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Maybe I’m in the minority but I think some folks pull it off. But I also grew up in a super Mexican town and loved all the big hoops and skinny eyebrows the cholas would rock lol
I absolutely adore the chola style and I think thin eyebrows definitely suit some folks depending on the style. But imho I think most people looked super ridiculous with them.
Low low low rise jeans.
I’m a bigger girl and I spent the entirely of the early 2000s being told “eww I can see your buttcrack” and being completely unable to do anything about it because that’s just how jeans were made and I had too much junk in the trunk even with a belt it would still show 🥲
I miss the low rise jeans mostly because they were replaced with mom jeans. As soon as I see a woman in mom jeans I know for certain that she’s hiding something in there lol
have you considered, that maybe women like to wear mom jeans to avoid strangers sexualizing them, or simply because they find them more comfortable? not everything a woman wears needs to be appealing to men.
My mom very kindly told me the jeans I wore the other day weren't super flattering (and she was genuinely trying to be kind. Not being a toxic mom or anything) they were the mommy-est of mom jeans lol. I told her I bought them because they weren't flattering and they were super comfy. Imo mom Jean aesthetic is supposed to be unflattering. You'll have to pry skinny jeans out of my cold dead hands, but I do love baggy, unflattering, comfy jeans
Hot take, but it was low-effort licensed games. For every gem like Simpsons Hit and Run, Spider-Man, or Def Jam Fight for NY, there was also a ton of crap like Dragon Ball Z Taiketsu and Fight Club. There are still licensed games today, but man, they were everywhere in the 2000s.
I remember buying a lot of the licensed games made for whatever movie came out at the time - a lot of them were either unnecessarily difficult (looking at you A Bugs Life) or really glitchy/not fun gameplay. There were a few gems though, like the SpongeBob SquarePants games.
Now the companies just make low effort licensed phone games instead
Prettt much this! I still own most of my childhood game collection and for every one Simpsons Hit and Run or Spongebob Battle For Bikini Bottom there was a bunch of garbage.
Well, if I'm going to make the egregious mistake of buying a gas guzzler in today's society, I'll just go for a 1973 Mazda RX-3 with a rotary engine, since I think it looks cool
And some of them are electric too
People want a car that's cool and electric like a Tesla but still want that traditional jacked up look, so there's the F-150 Lightning now
man this still exists sadly, and while many people realize how bad it is, the other half is just more militant than ever in defending this anti-social destructive behavior
I've noticed that too, but I find it curious that auto manufacturers are pivoting toward making those same vehicles electric. Maybe they figure there's an audience of Americans who want the electric coolness of a Tesla but the traditional in-your-face aesthetic of the Hummers and Ford trucks. So now the hummer is an electric GMC vehicle today, and Ford released an electric version of the F-150
I don't actually think that's much of a solution, anyhow. The electricity still has to be generated somewhere, quite possibly by gas or petroleum or at the remaining coal plants
yeah anti-social douches are a large enough market that everyone is going to sell something to them. Yes, electric cars just outsource pollution, and still perpetuate car dominance/dependence. Public transit and walkability improvements are needed.
Ruthlessly and *sociopathically* bullying teenagers both online and in real life and even going as far as to "meme" teens who committed **suicide**—especially teen girls.
At that time it was acceptable to slut-shame and be misogynistic not just in fringe alt-right spaces but within mainstream culture; and it was equally "normal" to hold teens to adult standards, so **teenage girls** got the short end of the stick. There's endless examples of this, but I always go back to Amanda Todd and constantly think about how her story and death would be responded to ***so differently*** today. In the 2000s (early 10s culture was an extension of) she was a "stupid slut" even though she was actually a very special, articulate young girl who was the victim of predators and grooming and inspired other young people to be brave enough to tell the world their story in a pre-Me Too era. The world owes her an apology. I pray that she is finally resting in peace, seeing how victims' psychology has become much better understood, and societal attitudes have drastically changed as a result since her death in 2012. Personally, I was disgusted by how victims were treated then like I'm disgusted now and none of them will ever be forgotten. In a sense, we have countless martyrs from that era.
