Agreed. My 13th birthday party (in 2013) was 80’s themed, and it was not difficult to find clothing for it. Nor was it the only 80s themed party I attended that year or the following 2 years.
I’m just so confused is this decadeolgy sub Reddit or just obsess over the 2000’s, 2010’s and 2020’s sub Reddit. I swear literally every post is either about the 2000’s or 2010’s can we walk about a different decade.
Like what. People listened to dubstep, edm, rap and didn’t dress much like the 90s. What media was 90s inspired? How many people listened to 90s music or dressed like the 90s? If you were there in the 2010s you would know there was a strong culture of hating things from older decades. People thought the stuff going on like dubstep and trap is the best stuff. Not very nostalgia based at all. The 90s was grunge and alternative so I guess that was just your fantasy. Flannels and that alternative look really wasn’t that common and I saw close to nobody dressing like that. Are you gen alpha maybe and you think people were very 90s nostalgic just because they are now?
I mean nostalgia has been a thing for a long time. There’s a reason that 50s cafes became a thing. You can see them in many places in America in the late 20th century and as set pieces in American media, look at Pulp Fiction in the 90s. Further there have been decades of themed radio stations and tv networks for atleast the last few decades. People get older and when they are in a position to be nostalgic about things from their youth in media and lifestyle, they do it. This is not new, and it is not the end of creativity.
If you look at 2020s fashion posts like 2023 on this sub then most of comments will say it looks exactly like the 90s or something. Just look at 2020s fashion pictures on this subreddit. Retropop, y2k fashion revival on social media, etc
https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/GM2yVyshWj
Somebody on this sub listed new sounding music of the decade and the artists they listed dress almost exactly like late 2000s scene kids and wear skinny jeans.
https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/ImBCPlhQxE
This has recency bias written all over it.
The "iconic" bits of each decade don't tend to really start to stand out until we're a decade or two removed from the trends, at least. Remakes and recycling the same material is nothing new either; hell, there are over 200 movies featuring or about Count Dracula alone and I've seen three separate ones featuring a portrayal of Dracula in a theater in the past year or so alone (Renfield, Last Voyage of the Demeter, and Abigail if anyone is wondering) and have watched many more in general.
A lot of people tend to think "\[most recent past decade/current decade\] has no identity, unlike earlier ones" or "\[current decade\] is just a pop culture extension of \[previous decade\]" up until those decades start getting a revival of their own in the future. The 2010s and 2020s will be no different in this case.
I can understand recency bias but that doesn’t hide the fact that the 2020s has nothing truly original. The 2010s was tighter clothes, more t shirts than the 2000s, the hipster look that had all of people looking geeky/nerd for the first half. Of course every decade has remakes but the 2020s is dominated by them. Also the 2010s was 5 years ago so with every other decade they could distinguish by then. Why didn’t people have the same recency bias in 2014, 2004, 1994. There’s just no big trends that have fully caught on before they just died it seems. You can’t just say every decade has nostalgia, or recency bias, or it’s the death of monoculture
I was 18-19 years old on 2014 (turned 19 that November) and there was definitely recency bias then too. I have older cousins who graduated in the early 2000s and said they thought the same about the first half of the 2000s and the 90s. I can promise it really is just not being able to pick things out as cleanly while living in it than you can in hindsight.
Also if you don’t think there’s any new original content from the 2020s… I’m sorry but you have not looked hard enough. I’ve even found new interesting things from Netflix of all places from the 2020s.
I think every decade does that but gen z’s bringing back some trends that need to stay in the past. Like you said it seems we’re using all of the past for reference and nitpicking our favorite parts to create maybe a new super blend
That’s the way culture evolves though, with obviously room for technological innovations. 1950s and 60s rock and roll, considered massively innovative at the time, was a patchwork of dozens of different influences from the Delta blues to Indian classical music to experimental classical composers like Stockhausen.
I never did it was just nowhere near as much and most things people liked weren’t a revival. Stranger things is just one show that not everybody watched
Each decade since the 1970's has been obsessed with nostalgia. The 2010's were no different. The 1970's were obsessed with the 1950's and how it was the post war boom and things were better before Water Gate and the gas crisis/stagflation. The 1980's in the midst of a conservative revolution were a period of nostalgia for the revolution of the 1960's. The 1990's were nostalgic for the 1970's funky aesthetics and the fact that the things that were stressing them in the 1970's were no longer on the forefront so people just remembered the more fun elements.
