I hope JJ continues this series for a long time, so in ten years he can review his old videos and analyze which things prevailed in the american cultural canon
J.J, democracy does not work just read the The Machiavellians, defenders of freedom by James Burnham, Democracy: The God That Failed Hans-Hermann Hopper and Curtis Yarvin Neo reactionary (work-book) Unqualified Reservations
David Imel from the MKBHD WVFRM pod. I think one of those former Vox journalists had a video. The answer is some guy in Japan I personally don't think it's that amusing of a trend. Seems kind of like an industry plant or Mandela effect type of thing.
While I’d add Luigi Mangione, I appreciate the restraint. I believe his trial in 2025 will be much more defining especially since the shooting was so late in 2024.
its possible but It happened so late in the year I think if the trial is very public like I think we all expect it to be, it will probably make next years
@@benjaminrobinson3842 That's not a good thing though. He wasn't just stealing, taking back what was his or whatever. He straight up murdered a guy. Like, I'm all for vigilantism, but vigilante executions seemed pretty fucked in my opinion.
Me too! Some "videos" I can just listen to while puttering about the house. But for J.J., that just won't do. It's not just the fact that his content is highly visual; I've just got to have him bouncing on his bouncy ball to enjoy it to the max.
I know this isn’t something as mainstream as it is to cinephiles, but it is noteworthy that in 2024, for the first time in cinema history, the top 10 highest grossing films of the year were all sequels (or somehow connected to a popular IP). I personally reject the popular notion that “Hollywood doesn’t make original films anymore” because they obviously do, but the saturation of blockbuster sequels this year was very notable.
What I find notable is that 2024 was the first year in a long while that almost all superhero films flopped either commercially, critically or both. The Crow, Kraven, Madame Web, Venom. Only Deadpool v Wolverine was watchable. I think the mainstream audience has tired of the big Marvel/DC/Star Wars films. I hope it happens with the Disney "CGI Real Life" films as well.
@@MartijnPennings the sony movies hardly count. the only MCU movie that came out was a big hit. a lot is riding on next year's movies for them, but I think the MCU is here to stay for a while longer
@@MartijnPennings I genuinely love citing MCU movies flopping with a lot of Gen Z as an example of "the kids might have different tastes than you" when having big, elaborate "oh my god the kids are killing (insert industry)!" conversations. Pretty much everyone under 25 seems to despise "Marvel Humor" in anything and often use it to mock Millennial tastes
I don't think memory of the Brat summer will stick around for that long, but I do think that the album cover will become one of the most iconic images of the 2020s. I'm struggling to think of the last time an album cover became so instantly recognizable and widespread, to the point that it became partially disconnected from the album itself.
I think this year proved just how smart Charli XCX is as a musical artist, and it wouldn't surprise me if her hyperpop style becomes EXTREMELY prolific and widespread over the next several years
@@larey9484 If you say so I guess. The album, and especially its singles, wasn't actually a huge success in terms of raw numbers. There will probably be a mini-trend of hyperpop for a while (and maybe it'll end up being like Lorde and Olivia Rodrigo, where the innovator gets critical acclaim but limited financial success and then some derivative wannabe gets huge with it), but I kinda think the cover will eclipse the music in the long run.
@ThisCommentWroteItself you have to remember that Charli is actually a great songwriter, and actually wrote some HUGE songs over the last few years (most recently, Selena Gomez's "Same Old Love" and Camila Cabello's "Señorita") - while it may not have been the best-selling album of the year, she got a huge amount of attention from a wider audience just through the Brat Summer meme, meaning she has nowhere to go but up from here
@larey9484 I hope you prove me wrong I guess. She is indeed a huge songwriter, but it's kind of a red flag that the songs she writes for other people that become successful aren't hyperpop. (I suspect you might be a Todd in the Shadows fan, and he has a great like about a Selena Gomez song he didn't like: 'This song was written by Charli XCX, which is how you know it sucks. If it was good, she would've sung it herself.')
I don't think this is new for 2024, because it's been around for a few years now, but one cultural artifact that is here to stay is "tier lists", and the term "S tier".
Yeah I thought tier lists would just be a fad and die down, but I feel like this year really defined it as a new form of ranking things that is here to stay.
i never really thought about that, its really hard to pinpoint exactly when tier lists became so mainstream but I think it is definitely not going anywhere
The first 15 years of RUclips were dominated by top 10s. It’s interesting that it took so long for a new format to emerge. I think that if you’d tried to do a tier list in 2010 people would have called you out for not making a definitive ranking. Tier lists also happen to be more conversational in their presentation and easygoing in a way that top 10s never were
Video Idea: How parody measures popularity I find it fascinating how you can tell how popular something has become because of how much parodies of it can randomly be seen online.
One thing I always use to gauge how popular something ACTUALLY ("fans") is vs how popular something SUPPOSEDLY ("critics") is "are people making memes about/involving this?" Also Weird Al
@@JJMcCullough Thank you, I feel like nobody talks about the evolution of measuring popularity it went from people, to references, to ratings, and now to parody.
The pride flag has lost its original meaning. It just meant diversity. The individual lines don’t actually refer to specific groups. Adding these extra bits ruins the original intended message that already included them.
this. The rainbow includes us all, nitpicking and fighting between us is just stupid. Every group has its own flag too so i dont see the problem, I like my non binary flag as it is and I feel represented by the rainbow. Also adding the colour black/brown/a circle? in a rainbow? have u guys ever seen one? Maybe we should use a white flag so everyone can imagine whatever colour/symbol they feel represents them better lol
Originally the country flag meant for everyone. Now with pride flags is feels more exclusionary than anything. Only certain people are allowed to be represented and people try to use the flag as a weapon. It also looses companies money as people who are political tend to just go to the competition.
@@gabrield4892 I think what happens is that people tend to asociate patriotism with current politics, therefore most queer people might feel detached form the USA flag because of the homophobic/transphobic political agenda. I think the flag belongs to all north americans and refusing to embrace it now, while seems like a no-brainer, its like surrendering. Here in Argentina the word Liberty (libertad) is a very important one because of our history, its included even at the core of our national anthem. But because so many people feel rejection for the current government they disregard the word, they mock the usage of it. We claimed our liberty, we are free, we can and will use the word as much as we feel like
Yeah I think there's a reluctance to remove or leave out any group out of an abundance of caution on the part of liberal progressives, but it will get to a point where it basically just collapses in on itself with too many different symbols and colours. The rainbow already represented all the groups that have been clumsily tacked on to the flag (like black LGBTQ people, intersex people, trans people etc.), so every increasingly specific subgroup needing it's own particular section just undermines the purpose of a rainbow flag in the first place and makes it increasingly useless as a symbol.
If Luigi Mangione inspires copycat killers amid growing wealth inequality and a shrinking middle class, it'll surely become a Netflix series in 20 years, complete with ominous music.
The middle class in the US is only "shrinking" in the sense that more middle class people are moving to the upper class in terms of income and wealth, not down.
@@JonasSalk This is just wrong. Social mobility has been going down for a long time, and wealth inequality has been growing as well. Additionally, real wages have gone down.
Why would either of those facts mean that a bunch of middle class people did not gain wealth and become upper class? You could still have a net decrease in social mobility with that being true.
A couple of things to note on your section about Concord: 1. The budget was likely much higher than the 100 million dollars you said. The budget has been reported as being as high as 400 million dollars (with or without the acquisition the studio is unclear). The lowest estimate appears to be 200 million dollars (via Kotaku), with that budget not being enough to complete the game. Regardless, the budget was astronomically high and it made quite literally none of it back, as they issued refunds for the game after a week. The flop is especially shocking since it came off a year of other high profile bombs. The Suicide Squad game and the Ubisoft produced Skull and Bones were also high profile flops this year, and they've all been eclipsed by the magnitude of Concord's. 2. The game's historic failure is probably not going to penetrate the mainstream audience. It's almost assuredly going to be remembered and discussed for years in gaming circles, but the failure of Concord isn't as storied or interesting as E.T's or the Virtual Boy's. E.T became a representation of the video game crash of 1983, while the Virtual Boy remains to this day Nintendo's oddest failure and the novelty of the console was enough to have people remember it. Concord is just another live service game failing, albeit in a much more spectacular fashion. It's possible that the game's failure leads to hesitancy in the development of similar live service games in the future, but I'm doubtful of this happening.
With companies like Ubisoft potentially downsizing or being bought out, I wouldn't be surprised if it was considering a starting point for a smaller videogame crash. *while still only mattering to gamers.
The word Concord had literally become a verb for failure on the internet, similar to how people say “Google It”. It’s also been seen as an example of “Go woke, go broke”.
@@gabrield4892 Funny, because I'd literally never heard of it before this video (and I am a gamer). Maybe only people that play online games care? Solo or coop only here.
@gabrield4892 ive been (was? I havent had a pc since march) a gamer for a decade plus and theres not a person i could mention it to that would know what we're talking about. Nobody knows or gives a s about concord. Because many video games have fallen into relative cultural irrelevance like movie releases. If it was 2006 we'd ALL know every big/regular movie that released that year, but now you only know about one or two like Dune every year and every oscar winning movie is some niche whatever that nobody saw. We live in bubbles now. And games do legitimately just suck so hard these days that a historically game addicted nerd like me was fine with not having them in my life. Wake me up if OG mw2/bo1/new vegas ever happens again. Until then I'm not interested in A)cringey marvel vibe children baby stuff or B)incompetency on a billion dollar scale with record breaking AAA projects that cant function and are technically fundamentally broken
We would not have these cultural rifts and harsh cultural rheotric about social issues if video games and other media were as good as they were 15 years ago. End of story. The lack of a genuinely good shooter like MW2 and the lack of fun mid budget comedies like Superbad are bigger driving factors of our infighting than people realize.
I could definitely see Luigi Mangione becoming a sort of aesthetic icon long-term (sort of like Che Guevara’s face on t-shirts and mugs). For good or for bad, people tend to project their politics, ideals, hopes, fantasies, not to forget lust - onto extraordinarily charismatic figures like him.
Is he that charismatic? i know he has "craven white boy face", which has appeal among young female quarters strongly and mildly at-large, but I have never heard him talk or seen his writing. It seemed more like projection by populists of charisma onto the man, judging by how immediately and ravenously a lot of people online were fawning over him.
As for a good comparison for a "faddish and underwhelming era" I'd pick the genomics era from ca. 1995-2005, the cloning of Dolly the Sheep and the completion of the Human Genome Project made a lot of people very excited and scared, while advancements in genetics are here to stay (they can take credit for how we got the COVID vaccine so soon after it was discovered of course) it's just not something you hear people talking much about these days nor is it something that's so ubiquitous it's just become a part of the background. I don't know if AI will become that but I could certainly imagine it.
That's a great observation. I remember how much everyone was freaking out about cloning at the time, Congress even rammed through anti-cloning legislation which then led to some libertarian-types declaring that China would become a cloning superpower. And now... no one ever brings it up.
@JJMcCullough I do realize a difference with AI is that genetics was not nearly as accessible to consumers, and even today AI is more accessible since most websites give you the basics for free.
Star Trek Enterprise of the 2000s brought back the Eugenics Wars as a plot point to talk about it (even though by then the Eugenics Wars were supposed to have happened 5 years before the show aired and so were totally ignored in previous shows and seasons)
your example of flash in the pan technologies reminded me of the 3D fad. 3D was EVERYWHERE for a few years in the early 2010s (3D TVs, every big movie premiering in 3D, the 3DS) and then just completely died out a couple years later. i think people realised it was a novelty that didn’t really add anything to the experience, meant you had to have the glasses on hand and gave some people headaches. combined with the rise of streaming on laptops/phones and the decline of traditional TV sets, it was never really destined to stick around.
The 3DS was also part of the early 2010s 3D fad. It was a selling point of the console yet a few years later Nintendo released a 2D version of the console, essentially admitting 3D was a fad.
The pride flag has gotten super ridiculous by this point. It just looks overcrowded. The rainbow was inclusive enough. Not to mention that it's weird to feature colors related to race on a flag that's about sexuality and gender identity. Does that mean that the other colors of the flag represent different races now too? XD
Agreed, I think all the constantly changing variants cheapen the symbolism of the rainbow. It works perfectly as an abstract representation of diversity and inclusivity - once you start explicitly including specific sub-communities it turns what was an all inclusive symbol, into one that can never be inclusive enough.
