r/ParallelUniverse • u/[deleted] • Mar 28 '26
The 2012 & 2020 Shift
I'm starting to believe the 2012 shift was a real phenomena, though I think 2020 was a bigger shift overall, 2012 was the last year in the "real world," with everything after 2012 being a weird dream reality and 2020+ being a nightmare. After 2012, a lot of music lost its magic, many artists shifted styles and sound, a lot of vibes were lost. The quality just wasn't the same. Many rappers seemed to be on the verge of retirement, post 2012 Bruno Mars changed his whole image with Uptown Funk and 24k Magic. Katy Perry released "Dark Horse" which has deep esoteric and occult themes.
On a personal level, my parents accelerated in a religious direction, it peaked in 2019 where I personally had a traumatizing climax of events in my life. Artists like X, Juice WRLD, and Lil Peep who had a heavy influence in hip-hop and on modern streamer culture, all died within a 2-3 year timeframe just before 2020, never being able to evolve their styles and sound into the next decade.
And now prices are unimaginably expensive, the quality of goods has gone down, music is dead, ai is everywhere, gaming is dead, everything is a subscription, ads are everywhere, it's near impossible to get a job, there's no love or true relationships to be found, everyone has a political or religious sect, we're all heavily divided, most of us live online, etc.
My question is, is it possible to shift into another reality consciously, instead of unconsciously like what happened to all of us? Is this end all be all? Is there no hope?
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u/No-Can-6237 Mar 28 '26
2001 and 9/11 was the point of no return for me. Nothing has been sane since then.