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Topic: Every year from 2010-2012: What two years do they lean one over another while having the same time?
Anonymous A started this discussion 1 day ago#127,122
A comparison that I made to give an idea on what each year leaned towards based on culture, society, technology and politics to further analyze what these years were like and where they were at in those type of aspects
2010
1 Year: 2010 was more like 2009 than 2011
2 Years: 2010 was more like 2008 than 2012
3 Years: 2010 was more a little more like 2007 than 2013 (since the latter year was what kickstarted the core 2010s but culturally 2010 was mostly late 2000s)
4 Years: 2010 was more like 2014 than 2006
5 Years: 2010 was more like 2015 than 2005
6 Years: 2010 was a tad bit more like 2016 than 2004
7 years: 2010 was more like 2017 than 2003
8 years: 2010 was more like 2018 than 2002
9 years: 2010 was more like 2019 than 2001
10 years: 2010 was slightly more like 2000 than 2020 (Covid is the biggest divider between the 2010s and 2020s and probably will stay as of the biggest ones in history)
2011
1 year: 2011 was more like 2012 than 2010
2 years: 2011 was more like 2009 than 2013 (Like 2010)
3 years: 2011 was more like 2008 than 2014 (GFC still at swing, GTA 4 and PS4/Xbox One isn’t out yet)
4 years: 2011 was a tiny bit more like 2007 than 2015 (Mainly Pop culturally speaking. Harry Potter, Transformers, iCarly, COD Modern Warfare, and PS360)
5 years: 2011 was more like 2016 than 2006 (Didn’t feel like neither but the first half 2006 still felt like it had Y2K era leftovers and the 6th gen gaming was still dominant)
6 years: 2011 was a tiny bit more like 2017 than 2005 (Since Web 2.0 was still new at the time, although 2017 social media felt a ton more corporatized compared to 2011)
7 years: 2011 was more 2018 than 2004
8 years: 2011 was more like 2019 than 2003
9 years: 2011 was more like 2002 than 2020 (again like my previous point. Covid is the biggest divider between the 2010s and 2020s)
10 years: 2011 was more like 2001 than 2021 (reason forementioned above)
2012
1 year: 2012 felt more like 2011 than 2013
2 years: 2012 felt slightly more like 2010 than 2014 (2014 kinda threw away the early 2010s vibe 2013 atleast retained)
3 years: 2012 felt a bit more like 2009 than 2015. (This is probably the harder ones culturally it was more like 2009 but also socio-technologically more like 2015 (with Streaming and Smartphones blowing up this year)
4 years: 2012 felt a bit more like 2016 than 2008 (Simply because Social Media just feels so prevalent in this year at this point even if it’s not as polarized or as corporatized as 2016, MySpace was still the biggest platform of 2008)
5 years: 2012 felt slightly more like 2017 than 2007 (similar to the previous point, I believe 2012 was when people started to integrate social media with their lives)
6 years: 2012 was more like 2018 than 2006 (Same issue with 2010 and 2011)
7 years: 2012 was more like 2019 than 2005
8 years: 2012 was more like 2020 than 2004 (Might sound ironic when I also said that 2010 and 2011 didn’t feel like 2020, but unlike those years I think 2012 was when we started getting immersed in the digital world, 2004 was also too different politically)
9 years: 2012 was more like 2021 than 2003
10 years: 2012 was more like 2022 than 2002 (This is easier as 2022 ended the Pandemic very early on and went on to feel like the first true normal year in the 2020s)
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL joined in and replied with this 1 day ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,374,092
@previous (B)
Do you think that viewpoint is more related to our respective ages (yes i know who you are), social groups, or actual societal/cultural changes
Anonymous B replied with this 1 day ago, 4 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,374,138
@previous (chill dog !!81dzJNNYL)
wow..... the mod abuse.... for shame.................................................................
i think it's probably a little bit of everything, right. in my attempts to put it to words, i also think it's kind of an american-centric feeling, a lot of my touchstones are changes in the american political narrative. like, i think there is something to the fact that ostensibly people our age should have experienced "coming of age" around 2016. and this didn't happen for a lot of people for a number of reasons, either because they were economically infeasible as a result of global financial collapse in 2008, or have always been undesireable that people just weren't and aren't doing because they suck.
but i also think obama's failure to keep up the political goodwill and feelings of Hope definitely also plays a big role in that demarcation. obama's first term did a fantastic job on presenting an image of america that was progressive, that america was getting better, that there was Hope after 9/11 (obviously this comes with caveats - obama was by no means a good president) but that second term came with a really brutal cynicism, it was clear that obama did not have the capacity or even desire to make things better, and by 2016, the copium has run out completely
i've been reading a friend of mine's comic that is a late-2016 period piece, and one of the things i think it captures really well in hindsight is that wave of very brutal disillusionment, dread, malaise, and fear that brought, and the way this feeling in retrospect is distinct from the dread, malaise, fear, disillusionment, etc. of the actual 2020s, but it's also not completely unrelated.
upon writing this out i am realizing that what i am saying is that the present is contextualized by the history which shaped it. which is kind of an asinine thing to say, but whatever. there's no honor in making cogent and thoughtful posts
Anonymous B replied with this 1 day ago, 3 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,374,141
@previous (NotSakawaBoy)
this is exactly what i mean, like, looking at the straight facts, obama was also bad. that dude drone struck a fucking wedding. but he was good at selling that image of Hope
NotSakawaBoy replied with this 1 day ago, 2 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,374,142
@previous (B)
He was more competent than Biden and he was smarter than Trump. Obviously, if you’re the commander in chief of the largest military in the world, you’re going to kill a few people here and there, or a few thousand maybe. Maybe there was a better president before Obama but I do not remember Bush, and before Bush I did not exist.
> this is exactly what i mean, like, looking at the straight facts, obama was also bad. that dude drone struck a fucking wedding. but he was good at selling that image of Hope
Obama was a mixed bag. ACA was a step in the right direction. Stabilizing the economy after the Bush failures and trying to reconcile differences, the auto bailout, and increase in manufacturing were great. Obama’s administration oversaw the killing of bin Laden. Notable failures: Zero Savings and Loan-like prosecutions of the various financial criminals and nearly all of his foreign policy (Ukraine, Syria, Libya).
Best outcome would have been Romney 2012. No Trump or Biden presidencies.
Anonymous B replied with this 14 hours ago, 2 hours later, 18 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,374,184
@1,374,175 (Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU) > W Bush
mfw i oversee the formation of DHS and ICE and the invasion of iraq and afghanistan and lie to congress about our enemies having nukes and dump the fallout for all of it on my successor and go off to paint thomas kinkade-tier drivel and get away with it all
it's very funny that "i dont support the war in iraq but i do support the war in afghanistan" is still a coherent kind of guy like 15 years later
> Clinton
i remember reading some quote from margaret thatcher, who claimed her greatest achievement was the formation of new labour, which people take a lot of ways but i personally take to mean that a certain kind of centrist is no longer a threat to the establishment. clinton is the same.
> Bush
i do think it's kind of beautiful that for as much hay as americans make about there not being kings there sure are dynasties. i think it was only this last election cycle that neither a bush, a kennedy, or a clinton was running for office
> Reagan
something will be trickling down on his grave but its not money