It might be too online now, but thats what I said 5 years ago when only niche subgroups online, participated in looksmaxxing, but in 2025 this incel group blew up with multiple of their catchphrases ranking billions in search results. Although the message it’s sending young men on the surface is good like taking care of your hygiene, exercising, dieting and dressing better, the underlying issues persists as most of the focus is targeting men who have deep seethed issues with talking and communicating with women and so they recruit them into thinking that it’s entirely their physical appearance which then recruits them into this damning online cult.

Multiple influencers from this community, have gone to extreme lengths to normalise bd and various substances to looksmax and pushing it onto impressionable teens, even young girls are hoping on the bandwagon which sucks for them as the looksmaxxing community hates women. Methods like bonesmashing and using certain substances to keep at a minimum body fat percentage is becoming more common within the community. “BP Edits” or black pill edits of taking a person with less conventional beauty standards and shaming them by using professional models as a way of telling young men this is the reality has been raking up millions of views on TikTok as of late.

This community is going to become so big in 2026, you’ll start seeing it more outside the internet space and online dating is going to be completely cooked because of this, and it’s all because a bunch of nerds won’t go to therapy like the rest of us do.

As we know, the political climate tends to behave like a pendulum. For a while it swings to the left, then inevitably swings back to the right, and so on. We saw that clearly over the past decade: from 2016 to 2020, there was a gradual rise in liberal values, which seemed to peak in the first half of 2020.

Since the second half of 2020, though, we’ve witnessed a new surge of conservative/christian values that, in my opinion, peaked earlier this year. And while it still feels like we’re in the thick of it, I’ve started to notice some signs that the pendulum might be beginning to swing back.

Take Elon Musk, for example, the public sentiment toward him has shifted dramatically over the past few months. Trump’s approval also doesn’t seem as strong as it was back in January. And a lot of right-leaning or “alpha male” podcasts just aren’t pulling the same numbers anymore (look at Joe Rogan or Andrew Tate, for instance). Even online figures who cosplay as trad-wives, like Nara Smith or Ballerina Farm, seem to be past their peak (they probably peaked last year), even though they’re still quite relevant today.

In my opinion, we might be heading toward another liberal peak, something similar to 2020, likely around the next presidential election, maybe between 2028 and 2030

I know it might sound crazy because, on the surface, it still feels like we’re deep in this conservative wave, but there are some subtle signals that make me think we’re in the very early stages of a new wave of liberalism.

Do you agree with this take?

Trump is set to leave office 1/20/29 (barring a third term). I imagine his departure will create another shift in society, probably a push back against a lot of the stuff he's supporting / doing. At that point he will have been in office / running for 14 years, which is definitely a long time. When the Trump era ends, how will society shift?

As weird as this sounds, I think that Phoenix could be a contender to many many reasons:

TSMC continuously growing and having the chance of creating a Silicon Valley, possibly making the city a new tech capitol.

It seems to be having more and more risks of climate change related issues. Recently stories of Kearny losing water and will be out of water. Likely will be focused on when climate change is an ever hotter too I.

More and more people are continuously moving there possibly eventually leading to a bump over other major US cities.

Many many more. Could possibly a decade where people think more of Phoenix than other decades at least.

That being said I know I probably am shooting in the dark completely wrongly. I’ve seen it more prevalent recently so just a worthy discussion, if you disagree, that’s great. This is something worthy of seeing debated.

1. The Trump admin has been been underwater on basically every issue. The episten files have hurt him even more. I have seen a slow but gradual dislike of right wing populism in the US.

2. We have also seen Right wing populism, mostly thank to trump, take a nosedive across the rest of the western world.

3. in 2028 Trump will probably not run again. JD Vance isn't as charismatic as him

If you don’t know, there’s a popular theory that every 80 years, the United States sees a massive generational turning and shift. The first turning was the American Revolution, 2nd was the civil war, and 3rd was ww2. Those three events happened 80 years apart from each other. Now we are at the era we are 80 years ago from ww2.

Some are saying the 4th turning will happen at the end of the decade or the beginning of the 2030s. What event do you think will be the fourth turning if it’s true?

The 2010s and the 2020s have seen the rise of infill developments, walkable streets, and cycle infrastructure. I think the 2030s will continue this trend, and we may see even more action on this due to younger generations being in support of walkable infrastructure in the US. 92% of gen z support the idea of living in a walkable community. In 2023-2024, only 54% of gen z think owning a car is important to them, compared to the Baby boomers which was 69%.

