“I just re-read one novel by V. Pelevin from the second half of the tenths. The novel is rubbish, but it made me think that a good game in the spirit of the times might be to determine the approximate year of publication of a book based on the footnotes found in it, informing about the bans: for example, in the Pelevin I read (edition 2023), in connection with Facebook, the ban of the Meta company is already mentioned, but the “LGBT movement” is not yet labeled in any way...

“I just re-read one novel by V. Pelevin from the second half of the tenths. The novel is rubbish, but it made me think that a good game in the spirit of the times might be to determine the approximate year of publication of a book based on the footnotes found in it, informing about the bans: for example, in the Pelevin I read (edition 2023), in connection with Facebook, the ban of the Meta company is already mentioned, but the “LGBT movement” is not yet labeled in any way. For a knowledgeable person, this is enough to roughly understand the time of release of the book from the printing house.
But, of course, the most striking sign of the era in relation to book publishing will remain entire paragraphs of “non-traditional” content, which the book publisher chose to leave white or, conversely, completely filled with black - this is no longer uncommon. It will be immediately clear to posterity that this is an artifact from the late Putin era.
Your Vasya N., pre-trial detention center-1, St. Petersburg"