The 2000's were filled with gaudy 1980's nostalgia as people were yearning for a pre-9/11 pre-Bush time where there was a more (in my opinion) phony patriotism and optimism. Then in the 2010's people were heavy for what they perceived to be a simpler time in the 1990's. It's all a cycle.
Nostalgia hits a high point in the 20-30 year range. 20-30 years is long enough for people to feel things have changed but not too long where you have to be significantly older to remember it. If you are in your mid 20’s and older you can remember 20 years ago fondly. That is why the 90’s and Y2K are the big nostalgia hits now.
Are gen z , maybe just a teen?
Because otherwise I ask myself how can you think I'm 2010' there wasn't nostalgia, hell (!!) ,the nostalgia for the 90' was big
Okay I’ve had a similar theory but it’s a little different - and specifically related to fashion. I can’t speak so much to music and media. Basically, we’ve always recycled fashion for the recent century. And then it really sped up in the more recent half of the century, always trendjng backwards to take inspiration from about 20 years back. There were 70s inspired looks in the 90s, 80s inspired looks in the 2000s, 90s inspired looks in the 2010s, and then 00s inspired looks in 2020s. Oddly though, also in the 2020s, despite not even being at the midpoint yet, we seem to have made a full loop around to getting inspiration from 2010s looks already, and the only other place to go would either be backwards again or to create something entirely new. We’re in kind of a fun place for fashion right now and I’m excited to see what trends define this decade.
Of course each decade had its own trends and general styles, I just mean they borrowed from decades previously. A big reason this would happen becuase you’d get hand-me-downs from your mom or older sister and now you have a “vintage one of a kind accessory” and that happens around the same time everyone else gets their hand-me-downs too. Then voila, a micro-trend.
Fast fashion has no doubt had a huge part to play in the speeding up as well as possibly stunting the development of new fashion trends. I personally think it’s even a bigger contributor than social media.
Early 2010s seem like a different planet compared to 2020s. Not even a little similar in my opinion. Every era has nostalgia for different things. I distinctly remember retro video games and consoles making a huge comeback around 2015, for example.
Just look around you. If you are in a city, you'll see buildings that weren't there 5-10 years ago.
Well, pay attention to those new buildings. They'll be iconic of the 20s. Recently I had this "a-ha" moment. Around the train station I come out from everyday to go to work, there are two buildings that popped out of the ground around 2019-2020. Those buildings have a distinctive modern, round, glass-heavy style and I started to identify those as the natural environment of the 20s. Around my train station, it definitely "looks" like we are in the 2020s.
Ughhh this bullshit again. Look at the differences between the [years 2020 and 2024](https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/YWFsha07xp), there's clearly some evolution going on that's very different from the last decade.
Drop the recency bias that happens with every decade.
But first those trends you posted aren’t very popular or died really quickly. Second that just proves my point. The slides show people dressing exactly like the 90s and like scene kids with no added touch. Even the comments say that. It’s still a much smaller difference than other decades
https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/jaP7DQOkL7
If you believe revivals count as 2020s identity then we both agree that the 2020s stands out for being nostalgia based
Well yeah I guess we can agree in that case, but the baggy JNCO stuff definitely did not die out quickly. The trend started in late 2022 and i've only seen it get far more exaggerated ever since then
IMO baggy clothes is strongest piece of 2020's identity, besides the nostalgia itself
I’d disagree just because 5 years later skinny/regular pants are still regularly seen. Hopefully baggy pants/clothes will continue to catch on but not those jncos
Oh
Another post from a kid that doesn't even remember what the 2010s were actually like
My God are these getting dull
Kid, the 2010s was the peak of nostalgia culture, half the shit that came out then was directly a sequel, prequel, or remake to some franchise from the fucking 80s or 90s, and half the other shit *referenced* 80s or 90s pop culture
I went from high school to nearly finishing college during the 2010s, I can say with confidence that not only was nostalgia culture peaking then, I'd say it's actually receding now, as the 80s slop has been fully played out and hollowed out of all its value.
