Portal:2020s

The 2020s Portal

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An image of SARS-CoV-2, a virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic; COVID-19 became a global pandemic in 2020 and was deemed an international public health emergency until 2023.
The January 6 United States Capitol attack over claims of electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election; the decade witnessed widespread democratic backsliding as many countries shifted from liberal democracy to authoritarianism.
The Artemis II flyby of the Moon, the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since 1972, was launched in 2026, with the crew breaking the record for the furthest humans have been from Earth.
In December 2024, Syrian rebels celebrate the fall of the Assad regime, ending 62 years of Ba'athist rule.
Israel invades the Gaza Strip, in response to the October 7 attacks in 2023. Throughout the decade, the war spilled over into major parts of the Middle East.
Russia launches a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, starting a new phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war, which has been ongoing since 2014.
ChatGPT, the commercial engine of domestic AI usage as a symbol of the AI boom during the decade.
The July Revolution in Bangladesh, described as the world's first Gen Z revolution, spread around the world against democratic backsliding, political corruption, and authoritarianism, where young protesters overthrow their governments.

The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand (and) twenties") is the current decade of the Gregorian and Julian calendars that began on 1 January 2020 and will end on 31 December 2029.

The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath marked the early 2020s, which triggered a global economic recession, sustained rise in global inflation, and supply chain crisis. Governments worldwide issued stay-at-home orders during the early pandemic, leading to a widespread use of teleconferencing, online learning, e-commerce, and food delivery services.

In terms of politics, the 2020s has seen a rise in populist and anti-establishment movements across the world on both the left and right sides of the political spectrum, along with anti-government demonstrations and revolts. The decade saw an escalation of military conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022, the Gaza war and genocide since 2023, the 2025 Twelve-Day War, 2026 United States intervention in Venezuela and the 2026 Iran war. By the middle of the decade, multiple journalists, economists, and political scientists increasingly began to refer to China as a superpower due to its enormous influence in the fields of geopolitics, technology, manufacturing, economics and culture.

Technology has continued to evolve in the 2020s. Throughout the decade, generative artificial intelligence-based applications, such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, became widespread, allowing users to instantly generate sophisticated texts, images, and media. The growth of cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence has led to the cryptocurrency bubble and AI bubble. The United States has led space exploration, including with the James Webb Space Telescope and Ingenuity Mars helicopter in 2021, and the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby in 2026. (Full article...)

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The 2020 Summer Olympics officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and officially branded as Tokyo 2020 were an international multi-sport event held from July 23 to August 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on July 21, 2021. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 7, 2013.

Originally scheduled to take place from July 24 to August 9, 2020, the Tokyo Games were postponed until 2021 on March 24, 2020 as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the first such postponement in the history of the Olympic Games (some previous editions had been cancelled but not rescheduled). However, the Tokyo 2020 branding was retained for marketing purposes. The events were largely held behind closed doors with no public spectators permitted due to the declaration of a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area in response to the pandemic, the only Olympic Games to be held without official spectators. As a consequence of the postponement and the additional challenges caused by the pandemic, the 2020 Games were the most costly ever, with a total expenditure of over $20 billion. (Full article...)

