Curated playlist
2010s fads and trends
- Cloud rapCloud rap got its name from a castle in the clouds. Lil B described the image in a 2009 interview.
- TikTokTikTok reached a billion active users within four years, faster than Facebook, Instagram or YouTube.
- Gangsta rapGangsta rap first went by a different name: reality rap. Schoolly D and Ice-T said they described a world they knew.
- Rap metalIn 1987, Anthrax became one of the earliest bands to deliberately mix hip hop and heavy metal.
- Five Nights at Freddy'sFive Nights at Freddy's, known to fans as FNaF, asks its players for one thing: stay alive from midnight until 6 a.m. in a pizza restaurant after closing time. Scott Cawthon created the series, and it has grown from video games into…
- Trap musicTrap music is named after a building where drug deals happen. The Atlanta sound later reached pop charts worldwide.
- Doge (meme)The Doge meme began with a Shiba Inu's sideways stare on a beige couch. Her owner posted it on her blog in 2010.
- Tea Party movementWithin roughly ten hours of a trading-floor rant, a Tea Party protest website existed. It was called reTeaParty.com.
- MinecraftMinecraft, the 2011 sandbox game from the Swedish company Mojang Studios, tells its only story through a poem of roughly 1,500 words. The End Poem was written by the Irish novelist Julian Gough. It scrolls past in about nine minutes when a…
- World of WarcraftVice summed up World of Warcraft in 2019 with a single sentence. "Most people," it wrote, "know someone who's said they were 'addicted' to World of Warcraft." The game came from Blizzard Entertainment, which released it for Windows and…
- FortniteFortnite is a 2017 online game from Epic Games that now behaves more like a platform than a single title. Seven distinct modes share one engine and one overall look. They include a contest where up to 100 players fight to be the last one…
- Angry BirdsOn Christmas Day 2011, players around the world downloaded 6.5 million copies of Angry Birds games on that single day. Angry Birds is a franchise created by the Finnish game designer Jaakko Iisalo and owned by Rovio Entertainment. Its…
- Pepe the FrogPepe the Frog is a green cartoon frog with a humanoid body, usually wearing a blue t-shirt, drawn by the American cartoonist Matt Furie. In one early comic, Pepe is caught urinating with the bathroom door left open. A friend asks why his…
- Scene (subculture)Scene fashion's signature haircut reportedly began with a poster of the band Orgy.