The New Twenties

The decade between 2020 and 2029 - the current decade (as of January 2020). For the first two months, it was difficult to distinguish from The New Tens. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and most of the world went into self-isolation.

As a result, the production of live-action media ground to a halt on the entire world. Many movies and their releases had to be postponed, if not interrupted in the middle of production. The new material which was produced was under several limited conditions, sometimes only orally. Distribution and selling of media over other means than digital also were heavily affected, and both box office and physical game sales took a heavy hit, to the point some even questioned their future.

An unintentional effect of this was also the increase of the consumption of both literature and media broadcast via streaming. In the USA, this had the notable consequence of increasing the sale of Manga explosively: 160 percent from 2020 to 2021. And so did the consumption of Anime worldwide, growing 118 percent from 2020 to 2022. The key force behind this growth has been attributed to the embracing of the media beyond its niche consumers. Netflix justified a huge expanding of the production of that content by showing over half of the platform users watched some kind of anime content.

See:
 * Category:Musicians of the 2020s

See:
 * Category:Anime of the 2020s‎
 * Category:Comic Books of the 2020s
 * Category:Fan Works of the 2020s
 * Category:Films of the 2020s
 * Category:Literature of the 2020s‎
 * Category:Live-Action TV of the 2020s‎
 * Category:Newspaper Comics of the 2020s
 * Category:Puppet Shows of the 2020s‎
 * Category:Radio of the 2020s‎
 * Category:Tabletop Games of the 2020s‎
 * Category:Theatre of the 2020s‎
 * Category:Video Games of the 2020s
 * Category:Web Animation of the 2020s‎
 * Category:Web Comics of the 2020s
 * Category:Web Original of the 2020s‎
 * Category:Western Animation of the 2020s‎