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If you haven't been living under a rock since last autumn, the 2010s are currently in the process of a historic re-evaluation wave. The reasons for this are heavily discussed, but I think it'd be more interesting to pinpoint the exact dates when it happens.

Obviously there's both the Obama/EDM 2010s and the Trump/trap 2010s, but I'm not splitting them out here as they were very much two halves of the same culture that had a change in fortunes due to an election (the Trump movement emerged from the tea party, the Obama movement rallied around Biden and the women's march, and the Occupy movement shifted towards Bernie and AOC).

Beginning of 2010s present => dated shift:

>Earliest dates: June 12, 2017 (Attention Is All You Need, landmark AI paper), June 19, 2017 (Transformers: The Last Knight opens to scathing reviews and launches the trend of franchise disappointments that continues to hamper the Hollywood box office), throughout 2019 (growth of TikTok)

>Median dates: December 30/31, 2019 (first announcement of COVID-19) - January 3/4, 2020 (Soleimani WWII scare)

>Late dates: March 11-17, 2020 (lockdowns begin in USA), June 2020 (US protests and GPT-3 release)

End of 2010s present => dated shift:

>Earliest dates: January 6-20, 2021 (Capitol protests and inauguration in US), August 2021 (disorderly US withdrawal from Afghanistan, rising inflation, and end of Biden-era optimism)

>Median date: February 24, 2022 (full-scale invasion of Ukraine)

>Late dates: July 21/22, 2023 (Barbenheimer), October 7, 2023 (eruption of war in Israel and the occupied territories)

Beginning of 2010s dated => classic shift:

>Earliest dates: June 2021 ("Hot Vaxx Summer" memes), December 17, 2021 (No Way Home releases)

>Median date: March 17, 2023 (Eras Tour opens with Taylor's greatest hits of 2019)

>Late dates: Ongoing, likely to be September 25, 2026 with Avengers: Endgame re-releasing

Completion of 2010s dated => classic shift:

>Early date: June 2, 2025 (Ordinary, a 2010s stomp-clap-hey throwback, reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100)

>Median dates: December [various] 2025 to January 1, 2026 ("the new 2016" meme)

>Late dates: still in progress

How to unite the 21st century

Thieves stole Nvidia-branded trailers expecting valuable tech. They got 40,000 pounds of sand instead.

Japan considers replacing military troops with humanoid robots

The humanoid machines could handle noncombat duties like patrolling bases and moving supplies

Yup

Nothing really has changed since the iPhone came out

Is it always like this? (I'm not counting Shaboozey as he had his genre change early in his career)

How the 2010s became "cool", day-by-day

Comment section to this 2018 video aged like milk.

me_irl

Tag yourself I'm in Illinois atm

August and September 1991, everybody. One of the most notorious curbstomps in rock music history.

Mid-2020s Moodboard: The Dystopia

The four separate terrorism-related headlines on the morning of 9/11/2001. They would all be overshadowed by a fifth hours later.

The Transformers movies are full of heavy-handed, excessively on-the-nose commentary on the world of 2026. Which is strange, as they were released well before the 2020s even started.

I need to sell my condo fast as I have learned it's located within a shitty TLK fanfic.

AOE is aging even better after DHS' Bullshit.

AI Robots 'protest' outside Poland ministry demanding AI oversight

Guess which decade this headline is frum

This was posted by the official Homeland Security account...

One of several Transformers related things posted today, I don't even know how this is real life.

What if Spanish socialists in say 2004 had actually amended the constitution to allow for the prosecution of elderly Francoists?