There doesn't seem to be anything new and exciting going on these days.
No fads taking everyone by storm. No new technology everyone is discussing (AI is pretty meh at the moment, especially with the censorship). No new entertainment everyone has to see.
Maybe I'm out of the loop but I don't feel I am. Anyone else kinda feel this way?
That's an interesting thought, it definitely feels that way a bit. I think there's a real argument that WWII was the end, but culturally things didn't really fall off the cliff until late 2000's. The combination of tech (smartphones, social media etc) and culture/wokeness (secularism, dei, gay shit etc) has led to a hollow shell of a culture. The post WWII order definitely played a big role in the cultural decay, then when you combine it with tech, economic decline, demographic change etc this is what you get.
Matt Walsh released a video that somewhat touches on this today btw. Focused on the release of the iphone and Obama getting in and said that time was the death of the monoculture etc. Some good points in there. I would say that the monoculture didn't totally die, it just stopped pretending to reflect what people actually wanted and strictly became a tool to push their politics. Post 2015ish the monoculture went full woke, which disillusioned and isolated people even more and made it even more irrelevant that it had become naturally with social media etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3pbxTkhKQ
To be fair, when Rome fell I don't think things probably fell off culturally either until about the same timeline as what happened in modernity.