How will the 2010s be remembered??

smilerf

igCorcaigh wrote: »

This past decade will be remembered as an era of civil rights. Go back in your box.

Civil rights for men playing dress up.
Go way outta that

branie2

The Star Wars sequel trilogy

branie2

The era of two Popes

Sunny Disposition

In Ireland the recession was really bad until about 2015, that was a historic period because it was so terrible. Suicides, emigration, huge job losses, negative equity, really dark period.

Also this decade it became obvious there are major problems with social media and ‘big tech’. Still no sign of any regulation though.

Gwynplaine

Phone obsession
Crap music
Skinny Jean's
Stupid haircuts
No socks
Avocados
Fancy coffees

igCorcaigh

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Phone obsession
Crap music
Skinny Jean's
Stupid haircuts
No socks
Avocados
Fancy coffees

Pocket computers, connected globally by a wireless system.

Political turmoil, but not revolution.

Good coffee

Crap music

riclad

Social media obsession , selfie,s ,companys getting hacked,every month,
company x with x million users get,s hacked.
The music industry getting saved by music streaming. video on demand streaming taking over from live tv.
you can just watch tv on a tablet or a laptop.
Teens now seem to communicate by app,s ,snapchat,instagram etc
half the population seems to have the same haircut, short at the side, a bit left on top .
coffee shops on every street ,pubs closing .
housing crisis .rents going up.
extreme weather, fires in california and oz that destroy whole town,s .
Maybe the start of climate change .
fake news .alt right online groups .Mass shootings in american schools .
websites and apps being blocked in china and other countrys .
hipsters with beards .
Who cares, about mtv, people can watch any video on youtube.
new jobs being created that never existed before , influencers, streamers,.
people get paid to play games on twitch.
minecraft.podcasts .
Music charts are now calculated by streams or youtube views, as well as sale,s .the decline of the album,the fall in the sales, of cds.
We have just android versus iphone.
no one wanted to buy windows phones .

LessOutragePlz

LessOutragePlz wrote: »

The permanently outraged taking over the internet and being offended by everything.

this

but across the whole political spectrum

Snow Garden

A decade of fear, outrage and misinformation.

sirmanga

sirmanga wrote: »

The decade when "thoughts and prayers" were replaced by "sending positive vibes"

What is the difference, exactly? Except the removal of prayer, of course. We can't have people doing archaic things like praying, now can we?
Instead let's use our energy to send positive vibes to bereaved people...

i like how you dont seem to think its a pretty similar subset doing either

sirmanga

[Deleted User] wrote: »

i like how you dont seem to think its a pretty similar subset doing either

A lot of people now, particularly the Twitter crowd, seem to think it's silly to say they are praying for someone going through a bad time. But will instead say they are sending "positive vibes".
How does either thing really help?

Sunny Disposition

sirmanga wrote: »

A lot of people now, particularly the Twitter crowd, seem to think it's silly to say they are praying for someone going through a bad time. But will instead say they are sending "positive vibes".
How does either thing really help?

How could you send a positive vibe? If God exists and gets a prayer he might decide to do something. But a positive vibe sent on Twitter won’t help.

branie2

Water charges and "Peaceful" protesters

huddledDuke12

A few good and bad ones below:

The Good:

Game Of Thrones
Netflix
A Quiet Place
Rise in Mexican food outlets domestically

The Bad:

Snowflakes
NPCs
Soy boys
A barrage of sub genders and sexualities (possible off-shoot of the former)
Weak domestic politicians (no names, no law suits )
Extinction Rebellion

iamstop

Avocados.

iamstop

iamstop wrote: »

Avocados.

I'm not even joking.
Also, no one said Bitcoin and crypto-currencies.

is_that_so

iamstop wrote: »

I'm not even joking.
Also, no one said Bitcoin and crypto-currencies.

They are not really worth mentioning, as few use them and it's like the Wild West in terms of standards.

alchemist33

huddledDuke12 wrote: »

A few good and bad ones below:

The Good:

Game Of Thrones
Netflix
A Quiet Place
Rise in Mexican food outlets domestically

The Bad:

Snowflakes
NPCs
Soy boys
A barrage of sub genders and sexualities (possible off-shoot of the former)
Weak domestic politicians (no names, no law suits )
Extinction Rebellion

+1 on Mexican food.


But nobody's going to remember the decade for some niche terms made up by outraged internetters

Anesthetize

The good:

Alternative music - more relevant than ever before
Game of Thrones, and lots of other great TV shows
Hurling
Rugby
The start of action on climate change
The rise of craft beer
Abortion referendum
Same-sex marriage referendum
Spotify
On-demand TV
Smartphones

The bad:

Bull**** music nostalgia
Mrs Brown's Boys - TV for numpties
Gaelic football - piss off Dublin you gammy bastards
Crap world leaders
Brexit
Man Utd post-Fergie
Disappearance of youth subcultures
Decline of online forums
Smartphones

Jimbob1977

Brexit

Election of Donald Trump

The over-indulgence of political correctness in the West.

Grenfell Tower tragedy

Notre Dame fire

Selfie sticks

Instagram/Snapchat

The Paddy Jackson Trial

The Graham Dwyer Trial

Continued mass shootings in the United States

Anders Breivik outrage in Oslo and Utoya

Bataclan, Nice, Christchurch, Manchester attacks, etc

Partisan media... and not even trying to hide it

Japanese tsunami - almost a nuclear catastrophe

branie2

The visits of Barack Obama, Queen Elizabeth and Pope Francis

riclad

Theres more subcultures than ever,
incel,s ,alt right, hipsters, soundcloud rapper,s , etc every minor subculture has a forum on reddit,
decline of blogs.
is hurling ,rugby not part of every decade ?
Cancel culture.me too movement.viral video.s , vine now gone, replaced by tik tok.
youth environmental protest,s .
new energy source,s ,solar wind, tech has reached the point where its as cheap as coal.
The sucess of marvel movies.SCI FI and fantasy tv is now really good,the mandalorian,the witcher,game of thrones, and it gets good ratings.
Computer games graphics are now so advanced they can rival tv.
eg The last of us. The latest call of duty game looks like a movie.

Anesthetize

riclad wrote: »

Theres more subcultures than ever,
incel,s ,alt right, hipsters, soundcloud rapper,s , etc every minor subculture has a forum on reddit.

I was referring more to on our streets, rather than online.

During the 00's when I was a teen you still had skaters, emos, goths, metalheads, chavs, punks, and actual hipsters.

Now all the kids on the street look the same.

Lougarden

Lougarden wrote: »

Looking forward to 2020. I think the tens passed by me due to age and looking after others up and coming or on the other side. ...
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

....silly me

riclad

Apps and smartphones being used by everyone, there's an app for everything, people being radicalised on forums, fake news and conspiracy theory's being spread on social media. Teens using memes, mass shootings getting worse,
No sign of any gun control.
Young people actually getting worried about global warming.
More extreme fires in Australia and America Blm, cops are being recorded
Killing black people
Podcasts replace radio for young people
On demand TV Netflix etc
Smartphones getting faster more powerful only professionals use a camera
1000s of people make a living from instagram streaming games on twitch
More people work from home
More people watch YouTube than any TV channel
The economy booms before covid happens high rents the homeless crisis
Streaming replaces iTunes or buying cds
Digital downloads for any game on console
Cable cutting, just watch TV online,
People spending 1000 dollars on 1 phone