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"I feel like people are looking at all kind of the cancel culture stuff a little bit less."
"When Kylie's lifestyle becomes uncool and unpopular and you stop loving Bitcoin and stop thinking that stuffing your face is harmless, I'll take you seriously."
"Culture is pushing the sexual revolution, expressive individualism."
"Millennials are obsessed with charcuterie boards. I think it's because we grew up putting Lunchables on a pedestal."
"Korea, the home of K-pop, K-cosmetics, and of course, Korean BBQ, is at the center of many cultural trends on the world stage."
"You're gonna see the next generation... their thing will probably be to get in drum circles. Everything old is new again."
"But in the last 20 to 30 years, since the '90s, the variant has become very popular again across all generations."
"Getting woke was profitable. That isn't the case anymore."
"The 90s were irony poisoned, but audiences were starving for deeply sincere emotional content."
"New Wave Music didn't die exactly; it's more that the term went out of Vogue as bands developed their own more specific genres."
"The rise of the horror genre in entertainment."
"It's easy to forget how common horror movies and scary stories were in the Victorian era."
"People love witches, they love dressing up as witches, they love making playlists inspired by 'witchy vibes'."
"Anything in pop culture, the pendulum always swings."
"As wild as the 60s were... the trend is not getting towards modesty."
"Americans are getting back in touch with their spirituality."
"Netflix is learning an important lesson in 'get woke, go broke.'"
"I love it and I feel like Y2K is kind of coming back so catch me wearing this in the streets."
"The notion of people making pilgrimages is resurfacing."
"We are oversaturated if you want to see that put into play."
"If what you've been doing forever is cool now, that's sick."
"Mukbangs are popular, but I also have this way of connecting with people through entertainment, through comedy, through real-life discussions."
"Many of the most admired women of the era rocked blonde strands."
"the end of girl bosses is actually a pretty good thing."
"Where's all the money going? Everyone putting money in their Pokemon cards."
"Teaching people that they should be offended is what's going on now."
"We were doing this in 1991 and no one came up with the term 'woke' in 1991."
"I think we're gonna have like a roaring 20s kind of period."
"Cool will radically shift from one year to another, but things that are cool in the UK are forever cool."
"Anti-heroes have become increasingly popular."
"There will come a time when the whole world will be woke SJWs, and you will be the legend."
"In the 90s, rock got darker, but so did everything else. Rock still had upbeat, fun bands like The Offspring, Green Day, and Third Eye Blind."
"When history of cinema looks back on this decade it'll be like this is the Marvel era, mm-hmm."
"Bitcoin is more popular than highly searched terms such as guns, exercising, Donuts."
"The rise of Satanism in America is at an all-time high and it's particularly to the young people."
"The reality is we are now living in an age of hyper-gynocentrism and I think 2020 will be the decade where facts and logic will be dismissed outright if they are offensive in some way."
"Trust that it's schizo season, that's going to be the big differentiator going forward."
"Another catchphrase that the YSL crew made popular is 'slatt'."
"One thing that has characterized dance music over the last ten years is its ability to continuously reinvent itself."
"If the American appetite for cheese continues to grow, the country could catch up soon enough."
"Although it seems like the popularity of the sound will never be close to its peak in 2020 you can't count out the youth."
"Phase four was a joke, it failed because it's woke."
"Guacamole grew popular, especially as a Super Bowl party menu item."
"The rise of the anti-beauty guru... I don't think it's a coincidence those were at the same time."
"This movie gets at the cultural shift when nerds became cool."
"Hipsters are like the trendy thing so they're actually all the same."
"I think my generation was the generation where we popularized 'cool' as the go-to."
"I feel like my generation was the generation where we popularized 'cool' as the go-to."
"Remaking things has been a thing ever since the inception of things."
"Just because it's cool in 2022 doesn't mean it's normal."
"Fortunately, these days British leads or indeed entirely British settings and casts have become something of a fetish in Hollywood."
"2020 is still looking bright for anime and manga."
"It seems like a really perfect time for Lisa Frank to make her comeback because we're all craving that '90s nostalgia, like I said, yeah."
"Icons are coming back and other people were saying that icons are coming back."
"Who in the holy hell could predict clowns becoming an icon of modern horror?"
"An u girl brings the emoticon to life through their aesthetic and demeanor."
"A movie based on a popular toy line is a rite of passage for every generation of kids."
"The rise of relatability overtaking aspirational as the linchpin word for creators."
"2023 will be the year 'passport bro' starts getting shamed."
"Do I think the superhero thing is ending? I think it is peak, it has peaked."
"The year is 2014 and everyone needs you to know about this hot new thing called feminism man is it cool."
