◆ [Date updated: 2022/11/13(Sun) 20:41:13]
■Considering the ~25 year gap till a decade reenters the zeitgeist and
│proceeds to be devoured by vultures, maybe it will only take a few years
│of patience for the ethos of the 2000's to be rid of the vexatious crowd
│that has gathered around it in recent years. But the more pressing issue
│is whether there'll be anything left of it? There's already been plenty
│of shitting on it already _ノ乙(、ン、)_
│A thought I just had.
│
└■The problem with the 2000s is that a lot of things either sucked at
│the time, or were very mediocre/contrived compared to what came
│before. I spent most of that decade wishing I was in a previous
│decade, and I was far from alone in that
│
│Even at the time, I was thinking and discussing with my friends about
│how "no one is going to look back fondly on the 2000s like they do
│previous decades, because everything is either not very good or just
│copying/calling back to the 70s and 80s but worse". Most people I
│spoke to about it at the time seemed to agree
│
│Obviously I wasn't fully correct in my prediction, as I do now see a
│lot of posts/comments online talking about the 2000s as if it was some
│totally amazing time, "back when music was REAL music", etc. (which is
│very funny to me in an "oh god that's ironic/depressing, if only they
│knew" kinda way), but the decade still doesn't seem to have anywhere
│near the prevalence or influence on present-day pop culture in the
│same way that previous decades had during the 2000s and earlier
│
│At this point I can look back on some aspects of the 2000s fondly, but
│that's mainly because I was young, had friends, and many things since
│seemed to somehow get so much worse that it's made a period as "meh"
│as the 2000s look good by comparison (´~`)
│
│Ultimately, I just find the whole thing kinda funny cuz I remember
│when everyone (including myself) was dumping on the 2000s and calling
│everything shitty while wishing we could take a time machine back to
│the 70s & 80s "when music was REAL music" (´∇`)
│
├■ I would rather live in the 2000s than live in the 2010s or now.
││
││ At least in the 2000s there was still IRL social interaction and there was no social media and not a single influencer to be seen.
││
││IMO the world started going downhill around 2008 and by 2011/2012 everything went to complete shit and is just getting worse.
││
│├■Not to be rude or anything but you sound just like one those vultures
│││I was talking about... (・∀・)
│││
││└■one of those*** FUGG I CANT WRITE 4 SHIT :-DDDDDDdd
││ │
││ └■LOL
││
│└■I agree, at least for the first half of the decade. However, even if
│ │we're just talking about the interwebs, there was plenty of social
│ │media/social networking, lame popularity contests, retarded celebrity
│ │bloggers, and "LOOK AT ME I AM IMPORTANT" crap by 2006-2008
│ │
│ │Remember the likes of that shiteater Perez Hilton? Plus you already had
│ │youtube "celebrities" being featured on TV (and vice versa) at that
│ │point too, and mainstream radio DJs getting involved, etc. Blegh (;´Д`)
│ │
│ │If I had the choice today I would probably choose to live in a perma-
│ │nent loop of 1997-2006 forevar, but I'll never forget that the opinion
│ │I had during the 2000s was "shit sux, I want to live in the 80s or even
│ │the 90s when things were actually good (;´Д`)"
│ │
│ │It's not my fault things got so much worse after I'd already decided
│ │things sucked!! ヽ(;´Д`)ノ
│ │
│ └■ By no social media i meant no social media in the way we have it today.
│ │
│ │Social media in the 2000s was very different compared to now and in the 2000s the internet on phones sucked and was expensive so the internet was still mostly a pc only place during 06-08 and in that era most people still had flip phones so there was nothing to do on your phone and there was still IRL social interaction.
│ │
│ │2000s Hollywood celebrity culture with famous actors having a Myspace and modern influencer/content creator culture were and are two very different things.
│ │
│ │As far as YouTube there is a huge difference between a YouTuber and a content creator.
│ │
│ │A YouTuber makes videos for fun because they enjoy it while modern content creators only have profit and views in mind.
│ │
│ └■"IRL social interaction" still exists to the same extent that it did
│ back then - most of us went straight home after school most days and
│ spoke to each other via msn or texting until we went to bed ヽ(´ー`)ノ
│
│ I also went full hikikomori in 2008, so there's that (;^Д^)
│
│ Anyway, my point is that I don't personally see it as "things were good
│ in the 2000s and sucked in the 2010s", but rather "things sucked in the
│ 2000s and then the 2010s sucked so hard it made the 2000s seem awesome"
│
│ I imagine that those who are younger than me (but old enough to recog-
│ nize that the 2010s sucked) are experiencing the same thing with the
│ 2010s vs 2020s - before you know it, they'll be debating with even
│ younger kiddies who are saying "WTF, the 2010s were amazing! i should
│ know cuz i was born in 2009" if they aren't already (´∇`)
│
└■While that is certainly unanimously agreed upon in the west, for some
│of us, particularly from the soviet bloc, the general consensus isn't
│as universal. For most of us the 90's sucked more than the 2000's did,
│so there is more fondness to that time. One interesting thing is if you
│were one that was more aware of western culture at the time than the
│average fellow, you'd have noticed that there is a rougly 5 to 10 year
│lag till western culture's influence spread to these parts. In some
│ways, the 90's of here shared many aspects of the 80's of far away
│lands of your's and so on. Ofcourse once the internet became more of a
│mainstay, the effect lessened until eventually smartphones came around
│and it completely dissappeared (;゚∀゚)
│
└■I definitely noticed that at the time from a Western Europe perspective
- Eastern Europe seemed very "stuck in the 90s" in the 2000s, and in
the 90s it seemed similar to the poorer and/or poverty-stricken areas
of Western Europe during the 60s-80s (but with the addition of WW2-like
ruin and destruction) (;^Д^)
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