What things from the 2020s do you think will age horribly?

Crypto whatever (coin, token, nft)

Social media

Internet as a whole (you can always dig a hole further down)

"You are not a worker, you are an entrepreneurial partner!" Type of corporate bullshit

Electric vehicles (mostly due to faulty batteries, but also because they don't fix the problem of shitty car focused city design)

I think a lot of the therapy speak we use in casual conversation is going to be embarrassing in hindsight. A lot of it is already verifiably inaccurate, but even the stuff based on real psychology can potentially be disproven as understanding and research methods improve. And people will quietly cringe remembering how they used junk science to justify being a dick in 2024.

AI programming. I feel like it will get to the point where AI will start writing code that works but nobody can understand or maintain including AI.

If you are able to explain the requirements to an AI so fully that the AI can do it correctly it would have taken shorter time to program by yourself.

AI powered code completion is another story though and I'm looking forward to it.

The 2020s iteration of Twitter with Space Karen at the helm, and the sharp rise in antivax beliefs with the advent of the COVID vaccine. It's quite amazing to me how people that even get every other routine vaccine have completely false beliefs about it and don't get that one. Weaponized disinformation is a terrible thing.

My coworker told me two weeks ago that she was not getting any more COVID vaccines "because they're pushing it on us", and yet went and told Public Health that she has multiple sex partners so she could get the monkeypox vaccine. My head is spun over that.

Trump definitely will.

He is a symbol for a large part of America where people will look at and wonder '...why?' even if they understood. Trump is just a symbol of everything wrong with America contained.

I was gonna say superhero movies but that's more a thing of the 2020s.

Regardless, i think the current phase of Hollywood won't go down in history, all these remakes being unceremoniously shoved into streaming services to be forgotten forever will leave a black hole where 2020's culture should be.

More than 0 people being anti-mask, anti-vaccine, covid deniers, or covid minimizers.

Turns out people don't even need a selfish reason to stab their neighbor in the back, they'll do it just for kicks, and then stab themselves in the face for no benefit whatsoever.

Pretty much everything.

I think climate denial will look pretty funny in hindsight after agriculture has broadly collapsed leading to mass famines, and a bunch of coastal cities are several meters under toxified saltwater.

Like, that thing I just described is the optimistic scenario, where humanity/society survives despite things turning way shittier. It could be much worse.

The haircuts

Trump/MAGA

eighty years later, in Germany is still trying to live down their shame

Probably low-hanging fruit here, but Cybertrucks

I feel like there's been a trend of people switching from alcohol to cannabis as its become more widely accepted but I know a lot of people who have ended up taking it to excess as well. The idea of being addicted to it still really doesn't come up often and looking back that might be viewed as problematic.

I'm not against people using it or anything but I do feel bad for the people who have gotten to the point where they need to smoke to feel like themselves.

MAGA

AI, also known as Assumed Intelligence

Fast fashion. At least I hope it does? It's such a wasteful abomination that we don't need right now.

Any sort of jokes about hoarding toilet paper or anything else ridiculous during the pandemic. I've always thought they were already cringe to begin with, but I assume that if society doesn't completely collapse before the 2030s that people will hopefully look back and call those cringe.

Chat gpt

Having a truck (I wish..).

Everything I like will be praised down the ages and everything I don't like will be seen as irredeemably cringe.

I hope anti-abortion, and government restrictive bodily autonomy legislation.

Yes

Everything, considering we'll be fighting each other over puddles of standing water in about two to three decades. Today's life will seem like paradise in comparison, even for people who are currently suicidal.

The Barbie movie. It is a snapshot in time look at our culture and will make no sense to future generations.

Moral values. Some of the things I was taught were good in the 80s are now seen as evil and vice versa. I don't think it's the only time that'll happen.

Milk.

The return of mustaches.

The American mass murders around the world.

Trumps tan, he'll get skin cancer

me...

...Everything.

Chat gpt

• "lesser evilism" and voting for the Democrats
• thinking liberal bourgeois 'democracy' is a solution against fascism
  (as if fascism is a person and can be "voted out," as if all of the things Democrats are supposed to "save us from" wrt Trump aren't still happening with no resistance, as if the Democrats aren't outflanking the Republicans on the right of issues like immigration, and as if they aren't just as genocidal and barely even bothering to play empty-rhetoric games to pretend otherwise, and as if both parties aren't part of, financed by, and working for the capitalist class and petty bourgeois who historically back fascism anyway, when economic crises create threats against their system and status for which fascism is the system's immune response against the rise of socialism. "first they came for the communists...")

people simping for social media celebrities... although poors always simp for "one of them making it"

Thinking that it's reasonable for prepubescent children to change their gender.

Social distancing, and a lot of other covid-related stuff

Giving a shit about public health.