Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2000s?

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yaeh 9/11 was cool AF

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Call it autism but I'd jump at the opportunity to get a 2023 take on a flip phone with a physical keyboard that also has a small touch screen and supports all the modern applications that make phones a necessity like 2FA, email, bank access and shit like that. I hate the new touchscreen-only paradigm with a passion. Feels like shit to use and all phones look the same now because every manufacturer is only trying to copy apple and has been nonstop since 2007. Your only chance of customization is to buy an overpriced plastic sock. Screens are so huge you can't even operate the fucking thing with a single hand and it hardly fits in your pocket, but for some reason they also make them so thin that if you try, you risk breaking it. It's designed by idiots for idiots.

And the huge screens eat through the battery...

But there's keyboard phones with android, and can run WhatsApp and Maaps etc

I do miss when the internet was more of a collection of oddballs and eccentricities more than commercialization ( even though it does have some limited perks with that ) but you get people that are mad about you having the wrong opinion and it's just a shitshow.

The oddballs are still around, They just get chased off.

It's a weird cycle; oddballs form a niche community, normies swarm the community, then corpos come in and drive the oddballs out.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

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Ye old cellphones from 2008. We had some interesting tech before the smartphone craze took off.

The 2000's in general was the Wild West era of handheld devices. Not even just phones. Throughout the 2000's, you had all kinds of weird handheld consoles, different types of phones, PDA's, MP3 Players, etc. Even those kids toys that existed at the time, that played movies and TV shows
Nowadays, it's just a bunch of dopamine-slabs. At least the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch are pretty cool...

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I miss sneakily watching Adult Swim with my guinea pig. He loved Futurama. I could get more guinea pigs and do this, but it won't be the same. That childhood piggy was my pride and joy. I even read him bedtime stories.

 

[LeChampion1992]

The 2000s were not that in many regards because you could shack up, move out still with your friends. Owning property was still affordable, and even a neet pre 2005 could at least look forward to owning their own home one day.
As for technology being the wild west meant that you could have near total freedom. Kiwifarms could keep its own infrastructure same with Storm front and all the edgy places. Instead we saw a aptly named "Anti-fascist" hysteria under the guise of kind human rights utterly destroy everything great and fun about the 2000s.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The 2000's were my childhood, literally, being a 01 kid. Things were happier back then, we actually had bands still, people still gave a shit about eachother... then Obama happened and fucked all that up. Also fuck Iraq, that was a time when Americans won fucking wars, I miss that, especially when we hung saddam's bitch ass- no I don't care about weapons of mass destruction, Saddam was just evil, fuck him. I could also wave a American flag without it being cringe *insert badass gif of kid in hurricane with flag*.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

And the huge screens eat through the battery...

But there's keyboard phones with android, and can run WhatsApp and Maaps etc

The oddballs are still around, They just get chased off.

It's a weird cycle; oddballs form a niche community, normies swarm the community, then corpos come in and drive the oddballs out.

Yeah thats the cycle of when something gets commercialized. It's not going to be any different any time soon either but they still do come around it's just a very niche minority.

 

[Pissmaster]

So yesterday I posted this article about Alien Ant Farm, a nu-metal band that was a one-hit wonder in 2001, and the article included their hit music video Smooth Criminal. So I watched it, it's a good cover, and the video is quintessentially 2000s.

In fact, something I noticed is that it has elements of a lot of videos from the era. Every single example below has all but one of the following:

• punchy color palettes
• the band is performing at someone's residence
• teenagers are everywhere, dancing and jumping around
• smash cuts to individual random teenagers from the audience doing random teenager things
• no storyline is implied

Spoiler: examples

Interesting how that was more or less a template. It really reflects the happy times that once were.

 

[Headshotmaster138]

So yesterday I posted this article about Alien Ant Farm, a nu-metal band that was a one-hit wonder in 2001, and the article included their hit music video Smooth Criminal. So I watched it, it's a good cover, and the video is quintessentially 2000s.

