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IdaRita said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNewTens
Probably late, but...
They troped current decade, I'm done.
:stress:
I know, there are trends characteristic do every era, but 90% of those are not about trends in media, but politics.
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But it's still going on. What's the point of trying to trope the current decade when it's not even over yet?

And why are they trying to apply fictional tropes to politics? How autistic do you have to be to only be able to understand politics through tropes?
 
From that The New Tens page:

Almighty Janitor: More adults, particularly college-educated young adults, are now working in retail jobs than teenagers for whom those positions are traditionally associated with. The average age among fast-food workers is 29.
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No dearie, "old layabout" is not a synonym of "almighty janitor".

A Degree in Useless: Becoming a Discredited Trope. So many young people have gone to college that job markets are saturated (and the needs of job markets change quickly and become more and more specific). So no major is guaranteed meaningful work. This is being seen all across the board, not just in humanities fields.
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Still some degrees are more useless than others.

What Do You Mean Its Not Political: Both amateur and professional critics love to read sociopolitical significance into everything: movies, TV shows, music videos and internet memes, given the growth of social consciousness this decade.
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See "A Degree in Useless" above.

Tyrant Takes the Helm: Many people consider Donald Trump's election in 2016 as this.
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No such things as notability!
 
I love it, you pretty much read those points one by one and it just reads like your typical millennial SJW: works a low paying job, got a useless degree, obsessed with searching "racism" in kid's cartoon, thinks the source of all evil comes from Trump...

I really hope the next generation isn't this level of pathetic that 90s kids are.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
But it's still going on. What's the point of trying to trope the current decade when it's not even over yet?

And why are they trying to apply fictional tropes to politics? How autistic do you have to be to only be able to understand politics through tropes?
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Very

friedshrimp said:
I love it, you pretty much read those points one by one and it just reads like your typical millennial SJW: works a low paying job, got a useless degree, obsessed with searching "racism" in kid's cartoon, thinks the source of all evil comes from Trump...

I really hope the next generation isn't this level of pathetic that 90s kids are.
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One can only hope, yet somehow I doubt it.
 
Munchingonfish said:
Not really relevant to this thread as these guys won't be having kids, but I fear for the garbage the kids of this gen's SJWs will spill.
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Remember though kids like to rebel. What better way to stick it too mom and dad and their mutual boyfriend than growing up into a Bible--thumping NeoCon? I sincerely hope Christ-themed country rock becomes the new music of rebellion.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
Remember though kids like to rebel. What better way to stick it too mom and dad and their mutual boyfriend than growing up into a Bible--thumping NeoCon? I sincerely hope Christ-themed country rock becomes the new music of rebellion.
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maybe country gospel. the kind with fiddles
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
Remember though kids like to rebel. What better way to stick it too mom and dad and their mutual boyfriend than growing up into a Bible--thumping NeoCon? I sincerely hope Christ-themed country rock becomes the new music of rebellion.
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Another way these kids could rebel is by being productive citizens of society that aren't cartoon obsessed spergs.
 
... but the dumb skits are incredibly dumb on purpose. That's why they're funny...
 
friedshrimp said:
I love it, you pretty much read those points one by one and it just reads like your typical millennial SJW: works a low paying job, got a useless degree, obsessed with searching "racism" in kid's cartoon, thinks the source of all evil comes from Trump...
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I hate my generation. Or, in TVTropes language, I guess "subvert" it.

They have a page about 2000s and... well
  • Ambiguous Ending: The decade's over, and yet many trends still persist through The New '10s, like The War on Terror.
  • Anticlimax: When people in the twentieth century imagined what the 2000's would be like, it would either involve futuristic technology, the apocalypse or both. Come the Turn of the Millennium and we get... nothing much really.
Wow, things don't magically change after 10 years peroids.

And..
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring

I'm done.
And convinced that the word "trope" lost it's meaning completly.
 
IdaRita said:
I hate my generation. Or, in TVTropes language, I guess "subvert" it.

They have a page about 2000s and... well
  • Ambiguous Ending: The decade's over, and yet many trends still persist through The New '10s, like The War on Terror.
  • Anticlimax: When people in the twentieth century imagined what the 2000's would be like, it would either involve futuristic technology, the apocalypse or both. Come the Turn of the Millennium and we get... nothing much really.
Wow, things don't magically change after 10 years peroids.

And..
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring

I'm done.
And convinced that the word "trope" lost it's meaning completly.
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There's something hilarious to me about them listing Ambiguous Ending as a trope. It's almost as if real life doesn't just end after a certain amount of time and therefore decades don't provide a conclusive end to their trends, unlike fictional stories, which actually, y'know, end.
 
Sexy Times Hitler said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust

There's a page about The Fucking Holocaust.

WHAT.
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I skimmed through it. Thankfully they didn't try troping it (thank God) but the page is still full of stupid. For instance...

The best stories of heroism pit pure evil against pure good. Actual people are almost never either.
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Nooo, really?

Then they have a section of works that reference the Holocaust, which isn't bad by itself, but since the categories are in alphabetical order it means the comics section is one of the first ones seen. And the longest description is the one talking about Magneto.

X-Men: Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto is famously a Holocaust survivor and several issues by Chris Claremont deal with his memories in the camps. Despite being an Anti-Villain, Magneto detests Nazism and loathes the Red Skull.
  • The Holocaust shapes Erik Lehnsherr's personality in the X-Men Film Series as well, fueling his hatred of mankind. Both the first X-Men and X-Men: First Class open in 1944 with him being deported to Auschwitz with his family, with his metal-controlling powers starting to manifest as he is separated from his parents. First Class expands this part of his backstory as it is a Nazi scientist and mutant, Dr. Klaus Schmidt / Sebastian Shaw, who kills his mother, triggering his thirst of revenge. In X-Men: Apocalypse, Apocalypse transports Erik to the empty camp to convince him to join his side.
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The only other piece of work that gets nearly this much attention is the comic called Judenhass, which is apparently a comic essay about the Holocaust. Movies like Schindler's List, The Pianist, and Sophie's Choice don't even get a sentence.
 
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