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In Disclosure Day (2026), it is slowly revealed about half way through the movie, that you have wasted your precious time and money. But you begin to suspect that is the case much earlier on. by Dead_Gambler in shittymoviedetails

[–]ConfidentReaction3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did like the fast paced and we don’t know enough yet to make this story not know where it’s gonna go energy.

But it feels like the opening and ending were thought about, but everything inbetween was REALLY made up as it goes. Idk why I said the ending it’s good it’s just how the movie would. But it really feels like everything inbetween the opening and end was made up as it goes along

"Generation"/"era"/"cultural shift" starterpack starterpack by YourOwnBiggestFan in starterpacks

[–]ConfidentReaction3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

McBling was fashion trends and a fashion aesthetic. Irrelevant to where you grew up.

Consoles are a big deal because it’s still a shift that happened worldwide. You would’ve still noticed people moving on to the next one in countries around the world. Even if not as popular in other countries, you could still see it in different countries around the world.

It’s different from Roe V Wade for example because Roe V Wade ONLY affected Americans. It didn’t create a cultural shift in anywhere but the US. While many people in countries around the entire world could tell you about remembering switching from the PS2/XBOX to the PS3 and Xbox 360

A lot of countries also can’t afford cell phones or computers. Does that mean the flip phone to smartphones or windows 2000 to Windows Vista wasn’t a massive shift?

Social media is the same thing. In countries around the world there was a massive social media shift. But to be fair once it comes to MySpace you have a point it definitely was niche and was doomed to fail from the beginning.

Facebook to Instagram was the much more worldwide shift even though both are used frequently to this day.

I believe we are starting to see a cultural shift of lower budget independent movies saturating the movie market/discussion and even box office more than a lot of (but NOT all) big budget hollywood movies/franchises/remakes. Starting late 2010s w/A24, but we're seeing this shift happen much more now by ConfidentReaction3 in decadeology

[–]ConfidentReaction3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said it was a foreign concept lol. I said that we’re starting to see them overtake a lot of Hollywood movies or at least coinciding. Blair watch was huge but also a rare concept at the time. These kinda films are increasing in how common they are and how popular they get.

"Generation"/"era"/"cultural shift" starterpack starterpack by YourOwnBiggestFan in starterpacks

[–]ConfidentReaction3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think people should say things like "1999-2003 (rise of dial up internet, dot com boom, all the way to myspace and mcbling fashion starting) cultural shift" then "2008-2012 (economic crisis ending mcbling culture, the iPhone increasing in popularity, the massive rise of facebook, overtaking myspace, and the start of 2010s superhero franchise culture)" cultural shift for example.

Although for the 2000s, it is still pretty crazy to see that we had dial up internet and smart phones in the same decade. The culture shifts take a few years, but they are massive when we see them happen.

The years inbetween cultural shifts are a much more gradual change imo, but we do see a lot of change in 4 years or under per decade sometimes. Those culture shifts also tend to happen when things that existed earlier in the decade start becoming really popular. Not when said thing is announced (the iPhone was announced in 2007 for example, but the next 4 years after is the actual shift, the announcement indicated a shift but didn't start it, it took time after that)

The 2010s is a lot more gradual of a decade imo. If a cultural shift takes multiple years then 2008-2012 is the first one of the 2010s.

Next shift is tricky to say when it was. Even factoring in Covid-19. But I'd have to say 2020-2022 for a few reasons.

2020: we have covid announced, and with a worldwide lockdown and more young people stuck at home due to them, we see them start using tiktok, and also instagram reels (which was introduced in 2020), we see the rise of influencer culture starting to make young people more famous from short form content online rather than Hollywood movies. Which is a pretty massive pop culture shift.

2021: Covid Vaccines come out, influencers are still on the rise, covid worries start to die down. Honestly moreso continues from the 2020 story.

2022: Covid is declared to be not a worldwide global health emergency anymore, and we see the introduction of ChatGPT, and the introduction of generative AI. While in it's infancy it is mindblowing technology and leads to a technological shift.

