Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2000s?

[ToroidalBoat]

You know things are shit when you wish we could go back to just post 9/11 patriot act times.

1990’s to 2000’s was currently the best era for Generation Z.

Millennials love the 80’s and early 90’s.

Seems every decade now keeps throwing in new bullshit that doesn't goes away. Like paranoia over terrorism and endless recession weren't things in the '90s, smartphone zombies and identity politics weren't things in the '00s, and mandatory muzzles weren't a thing in the '10s.

Not only is the pre-9/11 world gone, but as we can all see, this world just keeps getting worse and worse. Assuming some horrible collapse never happens, people may very well see each previous decade as better. And if a collapse does happen, things may be much worse, with future improvement only being a possibility.

Kind of sucks, doesn't it?

 

[Cabelaz]

I guess I miss it. I think the thing i miss most though was my blissful ignorance.
As autistic as it sounds, growing up in a flyover state made me want to live in a city. I wanted to see the bright lights- meet new people, make a name for myself, yadadada.
It crushed me when I grew up and realized they were shitholes that were devoid of the very dream I once believed they had.
Nowadays I despise cities. I despise the people who live in them and facilitate their existence.
Thats kind of what my life became. Its sad. I now despise the things I once held dear. Football, Art, the Military...
The only things that make this period of time enjoyable are family, friends, and a good steak.
Thank god for Friday nights and a case of Blue Moons.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I’m sad to not be ever able to go to a Disney park before the wokeness took it all over.

Honestly thought Disneyland was getting expensive even in the 90s, so I opted for Knott's Berry Farm.

 

[A Grey Cat]

One lesser talked about trend from the 2000's i miss was video game sequels/adaptaions of movies especillay older ones. Remember when it seemed like every year there was a video game based on a movie? and if it was an older movie from like a decade or two before it was actually good? From Indiana Jones (emperor's tomb) to scarface (the world is yours) hell even nightmare before Christmas got a video game sequel even though Tim burton has sworn their will NEVER be a movie sequel as long as he's alive. (oogie's revenge) Hell i learned about the movies The Thing and The Warriors because of their tie in games, I played the thing game at my uncle's house almost every weekend and watched the DVD once he added it to his collection (he used to have quite the DVD collection)

nowadays movie games even of newer properties are almost nonexistent. the only notable ones on console tend to be shovelware tie ins to kids/animated movies or are mobile games that shut down after a year or two once the movie is no longer profitable, some exceptions apply of course (jurassic world evolution, the avengers, and sony's Spiderman although the later two are based more on the characters as a whole not any specific movie releases)

 

[Billy_Sama]

One lesser talked about trend from the 2000's i miss was video game sequels/adaptaions of movies especillay older ones. Remember when it seemed like every year there was a video game based on a movie? and if it was an older movie from like a decade or two before it was actually good? From Indiana Jones (emperor's tomb) to scarface (the world is yours) hell even nightmare before Christmas got a video game sequel even though Tim burton has sworn their will NEVER be a movie sequel as long as he's alive. (oogie's revenge) Hell i learned about the movies The Thing and The Warriors because of their tie in games, I played the thing game at my uncle's house almost every weekend and watched the DVD once he added it to his collection (he used to have quite the DVD collection)

nowadays movie games even of newer properties are almost nonexistent. the only notable ones on console tend to be shovelware tie ins to kids/animated movies or are mobile games that shut down after a year or two once the movie is no longer profitable, some exceptions apply of course (jurassic world evolution, the avengers, and sony's Spiderman although the later two are based more on the characters as a whole not any specific movie releases)

The 2000s was the time companies realized that video games can generate massive profit on par with movies and was willing to invest in media tie ins. I think with higher cost to develop with current video games, companies stepped away which makes me long for the era of PS2/Xbox/Gamecube.

Also for every one memorible video game adaption, 10 awful and forgetable ones exist. The libaries of PS2, Wii, and DS are unfathomable with the shovelware. If there is something good about mobile gaming it is the main dumping ground of garbage even though it does seep into other platforms.

 

[Donker]

The 2000's weren't actually that great. War on Terror, Mass Survellience and the Bush Regime coming down hard. Everyone was scared of basically an Evangelical takeover and it was far more of a real threat than whatever the fuck the hysteria over Trump was. The Patriot Act combined with massive attacks on Sciences and Education and Whistleblowers was extremely shocking.

