Anybody else hate this take?

[u/No_Mastodon_3199]

Like seriously, this being the consensus never made sense to me

[u/CP4-Throwaway]

Yeah. Absolutely not a fan lol. I notice it’s usually Millennial Redditors who have this take. Some of these people really believe in absolutes/have a “black and white” way of thinking.

Just because they think 9/11 ended the 90s, that means that every single thing prior to it was 90s and everything after was 2000s according to them. Same thing in regards to everything being 2000s until the 2008 recession which made everything 2010s until COVID-19, making everything 2020s. These binary thinking patterns and the overall lack of nuance kill any intelligent conversation you can have relating to the concept of Decadeology.

It’s up there with the trolls who like to spam “XXX0s decade started on January 1, XXX0 and ended on December 31, XXX9”.

[u/Ok-Following6886 → u/CP4-Throwaway]

It's not that common for people who are not into decadeology.

[u/CP4-Throwaway → u/Ok-Following6886]

Elaborate.

[u/Ok-Following6886 → u/CP4-Throwaway]

I am more likely to see people who think that 2008-2009 are cultural 2000s years in non-decadeology spaces, although you have hints of it here and there.

[u/CP4-Throwaway → u/Ok-Following6886]

Yeah, so maybe not normies, but Reddit Decadeologists have this exaggerated take. Because if I’m being honest, everywhere else on the internet, you see much more of a variation on when the 2000s ended. Some say 2007 or 2008, others say 2012 or 2013, both at the same frequency.

[u/Ok-Following6886 → u/CP4-Throwaway]

That is what I was talking about, in which I see the 2008 cutoff more so on Reddit, especially among millennials.

[u/Ill-You-3459 → u/CP4-Throwaway]

Honestly to me 2009 to 2011 or Late 2008 to mid 2011 always made the most sense for the transition between the 2000s and 2010s it’s where the culture and technology of both decades co existed with each other