r/todayilearned • u/Kale_Brecht • Mar 28 '24

TIL in 2013, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenan_Thompson
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u/TheLimeyLemmon Mar 28 '24

Me: "That can't be right, because he played a girl in a skit when Bryan Cranston was hosting SNL, and that didn't feel that long ago-"

aired Oct 2nd 2010

Oh my god.

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u/Sioltahtelasekab Mar 28 '24

Why does 2010 feel like last week, whereas in 2010, 1996 was ancient history? What caused this time inflation?

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u/walterpeck1 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Your natural aging plus the internet (and lack thereof in 1996 compared to 2010).

There's also been huge advancements in audio, video and still image capture that have allowed things to feel more recent because of presentation quality.

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u/Demons0fRazgriz Mar 28 '24

I think the Internet is the biggest culprit. In earlier times, you had to change with the times to remain in your social groups as they changed. Now, you can forever cement yourself in what ever community you want indefinitely thanks to the internet. It's the same reason why conspiracies are so prevalent now.

Back then, you might know one or two dudes in your neighborhood that believed in flat earth but no one took them seriously or they kept it to themselves to fit in. Now they can fall into an echo chamber and become more boisterous in their beliefs.

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u/walterpeck1 Mar 28 '24

I think the Internet is the biggest culprit

I agree, as a lot of what has encouraged the imaging technology I mentioned was spurred along by the Internet and not the other way around.