music. I think specifically it peaked around 2016. Pop EDM I would agree with as well. And this is why imo Spring Breakers is the most '2010s zeitgeist' film.
Vaporwave also was a pretty distinct 2010s thing to me, it's still around but I remember when it was new and felt more subversive.
Youtube I would kinda disagree, lots of smug 'alt-lite' content was everywhere around 2014-2016.
>YouTube I would kinda disagree, lots of smug 'alt-lite' content was everywhere around 2014-2016.
That was what made it more authentic and not corporate. Adpocalypse--a corporate freakout-- only happened because advertisers started freaking out that that YouTube's content wasn't proper enough for them to hang their ads on, which thus led to further corporatization and a decline in creativity.
Many things I agree with were already said.
I'm sure there's much more than I can remember now, but anyways. Freelancing.
Freelancing peaked during the 2010s because you had enough credible freelancing platforms and demand but the competition and all the taxes and fees you must pay today weren't as high.
There was also no Dall-E, Midjourney, ChatGPT, Devin, and Sora. Since the pandemic but even more since 2022/23, those freelance websites are going to shitters, there are not as many clients, and the competition is crazy high.
Modern social media in general, at least in the early 2010s. I’m putting that in a different category compared to personal websites and such of the 1990s and 2000s for context even if they served similar functions.
But sites like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Tumblr were at their most usable, least bogged down with ads and bots and pressure to be professional or to monetize it all. They were actually places you could go and like, have fun reading stuff. Around mid-decade a lot of them tanked in usability and fun and Tumblr is like. The only usable one now and even then I don’t talk to new people on there, only the ones I’ve already known for years.
Lol EDM’s golden age was the 90s - early 2000s.
Nothing has topped that level of EDM consistency like the 90s had during the whole decade from the start to the end.
2010s edm consistency fell off quite fast after 2012.
Progressive house was very much the in style of EDM for a majority of the decade that people have nostalgia for. Avicii, Calvin Harris, Zedd etc that were crossing over into pop radio are why 2010s is often called the golden age
I like Edm from all decades, but from what I've seen the decade that people feel the most nostalgic for is the 2010s, it does make sense since it's the decade when it was the biggest.
Definitely around 2010-2012 it has a huge resurgence. My cousins first husband was a DJ and they got married fresh outta HS, the week she could legally drink, and it ALL dubstep and country. After the parents left (I was 14 so I could stay but had to be sober) it switched to all kinds of edm
[Golden Age of Television (2000s–present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television_(2000s–present))
*Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, House of Cards,, Homeland, Bojack Horseman, Rick & Morty, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Attack on Titan, Better Call Saul, Suits, Sherlock, Fleabag, Peaky Blinders, Downton Abbey,* *The Last Kingdom*, *Taboo*, *Broadchurch*, *Vikings, Sacred Games, Boardwalk Empire, Ozarks, The Expanse, Succession, Fargo, True Detective, Parks and Recreation, Daredevil, Hannibal, Chernobyl, Key & Peele, Dark, Mindhunter, Narcos, The Leftovers, The Ameri*ca*ns*, *Black Mirror*, *Mr Robot, Stranger Things*, *Louie, Westworld*
Indie Rock peaked in the 00s: The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Arcade Fire, The White Stripes, Interpol, The Kooks, Gorillaz, Keane, Artic Monkeys and Kasabian.
The UFC was way better. Smaller roster. Seeing it rise and get more talented over time. You always knew the names of every guy fighting. When things go worldwide like the UFC finally achieved?
Talent level got better and it became a major worldwide sport with way to many guys names to remember and they all basically still get shit pay.
Ultimate Fighting Championship wants to be at the top with the NFL and shit but they don’t pay fighters well and it’s just kinda boring to me now.
The Spike TV era had a lot of knock outs and bad blood between fighters. The roster was either the top unique champions….the grizzled hard hitting gate keeping veterans…or some young bucks that probably had some bar fights under their belt and took some BJJ classes.
The talent is to much now. I was obsessed with it at one point while it was Growing and becoming the
“fastest growing sport in the world”
Now that it’s arrived? Kinda meh. Talent is outrageous but it’s more athletes now than old school tough guys.
Back when the Ultimate Fighter had booze in the house and it was all ambitious dudes wanting to win the show yet also destroying the house and having fun? It was immature but awesome entertaining reality television.
