Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2000s?

[AnOminous]

I think the 1990s and 2000s were pretty amazing. I miss hanging out at the roller rink with my friends before the internet was wide spread and things could still be kind of mysterious. I miss having a family barber who you could just hang out and shoot the shit with on a saturday. I miss how quiet and comfortable comic book shops used to be. I miss the smell of cigarettes in the 90s, I don't know what they did to them but it's just not the same anymore. Stuff like that.

You probably smoked clove cigs you homo.

I was 10 when it happened. I didn't have a choice in whether it defined me or not,

Sorry you suck and were defined into sucking because of your complete inability to react to events in the real world.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

This video* claims the reason the 2010s suck compared to the '00s is because the '00s were the last decade of the post-WWII "Prosperity Era," which ended (in part) because of automation and "easy oil" peaking. The cultural change @Syaoran Li mentioned earlier and the '08 crash marks the end of this "Prosperity Era."

*("WHY life sucks and is only getting worse")

 

[Dom Cruise]

As somebody who's seen a few decades, if I'd be forced to be as objective as I can I'd have to say the late 80s/up to mid/late-90s were best. The cold war was gone and done and the west was on the height of a golden age, people started speaking up about really fucked up attitudes of earlier decades and technological evolution was breathtaking and your average middle class family where the father worked in retail could have part of it by buying the electronic gizmos people in this thread have fond memories of for several hundreds or thousands of dollars. Towards the late 90s this trend held up but the middle class started disappearing and nobody really noticed. Then the '00s started with 9/11 happening and a lot of things went straight into the shitter. Governments used and abused the situation and pushed terrible changes cutting down people's freedoms that would've been political suicide just 5 years earlier. a few select tech corps started their cancerous growth and swallowed their competitors, destroying the healthy competitive enviroment of the earlier decades. The more liberal/social justice corner "antibodies" that had some rightful fights in the 80s and 90s with few pathogens to fight, started attacking the body itself. Then Social media threw gas onto that whole fire, because suddenly this shit became profitable for a few people. Then the economic recession in many parts of the world that pretty much destroyed the rest of the middle class that existed in the 80s and 90s. The '00s enabled the garbage that was the '10s (which turned all this up to eleven) and wasn't really that great a decade. Here's to hoping this one will be better I suppose.

The late 80s and the 90s really was a magical time where it seemed like humanity was moving in a good direction for the 21st century.

But while the 2000s was the start of our troubles, the effects of them really didn't truly start to be felt until the 2010s, that's why I look back on the 2000s fondly today, because it may not have been as great as what came before, but it's still better than what came after.

You're just a bunch of fucking losers. You're all


9/11 was a joke and just yet another example of how stupid people are. Good job, make some random event a defining moment. I was just coming off a night shift when 9/11 happened and I realized shit, this is one of those moments that burn their way into your mind, not because they were actually important but because people are fucking stupid.

Every single reaction to 9/11 was dumb, people got dumber in reaction to it, and Osama basically won because of how fucking stupid people are.

I mean, it was only the biggest terrorist attack in human history, why wouldn't it be a big deal?

But you're not totally wrong either, at least some of the response to 9/11 was indeed stupid, I personally remember late 2001 and 2002 as mostly a happy time for me, I was only the age of 11/12/13 to be fair, but I didn't let it bring me down.

The point of a terrorist attack is to create fear and people definitely gave into that too much.

And this is my whole point of this thread is 9/11 shouldn't be allowed to overshadow the 2000s completely, the lives we lived and whatever good times we had in the 2000s deserve to be remembered.

'60s nostalgia was/is definitely a thing despite the fucked up things that happened in that decade, so why not 2000s nostalgia? (to be fair, give it time and maybe that will indeed be a thing)

 

[Enola Straight]

I don't miss the 2000s but there are at least a couple of things I miss that were far more prevalent in the 2000s. Like survival horror games and having a normal level of dopamine.

 

[Lost send help]

I miss the movies, end of the 90’s to the early 2000’s where amazing for cinema then it all went bleh at least with English language films.

I see mid 2000’s as the end of hope in a way, its weird but late 2000’s onwards I just felt jaded, maybe I’m just getting old.

Maybe it's information overload? Also we have just been in one long recession almost at least compared to before and we’re heading for another one it seems.

IIRC, BioWare hired her as a consultant for Mass Effect: Andromeda and she was also on the consultant team for Anthem as well.

Between her primadonna behavior at Activision and being attached to Mass Effect Andromeda, as well as CDPR not giving into her hollow threats, the gaming industry is now quietly ignoring her and I think we'll see sexy return to games as the AAA titles that began development in the 2010's are done cycling out.

That scarily explains so much and now the studio will probably get the axe unless DA4 is good.

I’ll be happy if western games go backwards at least with regard to tone. Also they really need to get some decent writers in gaming and films now or maybe it's more they need to stop chopping the narrative and vision to pieces so there is a story.

Maybe they're finally realising games are entertainment and I want to be entertained not preached at! If they want an underlying point or to make me think then write it better.

Also maybe the 2020’s is when the word problematic can finally be banned.

 

[Thumb Butler]

The mid 2000s were shit. So no.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Another reason I miss the time before Current Year:

No fearmongering amplified by smartphones and social media.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

This video* claims the reason the 2010s suck compared to the '00s is because the '00s were the last decade of the post-WWII "Prosperity Era," which ended (in part) because of automation and "easy oil" peaking. The cultural change @Syaoran Li mentioned earlier and the '08 crash marks the end of this "Prosperity Era."

