When people eventually make a nostalgic period piece of this decade thirty years from now, how will they depict it? What will be some of the hall-marks? Here's what I predict (in no particular order):

1. The rise of Youtube as one of the most dominant mediums of information. Make sure to include references to Gangnam Style and PewDiePie.

2. Superhero movies. Lots and lots of superhero movies. As in holy freaking cow so many superhero movies. Four Avengers movies, a Justice League movie, two Spider-Man reboots, and several expanded universes.

3. STAR WARS resurgence.

4. Disney transcending to another dimension.

5. People stopped complaining about CGI.

6. Hand-drawn animated films made like unicorns.

7. Frozen. We just couldn't...let it go.

8. The epic conclusion of the Harry Potter series...and then its refusal to die.

9. Artsy directors began winning awards for using more long, unedited shots.

10. D-d-d-d-d-d-dubstep.

11. Memes practically becoming a second language.

12. Facebook becoming Big Brother.

13. Presidents (and even more powerful people, such as Ellen DeGeneres) having Twitter feeds.

14. The race make sure that we watch everything in 4K.

15. High-budget television shows with impressive long-form stories.

16. Fifty-dozen crime shows existing all at once.

17. The Big Bang Theory essentially being the only notable sitcom.

18. "YOLO," "bae," "snowflakes," "deplorables," "hashtag."

19. Instagram

20. Hipsters. Particularly young men who combine beards with glasses. Bowties are optional.

21. Taylor Swift switched from sweet country to edgy mainstream. And the subject matter of her most popular songs...well, do I really need to say it?

22. Dabbing

23. The 51st Superbowl (but only among serious football enthusiasts)

24. Schools started using laptops in their classrooms.

25. Low tolerance for bullying.

26. Every major song requiring a rap in the middle.

27. People s tarted experimenting with self-driving cars for the first time (although it won't be mainstream for another decade or two).

28. All of the baby boomers became old farts.

29. Vaping.

30. Instead of playing Dungeons and Dragons, those Stranger Things kids would have played Cloud games, CoD, and Skyrim, Minecraft, Five Nights at Freddy's, and Pokemon Go.

31. Siri

32. The U.S. female gymnasts won in the all-around and the individual twice in a row.

33. Michael Phelps finishing his career for the forgiveness of our sins. His peace he leaves us, his peace he gives us. Amen.

Once you get outside of culture and technology and look at world events, again in no particular order:

1. Canada elects really great hair

2. America elects really bad hair.

3. Tons of protests. Everywhere. By everyone.

4. LGBT rights.

5. Pope Francis.

6. Royal Weddings

7. North Korea goes bonkers.

8. Benjamin Netanyahu

9. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria

10. Osama bin Laden getting hammered.

11. ISIS

12. Brexit

Overall, I find this decade a bit more memorable than the 2000's. It should be pretty easy for future generations to build up a stereotype for 2010's atmosphere when making period pieces.