r/decadeologycirclejerk

Why? 2020-2021 felt more like the late 2010s with some leftovers from the late 2010s! The Ukraine War really began the 2020s, and things started feeling more different!

(of course, I hate decadeology as a subreddit)

Fight me. The world is dead, 1949 was the sweet spot any other year and you are doomed to just slave wages and die.

Not to "yap,"

but this is a summary of my links.

**1991-2017 shift:** [https://www.reddit.com/r/generationology/comments/1tu5mdm/earlymid\_1991\_to\_springfall\_2017\_is\_one\_deep\_era/](https://www.reddit.com/r/generationology/comments/1tu5mdm/earlymid_1991_to_springfall_2017_is_one_deep_era/)

**The "True" beginning of the 21st century:**

[https://www.reddit.com/r/culturalstudies/comments/1ullez4/being\_honest\_late\_2017\_octoberdecember\_2017\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/culturalstudies/comments/1ullez4/being_honest_late_2017_octoberdecember_2017_to/)

**Next 21st Century shift:**

[https://www.reddit.com/r/generationology/comments/1uk6iks/junejuly\_2026\_is\_the\_gradual\_beginning\_of\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/generationology/comments/1uk6iks/junejuly_2026_is_the_gradual_beginning_of_the/)

**Eh, and perhaps the 2020s subdivision:**

[https://www.reddit.com/r/Roaring2020s/comments/1uls772/the\_2020s\_subdivision\_cleanup\_post/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roaring2020s/comments/1uls772/the_2020s_subdivision_cleanup_post/)

This is to help "the surroundings," perhaps?

Basically every generation before them all are forced to have sex, especially women who have sex because they're pressured too and they never said no or declined a guy. But then Gen Z singlehandlely invented consent and are the first generation to have sexual harassment and assault be seen as bad and people face the consequences for it.

1. Because 2010s was the best decade

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Due to personal reasons the opposite of what I went through. Yes culturally may have been better but my life was worse including my age (20) fearing if I make it past it. That weird “middle of nowhere” age where you’re technically an adult, out of your teens, but still feel lost. I felt pressure to break the law (drink) because it should be that age. Another would be I had to go to the doctor to get my right ear flushed out after it clogged with water and wouldn’t clear. It sounds minor, but in the context of everything else? That small disruption set the tone for the chaos that followed.

I dealt with a "he said she said" drama from a family member on my mom’s side her godson and my brother’s godfather spreading misinformation about me posting on Facebook being single. And it wasn’t just petty drama; it felt like he was reflecting the culture of the time. Haven't spoken & don't speak to him and that side of the family because of it. On top of that, I had a toxic summer job at Wendy’s, my first real step into adulthood. One of the team members was a full-blown bully: bossy, controlling, and somehow had the majority of the staff on his side. It was humiliating. In addition, that same family member who spread the drama liked the Facebook post announcing I got the job. Looking back, it felt fake performative support, but no real care. This month 19th & summer is (officially) 10 years, and I feel I'm starting to move on but uncertain about my love life.

Lastly, I like to add less celebrity deaths because that really turned it off. Why does it have to be that overrated while it had that much grievance including the shooting in Orlando. It irritates me when people obsess over it (like it's God) especially beginning of this year, looks like you're not getting your wish, sadly you have to live in reality. Life is life *keep calm*!!

I see many people in this community (or outside of it) say that the Epstein files is the Watergate of the 2020s, but in my opinion, January 6th resembles a more extreme version of it, in which both of them resulted in a controversial president losing more favorability in an already culturally liberal time period, both resulted in trials or investigations even after their respective terms (such as with the January 6th committee and Trump's second impeachment for January 6th), and both were examples of election interferences. It also reinforced my Trump 1.0-Nixon comparison that I had at the time, although it was more extreme due to it being an attempted coup.

The Epstein files on the other hand feels more unique and it can be compared to being a more extreme Monika-Lewinsky scandal (due to a scandal involving presidential sexual abuse) mixed in with the Panama papers, since both involved emails and a list of names, although it can be compared to the #MeToo movement too as both resulted in an anti-elitist mindset against sexual abuse. Rhetoric-wise, it resembles as being the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" of the 2020s as the Epstein files resulted in a surge of antisemitic conspiracy theories due to Epstein being Jewish.

It’s genuinely depressing when you think about it. Almost everything that started in the 20th century as something harmless, optimistic, or even wholesome ended up becoming a disaster or a monster by the 21st.

Even something as innocent as Disney — a cute little animation studio making family friendly films and cartoons for kids — turned into a corporate abomination with obsessive Disney adults.

That’s the pattern of the entire 20th century, it created the conditions for long-term failure. That's not how it's supposed to work. In previous centuries and eras, they create legacies that are better in the long term where later generations would look back positively and things improve because of it. The 20th century’s legacy feels uniquely self destructive in the long run. It was the first century where the ideas and institutions it birthed ended up being worse for the future than the problems they were meant to solve.

Heatwaves makes people not really care that much about the racial composition of their countries

Majority non-alive.

Racka fracka racists, ruining your favorite cartoons like Looney Tunes and Rocko’s Modern Life? Don’t need em.

• 2020s
• 1970s
• 1930s/1940s
• 1860s
• 1850s
• 1810s
• The decade where all the dinosaurs died out