So it seems like there is a overall support of walkable neighborhoods from younger generations, and we may see cities evolve to become more walkable by the next decade.

I believe what would also drive the support of Walkable neighborhoods is climate change.

Side note: it’s not a detailed post, nor does it have the best proofs but I’m going based off of what I have find, and if anyone wants to critique this post then please do so.

🌱 Sources: https://blog.kubapay.com/gen-z-focuses-on-walkable-neighbourhoods-and-public-transportation

https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/survey-buyers-may-pay-more-to-live-in-walkable-communities

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/33097/importance-of-owning-a-car-for-us-residents-by-generation/

I can predict a rejection of baggy clothes (which I hope doesn't happen, but probably will), and a revival of early 2010s fashion the same way we're drifting to the late 2000s right now. People are already being extremely nostalgic over 2016, but obviously no one dares to touch the high-rise pants and bomber jackets, the general public is wishing it was currently 2016 in clothes that look like they came out of 2005. My guess is skinnier clothing, high rise, and giant hats that say things like I ❤️ Haters or SWAG, that's already coming back a little big. I don't think business casual or hipster will comeback next decade though.

2010s nostalgia will be giant, I'm calling it now. Bigger than 00s and 90s (which didn't even last more than five years), but maybe not as big as 80s. The music and artists from the early 2010s are so ingrained into the cultural zeitgeist that so much of it isn't forgotten and shoved aside when the shiny new thing comes around. Even an artist like Katy Perry who's been consistently flopping time and time again is currently #10 on Spotify artist charts purely because of her catalog.

Not sure if this is an uniquely US thing, but I’m sure we’ve seen them going up everywhere in the last 10 years. I remember thinking these designs looked so cool and futuristic when it first began, now I realize they are just mainly modern, cheap design disguised as “luxury”. Even section 8 housing is built similar to this, nowadays.

I wouldn’t necessarily call them “ugly”, at least not all of them, but something about the design makes me think it’ll age in a peculiar way. I always use the 70s aesthetic as an example. 70s design, imo, stands out in a peculiar way that other decades don’t.

Who came up with this aesthetic? Does anyone recall exactly when it began? I’m thinking maybe around 2012..? Also, this doesn’t just apply to apartment buildings. It’s how they started designing fast food restaurants, as well.

My prediction is in the future in the 2030s and beyond, like maybe even up until the 2050s and beyond, people will look back at the 2020s as the last extremely conservative time similar to how we look back at the '50s as the last conservative time today. I think Trump and his policies are gonna be looked back as extremely conservative, and then like I think even fascism might come who knows before the 2030s but I think the 2030s will reverse that course so much to the other extreme and then they will try to make some liberal utopia who knows.

With Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration on January 20th (two days from now), I thought i’d make a post regarding on which two US presidents will have had/or will have a greater impact on the decade..

Do you think it will be Joe Biden (the 46th US president) or Donald Trump (the 47th US president) who will have had a bigger influence on the decade?

A lot of change is about to happen, and it could be both/either good and bad

Here are some of my predictions:

Late 2020s and 2030s: - We go past 2 degrees Celsius, which means that the Arctic is iceless in summer and animals like pollinators start to die off in droves. - Melting permafrost releases methane and accelerates warming.
- The Amazon collapses, taking the climate, water, soil and biodiversity with it - Millions of refugees start to go north. - Climate change starts to bite the wealthy regions, with disasters, blackouts, diseases, and skyrocketing prices, killing hundreds of thousands, polarizing societies and increasing fascist and authoritarian tendencies. - Apartment blocks cost a 7 figure mortgage or 75 percent of minimum wages as rent.
- Rural areas are even more depopulated and impoverished, as public transit, healthcare, and schools close and get cut, and businesses collapse.
- 2028 US presidential election candidates are Kamala Harris and Ron Desantis. Kamala wins. In 2032 it's Alexandria Ocasio Cortez vs Elon Musk, Musk wins. In 2036 it's Tim Walz vs Bill Gates, Gates wins.
- First company towns appear, where workers aren't paid real money but sort of Monopoly money that isn't valid outside of company stores and towns.
- The Mediterranean basin starts being a desert. - Cases of respiratory diseases skyrocket again due to smoke plumes from wildfires and industrial disasters. - Most popular jobs for men are deliveries and tutoring. For women they are OnlyFans and advertising stuff on social media as influencers. - A tight squeeze is felt in resource production as high concentration reservoirs of most resources, mostly rare earths, get sucked dry, and there's a failed late attempt to decarbonize.
- In a hysterical attempt to slow down climate change, countries affected by climate change try geoengineering, mostly solar radiation management, which means spraying clouds to reflect sunlight. This doesn't mean the ecological breakdown slows, the opposite is true.
- Similarly, desalination, Arctic and deep sea mining, and strengthening borders and coastal areas are booming, dividing people who can afford such stuff and are doing it, and those affected and those who can't afford them. - The Great Barrier Reef collapses. Another hotspot of biodiversity is gone.
- Countries struggle to get retirement funds full as there's an increasing retiree-to-worker ratio.

