pop culture

So the version of the song "Let's Get It Started" by Black Eyed Peas that everyone is familiar with is actually a version of the song the NBA requested Black Eyed Peas to make for them. More stores were willing to sell this version as the lyrics weren't offensive, and the original kinda fell...

Yup, another Disney TL, even though I have like two other ones which are still incomplete. So is this another shuffled Disney Canon TL? No. Well not really, some films will appear earlier or later but the order is mostly the same, even though there will be new films ITTL. So most Disney fans...

The purpose of this TL is to look at the history of Martial Arts in the Confederacy of Nothing For Which To Apologize. The Story will contain multiple martial arts exploring their developments, mainstream popularity and stories that won't interfere with the main TL.

Prologue: The Man Who Started It All Walt Disney became a noted figure in the animation industry when he set up his Laugh-O-Gram Studio in 1921 in Kansas City, Missouri. The studio was most known for its Alice comedies, based on the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll...

What if this Gummy Bear Song: French Gummy Bear Song repeated multiple times like this: Irish Gummy Bear Song?

What would be needed for japanese city pop to be exported wordwide and achieve popularity outside of Japan? And what would be the effects of this? Earlier rise in popularity of asian pop music in the west? This of course has to be during the late 70s-80s because that's the period City Pop...

Michael Jackson was a Sonic fan and collaborated with SEGA in the 90s, with the making of his own videogame, Moonwalker. MJ was also working on the soundtrack of Sonic 3 up until 1993 when the child abuse allegations popped up. But what if, in a world where the accusations never happened, this...

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5th, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. A lot of Walt's childhood was spent moving around from farms in Missouri to the streets of Chicago. At just 16 years old, Walt deployed to France to serve as a ambulance driver for World War I. "I actually developed a bit...

Introduction Hello everyone! This is my first alternate timeline here on this site! Alternate history has always fascinated me. The idea of another world - or another chain of events in history has fascinated me ever since I started learning about history. I first got into alternate history...

For the sake of a concrete POD, let's say around March 1965. Operation Rolling Thunder still commences, but LBJ decides against putting boots on the ground, instead sticking to the current policy of military "advisors" and slowly winding down the amount of US troops in the region over the next...

Inspired by these three threads: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-best-movies-never-made.11413/ https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/top-tv-shows-never-made.51488/ https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/best-tv-episodes-never-made.538711/ Ever watch an anime...

This is a spinoff of my timeline The Fire Never Dies (check my sig) focused on the pop culture of the TFND-verse, particularly American comic books (although I'd love to see film and eventually TV get a look in). Since I'm not quite ready to share control with others, I'll be making the final...

Now this one is an interesting one and I just thought of this one. In this post, what if The Owl House never aired on Disney; and by that, I mean what if the show aired on Cartoon Network (I would have said "…or Nickelodeon", but I feel like Cartoon Network would have been more caring to the...

............ Greetings. Welcome to my first timeline of two-thousand and twenty-three...... The theme and focus of this TL should be obvious given the title and tags. Now, without further ado. I introduce you to my newest TL: TL-2K23! So, how about we get started on this adventure...

Tom Cat Films was a film company founded in 2007, that eventually became popular for producing and distributing hit superhero films such as “Captain Battle”, “Rise of the Black Bat”, “Avenging Force: The Scarab”, “Metal Man”, and “Agent Beetle”, which all became recognized for being clever mock...

Capcom Fighting Evolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capcom_Fighting_Evolution) was a crossover fighting game released in October of 2004 during the twilight of the arcade and was so poorly received critically and in sales numbers that it breifly killed Capcom's fighting games and 2D...

This is from my own personal alternate timeline called "Timeline-93". In this first post – from a segment involving "Western Animation", Toonami was founded in 1996 – one year earlier than in OTL – but instead of becoming an animation block, it became its own network; think "Boomerang 'from...

Welcome to Just Like Starting Over! A new pop culture timeline that asks, “What if John and Paul just couldn’t resist $3,000?” I joke, but I truly hope I can bring a great pop culture timeline to you all, starting right here, right now. Some information before we begin: If you have an idea...

The Way Life’s Meant To Be: Redux An AJM8888 story Nishi-Shinjuku Tokyo early 1980s Times Square, Facing South, 1981 Main Building of Moscow State University, Moscow 1981 Piccadilly Circus, London 1981. Gwangju May 1980 (Getty Pictures) Part I: Preamble I John and the man who...

Disney, Nintendo, and Apple are some of the most influential companies on the planet, having changed the worlds of media, entertainment, and popular culture in so many ways that it’s hard to imagine a word without any of them, from animation, to video games, to technology. But what if these...