You missed the mark so hard kid, no way you actually remember 2010 to 2019.
You’re joking there’s nothing from my post that would give the impression that I don’t remember the 2010s. Sure in retrospect there was some nostalgia for 80s movies and the fashion had some influence but most media was original not sequels so I don’t know where you got that from and there was nothing like “y2k” fashion in. You must have dementia if you really think half of things were some sort of sequel. Who cares if it mentioned the 80s or something if that counts for nostalgia then there’s way more older decades references in media this decade. I really don’t know what would make you think the 2010s was super nostalgic unless you were dreaming between 2010-2019. So the 2020s has y2k fashion, retro pop, disco revival apparently. Something like Vapor wave was way more original than retro pop. But you think nostalgia is actually declining so I guess you really are still living in your bubble. And you’re not even much older than me you just wanna feel more mature champ😂
No but clearly you are judging by how you type I don’t understand what fantasy land you’re living in. No people did not dress up as specifically as a decade. every decade has some influence but even this sub is linking 2020s fashion pictures that just shows people dressed as up as 2000s skaters. I love how you don’t have a response because everything I said about the 2020s being way less original is facts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/xMSmZluP8m
https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/ybszJ56dtK
According to this sub this is the 2020s fashion which is very obviously more nostalgia inspired than 2010s fashion. Um no in the 2010s nobody dressed like a specific time period or like a dead trend unless you can name one. Stop deflecting when I’m clearly talking about the 2020s being way more nostalgia based than before. Can you make some valid points instead of clinging onto the idea that I don’t remember the 2010s?
Notice how you're very intentionally zeroing in on fashion and going on to actively ignore every other sphere of popular culture?
Like, dude, I graduated college in 2021 and started middle school in 2010, the idea that the 2020s is more nostalgia crazy than the 10s is so bizarre and different from my experience of either decade, it really does come off as a middle schooler with recency bias.
I named a bunch of things that you choose to ignore. Music is similar but different. Trap is still common and something like retro pop didn’t exist in previous decades which is literally just remaking old songs. You failed to mention how the 10s was as nostalgia based because it very clearly wasn’t. Just because people threw an 80s themed party in the 2010s doesn’t mean they were as nostalgic as people in 2024 dressing like scene kids, dressing very 90s, and just trying to bring everything back.
I’m amazed that you remember that time period clearly and still somehow misremember it as all being remakes and sequels lmao.
People would make fun of you for listening to music that is more than 10 years old which I don’t think is the same now. Again you’re just saying it was nostalgic without pointing out what made it just as nostalgic. So clearly the 2020s really is more nostalgia based than other decades
Idk I think there’s been major nostalgia trends since at least the 70s.
BUT I did notice everything was way more 90s heavy in the 2010s and it’s wayyy more y2k aesthetic in the 2020s imo
Vaporwave was a genre from the mid-2010s that basically came out of the nostalgia for the 80s/90s that was present in that decade. I think this is recency bias.
Clearly you were not paying attention to peoples obsession with nostalgia back in the 2010s...it is not a "new" trend at all. All I kept hearing about from people in their 20s was how they missed the 1990s, and now i'm hearing that from people in their 20's now this decade but they miss the 2000's.
This cycle is nothing new at all. Back in the 1970s people in their 20s obsessed about the 1950s.
I am assuming you are very young and are probably in your 20s or late teens now and noticing it.
Bruh how does some people having nostalgia for their 90s childhoods relate to people nowadays calling everything y2k and obsessing over the aesthetic. Your examples don’t even really affect fashion or music like all the revivals going on now. The 90s nostalgia clearly doesn’t compare when you describe it as just memories. People nowadays have more nostalgia for times they didn’t live than in the 2010s and thats undeniable. There is a y2k interest but the 2000s nostalgia is really weak this decade and overshadowed by the 90s. Really don’t know where you and other commenters are getting the idea that the 2010s was really 90s nostalgic that’s a new concept
My experience is like 10 ish years ago, the nostalgia was stupid intense and common. But it mostly went like this, "I'm so glad to be a 90s baby!" "Duude that hat is so 90s."
