I don't even think the 2000s and the 2010s are singular coherent decades. Personally I would categorise the 21st century so far like this:
2001-2008 = War on Terror, pre-Great Recession
Politically yes, but culturally I would define a broader "turn of the millennium" era that lasted from about 1997 to 2007.
2008-2016 = Post-Great Recession, War on Terror rumbles on in the background
I would define 2008-2013 as the Post-Great Recession era, 2014-2016 was the rise of Woke.
2016-Now = Blumpf, SJWs, alt-right, woke culture, and now covid
Yes, 2016-Now has all been the same era.
To me, the 2010s hold a lot of good memories because I remember the first half of that decade as being pretty comfy. In the early 10s most economies started to slowly but surely recover from the great recession and there was a brief period of optimism for the future 2011-2014 when there weren't too many cataclysmic world events going on.
I definitely have some fond memories of 2010-2015, however I would never describe the 2010s as ever being a
great decade, even pre-Woke there was a lot about it that was just kind of lame and boring compared to earlier times.
But of course that first half was in many ways preferable to now.
Things first started to shift in 2014 when ISIS cropped up and it was clear the War on Terror might not have been won at all, and coincidentally this is also the year where "SJW" entered the public lexicon in a big way.
You also had the terror attacks in France in 2015 and the refugee crisis that same year really casting a bad light on the left's love of diversity and immigration, that was when the façade really started to crack and the left started to become deranged in their defending of it and shouting down of anyone asking questions.
2016 with Brexit and the US election was the big shift that started a new era altogether. But pre-2016 I honestly don't think things were that bad, as SJWism was more of just a fucking annoying and extremely loud minority, rather than controlling entire industries and the sway of western politics.
2015 was when things were getting pretty Woke, but even so, there was a very different vibe to 2015 than 2016, 2016 is truly when things started to go off the rails, I agree pre-2016 things were not that bad.
SJWs were more in the background and one thing I noticed was they were a lot more willing to communicate with you online, sure, they would talk to you like you were a complete idiot, but at least they were still talking to you with an attitude of "you're just misinformed and once you hear the truth you'll get onboard"
However the more and more Trump influenced things the more the attitude shifted to "there is no more room for debate, you're either with us or against us" with any attempts at communicating being replaced with deplatforming, name calling, intimidation and bullying.
I'm not American but the Obama presidency felt far preferable to the Biden one as there seemed to be a genuine attempt to create a "post-racial" form of liberalism back then, at least before BLM kicked off (coincidentally also in 2014). Obama did play up the Trayvon Martin fiasco before that, but if you look back on the discussion then it doesn't even hold a candle to the kind of incendiary rhetoric we heard around George Floyd in 2020.
The different between the Trayvon Martin fiasco and today is today people are encouraged to full on hate white people, that definitely wasn't the case around 2012/2013.
If we consider the Current Year era as beginning in about 2016, then we're probably right in the middle of it now, which feels about right. Things probably won't start to change in a big way again until 2023 or 2024 at the earliest (Maybe the US election will again have something to do with it?)
Interestingly enough I first noticed people saying "It's *Current Year*!" in 2015, with people saying "it's 2015!" but Current Year as an attitude fully blossomed in 2016.