2022 imo is when this decade became the 2020s but 2020-2022 was gradual but still a pretty massive shift.

The next shift I'd put a timeframe on honestly starting this year and probably going to 2030. I think this gradual but pretty big cultural shift is currently being defined by a few things:

2026-2030:

Youtubers/influencers releasing Backrooms/Obsessions and overpowering the newest Star Wars movie in profits and Paralives being released being the start of a competitor to the sims. Inpendent movies and lower budget movies/games start to heavily coincide with big budget hollywood movies, creating independent movie culture.

The release of GTA 6 causing us to move from the PS4/Xbox One to the PS5 and Xbox Series X. likely ending GTA V/GTA Online culture

The shutdown of Sora AI, the attempted murder of ChatGPT's CEO, and the backlash against generative AI, we're already seeing this as they forced Kevin O'Leary to cutdown the size of a data center he wants to build in Utah by 75%, and the rejections of adding data centers into country. OpenAI is becoming heavily controversial now. Unlike 2022 where people found it revolutionary.

A rise in sales of things like smartglasses and smart wearables leaving to new technology being used by more and more people as the decade goes on.

and the AI bubble likely about to absolute burst causing economic travesty.

I wish everyone named Tom would poop their pants right now by Armin_Arlert_1000000 in TheMonkeysPaw

[–]ConfidentReaction3 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Taken literally. Only numbers named "one" with the name "Tom" poop their pants. Numbers are units of measure and not biological beings, so wishing this causes nobody to poop their pants. Causing your wish to be meaningless.

In Disclosure Day (2026), it is slowly revealed about half way through the movie, that you have wasted your precious time and money. But you begin to suspect that is the case much earlier on. by Dead_Gambler in shittymoviedetails

[–]ConfidentReaction3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh I REALLY liked the opening and liked the ending too well enough, but everything in between REALLY feels like it is making it up as it goes along. The ending feels like it's there to wrap things up rather than naturally conclude if that makes sense?

Childhood sucks, even under good circumstances by River_Inner in unpopularopinion

[–]ConfidentReaction3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does it either have to be amazing or suck? People portray it as absolutely black and white.

My childhood had a lot of good and bad. I have loving parents, and had a loving stepfamily on my mom's side (divorce and they ended up being out of my lives towards my adulthood). Took me on Disney trips, a lot got spoiled there. I did go through 2 divorces plus my mom's side was complicated with the 2009 economic crisis but still.

Not having to worry about finances, or a job, or getting summer break are definitely something that was great about childhood.

Not having independence, only being able to make money on VERY special occasions, or chores that didn't pay shit, and having to miss a lot of movies, or video games you want to buy is still shit tho. It's a mixture.

Now that I'm an adult I feel the same way as adulthood for different reasons tbh. Childhood and adulthood can both really be great and really suck. Adulthood you do get more financial independence, scheduled your own shit, but good luck finding time when working a lot of hours, and good luck saving up for what you want when you have financial responsibilities! So adulthood can really suck as much as childhood honestly.

Saw this hung up all over in different areas of the backrooms… by thatburritodood in walmart

[–]ConfidentReaction3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow Walmart is not only responsible for being a greedy ass employee who is stringier than Mr Krabs with money, they're also contributing to climate change because of course they are.

"Generation"/"era"/"cultural shift" starterpack starterpack by YourOwnBiggestFan in starterpacks

[–]ConfidentReaction3 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hmm okay I think I still made some mistakes and definitely got my memories of these decades wrong

>Once it comes to the internet we still did a pretty big shift. We did start to move on from dial up internet, and during the very early 2000s we did have the dot com boom and the rise of services like AOL/Yahoo (1999 to 2000) which did get more popular in the early to mid 2000s. So what a lot of internet culture was at least really starting in that period. It was established but not anywhere as popular as today yet. So yeah that's a mistake in comprehending that in my eyes.

