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Geopolitics: May 2011 - Killing of bin laden

Economy: June 2009 - Official end of the great financial crisis

Music: October 2010 - Release of Bruno mars debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans (Teenage dream works as well but after looking into it further this makes sense to me)

Television: May 2013 - The Office series finale

Film: July 2011 - End of the Harry Potter film franchise with deathly hallows part 2

Fashion: Mid or late 2011 - Don’t know much about this but I guess the rise of hipster and swag

Gaming: Sometime in 2011 - Nintendo 3DS, minecraft becomes popular, rise of mobile gaming with Angry Birds being all the rage, release of games like Skyrim and dark souls

Technology: Late 2012 - Smartphones become dominant over feature phones and blackberries

Internet culture: Late 2010 - MySpace is dead by then, Instagram releases and rage comics become popular

Society: I don’t know, but it’s between late 2008 when the Great Recession had a great impact on everyday life and 2011 when recovery started

Sports: Mid 2010 - South Africa World Cup, Kobe wins his last NBA championship

Aesthetics: 2011 - HD music videos become the norm

I think November 2023 because it was before Trump’s global tariffs were implemented in April 2025 and the backlash that came with it so it was more like nov 2023 economically and 2026 in general is becoming more left wing and backlash against MAGA compared to February 2025 which was peak MAGAism and was part of that conservative wave that started in mid 2022. Feb 2025 was also pre-Iran war which is one of the biggest energy/oil crises in history, Epstein files, maduro, Charlie Kirk assassination.

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2000: 1999 by a landslide

2001: 2000

2002: 2001 by a hair

2003: 2002 by a hair

2004: 2003

2005: 2006

2006: 2005

2007: 2006

2008: 2007 by a hair

2009: 2010

2010: 2009

2011: 2010 by a hair

2012: 2013 by a hair

2013: 2012

2014: 2015 by a landslide

2015: 2014 by a hair

2016: 2015 by a hair

2017: 2018

2018: 2017 by a hair

2019: 2018 by a landslide

2020: 2021

2021: 2020

2022: 2021 by a hair

2023: 2024

2024: 2023

2025: 2026 by a hair

Jan-Apr 2020:

Geopolitically: Worldwide super shift (10/10)

May-Aug 2020:

Geopolitically: Worldwide super shift (10/10)

Sep-Dec 2020:

Geopolitically: Shift (8/10)

Jan-Apr 2021:

Geopolitically: Shift (8/10)

May-Aug 2021:

Geopolitically: Shift (8/10)

Sep-Dec 2021:

Geopolitically: Very transitional (7/10)

Jan-Apr 2022:

Geopolitically: Super shift (9/10)

May-Aug 2022:

Geopolitically: Shift (8/10)

Sep-Dec 2022:

Geopolitically: Shift (8/10)

Jan-Apr 2023:

Geopolitically: Filler (3/10)

May-Aug 2023:

Geopolitically: Very filler (1/10)

Sep-Dec 2023:

Geopolitically: Transitional (5/10)

Jan-Apr 2024:

Geopolitically: Very filler (1/10)

May-Aug 2024

Geopolitically: Filler (3/10)

Sep-Dec 2024:

Geopolitically: Very transitional (7/10)

Jan-Apr 2025:

Geopolitically: Shift (8/10)

May-Aug 2025:

Geopolitically: Very transitional (7/10)

Sep-Dec 2025:

Geopolitically: Shift (8/10)

Jan-Apr 2026:

Geopolitically: Borderline super shift (8.5-9/10