In fact, something I noticed is that it has elements of a lot of videos from the era. Every single example below has all but one of the following:

• punchy color palettes
• the band is performing at someone's residence
• teenagers are everywhere, dancing and jumping around
• smash cuts to individual random teenagers from the audience doing random teenager things
• no storyline is implied

Spoiler: examples

Interesting how that was more or less a template. It really reflects the happy times that once were.

Looking at these music videos makes me sad when you realize the 2000s was the last time where you heard rock, punk, and metal on the radio or everywhere else for that matter. Now it's just Rap, Pop, and somehow Country that is currently popular.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The cult like mentality surrounding Obama is so creepy in hindsight.

I think I remember books meant for kids on Obama in the '00s, kind of like "proto-woke predecessor" of that "Rooted in Justice" book. I don't remember seeing books meant for kids praising Democrat president and vice president candidates before the Obama years.

 

[Meiwaku]

At least the fashion made a comeback. That's my one condolence.

 

[Headshotmaster138]

At least the fashion made a comeback. That's my one condolence.

In what way exactly? Unless you're referring to the teenage girls who dress in baggy jeans and crop tops.

 

[Meiwaku]

In what way exactly? Unless you're referring to the teenage girls who dress in baggy jeans and crop tops.

Square toed shoes, clear fabrics, the crop tops, bucket hats, flame glasses, furry shoes, tracksuits, feather trimmed cardigans, lots of glitter, the hairstyles. Wrap tops. Tribal tattoos on clothing, gogo boots, neons, crochet skirts, Braless, low cut jeans, tanning, blue eyeshadow, chunky highlights, bubble braids, fashion glasses, butterflies everywhere, strappy heels. Juicy Couture velour tracksuits, extreme colors together, light lipgloss colors.

The list goes on and on.

I'm loving the y2k shit. I just need my Japanese girls to start up the OG style Gyaru again.

 

[Headshotmaster138]

Square toed shoes, clear fabrics, the crop tops, bucket hats, flame glasses, furry shoes, tracksuits, feather trimmed cardigans, lots of glitter, the hairstyles. Wrap tops. Tribal tattoos on clothing, gogo boots, neons, crochet skirts, Braless, low cut jeans, tanning, blue eyeshadow, chunky highlights, bubble braids, fashion glasses, butterflies everywhere, strappy heels. Juicy Couture velour tracksuits, extreme colors together, light lipgloss colors.

The list goes on and on.

I'm loving the y2k shit. I just need my Japanese girls to start up the OG style Gyaru again.

I've never seen any of that except for the baggy pants and crop tops but I live in FL so I guess that's the reason. I find it interesting that 2000s shit is making a comeback but I guess I can chalk it up to Zoomers lacking an identity to call their own so they take stuff from the past.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I used to think that the 1980s - 2000s were the ideal times to live in. Before knowing the full extent of psychological warfare, those times felt like heaven to my more naive self, sometimes even weeping over the facts it's not simple times any more in an era of Vaccine Passports. But man was this quite an observation. I often look at the records of the past days of the 2000s and reminiscence about them. Something about the 1990s, 2000s and Early 2010s felt really nostalgic to me as those were the times before Wokeism, Troonism, Internet Censorship and Political Division that tore apart families. Sure there were euphoric atheists and shitty music but nothing too significant. But now with all the revelations, I see these decades with an apocalyptic aura. Nobody was aware of what's going on behind the scenes during these days. People were more synonymous with each other despite political difference but that slowly tears apart until recently, now someone is either an extreme far left or an extreme far right where any form of peaceful conversation becomes out of the question. I do remember since 2016 until 2021. My older sister would not talk to my father. They're political difference are drastically different and even then they still strongly disagree with eachother based on politics. Now, you're either awake beyond not trusting the world, or deeply beyond devoted to globalist masters where nothing could convince you otherwise. As much as I love to go back to or preserve the artifacts of past times, today's never been less surreal. I feel like I know so much, something I wouldn't bother in the 2000s as I was under the assumption everything was normal and optimistic. But I still miss the times I can freely call someone a nigger faggot anywhere I go.

