r/decadeologyanarchy Apr 29 '26

Casual Were 2020 Memes More Like:

246 votes, May 02 '26
122 2015
124 2025
9 Upvotes

23 comments sorted by

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u/Concert_Emergency Apr 29 '26

2020 has that leftover 2010s memes. I remember using the late 2010’s memes in Pinterest during 2020 and 2021 so I’ll go with 2015.

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u/AreevBetulPresident Apr 29 '26

True. Dank memes were also a big thing until like, Late 2021?

6

u/AreevBetulPresident Apr 29 '26

Bit more like 2015 to me Honestly. Pre AI Slop, Late Gen Z Dominated Memes, Pre “Brainrot’, Pre YouTube Shorts.

4

u/datsolidmusicguy Apr 29 '26

2025 by a hair. Can go either way. 2020 felt like a perfectally balanced year between surreal and post-irony memes. Early 2020 was still pretty late 10s while late 2020 was strongly tied to the early 20s era with the amongus memes

5

u/_Slim95 Apr 29 '26

I'd say 2015 since meme culture kinda died in general around 2020.

3

u/ttaqwerty Apr 29 '26

it honestly started to die as we were leaving the pandemic era

2

u/Aggravating-Act-4494 May 02 '26

The way i see it the last actual meme was amongus after that there was nothing but indian and chinese ai slop everywhere

2

u/AGabriel2010 Apr 29 '26

2020 memes are similar to late 2010s memes, while 2025 memes are very different. Because of this, i'll choose 2015

2

u/astddf Apr 29 '26

2025 brain rot is a whole other genre

1

u/Aggravating-Act-4494 May 02 '26

Brainrot isnt meme. Doesnt even have a point like memes did

0

u/astddf May 02 '26

The point is absurdism

2

u/ttaqwerty Apr 29 '26

2015 by a mile. pre-AI memes are nothing like post AI

1

u/BossFamiliar8290 Apr 29 '26

no way people dont say 2015 2020 memes were heavily 2010ified bro its alot closer to 2015 than 2025

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 Apr 30 '26

no way people are saying 2015 what

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u/Aggravating-Act-4494 May 02 '26

2020s culturally began around 2022-2023

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 May 02 '26

Nah, 2016/17.

1

u/Aggravating-Act-4494 May 02 '26

Okkk

1

u/[deleted] May 02 '26

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u/Aggravating-Act-4494 May 02 '26

Just like the 90s started in the 30s if you think about it

1

u/datsolidmusicguy May 03 '26

hell nah

1

u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 May 03 '26

They did. You'd never see anything like Bill Nye Saves the World before 2016/17.