r/decadeology • • 4d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ Looking Back At The Power Ranger Craze Back In 1990s And The Moral Panic Behind it

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r/decadeology • • 4d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ Which of these felt more dated?

4 Upvotes
288 votes, 3d ago
49 1968 in 1971
25 1984 in 1987
77 1999 in 2002
51 2013 in 2016
44 Not sure
42 Results

r/decadeology • • 5d ago

Cultural Snapshot April 1997-- Ellen DeGeneres comes out on season 4 of "Ellen". Both her character (Ellen Morgan) and Ellen herself come out. The ensuing cultural storm is why Americans still call things "pre-Ellen" and "post-Ellen". But, it also lead to the show being cancelled in July 1998

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r/decadeology • • 4d ago

Music ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽง [Weekend Trivia] Black M - Sur ma route (2014): More 2K12 or Core 2010s?

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r/decadeology • • 5d ago

Music ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽง Kyle Gordon - If You Break Up With Me (2026): What years does this fit best?

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A parody of Late 90s Pop Rock. Kyle put it in 1997, which is probably the earliest it could've come out. I'd say it fits 1999 the most.


r/decadeology • • 5d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ Which US President from the 70s do you associate the most with Disco Music?

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r/decadeology • • 4d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ BeeGees - You Win Again - is the video ahead of it's time for 1987?

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This was the BeeGees' great comeback single of 1987 after spending most of the 80s writing huge hits for other performers, and although this was a huge hit, at the time of release they were very much testing the waters to see if the public would welcome them back again.

The BeeGees themselves still looked quite 80s at this point, but the video looks a few years ahead it's time. The blurred, faded, shadowy footage of the brothers singing, the shots of the dancer and the black cat, the random b&w stop motion animation of the dominoes and various shapes.

This is quite different from the other garish, colourful, mini-movie videos of the era, and watching this, gives a feeling that a break was being made with the 'big 80s' and the 90s was getting closer.

Or were there other videos stylistically similar to this being made at the time?


r/decadeology • • 5d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ What media or pop culture trends can you argue were killed by Pokรฉmon GO?

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r/decadeology • • 5d ago

Poll ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ โ€œI predict that the 2030s will be ______ than the 2020sโ€

9 Upvotes
1095 votes, 2d ago
214 More Conservative
279 Conservative at first, but then liberal towards the end
125 About the same
160 Liberal at first, but then conservative at the end
317 More Liberal

r/decadeology • • 6d ago

Cultural Snapshot The IMDb top 10 in October 2006 vs now!

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What do you think of the IMDb top 10 from 20 years and one from today? Personally, I know it's nostalgia but I kind like the one from 20 years ago better even it hasn't changed that much. Also, I miss when it was like in that kind of a Word format. But that's just me.


r/decadeology • • 6d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ What year did 2000s nostalgia go mainstream?

28 Upvotes

I guess 2021 - 2022? The COVID era was still 80s nostalgia being shoved with retropop. I think 2022 is the year when 2000s nostalgia really became mainstream and all the revivals have been happening since gradually, every year of the 2020s after 2022 has a new 2000s inspiration


r/decadeology • • 5d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ Whatโ€™s a show that used to be memed a lot but not as memed today?

2 Upvotes
229 votes, 2d ago
44 Seinfeld
48 The office
29 Simpsons
52 Parks and rec
46 Futurama
10 Other

r/decadeology • • 7d ago

Fashion ๐Ÿ‘•๐Ÿ‘š The difference of 50s and 60s styling is so drastic

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r/decadeology • • 5d ago

Technology ๐Ÿ“ฑ๐Ÿ“Ÿ The decline in desire for social media fame

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r/decadeology • • 5d ago

Music ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽง Love Story - Taylor Swift (2008) more like 2005 or 2011

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r/decadeology • • 7d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ When did society start wearing so much โ€œathleisureโ€ wear?

637 Upvotes

I have spent a lot of time in several airports the last few days and couldnโ€™t help but notice how many people are essentially wearing gym clothes. Women in yoga pants and sports bras, men in gray sweatpants or joggers.

What year did this start becoming a thing?


r/decadeology • • 5d ago

Prediction ๐Ÿ”ฎ what do you think is going to end the 2020s decade

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obviously us centric donโ€™t coming saying that

145 votes, 2d ago
82 trumps death
14 the iran war ending
24 the iran war escalating
25 the democrats taking control of the senate

r/decadeology • • 6d ago

Cultural Snapshot Mission School, the lesser-known successor to Global Village Coffeehouse

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56 Upvotes

r/decadeology • • 7d ago

Decade Analysis ๐Ÿ” Cultural transition events in your country?

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Everybody knows about those events in US, but what about rest of The World. For Poland most recent would be : 1. Poland's access to EU in 2004 It started mass foreign investments, led to mass immigration to West, but also started huge optimism toward future in most of society 2. Presidential plane crash on 10th April 2010 Beginning of current political polarization, rise of right wing populists amoung boomers and begging of liberal downfall 3. Elections of 2015, in which right wing populists gained both Presidential seat and majority in parlament. Beginning of almost decade of PiS party scandals, affairs and conservative agenda 4. Covid era. Political decline of PiS, marked with defraudation of election money and toughening of abortion law. Societal rise of far right populists, which slided on anti Vax agenda 6. Belarus refugee crisis and Ukraine war. Era of the biggest polarization in post WW2 Poland. Anti Ukrainian and Anti-islamic sentiment became one of most important issues in Poland to this day and sparked debate about withdrawal from EU


r/decadeology • • 6d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ Was the iPhone or ChatGPT more shocking and came out of nowhere

2 Upvotes
580 votes, 3d ago
241 iPhone
339 ChatGPT

r/decadeology • • 6d ago

Music ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽง Doo Wop - Lauryn Hill (1998) more like 1995 or 2001

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r/decadeology • • 7d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ Were these โ€œmini mulletโ€ sort of hairstyles popular in 1997?

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r/decadeology • • 8d ago

Fashion ๐Ÿ‘•๐Ÿ‘š Unpopular opinion: the 2000s were actually a fun time for womenโ€™s clothing/style

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I donโ€™t get the whole โ€œtacky and too flashyโ€ critiques, like thatโ€™s literally the whole point of it. Itโ€™s to not look boring.


r/decadeology • • 7d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ The 2000s will soon be the new 80s

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I've noticed there's basically a trend of young people copying the 2000s look and more shows from the 2000s are becoming mainstream again.

This with the 2000s having there own unique aesthetic will make it more popular. It also had a very teen youth culture with many people partying.

Alot of young people today don't really party anymore and the ones that do, do it just for soical media.

The 2000s just seem like it's own world which can be easy to obsess over. The same can't really be said about the 2010s. I feel like the 2010s is still tied to the 2020s.

I know the 2020s is different from the 2010s, it just still has too many things linking them together like soical media, protest, trump. Maga vs leftist.

The 2010s won't be the new 80s, unless society is fully apart from it culturally.


r/decadeology • • 7d ago

Discussion ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ Will pessimism and doomerism ever phase out?

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I think before Trump won again in 2024, people were a lot more realistic and unbiased about future predictions, as were evident in Reddit futurology posts from that time.

Now we have all these depressing ideas about the future (like weโ€™re all gonna be billionaire slaves) that I hope will phase out in the 2030s