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On the date

Monday, April 20, 2020

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound

The shutter clicks on a ghost town, capturing a man in a tie-dye hoodie and a surgical mask standing beneath a flickering marquee for *True History of the Kelly Gang*. The only sound is the synthetic pulse of "Blinding Lights" bleeding from a passing delivery bike, cutting through the eerie silence of a city usually defined by its roar. I’m leaning against a brick wall, my thumb aching from doomscrolling through headlines of global backfires and rising tallies, wondering if I'll ever photograph a crowd again. Everyone moves in oversized sweatpants like shadows in a dream, eyes averted and ears plugged into a digital world while the real one sits frozen in the spring air.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Blinding Lights"

The Weeknd

The must-have

Star Wars: The Child (Grogu) Animatronic

On This Day

  • For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

doomscrollingvibe checkrizz

Pandemic

social distancingnew normalflatten the curve

Gen Z Alpha

no capsusbussincheugyskibidi

Catchphrases of 2020

  • You're on mute
  • Tiger King

Tech Check

Zoom (Mass Adoption), Apple M1 Chip & mRNA Vaccines.

Style of 2020

Silhouette: Comfort-first and oversized (Pandemic)

Material: Sweatpants and tie-dye

  • Masks
  • Matching lounge sets
  • Cottagecore

Cost of Living (2020)

Loaf of Bread

$1.55

Gallon of Gas

$2.17

Average Home

$336,900

New Car

$39,750

Meanwhile

  • COVID-19 RecessionShortest but sharpest recession in history; global lockdowns.

Time Elapsed

2,237 days ago

(6 years, 47 days)