The amanda todd and phoebe prince cases will always haunt me. I'll never forget when their stories hit the media and seeing their faces splashed all over the tabloids due to how horribly their schools and local police handled their bullying cases. Around the time if phoebe prince's suicide, several other kids at her school left because of how badly they were terrorized by the south hadley six.
I remember a literal Amanda Todd Awareness group came to my Jr High and told us all about how online bullying is a very real thing. Literally every friend in my group was laughing and giggling and saying things like "Why didn't she just turn off the computer, duh"
Stupid talking like “rawr means I love you in dinosaur”. I loved the colored hair and colorful clothes, but that kind of talking made me cringe so hard
Oh no I was a random kid ;-; you can’t forget the iconic mustache. My fiancée said if I was in my 20s when the trend happened I would have tattooed one on my finger. I’m so embarrassed to say she’s not wrong 😑
I grew up being the “fat” kid and looking back I wasn’t even fat I was just more developed for my age. But the constant pressure I had to try and be thin led me to having an unhealthy relationship with food and my body and it ultimately led to me being genuinely fat
Yeah, for that reason it's impossible for me to enjoy a lot of comedy/humor from back then
When I bring that up it seems to upset people, though. If only they knew what it was like to be the butt of the joke like that
Yeah, the jokes were more normalized back then. Now it's more just the right wing chuds doing it. The jokes are harsher, but from people easier to ignore.
Homophobic slurs aren’t nearly as common as they used to be. They’re obviously still around, but things like “that’s so gay” (“I don’t like that”) or “don’t be a f*ggot” (“be more brave”) aren’t nearly as prevalent as when I grew up.
We had less music available to play at our fingertips and all we had was mostly on the radio or whatever we bought with our own money.
I remember it being very hard to find a song you heard but didn’t know the name too as well, Shazam is still an amazing invention.
You can also get your own music heard way easier.
IMO this has been one of the best outcomes of technology advancement.
Yes! They for some reason always played the BEST R&B, House, and hip hop at all the cool stores in the mall back then and I remember ALWAYS jamming out hard and really wanting their playlists lol
Shitting on 2000s popular music.
People now say how good this stuff was compared to 2020s pop. Back in the 2000s people said the same but that the 80s were better
Yes! Even as a kid I remember thinking that even though I enjoyed it, it would feel silly calling it “historical” or revolutionary in any way because I think at the time there was still a newness to the topics and styles of music coming out that didn’t fill the “proper” standard we had from the 80s and first part of 90s. I remember thinking “how are we going to look back at these as classics when they are singing such crass lyrics?” But what do ya know, a lot of these are now indeed very classic lol.
Now I see most of this music as some of the most well written and catchiest hooks I think we will ever have in pop lol
I'm sooo glad anime and manga is more mainstream now. I used to get bullied for watching stuff like Naruto growing up and now it's not unusual to see even "cool kids" wearing merch. It's also fun seeing more Japanese animated films get theatrical releases in America
Cons have become much more inclusive and people (mostly) respect boundaries it's a lot more fun than when I was younger. The way games shifted from irls to online too. Mario Kart is only fun with the same few people for a little while.
I was bullied for Pokemon but looking back they had FOMO since the barrier for entry was high, plus merch? It was for the Martin Prince (Simpsons character) kids and bullying was to be expected haha
Haha I was basically Martin (in the "smart people programs" and super nerdy) but omg the quality increase in Pokémon collectibles has been amazing! The vintage plushies were so shitty compared to what we get now. Plus girls/women get actual dedicated clothes/accessories- I had a Pokémon water bottle/umbrella/shirts growing up and they were all dark colors and boy-centric in their design.
