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I just saw an extremely cringy post in the modlog that reminded me of how much I hated that whole Maddox edgelord garbage that was so popular online at the time 
The only thing I'm willing to give Maddox is that he liked Ikaruga, one of the greatest games ever.
Elder scrolls n mgs 3 was peak fam
I just want to appreciate that in the span of two years we have:
Y2K - Not a real threat but I was young and it felt like it could be real
9/11
Post 9/11 Anthrax
If you really want to be technical:
By 2004 we have the War on Terror. By 2007 we have Virginia Tech and the financial crisis. 2000-2010 was one hell of a decade.
That's not listing all the other stuff. Creationism in schools, Katrina, The Tsunami, Covid Part 1, Dotcom bubble, Enron, Columbia Shuttle Explosion. It just fucking goes on and on. It was a decade where decades happened. There was no social media to get a sense of 'The discourse" either. You just went off cable news, online news papers, blogs, and whatever shit your classmates/coworkers and parents were talking.
Don't forget Trump had a reality TV show where contestants had to win business mini games. It aired on the exact same network as Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing.
It’s really impossible to overstate how much damage South Park did to an entire generation. To this day I see ripples of it. At the time I was oblivious, but looking back, god damn.
The music was awful. Hip-hop was like the only genre not completely garbage, but then you still had bullshit like Eminem getting called the GOAT.
Also, what the fuck were we doing with our clothes? I miss how women dressed in the 2000s, but men? JFC we looked awful. You had either big suits, baggy clothes, triple popped collars, or Hot Topic poser gear.
You're not wrong but I will go to bat for Halo actually being cool and good
That franchise was pure War on Terror brainworms
Yeah, they gave the aliens a weird and wrong religion
Put emphasis on how they were willing to die to kill us
The only good alien is the one who figures out his worldview was a sham
If it wasn't intentional, it was still gross
Listening to Green Day drop the f slur, but against themselves sarcastically for opposing the Iraq War
Ngl I loved Holiday when I was a kid
"Hear the dogs howlin' out of key~ To a hymn called "Faith and Misery", And bleed, the company lost the war todaaaaaaay~"
I've ripped off the opening riff a couple times by speeding it way up
My most listened albums this year are American Idiot, The Black Parade, and The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.
agreed.
however, counterpoint: zenith of French House/Electro
Apparently the washed-out brown thing in games of that era was a way for developers to get around the graphics limitations of the hardware with “grittiness”.
Definitely agree that the War on Terror both destroyed political discourse for a decade and just fucked culture. Outside of a handful of anti-war protest songs (and some of that veered into lib territory), there was this general sense of avoiding anything spicy due to the War on Terror and “remembering 9/11.” Politically, we’re still dealing with the fallout of that as this belief of Dems that running candidates that are former military and/or CIA will win over swing voters is them learning all the wrong lessons from the Bush-Kerry race.
However, I don’t think free-range parenting was that pervasive, that seemed like more of a minority backlash to the more common helicopter parenting. What I would say happened then was the start of the “mommy wars” and the weaponizing of the “right” way to rear kids as a cultural/political football; that’s when the whining over “participation trophies” became a talking point. Which was toxic and hinted at how future online culture war slop would play out.
So many shitty movies at that time. It's probably part of the reason I don't care for movies much as an adult.
If you haven't, check out Remember Shuffle podcast, they're a favorite of mine and the subject of the pod is how much the 2000s sucked.
This post reminded me of Porsche girl and how sociopaths sent her death photos to her parents for years with taunting messages.
Oh man you just reminded me of how people treated Brittany Spears when she shaved her head. It was so cruel.
Women being called fat for literally not being anorexic. Bridget Jones was an movie entire franchise about an "overweight" woman.
The body shaming back then was wild. I remember some Americans saying Shakira looked fat in her early breakthrough music videos lmao
Cringe culture (aka trans/homo/acephobia & ableism galore), South Park humour, everything becoming a COD clone, half of the media being arab/russian killing simulations, neoliberal realism and people still thinking capitalism works.
Yeah the late 2000-2010s sucked.
Millennials have gotten shit for our 90s nostalgia but this is what we had to compare it to
Good things that came out of the 00s:
It was the beginning of the end for a lot of tabletop games (Warhammer, M:tG, Warmachine, D&D, etc). Around ~2014 a lot of them got more enshittified than they already were.
Agreed. We got Wario Land 4 but at what cost?
The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya.
FLCL; Fooly Cooly too
The only thing I know (courtesy of a friend) about that anime is that one of the early episodes apparently involves a false SV accusation as a plot point, which made me want to stay far away from it
Yes, although it's extremely minor and nothing about how it's presented is saying it's OK. There's some male-gaze stuff here and there, although it's definitely less bad about it than almost any other anime.
Treasure Planet, Lilo and Stich and Emperor's New Groove all slap hard
Lilo and Stitch is my favourite Disney movie. I hope they don't ruin it with a live action remake
It.... Wasn't great. It felt pretty souless. My wife and I saw it yesterday since we have MoviePass and figured might as well. I'd wait for it to stream free.
The last good Disney movies (yes it's me, I'm the weirdo who liked Atlantis)
wdym its literally an artistic masterpiece and a cult classic, all the gurlies nowdays thirst over the main protag.
Most of the characters were hot tbf
True, Helga & Kida were both baddies.
yeah but the fact that the 2000s were still enjoyable despite all that stuff proves how much the 2000s rocked
i will never forgive cringe culture for continuing to make it hard for me to properly express myself
And it's making a comeback. I fucking hate people policing the most harmless shit while being so forgiving of actual bad things like racism and shit.
And buttrock
Hey hey hey wait. Say what you will about buttrock but we got Live and Learn from it at least
City Escape too
80s inspired buttrock isn't the same thing as Creed/Nickelback/Trapt/Puddle of Mudd etc. buttrock, quite possibly the worst genre of music to ever exist other than hair metal.