JJ's previous video about it was really good as I remember, because the issue is a bigger one, I think, just about symbolism in general. I feel like I'm repeating some of what he said, but it's just odd because the first pride flag was symbolic, the colors didn't reflect anything specific, but the later additions do. This is going to be maybe an odd thing to say, but it reminds me of the argument of "soft magic" in a fantasy world. An argument that you just don't need to explain everything in a fantasy world, but once start then you have to explain EVERYTHING. So once you add a representation for one group then you have to add symbols for every group.
I agree, it's like when Europe almost went with the worst flag ever to include everyone's colors. I think it's time to make a generic flag ment to include everyone with a single symbol. Same thing for the LGBT thing that never ceases to change it's length. I don't even include A in it because I consider myself part of the group whatever my smaller group is included or not.
Personally i think 2024 will be known as the year "You should care about the Olympics again" after a lull from roughly 2016-2022. Mainly as the Paris Olympics held seemingly the most cultural clout since Beijing & brought the Olympics into the "Social Media age" and will probably set up L.A 2028 to be a massive event globally.
@wiiztec London was huge acutally. But Rio had a lot of people who thought it would fail and didn't have the hype as previous ones. Not to mention, the presidential election was much more interesting compared to most election cycles.
@@wiiztec London 2012 mattered a whole lot, but being in the English speaking world probably didn't feel as exotic or new, Rio is probably most notable for the post-Olympic decline of its stadiums, I feel like the image of the drained algae filled swimming pool is its biggest cultural impact, and I remember the media trying to push the same narrative on Pyeongchang, Tokyo was on during Covid and pretty much immediately a write-off, and so was Beijing 2022 under the Zero-Covid policy
Well, viewing of the opening/closing ceremony in my country fell to record lows in 2024… I think now it’s just gonna be digital highlights and social media instead of watching together as a family in front of the TV
I’m surprised the Biden debate got no mention in the politics section. I feel like every time presidential debate season rolls around, we are gonna hear a tiring amount about it
I think that’s true for the next presidential debates, but I’m not sure if that’s still going to be a major discussion in a decade. I feel like very few presidential debates have that much cultural staying power
@@alexreid1173the presidential debate for 2028 is going to be so bad.😂😂 Because we already seen what Trump could do and I don't know if there's any surpassing that😂😂 presidential debates are going to be so depressing now...😂😂 Hell who knows maybe we'll get another Trump... 😂😂😂 Maga gang🇺🇸
I can only think of one US presidential debate which has had any lasting cultural impact, which is Kennedy v. Nixon. That was impactful not because of Nixon’s underperformance, but because it was the first time these debates were nationally televised.
I'd actually like to see him do not only an exploration of how he chooses his hairstyles, but also a closet tour and his opinions on men's fashion. He's said in the past he is a huge fan of fashion, but he hasn't touched on it much in his past videos
@@wiiztec I want a customizable JJ paper doll animation now. Like those old flash dress up games… man, I freaking loved those lol. That’s some internet age nostalgia ripe for parody!
One person I'd add: Caitlin Clark. I know this channel doesn't talk about sports very much, but her emergence (and the success of the WNBA/women's sports in general after her breakout) was HUGE this year, and will absolutely loom large in culture in the years to come when we talk about women's sports. There are some special athletes who end up being some of the biggest figures in American culture, regardless of if you know about sports. Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan hover above everyone else in that regard, but there are other megastars like LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Michael Phelps, Serena Williams, etc whom you might be surprised if someone's never heard of them. To me Caitlin Clark cemented her status in that group, and her stardom is only gonna get bigger as time goes on. If you're someone who doesn't follow sports and you've never heard of her, that would shock me, since she was easily the most talked-about non-politician in any of my content platforms.
I'll be honest I don't know anything about her, but I honestly hope we see that women's sports get more popular in general especially since there's just so much room to grow in terms of popularity. It'd be a shame to not see them get more attention.
Right now there's some far removed kid from the year 2250 reading about Trump in their history class. And liking him merely because their homework got slightly more entertaining.
It is kind of funny to think that in 200 years time, Trump might be looked at how we look at Napoleon today, as just another bombastic funny man from history. With us having long forgotten just how **hated** both figures were in their time.
That isn't how the word "now" works. Also that is a very optimistic but simultaneously concerning and paradoxically pessimistic outlook on the future. Like you believe humanity will survive another 200+ years but you don't think that we will find some better way of educating children to replace homework.
@@maiapawley8757 Don't get me started on the education system. Homework was just an example that I assumed wouldn't be controversial to imply that school would or should get rid of the concept of making children take their "learning" with them outside of school when they should be focused on making connections with friends and family or just all around having a happy childhood. And again don't even get me started on the history of homework or how it was used or what some of the more experimental educational systems are finding is working in present day. I didn't come here to argue but did you not consider that maybe it is you who "needs to chill"? For one thing you are missing the forest for the trees and making my comment out to be about something different, the actual subject matter I will not not repeat and will not be discussing any further but lets just say I believe it would be dangerous to "chill out" about it. Finally what did you expect to happen when you give a response like that? You don't have to disagree with everyone you come across, you could have just "chilled out" and ignored my comment. Something tells me you haven't been studying what happened in the past in nor have you done any research or read about research on what might happen in the future, 200 years is a long time and you can't just assume it is like present day in either direction.
I would say the pro-Palestine campus protests/encampments were a major cultural event that will be remembered given the levels of support and opposition they engendered, how much the Israel-Palestine conflict dominated the public conversation for much of the year (it became an identifier for people to put Israel or Palestine flags on their social media accounts and it was something that public figures were pressured to weigh in on), and their place in the broader canon of left-wing protest movements like the anti-Vietnam protests, Occupy Wall Street, and BLM. I think many Americans would recognize symbols like the Palestinian flag, the watermelon as a symbol of pro-Palestinian sentiment, and the keffiyeh, while before this year that wouldn’t have been the case.
the political emoji canon should have a database by now if it doesn't already, as lots of people use emojis in their social media display name to identify themselves as being in different ideological groups. this year we gained 🍉 for palestine supporters as you mentioned, and 🎗 for israel
Most people remember it for the protestors being entitled brats who demanded the universities bring food to them so they didn't have to leave the protest lmao. Those other protests actually affected this country, the Israel/Palestine thing really doesn't, so most people don't care.
I’m a big gamer, and never even heard of Concord. Granted, I am primarily plugged into the Nintendo scene, but it goes to show the diversity of the Gaming community, and how little different parts of the gaming community interact.
Concord “resonated” with gamers who are interested in the gaming industry and those who are in tune with social media. I vaguely heard of it before the release, but it only became a huge internet discussion piece after the servers shut down (less than a month after launch btw). It was such an expensive corporate flop it quickly became a joke and a symbol of soulless corporate media in the same vein movies like Morbius was. There have been a few soulless corporate games that became infamous the past few years, but Concord is the one that trumps all of them imo. That could be recency bias, but I’d be surprised if another game flops harder than Concord in the near future. It’s that astonishingly bad.
There are a lot of AAA video game flops this year. Star Wars Outlaws, Skull and Bones, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Assassin's Creed Shadows was supposed to release this year, but after so many controversies they have to push back the release date to February 2025
@@giraffestreetI suppose Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown could also make the list as well because while that game did get a positive reception, it was held back by the fact it was a 2D action game released in one the slowest commerical months of the year.
@@michaeltnk1135It’s this. If you don’t care about the gaming industry and all the internet discussions around it, you probably wouldn’t know about Concord. The internet isn’t exactly known for having a long attention span either. Concord is not a game most people actually played cause the servers went down less than a month after release. It’s not discussed as a bad experience, because almost nobody played it. It’s discussed as a corporate product that epitomizes a lot of people’s frustration with the current game industry. It’s like a fictional parody of a popular game from 5 years ago.
I would personally disagree with this, since the magazine no longer exists, and even when it did, it appealed and was marketed to a VERY small clientele. The same can't be said about GQ or Esquire cuz they market themselves as more accessible to the "common folk"
Feels to me like his biggest impact was just being a hot young guy who died too young, like a classic gone too soon 'sex symbol' (at least in Elaine's eyes)
I get that "brat" may feel like the epitome of a fleeting trend, but it's part of a broader resurgence of American female pop singers. Sabrina, Chappell, and Charli all feel like new additions to the "American pop girl Cannon" that's codified in all kinds of stan twitter memes and graphics. They also feel like a set reminiscent of "Britney, Christina," and have achieved the same first name status.
@TheKingOfBeans - something can be non-american and still have a lot of influence over American culture. Like Pokemon would totally be in JJ's list if he made it back in the 90s.
I feel that Harris’s failed campaign for President will be used for years as justification for avoiding switching out an unpopular incumbent. Similar to how the “McGovern” is used as a shorthand for a candidate that is thought to be too radical.
I feel the Biden/Harris flop is that start of the Democrats realizing that the Obama era of safe moderate politics is over and if they want any chance of beating the Republicans then they need to lean into the left-wing populism that has been growing within the American Left such as Bernie Sanders and AOC. I feel the lull period between the 2024 election and the 2028 election will be a period of reflection and evolution for the Democrat party to break out of their moderate safe Obama style of progressivism and go full in on left wing populism in order to combat the already established right-wing populism.
Or, Biden being taken out in favor of Harris will set a precedence for doing so in the future. Harris lost, but it was not a landslide by measure of popular vote. Regardless I think you're right that it will be important in the future.
I think that Concord will be forgotten simply because major flops basically never stick in the mainstream cultural consciousness. Even "famous" flops like aforementioned John Carter or the ET game (or Heaven's Gate which famously bankrupted a major film studio and arguably led to a big shift in how films were made) are more like niche subculture knowledge than a part of mainstream cultural literacy. A flop by definition doesn't get consumered by many people, so not many people care to remember or discuss it or be influenced by it. Sometimes it can get renewed life as a cult classic later (like Blade Runner) but that's not possible when the game has literally been taken offline
It's strange watching this video and reading comments about stuff that'll be remembered for years to come when this is the first time I'm hearing about some of these things.
It's still really odd to me just how much of a nosedive the reputation of A.I. has taken in the last few years. I certainly remember growing up in an era where there were well established tropes surrounding A.I. - it was science fiction that paradoxically felt imminent, it was awe inspiring and existentially terrifying, so much thought provoking fiction and philosophy was engendered by the debates surrounding it. Now we have "A.I." (albeit in the form of generative A.I., as opposed to any kind of artificial sentience) and it mostly provokes a deep seated disgust and eye-rolling irritation in me. Maybe it isn't helped that a lot of the people embracing and advocating for A.I. within industries and creative fields and society at large, tend to be massive dickheads - and that's before you even bring up the disturbing number of fascistic cranks and weirdoes frothing themselves up into a masturbatory frenzy over the ugly end product of generative A.I.
Yeah it's weird isn't it? I think it's also because AI has become synonymous with laziness and low-quality, so even at its best, it's hard for people to feel good praising it.
@@JJMcCullough I just can't think of many instances where I've looked at generated art and thought "wow, that looks great" or even "this could pass a real art". Don't get me wrong, seeing the bizarre results of early image prompts was fascinating stuff, I even mucked about Dall-E and other prompting tools when they went mainstream, because the resultant images were undeniably surreal. I rapidly felt a lot guiltier once I realized exactly how those images are generated and the environmental cost of doing it.
It's not that hermaphrodite is an offensive term, but that it describes only one of the great variety of intersex conditions that exist. It would be like calling all pasta panini.
Hey JJ, I dont know if you remember me but I was in the grey suit asking you for a photo at the future voters summit. I just wanted to thank you for that as I will always remember that photo. Thank you so much!
Yo, JJ. I had an idea for a video topic I think would fit in your ‘canon’ series. What about one on the stereotypical pieces of classic literature you are supposed to read in (American) High School? Your 1984s, your Shakespeareses, your odysseys… it could be fun. I recently came across the idea after asking some of my foreign friends what books were in their canon since I wanted to be culturally literate when speaking with them, and it just kinda hit me that this would be the perfect topic for you.