In terms of general culture, the 2000s are the best period of Console video games sure, but outside of that? Shitty hyper-commercial non-fun RnB? Literally the worst decade for Animation, Cartoons and largely TV. The only "Cultural" thing I look back fondly on was Pre-GFC Nightclubbing when even in the small city I lived in, we got weekly massive international acts like Justice, Peak Trance Era Tiesto, Sasha, Carl Cox etc. Post GFC Clubbing has never been the same since they struggle to make the barest of cash so can't get the big acts anymore and especially since Tinder came out and killed one of the main purposes of clubbing, also Lord of the Rings movie releases. That shit was wild. Lines that would literally stretch out of the cinema for miles.

What I do miss though is summed up in this

https://youtu.be/RWHNVwxJEeU

Can't say it better than this video, this is what I miss the most about the 2000s.

 

[Bass]

Not really. I had major personal problems in the 2000's that soured a good chunk of the decade for me. 2002-2007 I call "the bad old days" if you were to get me to talk about it in real life.

Also, I'm probably a bit older than most of the people here so I don't have the same nostalgia thing going on that could salvage it for me. The late 80s and early 90s where when pop culture was geared to people my age and life's bullshit hadn't crashed down on me yet.

To be perfectly honest, the last decade was one of the best times of my life, even though the general consensus in this thread seems to be that the 2010s were absolute shit, but that's when I dug myself out of the hole I dug in the 2000s, and everything started coming up Bass.

So I guess your view on the matter all depends on where you are in your life, I think.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

I remember loving this as a kid

 

[Quoookie]

On one hand yes I do... I miss all times camping and or visiting friends and family, seemingly endless days of swimming, bike riding, just doing stuff with them and up all night parties with the bonfires schmoores spider dawgs...drinking til i dropped. I miss all that...I mean I did for many years but the older I get I am just happy to have all those memories when I am so inclined to think about them. This was from 2002 to 2012ish..might be year or so off.

2000- spring 2002 I was still living on the streets. So don't really miss that time at all.

On the other hand getting older now I honestly think less and less of it all and really don't miss much. Also too my once stellar memory is fading a bit not a lot but sometimes I hear or read certain recollections from friends or fam and I am like to myself "Did this really happen?" during that time more often that not. I honestly most of the time don't recall their recollections. Sometimes they come back but few and far between.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Oh yes, do I miss the 2000s, especially since this whole fucking virus fiasco which is gonna make smartphone zombies even worse. As for the 2010's, 2010-2012 still had a pseudo 00's feeling to them, so I'd lump them in with the 00's.

2010-2012 did indeed have a a pseudo 00's feeling, although the earliest rumblings of Woke started as far back as 2011.

2013 also had a pseudo 00's feel although that's when things started getting progressively even more Woke, but everything was still so much in it's nascent stages until 2014, it's like people throwing spitballs at each other versus throwing bricks at each other.

2013 and early 2014 was the last time things felt "normal" to me, I knew when shit really hit the fan in August of 2014 something big had changed and we were in for some bleak days, although things still didn't start to reach critical mass until 2016.

Seems every decade now keeps throwing in new bullshit that doesn't goes away. Like paranoia over terrorism and endless recession weren't things in the '90s, smartphone zombies and identity politics weren't things in the '00s, and mandatory muzzles weren't a thing in the '10s.

Not only is the pre-9/11 world gone, but as we can all see, this world just keeps getting worse and worse. Assuming some horrible collapse never happens, people may very well see each previous decade as better. And if a collapse does happen, things may be much worse, with future improvement only being a possibility.

Kind of sucks, doesn't it?

I just got this bad feeling that everything is going to keep getting worse and worse until by the end of the century mankind will be living in a post apocalyptic state, if not full on extinct.

We've been on an undeniable downward trajectory for the last 20 years and it's getting harder and harder to believe that it's not going to just continue to be what it's been for two decades.

I got thinking for example about the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and how mass shootings still had the power to shock, then it became routine and eventually you became totally numb to it, that's a perfect example right there of just how fucked up things got.

