Let’s go back and remember everything that happened during this decade, shall we?
Pop Culture 2012
Gangnam Style dance
The Trololol Song
saying the word “SWAG”
The end of the Twilight movies
Vampire love triangle (in which Kris chose Rob over Rupert)
Troublemaking Prince Harry
The London Olympics
The Hunger Games movie
2012 Presidential Election
Pop Culture 2013
Kanye West vs. Jimmy Kimmel
Argo wins an Oscar
Baby Prince George, son of Prince William and Kate Middleton (newest heir to the throne)
Boston Marathon bombing
Diana Nyad‘s swim
sign up for Obamacare
Ylvis’ What Does the Fox Say
Government shut down
Teen Beach Movie
Jonas Brothers pull the plug on their tour
30 Rock ends snowglobe style
Google Glass
Ben Affleck as Batman
Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug (we all knew that he was Smaug, but this was just too much!)
Pop Culture 2014
2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia
2014 World Cup
Ebola
Riots in my hometown of St. Louis, MO
MH370 disappears
Comet landing
Hoverboards
Grumpy Cat movie
Barbara Walters Retires
Michael Jackson’s hologram performance
Jay Leno, Craig Ferguson, and David Letterman retire from Late Night TV
Ice Water Bucket Challenge
George Clooney Gets Married (FINALLY!!!)
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite at the Grammy’s
Pop Culture 2015
Back to the Future Day 2015
David Letterman’s final show
Zayn Malik quits One Direction
Leonard Nimoy dies
Brian Williams gets in trouble for lying about a helicopter crash
Justin Bieber gets roasted on Comedy Central
Jon Snow “dies” on “Game of Thrones” (Still not over it!)
Duran Duran’s new album
John Stewart retires from “The Daily Show with John Stewart“
Charlie Sheen has AIDS (screw you, AIDS!!!)
Sharknado 3 (Valar shark-goulis, George R. R. Martin!)
Pop Culture 2016
‘Stranger Things’ on Netflix
Live Musicals (Grease and Hairspray)
Deadpool
Pokemon Go
Brexit
The Michael Phelps Face meme
The mannequin challenge
Beyonce’s “Lemonade”.
Kylie Jenner’s lip kit
Hamilton the musical
Leo DiCaprio FINALLY wins an Oscar
Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman (The Final Five)
Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live
Pop Culture 2017
Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live
“Envelopegate” and the Oscars (in my defense, “La La Land is so much better than “Moonlight”. I’m just saying.)
Get Out
“The Handmaid’s Tale” on Hulu
One Direction splits; all members began solo careers
Female Doctor Who (let’s hope she’s as good as the other doctors)
An out-of-this-world solar eclipse
Wonder Woman
Prince Harry gets engaged to “Suits” actress Meghan Markle
Season 7 of “Game of Thrones”
Pop Culture 2018
Black Panther Dominates the Cinema
The Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Megan Markle
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in the White House
The Greatest Crossover Event in History (also known as “Avengers: Infinity War”)
“Roseanne” Gets Cancelled (but the Conners move on)
Cardi B vs. Nicki Minaj
Fortnite
IHOP Becomes IHOb (WHY???)
Yanny vs Laurel
The First Female Doctor Who Debuts
Pop Culture 2019
“Avengers: Endgame” dominates the box office (and knocks “Avatar” off first place!)
Prince Harry and Megan Markle have their baby; his name is Archie.
Game of Thrones, Adventure Time, The Big Bang Theory, Veep, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series finales. At the same time, the Skywalker story ends with “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”
Old Town Road by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus
Captain Marvel and Shazam movies (2019 was the year of the Captain Marvels)
Aladdin and Lion King remakes
Disney+ debuts
Sony and Disney fight over Spider-Man (Spider-Man stays in the MCU)
10yearchallenge (Yes, I participated; the results are on my Instagram profile.)
The Masked Singer debuts on Fox