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6/30/22

What is it about the year 2012?

2012 was the turning point, the year we entered the pessimist's timeline.

The weird thing is, it's not just me saying that, I regularly see this specific year singled out as some kind of a turning point. The two other common picks I see are post-2007, and 2016.

Why? The answer may surprise you: I have no idea. But over the last year I've collected a timeline with some of the events that may or may not have led us here. I acknowledge that this timeline is biased in covering Internet events instead of politics, and I wonder if I'm biased towards seeing "bad" events in post-2012 years.

2010


2011


2012


2013


2014


2015