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The 80's had a dark theme throughout its animated and big screen fictional pursuits. On the flip side, it was a time of cultural whinging (much like today, in fact). The super soft butthurt was strong, but unlike today, most media outlets ignored it. The 80's "SJW" didn't have the power of the internet then (plus, a lot of them were conservatives back then, rather than liberals).
In the 90's edgy and offensive became the cultural swing. Mainstream flow had embraced violence and controversy (and celebrated it too), despite some news media push-back. Music, in particular, of the 90's wore controversy on its sleeve with pride.
But in terms of fictional media, the 90's were in some ways softer than the 80's, and in other ways harder. Generally, they evened out in that regard. It's the general culture of the youth and the changes in popular musical themes that lead some to believe the 90's were darker. Likewise, events like gang war, school shootings and domestic terrorism rose sharply in the 90's.
The 00's had an identity crisis. 9/11 changed people, and the internet gave rise to a new platform for the edgy and twisted. The early 00's were not very different from the previous decade, however, in media it became a childish self parody of what the 90's had created. The Simpsons began to suck hard and fast in the 00's, for example.
Then we come to the 2010's... the pendulum has swung back, and all the rebellion and edginess of the 90's and early-mid 00's has been countered with the same cultural care-group whingey butthurt that plagued the 80's (albeit with new talking points and the internet behind them). Such is the nature of time period culture. it will eventually swing back into the big middle finger, and so forth.
Too tired to care
The 80's had a dark theme throughout its animated and big screen fictional pursuits. On the flip side, it was a time of cultural whinging (much like today, in fact). The super soft butthurt was strong, but unlike today, most media outlets ignored it. The 80's "SJW" didn't have the power of the internet then (plus, a lot of them were conservatives back then, rather than liberals).
In the 90's edgy and offensive became the cultural swing. Mainstream flow had embraced violence and controversy (and celebrated it too), despite some news media push-back. Music, in particular, of the 90's wore controversy on its sleeve with pride.
But in terms of fictional media, the 90's were in some ways softer than the 80's, and in other ways harder. Generally, they evened out in that regard. It's the general culture of the youth and the changes in popular musical themes that lead some to believe the 90's were darker. Likewise, events like gang war, school shootings and domestic terrorism rose sharply in the 90's.
The 00's had an identity crisis. 9/11 changed people, and the internet gave rise to a new platform for the edgy and twisted. The early 00's were not very different from the previous decade, however, in media it became a childish self parody of what the 90's had created. The Simpsons began to suck hard and fast in the 00's, for example.
Then we come to the 2010's... the pendulum has swung back, and all the rebellion and edginess of the 90's and early-mid 00's has been countered with the same cultural care-group whingey butthurt that plagued the 80's (albeit with new talking points and the internet behind them). Such is the nature of time period culture. it will eventually swing back into the big middle finger, and so forth.