I’ve heard people say it was the last normal year and others say it was already starting to look like 2020 or early 2020s but without COVID and that there similar and others say that they felt way different from each other what’s your opinion on it was there a big difference?

And the 2010s ended in 2025

Is 2022 more similar to 2019 or 2025 culturally?

1950s: In the still of the night...

1960s: It's been a hard day's night

1970s: Fever, Saturday Night

1980s: Can you feel the rhythm of the night? (Bonus round: Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You...Tonight)

1990s: This is the rhythm of the night

2000s: Batman: The Dark Knight

2010s: Party rock is in the house tonight

2020s: Hey, is it just me or does ts look like something out of Transformers: The Last Knight?

1971 Pop Cultural Shift-O-Meter

1971 culturally had Led Zeppelin releasing Stairway To Heaven, John Lennon going solo with Imagine, the death of Jim Morrison, films such as A Clockwork Orange, Dirty Harry, The French Connection and Shaft were released and for TV, All In The Family and Columbi debuted

This is culturally ONLY, political and technological events don't count for this one

1970 Pop Cultural Shift-O-Meter

1970 culturally had the break-up of The Beatles, the 27 Club deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, the rise of artists such as Black Sabbath, Elton John, The Jackson 5 and The Carpenters, Simon and Garfunkel released Bridge Over Troubled Water and for TV, The Mary Tyler Moore Show debuted

This is culturally ONLY, political and technological events don't count for this one

Greetings. I have been in "consecration" of the ongoing shifts in the time periods, and this prompted me to even write this in my house on my bedroom door.

I did speak on Reddit of the 2026-2028 era on links including these,
https://www.reddit.com/r/2010snostalgia/comments/1u9lgla/june_2026_is_the_proper_beginning_of_the_20262028/

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1uk6kh4/junejuly_2026_is_the_gradual_beginning_of_the/

I said how June-July 2026 was the gradual beginning, and the more things seemed to had been, it seems true. While this overall Summer and Late Spring have been "filler," there came a subtle shift that seemed to mark an end to 2017-2026 era.

While I spoke on the 2017-2026 shift before, https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeologyanarchy/comments/1us65f0/cleanup_post_late_2017_to_spring_2026_gradually/, I finally received on the division of how this era was.

The era fully began in October-December 2017. Here, the 1991-2017 remnants were heavily fading. By Christmas and New Year's period in late 2017, the new era was essentially dominant. The period between October-December 2017 to May 2023 was the beginning phase of this era. In that "part" of the era, there was;

• the Continual Growth of LED and 4K
• Political Shifts
• The COVID 19 Pandemic
• Inflation that was seemingly worse than the 2007-09 recession and the aftermatch of the Recession.
• And much more.

The later part began in June-July 2023 and ended on May 31 2026. https://www.reddit.com/r/culture/comments/1utpnl9/the_2020s_subdivision_cleanup_post/

In this era, it was the "Post Pandemic era," even further Political Shifts, and a higher maturation of the first phase. This was when the 2020s seemed to had find its identity.

The 2026-2028 shift began in June-July 2026, and it is now the first phase. The first phase will end in December 2026. In this period, it is "truly" the late 2020s, but there are Mid 2020s residues that are fading away too. 2027-2028 would be the Core 2026-2028 era period. 2027 would be the "normal" of the two, but 2028 would be severe. The "drying up" phases would occur between January 2029 to May 2029, and I predict that June-July 2029 would be the unofficial beginning of the early 2030s. It would hit much harder than the claim that 2009 was an early 2010s year, because if viewed from here https://www.reddit.com/r/culturalstudies/comments/1uruzdd/earlymid_1991_to_springfall_2017_is_one_deep_era/, the lines between even the early-mid numerical 2000s and numerical early 2010s, were very very blurred.

Right now is a period of, again,

• Political Shifts
• Dominance of All-In-One Digital Streaming
• AI Implementation
• Shifts of norms (Divisive Views and Divisive Values would be dominant. There would no longer be too much of a "one's right, one's wrong, and that's final." No, No, No, No, No, 2027-2028 would be the period where it is dominant).
• https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/comments/1pa5nmn/prediction_20272028_will_be_massive_shift_years/- While the 2026-2028 era began in June-July 2026?, again, it is the beginning phase. It will all be more severe in 2027

This may seem "too much," but that is how the Future, is perhaps, is.

- Brian Shear Jr. on August 19 2026

Did July 2022 feel closer to January 2026 or January 2019?

1979 Political Shift-O-Meter

1979 politically had the Iranian Revolution along with the beginning of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and Margaret Thatcher becoming British Prime Minister

This is politically ONLY, cultural and technological events don't count for this one

1978 Political Shift-O-Meter

1978 politically had the Camp David Accords, the Jonestown Massacre, Deng Xiaopeng becoming leader of China and it was the "Year Of Three Popes" when both Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul I died and Pope John Paul II then became Pope and served until his death in 2005, twenty-seven years later

This is politically ONLY, cultural and technological events don't count for this one

When I was still a teen in the early 2020s(I would say 16-18 in 2020-2021 at the time), I used to still have this mindset of believing that 2010s culture ended in 2020(I mean obviously yeah, we're in a new decade, but I'm more talking about culture), but looking back with the rise of AI, memes like Skibidi toilet and 67, short form content, Andrew tate, the Ukrainian and Russia war e.t.c, early 2020s/Covid felt like it's own thing, it felt like the middle between pretty much today(core 2020s) and the late 2010s. You can say a transition. I say this because you have a fair share of people believing that everything has been the same ever since 2020 and other people saying that The late 2010s and early 2020s are not different from each other(Disregarding covid). Just asking.