Cultural touchstones of the 2020s?

[Letthecarhuntbegin]

I think I am getting old.

I hear music from the 80s, 90s or 00s and I get a feeling that takes me back to the time. Then there’s TV shows everyone seems to know and love (in another thread tonight a poster compared her husband to Victor Meldrew - of course everyone over the age 30 and possibly younger knows who Victor Meldrew is!) or fads everyone went through (remember when everyone was wearing Ponchos, heels with jeans, massive earrings and scarf-like belts in the early 00s?) There was a certain zeitgeist that ‘takes me back’.

I’m not feeling it for this decade. Maybe because we’re still in the middle of it? Or maybe because I am too old to be in touch with new things. I am not on Tik Tok…

So what cultural gifts / touchstones do you think the 2020s have brought us so far? Things that almost everyone will recognise and remember from this period.

(culturally, not stupid covid and shitty politics)

Will Smith slap was 2022.

I was awake and the Twitter explosion was a sight to behold!

This. Especially the gender nonsense and cancel culture. Rainbow motifs absolutely everywhere.

Bad punctuation - I meant the Prince Andrew interview was 2019.

Breathy, high pitched cover songs.
True crime documentaries.
Crop tops.
Caterpillar eyebrows.
Silvery blonde hair.

The Masked Singer
Love Island (unfortunately)
The Queen's funeral