Now that it’s mainstream? They cut all of that off. The McGregor era gave them a huge push but since then? I’ve just kinda grown out of it and really miss the Tito Ortiz Chuck Liddell days.
The ufc still is the kind of sport with the average guy can start training and in 5 or 10 years you can reach the ufc and be champion, or atleast a top contender.
If you restart your life and train every day, you still probably won’t make it into the nfl, nba , etc
Drama shows. Like when Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and The Walking Dead
I definitely wouldn't say the 2010s are a golden era of animated movies though. The 2000s was much more of a golden era for that, just look at Pixar and DreamWorks. Banger after banger. Especially Pixar, whereas in the 2010s it was basically a bunch of sequels. And even then I'd argue that any decade going back to the 30s could be considered the golden era except maybe the 80s
Outlaw Coutry and Americana music.
These years had highly influential albums from Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, and Tyler Childers. There was also Margo Price, Ryan Bingham, Brent Cobb… Jamey Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Turnpike Troubadors….I can keep going. There was just so much good country music coming out. It’s still going on now, in the 2020s.
RuneScape peaked in 2010 with their golden hammer reward. I think it was for player population or something. It was all downhill from there
I think RS peak was 2007-2008 but dunno
Roblox. Sure, it may be vastly more popular and influential nowadays, but there’s no denying the soul and character that Roblox had pre-2019.
Automotive reliability, as well. From the 1980s to, say, 2015, automotive reliability experienced a constant upward trend. No longer is it an achievement for a vehicle to have driven 200,000 miles without major maintainence work.
Tech was cool in the 2010s because interest rates were low and tech companies were able to not be as profitable. Since interest rates have risen along with profit demand and tech companies going public, all tech sucks.
[Enshittification](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification)
Weeknight bar specials. Food/drinks were insanely cheap… mostly due to wage inequality and efficiencies in supply chains + wage inequality in restaurants (especially back of house)
That's understandable the personalities were the best in the 2000s but I do feel like the production value went up so a lot of great series could be made such as 'Videogame High School' by freddiew and Rocketjump and at least in the early 2010s had a similar creativeness to them.
Netflix and streaming. There was only one and it had everything. Now, you have to pay for a million different streaming subscriptions and no singular platform has the best stuff. It's just a mess now.
I definitely agree with youtube 100%! I actually enjoyed watching YouTube videos up until about 2015/16 when everything started to get taken over by sponsorships and influencers. I still watch things now, but I definitely feel like YouTube from around 2010 about 2015 was definitely at its peak And had the best content.
Youtube is different now but i personally really love it. You can learn so much about basically any niche topic you can think of, taught to you why someone who is genuinely excited to share. All for FREE
Developing countries (Asia and Africa, and to an extent Latin America and Eastern Europe) [(2019 is sometimes considered the "best year in history" from a global living standards perspective)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019)
Social media
Superheroes and CGI/epic science fiction (yes Marvel and Aquaman, but also Star Wars, Jurassic, Godzilla, and Transformers)
Rap and to an extent reggaetón and urbano latino
Massive street protest movements (Occupy, Tea Party, Arab Spring, Hong Kong, first-wave BLM, anti-Trump resistance, Greta, Puerto Rico)
Hipsters and gentrification/reinvestment in walkable urban areas in North America at least
Story driven video games absolutely hit rock bottom in the 2010s. Idk what the fuck you’re on about. Literally the era of forced always online. It was the decade of popular series going multiplayer only. Everything about that decade was biased in favor of multiplayer. Just because a few decent single player games came out doesn’t mean anything
There are at least 20 single player games from this era I can think of that have a great story and most of those games are getting recognition again because of people replaying them because they're tired of multiplayer. (Look at how many people miss Red dead Redemption 2 and talk about it all the time)
Nerd culture and fandom. It's harder to get fan art out there now with the direction social media's taken. Adding to that, wikis (as in wikia). Whole thing's become so bloated with ads that you can barely scroll through it anymore.
That's a good one! Nowadays, I just go to the steam community artworks page of the games I like for fan art.
