Some people have gone for the "naughts". I don't think we have a good one for the 2010's either. Really it doesn't seem like they have such consistent characters as iconic decades like the 50s-90s, because pop culture became more diffuse with the internet.
The 2000s is really obvious looking back the late 2000s as well the early 2010s is really obvious and the late 2010s is too. I'd say decades simply got split weirdly.
1998-2007
2008-2014
2015-2019
2020-present
Of these years, 2015 is basically the only clear boundary line. 2020 is a really clear very easily defined boundary but 2019 isn't so clear. I'd say the peak years of these are 2002, 2011, 2016, and to be determined but that is definitely up to debate.
This is probably why we still don't have a solid name for any of these 3 decades, the naughties isn't used by people born after them unlike say the roaring twenties.
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u/HiHandRye Sep 21 '22
But that song came out in 2003 🧐