My Canadian relatives were visiting & started to explain the current political situation. They were blown away when I declared that I was “well-aware” & proceeded to summarize your recent video on it. Their jaws dropped when they realized how well informed I was. Should I spoil the secret & let them know that I’m a subscriber? 😂😂😂
I had to get drunk on soju and make jambalaya and hang out with my mother on New Year's Eve instead of finding out what 2024 added to the cultural canon just before the ball drops!
This video is so, so great, the visuals were so cute and the picks were really creative, insightful and I think are gonna hold up well. Tge best video in my favourite RUclips series, it was soooooo worth the wait.
Two things I would have added: 1) Caitlin Clark: Her rise to superstardom, cultural elevation of an entire sport, and subsequent backlash from within the WNBA are the stuff of legend. She is arguably the most famous basketball player, male or female, right now. Her rise to the top will be studied for future generations. 2) Indie animation: The rise of animation on RUclips is a godsend for the medium which is struggling in cinemas now. We arguably had our first mainstream web animation with Amazing Digital Circus, which is getting hundreds of millions of views and is in syndication on Netflix. The success of Murder Drones, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, and Catching Up signify a sea change in the industry.
1) You must be joking if you think that Clark is anywhere near as famous as LeBron James, much less any other top NBA player. She is very far from a superstar in the broader world. 2) Indie animation remains a niche with a loud (and annoying) fan base. When the Wall Street Journal carries a review for the latest Digital Circus episode and middle aged people are talking about it over dinner, then you can say that it’s actually crossed over into the mainstream. Instead Hazbin Hotel is largely being consumed and discussed by horny Tumblr rejects.
@charlesevanshughes3638 1) Caitlin Clark does not need to be as famous as LeBron James to make it on the list. This list is a prediction, after all, and I'd surmise CC will end up just as famous as Serena Williams, arguably the most famous female athlete. 2) Once again, this is a prediction, so if indie animation is taking off with youth now and remains popular with the next generations, then it will become mainstream as its audience ages and the older generations exit the cultural realm.
Okay, I would probably say Caitlin is at least more famous than any of this year's NBA draft class. This was the first year the final of the women's March Madness outdated the men's. And most eyes were in her. So clearly she is big enough to warrant at least a mention.
@charlesevanshughes3638 I genuinely think Clark's the most famous basketball player under 30 in America, and idk who you'd put ahead of her. More casuals know who she is than Tatum, Ant, Ja, Jokic, Giannis, SGA, and anyone else under 30 that I can think of. Sure, LeBron and Steph and KD are more famous than her, but she was EVERYWHERE in 2024, and she's only been playing pro basketball for like 6 months so she's just gonna grow in fame imo
Well there's some concensus about why Concord fail and there are 3 reasons why the game failedthat almost everyone agrees with. 1. The game was released on an over saturated market of game of the same genre (hero shooter) and people is tired of those unless you are really innovative or is from a really big recognizable IP like Marvel Legends which Concord was neither of those. 2.The game was 40 dollars on a market where all of the big competition is free to play like Overwatch, Paladins, Apex Legend,, Valorant and many other games, most people will not spend money on a game that they don't know it will succed or not and alos they will not drop the game they already play for a new one. 3.Character design it doesn't mater what the reason was a progressive agenda, or a power hungry lead artist that didn't take any suggestion or any other possible reason, the character design is unnapealing at best or bad at worst, a lot of devs forget that games is also a visual medium and the first impression is always how the game looks, and on a genre in which the playable character are the most important thing like Hero Shooters having unnapealing desgins is just bad more if we take into account that one of the biggest monetization avenues of thosse games are the sale of skins for character, and no one will buy skins for unnapealing looking character, also it didn't help that their designs didn't help the players to undertad what their role in the game is, no one looks like a medic in the game, nor like a dps or support, only the tanks look like tanks. By the way in the third point about character design i'm not alluding that every character should be sezy and hot, because even if you want to make "ugly" looking characters you need to make them interesting like Boarhog and Ivy from Overwatch and Deadlock, the Concord character were just that unnapealing an ugly without being interestig.
@@JJMcCullough I do agree that wokeness is the main reason why the character designs were unnapealing, the game had bigger problems than wokeness, i believe that the game would have still end up being a failure without the wokeness it would have lasted for maybe half a year of a year before being axed. My criteria is "fixing this problem would make the game succeed" and if the answer is most likely yes then for me is a major reason why it failed, but if the answere is no then it's a minor reason.
It's also worth saying that from what I remember the game had barly any marketing and certenly no hype. Any tarction it got was from the right wing gamer crowd. That's why I doubt it will have any importance in the long term. It will stay as a dogwhistle for "go woke go broke" for some time but it somewhat fails in it's function in my opinion because no one on the left cares to protect it.
@@JJMcCulloughIt's part of the "ugly character design". Some people considered it "woke" because the assumption "woke" people don't like conventionally attractive looking characters. This is one of the aspects people compare Concord with Overwatch. Overwatch has more attractive looking characters, it's not a secret people fall in love with Overwatch character design. They love it so much it's one of the biggest p**n categories.
JJ, a few years down the line I think it would be cool if you made a video/segment analyzing and assessing some of these observations once enough time has passed.
The number you cite is for genital ambiguity and does not include chromosomal ambiguity such as Klinefelter syndrome which is is 2 per mille (0.2%)... ten times more prevalent, and only one such condition.
@@JJMcCullough the fact you view the UN as a legitimate organization is joined at hip to your faulty worldview. you serve the old pre internet institutions. the correct number is 1 in 30,000
Good book rec. It's crazy how only WW2 buffs and Holocaust-educated people know anything at all about, say, Reinhard Heydrich when he was so unbelievably wicked and consequential is kind of mind-boggling since Hitler is so famous that he almost transcends normal historical consciousness and exists as like an avatar of pure evil energy or something. For another entry I might say the Chiefs. It feels like they took a big step in the breadth of their popularity/presence, between the Super Bowl and Kelce's relationship. Like the early 90s Cowboys are still "America's Team" and all that. I think people will still know these Chiefs in 2034 and 2044.
Only people that follow sports (I have zero idea what you are talking about). The days of sports and athletes being big household names seems to be a bit of a bygone thing. I can't name a "modern" ball player aside from Lebron James and Derek Jeter. And Jeter is solely due to my love of the Other Guys movie. Even among my physical peer group, no one cares about professional sports, only collegiate sports. You can thank the decentralization of entertainment for that, as well as the ability to largely opt out of comercials. I know I do.
You need to be in the weeds of basketball to remember more than MJ and maybe Phil Jackson and Scotty Pippen from the 3peat Bulls, but they're still a big deal. Ditto Herb Brooks, Mike Eruzione and maybe Jim Craig for the Miracle on Ice. Full rosters are never committed to everybody's memories, it's natural for a few faces and moments to stick out. But teams can enter the canon even if some people don't know about them just like someone might not be into pop music or Harry Potter or whatever.
Big budget mega-flops have been something of a theme lately. Despite being the biggest example, I don't think Concord will have the staying power. This era of poorly envisioned & over invested games might be remembered though. That's my take.
I’m from SF and also a chronically online zoomer, so I’ve seen a lot of young progressive activist type stuff. I’ve seen the flag, but not often irl. The progress flag is practically the default here in SF though. I do think the intersex version will become more popular, but idk about full on replacing. I feel like folks are around their “breaking point”. I personally don’t think any more “advancements” to the flag will get that far in the mainstream, but time will tell I suppose.
Quick Guesses before I watch the video! -The 2024 Election -Elon’s full turn into a Right-Wing figure -Luigi/UHC Assassin -New Catholic Church mascot -Kendrick Lamar vs Drake -Brat Summer -Chappell Roan -Hawk Tuah
I am excited about Luce the Pilgrim for the Catholic Jubilee, but I think her impact is a little too soon to tell. The Jubilee officially began on Christmas Eve this year and will conclude in late 2025, and there's still not a ton of merch of Luce or her friends available just yet. I think she and the other Jubilee characters will contribute towards a lot of evangelization though. I am a big appreciatior of traditional Catholic art but I do love new iterations like Luce too.
There have been a ton of AAA games that failed in 2024. All of them have been labeled as woke and celebrated by gamers for failing. The result of voting with your wallet.
I wish the 2018 flag remained the staple for the LGBT+ communities. it looks so much better than tacking on that one last symbol for the intersex people.
I absolutely LOVE your content oh my god. Every time I see you've released a new video, I already know it's going to be a masterpiece. Thank you for all the time you take to create such well researched and informational content!!
7:03 Literally RFKj brought it up at every rally every time he critiqued Trump and made him explain why and what was going to be different before he endorsed him. Now he’s the FDA head and can undo what he critiqued about Trump. The explanation was disingenuous to you maybe, but it absolutely bothered people and was a huge part of his campaign. I swear JJ, been watching you since I was in freakin high school and I’m 24 now and idk what happened this year or if what’s going on in Canada broke you but quality seems down. I’m sure you followed the campaign well enough to know this stuff dude
hell even the young turks admitted biden not taking rfk jrs call was a dumb mistake his endorsement in exchange for a cabinet position would have helped him, trump took advantage rfk ran out of cash amd gave him a great deal most democrats still love the kennedys if one leaves you look bad.
The best pride flag is the original 🏳️🌈 I really dislike the *exclusion through inclusion* effect that adding new shapes and colors has on the flag. For every group added explicitly, many more may feel overlooked.
We won't be talking about Concord in a decade, but gaming executives sure will. MMO games aren't as exciting as they used to be, and the market has already been decided on what sells and what doesnt, so I think all the new MMO's of the latter half of the decade will be rehashing's of well selling 2000's IP's and never-ending constantly updating mega experiences like Fortnite and Roblox. The death of the ArtIst.
That's true. Management and investors look at these different games doing poorly and draw wildly strong conclusions about game genres or titles or practices. One big failure, and the common wisdom solidifies into "Nobody buys adventure games anymore" or "The future is VR and everyone wants one" or "We need motion capture for our consoles, bc the Wii did well" or "Real-time Strategy is a dead genre" or "Live service is the future forever."
I feel like Concord has a strong potential to enter the vernacular of the gaming space over the next few years, especially when it comes to "dying" "dead" or failing games- probably in the use case of phrases like "Get Concord-ed" "Concord Syndrome" and the like.
As someone who very much enjoys videogames, Concord was for sure a big deal in the gaming world. A tech and gaming giant like Sony put $400 MILLION into a game nobody asked for and, it didn't even make enough money to keep the lights on for the studio that made it. It shows that even the biggest projects can fail while also calling attention to the severe lack of awareness by these large publishers. The industry is suffering and amazing dev studios are constantly being bought by these giants and shut down. With any luck, Concord will be a wakeup call for them.
As a huge RedLetterMedia fan, it was such a weird moment at the end to find out there's an author named Richard Evans who writes about such serious topics.
Was just about to type this. Yeah what a wild “irony” from JJ. Especially when he brings up the mandates as the issue just 10 seconds prior. False equivalency that does not hold weight.
I think we would all love a video about your book recommendations, JJ! Like a top 5 or top 10 or something? Great video, thanks for the 2024 summary :)
I'd say NIL too. This felt like the first real year where we see college athletes with millions of dollars and people using sporting success as a way to launch themselves into greater social media fame instead of the sport itself being the end goal
Honestly I feel like the attempt on Trump won’t have that much of a long-term impact. once it was found out that the perpetrator most likely just had “standard” mass sh00ter motivations and wasn’t really on either side of the political extremes, the media seemed to lose interest pretty quickly
@JJMcCullough I don't think the photo will have lasting impact. I don't think it did, much past the convention. BTW JJ how about a piece about you all becoming our next state. As pan-Can./US culture maven you are uniquely qualified to disect this issue. Perhaps a run for governor ?