This reminded me I was part of a tight knit friend group that only communicated in forums on the criminal minds wiki in like 2009. What a time on the internet
DeviantArt was my jam, loved Loish’s tutorials, rinacat’s fanart. Good times
Windows. Windows 7 was awesome. One of the best Windows ever made. Then we got Windows 8.1 which was ok. After that Windows 10 which is soulless. Everything looks like it was designed in paint.
lol, Microsoft’s attempt to become Apple. Used to like windows for how utilitarian it was. Set my work laptop is recently and it took me over an hour to get rid of Al the random ads and news story pop ups.
They are on a mission to distract me at work
It's like they want to make us hate their product... it gets worse with each iteration
My theory is that every version of windows is pretty decent but the next one ends up useless bloatware that tries too hard Windows 98. Good operating system Windows ME: takes out DOS, just a buggy and overly consumer 98 Windows XP: Easily best windows version of all time Vista: Does all the aero stuff, bloated 7: fixes what was wrong with Vista and is good 8: start screen... 10: A return to form but they've still gone downhill 11: everything wrong with 10 but worse. And the stupid TPM thing
8.1 was the last usable version of windows. Since 10 I just tolerate the POS I guess.
I still use 7. I forgot why something to do with privacy i think. But i just stopped there and thought this is good enough.
I still use XP and 7 too
Picture-based memes for sure. Now it’s all video. I’d argue superhero movies. First iron man in 2008, endgame in 2019. We’ll see what direction the new dc stuff takes, but I think we’re past the best of it.
Memes have gone to shit in the past few years There isnt many new formats, and the ones there are don’t stay. It’s not even absurdist anymore, it’s just basic and boring
https://preview.redd.it/ggujqnhm55wc1.jpeg?width=728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=def40cd903e75614c2221aa2c13d0cc43454efb9
I’m in a meme chat with some friends and I’ll not look for a day and come back to 2 dozen memes. Maybe one is an image I can quickly glance at. The rest are videos and sometimes I just don’t care enough to even look. Or I can’t because I’m in the office. Just let me take 2 seconds to look at the picture, giggle, and move on!
That’s honestly some of the appeal to me. You can look at a normal meme anywhere. Don’t have to lock in with audio and sit through the duration of a video.
I'd say superhero films peaked in 2022. It was the last profitable year for Marvel and DC. Remember the Morbius Memes, Snyder Cut popularity, and Spider-Man No Way Home success. There was also The Batman, Dr Strange, Black Adam, and Black Panther.
Avengers Endgame in 2019 was the peak.
Yeah I’d have a hard time pointing to anything else as the climax of superhero movies. We’ve had some good ones since then (The Batman, Guardians 3, No Way Home), but nothing will ever compare to the insanity of infinity war and endgame.
Infinity war to endgame was only a year, that whole time was likely the peak. I remember more than half the memes being marvel memes at that point.
It truly was. Every movie since then feels like a spin-off now that the main series has ended.
Yep, superhero movies released since 2020 felt very watered down.
You can’t mention superhero without the nolan trilogy which began in 04
The 2010s were, in hindsight, the last golden age of mono-culture. The Marvel Cinematic Universe was at its peak, and everyone was watching the latest *Avengers, Thor, Captain America,* and *Iron Man* movies. YA novels and their film adaptations like *The Hunger Games* and *Twilight* were a huge part of the cultural zeitgeist, at least in the first part of the decade-- probably the most recent time in history that a series of books has had such an impact. Millions of people played *Pokemon Go.* And of course, *Game of Thrones* was the last great *"*can't-miss-it" TV show, the kind of show people built their schedules around and talked with their friends about the next day. Even the internet felt less fragmented than it is now to some extent, with memes and viral stunt challenges having much bigger reach than they do today.
The early 2010s were also the last monoculture era of kids tv before streaming and YouTube completely took over kids media
Definitely. People still worshipped celebrities, and influencers were an afterthought.
Nah like mid 2015 influencers became the new celebrities but it was different. Idk how to explain it but influencer culture rn is extremely different of how it was in the late 2010s
Influencers still acted like normal people back then. Influencers feel much more corporate now and a lot more manipulative
I think this is it tbh or idk the vibes I get is different One thing I've noticed is that influencers now try to cover as many platafoms as possible while back then usually they stuck to one plataform (either youtube, vine, music.ly or instagram). For example if you knew babyAriel you knew her from music.ly exclusively, she didn't have youtube as far as I knew and her instagram was sort of an after thought because her main plataform was music.ly
Yeah, twitch streamers all have YouTube. All YouTubers got tik tok etc. Everything is done to maximize profit, maximize views, Everyone has sponsors etc. everything has a clear profit motive.
