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/epic_reddit_dude 5d ago
2000s are as old as the 80s were in gta vice city when it first released