Related to the Phantom Time Conspiracy, but different... January 6, 2017 1:41 PM   Subscribe

Within the last few months, there were a couple of posts on The Blue about a combined speculative fiction/conspiracy theory that we as a society have collectively forgotten (or had our memories erased of) a number of years -- perhaps a decade -- between the 1980s and 1990s? I recall it referring to an "N Decade" or the "19N0s," but MeFi searches along these lines have come up empty.
posted by DrAstroZoom to MetaFilter-Related at 1:41 PM (15 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite

Calling Dr. Berenstoin Bear...
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:49 PM on January 6, 2017 [11 favorites]


i've heard this referred to as the 19a0s. One post with that tag
posted by rebent at 1:52 PM on January 6, 2017 [1 favorite]


"The empire never ended."
posted by rmd1023 at 2:07 PM on January 6, 2017 [2 favorites]


i've heard this referred to as the 19a0s. One post with that tag

Oh what a pity - this could have been the perfect MetaTalk post.
posted by the quidnunc kid at 2:52 PM on January 6, 2017 [1 favorite]


There's the apparently-never-existed Sinbad movie Shazaam.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 3:52 PM on January 6, 2017 [4 favorites]


Not quite the same thing but this alternate-history 90s post is one of my favorite MetaFilter threads of all time
posted by prize bull octorok at 4:12 PM on January 6, 2017 [8 favorites]


This is my first encounter with "a combined speculative fiction/conspiracy theory that we as a society have collectively forgotten...a number of years". Closest thing recently in the blue was that "Shazaam" post mentioned by LobsterMitten, which seems to have a mighty small sample of 'we who have collectively forgotten' something (or in their case, imagined to be present, not missing).
posted by Rash at 4:25 PM on January 6, 2017


AND THERE WAS A SITCOM INTRO WHERE SOMEONE'S FACE GOT PAINTED OVER now everything makes sense
posted by rabbitrabbit at 6:57 PM on January 6, 2017 [11 favorites]


Oh god that alternate 90's thread pbo linked above. I am screaming with laughter at that listicle.

What's freaky, though -- and by freaky I mean recursive -- is apparently I read that whole thread, because there are little minuses where there should be little pluses but I HAVE NO MEMORY OF IT WHATSOEVER.
posted by rabbitrabbit at 7:10 PM on January 6, 2017 [8 favorites]


Related? The Mandela Effect [SLBF]
posted by quinndexter at 12:23 AM on January 7, 2017 [1 favorite]


This wasn't within the last few months, but I was immediately reminded of a 2011 BoingBoing called the Mixtape of the Lost Decade. Here's the MeFi post about it.
posted by malthusan at 11:42 AM on January 7, 2017


It seems seems like everyone has forgotten *that* thread. Sorry...
posted by welovelife at 1:53 PM on January 7, 2017 [1 favorite]


The 19A0’s?
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:22 PM on January 7, 2017


Related: Anatoly Fomenko's New Chronology.
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:37 PM on January 7, 2017


Chan Koonchung's novel The Fat Years speculates that February 2011 didn't exist. Any posts about that would have been in 2011 when it was published in English.
posted by scruss at 6:14 PM on January 8, 2017


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