In fact this trajectory of one bad thing after the other genuinely makes me wonder if something supernatural is going on, as crazy as that is.

In terms of general culture, the 2000s are the best period of Console video games sure, but outside of that?

You're forgetting another thing and it was also a great decade for anime and manga, lots of cool series and movies.

The 2000s was a great time for nerd culture, but mainstream culture was stupid and lame even back then, it's true, but it was at least a lot less hateful than mainstream culture today.

 

[Gensou Hadou]

I just got this bad feeling that everything is going to keep getting worse and worse until by the end of the century mankind will be living in a post apocalyptic state, if not full on extinct.

The way I see it, we've been in a post-apocalyptic state for about a year now.

Honestly, though, I feel like a total collapse would be an improvement over Clown World Current Year. At least then all I'd have to worry about is surviving day-to-day and taking care of my family, not all that and (online post-apocalyptic) schooling on top of the woke culture invasion and eternal covid lockdowns. Much easier said than done, I know, but if worst comes to worst, at least I stand a better chance at dying in a totally collapsed world than in Clown World Current Year.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

suoernatural

People who take the Bible literally may tell you that the devil is gaining more and more power, and as soon as the Church is raptured, the antichrist will reveal himself, then it's the Tribulation and Second Coming, followed by the Millennium. At least if that happened, the misery and insanity of the world would end sooner or later for sure.

 

[Dom Cruise]

People who take the Bible literally may tell you that the devil is gaining more and more power, and as soon as the Church is raptured, the antichrist will reveal himself, then it's the Tribulation and Second Coming, followed by the Millennium. At least if that happened, the misery and insanity of the world would end sooner or later for sure.

I can believe it.

Demonic is a great way to describe SJWs, those people are like demons wearing human skin.

The word apocalypse gets thrown around a lot, but you really gotta wonder if we are living in a full capital A Apocalypse.

Maybe it's just a law of the universe that everything has it's ending and maybe the human race are near ours. I mean heck, in the history of Earth there's been 5 mass extinction events hasn't there? It isn't even all that uncommon.

 

[Sage In All Fields]

I miss when being homophobic was a given and I could call something gay without getting lynched and the internet before it was completely subsumed by corporations and we had to deal with SOPA/PIPA and all that insanity and normalfags infesting every corner to the point where you now have to go into real life to escape from the internet instead of the other way around.

 

[Syaoran Li]

The more I think on it, the more I believe the Great Recession in the very late 2000's was the true "point of no return" as opposed to the more commonly touted origin points like Gamergate/Ferguson, the 2016 election, or COVID-19 and the BLM coup.

Now, you could easily say that Current Year didn't begin until well after 2009 and I'd kind of agree but it was the Great Recession and the malaise of the Obama years (along with the hype that preceded him) that made Current Year and the Woke Left truly inevitable.

For me, I'd put Current Year's start would be partway into Occupy Wall Street around the end of 2011 and the start of 2012.

It just didn't really become noticeable until 2014-2016 and it didn't really become this true juggernaut until 2017 with the start of the MeToo witch hunts and Charlottesville.

2020 made it damn near invincible thanks to eternal lockdowns and the BLM coup. Tellingly, the George Floyd riots was the point where the Corona lockdowns became truly eternal because these riots were exempted from any social distancing measures while also driving up infection rates.

The extended lockdowns was also the point where the pandemic went from a potential silver bullet that would take down China and the Woke Left and turned into the very thing that strengthened them further and made them totally impervious.

Unless this WSB stuff ends up getting a second wind and we get some kind of unexpected anime-tier miracle at the very last possible nanosecond, I think it's time to throw in the towel.

Honest, we should just go dark, keep quiet and do our best to save money and live as frugally as possible while preserving as much of the "problematic" and "degenerate" past as we possibly can and if you are a creative type, creating new works that are problematic or degenerate and against the moralism of the Woke Left.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

I miss the old style BBS (like this one) from the mid-to late 2000s. No overt forum policing, no lefty bullshit or PC nonsense clogging up discussion, and the often comical and inoffensive gaffes committed by middle-aged computer illiterates who had somehow found their way onto the internet.