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Image 1NBA player Jalen Green wearing 5-inch inseams, crew socks, and visible boxer briefs—a common early 2020s style choice. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 2PlayStation 5 (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 3Nintendo Switch OLED (2021) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 42021: Natalie Biden wearing a matching cloth COVID-19 mask at the inauguration of Joe Biden, her grandfather (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 5The AI boom emerged in the 2020s. Generative AI such as Text-to-image models and AI chatbots released publicly. Machine learning systems that took minute(s) to produce blurry images in mid 2022 were able to produce more realistic imagery in seconds by mid 2023. English text would appear as gibberish in earlier AI text-to-image builds, although this was fixed to an extent with newer AI models such as DALL-E 3. (from 2020s)
Image 6The aftermath of the 2026 Minab school airstrike during the Israeli and US-led airstrikes, which NATO blamed the Iranian strikes in the Middle East. (from 2020s)
Image 7Clothing items used to express beliefs during a Black Lives Matter protest. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 8Highrise residential building "Palestine Tower" in Gaza following an Israeli strike during the Gaza war. (from 2020s)
Image 9US Marines with SP-MAGTF-CR-CC at an evacuation checkpoint at Kabul Airport on 21 August during the 2021 Fall of Kabul, at the end of the War in Afghanistan. (from 2020s)
Image 10British rapper Stormzy wearing all-black outfit in 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 11Machine Gun Kelly performing (from 2020s in music)
Image 12Tablets and smartphones (Samsung Galaxy S23 series pictured) would be widely used to play mobile games which now form the largest sector in the gaming industry (from 2020s in video games)
Image 13French woman attending 2022 Fashion Week. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 14A map of countries by total baseline American tariffs (includes tariffs not yet implemented)
- 100% or higher
- 50% – 99%
- 40% – 49%
- 30% – 39%
- 20% – 29%
- 10% – 19%
  United States
(from 2020s)
Image 15Xbox Series S (2020) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 16Apple Vision Pro (2024) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 17In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, all 50 states and D.C. swung rightward, as did around 90% of counties. (from 2020s)
Image 18In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, all 50 states and D.C. swung rightward, as did around 90% of counties. (from 2020s)
Image 19Karol G (from 2020s in music)
Image 20Jack Grealish wearing 5-inch inseams with crew socks during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 212020: example of a Dark Academia outfit. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 22PICO 4 (2022) (from 2020s in video games)
Image 23Haim and Taylor Swift in industrial-inspired all-black outfits in a 2022 concert. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 24US Marines with SP-MAGTF-CR-CC at an evacuation checkpoint at Kabul Airport on 21 August during the 2021 Fall of Kabul, at the end of the War in Afghanistan. (from 2020s)
Image 25Blackpink's Born Pink became the first album by a girl group in over 20 years to top both the US and UK album charts. (from 2020s in music)
Image 26Teen girl wearing early 2020s fashion trends. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 272021: Italian band Måneskin in androgynous outfits. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 28Singer Jack White wearing striped Madcap England blazer, 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 29 Brightly colored western clothing, early to mid 2020s (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 30Maximalist necklace, unknown designer, produced by Pull&Bear, c.2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 312020–21: Korean men in the 1980s- and 2000s-inspired outfits fashionable in the early 2020s. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 32Montage of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the Russo-Ukrainian war. (from 2020s)
Image 33Indonesian girls wearing face masks in 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 34All pink Barbiecore inspired outfit worn by actress Margot Robbie in 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 35The highest-grossing films of the decade so far are James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water and Jiaozi's Ne Zha 2. (from 2020s)
Image 36Balletcore inspired skirt worn with boho-chic sweater and retro sneakers, 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 37Batken Region in Kyrgyzstan. (from 2020s in politics)
Image 38Fairy Grunge clothing at an Urban Outfitters store (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 39Stand-up comedian Kurtis Conner wearing early 2020s mullet hairstyle and mustache. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 40French actor and singer Etienne Daho wearing Americana-inspired black leather blouson and red western shirt in 2023. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 41Two women with Jirai Kei outfit, 2023 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 42American singer Billie Eilish is among the notable examples of Y2K fashion revival. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 43Kacey Musgraves performing at the Pilgrimage Music Festival (from 2020s in music)
Image 44Confirmed deaths per 100,000 population as of 20 December 2023 (from 2020s in politics)
Image 45Montage of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the Russo-Ukrainian war. (from 2020s)
Image 46Oversized workwear-inspired outfit worn by indie rocker Sam Fender in 2021. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 47Student in 2022. (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 48American playwright and musician Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the original songs for the soundtrack of Encanto, a viral phenomenon. (from 2020s in music)
Image 49Indian actress Ananya Panday wearing long green sequin dress, 2024 (from 2020s in fashion)
Image 50 Taiwanese teen girl in Hanfu, 2024. (from 2020s in fashion)

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Taylor-Joy in 2025

Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (/ˈænjə/; born 16 April 1996) is an actress. Born in Miami, she grew up in Buenos Aires and London. She began pursuing an acting career at the age of 16. After a series of small television roles, her breakthrough came with a leading role in the horror film The Witch (2015). She had roles in the horror film Split (2016) and its sequel Glass (2019), the black comedy film Thoroughbreds (2017), and the television crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2019–2022). Taylor-Joy also played Emma Woodhouse in the period drama Emma (2020).

She gained wide recognition for playing Beth Harmon in the period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020), receiving the Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Actress, and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress. Then she starred in the horror film Last Night in Soho (2021), the action films The Northman (2022) and The Gorge (2025), the black comedy The Menu (2022); and the apocalyptic film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) as Imperator Furiosa. She voiced Princess Peach in the animated films The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026). (Full article...)

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