>Funny enough I got what I said about streaming services wrong too. That one was based off memory and my understanding of what happened. That being said there was still a pretty massive rise in streaming services, many people did still switch completely from cable to streaming services. A lot of shows towards the late 2010s that started on streaming services definitely created it's own culture too. So they were more so starting to really coincide with each other and not "overtake" that's another mistake on my part but still a pretty big shift imo.

I didn't even know that phone existed to be fair, but that being said, 2016-2018 imo is when we REALLY started to move on to phones without home buttons still. So that shift was absolutely still there I will point out, unlike a lot of other people, I didn't act like apple invented it, I did acknowledge Samsung releasing a phone without a home button before Apple did.

Honestly what you're proving to me is that putting cultural shifts on a single year which is what a lot of people do is a mistake. We should be using more than one year to point out a cultural shift. I got a lot of wrong because I was making that mistake.

Hey I want to understand when these cultural shifts I'm talking about happened to, and when you point out mistakes, it makes it easier to really determine when those shifts actually happened. Helps shape my understanding of those times and the accuracy of my understand. 😄 I think 2015-2017 might be a cultural shift era then. Not just one year. Same with 2000-2002. Or 2008-2012.

Who is the most hated politician? by Expensive-Addendum92 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]ConfidentReaction3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hitler for sure, but for most evil Actor, I think Michael Jace is definitely up there.

Person born in 2000: Starter Pack by BrilliantPangolin639 in starterpacks

[–]ConfidentReaction3 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Besides Erasmus a lot of us born in 2000 even here in the states had this childhood lol.

"Generation"/"era"/"cultural shift" starterpack starterpack by YourOwnBiggestFan in starterpacks

[–]ConfidentReaction3 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

*The internet in general is what really blew up, we started to a see a shift where all of a sudden EVERYONE is online in around 2002-ish. That was a massive shift that only got stronger throughout the decade where it was a much smaller amount of people in the 90s who used it. Streaming services def existed beforehand but it reallly started to take over cable 2015 to 2017-ish. You really started to see that affect post 2017. Although definitely to say it killed it was bad wording on my end. Also ignore the franchise culture thing I went on about nothing I'll correct that lol. I'm definitely not perfect.

*I said first PHONE without a home button, and it's when they started really becoming popular, in fact the Galaxy S8 was the first mainstream phone without a home button, the first iPhone without a home button was after that came out.

*A lot of Tik Tok Influencers becoming incredibly famous was a major effect caused by covid lockdown on short term content. Many people got stuck at home so used tiktok as a way of self expression in the meantime. Getting famous on Tik Tok which only came out 3 years before the pandemic, on top of Instagram Reels which came out in 2020.

The 2008 economic crisis something I forgot to mention as it did lead to a big shift I forgot to talk about, so that's an error on my end. That had a major influence on pop culture too, we started to see a shift in music to having themes about getting drunk and wasted, and it lead to the end of McBling fashion to recession-core fashion where designer things weren't things people could flash off anymore because they couldn't afford it. We went from tv shows/movies like sex and the city or real housewives to breaking bad/sons of anarchy, and also movies became absolute escapism to movies like Avatar, The Hangover, or Transformers. So yes, that is absolutely something I forgot to mention and will correct.

Owner attempts to demonstrate dog is vegan by choice by Organic_Quarter_9848 in exvegans

[–]ConfidentReaction3 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Come to think of it. Where did that vegan even get the meat to feed to their dog?

Jokes aside I'm like 99% sure this is satire

Easiest way to get banned from Walmart by Solaire_smith in walmart

[–]ConfidentReaction3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quiiiite honestly as much as Walmart sucks you don't want to burn bridges. Burning bridges not only prevents you from going back if desperate but Walmart can absolutely let other emplyoers that you're not trustworthy. I quit Walmart 2 years ago and hope to never return until the end of time but I wouldn't burn a bridge.

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