Looney Tunes, for me. When I was growing up through the 90s and 2000s, Looney Tunes was about as large as life itself. Bugs, Daffy, Taz, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian .etc were staples anywhere in culture. However, it felt like some pendulum swung another direction because there’s solemn mention of Looney Tunes in the past 10 years.
And I’m trying to not say that Looney Tunes has faded away, it still has made shows as recent as 2020 that lasted until 2024 and a movie that was this year. But I’m saying that it’s cultural relevance has taken a backseat and it doesn’t help that its parent company, WB, has been treated as nothing more than just an asset to be acquired while those who acquired it, aren’t doing a lot with the name to bring it back to its former level.
It’s kinda like how Tom and Jerry were huge (still are to an extent) but its cultural significance as of late, has largely taken the same backseat where you don’t hear as much from them as you used to.
The hole in the ozone layer.
That was going to kill us all and was Earth’s Big Bad. Then they just kinda fixed it and forgot to tell us and we just sorta forgot about it.
We didn’t fix it, we just stopped making it worse. It’s still the reason you don’t step outside in the summertime in New Zealand without sunscreen.
Another 300 years and it should be right as rain, though.
Finding out the hole was fixed in, like, my late 20s was wild.
“What about the hole in the ozone layer?”
“They fixed that like 10 years ago, dude.”
“THEY TOLD ME IT WAS THERE WHEN I WAS STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL 10 YEARS AGO! 😬 Those bastards lied to me!”
Technically the hole is still there, it’s just not as big of an issue nowadays. Then again the bad chemicals are still used and leaked in especially China so it could make a comeback.
There are still memes about it about once a month on lemmy.