"I'm glad it's over. You know how I know the pandemic's over? Because 'Me Too' came back. That's how I know."
"That's the thing, we got very into it in the 90s."
"If I can get 150 million people to hate my guts, the treasure will rain on me."
"The rise of superhero movies is part of the rise of fantasy and science fiction."
"Are we losing our grip on the trend, on the currency of pop culture?"
"If white people just decided they didn't want to listen to rap anymore..."
"The music of this era is so good that we all still listen to it now."
"It's not about the dick print, it's just something about the gray sweatpants."
"Artificial Intelligence—it's the latest craze, having seized our culture's imagination in a big way."
"Winged eyeliner's been on point since the Ancient Egyptians!"
"Black artists go mainstream, and when those songs aren't mainstream no more, mainstream don't support them anymore."
"I think sometimes it can breed a unique form of comedy with either cringe comedy or kind of shock value comedy."
"The idea of cat girls is so mainstream that out of touch billionaires can use it to make it seem like they still have a soul."
"People love cats, like that's like a new thing."
"They're popular for a year, then they're gone."
"The intellectual pushback is clearly underway."
"Owning a Model S today is becoming kind of like owning a BMW in the 80s."
"Now I got people streaming 'I'm geeking' slow down, like who does that?"
"There's a market for anti-wokeness... Anything that goes in the other direction stands out immediately and people gravitate towards."
"Let the kids have what they want. That's their genius."
"After surviving its time in the spotlight, it seems that vaporwave will only continue stronger than ever."
"The 2000s were a reaction to the darkness of the '90s."
"We've got to end it all, okay? No more dabs."
"Art music design fashion is going to be incredible."
"Rollerblades has always been and will always be cool."
"There's a masculinity crisis overseas and it's headed our way... it's already here."
"Everybody wants to talk about it. It's cool to talk about now."
"There's a culture that was established, probably started way back in the Slick Rick days, with rappers somehow believing that they have to wear like 80 pounds of jewelry to become legitimate."
"There's something very powerful about long hair, I think it needs to come back."
"Modern teeth, especially American teeth, tend to be brighter, whiter, and shinier now than at any point in human history."
"This could be the cycle of memes along with Bitcoin."
"Jellyfish will be a smash hit within the next 30 years."
"Manga and anime are definitely seeing a renewed interest."
"It'll be interesting to see where comics are in the US in five years."
"The influences are influencing okay... It just warms my heart to see that women are actually starting to embrace the natural side to them."
"Essays are having a little bit of a cultural moment write now, actually."
"Culture is now the trendiest word in primatology."
"I tend to stay away from what is popular and in the mainstream especially with these kinds of momentary spikes involving indie hits."
"2008 was all about random humor, stealing your pickup line straight from lolcat memes was considered extremely hot." - Commentator
"Hopefully we get some hype beasts along the way. This could go very far."
"What started as people just eating hot peppers on camera turned into a cultural phenomenon."
"Oh my gosh, as an elder millennial apparently I don't know, I was reading that apparently millennials are obsessed with soup."
"American and British kids say they wanted to be a YouTube star more than anything else."
"Fashion is 100% a reflection of what is going on in the world."
"Do you even care anymore? Are you over the Bud Light thing? Are you over Dylan Mulvaney?"
"I think they aren't as popular anymore, but it's not like the Western where it's totally dead."
"The fascination with the male body always points back to athleticism."
"Yo you know what I realized I feel like tattoo culture became so big because of tick tock."
"Wag culture was absolutely huge in the UK like 20 years ago."
"Big stuffed cheese it things getting verified on Twitter is a big deal and now it's a big deal on YouTube too."
"Ice cream with Oreos mixed in was first sold in the 1970s."
"Everything comes back around; you always hear fashion never goes out of style."
"If you look at an artist's entire body of work and the time he or she lived in, then you can really see some parallels or indications or at least trends."
"Minecraft is now more popular than Fortnite. Look at that!"
"Nothing says dad more than a fanny pack, but you can at least make fanny packs pretty cool these days."
"Movies going woke are becoming like Christian films used to be. They're preachy, boring, nonsensical, and uncool."
"It's still the middle of summer, but Magic Kingdom is done with swimsuit season and ready to party pumpkin spice latte style."
"The Canadian tuxedo: from cowgirl chic to high fashion."
"When it comes to pumpkin spice things we Americans specifically have a very big obsession."
"Being a villain is just kind of trendy, you know? It's way more trendy than being a hero."
"You know how today [everything] [is] always about zombies and aliens well back then in the [early] 90s everything was always about dinosaurs."
"I'm hearing more people saying that now that people are enjoying walls of brass."
"Alpha males are back back back back back back."