And it will be this way until humans all die out, just with a different decade being the "ideal" one. I very much felt like the 2000s were better than the 2010s while the 2010s were going on. Now I look back and think hmm wow 2014 wasn't bad at all. But I hated it then lol.
Nostalgia is fickle and fleeting my friends.
I agree with you, nostalgia has always been big but it has grown to a completely different level since 2020
For example in the 2000s there was a lot of nostalgia for the 70s and 80s, and indeed many clothing items trickled down to the masses because of that, but it still had unique things like the whale tail, tramp stamps, trucker hats, juicy tracksuits and etc. Same for the 2010s, there were a lot of 80s and 90s throwbacks, but we still had new things like ripped skinny jeans (skinny jeans themselves were an 80s throwback, but the 2010s gave them a new flavor), galaxy print, and most business casual attires
Musically the 2010s also had a lot of throwbacks but not to the same extent as now, most hit songs since 2020 have been throwbacks (Blinding Lights, Say So, Stay, As it Was, Good 4 U, Anti-hero, Levitating). The 2010s had huge musical throwbacks but it was still dominated by contemporary genres like EDM and trap, whereas now it seems the "retro" sound is dominant, be it 70s, 80s, 90s or even 2000s inspired.
And you know what? This might be a good thing. People will get sick of this retro obsession by the late 2020s, which will force culture to become more modern or even futuristic, the late 2020s might completely reject nostalgia
Disagree I remember nostalgia being strong in the 2010’s example : strangers things
Agreed. My 13th birthday party (in 2013) was 80’s themed, and it was not difficult to find clothing for it. Nor was it the only 80s themed party I attended that year or the following 2 years.
I’m just so confused is this decadeolgy sub Reddit or just obsess over the 2000’s, 2010’s and 2020’s sub Reddit. I swear literally every post is either about the 2000’s or 2010’s can we walk about a different decade.
Where you there for the 2010s buddy? All of it was 90s nostalgia obsession.
Like what. People listened to dubstep, edm, rap and didn’t dress much like the 90s. What media was 90s inspired? How many people listened to 90s music or dressed like the 90s? If you were there in the 2010s you would know there was a strong culture of hating things from older decades. People thought the stuff going on like dubstep and trap is the best stuff. Not very nostalgia based at all. The 90s was grunge and alternative so I guess that was just your fantasy. Flannels and that alternative look really wasn’t that common and I saw close to nobody dressing like that. Are you gen alpha maybe and you think people were very 90s nostalgic just because they are now?
I mean nostalgia has been a thing for a long time. There’s a reason that 50s cafes became a thing. You can see them in many places in America in the late 20th century and as set pieces in American media, look at Pulp Fiction in the 90s. Further there have been decades of themed radio stations and tv networks for atleast the last few decades. People get older and when they are in a position to be nostalgic about things from their youth in media and lifestyle, they do it. This is not new, and it is not the end of creativity.
What are some examples?
If you look at 2020s fashion posts like 2023 on this sub then most of comments will say it looks exactly like the 90s or something. Just look at 2020s fashion pictures on this subreddit. Retropop, y2k fashion revival on social media, etc https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/GM2yVyshWj Somebody on this sub listed new sounding music of the decade and the artists they listed dress almost exactly like late 2000s scene kids and wear skinny jeans. https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/ImBCPlhQxE
This has recency bias written all over it. The "iconic" bits of each decade don't tend to really start to stand out until we're a decade or two removed from the trends, at least. Remakes and recycling the same material is nothing new either; hell, there are over 200 movies featuring or about Count Dracula alone and I've seen three separate ones featuring a portrayal of Dracula in a theater in the past year or so alone (Renfield, Last Voyage of the Demeter, and Abigail if anyone is wondering) and have watched many more in general. A lot of people tend to think "\[most recent past decade/current decade\] has no identity, unlike earlier ones" or "\[current decade\] is just a pop culture extension of \[previous decade\]" up until those decades start getting a revival of their own in the future. The 2010s and 2020s will be no different in this case.