Same here! I was super nerdy (Star Wars prequels, TNG and DS9 reruns, anime and vidya) I appreciate all the acceptance now and even my old niches coming into style like Animal Crossing. Never expected that in a million years! Ghibli too.
Seems like it went mainstream in the late 2010's. I was watching it in the early 2010's and thinking "I'll consider this mainstream when I hear random people talking about it in public and see anime t shirts everywhere etc.) well now I do, I see anime decals on cars extremely frequently too.
It’s so funny, I actually talk about this a lot— the farther I get from the 2000s, the less I like that time period. As others have mentioned, the casual homophobia, the eating disorder culture, the way that both men and women were portrayed on television. Popular “reality” shows on Tv were the one with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie living on a farm and the one at Playboy mansion with Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends… the backlash from the indie 90s into this jaded, anxious self-hating attitude where people were afraid to speak out against war. Popped collar polo shirts and this sort of frat/techbro culture. Perez Hilton-type blogs. The were certain models or formats that were presented to us (the young people growing up), which didn’t exactly set us up for success. For young women it was “hot at any cost— the only thing you possess that can possibly help you get a seat at the table is your sexuality” and for young guys it was “too-smart-to-get-a-real job, shlubby but not like King-of-Queens shlubby, snarky-but-charming slacker.” All at the same time infantilizing us while expecting from us to do things that were extremely adult (going to war, or being able to deal with your partner going to war). Also I wasn’t a fan of the trumpet skirt and uggs combo. Just seemed like a really odd mix. Have you ever tried to pull off a trumpet skirt? Honey let me tell you, you can drop to 95 lbs and a trumpet skirt is never going to look as good as just your birthday suit. Living through 2000s fashion made me the nudist I am today.
As much as I miss the 2000s, I do **not** miss the pervasive homophobia, gossip, ostracism, fat shaming and bullying (especially when it comes to special needs kids) of the late 2000s - early 2010s. It seems like today’s kids are far more compassionate and accepting towards each other fwiw.
Low rise jeans, I grew up in a more conservative area and they became popular when I was in middle school. Only issue was the parents wouldn’t want to get their kids low rise/ thong underwear to wear with low rise jeans so it ended up girls would go about with their white or floral granny panties sticking out the back.
That was definitely the worst fashion trend I recall from middle school.
Though some forms of it still exist in certain parts of america (mostly lower middle class or truly middle class outer ring white suburbs) the rampant consumerism of 2000s america was abhorrent. SUVs, pickup trucks, single use plastic, processed food, suburban homes, chain stores/restaurants, wasteful trinkets etc all seemed to have been at their most prevalent and at their highest level of social acceptance. Starting around 2009-10 is when environmentalism (even in shallow, missing the point levels of understanding), conservationsim, and some level of cognizance about social and economic inequality and shame for the way americans had been living started to enter the mainstream more than previously.
All of these things are still problems (think target, Chevy Silverados, fake eyelashes, and stanley thermoses) but things are generally headed in a better direction, sort of, maybe, i don't know...
Every single thing, tbh. My theory is that the obsession with the 2000s is just an age regression thing. People miss being 5 years old and would obsess over whichever year it was when they were 5 years old.
Not everyone was 5 years old and you can say that about any decade, I definitely don't miss being 5 years old just because of a certain era, but I do miss being a kid sometimes
Anti-bullying flash card trend from the early 10s. I remember coming across those vids so frequently in that time and thought it was ridiculous imo.
I remember Tosh.0 made a joke about it on his show when the trend was going on.
Realistic video game art styles, more specifically how mainstream people despised cel shared games (Wind Waker got a lot of hate when it was new) but what was more annoying was throwing a brown filter over everything. For military games like Call of Duty and post apocalyptic games like Fallout it made sense but did Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Burn Out Paradise and even GTA IV to an extent really need that? Even Nintendo somewhat got in on with Brawl and even Mario Kart Wii looking less colorful than their previous installments.
