Ah, I see
@Iwanh has I believe suggested that the alt-GFC will be much more of a “normal” recession (something more akin to the early 1990s real estate crash) than the apocalypse of OTL, but I could be wrong. A lot of that cake was baked in 2003-04ish
i just hope the 2008 recession is at least smaller in TTL like they are planning
that and c**vid not happening would make this the perfect AU imo
the 2008 recession killed alot of canadian companies (including canwest which was the last non corus/bell company that existed in canada thats not the cbc)
and was also the reason why anime was dead for a while here in canada, with anime north instead becoming the homestuck equivalent to bronycon during the canadian anime drought of the early 2010s
this was also the reason why cool high quality japanese style cars like the saturn was phased out in favor of the cheap ugly european tesla style cars we have now like the fiat or the nissan cube (and may also be why led street lights are an ugly white instead of the cities wating for orange led street lights to become a thing)
hopefully with the 2008 recession being smaller, we could see good eurodance music survive instead of it being replaced by crap like dubstep and justin bieber (though TTLs dubstep equivalent may be much easier to listen and dance to like eurodance)
afterall, nurave is a much more colorful/cute version of the darker emo/scene culture in OTL