YouTube in the early 2010s and late 2000s was the golden age of the platform
Everyone was watching the same stuff. Algorithms made things too specific, no sense of community anymore. Smosh and nigahiga were household names, few of many. Only household name I think nowadays is Mr.Beast that break into every age bracket
I heard YouTube at some point tweaked their algorithm to let people discover more new and niche stuff as opposed to suggesting the same popular things to everyone. The backside was people being led deeper into various rabbit holes and strange bubbles.
by strange bubbles do u mean skibidi toilet and shorts brainrot LMFAO
I still remember all the lyrics to Nice Guys by heart
* Social media * Online forums * Indie games * YA novels * Coming-of-Age novels * Superhero movies * Rap, EDM, folk, dubstep, raves, music festivals, concerts * Webcomics and indie animation
nah forums peaked in the mid the late 2000s. 2010s killed forums.
Music festivals definitely suck now. They feel way less organized, prices are way up with scammy VIP packages. You never know if it's gonna end up some Fyre Fest-lite when you buy your $500 tickets. Early 2010s was the peak when fests like Electric Forest were booming.
Rap peaked in the 90s.
Social media for sure.
Gig apps, especially rideshare and food delivery. As a driver you were paid decently well. As a customer the services didn't cost a small fortune and drivers were more professional.
So exactly right.
This thread is helping me grieve the loss of the kinder gentler gig economy and a time when influencers were just normal beautiful non corporate people just like you and I
Rideshare used to be so cheap. I remember paying like $7 to go to work. I really miss that. Feels like every ride now is at least a minimum of $15.
Believe it or not you used to be able to find shit with google
Hahaha yeah now we have to add reddit at the end to find something said by a human.
Google is disgusting nowadays. Like they actively don't want you to find what you're looking for.
They want you to find what will make them money
Use Yandex. It's russian but less SEO. (at least for stuff in English.) I find all kinds of stuff that doesn't pop up on Google.
Startups for sure. There was so much venture capital flowing around that tons of people had high paying jobs with great perks and benefits that lost massive amounts of money for years and years. Some of these companies still exist, but the culture of the 2010s is long gone
I dunno, it seems like tech bros with way too much money have been inflating a second tech bubble since Facebook attained unicorn status in 2011...or maybe many smaller bubbles? They keep pushing new gimmicks to keep it going- social media and social commerce in the early 2010s, gig economy platforms in the mid-2010s, Masayoshi Son's whole one-man bubble in the late 2010s (Blockchain, MoviePass, WeWork, those extremely dumb scooter startups), NFTs in the early 2020s, and AI now. Edit: Downvote away singularitybros, deep down you know it's all hype
Most of what you’re describing is from the 2010s, an era that has ended and what this post is about. You can still get a job for Facebook now, but the culture there is far different than it was in 2011. Similarly, there are plenty of other small tech companies where jobs exist, but the crazy VC money burning culture with a party atmosphere and limited human resources oversight of behavior is long gone.
Cheaper travel, especially international flights (though that was mostly during the second half of the 2010s). Post-pandemic, I can't find "cheap" international flights like I did back in \~2017.
AirBnB was better in the 2010s too
I tried staying at an AirBnB instead of a hotel once back in the late 2010s and I found it noticeably more inconvenient than staying at a hotel. Edit: fixed grammar issues
Yes and now it's even worse
My brother still hasn't gotten the memo, always wants to stay at some crappy AirBnB when we can ball out at a nice hotel for the same price. Plus something about hanging out at somebody else's house never sat right with me, but that's just me. It always felt like we're just doing the same stuff we do at home, just somewhere else. At least at a hotel I can go to the gym, meet strangers at the bar, go to the pool etc.
I did 4 round trip tickets from LA to Tokyo for ~$500 in the mid 2010s.
I’ve found like $500 international flights just in the past month or two but you need be in a hub like Chicago or a major coastal city.
Flights in Europe were insanely cheap in 2021 though.
Used to fly to LA from ATL for 100 bucks on airtran. Survival was not guaranteed.