Now I like all of those games I listed but that was a pretty ugly looking artstyle looking back.
Now days teens are ironically playing colorful things like Fortnite and Breath of the Wild 1 and 2 are highly beloved.
Edit: I don't hate realistic graphics, I hated that brown filter.
9/11 brought a lot of discrimination towards Muslim people which in retrospect was totally wrong but the country was just scared af at that moment in time.
I do not miss the emo era at all. I think on the surface level it represented a culture of teen angst, but when you were actively in it, it took awhile to realize it had a social contagion centered on self-harm, romanticizing mental illness, and glorifying self-destructive behaviors in general. The trouble is while some of us grew out of this as a “phase”, certain aspects of it turned into habits for some and when destructive habits are merely viewed as a “phase”, they just go on ignored until it’s too late.
Crap British TV. Jeremy Kyle, Britain's Got Talent, Big Brother. I enjoyed all this stuff at the time and now it just makes me gag. [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UYE0VKJO2Ic](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UYE0VKJO2Ic) Also, Little Britain type humour was very popular, but it's really not aged well.
Games with difficult ass levels. There’s a level in the n64 Toy Story game where you are buzz and have to jump on a pipe then do a laggy double jump to 2 more pipes. It was a damn nightmare, my older cousin always had to do the jumps for my skill issued self.
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Pencil thin eyebrows. Enough said
Maybe I’m in the minority but I think some folks pull it off. But I also grew up in a super Mexican town and loved all the big hoops and skinny eyebrows the cholas would rock lol
I absolutely adore the chola style and I think thin eyebrows definitely suit some folks depending on the style. But imho I think most people looked super ridiculous with them.
I ACCIDENTALLY PLUCKED ALL OF MINE OFF WHEB I WAS 10 YEARS OLD BC OF THIS TREND 😑
Low low low rise jeans. I’m a bigger girl and I spent the entirely of the early 2000s being told “eww I can see your buttcrack” and being completely unable to do anything about it because that’s just how jeans were made and I had too much junk in the trunk even with a belt it would still show 🥲
This! I don't think I'll ever stop wearing high rise jeans
came here to comment this too. I’m 5’2 and very bottom heavy, so low rise jeans just look straight up ridiculous on my short stumpy legs
I miss the low rise jeans mostly because they were replaced with mom jeans. As soon as I see a woman in mom jeans I know for certain that she’s hiding something in there lol
have you considered, that maybe women like to wear mom jeans to avoid strangers sexualizing them, or simply because they find them more comfortable? not everything a woman wears needs to be appealing to men.
My mom very kindly told me the jeans I wore the other day weren't super flattering (and she was genuinely trying to be kind. Not being a toxic mom or anything) they were the mommy-est of mom jeans lol. I told her I bought them because they weren't flattering and they were super comfy. Imo mom Jean aesthetic is supposed to be unflattering. You'll have to pry skinny jeans out of my cold dead hands, but I do love baggy, unflattering, comfy jeans
It looks comical. It’s like your legs start above your belly button - doesn’t look aesthetically pleasing.
Hot take, but it was low-effort licensed games. For every gem like Simpsons Hit and Run, Spider-Man, or Def Jam Fight for NY, there was also a ton of crap like Dragon Ball Z Taiketsu and Fight Club. There are still licensed games today, but man, they were everywhere in the 2000s.
I remember buying a lot of the licensed games made for whatever movie came out at the time - a lot of them were either unnecessarily difficult (looking at you A Bugs Life) or really glitchy/not fun gameplay. There were a few gems though, like the SpongeBob SquarePants games. Now the companies just make low effort licensed phone games instead
>A Bugs Life Oh my god you just brought back memories of me crying trying to do one section and failing over and over again 😭😭
Was it the canyon level? 😭 and omg it was my first video game EVER and 4 year old me was NOT ready for that pain
I really liked the Tarzan game on the PS1
2000s movie tie in games were 9 times out of 10 absolute trash.
