• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Depending on the context if someone says 20’s it’s pretty obvious what they mean by it. I personally say 20’s for the current decade and 1920’s for the previous one, because it’s much less likely I’m going to be talking about the 1920’s

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      2 months ago

      the 1920s had a distinct personality though.

      2020s are halfway done and I couldn’t tell you a single unique thing about them.

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        2 months ago

        Sorry to be the one to break it to you but that is because you are old. My kids listen to distinct music, play distinct games and know a whole group of celebrities I never heard of and will look back at the 20s as their teenage years that were distinct from the time that they look back on it from.

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        2 months ago

        Working from home becoming a norm. Public disdain for the ultra wealthy supposedly making it’s way into the norm.

        Those are two i can think of off the top of my head for social stuff.

        For music it could be genre fusions becoming more of a standard thing rather than something niche. Post hardcore fusing with country has been a big mood these past few years. Probably started a little bit before but it’s everywhere now, to be honest country fusing with any genre is becoming the in thing.

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          2 months ago

          everywhere

          there is no longer an everywhere for it to be. that’s exactly what the death of the monoculture is.

          Taylor Swift has had a longer career than the Beatles and there are people that have never heard a Taylor song.