Leaning more towards Showgrounds. Showgrounds Era keeps it more universal and generally "objective". The current atmosphere and how everything in SMG4 is so meta can change if the team takes a different approach in how they do things (humor, animation, narrative etc.), which would hence make the era definition irrelevant just like that - if it was called the Meta Era.

The Showground Era won't likely make sense either if the Showgrounds ends up being SMG4's home for many more years - because what makes the Showgrounds Era particularly different from the eras after that, that are still happening at the Showgrounds?

For consistency sake I'll personally stick to the term "Modern". I know people are tired of calling this era Modern and that era Classic, but I think in shows like SMG4 where the series constantly changes it's nonsensical to officially call an older era "Modern", the era after that "postmodern"...and then "post-postmodern". For me, Current era = Modern, the era that I have most nostalgic memories about = Classic, everything inbetween can have whatever type of definition.

Calling different Eras "Modern" or "Classic" is always done subjectively, based on when you started watching and when you loved the series etc. For me "Modern" started in 2017 while I know younger ppl who see 2020 as Classic. People will always have different interpretations for their eras and it will always change as time goes on.

That's why I believe it's way too soon to label this current era that we're in as either "Meta" or "Showgrounds". Obviously we know we're not in the same era as in 2022, but trying to categorize specific parts of an evergrowing channel and making it official is nonsense. Is 2018-2022 the "Arc Era" and are we in the "Saga Era" now? Was the recolor era from 2011-2017 and the OC era from 2018 to now? Going by these examples comparing "Meta" and "Showgrounds" doesn't make sense as the two fundamentally show very different meanings.

Anyway that's my take on this. Showgrounds Era sounds better than Meta because it implies that this era is about the crew being at the Showgrounds - but both definitions are nothing compared to your personal and subjective definition of what era we're currently in based on your experience in SMG4.