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Decade Recap
A look into the 2010’s
Desiree Young, Staff Writer As 2020 approaches, the 2010’s get further away in our rear view mirror. Our decade is coming to a close after these life-changing years. We’ve been through natural disasters, irresistibly gross trends, and tragedy that has made us the funniest and most depressed generation. Let’s start where the decade began, 2010. A memorable thing from 2010 that shaped a few of us was the X Factor UK auditions that were given by Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson. Originally the auditions were going to be thrown out until the judges put them together and One Direction formed. In the same year, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were announced to be dating; and Kylie Jenner, who was 12 at the time, was worried about Kendall and her modeling, claiming it would make her the “coolest in the family.” The number one songs during 2010 were Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok”, and Katy Perry’s “California Gurls.” In the film world, new things were happening, Good Luck Charlie aired its first episode, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : Part One aired in theatres. A year rolls around to 2011 and we’ve been introduced to planking, Hot Wheels Wall Tracking, the LeapPad Explorer, Minecraft, and “Super Bass” by Nicki Minaj. Another year and 2012 brings us The Avengers, The Twilight Saga : Breaking Dawn Part Two, The Hunger Games, Barack Obama for a second term, and the end of the world. A few more years and we experience the Boston bombing, Elon Musk’s spacecraft with the International Space Station, and bitcoin in 2013; Frozen, the ice bucket challenge, and dabbing from 2014; and then in 2015 Zayn Malik leaves One Direction, the “Whip and Nae Nae” was released, Caitlyn Jenner comes out, the charlie charlie challenge takes over, the dress (you know which one I’m talking about) causes mass confusion, “Hotline Bling” by Drake comes out, and that one video of a New York City rat carrying an entire slice of pizza on the subway goes viral. This leaves us in the worst and best year from the 2010’s,
2016. 2016 was the year many things changed. This is the year that housed the loss of Harambe, a new President, “Dang, Daniel,” and Beyonce’s Lemonade album. Beginning in Jan-
uary, Ziggy Stardust. On January 10th the man himself, David Bowie, passes away due to health issues leaving us with his last album Lazarus. Then following in February the World Health Organization releases a national emergency relating to the Zika virus. March is quiet and docile, just for April to hit us with the death of Prince. Then in May we get some of the most tragic news in 2016, Cincinnati Zoo’s Western Lowland Gorilla Harambe was shot and killed due to a 3 year old child accidentally falling into his enclosure. He died one day after his 17th birthday. In June, just 7 days apart of each other, there were 2 school shootings. The death of Charles Kinsey took July, Charles was a mental health therapist who was retrieving his 23 year old patient who had autism and had escaped from the group home where he lived.
When Charles was talking the man down, the police found them while looking for an ac-
Charles was then shot while being unarmed and docile. The offending officer was arrested a year later but is still employed. In September there was another school shooting and the first presidential debate between Clinton and Trump. In October the infamous Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump was released of his referring to women in an unsavory way and condoning “locker room talk.” In November Trump was elected as our 45th President even after losing the popular vote. December 2016 wraps up the year the presidential transition from Obama to Trump. Continuing our search into the 2010’s we walked into 2017 experiencing Brexit, Trump’s inauguration, and last but not least, Joe Biden and Obama Bromance memes. Then in 2018 we near the end with Drake’s “God’s Plan,” and Post Malone’s “Rockstar.” Now in 2019 we have Tik Tok, the mix between Musical.ly and Vine. We tolerate VSCO girls who “sksksksksk” a little too much and YeeYee boys who rev their truck for no reason at 7am. So here’s to the ending of a weird decade, it’s time for the ‘’rawring XD”
tively sWuicidal man that was loose. Charles proceeded to lay on the ground with his hands up trying to communicate with the police and his patient at the same time.
twenties; also, Epstein didn’t kill himself.