When do you think "Current Year" began? -

[Webby's Boyfriend]

So going by the previous trends * this should fade in the next decade then?

* Zeitgeists tend to last 20 years on average from my observations.

Yes, I hope so.

Likely we will have real problems by then, like climate change, world war, fascism, killer robots, ressource depletion, technological unemployment, overpopulaton etc.

As for now, Generation Z is already caring about some of those real problems and not buying into postmodernism and idpol. Yet, in Continental Europe, SJWs are more successfull than ever, they usually have the governments and establishment on their sides. But I also see pushback that was unthinkable of a few years ago.

Hopefully, they'll do something really really stupid and by that, bring the godmother of all backlashes from the general public upon themselves. Like demanding acceptance for pedophiles and bestiality or some 'fat transwoman of colour' doing a shooting rampage at a neonazi event.

 

[Sperghetti]

I have to agree with the date of around 2007/2008. I think this current wave of political correctness definitely infected internet culture first, with mainstream media and entertainment catching up with it in the mid-10’s.


2007 was also around the time of a large drama-fest on LiveJournal called “The Great Strikethrough” that caused a bunch of people to flee to other sites. (An incident that got initially blamed on fundamentalist Christians, no less.) Considering that LiveJournal was previously a hub for both fan communities and feminist/minority/support communities, I have a personal theory that this exodus caused a lot of stuff that had been previously contained by LJ to start seeping out into other places on the internet.

 

[Solar Eclipse Paradox]

To me, it really began in 2015. I was completely unaware of any other trend except for ISIS in 2014.

 

[Fish Fudge]

Honestly, I think the roots go back further - "Current Year" is just an evolution of "Current Decade". Maybe it's my age, but I remember a ton of people saying "It's the 90s!" to justify all sorts of insane behaviour and views.

 

[Ita Mori]

A lot of this stuff is all older than your parents. This is simply the third attempt to destabilize and transform the West. And it won't stop; why would it? Every generation fights less and less while slowly adopting more and more decadence, degeneracy, hedonism, and decay as "common sense" middle ground.

 

[HymanHive]

The year that the cosplayer Jessica Nigri was banned for being too sexy. That was the start of current year.

 

[Bec]

Alot of this isnt new its been building up to for decades but 2011-2015 is when things started to really take off.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

Despite the fact Jenner is a conservative Trump supporter, I think Jenner did more than anyone else in helping lead to the rise of transtenders/troons and Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. The media was all over that whole thing back in 2014-2015.

Necroing here, but yes, definitely. I vividly recall in those aforementioned years when no one originally really brought up Jenner's political beliefs, and instead the progressives hailed him/her as being an icon of trans rights and social justice. I also noticed that when he/she came out as Caitlyn, a ton of basic girls on social media were changing their profile photo to that god awful "Call me Caitlyn" picture from Vanity Fair, and I also noticed a bunch of girls changing their online handles to "Caitlyn" in the aftermath.

Also someone on Twitter recently compared 2 different tweets from the washed-up kidfucker George Takei, from 2015 and 2021 respectively. The original tweet was him simping for Caitlyn and saying he's proud of having him/her as a new mouthpiece for the LGBTBBQ+ community -- and the 2nd tweet was from fairly recently with the old Jap having a meltdown about Caitlyn running for governor, and that he/she is a racist fascist and not a true member of their "loving" community.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

This is simply the third attempt to destabilize and transform the West.

Alot of this isnt new its been building up to for decades but 2011-2015 is when things started to really take off.

I've said it many times in other places, but I heard that the hell of Clown World - and what led to it - is the breaking down of society by the powers that shouldn't be. Their goal seems to be rebuilding "society" as a cybernetic hive of serfs who live in pods, eat bugs, rent instead of buy, and are miserable - or happy on drugs - that the top elites have absolute power over. It seems that time is almost here.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The earliest rumbling were in 2011, it really started to gain steam in 2012, doubled down in 2014, continued to gain a lot of steam in 2015 and then finally solidified in 2016.

The first time I really noticed people using "it's current year!" was 2015 though.

There was a huge tonal shift in 2016 though, prior to 2016 SJWs were far more willing to work with you, talk with you, debate with you, sure they always treated you like an idiot, but there was an assumption that you just needed to hear the right thing to win you over, 2016 is when things changed, that was when they made it clear there was no longer any room for talk or debate, you were either with them or against them

I could have lived with 2015 levels I guess, but 2016 and beyond has been a nightmare.

Honestly, I think the roots go back further - "Current Year" is just an evolution of "Current Decade". Maybe it's my age, but I remember a ton of people saying "It's the 90s!" to justify all sorts of insane behaviour and views.

"It's current year!" is indeed the sequel to "It's the 90s!"

In many ways what's been going on is like an echo of 90s culture, which messes with my head as someone nostalgic for the 90s, however there's still a world of difference, the 90s was a lot more fair with things, modern culture is nothing but unfairness, modern culture is the 90s retarded child.

Modern SJWs would have been looked at as complete lunatics in the 90s.

A lot of this stuff is all older than your parents. This is simply the third attempt to destabilize and transform the West. And it won't stop; why would it? Every generation fights less and less while slowly adopting more and more decadence, degeneracy, hedonism, and decay as "common sense" middle ground.

The question I have though is, why now and why are they going so far with it? Do they honestly not expect a backlash?

The trouble I have with stuff like "it's a Jewish conspiracy!" is tell me what serious trouble Jews were facing circa the 2000s that would make all this extreme political rhetoric necessary? If anything they're endangering themselves, Jews were safer in this country before they started pushing Woke.

I know you don't specifically mention Jews, but it's been on my mind, however whether it's a Jewish conspiracy or a conspiracy in general the trouble I have is calling it a "conspiracy" assigns more rationality than this stuff seems to be operating in, because it seems like it's only going to make things worse for everyone in the long run, if there's some sort of end goal in mind I have no idea what that would be.