I can understand recency bias but that doesn’t hide the fact that the 2020s has nothing truly original. The 2010s was tighter clothes, more t shirts than the 2000s, the hipster look that had all of people looking geeky/nerd for the first half. Of course every decade has remakes but the 2020s is dominated by them. Also the 2010s was 5 years ago so with every other decade they could distinguish by then. Why didn’t people have the same recency bias in 2014, 2004, 1994. There’s just no big trends that have fully caught on before they just died it seems. You can’t just say every decade has nostalgia, or recency bias, or it’s the death of monoculture
I was 18-19 years old on 2014 (turned 19 that November) and there was definitely recency bias then too. I have older cousins who graduated in the early 2000s and said they thought the same about the first half of the 2000s and the 90s. I can promise it really is just not being able to pick things out as cleanly while living in it than you can in hindsight. Also if you don’t think there’s any new original content from the 2020s… I’m sorry but you have not looked hard enough. I’ve even found new interesting things from Netflix of all places from the 2020s.
The 2010s entire existence was based on endless 80s nostalgia The 2020s is going the same way with the 90s & 00s
2010 was obsessed with the 90s 2020 is obsessed with the 2000s
80s nostalgia was arguably far bigger in the 10s and that began in the mid 00s
BRB im gonna be the king of nostalgia and dress up like an egyptian pharoh
Great answer
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I think every decade does that but gen z’s bringing back some trends that need to stay in the past. Like you said it seems we’re using all of the past for reference and nitpicking our favorite parts to create maybe a new super blend
That’s the way culture evolves though, with obviously room for technological innovations. 1950s and 60s rock and roll, considered massively innovative at the time, was a patchwork of dozens of different influences from the Delta blues to Indian classical music to experimental classical composers like Stockhausen.
During every decade ever there’s been some sort of nostalgia pandering
Are we gonna pretend that the 2010s didn’t have an obsession for nostalgia either?
I never did it was just nowhere near as much and most things people liked weren’t a revival. Stranger things is just one show that not everybody watched
Each decade since the 1970's has been obsessed with nostalgia. The 2010's were no different. The 1970's were obsessed with the 1950's and how it was the post war boom and things were better before Water Gate and the gas crisis/stagflation. The 1980's in the midst of a conservative revolution were a period of nostalgia for the revolution of the 1960's. The 1990's were nostalgic for the 1970's funky aesthetics and the fact that the things that were stressing them in the 1970's were no longer on the forefront so people just remembered the more fun elements. The 2000's were filled with gaudy 1980's nostalgia as people were yearning for a pre-9/11 pre-Bush time where there was a more (in my opinion) phony patriotism and optimism. Then in the 2010's people were heavy for what they perceived to be a simpler time in the 1990's. It's all a cycle.
Agreed lol so many 90s movies that clearly had a hard-on for the 70s like Boogie Nights
Nostalgia hits a high point in the 20-30 year range. 20-30 years is long enough for people to feel things have changed but not too long where you have to be significantly older to remember it. If you are in your mid 20’s and older you can remember 20 years ago fondly. That is why the 90’s and Y2K are the big nostalgia hits now.
Are gen z , maybe just a teen? Because otherwise I ask myself how can you think I'm 2010' there wasn't nostalgia, hell (!!) ,the nostalgia for the 90' was big
Okay I’ve had a similar theory but it’s a little different - and specifically related to fashion. I can’t speak so much to music and media. Basically, we’ve always recycled fashion for the recent century. And then it really sped up in the more recent half of the century, always trendjng backwards to take inspiration from about 20 years back. There were 70s inspired looks in the 90s, 80s inspired looks in the 2000s, 90s inspired looks in the 2010s, and then 00s inspired looks in 2020s. Oddly though, also in the 2020s, despite not even being at the midpoint yet, we seem to have made a full loop around to getting inspiration from 2010s looks already, and the only other place to go would either be backwards again or to create something entirely new. We’re in kind of a fun place for fashion right now and I’m excited to see what trends define this decade. Of course each decade had its own trends and general styles, I just mean they borrowed from decades previously. A big reason this would happen becuase you’d get hand-me-downs from your mom or older sister and now you have a “vintage one of a kind accessory” and that happens around the same time everyone else gets their hand-me-downs too. Then voila, a micro-trend. Fast fashion has no doubt had a huge part to play in the speeding up as well as possibly stunting the development of new fashion trends. I personally think it’s even a bigger contributor than social media.
