I'm pretty sure if you entirely erased the last 20 years of pop culture from existence right now without any archives, people would definitely view it as a big deal and not just shrug it off and say, "eh, it all sucked anyways". Especially people who, you know, grew up on that stuff, and see it as quite valuable to them.
God, I hate people who still view everyone after Gen X as under 30.
honestly with the exception of Covid I take the 2020s over the 2010s especially when it comes to fashion.
to me the things good in the 2010s was the Kids culture of the Early 2010s and Sports.
but even then the NBA playoffs in 2026 was better than anything 2010s NBA produced after 2013.
Then suddenly they scream and think there's something wrong with the man for not being interested - no "he's just being used for sex and not for a relationship", no need for boundaries or consent, they think he's gay or not actually into women or he's having an affair etc.
Male desire is framed as potentially predatory when active, then suspicious when absent.
When Gen Z were in middle school and high school back in 2014, Millennials on Tumblr and Twitter were complaining about stupid shit like how advertisements featured attractive women in swimsuits and were complaining about the "male gaze" in video games and brands were adjusting accordingly. Characters were desexualized, swimsuit editions were phased out, and "body positivity" was corporate-enforced to avoid online backlash.
The sex recession started before most of Gen Z even thought or knew about sex because Millennials were more active on dating apps and were pushing anti harassment laws in person where you can't even stare at people. They wanted to police sex under the guise of "protecting" women but now they view themselves as sex positive compared to Gen Z and for some reason, despite all evidence to the contrary, that stupid notion stuck.
This other decades
The world has changed
I feel it in the water.
I feel it in the earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.
It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Dwarf-Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power. For within these rings was bound the strength and the will to govern each race. But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made. Deep in the land of Mordor, in the Fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged a master ring, and into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.
One ring to rule them all.
One by one, the free lands of Middle-Earth fell to the power of the Ring, but there were some who resisted. A last alliance of men and elves marched against the armies of Mordor, and on the very slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle-Earth. Victory was near, but the power of the ring could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father’s sword.
Sauron, enemy of the free peoples of Middle-Earth, was defeated. The Ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever, but the hearts of men are easily corrupted. And the ring of power has a will of its own. It betrayed Isildur, to his death.
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, it ensnared another bearer.
It came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels of the Misty Mountains. And there it consumed him. The ring gave to Gollum unnatural long life. For five hundred years it poisoned his mind, and in the gloom of Gollum’s cave, it waited. Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived its time had come. It abandoned Gollum, but then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, of the Shire.
For the time will soon come when hobbits will shape the fortunes of all.
It all fits together.
Its gonna be similar to Michael this year where the whole thing is done to capitalize on 2000s nostalgia and Obama era nostalgia before everything went downhill after him. There's gonna be a huge culture war thing with MAGA and the right with even Trump himself going on Truth Social and constantly whining about it.
The movie will be just a generic cash grab where it glorifies Obama and downplays all the problems during his personal life and as president. The trailer will open with Obama and his mom and the trailer's music will play softly before it plays loudly when showing Obama's political campaign.
Welcome to our show
We're happy that you're here
To hear us sing a song
About this crazy year
There was violence in Iran
Trouble in Afghanistan
And Tom and Zendaya got married
And may start their own clan
Trump lies, Epstein files
Maduro lost his case
Remember when Kristi Noem
Shot that one dog in the face?
Phone call scams, AI bans
Putin blew a nut
In the year 2026
The world was nuckin' futs!
Mamdani increased the wealth tax
Niger had quite a coup
I learnеd at summer camp
Instagram hates thе Jews
Orbán fell from grace
Khamenei bit the dust
And Paramount bought Warner Bros
For a couple billion bucks (Woo-hoo!)
Did you hear? This past year
Traoré nearly croaked
And Donald Trump suffered
A hemorrhagic stroke
Swalwell, McCormick
Elon makes lots of cash
My Congressman DM'd me
For a picture of my ass
Gen Z swore off sex
Religious wars abound
Kim Jung lit a bomb
Somewhere underground
E-Coli in our food
Lindsay Clancy got a viral trial
Chappell Roan gets scrutiny
For yelling at a child (Whee!)
Did you hear? This past year
Bondi got the can
The Dems took over Congress
I don't think they have a plan!
Israel! Hezbollah!
Iran wants a bomb!
The way that things are headin'
Armageddon won't be long!
It really won't be long! (Yeah!)
There seems to be a "popular trend" for celebrities in the 2020s: to be dead! Celebrities are just dropping like flies this decade.