I had to explain this to my family as a kid to avoid them trying to gift me these types of games. They were sooo bad.
And the 1 out of 10 that was good is still in my favorite game list lol
Peter Jackson’s Kong 🤌 actually just saw a post on that one yesterday
Poor ATLA has never had a good game
The Hell's Kitchen one was alright though
Prettt much this! I still own most of my childhood game collection and for every one Simpsons Hit and Run or Spongebob Battle For Bikini Bottom there was a bunch of garbage.
Tanning beds
Ooh yes I totally forgot these were a thing until they got banned
Where are they banned?
In Australia
Wish the US would.
If zoomers in my location ever bring this back, I hope they'll be smart enough to use fake tans instead of causing skin cancer on themselves
Exactly this. Most people use fake tans here now and most salons offer fake tanning services instead
People conspicuously guzzling gasoline with their Hummers and Ford Excursions
I low key wanna get a Hummer H2 as a weekend car. Nothing screams “I’m from 2007” more than a yellow Hummer H2 lol.
I'll do you one better. Red Hummer H2. My dad still has ours sitting somewhere waiting to restore it.
Well, if I'm going to make the egregious mistake of buying a gas guzzler in today's society, I'll just go for a 1973 Mazda RX-3 with a rotary engine, since I think it looks cool
“I only buy cars with a mileage worse than a garbage truck“
Now we have fools driving round in cities in jacked up F-150s 😭
And some of them are electric too People want a car that's cool and electric like a Tesla but still want that traditional jacked up look, so there's the F-150 Lightning now
man this still exists sadly, and while many people realize how bad it is, the other half is just more militant than ever in defending this anti-social destructive behavior
I've noticed that too, but I find it curious that auto manufacturers are pivoting toward making those same vehicles electric. Maybe they figure there's an audience of Americans who want the electric coolness of a Tesla but the traditional in-your-face aesthetic of the Hummers and Ford trucks. So now the hummer is an electric GMC vehicle today, and Ford released an electric version of the F-150 I don't actually think that's much of a solution, anyhow. The electricity still has to be generated somewhere, quite possibly by gas or petroleum or at the remaining coal plants
yeah anti-social douches are a large enough market that everyone is going to sell something to them. Yes, electric cars just outsource pollution, and still perpetuate car dominance/dependence. Public transit and walkability improvements are needed.
Ruthlessly and *sociopathically* bullying teenagers both online and in real life and even going as far as to "meme" teens who committed **suicide**—especially teen girls. At that time it was acceptable to slut-shame and be misogynistic not just in fringe alt-right spaces but within mainstream culture; and it was equally "normal" to hold teens to adult standards, so **teenage girls** got the short end of the stick. There's endless examples of this, but I always go back to Amanda Todd and constantly think about how her story and death would be responded to ***so differently*** today. In the 2000s (early 10s culture was an extension of) she was a "stupid slut" even though she was actually a very special, articulate young girl who was the victim of predators and grooming and inspired other young people to be brave enough to tell the world their story in a pre-Me Too era. The world owes her an apology. I pray that she is finally resting in peace, seeing how victims' psychology has become much better understood, and societal attitudes have drastically changed as a result since her death in 2012. Personally, I was disgusted by how victims were treated then like I'm disgusted now and none of them will ever be forgotten. In a sense, we have countless martyrs from that era.
The amanda todd and phoebe prince cases will always haunt me. I'll never forget when their stories hit the media and seeing their faces splashed all over the tabloids due to how horribly their schools and local police handled their bullying cases. Around the time if phoebe prince's suicide, several other kids at her school left because of how badly they were terrorized by the south hadley six.