I feel there's a big thing in the world of entertainment and gaming which will far surpass Concord in its cultural impact: Arcane and the release of its second and final season, for a few reasons: 1. It hit the peak of its popularity this year (according to Google Trends), ranking first in Netflix's Top 10 chart in 52 countries, meaning most people have only just heard of it despite its first season making waves in 2021. 2. It cost $250 million dollars to make, making it the most expensive animated series ever produced (at least according to the headlines) and second most expensive animated production ever (on par with Lion King and only behind Tangled in its cost). 3. Its groundbreaking animation style, which combined 2D, 3D; digital, traditional; western and eastern techiques to redefine what the medium can and should look like, arguably even more than the Spiderverse movies. 4. It is probably the biggest artistic work to fully embrace the Steampunk genre both in its aesthetic and its themes, meaning the already big movement will become even more well-known thanks to the series. 5. Its artstyle is already being used to teach anatomy to new art students, as it simplifies the complex patterns of the human body into elegant and geometric shapes which are easy to replicate (at least from what I've heard from some artists, I can't corroborate as I'm not one myself). 6. Its enticing narrative, characters and worldbuilding; which manage to say something profound about almost every major contemporary sociopolitical discussion such as family, mental health and trauma, gender and sexuality, inequality and class conflict, the cost of technological progress, loneliness, etc. These themes being further enriched by the hidden systems of symbolism in the series' fashion, color usage and even animals. Despite the mixed reception of its second season, I believe it will become a 21st century classic that will be studied for generations.
I think Vance will stay around. His rise in popularity from universally unpopular to around 50/50 is impressive to me, and his speaking ability would provide a break from the poor speech skills (or atleast formal speech skills). Other than that, I really agree with the idea of Tech Oligarchs becoming a well known term in 2024. For concord, I think it depends on if the games industry has a kind of crash. I think if we do, it’ll become a symbol of it, much like ET did.
You seem uniquely suited to answer this question. 🍈 What's going on with the little T stem on top of depictions of cantaloupes in Japan? No one else puts the stem on top of cantaloupes. Why is the cantaloupe stem so iconic in Japan and nowhere else?
It is still too early to tell what the consequences will be, but the fall of the Assad regime in Syria will definitely be one of the more significant events for the whole world
Trump was prevented by the Secret Service from repeating Theodore Roosevelt’s flagrant badassery in 1912 of giving the speech after being shot. The gun was fairly low powered, and the bullet went through a folded 20 page speech, but did lodge in TR’s chest.
2:20 He can't pardon himself for the NY convictions. The President can only pardon Federal crimes, not state crimes. Also, even after a pardon a person is still legally held to have done the crime, or still to be a history of conviction regardless of the eventual pardon.
That little nod about Curtis Yarvin in the JD Vance section was a topic I feel like should be discussed more when talking about Vance but I fear that many people don’t appreciate what a threat that man’s ideas actually present
@@brodonnellYT I still understand where JJ is coming from. He's not blindly in love with the States and everything that's happened to it. He's stated very plainly his dislike for Trump, and his disappointment with his re-election. But JJ has also articulated an idea I've held for a long time; namely that the USA and Canada are incredibly close, and despite all of our disagreements, we're better off as strategic allies and trade partners than the alternative. If you don't live in Canada, you must also understand how dominate American news and culture is for us - to the degree where our own day-to-day politics are often blatently ignored. There's a sense shared by some people here that where America goes, Canada follows. That's not always the case, particularly in our governmental policies, but it's a big enough incentive to keep ourselves invested in their goings on, and foster a positive relationship whenever needed.
@@jaydavis1746The Heart, Part 5 [Kendrick rapped from the perspective of different black figures: some referenced (OJ, Kanye, Jussie Smollet, Will Smith) had a more notorious reputation than the others (Kobe, Nipsey Hussle)]
Even though you have explicitly stated your political beliefs, JJ, I appreciate the work you do in staying non partisan in many of your videos. Here's to another 10 years! 🎉
bro implied that changing the flag for lgbtqia2sxyz+ for the tenth time in a row was more of a significant event than luigi popping off on one of the biggest leeches in the world💀💀💀
I think it came from an honest attempt to tackle racism inside the gay community AND acknowledge the contributions of gay black people to the LGBT movement (stonewall)... This sorta spun out of control. Additionally, the defining debate of current decade seems to be trans rights so they got more visibility on the flag to directly tie the communities together politically. I still think the pink pride flag is my favorite haha :)
@@avalonwarriormage35 they coulda just added a black and a pink stripe on the top/bottom or on the sides and not made an ugly ass flag. Or they could have tackled racism without ruining the original flag which was basically perfect
Adding brown and black to it just made the flag look incredibly ugly. Saying this should not mark someone as racist. They took a well established flag (been around for literally DECADES), made it objectively uglier, and in changing it implied thatpeople preferring the old flag aren't being "inclusive" and trivialized the whole concept of the pride flag. Like we have individual flags for trans people, gay people, lesbians, intersex, etc. What's wrong with having a main pride flag with all the colors of the rainbow, and none of the colors representing anything in particular, and flying individual flags as needed? Just shows how off the rails and individualist identity politics have become in the past decade. Ultimately results in more hurt feelings and vying for visibility than actual feelings of solidarity.
So one of the things that's pretty interesting in regards to Steamboat Willie entering public domain: a BIG part of why so many pop culture brands (eg Disney, Marvel, DC Comics, ect) keep "updating" certain characters or having them "pass the torch" is basically to attempt to extend copyright. There's other reasons, but at least I've heard a lot about this being one of the big ones. So for example, beloved multimedia franchise of Comics Co, "The Amazing Superdude", Mild Mannered Reporter Jim Johnson who by night fights crime as Superdude passes on the torch to fellow reporter John Jimson who now fights crime as the new Superdude who looks almost identical to the last one - that now allows Comics Co to keep Superdude out of public domain for another 70-150 years while allowing them to aggressively sue people using the old nearly identical Superdude who is now in public domain.
I actually really enjoyed the movie when it came out - I think it got unfairly slandered in the press just cuz it wasn't "what the public was expecting"
@@larey9484 Nah, it was a mess of a movie. Not particularly offensive in any way, but entirely boring and forgetable. In either case, mediocrity is a larger failure than simply being bad. There are many people that love terrible movies, but there are few people that hold boring movies close to heart.
John Carter the movie was a mess but the Princess of Mars franchise has a really strong sub-culture and has influenced generations of authors & creators.
Actually, the vaxxxx from the trump administration did indeed bother quite a lot of people, J.J. Hence, the tactic of bringing in RFK to balance the ticket. He's the appeal to the part of the coalition that was very critical of Trumps handling of 2020 and the madness of that time. Him being such a skeptic on big pharma and healthcare in America helps assuage peoples fears of a repeat of those policies.
As an American and someone who was voted for Trump, I have no problem that Trump requested that vaccines be made. I have a problem that the Biden administration forced the vaccinations on us when they hadn't even been tested.
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I hope JJ continues this series for a long time, so in ten years he can review his old videos and analyze which things prevailed in the american cultural canon
I think my past videos have stood up pretty well!
Maybe we can get a J.J. canon too.
Was gonna say this too. But maybe 5 years works since 2020 is the oldest 🙏
J.J, democracy does not work just read the The Machiavellians, defenders of freedom
by James Burnham, Democracy: The God That Failed Hans-Hermann Hopper and Curtis Yarvin Neo reactionary (work-book) Unqualified Reservations
@@JJMcCulloughYeah we are not saying your videos will not hold up. It would be nice to see you review your 10 year old predictions
The 'Ai sparkle' is such a great placement on this. I would've never thought of it being the next tech symbol
I saw a video about its origin somewhere on RUclips, but I do not remember who made it.
It looks like the Steelmark to me which is more than half century old.
David Imel from the MKBHD WVFRM pod.
I think one of those former Vox journalists had a video.
The answer is some guy in Japan
I personally don't think it's that amusing of a trend. Seems kind of like an industry plant or Mandela effect type of thing.
@@lajya01 Or the Subaru logo
Am i the only one who doesn't recognize this symbol at all?
While I’d add Luigi Mangione, I appreciate the restraint. I believe his trial in 2025 will be much more defining especially since the shooting was so late in 2024.
Mangione seems destined to go down as a folk anti-hero, similar to Jesse James or Bonnie and Clyde.
Yes. It is too soon to tell! Similar to Diddy, how the trial unfolds has a huge influence on the cultural impact.
i feel like it will be like the oj trial very publicized.
its possible but It happened so late in the year I think if the trial is very public like I think we all expect it to be, it will probably make next years
@@benjaminrobinson3842 That's not a good thing though. He wasn't just stealing, taking back what was his or whatever. He straight up murdered a guy.
Like, I'm all for vigilantism, but vigilante executions seemed pretty fucked in my opinion.
You are my “watch while eating” channel
I literally just ate dinner while watching this video!
Same right now😂
Me too! Some "videos" I can just listen to while puttering about the house. But for J.J., that just won't do. It's not just the fact that his content is highly visual; I've just got to have him bouncing on his bouncy ball to enjoy it to the max.
I just watched it during dinner!
RUclips must have heard me chewing when it decided to show me this comment.
I know this isn’t something as mainstream as it is to cinephiles, but it is noteworthy that in 2024, for the first time in cinema history, the top 10 highest grossing films of the year were all sequels (or somehow connected to a popular IP). I personally reject the popular notion that “Hollywood doesn’t make original films anymore” because they obviously do, but the saturation of blockbuster sequels this year was very notable.
Hollywood makes original films,but people don't watch them anymore,at least not in the theaters
That already happened in 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018 (If you count Bohemian Rhapsody as a popular IP), and 2017
What I find notable is that 2024 was the first year in a long while that almost all superhero films flopped either commercially, critically or both. The Crow, Kraven, Madame Web, Venom. Only Deadpool v Wolverine was watchable. I think the mainstream audience has tired of the big Marvel/DC/Star Wars films. I hope it happens with the Disney "CGI Real Life" films as well.
@@MartijnPennings the sony movies hardly count. the only MCU movie that came out was a big hit. a lot is riding on next year's movies for them, but I think the MCU is here to stay for a while longer
@@MartijnPennings I genuinely love citing MCU movies flopping with a lot of Gen Z as an example of "the kids might have different tastes than you" when having big, elaborate "oh my god the kids are killing (insert industry)!" conversations. Pretty much everyone under 25 seems to despise "Marvel Humor" in anything and often use it to mock Millennial tastes
I don't think memory of the Brat summer will stick around for that long, but I do think that the album cover will become one of the most iconic images of the 2020s. I'm struggling to think of the last time an album cover became so instantly recognizable and widespread, to the point that it became partially disconnected from the album itself.
I think this year proved just how smart Charli XCX is as a musical artist, and it wouldn't surprise me if her hyperpop style becomes EXTREMELY prolific and widespread over the next several years
@@larey9484 If you say so I guess. The album, and especially its singles, wasn't actually a huge success in terms of raw numbers. There will probably be a mini-trend of hyperpop for a while (and maybe it'll end up being like Lorde and Olivia Rodrigo, where the innovator gets critical acclaim but limited financial success and then some derivative wannabe gets huge with it), but I kinda think the cover will eclipse the music in the long run.
@ThisCommentWroteItself you have to remember that Charli is actually a great songwriter, and actually wrote some HUGE songs over the last few years (most recently, Selena Gomez's "Same Old Love" and Camila Cabello's "Señorita") - while it may not have been the best-selling album of the year, she got a huge amount of attention from a wider audience just through the Brat Summer meme, meaning she has nowhere to go but up from here
@larey9484 I hope you prove me wrong I guess. She is indeed a huge songwriter, but it's kind of a red flag that the songs she writes for other people that become successful aren't hyperpop. (I suspect you might be a Todd in the Shadows fan, and he has a great like about a Selena Gomez song he didn't like: 'This song was written by Charli XCX, which is how you know it sucks. If it was good, she would've sung it herself.')
@ThisCommentWroteItself I don't know, i think it shows me that she's a great artistic chameleon
I don't think this is new for 2024, because it's been around for a few years now, but one cultural artifact that is here to stay is "tier lists", and the term "S tier".
Yeah I thought tier lists would just be a fad and die down, but I feel like this year really defined it as a new form of ranking things that is here to stay.
i never really thought about that, its really hard to pinpoint exactly when tier lists became so mainstream but I think it is definitely not going anywhere
That's a good point. S-tier is such a common saying now.