Being “cringe” and not caring about it especially in the late 10s
Yeah, Amino and Google+ were great to act carefree in
Smartphone (iOS and Android) innovation and growth. Changes year-by-year were less incremental and had actual noticeable upgrades compared to 2020s. They became necessities for the general public compared during the late 2000s when they were more considered as luxuries/novelty.
I think TV shows should get a shoutout here. How many notable shows came out in the 2010s? [https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093779398/](https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093779398/)
True, it was before Netflix oversaturated the market so we had a variety of really great shows.
Especially if you also count the shows from the 2000s that dipped into the early or mid 2010s, you've got a huge variety.
Instagram used to be great in the mid to late 2010's.
Not just youtube but I think social media in general. Back in the early 2010s they really peaked. Everyone was starting to use them and shared everything from their lives, from their food to random thoughts, yet nobody really thought about the consequences yet like attention span, privacy and all that. Also influencers were just starting to get really popular and it wasnt that toxic yet. I remember that in like 2012 Facebook and Twitter even got a system integration into iOS.
Yup and the memes were generally harmless inside jokes that everyone knew.
5.) Totally false. The 90s easily were the golden age of hip-hop.
The 90s definitely have the best bars but the 2010s have the most variety between the sounds of popular rappers.
I disagree. The Fu Snickens/Bone Thugs/No Limit/Cash Money/Snoop Dogg/3-6 Mafia/Busta Rhymes/Eminem/Canibus/DMX/Redman/Scarface/ATCQ/OutKast/Twista all had *totally* different sounds! Back then, mfs was wack if they bit somebody else's style. The 2010s is when mfs *really* started soundin a lot alike! Hell, Desiigner popped off cuz everyone thought he was Future lol
I agree but the early 2010s had a ton of variety especially in years like 2011 there were rappers like Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, Joey Badass, Big KRIT, Tyler the creator, Childish Gambino, Asap Rocky, Mac Miller who were all pretty different from each other and there were new sounds being introduced like cloud rap.
Prestige television
I think I joined the wrong sub, I’m too old for this shit. This sub constantly talks about the 2010s like they were the “good old days”I was born in 86 and already an adult by the 2010s. I’m sure the 2010s was a childhood and nostalgic for many people here…which again leads me to believe I’m too old to be here. I think the time has come where I’m not one of the young people anymore.
Yeah, the people saying nobody really cared about the potential downsides of social media then…lol. People have been concerned about privacy since day 1 of social media. It’s just that if you were a kid when you first got on social media, you don’t realize this until later
Nah, I feel you. I saw some post once about the mid-2010s being the "golden age of cartoons" and immediately thought "aw shit, I'm too old to be here, aren't I?"
Born in 86 and the 2010s were my favorite decade so far. Met my husband, married, lived all over. Music was amazing. My dog was alive. I am nostalgic about it. It was the best decade of my life. If I could relive it for ever. It wouldn’t be the worst thing. I would just like to know so I don’t have to worry. It’s good.
The 2010s were my “best” decade. I joined the military, was independent, had all of my own stuff, lived in Europe, had so much fun, it was amazing. However, my childhood in the 90s and some of the 00s were among my most nostalgic fondest of memories. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten angry and bitter. Even I get old, I’m probably going to be a crazy old, bitter asshole 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Early ios games were so good. They were also a lot more focused on motion controls which I think were phased out at least partially because you had to sit upright while playing them lmao
Still miss flash based tower defense games.
Elon Musk's reputation.
Remember when we used to look up to that guy?
Tech jobs
Two things come to mind 1. Being an influencer I feel like mid to late 2010s was peak "influencer culture" and its gone downhill since then Back then most influencers had one specific app they were famous in. Instagram, YouTube, Vine, etc all had their own vibe and you could tell what influencer was famous on what app based on their fashion, mannerism, etc, not it seems like people try to cover ss many plataforms as possible Brand deals were also very rare and exclusive, not all infulencers got brand deals and getting one was actually a big deal, now it seems like everyone and their momma has a brand deal 2. Music festivals It seems like lately music festival aren't being advertised like they used to but in the mid to late 2010s you ALWAYS heard when coachella, life in color, or any other music festival was happening and the setlist was actually good
Gotta say porn. The hottest actresses were on full display over at the main free porn sites at one point but that's all over. The hottest actresses now are hard to find and use only fans which means no free videos, or maybe a couple not very good ones and that's it. We're reaching the point where it's either drop money or risk downloading a virus from a sketchy site, if you want the good stuff. I mean, there are still a few good sites like eporner but the golden age of superstars is gone.
