That's about when I started to notice things were "off" too. I was just coming of age at that time though. I imagine it was going on before that. It's a bunch of Gen Xers that came up with 1997 so that's probably around the time they were coming of age too.
As a Gen Xer, I'd say that 1997 was right around the time that I'd say that a lot more "new" stuff was just stuff from my youth that had been repackaged but with extra cynicism and tokenism.
There was still a lot of good stuff, but the ideological and nihilistic crap was definitely starting to seep in.
Like, having a black Vulcan on Voyager was obvious pandering to me, even back then. The main difference was that it used to be encouraged to point out cynical marketing pandering. Like when my university (98.5% white, 1% Asian, 0.5% other) took promo pictures and managed to find the 2 black guys who weren't on the basketball team to proudly feature and was resoundingly mocked for it.
That's about when I started to notice things were "off" too. I was just coming of age at that time though. I imagine it was going on before that. It's a bunch of Gen Xers that came up with 1997 so that's probably around the time they were coming of age too.
As a Gen Xer, I'd say that 1997 was right around the time that I'd say that a lot more "new" stuff was just stuff from my youth that had been repackaged but with extra cynicism and tokenism.
There was still a lot of good stuff, but the ideological and nihilistic crap was definitely starting to seep in.
Like, having a black Vulcan on Voyager was obvious pandering to me, even back then. The main difference was that it used to be encouraged to point out cynical marketing pandering. Like when my university (98.5% white, 1% Asian, 0.5% other) took promo pictures and managed to find the 2 black guys who weren't on the basketball team to proudly feature and was resoundingly mocked for it.