The first 15 years of RUclips were dominated by top 10s. It’s interesting that it took so long for a new format to emerge. I think that if you’d tried to do a tier list in 2010 people would have called you out for not making a definitive ranking. Tier lists also happen to be more conversational in their presentation and easygoing in a way that top 10s never were
I feel like it also cemented the term “mid”.
Video Idea: How parody measures popularity
I find it fascinating how you can tell how popular something has become because of how much parodies of it can randomly be seen online.
It’s true!
I saw a Call of Duty billboard parodying the Kris Lindahl real estate ones. I had no clue his billboards were that well-known.
One thing I always use to gauge how popular something ACTUALLY ("fans") is vs how popular something SUPPOSEDLY ("critics") is "are people making memes about/involving this?"
Also Weird Al
@@JJMcCullough Thank you, I feel like nobody talks about the evolution of measuring popularity it went from people, to references, to ratings, and now to parody.
@@SchwarbageTruck It seems Weird Al retired though. He's not doing concerts anymore at the very least.
The pride flag has lost its original meaning. It just meant diversity. The individual lines don’t actually refer to specific groups. Adding these extra bits ruins the original intended message that already included them.
this. The rainbow includes us all, nitpicking and fighting between us is just stupid. Every group has its own flag too so i dont see the problem, I like my non binary flag as it is and I feel represented by the rainbow. Also adding the colour black/brown/a circle? in a rainbow? have u guys ever seen one? Maybe we should use a white flag so everyone can imagine whatever colour/symbol they feel represents them better lol
Originally the country flag meant for everyone. Now with pride flags is feels more exclusionary than anything. Only certain people are allowed to be represented and people try to use the flag as a weapon. It also looses companies money as people who are political tend to just go to the competition.
@@gabrield4892 I think what happens is that people tend to asociate patriotism with current politics, therefore most queer people might feel detached form the USA flag because of the homophobic/transphobic political agenda. I think the flag belongs to all north americans and refusing to embrace it now, while seems like a no-brainer, its like surrendering. Here in Argentina the word Liberty (libertad) is a very important one because of our history, its included even at the core of our national anthem. But because so many people feel rejection for the current government they disregard the word, they mock the usage of it. We claimed our liberty, we are free, we can and will use the word as much as we feel like
@@Hunter-m3u3f A white flag would indicate surrender to hatred. We lose.
Yeah I think there's a reluctance to remove or leave out any group out of an abundance of caution on the part of liberal progressives, but it will get to a point where it basically just collapses in on itself with too many different symbols and colours. The rainbow already represented all the groups that have been clumsily tacked on to the flag (like black LGBTQ people, intersex people, trans people etc.), so every increasingly specific subgroup needing it's own particular section just undermines the purpose of a rainbow flag in the first place and makes it increasingly useless as a symbol.
If Luigi Mangione inspires copycat killers amid growing wealth inequality and a shrinking middle class, it'll surely become a Netflix series in 20 years, complete with ominous music.
The middle class in the US is only "shrinking" in the sense that more middle class people are moving to the upper class in terms of income and wealth, not down.
@@JonasSalkonly the ones able to grow in wealth. Those whom are stagnant are moving down. Not all middle class people are the rich enemy number one.
Lol I give it 20 weeks
@@JonasSalk This is just wrong. Social mobility has been going down for a long time, and wealth inequality has been growing as well. Additionally, real wages have gone down.
Why would either of those facts mean that a bunch of middle class people did not gain wealth and become upper class? You could still have a net decrease in social mobility with that being true.
A couple of things to note on your section about Concord:
1. The budget was likely much higher than the 100 million dollars you said. The budget has been reported as being as high as 400 million dollars (with or without the acquisition the studio is unclear). The lowest estimate appears to be 200 million dollars (via Kotaku), with that budget not being enough to complete the game. Regardless, the budget was astronomically high and it made quite literally none of it back, as they issued refunds for the game after a week. The flop is especially shocking since it came off a year of other high profile bombs. The Suicide Squad game and the Ubisoft produced Skull and Bones were also high profile flops this year, and they've all been eclipsed by the magnitude of Concord's.
2. The game's historic failure is probably not going to penetrate the mainstream audience. It's almost assuredly going to be remembered and discussed for years in gaming circles, but the failure of Concord isn't as storied or interesting as E.T's or the Virtual Boy's. E.T became a representation of the video game crash of 1983, while the Virtual Boy remains to this day Nintendo's oddest failure and the novelty of the console was enough to have people remember it. Concord is just another live service game failing, albeit in a much more spectacular fashion. It's possible that the game's failure leads to hesitancy in the development of similar live service games in the future, but I'm doubtful of this happening.
With companies like Ubisoft potentially downsizing or being bought out, I wouldn't be surprised if it was considering a starting point for a smaller videogame crash.
*while still only mattering to gamers.
The word Concord had literally become a verb for failure on the internet, similar to how people say “Google It”. It’s also been seen as an example of “Go woke, go broke”.
@@gabrield4892 Funny, because I'd literally never heard of it before this video (and I am a gamer). Maybe only people that play online games care? Solo or coop only here.
@gabrield4892 ive been (was? I havent had a pc since march) a gamer for a decade plus and theres not a person i could mention it to that would know what we're talking about. Nobody knows or gives a s about concord. Because many video games have fallen into relative cultural irrelevance like movie releases. If it was 2006 we'd ALL know every big/regular movie that released that year, but now you only know about one or two like Dune every year and every oscar winning movie is some niche whatever that nobody saw. We live in bubbles now. And games do legitimately just suck so hard these days that a historically game addicted nerd like me was fine with not having them in my life. Wake me up if OG mw2/bo1/new vegas ever happens again. Until then I'm not interested in A)cringey marvel vibe children baby stuff or B)incompetency on a billion dollar scale with record breaking AAA projects that cant function and are technically fundamentally broken
We would not have these cultural rifts and harsh cultural rheotric about social issues if video games and other media were as good as they were 15 years ago. End of story. The lack of a genuinely good shooter like MW2 and the lack of fun mid budget comedies like Superbad are bigger driving factors of our infighting than people realize.
I could definitely see Luigi Mangione becoming a sort of aesthetic icon long-term (sort of like Che Guevara’s face on t-shirts and mugs). For good or for bad, people tend to project their politics, ideals, hopes, fantasies, not to forget lust - onto extraordinarily charismatic figures like him.
That makes a lot of sense.
Is he that charismatic? i know he has "craven white boy face", which has appeal among young female quarters strongly and mildly at-large, but I have never heard him talk or seen his writing. It seemed more like projection by populists of charisma onto the man, judging by how immediately and ravenously a lot of people online were fawning over him.
@@RickJaeger As opposed to Che Guevara?
@@SamAronow Never met Che, dunno that much about him.
Hope not
As for a good comparison for a "faddish and underwhelming era" I'd pick the genomics era from ca. 1995-2005, the cloning of Dolly the Sheep and the completion of the Human Genome Project made a lot of people very excited and scared, while advancements in genetics are here to stay (they can take credit for how we got the COVID vaccine so soon after it was discovered of course) it's just not something you hear people talking much about these days nor is it something that's so ubiquitous it's just become a part of the background.
I don't know if AI will become that but I could certainly imagine it.
That's a great observation. I remember how much everyone was freaking out about cloning at the time, Congress even rammed through anti-cloning legislation which then led to some libertarian-types declaring that China would become a cloning superpower. And now... no one ever brings it up.
@JJMcCullough I do realize a difference with AI is that genetics was not nearly as accessible to consumers, and even today AI is more accessible since most websites give you the basics for free.
@JJMcCullough hey, at least it got us Clone High.
Star Trek Enterprise of the 2000s brought back the Eugenics Wars as a plot point to talk about it (even though by then the Eugenics Wars were supposed to have happened 5 years before the show aired and so were totally ignored in previous shows and seasons)
@@TheAlexSchmidtDon't forget Metal Gear Solid
I never expected JJ to use "Kendrick's withering bars" in a sentence 😂
lmao
your example of flash in the pan technologies reminded me of the 3D fad. 3D was EVERYWHERE for a few years in the early 2010s (3D TVs, every big movie premiering in 3D, the 3DS) and then just completely died out a couple years later. i think people realised it was a novelty that didn’t really add anything to the experience, meant you had to have the glasses on hand and gave some people headaches. combined with the rise of streaming on laptops/phones and the decline of traditional TV sets, it was never really destined to stick around.
The 3DS was also part of the early 2010s 3D fad. It was a selling point of the console yet a few years later Nintendo released a 2D version of the console, essentially admitting 3D was a fad.
It became VR/AR which will become more widestream as the optics/weight shrink
Still lovin' my 8 track.
3D is a fad that happens every couple of decades. I'm sure we will see the next iteration come 2030 or 2040
Dude, 3D has been going in and out of fashion since the 1950s.
The pride flag has gotten super ridiculous by this point. It just looks overcrowded. The rainbow was inclusive enough. Not to mention that it's weird to feature colors related to race on a flag that's about sexuality and gender identity. Does that mean that the other colors of the flag represent different races now too? XD
Agreed, I think all the constantly changing variants cheapen the symbolism of the rainbow. It works perfectly as an abstract representation of diversity and inclusivity - once you start explicitly including specific sub-communities it turns what was an all inclusive symbol, into one that can never be inclusive enough.
The progress flag sorta grew on me but this one looks way too overcrowded
JJ's previous video about it was really good as I remember, because the issue is a bigger one, I think, just about symbolism in general. I feel like I'm repeating some of what he said, but it's just odd because the first pride flag was symbolic, the colors didn't reflect anything specific, but the later additions do.
This is going to be maybe an odd thing to say, but it reminds me of the argument of "soft magic" in a fantasy world. An argument that you just don't need to explain everything in a fantasy world, but once start then you have to explain EVERYTHING. So once you add a representation for one group then you have to add symbols for every group.
What do you expect from a bunch of attention-seeking narcissists?
I agree, it's like when Europe almost went with the worst flag ever to include everyone's colors. I think it's time to make a generic flag ment to include everyone with a single symbol. Same thing for the LGBT thing that never ceases to change it's length. I don't even include A in it because I consider myself part of the group whatever my smaller group is included or not.
Personally i think 2024 will be known as the year "You should care about the Olympics again" after a lull from roughly 2016-2022. Mainly as the Paris Olympics held seemingly the most cultural clout since Beijing & brought the Olympics into the "Social Media age" and will probably set up L.A 2028 to be a massive event globally.
It's depressing that the Winter Olympics of 2014 and 2022 are most notable for the Russian invasions of Ukraine shortly after the games ended....
Where do you get this idea that nobody cared about London or Rio? I've never heard this before
@wiiztec London was huge acutally. But Rio had a lot of people who thought it would fail and didn't have the hype as previous ones. Not to mention, the presidential election was much more interesting compared to most election cycles.
@@wiiztec London 2012 mattered a whole lot, but being in the English speaking world probably didn't feel as exotic or new, Rio is probably most notable for the post-Olympic decline of its stadiums, I feel like the image of the drained algae filled swimming pool is its biggest cultural impact, and I remember the media trying to push the same narrative on Pyeongchang, Tokyo was on during Covid and pretty much immediately a write-off, and so was Beijing 2022 under the Zero-Covid policy
Well, viewing of the opening/closing ceremony in my country fell to record lows in 2024… I think now it’s just gonna be digital highlights and social media instead of watching together as a family in front of the TV
I’m surprised the Biden debate got no mention in the politics section. I feel like every time presidential debate season rolls around, we are gonna hear a tiring amount about it
That’s true
I think that’s true for the next presidential debates, but I’m not sure if that’s still going to be a major discussion in a decade. I feel like very few presidential debates have that much cultural staying power
@@alexreid1173the presidential debate for 2028 is going to be so bad.😂😂 Because we already seen what Trump could do and I don't know if there's any surpassing that😂😂 presidential debates are going to be so depressing now...😂😂 Hell who knows maybe we'll get another Trump... 😂😂😂 Maga gang🇺🇸
I can only think of one US presidential debate which has had any lasting cultural impact, which is Kennedy v. Nixon. That was impactful not because of Nixon’s underperformance, but because it was the first time these debates were nationally televised.