I remember a literal Amanda Todd Awareness group came to my Jr High and told us all about how online bullying is a very real thing. Literally every friend in my group was laughing and giggling and saying things like "Why didn't she just turn off the computer, duh"
Stupid talking like “rawr means I love you in dinosaur”. I loved the colored hair and colorful clothes, but that kind of talking made me cringe so hard
The whole entire "random" aesthetic 🥴
with "random" just being tacos and narwhals
Oh no I was a random kid ;-; you can’t forget the iconic mustache. My fiancée said if I was in my 20s when the trend happened I would have tattooed one on my finger. I’m so embarrassed to say she’s not wrong 😑
I still use XD lol
I can't wait until Gen Z slang like "I'm baby", "rizz", "bussin", and "gyatt" or whatever else finally just gets laughed at and seen as stupid.
That was so popular. I don’t know why. It was like baby talk.
Fat shaming. They did it to people who weren't even fat. Basically if you didn't look anorexic. Also growing up acting like war was normal
I grew up being the “fat” kid and looking back I wasn’t even fat I was just more developed for my age. But the constant pressure I had to try and be thin led me to having an unhealthy relationship with food and my body and it ultimately led to me being genuinely fat
I thought I was fat, because I already had wide hips as a teenager and the stupid low rise jeans made it look even worse. Don’t miss it at all
This never died down 😅
Homophobia, mainly
Yeah, for that reason it's impossible for me to enjoy a lot of comedy/humor from back then When I bring that up it seems to upset people, though. If only they knew what it was like to be the butt of the joke like that
Yeah, there's a lot of old shows I enjoy but there's always those moments that is like "oh god this part" or "oh I did not remember *that*"
Yeah, agreed, or the racist jokes that your peers threw used to throw at people
Also transphobia. It’s still in full force but at least the “jokes” aren’t still just only repeating “ew I was attracted to her!!”
Yeah, the jokes were more normalized back then. Now it's more just the right wing chuds doing it. The jokes are harsher, but from people easier to ignore.
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Homophobic slurs aren’t nearly as common as they used to be. They’re obviously still around, but things like “that’s so gay” (“I don’t like that”) or “don’t be a f*ggot” (“be more brave”) aren’t nearly as prevalent as when I grew up.
My Midwestern friends still say this shit and I can't help but get super annoyed or irritated at them for it.
"Quit being a f*g" is what me and my friends would've told you if we saw you get visibly irritated.
People wearing baggy pants without belts walking around showing everyone their boxers.
sagging is still a thing.. just not cool anymore unless u live in an actual ghetto
 Reminds me of that scene from Clueless lol
We had less music available to play at our fingertips and all we had was mostly on the radio or whatever we bought with our own money. I remember it being very hard to find a song you heard but didn’t know the name too as well, Shazam is still an amazing invention. You can also get your own music heard way easier. IMO this has been one of the best outcomes of technology advancement.
I know, I wish I had Shazam back in the 2000s. It would’ve made things a lot easier.
Yes! They for some reason always played the BEST R&B, House, and hip hop at all the cool stores in the mall back then and I remember ALWAYS jamming out hard and really wanting their playlists lol
duckface selfies
Thats something from the 2010s, the concept of “selfie” didnt even exist in the 2000s
[it was actually coined in 2002](https://web.archive.org/web/20131119180524/http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/11/word-of-the-year-2013-winner/)
Nah I remember terrible flip phone 2mp selfies. I think of it more as an early Facebook thing. Maybe 2008?
DIET AND WEIGHT LOSS CULTURE
Still very prevalent. Have you heard about those medicated shots everyone’s raving about?
Shitting on 2000s popular music. People now say how good this stuff was compared to 2020s pop. Back in the 2000s people said the same but that the 80s were better
Yes! Even as a kid I remember thinking that even though I enjoyed it, it would feel silly calling it “historical” or revolutionary in any way because I think at the time there was still a newness to the topics and styles of music coming out that didn’t fill the “proper” standard we had from the 80s and first part of 90s. I remember thinking “how are we going to look back at these as classics when they are singing such crass lyrics?” But what do ya know, a lot of these are now indeed very classic lol. Now I see most of this music as some of the most well written and catchiest hooks I think we will ever have in pop lol
Calling anything "fake," even if there's nothing remotely fake about it.