It's like "I'm Chadwick Boseman, dead!" "I'm Kobe Bryant, dead!" "I'm Gilbert Gottfried, dead!" "I’m Jessica Walters, dead!” “I'm Norm Macdonald, dead!” “I'm Matthew Perry, dead!”, “I'm Michelle Trachtenberg, dead!” “I'm James Earl Jones, dead!”, “I'm Ozzy Osbourne, dead!” “I'm Malcolm Jamal Warner, dead!” “I'm Hulk Hogan, DEAD!”, "I'm Dolly Parton, dead!", "I'm Tim Curry, dead!", "I'm Hayden Paneterrie, DEAD!"
And the celebrity deaths are coinciding with the death of the celebrity itself. Less and less people care about celebrities compared to before, and these celebrity deaths represent a time that we cared.
I hate it. I don’t give a fuck if I sound bitter about this, because that’s not why I hate sex-positivity. Yes, I am religious and sexually conservative, but that’s just me. I don’t view sex as something wrong, if anything, it’s a deeply special ritual of bonding in a healthy relationship. Sex is an almost spiritual experience when it’s not exploitative, and I find that sex-positivity inevitably undermines this. Sex-positivity cheapens the importance of sex and downplays the major vulnerability that’s involved with sex. I’ll go into this more in depth later.
As far as I myself am concerned, I've never been in a relationship or had sex. I'd strongly prefer my partner be the same. I want to be on an equal footing with my partner and don't want to feel inadequate or compared with anyone else. I'm also religious and that does play a role in my preference, but it's not the primary reason for me.
I’ve also noticed that sex-positive people are just as judgemental as repressive prudish types. Tell sex-positive people you have sexual acts and preferences that you personally won’t do, and they’ll insult you, call you prudish, and insist that you’re brainwashed. I see this especially with the poly/ENM community, where they view themselves are more evolved and superior to monogamous people. If you don’t want your partner to fuck other people, then you’re a controlling monster according to them. If a woman is happy with her husband and doesn’t want to be passed around to other men by her husband, then she’s been indoctrinated by the patriarchy. It goes on and on, but these are just some examples of the shaming that occurs.
The main reasons though that I hate sex-positivity are because it’s another conformist and anti-woman ideology that comes in the guise of freedom to express themselves. Sex-positivity is particularly dangerous for impressionable young women, who are constantly bombarded with messaging that sex is something that’s safe to do impulsively with strangers who may or may not have bad intentions. Since men are generally stronger than women, they are inherently at a power advantage over women in sexual relationships. I also don’t believe that consent makes something not objectionable. Consent is absolutely a prerequisite for sexual encounters to not be exploitative and harmful, but just because something is consensual, even with enthusiastic consent, it doesn’t automatically mean that a sexual act doesn’t have an exploitative intent. For example, rpe role play. Sure it’s consensual, but you have to ask, WHY does the man accept RPing as a rpist? What motivates him to want to play as a r*pist with someone he loves? If you take the consent away, will he feel guilty or will he continue with the act?
The glorification and defense of pornography and sex work is also a major issue I have with sex-positive feminism. I do not identify as feminist, but I concur with radical feminists on the fact that porn and prostitution are bad for women. There’s a whole underworld of sex trafficking of minors and poor foreign women in the sex industry, and I don’t think this gets emphasized enough. Numerous porn studios have been found blackmailing women after misleading them into producing content with them. Porn sites have tons of CSAM that they knowingly refuse to take down. There’s also the high rates of drug abuse, mental illness, and suicide amongst women in sex work. Sex work also renders women who lose out in the industry largely unemployable and outcasted socially. This not as major of an issue compared to others mentioned earlier, but porn also hurts men too - through addiction, guilt, planting the seeds of objectification, etc. I don’t see sex-positivity address this and in particular, I see sex-positive men do apologia for exploiting women. In general, if a man openly considers himself to be a sex-positive feminist, I’ll just assume that he’s a sex pest and potential predator. I am not at all apologetic about my special disdain for sex-positive men and I don’t think others should feel guilty either.
I will admit, my primary disdain for sex-positivity is very much misandrist. I’m a straight man, and I know about men a lot. I know men enough to understand why most women distrust unknown men unless proven otherwise. There are many good men in this world sure, but there’s just as many bad apples who roam around and look just like good men. Most women I know have been at the receiving end of abuse by men and the issues that men face with regard to women really pale in comparison to what women face. The biological realities of men and women also make sex much riskier and high-stakes for women than they do for men. Women have to be concerned with physical violence, unwanted pregnancies, and psychological abuse, as well as the long-term effects of this in terms of PTSD, STDs, and caring for children born from a sexual encounter. Apart from STDs, men don’t have to worry about the long-term consequences of coercive and exploitative sexual acts by the opposite sex in the same way women do. I’m not saying women can’t harm other women or that women can’t harm men - they certainly can and they do, a lot. Just look at sex and porn-positive ideologues. I’m also not saying men can’t be victims of sexual violence from men - they certainly can and it’s extremely common. My point is that sex-positivity inevitably leads to defending and normalizing violence against women in the guise of empowering them.