Early 2010s seem like a different planet compared to 2020s. Not even a little similar in my opinion. Every era has nostalgia for different things. I distinctly remember retro video games and consoles making a huge comeback around 2015, for example.
Idc how many years pass I still won't like the 2010s 😂
The 2010’s was the era of buying $20 boxes of nicktoon themed cereal that tastes like shit from FYE because you’re a 90’s kid
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This is one example of scene revival I’ve seen recently https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mmkQN4LH-BA
Just look around you. If you are in a city, you'll see buildings that weren't there 5-10 years ago. Well, pay attention to those new buildings. They'll be iconic of the 20s. Recently I had this "a-ha" moment. Around the train station I come out from everyday to go to work, there are two buildings that popped out of the ground around 2019-2020. Those buildings have a distinctive modern, round, glass-heavy style and I started to identify those as the natural environment of the 20s. Around my train station, it definitely "looks" like we are in the 2020s.
South Park's 'Member Berries episode dropped in 2016. The 2010s were built on nostalgia 😂
Strong disagree
Ughhh this bullshit again. Look at the differences between the [years 2020 and 2024](https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/YWFsha07xp), there's clearly some evolution going on that's very different from the last decade. Drop the recency bias that happens with every decade.
But first those trends you posted aren’t very popular or died really quickly. Second that just proves my point. The slides show people dressing exactly like the 90s and like scene kids with no added touch. Even the comments say that. It’s still a much smaller difference than other decades https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/jaP7DQOkL7 If you believe revivals count as 2020s identity then we both agree that the 2020s stands out for being nostalgia based
Well yeah I guess we can agree in that case, but the baggy JNCO stuff definitely did not die out quickly. The trend started in late 2022 and i've only seen it get far more exaggerated ever since then IMO baggy clothes is strongest piece of 2020's identity, besides the nostalgia itself
I’d disagree just because 5 years later skinny/regular pants are still regularly seen. Hopefully baggy pants/clothes will continue to catch on but not those jncos
Oh Another post from a kid that doesn't even remember what the 2010s were actually like My God are these getting dull Kid, the 2010s was the peak of nostalgia culture, half the shit that came out then was directly a sequel, prequel, or remake to some franchise from the fucking 80s or 90s, and half the other shit *referenced* 80s or 90s pop culture I went from high school to nearly finishing college during the 2010s, I can say with confidence that not only was nostalgia culture peaking then, I'd say it's actually receding now, as the 80s slop has been fully played out and hollowed out of all its value. You missed the mark so hard kid, no way you actually remember 2010 to 2019.
You’re joking there’s nothing from my post that would give the impression that I don’t remember the 2010s. Sure in retrospect there was some nostalgia for 80s movies and the fashion had some influence but most media was original not sequels so I don’t know where you got that from and there was nothing like “y2k” fashion in. You must have dementia if you really think half of things were some sort of sequel. Who cares if it mentioned the 80s or something if that counts for nostalgia then there’s way more older decades references in media this decade. I really don’t know what would make you think the 2010s was super nostalgic unless you were dreaming between 2010-2019. So the 2020s has y2k fashion, retro pop, disco revival apparently. Something like Vapor wave was way more original than retro pop. But you think nostalgia is actually declining so I guess you really are still living in your bubble. And you’re not even much older than me you just wanna feel more mature champ😂
I know you don't remember the 2010s because >There was nothing like...PEOPLE DRESSING LIKE PAST DECADES 🤡 Like....really dude? Are you 13?
No but clearly you are judging by how you type I don’t understand what fantasy land you’re living in. No people did not dress up as specifically as a decade. every decade has some influence but even this sub is linking 2020s fashion pictures that just shows people dressed as up as 2000s skaters. I love how you don’t have a response because everything I said about the 2020s being way less original is facts. https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/xMSmZluP8m https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/s/ybszJ56dtK According to this sub this is the 2020s fashion which is very obviously more nostalgia inspired than 2010s fashion. Um no in the 2010s nobody dressed like a specific time period or like a dead trend unless you can name one. Stop deflecting when I’m clearly talking about the 2020s being way more nostalgia based than before. Can you make some valid points instead of clinging onto the idea that I don’t remember the 2010s?
