Not exactly a hobby and not exactly a year,
but 1998-2009 for movies & television that was not anime.
As bad as all the nostalgia-bait is today,
it’s no Idiocracy which was not a prediction of the future,
but a reflection of what the media-landscape was turning into,
during that era.
For me, I would say around 2020 and knowing the US was responsible for blowing up the pipelines the around summer 2021, considering the news at that time I could already tell. Not in detail, but enough to know it a high likelyhood, with doubts in between.