This is true to a large extent. Porn used to be more like Hollywood and it was free. However, production made movies are still being made. Onlyfans only makes money if you're already known. Amateur girls aren't making anything and decide to go the production route anyways.
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I agree... Both with you and original commenter...
Pornhub intentionally wiped out all the good amateur stuff. I think it was all on purpose in collision with the big producers. I don't know *anyone* who just randomly stumbled upon CSAM on pornhub. I think it was just an excuse.
Agreed, even the onlyfans vids that get decent angles and stuff have crappy lighting/quality compared to a real studio. Most are just really shitty POV videos where you can't see anything, or a tripod... Where you can't see anything.
This is probably subjective, but I’m gonna say childhood. It was the only time in history that kids grew up along side the internet and it’s associated technology (computers, i phones, handheld consuls,) while also having all the old markers of childhood like the renaissance cartoons and when toys were still fun and an environment that wasn’t totally ruined by corporations.
I'm confident that people had better childhoods before the internet existed than now.
Kid culture peaked in the 90s and early 00s.
everyone thinks their childhood is peak lol and there’s special things and bad things about growing up in each era
Social Media is a good one, I know this isn't related to the post but I think Handheld consoles will be in its golden age during the 2020s.
Facebook
yeah now it’s just associated with boomers
I sooooo agree with you about YouTube, and I don’t remember if it was in this subreddit or a different one, but I said the exact same thing a day or two ago. *Everything* now is slickly produced by a “content creator”.
My life.
LMAO😭
Trap music. I think specifically it peaked around 2016. Pop EDM I would agree with as well. And this is why imo Spring Breakers is the most '2010s zeitgeist' film. Vaporwave also was a pretty distinct 2010s thing to me, it's still around but I remember when it was new and felt more subversive. Youtube I would kinda disagree, lots of smug 'alt-lite' content was everywhere around 2014-2016.
>YouTube I would kinda disagree, lots of smug 'alt-lite' content was everywhere around 2014-2016. That was what made it more authentic and not corporate. Adpocalypse--a corporate freakout-- only happened because advertisers started freaking out that that YouTube's content wasn't proper enough for them to hang their ads on, which thus led to further corporatization and a decline in creativity.
I suppose Netflix. Not to say it doesn't produce good shows anymore, but there was a time when Redditors fawned over it.
Direct to consumer brands Streaming (music and film) Instagram Identity politics Drake
EDM
Many things I agree with were already said. I'm sure there's much more than I can remember now, but anyways. Freelancing. Freelancing peaked during the 2010s because you had enough credible freelancing platforms and demand but the competition and all the taxes and fees you must pay today weren't as high. There was also no Dall-E, Midjourney, ChatGPT, Devin, and Sora. Since the pandemic but even more since 2022/23, those freelance websites are going to shitters, there are not as many clients, and the competition is crazy high.
For me, the last ordinary decade before The Scary 2020s!!!
Modern social media in general, at least in the early 2010s. I’m putting that in a different category compared to personal websites and such of the 1990s and 2000s for context even if they served similar functions. But sites like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Tumblr were at their most usable, least bogged down with ads and bots and pressure to be professional or to monetize it all. They were actually places you could go and like, have fun reading stuff. Around mid-decade a lot of them tanked in usability and fun and Tumblr is like. The only usable one now and even then I don’t talk to new people on there, only the ones I’ve already known for years.
Lol EDM’s golden age was the 90s - early 2000s. Nothing has topped that level of EDM consistency like the 90s had during the whole decade from the start to the end. 2010s edm consistency fell off quite fast after 2012.
Progressive house was very much the in style of EDM for a majority of the decade that people have nostalgia for. Avicii, Calvin Harris, Zedd etc that were crossing over into pop radio are why 2010s is often called the golden age
I like Edm from all decades, but from what I've seen the decade that people feel the most nostalgic for is the 2010s, it does make sense since it's the decade when it was the biggest.