Notice how you're very intentionally zeroing in on fashion and going on to actively ignore every other sphere of popular culture? Like, dude, I graduated college in 2021 and started middle school in 2010, the idea that the 2020s is more nostalgia crazy than the 10s is so bizarre and different from my experience of either decade, it really does come off as a middle schooler with recency bias.
I named a bunch of things that you choose to ignore. Music is similar but different. Trap is still common and something like retro pop didn’t exist in previous decades which is literally just remaking old songs. You failed to mention how the 10s was as nostalgia based because it very clearly wasn’t. Just because people threw an 80s themed party in the 2010s doesn’t mean they were as nostalgic as people in 2024 dressing like scene kids, dressing very 90s, and just trying to bring everything back. I’m amazed that you remember that time period clearly and still somehow misremember it as all being remakes and sequels lmao. People would make fun of you for listening to music that is more than 10 years old which I don’t think is the same now. Again you’re just saying it was nostalgic without pointing out what made it just as nostalgic. So clearly the 2020s really is more nostalgia based than other decades
Nah in the 2010's, We Had Gumball, Adventure Time and Regular Show which were all original IPS for Cartoon Network.
I disagree with OP but talking like this to a person you believe to be 13 is insane
I don't disagree with you but I do think 80s nostalgia is still pretty strong in music
Idk I think there’s been major nostalgia trends since at least the 70s. BUT I did notice everything was way more 90s heavy in the 2010s and it’s wayyy more y2k aesthetic in the 2020s imo
Vaporwave was a genre from the mid-2010s that basically came out of the nostalgia for the 80s/90s that was present in that decade. I think this is recency bias.
That’s still more original than retro pop tho
Clearly you were not paying attention to peoples obsession with nostalgia back in the 2010s...it is not a "new" trend at all. All I kept hearing about from people in their 20s was how they missed the 1990s, and now i'm hearing that from people in their 20's now this decade but they miss the 2000's. This cycle is nothing new at all. Back in the 1970s people in their 20s obsessed about the 1950s. I am assuming you are very young and are probably in your 20s or late teens now and noticing it.
Bruh how does some people having nostalgia for their 90s childhoods relate to people nowadays calling everything y2k and obsessing over the aesthetic. Your examples don’t even really affect fashion or music like all the revivals going on now. The 90s nostalgia clearly doesn’t compare when you describe it as just memories. People nowadays have more nostalgia for times they didn’t live than in the 2010s and thats undeniable. There is a y2k interest but the 2000s nostalgia is really weak this decade and overshadowed by the 90s. Really don’t know where you and other commenters are getting the idea that the 2010s was really 90s nostalgic that’s a new concept
My experience is like 10 ish years ago, the nostalgia was stupid intense and common. But it mostly went like this, "I'm so glad to be a 90s baby!" "Duude that hat is so 90s." And it will be this way until humans all die out, just with a different decade being the "ideal" one. I very much felt like the 2000s were better than the 2010s while the 2010s were going on. Now I look back and think hmm wow 2014 wasn't bad at all. But I hated it then lol. Nostalgia is fickle and fleeting my friends.
I agree with you, nostalgia has always been big but it has grown to a completely different level since 2020 For example in the 2000s there was a lot of nostalgia for the 70s and 80s, and indeed many clothing items trickled down to the masses because of that, but it still had unique things like the whale tail, tramp stamps, trucker hats, juicy tracksuits and etc. Same for the 2010s, there were a lot of 80s and 90s throwbacks, but we still had new things like ripped skinny jeans (skinny jeans themselves were an 80s throwback, but the 2010s gave them a new flavor), galaxy print, and most business casual attires Musically the 2010s also had a lot of throwbacks but not to the same extent as now, most hit songs since 2020 have been throwbacks (Blinding Lights, Say So, Stay, As it Was, Good 4 U, Anti-hero, Levitating). The 2010s had huge musical throwbacks but it was still dominated by contemporary genres like EDM and trap, whereas now it seems the "retro" sound is dominant, be it 70s, 80s, 90s or even 2000s inspired. And you know what? This might be a good thing. People will get sick of this retro obsession by the late 2020s, which will force culture to become more modern or even futuristic, the late 2020s might completely reject nostalgia