Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to Duke :

Show me the money, first. I ain't falling for that again. 

GCrites said:

volvoclearinghouse said:

johndej said:

We had this discussion a while back, American Graffiti was made in 1973 and set in 1962. 

My theory is that pop culture has changed glacially since 2000 as compared to the last half of the 20th Century. Instead people have changed a lot more since 2000.

It does seem like every decade, from the 50s to the 90s, has its own theme, but everything since then has just sort of been one amorphous blur. 

Or maybe that's just my perspective, as a member of the Oregon Trail Generation, raised by early Boomer parents. 

volvoclearinghouse said:

It does seem like every decade, from the 50s to the 90s, has its own theme, but everything since then has just sort of been one amorphous blur. 

Or maybe that's just my perspective, as a member of the Oregon Trail Generation, raised by early Boomer parents. 

I think we had a long stretch on the '00's and '10's, but things really jumped off wildly starting in 2019. COVID hit the scene. BLM protests. Russia invaded Ukraine. Now Israel and Gaza are at war. The past 4-5 years have been completely nuts and totally different from where we were 7 years ago.

Heck, I might even argue that things really shifted in 2016 or 2017, but I don't want to get that political.

There just weren't clear zeitgeist shifts as close to the changing of the calendar decade as... The Beatles breaking up and Jimi Hendrix dying in 1970, or Nirvana releasing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in 1991.

Obligatory meme:

Beer Baron 🍺 said:

volvoclearinghouse said:

It does seem like every decade, from the 50s to the 90s, has its own theme, but everything since then has just sort of been one amorphous blur. 

Or maybe that's just my perspective, as a member of the Oregon Trail Generation, raised by early Boomer parents. 

I think we had a long stretch on the '00's and '10's, but things really jumped off wildly starting in 2019. COVID hit the scene. BLM protests. Russia invaded Ukraine. Now Israel and Gaza are at war. The past 4-5 years have been completely nuts and totally different from where we were 7 years ago.

Heck, I might even argue that things really shifted in 2016 or 2017, but I don't want to get that political.

There just weren't clear zeitgeist shifts as close to the changing of the calendar decade as... The Beatles breaking up and Jimi Hendrix dying in 1970, or Nirvana releasing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in 1991.

Obligatory meme:

You guys are just old :) Smartphones and social media showed up in the 10's, and that sure had an effect on culture. There has been a radical shift in how we access that pop culture, too. And that's speaking as a gen X dude who swears it's only been about 3 years since 2001.

In reply to Keith Tanner :

Yup. Beat me to it. I was just coming back to say, "The 2010's were defined by the mass adoption of smartphones and social media."

For Beer Baron:

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

Yesterday in dads shop. Note the safety Gs and respirator, but then note the flip flops. 
 

Freiburger approved

In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :

Username sort of checks out...

barefootcyborg5000 said:

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

Yesterday in dads shop. Note the safety Gs and respirator, but then note the flip flops. 
 

And no berkeleyin' gloves...