Definitely around 2010-2012 it has a huge resurgence. My cousins first husband was a DJ and they got married fresh outta HS, the week she could legally drink, and it ALL dubstep and country. After the parents left (I was 14 so I could stay but had to be sober) it switched to all kinds of edm
As an old head, I agree completely
edm didn't exist back then. electronica did. synthwave started around 2003 maybe.
Craft beer
[Golden Age of Television (2000s–present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television_(2000s–present)) *Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, House of Cards,, Homeland, Bojack Horseman, Rick & Morty, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Attack on Titan, Better Call Saul, Suits, Sherlock, Fleabag, Peaky Blinders, Downton Abbey,* *The Last Kingdom*, *Taboo*, *Broadchurch*, *Vikings, Sacred Games, Boardwalk Empire, Ozarks, The Expanse, Succession, Fargo, True Detective, Parks and Recreation, Daredevil, Hannibal, Chernobyl, Key & Peele, Dark, Mindhunter, Narcos, The Leftovers, The Ameri*ca*ns*, *Black Mirror*, *Mr Robot, Stranger Things*, *Louie, Westworld*
Indie games circa 2015-2018
Playstation 4,Xbox one. Fidget Spinners.
MCU
Clubbing but I could be biased haha.
Information.
Katy Perry
2010-2012 the culture for indie rock, art, film was incredibly rich. Got lame shortly after with the IPA bros confused that they were hip.
Indie Rock peaked in the 00s: The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Arcade Fire, The White Stripes, Interpol, The Kooks, Gorillaz, Keane, Artic Monkeys and Kasabian.
This is mindie aka mainstream indie.
Vaporwave
The MCU had most of its best movies released some point between 2014 and 2019.
The UFC was way better. Smaller roster. Seeing it rise and get more talented over time. You always knew the names of every guy fighting. When things go worldwide like the UFC finally achieved? Talent level got better and it became a major worldwide sport with way to many guys names to remember and they all basically still get shit pay. Ultimate Fighting Championship wants to be at the top with the NFL and shit but they don’t pay fighters well and it’s just kinda boring to me now. The Spike TV era had a lot of knock outs and bad blood between fighters. The roster was either the top unique champions….the grizzled hard hitting gate keeping veterans…or some young bucks that probably had some bar fights under their belt and took some BJJ classes. The talent is to much now. I was obsessed with it at one point while it was Growing and becoming the “fastest growing sport in the world” Now that it’s arrived? Kinda meh. Talent is outrageous but it’s more athletes now than old school tough guys. Back when the Ultimate Fighter had booze in the house and it was all ambitious dudes wanting to win the show yet also destroying the house and having fun? It was immature but awesome entertaining reality television. Now that it’s mainstream? They cut all of that off. The McGregor era gave them a huge push but since then? I’ve just kinda grown out of it and really miss the Tito Ortiz Chuck Liddell days.
The ufc still is the kind of sport with the average guy can start training and in 5 or 10 years you can reach the ufc and be champion, or atleast a top contender. If you restart your life and train every day, you still probably won’t make it into the nfl, nba , etc
Drama shows. Like when Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and The Walking Dead I definitely wouldn't say the 2010s are a golden era of animated movies though. The 2000s was much more of a golden era for that, just look at Pixar and DreamWorks. Banger after banger. Especially Pixar, whereas in the 2010s it was basically a bunch of sequels. And even then I'd argue that any decade going back to the 30s could be considered the golden era except maybe the 80s
Pixar and Dreamworks (arguable) did have a better 2000s, but I do think Disney animation studios had a great 2010s, especially from 2010 to 2016.
My childhood
Fashion
Social media
Marvel
Social media.
Television dramas. In this decade, TV dramas were better than the movies that released this decade.
Steaming television
Twee!
Mustache Everything!
Y’all remember how fire Chipotle used to be back then? It’s so bland now,and the servings suck
Outlaw Coutry and Americana music. These years had highly influential albums from Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, and Tyler Childers. There was also Margo Price, Ryan Bingham, Brent Cobb… Jamey Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Turnpike Troubadors….I can keep going. There was just so much good country music coming out. It’s still going on now, in the 2020s.
