What was life like in the 2010s?

[Taylor Sniffs]

Kindly refresh my memory 

[Specter]

Nice try, two-year old

[PoisonCandy]

BLM and the me too movement kicked off.

Marvel dominated cinema.

Vine, Musically and Snapchat were the hottest social media platforms.

Kids were playing with fidget spinners and hover boards.

We witnessed the peak, the fall, and the re-peak of Gaga.

[JoshSpears1805]

awful , wokeness started to infect everyday life, started with SJWs and big tech censorship took over. the list of things you cannot say is now longer than what you can 

 

 

gay rights improved though especially here in the uk we won all our victories

[Delirious]

Tumblr sad girl era. Loved every moment of it.

 

Edited December 29, 2022 by Delirious

[Aston Martin]

No global pandemic that infected over 600 million people WW (and killing over 6.5 million). 

The music industry shifted from the digital era to the streaming era.

More non-IP movies were box office smashes (while it can still happen, it's just way less common). 

Netflix and Hulu were really the only streaming services people used in the US. 

Most big artists released less frequently than they do now.

 

 

[BloodLuster]

18 minutes ago, Delirious said:

Tumblr sad girl era. Loved every moment of it.

 

me too. the alt scene was packed

[Totami Legend]

pop culture started to fade

streaming dominated the industry

we witnessed taylor becoming the final MPG

Gaga downfall and renaissance at awards shows

britney residency being insufferable

everyone got an smartphone and tv died

[Alldeezy]

It was a real downfall especially after 2000s. Best decade ever 

 

2010 basically my 20s. And it sucked

[Nikko]

Less social media apps to scroll through

The birth of streaming, audio and video

People were less anxious up until 2016 when Trump got elected and the whole world started spiraling

 

 

 

[Versayce]

[Sunderland 4ever]

To me, it was switching from Blackberry to today's smartphones, so it was switching from 3G to 4G phones. Also, it marked the rebirth of the dream pop/shoegaze movement and the appearance and/or rise of vaporwave, chillwave and neo-psychedelia, all of which pretty much shaped my current musical taste.

 

It was also switching from downloading music to streaming music. In my life, that change took place in early 2017.

 

Overall, music became more disposable, which means the pop culture as it existed pre 2010 was pretty much over (less hype on music videos and albums). Singles became more important than albums, and also they became easily forgettable. A good aspect of the Internet on music though was that people suddenly had way more access to worldwide music, so even though you and your friend loved related music genres, you both could have a completely different list of favorite artists and barely an artist or two in common.

 

Socially speaking, it was transitioning from holding conversations to people after class or work to exiting a room and immediately scrolling down a phone screen.

Edited December 29, 2022 by Sunderland 4ever

[Taylucifer]

2 hours ago, Delirious said:

Tumblr sad girl era. Loved every moment of it.

 

god i miss 2013-2015 

[mercurialworld]

4 hours ago, JoshSpears1805 said:

awful , wokeness started to infect everyday life, started with SJWs and big tech censorship took over. the list of things you cannot say is now longer than what you can 

Im a starving child starving to death and this is the very last thing i will ever see. Gootbye.

[mercurialworld]

For me, it was as if everyone was in their King Kylie era (even my mom). Gaga, Katy, etc. were truly eating in the pop culture market, Instagram was starting up, it was truly a moment.

[#Beautiful]

3 hours ago, Totami Legend said:

pop culture started to fade

streaming dominated the industry

we witnessed taylor becoming the final MPG

Gaga downfall and renaissance at awards shows

britney residency being insufferable

everyone got an smartphone and tv died

literally sndndnd a mess, i dont miss it one bit

[BGKC]

I graduated HS in 2010 and spent most of my days working and nights getting trashed in Hells Kitchen. A lot of it is a blur. Pop music didn’t connect with me as much as it did in 2000s. 

[cOe]

Buzzfeed

Radio was much more relevant in the early 2010s

Affordable and great concerts and festivals

Ask.fm REIGNED in my middle school

Instagram was very post-heavy as there were no stories

Flash mobs and viral dances actually happened in public spaces and not in TikTok bedrooms

Snapchat

2013 Tumblr pale black emaciated era

Starbucks

 

 

 

[Dystopian]

it’s weird. 2010-2015 feels like a completely different decade compared to 2016-2019

[Pop Life]

2010-2013

Like the early years of most decades, this is mostly a spill-over from the previous one. Electropop and dance-pop rule the charts. "Main pop girl" as a concept is still going strong, with most acts firing on all cylinders and releasing simultaneously. This is the last time that pop culture exists in the traditional sense.

 

2013-2015

Tumblr culture reaches the mainstream (or close to it) and with it, the sad alt-girl concept achieves popularity. Artists like Halsey, Marina and Sky Ferreira all release breakthrough albums that capitalize on these sentiments, with Lana having lead the way the year prior.

 

2014-2017

Pop music enters a decline. The emerging trap music trend and male singers fill up much of the void. Alt-r&b also has a cute moment. It's around now that streaming overtakes digital sales, Hulu/Netflix lose the monopoly on television streaming, and Twitter/tik tok reach global saturation, leading to fragmentation of the monoculture. 

 

2016 onwards 

The second half of the decade is marked by rapidly increasing political divide. Social issues like police brutality and race relations have new light shed on them, in part thanks to smartphone technology allowing for anyone to record injustice. Trump rises to power and feeds on the negative energy. The general atmosphere for the rest of the decade is one of tension and uncertainty.

 

The rest is kind of a stressful blur, honestly