In no way does Angry Birds represent any era all by itself. It was a simple fad.

Youtube "likes" rather than Youtube "stars" means nothing. Who even noticed that change? Not many people. It's a website. It's had impact to be sure, but it is just a website. UI updates are completely meaningless to anything outside the site and do not affect the world in any way. Breaking down its periods like they are paleozoic vs mesozoic tells me you belong in a padded room.

While the overall content of youtube now vs six years ago is somewhat different, the site's purpose and feel is not. Additionally, I reiterate that no single website represents an epochal shift. And in sum, I cannot see that everything has overall shifted to a drastic degree in the past six or eight years. Perhaps people who see that are younger than I (younger people perceive time to move at a faster pace.) Perhaps I expect too much. I am an adult now and I was in 2007. Because of that or maybe other reasons, I don't agree with this "whole new ball game" phenomenon over that brief period. What I am sure of, is that I would like to see genuine analysis rather than simplistic platitudes and declarations with nothing explicit behind them. Dig?

And I said that I don't believe they are, yet I am willing to read opposing reasoning. So far, I'm not seeing any.

No, idiot, that's not what I said at all.

Angry Birds by itself was not transformative of anything. It didn't drive an entire platform, the way that say, Tetris, did. Smart phones were already incredibly popular. It was all anybody could talk about for weeks, not months or years.

The change of American presidents is one part of what shapes things, but practically speaking, the current administration doesn't seem to handle domestic matters much differently than the previous one. So I'd say no, that doesn't mean a whole new era. It's nothing like the Reagan administration contrast with Carter, or Clinton with Bush I.

Another brand new account trying to put words in my mouth and argue in bad faith. I wonder where you came from Witch of West East. Not!

Your snide tone in your previous reply merited such a response. You did the same thing, but you just chose to be a coward about it. How many more accounts are you going to register in your revenge attempts? Hiding behind new reg dates will only get you so far if your behavior doesn't change.

I'm not entirely convinced you even know what this means.

You're trying awfully hard. Escpecially for somebody who just registered for the first time here today. If you have such a problem with me, why not take it to WAR ROOM MARK IV, so we can stop derailing this thread [as ridiculous as its premise is]?

Then why did you start off by being so rude to me? I said nothing to "Witch of West East". If you can't stand the heat, don't walk into the kitchen.

Banned already. And shakin didn't even get to say hi.

So in other words, you think that Angry Birds was available in 2007 and deny the Bush was president in 2007 also? Gotcha.

That doesn't seem very polite or reasonable to me. Please don't put words in other peoples' mouths. Thank you.