2040s: - First resource wars erupt, over food, water, oil, and other resources. Hunger and diseases are everywhere.
- The retirement crisis pushes most people into poverty. - Tens of millions of refugees flood the wealthy, northern regions, causing even more polarization and destabilization. - Resource production falls dramatically, causing prices to soar and economies to collapse. - Biodiversity is collapsing. Keystone and recognizable species aren't found outside of reserves, sanctuaries, zoos and private collections anymore. - Living in a shed or warehouse costs a 6 figure mortgage or 90 percent of minimum wage as rent.
- Most cities become ghost towns due to climate change. This includes Dubai, Miami, New Delhi, and many others.
- There's not enough topsoil to grow enough food for everybody. - Life as we know it stops being a thing for most people, as more and more damages are inflicted by climate change, everything dies, and billions of refugees flood the former wealthy regions, causing ever more destabilization and polarization.

2050s and 2060s: - We've blown past 3 degrees Celsius and so, hundreds of millions, if not billions, are dead from hunger, disease, war and migration.
- Most of the Earth looks like Mad Max or Water World. London is flooded, most of Europe turned into a desert or a savannah.

2070s: - Global temperature anomaly rises over 4 degrees and starts declining, but decades too late. This does not mean the end of suffering though, just one cause less.

2080s: - Some communities recover, but it's far from a global recovery

This is a set of predictions for the next 60 years and what happens to society, economy, politics and ecology of this world. Unless lots of people mobilize and turn left in the next 5, 10, at most 15 years, this scenario will come true.

I think Taylor Swift kind of dominanted this decade in terms of popularity and sales, I wonder if any genz will reach the sort of heights that millennials, like Taylor did. Theyre often compared but people doubt they’ll have the longevity as their predecessors. (Like Olivia is compared to Taylor, Sabrina to Ariana, Chapelle to Gaga, and Billie is kind of doing her own thing). Also they need to have the drive to maintain the popularity and grow their fanbase. I still see Billie being the most popular but people think she’ll just become more alternative until she’s not dominating mainstream, however in terms of sheer numbers and cultural impact, Billie is way ahead, then followed by Olivia (depends if she’s going more the Alanis or Taylor route. Sabrina and Chappelle are promising but I feel like they brokeout later, it’ll be harder for them to really catch up. Also Chappelle say she’ll release her album in 5 years lol. What do you guys think will be the number one most popular gen z artist. What would a gen z artist need like a certain music, career, or aesthtic/ image to really reach a career like Taylor, Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna without fizzling out to the current scattered media landscape?

Gen-Zs are generally very nostalgic about the past, especially the 80s-2000s. For various reasons but especially because of the lack of technology back then. I've also seen more and more people admitting that their phones and excessive screen time are causing problems, and that they are addictions. Right now it's all just sad wistfulness without actually changing anything, but I could see Gen Z eventually getting tired of posting about how they miss the 90s and instead trying to 'bring them back' in a sort of way. Like I could see some people getting dumb phones, large numbers of people deleting or severely reducing social media, or even going back to doing "vintage" things like sending letters in the mail. The rise in conservatism lately is basically a reactionary movement to the 2010s and early 2020s being "too progressive" and I could see a similar sentiment growing with technology. Basically a large scale rejection of modernity including smartphones and social media. MMW.

I think it will known for the death of skinny jeans and the resurgence in baggy clothing.

