Has pop culture reached a perpetual now?

[Del Tachi]

Eh, there's a heavy type of selection bias going on when we talk about things like this.

Of course the current time period would seem "boring", we're living in it.  Previous decades are presented to us as caricatures, which makes it easy for us to exaggerate the differences between different eras of pop culture.  When people in 2015 talk about comparing 1979 and 1985, what they're actually doing is contrasting the most outlandish, rememberable icons and styles of the 1970s and 1980s, and, in such a scenario, the resulting comparison ends-up looking outrageously trendy and kitsch.

We're not far enough removed from the 2000s to have regulated it to a caricature quite yet, and we only began doing that with the "1990s" about 4-7 years ago.  Just give us a bit more time and we'll be ready to all look back at ourselves and laugh in a few years.