Why was 2007 such an insane year for culture

[Bakartridge]

The title kinda says it all, it feels like whenever I look at popular stuff released in the late half of the 2000s, it's almost always from 2007, sometimes 2008 (usually early 08 but 08 nonetheless), it seems like such an insane(ly good) year for pop culture stuff, like for example:

Games released in 2007 include:

• Crysis
• Team Fortress 2
• Bioshock
• Guitar Hero 3 (and Rock Band)
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Call of Duty 4
• Mass Effect
• Halo 3
• Portal
• Uncharted

Films released in 2007 include:

• Superbad
• Ratatouille
• Transformers (the only GOOD Michael Bay one)
• Spider-Man 3
• Juno
• Paranormal Activity
• 300

Lastly, some albums that came out in 07 include:

• Beyond by Dinosaur Jr
• Graduation by Kanye West (yes, I know)
• Hold Your Colour By Pendulum
• In Rainbows by Radiohead
• Myths of the Near Future by Klaxons
• Year Zero by NIN
• Riot by Paramore
• Neon Bible by Arcade Fire
• Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys
• Infinity on High by Fall Out Boy
• A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by P!ATD
• Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem

In terms of internet stuff, it's also where places like YouTube, YTMND, and Newgrounds had some amazing stuff uploaded, and there were plenty of classic memes that were introduced in this time, it feels like whenever I hear people talk about older videos/memes that got popular, most of the time it's from 2007 (or 2006), like I Wanna Be The Guy and Cat Mario released that year, they're personal examples but still, feels like 2007 was the year that everyone was like "alright lets just release total bangers"

[larvapuppy]

I think it'd be easy to make this argument for any year; just cherry pick all the stuff you like from that year and suddenly it's the best year ever for culture, according to the maker's tastes. For example your list is mostly full of media I'm not interested in or consider pretty basic, and a few that I do agree are good. I could probably make my own list from 2007 that has all stuff I think is amazing, but I could also make a list filled with stuff I think is meh or crap. And I could do the same with 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2020, 1986, 800, 1880, 2013, 30000, etc.

It has to do with age too; someone my mom's age probably thinks media from some year in the 80s is the best, while my age group would lean toward early 2000s stuff; zoomers are going to prefer late aughts / early 2010s, and so on... You're inevitably going to have a huge bias toward some year in your early adolescence when media that created formative memories for you was released.