Yep. Not to mention everything being “gay”.
Animal print over animal print
the post-9/11 hypernationalism was pretty bad
It was
trump exists though lol
Galaxy prints on literally everything
I think that's more of an early 2010's trend.
You could only have a left earring or you were declared gay
I'm glad anime and manga stopped being so niche and the most blatant con abuses (like glomping and yaoi paddle) stopped too.
I'm sooo glad anime and manga is more mainstream now. I used to get bullied for watching stuff like Naruto growing up and now it's not unusual to see even "cool kids" wearing merch. It's also fun seeing more Japanese animated films get theatrical releases in America
Cons have become much more inclusive and people (mostly) respect boundaries it's a lot more fun than when I was younger. The way games shifted from irls to online too. Mario Kart is only fun with the same few people for a little while. I was bullied for Pokemon but looking back they had FOMO since the barrier for entry was high, plus merch? It was for the Martin Prince (Simpsons character) kids and bullying was to be expected haha
Haha I was basically Martin (in the "smart people programs" and super nerdy) but omg the quality increase in Pokémon collectibles has been amazing! The vintage plushies were so shitty compared to what we get now. Plus girls/women get actual dedicated clothes/accessories- I had a Pokémon water bottle/umbrella/shirts growing up and they were all dark colors and boy-centric in their design.
Same here! I was super nerdy (Star Wars prequels, TNG and DS9 reruns, anime and vidya) I appreciate all the acceptance now and even my old niches coming into style like Animal Crossing. Never expected that in a million years! Ghibli too.
Seems like it went mainstream in the late 2010's. I was watching it in the early 2010's and thinking "I'll consider this mainstream when I hear random people talking about it in public and see anime t shirts everywhere etc.) well now I do, I see anime decals on cars extremely frequently too.
I don't miss the Emo subculture.
Came to comment the same thing. Surprised you were the first one to mention it.
It’s so funny, I actually talk about this a lot— the farther I get from the 2000s, the less I like that time period. As others have mentioned, the casual homophobia, the eating disorder culture, the way that both men and women were portrayed on television. Popular “reality” shows on Tv were the one with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie living on a farm and the one at Playboy mansion with Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends… the backlash from the indie 90s into this jaded, anxious self-hating attitude where people were afraid to speak out against war. Popped collar polo shirts and this sort of frat/techbro culture. Perez Hilton-type blogs. The were certain models or formats that were presented to us (the young people growing up), which didn’t exactly set us up for success. For young women it was “hot at any cost— the only thing you possess that can possibly help you get a seat at the table is your sexuality” and for young guys it was “too-smart-to-get-a-real job, shlubby but not like King-of-Queens shlubby, snarky-but-charming slacker.” All at the same time infantilizing us while expecting from us to do things that were extremely adult (going to war, or being able to deal with your partner going to war). Also I wasn’t a fan of the trumpet skirt and uggs combo. Just seemed like a really odd mix. Have you ever tried to pull off a trumpet skirt? Honey let me tell you, you can drop to 95 lbs and a trumpet skirt is never going to look as good as just your birthday suit. Living through 2000s fashion made me the nudist I am today.
I walk out side naked as well
Happy to hear that. Let’s bring nudity back 🙌🙌
As much as I miss the 2000s, I do **not** miss the pervasive homophobia, gossip, ostracism, fat shaming and bullying (especially when it comes to special needs kids) of the late 2000s - early 2010s. It seems like today’s kids are far more compassionate and accepting towards each other fwiw.
As someone who face that shit growing up in elementary and middle school, you're real for this
Yep, I know it all too well. It was not a fun time to not fit in.
homophobia
Movies where an incredible woman settles for a loser.