Also maybe 'THEY'RE EATING THE DAWGS'
I want to see a video where JJ highlights how his changing hairstyle over the years has enriched the culture of his Award Winning Video Cannon
The ever changing hair has always been a highpoint of his style.
I'd actually like to see him do not only an exploration of how he chooses his hairstyles, but also a closet tour and his opinions on men's fashion. He's said in the past he is a huge fan of fashion, but he hasn't touched on it much in his past videos
He should make bobble heads or something with all of his different hair (head and face) styles
@@wiiztec I want a customizable JJ paper doll animation now. Like those old flash dress up games… man, I freaking loved those lol. That’s some internet age nostalgia ripe for parody!
One person I'd add: Caitlin Clark.
I know this channel doesn't talk about sports very much, but her emergence (and the success of the WNBA/women's sports in general after her breakout) was HUGE this year, and will absolutely loom large in culture in the years to come when we talk about women's sports.
There are some special athletes who end up being some of the biggest figures in American culture, regardless of if you know about sports. Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan hover above everyone else in that regard, but there are other megastars like LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Michael Phelps, Serena Williams, etc whom you might be surprised if someone's never heard of them. To me Caitlin Clark cemented her status in that group, and her stardom is only gonna get bigger as time goes on.
If you're someone who doesn't follow sports and you've never heard of her, that would shock me, since she was easily the most talked-about non-politician in any of my content platforms.
Agreed! Caitlin is very likely to be one of the big mega sports stars in the future.
@@krim7It'll be interesting to see if her fame will be enough to popularize women's sports in general.
I'll be honest I don't know anything about her, but I honestly hope we see that women's sports get more popular in general especially since there's just so much room to grow in terms of popularity. It'd be a shame to not see them get more attention.
I agree, there seems to be a lot more interest in a variety of women’s sports! It’s awesome!
Never heard of her (but I'm an European)
Right now there's some far removed kid from the year 2250 reading about Trump in their history class. And liking him merely because their homework got slightly more entertaining.
That's me now with the news and a fan of us history.
It is kind of funny to think that in 200 years time, Trump might be looked at how we look at Napoleon today, as just another bombastic funny man from history. With us having long forgotten just how **hated** both figures were in their time.
That isn't how the word "now" works. Also that is a very optimistic but simultaneously concerning and paradoxically pessimistic outlook on the future. Like you believe humanity will survive another 200+ years but you don't think that we will find some better way of educating children to replace homework.
@@GAHAHAHH I'm sorry but homework has existed for hundreds of years and it'll probably stay for at least a few hundred more, you need to chill.
@@maiapawley8757 Don't get me started on the education system. Homework was just an example that I assumed wouldn't be controversial to imply that school would or should get rid of the concept of making children take their "learning" with them outside of school when they should be focused on making connections with friends and family or just all around having a happy childhood.
And again don't even get me started on the history of homework or how it was used or what some of the more experimental educational systems are finding is working in present day.
I didn't come here to argue but did you not consider that maybe it is you who "needs to chill"? For one thing you are missing the forest for the trees and making my comment out to be about something different, the actual subject matter I will not not repeat and will not be discussing any further but lets just say I believe it would be dangerous to "chill out" about it. Finally what did you expect to happen when you give a response like that? You don't have to disagree with everyone you come across, you could have just "chilled out" and ignored my comment. Something tells me you haven't been studying what happened in the past in nor have you done any research or read about research on what might happen in the future, 200 years is a long time and you can't just assume it is like present day in either direction.
Can you make a series where you talk about things that people thought were culturally significant but were quickly forgotten???
These would make great videos
I think Diddy was a good choice because of how his name became a word that means unsavory things happened to you. Such as being "Diddied."
Or “no diddy”
and it's similar to 'diddler' too :)
I would say the pro-Palestine campus protests/encampments were a major cultural event that will be remembered given the levels of support and opposition they engendered, how much the Israel-Palestine conflict dominated the public conversation for much of the year (it became an identifier for people to put Israel or Palestine flags on their social media accounts and it was something that public figures were pressured to weigh in on), and their place in the broader canon of left-wing protest movements like the anti-Vietnam protests, Occupy Wall Street, and BLM. I think many Americans would recognize symbols like the Palestinian flag, the watermelon as a symbol of pro-Palestinian sentiment, and the keffiyeh, while before this year that wouldn’t have been the case.
the political emoji canon should have a database by now if it doesn't already, as lots of people use emojis in their social media display name to identify themselves as being in different ideological groups. this year we gained 🍉 for palestine supporters as you mentioned, and 🎗 for israel
Oh that? Never really paid attention to it
Agreed. This is definitely the most important issue of 2024 and probably of this decade
Most people remember it for the protestors being entitled brats who demanded the universities bring food to them so they didn't have to leave the protest lmao. Those other protests actually affected this country, the Israel/Palestine thing really doesn't, so most people don't care.
@@carlosa643 No it's not, not to the US. The shrinking middle class is the most important issue of this decade.
I’m a big gamer, and never even heard of Concord. Granted, I am primarily plugged into the Nintendo scene, but it goes to show the diversity of the Gaming community, and how little different parts of the gaming community interact.
Yeah, it's interesting. I primarily follow sinlge player and co-op games on PC (and some on Switch). I hadn't heard of it either.
Concord “resonated” with gamers who are interested in the gaming industry and those who are in tune with social media. I vaguely heard of it before the release, but it only became a huge internet discussion piece after the servers shut down (less than a month after launch btw). It was such an expensive corporate flop it quickly became a joke and a symbol of soulless corporate media in the same vein movies like Morbius was. There have been a few soulless corporate games that became infamous the past few years, but Concord is the one that trumps all of them imo. That could be recency bias, but I’d be surprised if another game flops harder than Concord in the near future. It’s that astonishingly bad.
There are a lot of AAA video game flops this year. Star Wars Outlaws, Skull and Bones, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Assassin's Creed Shadows was supposed to release this year, but after so many controversies they have to push back the release date to February 2025
@@giraffestreetI suppose Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown could also make the list as well because while that game did get a positive reception, it was held back by the fact it was a 2D action game released in one the slowest commerical months of the year.
I am extremely chronically online and this is literally the first time I have ever heard of Concord
Same
@@michaeltnk1135not online enough it would seem
@@JJMcCullough Maybe there is hope for me lol. Tbf I’m not on the “video games news” side of the internet
Same. But I hadn't heard of most of these, and only know the demure bit by proxy (since I have RUclips on almost all the time).
@@michaeltnk1135It’s this. If you don’t care about the gaming industry and all the internet discussions around it, you probably wouldn’t know about Concord. The internet isn’t exactly known for having a long attention span either. Concord is not a game most people actually played cause the servers went down less than a month after release. It’s not discussed as a bad experience, because almost nobody played it. It’s discussed as a corporate product that epitomizes a lot of people’s frustration with the current game industry. It’s like a fictional parody of a popular game from 5 years ago.
2024 was a crazy year in politics
Fascism, ba-bee! It’s back and it’s here to stay! Hoo-fuckin’-ray!!!
Understatement of the year lol
@@etienneleroi9515ohhh shush you, fascism is not coming back
@@etienneleroi9515why didn’t he govern as a fascist last time
In each generation had a Kennedy theory, you missed John Kennedy Jr who founded George Magazine before dying in a plane crash.
oh true
I would personally disagree with this, since the magazine no longer exists, and even when it did, it appealed and was marketed to a VERY small clientele. The same can't be said about GQ or Esquire cuz they market themselves as more accessible to the "common folk"
Feels to me like his biggest impact was just being a hot young guy who died too young, like a classic gone too soon 'sex symbol' (at least in Elaine's eyes)
@@albertmiller2electricbooga897 "It was John-John."
"Hello Friends" you know the content is gonna be good
Award winning good!
I get that "brat" may feel like the epitome of a fleeting trend, but it's part of a broader resurgence of American female pop singers. Sabrina, Chappell, and Charli all feel like new additions to the "American pop girl Cannon" that's codified in all kinds of stan twitter memes and graphics. They also feel like a set reminiscent of "Britney, Christina," and have achieved the same first name status.
Charli is not American.
@ The other two are and it’s about significance to American culture.
@TheKingOfBeans - something can be non-american and still have a lot of influence over American culture. Like Pokemon would totally be in JJ's list if he made it back in the 90s.
I feel that Harris’s failed campaign for President will be used for years as justification for avoiding switching out an unpopular incumbent. Similar to how the “McGovern” is used as a shorthand for a candidate that is thought to be too radical.
I feel the Biden/Harris flop is that start of the Democrats realizing that the Obama era of safe moderate politics is over and if they want any chance of beating the Republicans then they need to lean into the left-wing populism that has been growing within the American Left such as Bernie Sanders and AOC. I feel the lull period between the 2024 election and the 2028 election will be a period of reflection and evolution for the Democrat party to break out of their moderate safe Obama style of progressivism and go full in on left wing populism in order to combat the already established right-wing populism.
Or, Biden being taken out in favor of Harris will set a precedence for doing so in the future. Harris lost, but it was not a landslide by measure of popular vote. Regardless I think you're right that it will be important in the future.
@@taylorphillips7030republicans winning the popular vote is basically a landslide
I think that Concord will be forgotten simply because major flops basically never stick in the mainstream cultural consciousness. Even "famous" flops like aforementioned John Carter or the ET game (or Heaven's Gate which famously bankrupted a major film studio and arguably led to a big shift in how films were made) are more like niche subculture knowledge than a part of mainstream cultural literacy.
A flop by definition doesn't get consumered by many people, so not many people care to remember or discuss it or be influenced by it. Sometimes it can get renewed life as a cult classic later (like Blade Runner) but that's not possible when the game has literally been taken offline
It's strange watching this video and reading comments about stuff that'll be remembered for years to come when this is the first time I'm hearing about some of these things.
What were the things you havent heard of here im curious
It's still really odd to me just how much of a nosedive the reputation of A.I. has taken in the last few years. I certainly remember growing up in an era where there were well established tropes surrounding A.I. - it was science fiction that paradoxically felt imminent, it was awe inspiring and existentially terrifying, so much thought provoking fiction and philosophy was engendered by the debates surrounding it. Now we have "A.I." (albeit in the form of generative A.I., as opposed to any kind of artificial sentience) and it mostly provokes a deep seated disgust and eye-rolling irritation in me. Maybe it isn't helped that a lot of the people embracing and advocating for A.I. within industries and creative fields and society at large, tend to be massive dickheads - and that's before you even bring up the disturbing number of fascistic cranks and weirdoes frothing themselves up into a masturbatory frenzy over the ugly end product of generative A.I.
Yeah it's weird isn't it? I think it's also because AI has become synonymous with laziness and low-quality, so even at its best, it's hard for people to feel good praising it.
@@JJMcCullough I just can't think of many instances where I've looked at generated art and thought "wow, that looks great" or even "this could pass a real art". Don't get me wrong, seeing the bizarre results of early image prompts was fascinating stuff, I even mucked about Dall-E and other prompting tools when they went mainstream, because the resultant images were undeniably surreal. I rapidly felt a lot guiltier once I realized exactly how those images are generated and the environmental cost of doing it.
"This seems like it was written/generated by AI!" has quickly become a cliched line in negative reviews.
Another artist blaming AI for not having enough work and using environmental cost as a reason at the same time as using RUclips.
@@southcoastinventors6583 < I've upset an AI bro, it seems.
It's not that hermaphrodite is an offensive term, but that it describes only one of the great variety of intersex conditions that exist. It would be like calling all pasta panini.
I think hermaphrodite, I think Alpha Centauri from Doctor Who
Hey JJ, I dont know if you remember me but I was in the grey suit asking you for a photo at the future voters summit. I just wanted to thank you for that as I will always remember that photo. Thank you so much!
Yo, JJ. I had an idea for a video topic I think would fit in your ‘canon’ series. What about one on the stereotypical pieces of classic literature you are supposed to read in (American) High School? Your 1984s, your Shakespeareses, your odysseys… it could be fun.
I recently came across the idea after asking some of my foreign friends what books were in their canon since I wanted to be culturally literate when speaking with them, and it just kinda hit me that this would be the perfect topic for you.
