Maybe, but if it is people will still choose arbitrary boundaries like decades to create categories around even if they aren't bound under some specific properties or common experience, we're social animals and prefer inclusion even if it's just for fun. Regional dialects and accents are diminishing, but there are still linguistic changes happening across large geographical regions for example.
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You're forgetting about all of the AI slop
A lot of us still manage to live in the real world and the clothing real people wear and the way they style their hair and makeup isn't really an "AI slop" thing.
If you want to define the 2020's by AI you're self categorizing as "extremely online/terminally online/chronically online."
You do realize ai will drive all future styles and anything kids do right? Its already happening. Good for them but im not into it.
There's literally ai paintings being sold in stores right now. Tons of online videos are just slop now.
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According to Swift, eras just became personalised, and rather than everyone entering a new one every ten years, you enter one after a breakup when you change your hairstyle.
We talking Taylor or Jonathan?
I agree. The 1970s were disco, the 1980s were punk, the 1990s was New Wave, and the 2000's was the 2000's.
I'm old enough to remember Spice Girl mania.
People who never brought a record knew all the songs, because they were played on the radio, and every store and restaurant played local stations. They were in the newspapers and in magazines. They were mentioned on the local news shows.
I've never heard a Taylor Swift song played in public. All the stores and restaurants that have radio play dedicated oldies stations. No new music at all. I haven't watched the local news in years, and newspapers and magazines are gone.
I think you're going to see smaller and smaller groups getting excited by niche interests. You're not going to see Beatlemania ever again.
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