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Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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712 points trymas | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 10:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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pembrook ◴[20 Apr 25 08:09 UTC] No.43742319[source]▶
Great idea! The trick is to zoom into peoples clothing, and then the associated event becomes quite obvious. Eg. Photo of Disco, no crazy lapels, obviously towards the end of disco, which puts you within a year or two.

Might have gotten lucky but zooming in on clothing got me to 1.8 years off on average (top 2%).

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Jensson ◴[20 Apr 25 09:29 UTC] No.43742660[source]▶
I just went by feel of each and got 2.4 year average, also top 2%. I guess it doesn't do higher than top 2% then.

> obviously towards the end of disco

What is the end of disco?

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input_sh ◴[20 Apr 25 10:06 UTC] No.43742787[source]▶
Disco is probably the only genre whose "death" (as in very quick drop from being mainstream) can be traced to a very specific date: July 12th, 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night

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Al-Khwarizmi ◴[20 Apr 25 10:38 UTC] No.43742912[source]▶
Interesting. Can we organize an event to blow up reggaeton records (or trap, or latin urban, or whatever they call it now - sounds all similar to me) and hope for it to go away?
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input_sh ◴[20 Apr 25 11:28 UTC] No.43743110[source]▶
Personally, I'd prefer for a young white male demographic to not riot against music primarily associated with certain marginalised communities anymore.
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pembrook ◴[21 Apr 25 09:03 UTC] No.43749779[source]▶
The person you’re responding to is an autistic wheelchair-bound lesbian woman living in Ghana.

What now?

Personally, I’d prefer internet commenters argue in good faith instead of emotionally parroting 2010s social justice identity jargon. You could have responded with something op was missing about said music (interesting history, examples of artists innovating there, etc) instead and added some value to the thread.

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1. defrost ◴[21 Apr 25 09:28 UTC] No.43749919[source]▶
I'd be suprised if an autistic wheelchair-bound lesbian woman living in Ghana would either confuse reggaeton with trap or be overly bothered by a local excess of either sufficient to want to detonate and destroy any physical media given much of it would be immortalised as digital patterns in the cloud.

I can respond with music from women in

* Nigeria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvY31eN3gtE

* Zambia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lvgKDpiSA

* Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ4by3lUJo

* The Gambia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmmlOQnTXM

and suggest there's some interesting cross cultural threading in all these examples.