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What will people remember about the 2000s?

AnonusAnonus
edited 2014-05-08 20:43:34 in General
They strike me as a very malaisy decade, and an especially bad one for American cartoons.

Cartoon Network suffered a Dork Age during the latter half of the decade, and even now, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is shaping up to be the only non-cult show from that era anyone's going to remember.

How much 2000s pop culture will be remembered, fondly or otherwise, in the future?

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  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    only 2000s kids will get this
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2014-05-08 20:53:41
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    How about flipping Lord of the Rings?  Harry Potter?  Star Wars?

    Spirited Away?
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    Aliroz said:

    Star Wars?

  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Well, there's those...

    Maybe I was being too vague. When I made this thread I had it in mind that the majority of cartoons from that decade are probably going to be utterly forgotten. Sturgeon's Law, I know, but it seems like the 1990s, being a renaissance and all, have more cartoons that have persisted in popular memory, or are worth watching (Pepper Ann has been mostly forgotten, but it's actually pretty good), but not the 2000s. The 2000s seem to have a lot of shows that got killed before their time, though.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    When George Lucas saw that people didn't like Jar-Jar, he reduced his role in the prequels.

    When directors saw that audiences didn't like Jaden Smith, they refused to take a hint.
  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    Odradek said:

    When George Lucas saw that people didn't like Jar-Jar, he reduced his role in the prequels.


    When directors saw that audiences didn't like Jaden Smith, they refused to take a hint.
    by "directors" you mean "Jaden Smith's dad, Will Smith, who has fuck-you levels of money", right?
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Yon Assassin said:

    Aliroz said:

    Star Wars?

    SO beautiful, that music.

    Anyways, John William's score alone validates the existence of those movies.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    -calica said:

    Odradek said:

    When George Lucas saw that people didn't like Jar-Jar, he reduced his role in the prequels.


    When directors saw that audiences didn't like Jaden Smith, they refused to take a hint.
    by "directors" you mean "Jaden Smith's dad, Will Smith, who has fuck-you levels of money", right?
    Yes
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    You do notice that Sony Pictures has released all of Jaden Smith's movies so far, right? SPE has a history of bending over backwards for Will Smith...
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    They will remember the War on Terror.
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    I would hope so, but been this really disturbing trend where Bush's favorability has been trending up lately.
  • MorvenMorven
    Will Smith saved the world from the alien menace, wouldn't YOU give his kid a break?
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    no.
  • MorvenMorven
    Well, then, I guess you don't run Sony Pictures, do you.

    Do you?
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I might, you never know
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    You don't think we'd get the picture by now?
  • MorvenMorven
    Were you only your memetic self I'd say there are insufficient good boobs in Sony Pictures movies for it to be you.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I watch so few movies that I'd likely be completely incompetent at running such a business.

    I'd just be like "make them weirder and more boobular"
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Well

    My imaginary self struck a deal to buy Sony Pictures
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2014-05-09 02:39:59
    1. Dubya Bush was president, then Obama at the end of the decade.
    2. War on Terror.  Afghanistan War.  Iraq War.  Housing bubble bursts.
    3. Rise of the internet and "internet culture".  Including use of the internet to transmit news and updates much faster.  (Possible examples: 2009 Iranian election protests, a precursor to the Arab Spring.)
    4. For media, rise of media content delivered by (sometimes solely by) the web.  Netflix.  Youtube.  Streaming video.  Social networking and social media.  Also, maybe a bit about torrents, Napster, MegaUpload, and copyright issues.  And a mention of the net neutrality issue, possibly.
  • MorvenMorven
    I can put in a supporting vote for weirder and more boobular.  And my spellcheck said that ain't a word, and I said it's bullshit, that's so a word.
  • Miss Miko MayoneggMiss Miko Mayonegg
    More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    Being fucked in the butt by everything that moves and then kicked after I am down. Yes.
  • ButtwangsButtwangs
    edited 2014-05-09 12:58:17
    BE ATTITUDE FOR GAINS
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    OutKast will probably be the most remembered pop act, and Arcade Fire will probably be the most remembered rock act.
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    The 2000s weren't the first decade to look to prior decades for inspiration, but the 2000s were the decade where the buying public noticed and started complaining. So it'll be remembered as the decade where everyone in Big Media collectively ran out of ideas and nostalgia collapsed into a singularity.
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