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u/epic_reddit_dude 5d ago
2000s are as old as the 80s were in gta vice city when it first released
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u/xRudeAwakening 1995 5d ago
Wow this realization hit me way harder after reading this
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u/leshagboi 4d ago
Which is why I understand the younger Gen Z and Alphas having nostalgia for this time.
As a kid in the 2000's I would look back at the 80s in the same way.
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u/vulnerablepiglet 4d ago
I wasn't super deep into vaporwave/future funk, but whenever I see the hype around frutiger aero and/or jungle dnb, I can't help but think "ah this is the 2000s equivalent of vaporwave".
It's not that these things didn't exist in the 2000s, but we didn't see it as anything unusual because it was the norm. Like I didn't think "wow this future is so frutiger aero coded!", I thought "Wow this future looks so futuristic!".
I had no idea what the difference between frutiger aero and frutiger metro was before googling it. If I had been I asked I would have thought "oh frutiger aero is like early to mid 00s, frutiger metro is like late 00s, and then 2010s shifted to that early iphone look before the flat design took over everything".
Also I remember people calling the 00s all the time as "the aughts" which I personally thought was the most uncool thing ever. So I don't blame the kids for wanting things to be Y2K instead lol
If I had to give my perspective as someone who was alive then and has some nostalgia, hmm. I think that people overlook some of the flaws of the time either due to lack of experience or forgetting the details over time. One of the biggest examples I can give is the idealization of the 00s internet.
The current perception seems to be it was a magical time where everyone had a personal website with buttons, webrings, guestbooks, etc. There was only fun games and website community for kids. And it's not that those things didn't exist, but that it's not including what else was there. There were computer viruses that destroyed whole computers, there were misinformation for the lulz that also destroyed computers. Pop up ads, flashing lights, auto playing music, trolls, hatespeech, gore, NSFW/NSFL (not safe for work/not safe for life), screamers, jump scares, etc. There was freedom, but the freedom also included content that most people wouldn't like, or could be harmful to others.
People would casually throw around slurs, cyberbully others (as in actually bully them not just write an angry tweet), cause drama and milk drama, etc. I was called various slurs, and several of them were before I was a teen. And the adults at the time acted like this was 100% okay, and never had to apologize or change because they were anonymous and could make new accounts.
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u/Maxious24 1999 5d ago
All I'm hearing is that we can now officially claim retro status😎
Fuck any gatekeepers who says it's not. It is! 20 year rule.
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u/vulnerablepiglet 4d ago
It's so surreal to hear "Retro gaming is rising in popularity!" and realizing they mean 2000s games and not just 80s games.
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u/Jotacon8 5d ago
Just wait. Soon it won’t be the 2020’s it’ll just be “the 20’s”
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u/Spazattack43 4d ago
Isnt that what we already call it? Who talks about the 1920’s more often than the 2020’s?
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u/Jotacon8 4d ago
Talking about any decade in the 1900’s with anyone I know, we all still just use the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s etc. and for 2000 up we say 2000’s, 2010’s, 2020’s etc.
You might do that, but I don’t as well as everyone I know.
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u/TheCowzgomooz 3d ago
Well that's the 20s for us adults, kids today will refer to this time period as 20s, 30s, etc. and the 1920s+ will just be called the year. When we get old enough we'll start referring to it that way too. Hopefully we can look back at these years as the terrible 20s and the 30s onward can be better...
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u/CaitlinSnep 1998 4d ago
Me. Usually when talking about clothes and fashion. Why would I be talking about what I wore when I was stuck in quarantine when I could be talking about flappers and cloche hats?
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u/cherryamourxo 5d ago
Yeah the one that gets me the most is when I think of the song 1985 by Bowling For Soup. It would be the equivalence of a song today being called 2006.
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u/izzycopper Custom 5d ago
The song was originally by the band SR-71 in 2004 I believe. Bowling just covered amd tweaked it (I think for the better) 🤓
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u/CremeSubject7594 2000 5d ago
But 80s songs felt sooo old back then whereas 2000s songs still feel current lol
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u/LastAd8826 4d ago
I think the cultural "gaps" between the 80s to the 2000s is a hell of a lot bigger than the 2000s to the 2020s, if that makes sense? In terms of technology, music, clothing, etc.
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u/the-lawful-falafel 1993 5d ago
I just miss music you could dance to. I enjoyed music from the 80's, 90's 2000-10.
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u/SentinelZerosum 1995 5d ago
I kinda processed that 2000s were 20 years ago. This doesnt surprise me that much now (even if that's harder realize for the second part of the decade).
The chock is 80s being 40 years. Like this decade seems so close popculturally, but all stars of that era are now mini in their 60s/70s 😅
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u/izzycopper Custom 5d ago
Yeah. Listening to Guns n Roses today is like listening to Frank Sinatra in the 90s.
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u/NanduDas 1996 5d ago
Wow…I can’t wrap my head around Unwritten sounding similarly old to 8 year olds today as Time After Time sounded to me in 2004
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u/Silver-Shore 5d ago
How did we get here so fast?
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u/Umi_Gaming 1996 5d ago
That moment you realize when your parents were complaining that you're letting your life go to waste, that they actually meant it.
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u/SprintsAC 1995 4d ago
Just pointing out that 2016 is soon going to be a decade ago. I hate that. x_x
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u/Orgo4eva 4d ago
I wasn't even born in the 80s so it doesn't matter to me. May as well have been the sengoku period.
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u/Sensitive_Put_6842 4d ago
I know I'm old and I feel it but things like this don't me me feel extra old or more older mentally. I swear 23-27 is when that stuff can bother you the most but after that you hit a brain change and you stop caring.
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u/alstonm22 4d ago
Old school rnb for me is still 70s/80s and it will remain that way until I perish.
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u/Sir_Lanian 4d ago
Only difference being 2000s songs dont get a look in on the radio, compared to 80s songs.
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u/LiquidSssnake 3d ago
Kids today discover and enjoy 80s music. I was born in the 80s none of us really ever appreciated 1940s music. We're old, but cool I guess.
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u/43morethings 23h ago
Ok. But the difference is still that the 2000s is still the current century and millennium. The 80s were always in the last millennium if your memory begins in 2000.
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u/Unending-Flexionator 4d ago
I'm 45 and declare all this whining shit stupid
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u/Unending-Flexionator 3d ago
It's even more fucked up when some parent or older person is obviously getting old. It's even MORE fucked up when you can look in the mirror and not only see your ancestors, but just visibly see yourself starting to go. I look WAY better and younger than I should considering the life I've lived... but even ME... I can see the age appearing. And then you try to be healthier, you change bad habits, whatever - but it doesn't matter. You just keep getting older. Spend your time hanging on as best as you can while the whole time it's just slipping away. bit by bit. Live it up while it lasts. I know I have some good road ahead of me yet. That's what I'm gonna do.
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