 

[Headshotmaster138]

I used to think that the 1980s - 2000s were the ideal times to live in. Before knowing the full extent of psychological warfare, those times felt like heaven to my more naive self, sometimes even weeping over the facts it's not simple times any more in an era of Vaccine Passports. But man was this quite an observation. I often look at the records of the past days of the 2000s and reminiscence about them. Something about the 1990s, 2000s and Early 2010s felt really nostalgic to me as those were the times before Wokeism, Troonism, Internet Censorship and Political Division that tore apart families. Sure there were euphoric atheists and shitty music but nothing too significant. But now with all the revelations, I see these decades with an apocalyptic aura. Nobody was aware of what's going on behind the scenes during these days. People were more synonymous with each other despite political difference but that slowly tears apart until recently, now someone is either an extreme far left or an extreme far right where any form of peaceful conversation becomes out of the question. I do remember since 2016 until 2021. My older sister would not talk to my father. They're political difference are drastically different and even then they still strongly disagree with eachother based on politics. Now, you're either awake beyond not trusting the world, or deeply beyond devoted to globalist masters where nothing could convince you otherwise. As much as I love to go back to or preserve the artifacts of past times, today's never been less surreal. I feel like I know so much, something I wouldn't bother in the 2000s as I was under the assumption everything was normal and optimistic. But I still miss the times I can freely call someone a nigger faggot anywhere I go.

I never understood the nostalgia of the early 2010s. Wokism was born around that time when Occupy Wall Street fall apart and when obama won his second term to ruin race relations beyond repair.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I never understood the nostalgia of the early 2010s. Wokism was born around that time when Occupy Wall Street fall apart and when obama won his second term to ruin race relations beyond repair.

Anyone who was born before 1997 seemed to have a more positive outlook on that time period because at that time, politics were not a thing on interest and internet censorship wasn't at full force since it was still during their childhood and responsibilities were hardly a thing for them. For anyone who is older, life is more unforgiving, they're more likely to perceive that anything new is almost guaranteed to be trash. The 2010s was basically like the 2000s except blander. However I can still think of many zoomers who hates on the 2010s when they observe stuff made before their time. The Early 2010s despite some Wokism, Euphoric Atheism, Social Justice and all this stuff was still calm compared to today. When 2016 came around, it became a whole lot more apparent. I don't think anyone would reminiscence the Late 2010s and Early 2020s as strongly as the Early 2010s. But still. It wasn't considered ideal compared to previous decades for most.

 

[RussianParasite]

Anyone who was born before 1997 seemed to have a more positive outlook on that time period because at that time, politics were not a thing on interest

It was nice when politics was considered boring nerd shit. Nobody wanted to talk about government or even take a civics class (except me because I was a weirdo into that stuff). I’ve now since dropped nearly all interest in politics because you can’t talk to almost anyone about them without that person absolutely chimping out while not even knowing how their government actually functions.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

I never understood the nostalgia of the early 2010s. Wokism was born around that time when Occupy Wall Street fall apart and when obama won his second term to ruin race relations beyond repair.

I think it was the last good days, the peak of the internet almost. You could find anything you wanted to and the only censorship were faggy mods (and even those fags weren't as bad as they'd become when souped up on SocJus). Information was readily available and you could download anything you wanted if you searched for it. Everyone still made fun of the really dumb people like creationists and other fundies. Even the election was a lot less contentious than 2016 and 2020. The earliest SocJus incidents like the "dongle" thing (remember that?) were widely laughed at.

And then Trayvon picked a fight in the wrong neighborhood and got ventilated and everything was downhill from there.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Another thing I miss about the '00s: food was cheaper (and it wasn't about 50 cents to $1 for one egg).