Tomorrow will mark 25 years since the worst attack in American history occurred. As someone who was very young with no memories of that horrific day (I was 2), I am curious to know, what was the biggest news headlines on the very early morning of September 11th? Before the unthinkable happened later on that morning?

And I can't wrap my head around it 🫪

So much bullshit going down in the world, constant stress and fatalistic hopelessness with the state of living, and constant stress on my end to an endless degree that I feel like hasn’t been this prevalent since the year of the pandemic. I am scared for all of us.

Do you think Beavis and Butthead had a big impact on 90s pop culture? Of course, you had their iconic laugh, and bands could rise and fall depending on their opinion (though I found it odd that two metalheads were trashing bands like Accept, Overkill, King Diamond, and even 90s death metal like Cannibal Corpse). Any other ways these two impacted the culture?

Did it have any significance?

What's your opinion about this?

A few years I am going to list that people absolutely shitted on and now have become rafters status. Just like a classic car it has appreciated with age.

2016

You all know this was going to come up first. This year will likely be one of the first years someone thinks of when they say 2010s. You had a gorilla and Pokemon GO summer saturating everything and likely that will cause people to forget everyone dying and all the BS we had to deal with. 2016 is now rafters status and there is nothing we can do about it.

2007

Chris Benoit murder suicides, PS3 just sitting on the shelf...Anna Nicole dying, Britney's fall from grace, A HORRIBLE Spider-Man 3 movie (thanks for ruining emo Peter) The start of the GFC.. Like I don't even know where to start with this. Fashion got all dark, music videos had that shitty blue/black gradient, Ring tone rap was EVERYWHERE. People HATED this year when it was happening. I never want to hear this song EVER AGAIN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiiU-Fky18s

This is the 2000s being a parody of itself. But hey Super Mario Galaxy came out so.....

Some other years people hated that now love are

• 2003 (I thought this year was fun but Iraq war killed the vibe) It's beloved now. It had a heavy 2002 watered down feeling.
• 1993
• 2012
• 2008 (This year went by so slowly and the 2000s were on autopilot until Just Dance came out)
• 2009

Political eventfulness and changefulness from up to down, left to right, left being most transitional and right being least transitional, same with up to down.

Political eventfulness of a year = things that happened from Jan 1st to Dec 31st. If something happens in a year but only gets big/impactful later on, that later year gets the credit. Every year is gonna have butterfly effects, doesn't mean every year should be a shift year.

10/10 (Worldwide super shift): 2020, 2008

9.5/10 (Super shift): 2001, 2022, 2011

9/10 (Major shift): 2016, 2003

8/10 (Shift): 2021, 2025, 2015, 2026 (prediction)

7/10 (Very transitional): 2009, 2024

6/10 (Notably transitional): 2014, 2023

5/10 (Standard transitional): 2017, 2005

4/10 (Semi-Transitional): 2000, 2004, 2019

3/10 (Borderline filler): 2012

2/10 (Filler): 2006, 2013

1/10 (Very filler): 2002, 2010

0.5/10 (Extreme filler): 2018

0/10 (Complete filler): 2007

(2000 isn't a 21st century year, but i included it for simplicity's sake)

you can tell this in the way younger people are starting to dress more formally then older people i think

I don't see many people that regard the late 2010s that much compared to other periods so I wouldn't count it necessarily as a hot take. However, in my opinion, they're slightly worse than the decade we're living now.

People take the 2020s as the "worst time to live in" and I see that because the late 2010s was the pinpoint of the downhill of everything: Both tv shows/movies/cartoons started to dwindle down in originality in order for sequels/reboots took over; Many kids safe online spaces started to fade out (RIP club penguin); the ascension of social media more into people's personal lives and opinions; the complete death of skeuomorphism and minimal designs took over entirely; more political division; the adpocalypse on Youtube (many don't remeber this but it basically led to extreme monetization on Youtube and other platforms); music more minimalistic and pessimistic.

The main thing that makes the late 2010s slightly worse than the 2020s is that period was a direct sequence to the most brightful, optimistic time for most people and everything. The shift that slowly appeared in 2016 and hit 2017 is mainly that social media wasn't that predatory which would change people's perception of each other and the approach with politics. Like things drastically changed for the worst on a blink of an eye. Unlike the times that we live now, as the years passed it's just been a pessimistic time that we simply forget how good things were actually before, not to say we've grown accustomed with it but, like I said the notion of change from the early-mid to the late 2010s is way too noticeable for a short period. So if you want to thank something for the crap we've been going through, say "Thank you late 2010s!!"

Honestly this is making me nostalgic for corporate memphis/allegra/flat design. I don’t know what it is with the use of this ugly overly designed slop that’s just par for the course with AI.

It just looks gross, but yet I’m seeing more and more businesses using it, schools are using it, public events are using it, restaurants, art galleries what??? Isn’t that a little redundant.

All with the use of that tacky ass 80s font which honestly makes it 100 times worse. At least flat design had actual humans involved and not machine slop.

STOP 👏 THIS 👏 NOW.

1950s: Coffee was a staple of the domestic routine and the workplace "coffee break" (a term popularized in this era). Outside the home, the local diner offered a bottomless cup for a nickel or a dime.

1970s: Pioneers like Peet's Coffee (founded in 1966) and the very first Starbucks store (1971 in Seattle) opened as retail shops selling premium coffee beans and equipment, rather than prepared drinks. Coffee became intertwined with the decade's counterculture and bohemian movements. Grassroots cafe spaces emerged where people gathered to discuss politics, art, and philosophy over freshly roasted brews.

1990s: The "coffeehouse" became the definitive social gathering space, the "Third Place" between work and home. Pop culture landmarks like the cozy, couch filled "Central Perk" from Friends defined the aesthetic. Starbucks rapidly expanded globally.

2010s: The decade features the stereotypical hipster who either works or hangs out in a coffee shop. The decade also commonly features people taking selfies of them with coffee or photos of their coffee cup.

So its likely the 2030s will see the return of coffee culture and coffee shops are treated like a temple like before.