[pjc50]

I feel that the 00s didn't have a well-defined "youth culture", in the sense that people used for 50s onwards where a culture and visual and musical style all combine. But the end of the 2010s definitely does have this, at least for women - Youtube/instagram have evolved a distinctive makeup style!

To me the 00s is the "war decade" and the 2010s the "financial crisis decade", despite the defining events being in 2001 and 2008 respectively. Post-2015 is the "chaos decade", where politics stopped attempting to make sense.

[Nasrudith]

I think the youtu culture thing is a result of MP3s "balkanizing" things as their music exposure is less decided by the record store.

A sock hopper in the 70s would look out of place and like lazy and out of touch writers. Now a teenage fan of Nirvana or 80s metal is normal essentially.

In comparison wit music tastes it is like a bunch of time travelers into the same high school for a bunch of anchronistic cliques together.