"Wine is very popular, incredibly popular in fact."
"Regular Americans don't care about wokeness about Twitter about any of this they're actually put off by it."
"It's just cool girl, like Instagram cute Tumblr vibes."
"Over the last few years, it seems like American households have become re-obsessed with baking."
"The people of my generation, the Millennials, have been enjoying quite the toasty bath in the warm water of our own nostalgia lately."
"I don't know whether it's because we are too happy or not happy at all that no one talks about happiness anymore."
"It almost seems like there's kind of a move back into, you know, remember how it was in like the late 80s where all the hot rappers were the conscious rappers, I mean tell it."
"The rise and fall of Supreme seems to be tied up pretty closely with the rise and normalization of streetwear."
"Man, to get an idea what people were listening to, there is Nine Inch Nails 'Ghosts'."
"In 58 the space race was just starting and everything had fins anything they could make rocket-like was cool at the time."
"Happiness is not the utmost goal. The self-love happiness trend has completely taken over our culture."
"Slowly but surely after a decade of irrelevance, the guitar solo has started to peek its head into the cultural conversation once more."
"It's almost like a Resurgence of horror."
"Social media had a big part to play in why comedy was so popular during the 2000s."
"...there's some kind of weird Beatles wave happening right now something big is coming..."
"The channel influenced not only what people heard but also what they saw, shaping the preferences and styles of a whole generation."
"Everyone seems like they always talk about awkwardness, like not as much anymore, but like, 2014, it seemed like awkward was the big thing."
"I think we're going to look back on the slick back or like the slick down soap brow thing and associate that so heavily with this like 2 to three year period in makeup when that was everywhere."
"In 1978, most of Billboard's chart-topping hits were disco songs."
"What led to this more surreal American trend?"
"It's not like power creep it's like power creep but it's more like collector creep where the spirit of a generation you're gonna have new Pokemon that are kind of enticing and then later on in the generation they're gonna add."
"This year is all about urban legends and myths and folklore and fairy tales."
"Generation Z and the millennials are killin' it."
"True Crime is sweeping the nation it seems like people are leaning into this now more than ever."
"Brooklyn in particular, I feel like right around like 2018, 2019, is like when a lot of [expletive] really popped off, like Pop Smoke, Fabio, all that [expletive], Lil T.J."
"I think Latino rap, Hispanic rap, Chic rap, they all seem bigger than ever to me right now."
"It seems like the ones that are getting over 100k views are the ones where he's covering something that's popular in conservative culture spaces."
"I think the fantasy renaissance that I think that we're going through right now."
"Kids aren't into it. It used to be back in the day like, 'Yeah, Watchmen, Dark Knight, Sandman,' those were perennial bestsellers, but even now they're not those."
"...however in a way it's kind of cool I mean it's almost like a time capsule of what we thought was popular in the 90s and it makes me wish we continued this trend to modern day like every 10 years or so..."
"When dudes hit 30, you kind of have to choose one route of band to kind of make that your thing. Grateful Dead's a big one, especially here in Chicago it seems."
"The '70s was a decade filled with bell bottoms, disco fever, and a unique sense of freedom."
"I love when people come up with terms, dude, and like coin [__] like so when you put White Boy Summer, I was all in."
"It was a [ __ ] show, like the early 2000s was just like, everything was, it felt like big and like overdone like Y2K stuff."
"Closing coverage to the IMX 2023 show, always enjoy seeing how car culture evolves in Southeast Asia."
"I don’t think I can definitively say that teen idols are disappearing, but I can say I’ve noticed a decline in their prominence when it comes to western artists."
"He's able to almost subliminally draw in things that are going on musically, color, fashion, people's attitudes."
"People are getting slightly nostalgic for the 2010s, even though it's only been about 10 years."
"I think EDC really started popping off before Instagram was huge, so people were going there for the experience."
"This novel kind of set off this whole Japanese trend, right? Sushi trend, kimono trend, the whole martial arts trend."
"I love sneakers, I love fashion, I love music, I love pop culture."
"The trend over the bigger the better is very evident within Houston's polarizing hip-hop scene."
"Trends seem vapid in the moment when they're popular, but looking back, they paint a very clear picture of the cultural landscape at the time."
"Japanese people... they go through trends very quickly... they are very much on top of what's new."
"In the 80s, science fiction became increasingly popular in the world, Japan was no exception."
"As attention spans in the cultural Zeitgeist dwindle ever shorter, more and more we see TikToks and YouTube shorts becoming the norm in how people consume and disseminate their ideas and ideologies."
"We're gonna go from pumpkin spice to Pumpkin spicy."
"The culture just rejects the idea of optimism in any movie that's presenting a future that is better."