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    What was it about the 2010’s in the celebrity world that was just so much more glam & fun?

    More glitter, more gloss, bigger hair…it was a different era
    Ashley Tisdale, Sarah Hyland, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Aly Michalka, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé, Mary Kate & Ashley

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    3. batikfins on

      Early 2010s: Social media hadn’t taken off yet, Obama-era pop culture had a different vibe 

    4. Fuckburpees on

      I think it’s a combination of things..They didn’t respond to minor criticism from random fans online, they didn’t over share every detail of their lives or their relationships (or hygiene practices), and they didn’t *try* to be relatable. Social media changed so much and this was the golden era where celebrities didn’t really participate like real people, not publicly at least, but there was more space for casual fans to connect via celeb gossip and news. I think there was a little more mystery so they felt larger than life. Now, it feels like they’re just out of touch rich people who act/sing/perform.

    6. NeiClaw on

      I think after the GFC and 10 million Americans lost their homes, there was an over response by a decaying Hollywood to sell an “everything is normal” image during the Obama years. All of it unraveled after Trump came down that gold escalator and everything went almost immediately to shit.

    7. Lazy_Document_7104 on

      Unique faces that could better show expression with less curated pictures (less filters, less posing, etc)

    8. chad420corona on

      I’m like half remembering this but Bo Burnham once talked about how the focal length on the lens of the iphone has permanently shifted how we perceive faces since a disproportionate amount of the faces we see on a daily basis are from social media posts.

      That and filler.

    11. bratcodedjulia365 on

      media training, covid didnt happen, we didnt rely on celebrities as much to entertain us, so there was mystery on their personal life, joan rivers/fashion police/fashion dos and donts kept appearances entertaining and fashionable. idk, thats just IMO. theres probably dozens of other factors. i do agree, there is a certain JE NE SAIS QUO that the 2000s/2010s had that we will never get back! i think the recent celebrities are boring. i do not like popular pop culture.

    12. JulyJulyyyyy on

      I mean it was a pre trump, pre Covid world. The entire youth culture at least where I was on the East Coast was about partying and dancing and staying up and out all night. It was about ripped fishnets and messy girls, scene hair and who you knew. It was an amazing time.

    13. Sufficient_Ask5717 on

      Celebrity culture was much bigger back then and celebs felt like they had to go out more and dress up for everything. People ate up the paparazzi pics and award shows every year. Actually, there was more social encouragement to dress up and go out in general. Clubbing and partying were very much the ‘idealized’ social life.

    15. InteractionGreen5963 on

      I feel like people seemed more real, they had expressions, skin texture, and were less “cultivated” in who they were for media. Now, everyone looks the same. 

    17. JustHereForCatss on

      The economy was great, perceived civil rights of victories were happening left and right, the world felt like it was progressing forward. Now we’re being drug back decades at at a time- as a trans woman, I have fewer rights than a handgun now as an example

      Yeah, there were still problems back in the day, however, the world was a slightly better place than today still and you can see that reflected in the media we consumed at the time and now.

    18. Youwontbreakmysoul on

      Nostalgia goggles. 
      In the 2010s, people were reminiscing about the 90s and how celebrities were more mysterious then. 
      In a decade from now people will look back on celeb culture with rose colored glasses.

    19. TangerineChickens on

      Long enough after the introduction of social media that an explosion of pop culture expressions and avenues became available, but soon enough after that those avenues were not yet being boxed into a select group of viral trend threads by a determinative algorithms.

    20. jimbosaur on

      Combination of Obama-era optimism and the lack of the more toxic elements of social media. Not to say everything was perfect, or even good, but the Nazis were mostly not on the mainstream sites (except Reddit, which was genuinely MUCH more sleazy before the CondeNast buyout), much less running the Federal government.

    22. Birdman330 on

      Is this a serious question? Have you been under a rock since 2015 when Trump announced his Presidency run? That’s when everything went to shit.

    24. babyviltti on

      Somehow my mind has blanked that Aly is a tall woman. I always thought she is close to Tisdale’s height.

    26. offwithyourthread on

      If you compare the celebrity glam to now: natural faces without veneers and identical procedures. Glam that isn’t overly perfect, it looks like you could recreate it at home. Look at some of these pictures and you can imagine your friends or peers recreating it without a professional team. The clothes aren’t costume-y, you could find them at the mall if you looked hard enough. It looked like normal people (albeit exceptionally beautiful and talented people) having a night out.

    29. Hot-Avocado-7 on

      People were still going out.

      Athleisure hadn’t yet become an acceptable look for going out.

    33. Character_Past5515 on

      Honestly I think they now look a lot more healthy, I just think they did a lot more drugs back then.

    35. Vegetableau on

      They were more accessible and real before 2010. If you lived in LA or NYC you could literally run into them at the club and we did all the time. I used to see Paris and Lindsey and many others at Avalon/Spider club or Le Doux. Britney at Joseph’s. They used to just go out like everyone else. When you see celebrities out now it’s planned by their PR and they’re working.

    36. Juli_ on

      I think the fact that “being a celebrity” was still gatekept by mainstream media had something to do with it, because I can name most every single person in these pictures, and a lot of them are not even A-list, but then you look at red carpets in 2025 and it’s like “and this is Anne Whatshername, she has 390 billion followers on TikTok for doing 15 second comedy skits that are the unfunniest thing you’ll ever see, she got cancelled for shooting her dog in the ass and saying the N-word 15 times and is now at the MET Gala, for some reason”.

    37. zsatsi on

      I agree with a lot of what has been said but also worth mentioning (and sorry if somebody else has already said it by now) that time frame was also just after the 2008 financial crisis/as the recession hit, and before the height of metoo. Social media was in its infancy, and sites like thecobrasnake made celebrities and their friends feel both available and gave a certain feeling of exclusivity to the people who were in the know.

    41. purplereuben on

      Glitter, gloss, bigger hair? You are just talking about a fashion aesthetic. They always come and go, it’ll come back around.

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