They're pretty much all dead now, or inactive to the point of being graveyards. Shame.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The more I think on it, the more I believe the Great Recession in the very late 2000's was the true "point of no return" as opposed to the more commonly touted origin points like Gamergate/Ferguson, the 2016 election, or COVID-19 and the BLM coup.

Now, you could easily say that Current Year didn't begin until well after 2009 and I'd kind of agree but it was the Great Recession and the malaise of the Obama years (along with the hype that preceded him) that made Current Year and the Woke Left truly inevitable.

For me, I'd put Current Year's start would be partway into Occupy Wall Street around the end of 2011 and the start of 2012.

It just didn't really become noticeable until 2014-2016 and it didn't really become this true juggernaut until 2017 with the start of the MeToo witch hunts and Charlottesville.

2020 made it damn near invincible thanks to eternal lockdowns and the BLM coup. Tellingly, the George Floyd riots was the point where the Corona lockdowns became truly eternal because these riots were exempted from any social distancing measures while also driving up infection rates.

The extended lockdowns was also the point where the pandemic went from a potential silver bullet that would take down China and the Woke Left and turned into the very thing that strengthened them further and made them totally impervious.

Unless this WSB stuff ends up getting a second wind and we get some kind of unexpected anime-tier miracle at the very last possible nanosecond, I think it's time to throw in the towel.

Honest, we should just go dark, keep quiet and do our best to save money and live as frugally as possible while preserving as much of the "problematic" and "degenerate" past as we possibly can and if you are a creative type, creating new works that are problematic or degenerate and against the moralism of the Woke Left.

Nothing was ever the same after 2008, that's something I noticed is a certain spark was lost from the world after the Recession hit.

I feel like we could have crawled our way out of the post-9/11 situation, the desire was there, the hope was there, hence the whole utopian hype surrounding Obama, the stage was set for us getting back on track in making the "new millennium" the groovy utopia we dreamed of in the 1990s.

Then the economy shit itself and the trouble with that is it struck to the very heart of our society, 9/11 was fucking bad but it was at the end of the day on attack by outsiders, the Great Recession on the other hand was rot coming from within, it called everything about how our society functions into question and we've been spiraling into chaos ever since.

Because the thing about the Great Recession wasn't just the recession itself, what was lost was a simply confidence in ourselves, the fear of "what if it happens again?" and that was Genie we couldn't just put back in the bottle.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Demonic is a great way to describe SJWs

I've heard them described as the "Luciferian Left". But like members of a cult, not all are bad though.

If extinction happens, at least it's better in the end than a never-ending Current Year. Can you imagine 1 billion years of ever-worsening yet never-ending Clown World - especially with New Normal?

 

[Linako 2.0]

Maybe it's just a law of the universe that everything has it's ending and maybe the human race are near ours. I mean heck, in the history of Earth there's been 5 mass extinction events hasn't there? It isn't even all that uncommon.

No, thats whig history bullshit. History is cyclical, not linear amd we are just seeing the days of collapse before the night comes akd the dawn rises again. Much like how the water rises from the sky and returns to the surface, or the Earth revolving around the sun which creates the seasons, so is the same with civilization.

 

[Tour of Italy]

Just a weird thought I had the other day;

After almost a hundred years, the 2000’s were the last decade where kids would regularly experience the feeling of having to stake their claim on the family radio/television so that they could watch their show at the only time it came on, as it was released, or else be held at the mercy of reruns.

The way we interact with media has changed enormously. Even in the 2000’s with the rise of flash and early YouTube you could find entertainment on the internet at your own pace and convenience, so the anticipation of new content and the routine that comes with it had already begun to wane.

Hell, just having less media overall has changed the way we treat our experiences. There’s a reason why a free PlayStation demo disc from Pizza Hut or that Cap’n Crunch Crunchlings PC game you got in a fucking cereal box felt like uniquely special experiences despite their relative quality; when you only owned a dozen games total, each one felt bigger in emotional scale. A new addition was a novelty.

Now I own literally hundreds of games, most of which were gained through subscriptions or free giveaways, to the point where I’ll forget for months that I already own a title I was interested in. Sitting down to play one, no matter how good it actually is, doesn’t have the same feeling as playing a 6/10 game you bought after saving your allowance for weeks to get it.

My nephew has played a wider selection of games at age 5 than I did for the first 20 years of my life, and that’s a weird thought.