When do you think "Current Year" began?

[ToroidalBoat]

When and how do you think the West went from merely "the present" to the "Current Year" of excessive surveillance, microaggressions, "Rat Kings," safe spaces, shooting rampages, smartphone addicts, "soyboys," "woke" movies, Youtube Rewind, and zoosadism?

Like I said before, I think the change began "taxiing towards the runway" with 9/11, picked up speed during the Occupy movement and smartphones becoming mainstream (around 2011), and really took off when Trump was elected in 2016.

 

[ES 148]

1st January 2019. Do you even know how years work???

 

[Smug Chuckler]

No, it's Current Year + 4 according to our Lord and Savior John Oliver.

 

[Slamerella]

I'd say around 2011. It's when a good amount of the people you see spouting "current year" were/graduated/dropped out of high school, so most of them are now in their mid-late 20s.

 

[wylfım]

We have always been at war with (((current year)))

 

[Otis Boi]

Id say that patient zero for it would be around 2008 when Obama was running for election. I think that when i started hearing the rumblings of "current year" and when the left started to double down on identity politics even more.

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

The meme [CURRENT YEAR] I'd say started in 2015 with John Oliver. But I'd say another starting point would be after the supreme court ruled gay marriage was legal in the USA. Which I think was around 2012 or so? Probably where I'd place ground zero for current year.

 

[mindlessobserver]

It has always been current year. It will always be current year. There is no past, there is no future. Only an endless present where the Party is always right.

 

[pomme]

I don't know, but I want it to be over.

 

[Judge Holden]

2012

Thats when Obama got relected, and I suspect thats when vast swaths of media and academia were convinced they had attained full cultural hegemony* and thus would be able to try and force through any manner of authoritarian tinged batshittery they wanted soley by declaring any dissent/opposition to be because of evil right wing bigots. From there it escalated further and further as every autist and grifter and BPD sociopath imaginable latched on and used this new model of cultural discourse to empower and enrich themselves and their egos/personal obsessions, and any thought of "hey guys this is making us look really really REALLY bad as a whole..." was quickly silenced with the unspoken threat of being thrown on the "evil right wing bigot" pile.

Ironically enough, this wound up causing the past three years of hell for the CY crowd since they forgot one of the few genuinely important lessons of the 2012 election. Romney had a private speech leaked to the media in which he said "we dont have to care about the 47% of people who will never vote for us..." while calling such people irresponsible and uncaring, and this was an absolute PR nightmare since showing any level of contempt for such a large segment of the population solely for not looking likely to vote for you is bound to both invigorate those you smear and also alienate you from those undecided or even on your team who are friends/family/colleagues/whatever of those in said segment of the population.

Four years later and....well....

...and this was only the barest edge of the all out REEEEEhad waged against trump supporters, republicans, right wingers, centrists, centre left people, and ultimately elderly jewish socialist OG civil rights activists who opposed Hillary in the primaries as all being evil bigot nazi scum who wanted to reinstate slavery and have all women sent to the Elliot Rodger Memorial Rape Camp.

And we all know how THAT turned out....

TLDR: the establishment left learned the absolute worstest and wrongest lessons from the 2012 election, while ignoring the really important lesson of what fucked up Romney's campaign, thus causing the biggest and most humiliating rout in recent political history in the 2016 election.

*as opposed to one generic establishment candidate defeating another generic establishment candidate

 

[Red Hood]

2014 AD was also 1 CY when the gamers were dead.

 

[Quijibo69]

This was a wacky decade, it makes 2000's and most other recent two decades look boring. In the 00's only two big things that happen was 9/11 and Obama.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

It was in 2008, but the undercurrent started in 2003.

 

[queerape]

It's all older than you think. I first heard the term incel around 2007 (though it dates back to the early 1990s), alt-right in or around 2010, and SJW, MRA, redpill since 2011. PUA even before that like 2006. What's going on now just seems to be all these things that were once unrelated to me coalescing into one really weird smorgasboard of shit.

Hindsight is 2020.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Did a google trend, also tried to add "incel" and "pua", incel obviously wasn't a thing until 2017-2018 and pua was popular since 2009 but is on a steady decline.

 

[Slap47]

"But this is the year 1944"

 

[BR55]

I'm gonna throw my hat on the 2012 pile like others already have.
The seeds of the Current Year go back awhile but Obama getting Reelected did more than anything else to convince Liberals they had arrived in the Promised Land and they could do whatever the hell they wanted.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that Romney getting elected would have smothered Wokness in it's crib but it probably would have restrained it a bit.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

Our zeitgeist of today evolved in the early 2010s with the advent of social media, but only with the GamerGate controversary of 2014 did the current political and societal climate reach its apex.

There we are now in the year of 6 CY.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

The "Current Year" began in the mid to late 2010s, starting in 2015 with the media and taking off in 2016 with general society.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I'd say the roots of it were laid in 2011 and early 2012 with Occupy Wall Street and started to coalesce around late 2012 and 2013, but it really didn't become huge until a little while after Obama's re-election, especially the whole uproar over GamerGate in 2014.

Gay marriage being legalized on the federal level around that same time basically got rid of the last really major obstacle that the LGBT community was facing overall, and so they switched to focusing on the transgender community.

2014 would be my guess for the start of the "Current Year" culture in full force, since that's when GamerGate happened and also when Bruce Jenner trooned out, making the mainstream public aware of transgender people.

Despite the fact Jenner is a conservative Trump supporter, I think Jenner did more than anyone else in helping lead to the rise of transtenders/troons and Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. The media was all over that whole thing back in 2014-2015.

I still think the troon fad would've happened anyway with the LGBT movement losing steam and the pharmaceutical industry seeing more money in hormone drugs, but the media's fixation on Jenner really exacerbated the whole issue.

Although 2011 or 2012 could also be a good choice for a starting point as well.

Really, it was a subtle change that started in earnest around 2011 and became fully codified in 2014, with 2016 seeing it become even more insane and omnipresent in our media and culture.