Inspired by another post on here I saw a few weeks ago. I find making these future prediction posts fun so I wanted to make yet another rendition of what I think the 2030s could look like.

Early 2030s (2030-2033)

• Electronic dominated music with rock influences. I don’t think traditional rock will “return” per say, but bits and pieces of the sound will resurface

• AI music and movies. While i don’t think AI will be advanced enough to create full blown blockbusters on its own, it’ll probably be incorporated into the creation process (almost like SFX or autotune)

• Basically 2020s fashion but with greater late 2000s influences. Right now fashion is trending heavily towards late 90s/early 2000s nostalgia, so i’m willing to bet by the end of the decade side parts, chunky jewelry, and other mid-late 2000s trends will resurface thanks to 2000s nostalgia being basically omni-present by that point

• Socially & politically speaking (in the western world at least), i could see this being a period of “disillusionment”. Most ppl will probably be fatigued from the hyper-polarized pseudo politics of the 2020s, resulting in them leaning centrist or moderate on most things. If i had to guess, i’d say the early 2030s will have a very “chill out dude” librarian/thrift store/small town type of vibe to them

Core 2030s (2034-2036)

• Self-driving cars & early stages of robo-delivery services

• “Indie” revival. While i don’t think hipsters will straight up return, i feel like the fashion/music/attitude of hipsters will be revised and repackaged with a new twist. Similar to how there were 60s/70s influences in the 90s or how there’s currently 90s/00s influences in the 2020s

• Breakthroughs in AI & AR tech, early stages of digitized currency

• Streaming giants put all of their services onto one platform (basically just creating cable but with extra steps)

• Rejection of the “2020s” juggernaut and an emphasis on new, diy, and “grassroots” things. For example, music might become more upbeat and “now” focused (maybe a reggae or punk like sound), fashion could subtlety transition from baggy to form fitting/flowy, and anti-tech sentiment could form with ppl rejecting influencer culture (and feeling even more nostalgic for old internet/tech)

• Socially i think this part of the decade will have a sort of cautiously optimistic vibe — almost like a 90s psa video. Anything considered “too extreme” will probably be dismissed/ignored/rejected. Politically, i think there will be a greater focus on climate change, affordability, and “earnest” politicians who’re focused on “making things right”

Late 2030s (2037-2039)

• In the late 2030s i think fashion will pivot towards a theatrical look (think Hunger Games capitol). Bold colors, lots of patterns/shapes, maybe some maximalism thrown in. I’m also predicting there will be a “mashing” of different cultural styles (ex: blending American casual wear with clothes inspired by traditional pieces like Kimonos or Dhoti pants)

• First manned mission(s) to the moon in decades

• Flexible smart phones that can also be worn as bracelets

• Personalized AI capable of generating entertainment (music, movies, games, novels, etc) based on personal preference

• Musically a fusion/evolution of the electronic dominated early 2030s and punkish sound of the mid 2030s. Very ska-like fast-paced sound mixed with psychedelic & electronic elements

• Sociopolitically, i predict there will be a big societal change that’ll result in a shift away from the centrism of the earlier ‘30s. I could imagine Gen Alpha/Beta becoming more & more “outspoken” as they come of age and begin to rebel against their “subdued” Millennial/Gen Z parents. Additionally, Silent Gen/Boomers will begin to age out of politics so there will be lots of shifts in laws/policymaking happening around this time

What words do you think will become taboo or even slurs to say as people will condemn them in the future

You know, given the fact we're in the 4th turning now and each 4th turning ends in a war.

I feel like it will start in 2026/27, and end in 2033/34. I could be wrong though, but if history thought me one thing it is that history doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.

Edit: we're so fucked this year.

I work at a middle school and it is clear that many of these kids don’t really understand non-video memes very well. So many of them only watch videos that they think of memes ONLY as funny videos.

A room of 8 8th graders didn’t know what I was talking about when I mentioned the meme with the drawing of a horse.

When I showed them the “horse drawing” meme one said it was a “boomer meme.”

We may be leaving the era of static memes.

I hope by that time the world is collaborating more to slow the ramifications of climate change, sustainability is integral, recycling centers everywhere, new jobs in tech are created for humans, universal basic income is mandatory, no global conflict, tranquility for all, world hunger is conquered and there are no pandemics and diseases. Wishful thinking for the 2030's.