Also I always like your end of year recaps. This was not an exception!
My Canadian relatives were visiting & started to explain the current political situation.
They were blown away when I declared that I was “well-aware” & proceeded to summarize your recent video on it.
Their jaws dropped when they realized how well informed I was.
Should I spoil the secret & let them know that I’m a subscriber? 😂😂😂
I had to get drunk on soju and make jambalaya and hang out with my mother on New Year's Eve instead of finding out what 2024 added to the cultural canon just before the ball drops!
it's been an informative year and two months of JJ videos for me. Congrats on your ten year milestone JJ.
Teehee thanks for the like JJ #humblefan #fuzzyinside
This video is so, so great, the visuals were so cute and the picks were really creative, insightful and I think are gonna hold up well. Tge best video in my favourite RUclips series, it was soooooo worth the wait.
Two things I would have added:
1) Caitlin Clark: Her rise to superstardom, cultural elevation of an entire sport, and subsequent backlash from within the WNBA are the stuff of legend. She is arguably the most famous basketball player, male or female, right now. Her rise to the top will be studied for future generations.
2) Indie animation: The rise of animation on RUclips is a godsend for the medium which is struggling in cinemas now. We arguably had our first mainstream web animation with Amazing Digital Circus, which is getting hundreds of millions of views and is in syndication on Netflix. The success of Murder Drones, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, and Catching Up signify a sea change in the industry.
1) You must be joking if you think that Clark is anywhere near as famous as LeBron James, much less any other top NBA player. She is very far from a superstar in the broader world.
2) Indie animation remains a niche with a loud (and annoying) fan base. When the Wall Street Journal carries a review for the latest Digital Circus episode and middle aged people are talking about it over dinner, then you can say that it’s actually crossed over into the mainstream. Instead Hazbin Hotel is largely being consumed and discussed by horny Tumblr rejects.
@charlesevanshughes3638 1) Caitlin Clark does not need to be as famous as LeBron James to make it on the list. This list is a prediction, after all, and I'd surmise CC will end up just as famous as Serena Williams, arguably the most famous female athlete.
2) Once again, this is a prediction, so if indie animation is taking off with youth now and remains popular with the next generations, then it will become mainstream as its audience ages and the older generations exit the cultural realm.
Most famous basketball player? Ive never even heard of her.
Okay, I would probably say Caitlin is at least more famous than any of this year's NBA draft class.
This was the first year the final of the women's March Madness outdated the men's. And most eyes were in her. So clearly she is big enough to warrant at least a mention.
@charlesevanshughes3638 I genuinely think Clark's the most famous basketball player under 30 in America, and idk who you'd put ahead of her. More casuals know who she is than Tatum, Ant, Ja, Jokic, Giannis, SGA, and anyone else under 30 that I can think of. Sure, LeBron and Steph and KD are more famous than her, but she was EVERYWHERE in 2024, and she's only been playing pro basketball for like 6 months so she's just gonna grow in fame imo
5:13 he was literally the only one this cycle with a positive rating
Well there's some concensus about why Concord fail and there are 3 reasons why the game failedthat almost everyone agrees with.
1. The game was released on an over saturated market of game of the same genre (hero shooter) and people is tired of those unless you are really innovative or is from a really big recognizable IP like Marvel Legends which Concord was neither of those.
2.The game was 40 dollars on a market where all of the big competition is free to play like Overwatch, Paladins, Apex Legend,, Valorant and many other games, most people will not spend money on a game that they don't know it will succed or not and alos they will not drop the game they already play for a new one.
3.Character design it doesn't mater what the reason was a progressive agenda, or a power hungry lead artist that didn't take any suggestion or any other possible reason, the character design is unnapealing at best or bad at worst, a lot of devs forget that games is also a visual medium and the first impression is always how the game looks, and on a genre in which the playable character are the most important thing like Hero Shooters having unnapealing desgins is just bad more if we take into account that one of the biggest monetization avenues of thosse games are the sale of skins for character, and no one will buy skins for unnapealing looking character, also it didn't help that their designs didn't help the players to undertad what their role in the game is, no one looks like a medic in the game, nor like a dps or support, only the tanks look like tanks.
By the way in the third point about character design i'm not alluding that every character should be sezy and hot, because even if you want to make "ugly" looking characters you need to make them interesting like Boarhog and Ivy from Overwatch and Deadlock, the Concord character were just that unnapealing an ugly without being interestig.
what about Woke. A lot of people say it was because Woke.
@@JJMcCullough people are stupid
@@JJMcCullough I do agree that wokeness is the main reason why the character designs were unnapealing, the game had bigger problems than wokeness, i believe that the game would have still end up being a failure without the wokeness it would have lasted for maybe half a year of a year before being axed.
My criteria is "fixing this problem would make the game succeed" and if the answer is most likely yes then for me is a major reason why it failed, but if the answere is no then it's a minor reason.
It's also worth saying that from what I remember the game had barly any marketing and certenly no hype. Any tarction it got was from the right wing gamer crowd. That's why I doubt it will have any importance in the long term. It will stay as a dogwhistle for "go woke go broke" for some time but it somewhat fails in it's function in my opinion because no one on the left cares to protect it.
@@JJMcCulloughIt's part of the "ugly character design". Some people considered it "woke" because the assumption "woke" people don't like conventionally attractive looking characters. This is one of the aspects people compare Concord with Overwatch. Overwatch has more attractive looking characters, it's not a secret people fall in love with Overwatch character design. They love it so much it's one of the biggest p**n categories.
JJ, a few years down the line I think it would be cool if you made a video/segment analyzing and assessing some of these observations once enough time has passed.
Wikipedia says that only 0.02% to 0.05% of people are intersex, so they are much, much rarer than you stated.
yea its like 1 in 30,000
the UN says 1%
@@JJMcCullough The UN says up to 1.7%!
(Seeing this comment section heat up, I myself am not the biggest fan of citing the UN)
The number you cite is for genital ambiguity and does not include chromosomal ambiguity such as Klinefelter syndrome which is is 2 per mille (0.2%)... ten times more prevalent, and only one such condition.
@@JJMcCullough the fact you view the UN as a legitimate organization is joined at hip to your faulty worldview. you serve the old pre internet institutions.
the correct number is 1 in 30,000
The pride flag moves ever closer towards becoming to the Ohio state flag
Good book rec. It's crazy how only WW2 buffs and Holocaust-educated people know anything at all about, say, Reinhard Heydrich when he was so unbelievably wicked and consequential is kind of mind-boggling since Hitler is so famous that he almost transcends normal historical consciousness and exists as like an avatar of pure evil energy or something.
For another entry I might say the Chiefs. It feels like they took a big step in the breadth of their popularity/presence, between the Super Bowl and Kelce's relationship. Like the early 90s Cowboys are still "America's Team" and all that. I think people will still know these Chiefs in 2034 and 2044.
I also agree with this book rec. Nazi/Hitler comparisons are now used so lightly that I think we're forgetting how deep that rabbit hole went.
If the chiefs 3peat, definitely add them. Hopefully not, and the lions win it!
Only people that follow sports (I have zero idea what you are talking about). The days of sports and athletes being big household names seems to be a bit of a bygone thing. I can't name a "modern" ball player aside from Lebron James and Derek Jeter. And Jeter is solely due to my love of the Other Guys movie. Even among my physical peer group, no one cares about professional sports, only collegiate sports.
You can thank the decentralization of entertainment for that, as well as the ability to largely opt out of comercials. I know I do.
Besides mahomes, Kelce and Reid? Nah
You need to be in the weeds of basketball to remember more than MJ and maybe Phil Jackson and Scotty Pippen from the 3peat Bulls, but they're still a big deal. Ditto Herb Brooks, Mike Eruzione and maybe Jim Craig for the Miracle on Ice. Full rosters are never committed to everybody's memories, it's natural for a few faces and moments to stick out. But teams can enter the canon even if some people don't know about them just like someone might not be into pop music or Harry Potter or whatever.
Big budget mega-flops have been something of a theme lately. Despite being the biggest example, I don't think Concord will have the staying power. This era of poorly envisioned & over invested games might be remembered though. That's my take.
As a gay stripper in Portland, OR. I have NEVER seen that new pride flag...
Well then I guess it doesn't exist.
@JJMcCullough I'm not doubting it's existence. Im just surprised, and I'm not sure if it's truly replaced the old one.
I’m from SF and also a chronically online zoomer, so I’ve seen a lot of young progressive activist type stuff. I’ve seen the flag, but not often irl. The progress flag is practically the default here in SF though. I do think the intersex version will become more popular, but idk about full on replacing. I feel like folks are around their “breaking point”. I personally don’t think any more “advancements” to the flag will get that far in the mainstream, but time will tell I suppose.
Get help.
@@kingofcards9 ohh, I do. Plenty of closeted men help me by paying my bills 😘🏳️🌈
Quick Guesses before I watch the video!
-The 2024 Election
-Elon’s full turn into a Right-Wing figure
-Luigi/UHC Assassin
-New Catholic Church mascot
-Kendrick Lamar vs Drake
-Brat Summer
-Chappell Roan
-Hawk Tuah
And when they combine forces you get THE POWERPUFF GIRLS DUH DUH DUH DU DU DUH DU
Close!
I am excited about Luce the Pilgrim for the Catholic Jubilee, but I think her impact is a little too soon to tell. The Jubilee officially began on Christmas Eve this year and will conclude in late 2025, and there's still not a ton of merch of Luce or her friends available just yet. I think she and the other Jubilee characters will contribute towards a lot of evangelization though. I am a big appreciatior of traditional Catholic art but I do love new iterations like Luce too.
It's delusional to think that hailey welsh will be able to ride out her 15 mins of fame for much longer than she already has
Do people really not remember Musk resigning from the first Trump administration by June of the first year‽
19:14 Rich Evans jumpscare
Rich Evans wrote a book on hiltler? Oh my gaaaaaaaaaaaaaad
Concord will be the canary in the coal mine. Theres will be more massive video game flops to come
Paging Elder Scrolls 6 ...
There have been a ton of AAA games that failed in 2024. All of them have been labeled as woke and celebrated by gamers for failing. The result of voting with your wallet.
@@brodonnellYTelder scrolls 6 wont flop lol. Too much name power
@@noseblind2088 - Yeah, at most it'll be a disappointment. If it ever comes out.
I wish the 2018 flag remained the staple for the LGBT+ communities. it looks so much better than tacking on that one last symbol for the intersex people.
Some of your best animations yet! 👌
I absolutely LOVE your content oh my god. Every time I see you've released a new video, I already know it's going to be a masterpiece. Thank you for all the time you take to create such well researched and informational content!!
Boy, this certainly has felt like both the longest and shortest year of my life. I really hope 2025 returns to a “normal” pace.
They never do bud
With Trump? Sorry, bud, you will age 3x as much.
It's called getting old. Every year will look even more crazier and shorter and yet never seeming to end soon enough.
Lol, no one has a cheerful response.
the rise of the internet is not yet done. nothing normal will return until the old pre internet institutions are erased.
7:03 Literally RFKj brought it up at every rally every time he critiqued Trump and made him explain why and what was going to be different before he endorsed him. Now he’s the FDA head and can undo what he critiqued about Trump. The explanation was disingenuous to you maybe, but it absolutely bothered people and was a huge part of his campaign.
I swear JJ, been watching you since I was in freakin high school and I’m 24 now and idk what happened this year or if what’s going on in Canada broke you but quality seems down. I’m sure you followed the campaign well enough to know this stuff dude
hell even the young turks admitted biden not taking rfk jrs call was a dumb mistake his endorsement in exchange for a cabinet position would have helped him, trump took advantage rfk ran out of cash amd gave him a great deal most democrats still love the kennedys if one leaves you look bad.
The best pride flag is the original 🏳️🌈 I really dislike the *exclusion through inclusion* effect that adding new shapes and colors has on the flag. For every group added explicitly, many more may feel overlooked.
We won't be talking about Concord in a decade, but gaming executives sure will. MMO games aren't as exciting as they used to be, and the market has already been decided on what sells and what doesnt, so I think all the new MMO's of the latter half of the decade will be rehashing's of well selling 2000's IP's and never-ending constantly updating mega experiences like Fortnite and Roblox. The death of the ArtIst.