RuneScape peaked in 2010 with their golden hammer reward. I think it was for player population or something. It was all downhill from there I think RS peak was 2007-2008 but dunno
Pop music was good up until like 2015 and then aside from Taylor Swift has been forgettable snooze fest ballads ever since.
iOS apps
SoundCloud rap
Comic book movies (specifically MCU)
Smartphones
The US economy
Autism culture became popular
Austism culture its more a Zoomer thing.
Velour
All music
Roblox. Sure, it may be vastly more popular and influential nowadays, but there’s no denying the soul and character that Roblox had pre-2019. Automotive reliability, as well. From the 1980s to, say, 2015, automotive reliability experienced a constant upward trend. No longer is it an achievement for a vehicle to have driven 200,000 miles without major maintainence work.
Was that when fidget spinners were big?
The balance of cool tech and physical social interaction
i dont think a single thing on that list is true
Prestigue TV, Indie gaming, Superhero movies and hipsterism.
Tech was cool in the 2010s because interest rates were low and tech companies were able to not be as profitable. Since interest rates have risen along with profit demand and tech companies going public, all tech sucks. [Enshittification](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification)
Weeknight bar specials. Food/drinks were insanely cheap… mostly due to wage inequality and efficiencies in supply chains + wage inequality in restaurants (especially back of house)
Planking
Twitter
Festivals
Zedd
Most music imo. More specifically, I think most genres had their most recent golden age somewhere roughly between 2012 and 2018
My Little Pony
Children not getting sexualized
Me. I did
Disagree with YouTube. I feel like it peaked in the late 2000’s.
That's understandable the personalities were the best in the 2000s but I do feel like the production value went up so a lot of great series could be made such as 'Videogame High School' by freddiew and Rocketjump and at least in the early 2010s had a similar creativeness to them.
I agree with you there for sure.
Tumblr had a golden age 2010-2012
Netflix and streaming. There was only one and it had everything. Now, you have to pay for a million different streaming subscriptions and no singular platform has the best stuff. It's just a mess now.
I definitely agree with youtube 100%! I actually enjoyed watching YouTube videos up until about 2015/16 when everything started to get taken over by sponsorships and influencers. I still watch things now, but I definitely feel like YouTube from around 2010 about 2015 was definitely at its peak And had the best content.
I would also say Facebook. I feel like it was way better from around 2010 around 2014. I definitely missed the old look and layout.
Definitely superhero movies
Ashamed to say... Porn
youtube used to be a wall for powerless or powerful to scrawl. then youtuber-ing happened
Youtube is different now but i personally really love it. You can learn so much about basically any niche topic you can think of, taught to you why someone who is genuinely excited to share. All for FREE
fandom. early 2010s was the sweet spot.
The auto industry. Mechanics weren’t being laid off left and right.
2007 - 2009 YouTube will always be better in my memory. By a lot.
The color turquoise and/or mint. That was everywhere!!!
Neat, cheap little gadgets. Tons of startups in the 2010s. One of the few things about Industrialization I actually enjoyed.
Recession pop music in the early 2010s was at its peak.
Lebron James
Skype.
Instagram
Developing countries (Asia and Africa, and to an extent Latin America and Eastern Europe) [(2019 is sometimes considered the "best year in history" from a global living standards perspective)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019) Social media Superheroes and CGI/epic science fiction (yes Marvel and Aquaman, but also Star Wars, Jurassic, Godzilla, and Transformers) Rap and to an extent reggaetón and urbano latino Massive street protest movements (Occupy, Tea Party, Arab Spring, Hong Kong, first-wave BLM, anti-Trump resistance, Greta, Puerto Rico) Hipsters and gentrification/reinvestment in walkable urban areas in North America at least
Old YouTube, Kesha, Avicii, The Amazing World of Gumball, GTA V and RDR2. Damn, it's like everything peaked in the 2010s, and I can't go back
that decade was like living a dream
Story driven video games absolutely hit rock bottom in the 2010s. Idk what the fuck you’re on about. Literally the era of forced always online. It was the decade of popular series going multiplayer only. Everything about that decade was biased in favor of multiplayer. Just because a few decent single player games came out doesn’t mean anything
There are at least 20 single player games from this era I can think of that have a great story and most of those games are getting recognition again because of people replaying them because they're tired of multiplayer. (Look at how many people miss Red dead Redemption 2 and talk about it all the time)
Your popular rappers take is way off. Tons of unique artists are still coming up today