Is Culture Stuck in the mid 2000s?

[GemState]

Throughout the 20th century we had changes almost every decade. Changes in fashion, in music, in aesthetics, hairstyles, style of comedy, television shows and movies. It sort of felt like someone was directing society from the top down, dictating a big shift every 10 years to something new. If I show you a photo or play you a song from the 20th century, you’d probably be able to guess the decade. It was that clean of a break.

The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs. The current list of most downloaded tracks on iTunes is filled with the names of bands from the last century. People are overwhelmed. They are going back to the media monoculture of the 20th century. Gen Z are in the lead with 50% of this generation feeling nostalgic for types of media, followed by 47% of millennials.

 

[GemState]

I think decentralization of consumption+ iPhones + Algorithms makes the mainstream stay the same. Culture is no longer made. It is simply curated from existing culture, refined, and regurgitated back at us. The algorithms cut off the possibility of new discovery.

 

[Internet Nomad]

Internet culture is constantly evolving. Before each decade the culture shifted. Now its every 5 years.

 

[Mr. Nur]

OFC! WHY? cuz We have decent low-life people in today's society hating on their own people and not promoting their culture and rich ancestry like other nations. But I don't know what's wrong with these upcoming degenerate low-life youths. Alx, I'm proud Somali. Nothing will affect or change who I am nor my mindset

 

[Internet Nomad]

Whislt i agree a lot of trends from the past are being reused. However to say that nothing new is created is a lie.

 

[Natalie]

We're in a transitional period; the old is dying while the new is yet to be born.

 

[Keep it a boqol]

Gen z fortnite flosses. We are not the same

 

[The alchemist]

Music is decentralized because independent markets have widened in each respective country, so consumption revolves around other centralities that reflect their mean, a picture of fragmented pluralism. For example, each country goes to its local Hip Hop scene with its flavor instead of obsessing over American Hip Hop.

 

[The alchemist]

I think decentralization of consumption+ iPhones + Algorithms makes the mainstream stay the same. Culture is no longer made. It is simply curated from existing culture, refined, and regurgitated back at us. The algorithms cut off the possibility of new discovery.

Capitalism, overconsumption, low-impulse control, overstimulation, and over-indulgence with the algorithm social media machines make it impossible for independent, partly needed isolated things to form to stimulate freshness into the system.

Kids these days are obsessed with the superficial aesthetics of a bygone era without ever understanding how things back then can never be replayed. Things then existed in their context of time and place. Kids these days, Gen-Z, man, are algorithm-blended themselves and can't see past the melting pot.

I hope I don't sound too pessimistic.

There was this philosopher called Heidegger who claimed that technology obscures other ways of seeing, and I think this algorithmic age truly reflects this. I don't agree with his full philosophy and I have never read all of it, take this part only. Not pomoting.

 

[Yaraye]

As a gen z on the older spectrum, i grew up with some gen z things and some millennial shit. I also don't understand some gen z stuff