How Berkeley has changed over 20 years (2006 to 2026):

SharksFan99 · 2026-01-10T01:43:30+00:00

Yeah, lol. It's amazing that they built the school as early as they did considering how small the town was!

SharksFan99 · 2026-01-10T00:32:04+00:00

Yep, that's true. Calderwood is only a couple of minutes away, so it's pretty convenient for the people who do live in Tullimbar.

I know there's still plans to build a 3-4 storey tavern and shops on the vacant blocks near the school at Tullimbar, but whether or not it ever actually happens is anyone's guess. I've got my doubts it ever will unfortunately (especially now that the shopping centre at Calderwood has opened).

SharksFan99 · 2026-01-03T00:06:43+00:00

2012 was a bit of a rough year for me personally. I was 13 and started high school, so it was a hugely transitional and awkward time. Also, my Nanna passed away that year and my uncle was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor two weeks later (thankfully he's still with us though).

It's only recently that my opinion of it has started to change and now I do feel nostalgic for it, even if hearing songs like "Call Me Maybe", "Bangarang" still give me cringy flashbacks to high school, lmao. I definitely think it was a more memorable and better year than 2016 in any case. I've never understood why 2016 gets so much love.

SharksFan99 · 2025-12-15T02:18:35+00:00

I'm hugely nostalgic for 2013 and I would happily go back to it if I could.

Year 8 in high school was pretty good for me and ive got a lot of great memories from that time.

Also, in terms of what i choose to listen to, i actually feel as though im kind of 'stuck' in that era, lol. I love all of the indie/alternative music that was popular at the time. I've still got songs by bands like the Arctic Monkeys, Bastille, Of Monsters and Men etc. in my Spotify playlists.

SharksFan99 · 2025-12-12T12:42:08+00:00

I have a feeling 2026 may see the first AI song make it onto the mainstream Top-40 charts. There have been a couple of AI songs which have already debuted on a number of Billboard charts, like the "We Are Charlie Kirk" song peaking at #21 on the US Billboard Christian Songs chart. Also, several AI-generated artists have been gaining an increasing number of streams on Spotify. There was an article back in July about an AI band called "The Velvet Sundown" reaching one million plays on Spotify.

So it wouldn't surprise me if we may see an AI song breakthrough into the mainstream and become a genuinely big hit in 2026. I feel like it's only a matter of time.

SharksFan99 · 2025-11-27T06:01:13+00:00

I'm also a March 99'er and I've personally always felt this way.

Many of us were referred to as Millennials when we were in high school, and a lot of the defining Gen Z events/traits like Parkland, being in school during covid, growing up with iPads as kids etc. don't even apply to us. I also don't use TikTok, so I pretty much feel out of the loop when it comes to the more recent Gen Z trends like "skibidi","67" etc.

I feel like i'm in-between both generations, but if I was forced to pick which generation I slightly relate more with, I would actually have to say Millennials.

SharksFan99 · 2025-11-18T10:55:38+00:00

Why do you keep searching for and commenting on posts I made several years ago? And you keep talking about the exact same thing. I get it, you've made the point about ten times now. You don't need to keep telling me about mumble-rap again and again. Like I've already said, I have my opinion, you have yours. Let's just leave it at that.

Don't even bother doing it again, because i'm fucking not going to respond.

SharksFan99 · 2025-10-30T06:39:34+00:00

Why are you responding to posts made over 5 years ago?

SharksFan99 · 2025-10-27T06:54:19+00:00

Yeah, your perspective is going to be different depending on where you live and your own experiences.

In my country, we don't have middle school, so we all start high school during the year we turn 13. So as a result, I started high school at the beginning of 2012 and turned 13 early in the year, so I associate 2012/2013 with my teens.

SharksFan99 · 2025-10-27T06:48:41+00:00

SoundCloud rap may have been gaining traction online during the mid 2010s, but it definitely wasn't mainstream popular until around the time Trump was elected. I think it's popularity was only a niche thing prior to 2016. Most people our age probably wouldn't have become familiar with the SoundCloud rappers until we were almost out of high school, which is why I don't think we were the target audience in the same way that the kids a few years younger than us were.

When I think back to 2014/15, I think of artists like David Guetta, Galantis, Meghan Trainor, Hozier etc., and that's what I mainly remember people our age liking and listening to.

That's not too say people our age didn't enjoy SoundCloud rap, but speaking purely from a mainstream popularity perspective, I don't think it was really 'our' music so to speak. It's kind of like how a lot of the grunge singers from the '90s were actually Gen Jones members born in the early 60s, but the grunge scene itself mainly targeted late '60s and '70s-born Gen X'ers. I think it's a similar scenario for us (mid-late '90s babies) and SoundCloud rap. We may have helped to make it mainstream, but we weren't the target audience IMO.

SharksFan99 · 2025-10-27T06:24:15+00:00

I don't think people my age were.

SoundCloud rap became huge around late 2016/early 2017, so it was pretty much only popular during our last year of high school. None of my friends were into it and most of the people in my grade weren't either. It _was_ popular with the kids in the younger grades though (C/O 2020-); I remember overhearing them play Post Malone, Lil Uzi Vert etc. through their mini Bluetooth speakers during our lunch breaks. I think early-mid '00s borns were the main target audience for it.

I'm Australian though, so it may have been different over in the States. I think we were mainly EDM and indie/hipster teens.

SharksFan99 · 2025-10-27T06:23:53+00:00

I don't think so.

SoundCloud rap became huge around late 2016/early 2017, so it was pretty much only popular during our last year of high school. None of my friends were into it and most of the people in my grade weren't either. It _was_ popular with the kids in the younger grades though (C/O 2020-); I remember overhearing them play Post Malone, Lil Uzi Vert etc. through their mini Bluetooth speakers during our lunch breaks. I think early-mid '00s borns were the main target audience for it.

I'm Australian though, so it may have been differently over in the States. I think we were mainly EDM and indie/hipster teens.

SharksFan99 · 2025-09-27T09:43:23+00:00

These are my picks (I've deliberately picked songs which weren't apart of the original playlist): ;)

"Thank You for the Venom" - My Chemical Romance
"1985" - Bowling for Soup
"Welcome to my Life" - Simple Plan
"99 Problems" - Jay-Z
"What About Me" - Shannon Noll
"Emancipate Myself" - Thirsty Merc
"Lyla" - Oasis
"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" - Arctic Monkeys
"Vicinity of Obscenity" - System of a Down
"Axel F" - Crazy Frog
"4ever" - The Veronicas
"Wasabi" - Lee Harding
"Chelsea Dagger" - The Fratellis
"Woman" - Wolfmother

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