>was 2014 one of the years that changed society forever
>Late Millennial teen culture phasing out
I definitely think that 2010--2013 was an era unto itself. It was the last hurrah of the Hipster ethos. We as a socioculture were wrong to shit on it. Detractors called it pretentious, elitist, disingenuous, detached, and so on, but that wasn't really true.
Her (2013), Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010), Liberal Arts (2012), Ruby Sparks (2012; classic), Tiny Furniture (2010), Kick-Ass (2010), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Must Come Down (2012), and so on; Odd Future Wolf Gang, Mac DeMarco ("2", 2012), Destroid (The Invasion, 2012), etc.; video games and anime, yes, were on the decline. By & large, it was pure genuine soul, an era of defiant optimism by Millennials in the wake of the worst economic disaster they had yet experienced, striving against bland conformity that has since largely overtaken the current day.
Those films I mentioned ask you to put yourself in the shoes of a recently graduated college age youth, no direction, no guidance, not much help or community around. And what they did was take the tatters of a bohemian aesthetic, like scavenging for scant supplies in the wake of an apocalypse, and mesh it together with a Romanticist high culture, refined sensibility. And they were making it work.
Then 2014 rolled around, off the wave of controversy of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. White guilting and man-shaming started ramping up. The drastic shift in politics caught a lot of people by surprise, and in the shock, lots of people were forced to pick a side. Hitherto moderates or world-conscious, race-blind liberals were forced to march on behalf of thugs and believe whores or get called a racist and misogynist. Occupy Wall Street was immediately brushed the side and the classist struggle targeting the Rich Jews In The American Government was forgotten. Even Snowden was forgotten.
A lot happened within the span of just a few years.
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