That's true. Management and investors look at these different games doing poorly and draw wildly strong conclusions about game genres or titles or practices. One big failure, and the common wisdom solidifies into "Nobody buys adventure games anymore" or "The future is VR and everyone wants one" or "We need motion capture for our consoles, bc the Wii did well" or "Real-time Strategy is a dead genre" or "Live service is the future forever."
We might be able to coin the phrase "biggest flop since Concord"
I feel like Concord has a strong potential to enter the vernacular of the gaming space over the next few years, especially when it comes to "dying" "dead" or failing games- probably in the use case of phrases like "Get Concord-ed" "Concord Syndrome" and the like.
As someone who very much enjoys videogames, Concord was for sure a big deal in the gaming world. A tech and gaming giant like Sony put $400 MILLION into a game nobody asked for and, it didn't even make enough money to keep the lights on for the studio that made it. It shows that even the biggest projects can fail while also calling attention to the severe lack of awareness by these large publishers. The industry is suffering and amazing dev studios are constantly being bought by these giants and shut down. With any luck, Concord will be a wakeup call for them.
“Felon” misdemeanor charges pushed into “felonious” charges which is dumbfounding
Why is nobody questioning JJ's moustache‽
Is that what that is? I thought he just forgot to wash his face.
And his book recommendation to go along with it 🤣🤣
i didnt even notice until i saw this comment WHAT 😩
As a huge RedLetterMedia fan, it was such a weird moment at the end to find out there's an author named Richard Evans who writes about such serious topics.
Oh, so that’s what all the snickering comments have been about
6:55 the difference is Trump never went for a mandate the same way Biden and Dems did.
Was just about to type this. Yeah what a wild “irony” from JJ. Especially when he brings up the mandates as the issue just 10 seconds prior. False equivalency that does not hold weight.
I think we would all love a video about your book recommendations, JJ! Like a top 5 or top 10 or something?
Great video, thanks for the 2024 summary :)
Really loved the art in this one! Especially the sprites in the Honourable Mentions.
Thanks! My friend @@suitNtie22 did them!
@@CeeJayLerod 😎 thanks chad
I'd say NIL too. This felt like the first real year where we see college athletes with millions of dollars and people using sporting success as a way to launch themselves into greater social media fame instead of the sport itself being the end goal
Which is to say several decades from now people will be talking about the latest NIL deals
Me: :(
JJ: Hello Friends!
Me: :)
never thought i would see JJ talk about "not like us" by kendrick lol
Why took until December to talk about it
"It was hyped as the next Overwatch."
Unfortunately for Sony, they were the only ones hyping it.
Yeah
Honestly I feel like the attempt on Trump won’t have that much of a long-term impact. once it was found out that the perpetrator most likely just had “standard” mass sh00ter motivations and wasn’t really on either side of the political extremes, the media seemed to lose interest pretty quickly
But the photo
@JJMcCullough I don't think the photo will have lasting impact. I don't think it did, much past the convention. BTW JJ how about a piece about you all becoming our next state. As pan-Can./US culture maven you are uniquely qualified to disect this issue. Perhaps a run for governor ?
Teddy Roosevelt’s assassination attempt is still remembered 113 years later, and that assassin was also a nutcase.
@@JJMcCullough yes the photo is pretty iconic I'll give you that
@@charlesevanshughes3638 Of course it'll be remembered, I just personally don't think it'll cause any major shifts in the cultural zeitgeist
20:10 Richard J. Evans is a brilliant writer and a top notch Spacecop.
Is Richard J. Evans replacing Rich Evans?
@ yes. Rich Evan’s is moving over to the Ellen Degenerous show full time.
I feel there's a big thing in the world of entertainment and gaming which will far surpass Concord in its cultural impact: Arcane and the release of its second and final season, for a few reasons:
1. It hit the peak of its popularity this year (according to Google Trends), ranking first in Netflix's Top 10 chart in 52 countries, meaning most people have only just heard of it despite its first season making waves in 2021.
2. It cost $250 million dollars to make, making it the most expensive animated series ever produced (at least according to the headlines) and second most expensive animated production ever (on par with Lion King and only behind Tangled in its cost).
3. Its groundbreaking animation style, which combined 2D, 3D; digital, traditional; western and eastern techiques to redefine what the medium can and should look like, arguably even more than the Spiderverse movies.
4. It is probably the biggest artistic work to fully embrace the Steampunk genre both in its aesthetic and its themes, meaning the already big movement will become even more well-known thanks to the series.
5. Its artstyle is already being used to teach anatomy to new art students, as it simplifies the complex patterns of the human body into elegant and geometric shapes which are easy to replicate (at least from what I've heard from some artists, I can't corroborate as I'm not one myself).
6. Its enticing narrative, characters and worldbuilding; which manage to say something profound about almost every major contemporary sociopolitical discussion such as family, mental health and trauma, gender and sexuality, inequality and class conflict, the cost of technological progress, loneliness, etc. These themes being further enriched by the hidden systems of symbolism in the series' fashion, color usage and even animals.
Despite the mixed reception of its second season, I believe it will become a 21st century classic that will be studied for generations.
I think Vance will stay around. His rise in popularity from universally unpopular to around 50/50 is impressive to me, and his speaking ability would provide a break from the poor speech skills (or atleast formal speech skills).
Other than that, I really agree with the idea of Tech Oligarchs becoming a well known term in 2024.
For concord, I think it depends on if the games industry has a kind of crash. I think if we do, it’ll become a symbol of it, much like ET did.
You seem uniquely suited to answer this question. 🍈 What's going on with the little T stem on top of depictions of cantaloupes in Japan? No one else puts the stem on top of cantaloupes. Why is the cantaloupe stem so iconic in Japan and nowhere else?
It's just how they like 'em. Cantaloupes are very expensive in Japan so they need to look pretty to justify the cost.
@@JJMcCulloughJJ is a pan pacific RUclips empire
It is still too early to tell what the consequences will be, but the fall of the Assad regime in Syria will definitely be one of the more significant events for the whole world
Trump was prevented by the Secret Service from repeating Theodore Roosevelt’s flagrant badassery in 1912 of giving the speech after being shot. The gun was fairly low powered, and the bullet went through a folded 20 page speech, but did lodge in TR’s chest.
2:20 He can't pardon himself for the NY convictions. The President can only pardon Federal crimes, not state crimes. Also, even after a pardon a person is still legally held to have done the crime, or still to be a history of conviction regardless of the eventual pardon.
That little nod about Curtis Yarvin in the JD Vance section was a topic I feel like should be discussed more when talking about Vance but I fear that many people don’t appreciate what a threat that man’s ideas actually present
JJ has never looked more done with America than in this thumbnail. I'm sure he'll bounce back.
Like many around the world, my sense is that he loves Americans yet is often baffled by us.
@@brodonnellYT I still understand where JJ is coming from. He's not blindly in love with the States and everything that's happened to it. He's stated very plainly his dislike for Trump, and his disappointment with his re-election. But JJ has also articulated an idea I've held for a long time; namely that the USA and Canada are incredibly close, and despite all of our disagreements, we're better off as strategic allies and trade partners than the alternative. If you don't live in Canada, you must also understand how dominate American news and culture is for us - to the degree where our own day-to-day politics are often blatently ignored. There's a sense shared by some people here that where America goes, Canada follows. That's not always the case, particularly in our governmental policies, but it's a big enough incentive to keep ourselves invested in their goings on, and foster a positive relationship whenever needed.
I can't believe that this video doesn't have more views by now, it's amazing!
16:02 whyd you have the frame of kendrick having a kanye deepfake on himself 😭😭😭 had me dying
From the music video
@@jaydavis1746The Heart, Part 5 [Kendrick rapped from the perspective of different black figures: some referenced (OJ, Kanye, Jussie Smollet, Will Smith) had a more notorious reputation than the others (Kobe, Nipsey Hussle)]
Even though you have explicitly stated your political beliefs, JJ, I appreciate the work you do in staying non partisan in many of your videos. Here's to another 10 years! 🎉
I was just wondering when this year’s edition would be coming out! Can’t wait to watch this
bro implied that changing the flag for lgbtqia2sxyz+ for the tenth time in a row was more of a significant event than luigi popping off on one of the biggest leeches in the world💀💀💀
grass, please touch it.
I still can't believe some people were so self centered as to think a rainbow wasnt inclusive enough
I think the problem was assigning each color an identity in the first place
Never knew anyone tried to do that. Not my bubble
I think it came from an honest attempt to tackle racism inside the gay community AND acknowledge the contributions of gay black people to the LGBT movement (stonewall)... This sorta spun out of control.
Additionally, the defining debate of current decade seems to be trans rights so they got more visibility on the flag to directly tie the communities together politically.
I still think the pink pride flag is my favorite haha :)
@@avalonwarriormage35 they coulda just added a black and a pink stripe on the top/bottom or on the sides and not made an ugly ass flag. Or they could have tackled racism without ruining the original flag which was basically perfect
Adding brown and black to it just made the flag look incredibly ugly. Saying this should not mark someone as racist. They took a well established flag (been around for literally DECADES), made it objectively uglier, and in changing it implied thatpeople preferring the old flag aren't being "inclusive" and trivialized the whole concept of the pride flag.
Like we have individual flags for trans people, gay people, lesbians, intersex, etc. What's wrong with having a main pride flag with all the colors of the rainbow, and none of the colors representing anything in particular, and flying individual flags as needed?
Just shows how off the rails and individualist identity politics have become in the past decade. Ultimately results in more hurt feelings and vying for visibility than actual feelings of solidarity.
So one of the things that's pretty interesting in regards to Steamboat Willie entering public domain: a BIG part of why so many pop culture brands (eg Disney, Marvel, DC Comics, ect) keep "updating" certain characters or having them "pass the torch" is basically to attempt to extend copyright. There's other reasons, but at least I've heard a lot about this being one of the big ones.
So for example, beloved multimedia franchise of Comics Co, "The Amazing Superdude", Mild Mannered Reporter Jim Johnson who by night fights crime as Superdude passes on the torch to fellow reporter John Jimson who now fights crime as the new Superdude who looks almost identical to the last one - that now allows Comics Co to keep Superdude out of public domain for another 70-150 years while allowing them to aggressively sue people using the old nearly identical Superdude who is now in public domain.
A lot of this is all very speculative and will be sorted out in future lawsuits.
A tradition I look forward to from JJ
This is a really awesome retrospective, I think a lot of this will be long remembered. Makes me want to go back and see how the previous ones stood up
How the Hell do you remember John Carter of Mars?
The novel "A Princess of Mars" dates back to 1912, it's not just a forgotten film.
I actually really enjoyed the movie when it came out - I think it got unfairly slandered in the press just cuz it wasn't "what the public was expecting"
Lynn Collins gave us a memorably fetching Dejah Thoris.
@@larey9484 Nah, it was a mess of a movie. Not particularly offensive in any way, but entirely boring and forgetable. In either case, mediocrity is a larger failure than simply being bad. There are many people that love terrible movies, but there are few people that hold boring movies close to heart.
John Carter the movie was a mess but the Princess of Mars franchise has a really strong sub-culture and has influenced generations of authors & creators.
The animations and graphics in this video were incredible! Such a great job jj!
you're good shit JJ
Thank you for the book rec! (Maybe next year you can make it a top 5, or do occasional book rec videos.)
Happy new year!
Actually, the vaxxxx from the trump administration did indeed bother quite a lot of people, J.J. Hence, the tactic of bringing in RFK to balance the ticket. He's the appeal to the part of the coalition that was very critical of Trumps handling of 2020 and the madness of that time. Him being such a skeptic on big pharma and healthcare in America helps assuage peoples fears of a repeat of those policies.
My primary association with the name "Concord" will always be a German grocery store of the same name that existed in my hometown during my childhood.
If you can't tell why concord failed then you're being willfully ignorant.
so true! +100 social credits 😃🇨🇳
As an American and someone who was voted for Trump, I have no problem that Trump requested that vaccines be made. I have a problem that the Biden administration forced the vaccinations on us when they hadn't even been tested.
6:55 What? The whole problem was the mandate, not the existence of the vaccine