u/CoolComicsJ

From The Wizarding World to Vampire the Masquerades to the Men in Black I find it interesting that most of these settings take place in and are created before around the mid 2000s and the more I think about I think as these settings move into a more recent time that trying to remain hidden or unknown to the general public would be increasingly untenable or impossible even. Between the exponential proliferation of the Internet, the vast expansion of "eyes and ears" in the world first through so many cameras, then satellites, then phones and everything else any "masquerade break" is never just a single incident, it's everywhere at once forever. Even magical cover-ups would just start creating more problems trying to keep up. It's like trying to cover up a typo with white out but then somebody notices and then sees that and you have to cover that up etc. I think this is partially why none of these settings take place past around that year.