*("WHY life sucks and is only getting worse")

That is why we desperately need WW3, to get a new boom period after it.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

Miss the 1990s or 2000s? I miss the januari 2020s.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The 2000s sucked. At the beginning you had shit like nu metal and boy bands. Then you had emo and grimdark bullshit. At the end, you had fake and gay positivity and pretending that shit like Facebook and YouTube were going to get us to the promised land of progressive utopia. The 2000s kicked off capeshit, cynical nostalgia cash ins went into overdrive, George Carlin died leading to cucks like Louis CK taking over, etc.

On the other hand, at certain points in the 2010s, they demanded we take cunts like John Flynt, Randi Harper, Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, Greta Thunberg, etc. seriously and for that reason alone the 2000s were better than the 2010s.

Even the lame stuff from the 2000s now has a campy charm to it, at least to me.

Some aspects of pop culture are just that way maybe, they need to age before one can really appreciate it, one example is the drive in B movies of the 1950s and 1960s, I can imagine someone at the time they were new thinking they were just lame, but when they became "retro" people could laugh at the charming datedness and camp.

Same with 1980s B movies as well.

So the goofier aspects of 2000s culture kinda has that charm to me, I can just laugh at it's ridiculousness.

And honestly, emo music has kinda aged well, tell me this isn't a catchy song, it may not be AC/DC but it's preferable to music now.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I will agree that emo is better than Billie Eilish mumbling incoherently into a microphone.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

The first decade to me was kinda exciting. I was finally maturing from teen to adult, we were finally in the 'futuristic' next millennium, technology seemed more elevated than it ever was, and all that.... but then it kinda just stopped. The 2010s felt like nothing but a regression.

 

[Longjack Attack]

The 2000s brought me some good times.

Cartoons were memorable from Ben 10, Barnyard ,Making Fiends, Avatar, and ABC kids; the Playstation 3 and PSP had some pretty amazing exclusives along with the PS2 i had played prior; flip phones were still out their even during the rise of the smartphone and Blockbuster still existed.

 

[AnOminous]

The 2000s brought me some good times.

Cartoons were memorable from Ben 10, Barnyard ,Making Fiends, Avatar, and ABC kids; the Playstation 3 and PSP had some pretty amazing exclusives along with the PS2 i had played prior; flip phones were still out their even during the rise of the smartphone and Blockbuster still existed.

Flip phones were actually not that bad. I remember one I had with a primitive mp3 player and a ludicrously small amount of memory. It could hold something like two albums. This wasn't even bad as it forced you to swap them out every now and again. Now I have 30 GB of shit on my phone I never listen to and hasn't been changed in years.

 

[Longjack Attack]

I remember one I had with a primitive mp3 player and a ludicrously small amount of memory.

What was the name of that phone u had?

 

[AnOminous]

What was the name of that phone u had?

Not sure exactly. I think it was a Motorola of some kind. It was a really low end POS for the time, though.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The first decade to me was kinda exciting. I was finally maturing from teen to adult, we were finally in the 'futuristic' next millennium, technology seemed more elevated than it ever was, and all that.... but then it kinda just stopped. The 2010s felt like nothing but a regression.

It's incredible how much things changed from 2000 to 2010.

From it being not uncommon to still watch movies on VHS, not have a cell phone or even internet access in 2000, to HD movies on Blu Ray, smart phones and everyone having internet access by 2010.

Things definitely slowed to a crawl from that point on, more refinement of already existing things than total innovations (ie HD to even more HD)

I'd say the biggest changes in the 2010s technology wise was the rise of streaming, VR and video game graphics.

VR however remains very niche, but video game graphics have come a very long way since 2010.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

Cartoons were memorable from Ben 10, Barnyard ,Making Fiends, Avatar, and ABC kids

Cartoons are now better than ever. They were the only good thing about the 2010s.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

Cartoons are now better than ever. They were the only good thing about the 2010s.

Eh.. the only “good” 2010’s cartoon imo is “The Amazing World of Gumball”, everything else was just mediocre to terrible.
Oh, and Miraculous Ladybug, that too was alright.

 

[Yukarin]

I feel like the culture shift from a real life and the internet perspective is so foreign for people who did not adapt and change to the trends are out of touch (in my opinion/along with me) with big tech pushing social media and real life identities early on then normalizing it into 2007 and onwards.

Like, 90's-early 2000's Internet do's and dont's and etiquette, e.g. don't blog about your name and location, don't trust that dude selling you a virtual bridge, don't get phished, ect which nowadays some people are happily putting it out there in the social media sphere and tech corps being enabled to harvest said information about you just so they could sell your info and sell you ads. Or how cancel culture/crab mentality got popular because they did not like what you posted instead but during the early days you'd be given constructive feedback and be lectured on what was the right information or playful jest and banter that you and the other parties understood so you just play along and it wouldn't be personal.

I miss the late 90's and early 2000's because of how fun the internet was at the time. not as passive aggressive, decent rooms for serious discussion, people were relatively friendly, communities thriving and knowing regulars. Time will never go back and history will move forward but so all of us. I miss the 2000's but I much rather have it as a fond memory despite it's downsides and I like my internet speeds now, Seriously, we went a long way from fucking 1 MBPS. But I also like my gun rights, I hope 2020's and beyond will never repeat these tyrannical laws.