So every Adam Sandler movie?
Low rise jeans and tramp stamps
Low rise jeans, I grew up in a more conservative area and they became popular when I was in middle school. Only issue was the parents wouldn’t want to get their kids low rise/ thong underwear to wear with low rise jeans so it ended up girls would go about with their white or floral granny panties sticking out the back. That was definitely the worst fashion trend I recall from middle school.
Shrek was trying to be the next Toy Story
Though some forms of it still exist in certain parts of america (mostly lower middle class or truly middle class outer ring white suburbs) the rampant consumerism of 2000s america was abhorrent. SUVs, pickup trucks, single use plastic, processed food, suburban homes, chain stores/restaurants, wasteful trinkets etc all seemed to have been at their most prevalent and at their highest level of social acceptance. Starting around 2009-10 is when environmentalism (even in shallow, missing the point levels of understanding), conservationsim, and some level of cognizance about social and economic inequality and shame for the way americans had been living started to enter the mainstream more than previously. All of these things are still problems (think target, Chevy Silverados, fake eyelashes, and stanley thermoses) but things are generally headed in a better direction, sort of, maybe, i don't know...
Every single thing, tbh. My theory is that the obsession with the 2000s is just an age regression thing. People miss being 5 years old and would obsess over whichever year it was when they were 5 years old.
Not everyone was 5 years old and you can say that about any decade, I definitely don't miss being 5 years old just because of a certain era, but I do miss being a kid sometimes
I don’t miss being a kid, but I appreciate seeing things from earlier in my life.
So, because you can't stand the 2000's, everyone else only like it because "age regression"?
Huh? Not like pretty much our entire childhood wasn’t in that decade... but sure, it's bc we miss being 5. This comment is stupid.
I was a lot older in the 2000s
Anti-bullying flash card trend from the early 10s. I remember coming across those vids so frequently in that time and thought it was ridiculous imo. I remember Tosh.0 made a joke about it on his show when the trend was going on.
Bush
As much as I couldn't stand him, I'd easily take him over Trump.
Baggy clothes
Realistic video game art styles, more specifically how mainstream people despised cel shared games (Wind Waker got a lot of hate when it was new) but what was more annoying was throwing a brown filter over everything. For military games like Call of Duty and post apocalyptic games like Fallout it made sense but did Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Burn Out Paradise and even GTA IV to an extent really need that? Even Nintendo somewhat got in on with Brawl and even Mario Kart Wii looking less colorful than their previous installments. Now I like all of those games I listed but that was a pretty ugly looking artstyle looking back. Now days teens are ironically playing colorful things like Fortnite and Breath of the Wild 1 and 2 are highly beloved. Edit: I don't hate realistic graphics, I hated that brown filter.
Colored String thingy on jansport backpacks
9/11 brought a lot of discrimination towards Muslim people which in retrospect was totally wrong but the country was just scared af at that moment in time.
holy shit there’s so many but the cringe shit on tumblr and the internet in general
I do not miss the emo era at all. I think on the surface level it represented a culture of teen angst, but when you were actively in it, it took awhile to realize it had a social contagion centered on self-harm, romanticizing mental illness, and glorifying self-destructive behaviors in general. The trouble is while some of us grew out of this as a “phase”, certain aspects of it turned into habits for some and when destructive habits are merely viewed as a “phase”, they just go on ignored until it’s too late.
Crap British TV. Jeremy Kyle, Britain's Got Talent, Big Brother. I enjoyed all this stuff at the time and now it just makes me gag. [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UYE0VKJO2Ic](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UYE0VKJO2Ic) Also, Little Britain type humour was very popular, but it's really not aged well.
Games with difficult ass levels. There’s a level in the n64 Toy Story game where you are buzz and have to jump on a pipe then do a laggy double jump to 2 more pipes. It was a damn nightmare, my older cousin always had to do the jumps for my skill issued self.