Current Events > The general aethesitcs of the 2000s have aged weirdly.

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It often looks so weirdly dated for a decade that happened not long ago at all, like we were just throwing shit together at that time lol.

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I miss the early 2000s so much. I love the aesthetic even if it was objectively awful (see fashion where girls were wearing tube tops with skirts and jeans underneath).

I'd say the 1990s aged more weirdly.

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its always like that when you look at the early decade. especially after the new millennium.

you have a hybrid of 90s style still lingering and millennium style coming in

_Rinku_ posted...

I miss the early 2000s so much. I love the aesthetic even if it was objectively awful (see fashion where girls were wearing tube tops with skirts and jeans underneath).

the decade was tacky all round but there was something genuinely likable about the tackiness at times.

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I miss puffy jackets and lugz

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_Rinku_ posted...

see fashion where girls were wearing tube tops with skirts and jeans underneath

That wasn't THAT common.

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As someone born in 2000, I have no idea what the 00's asthetic is, someone want to clue me in?

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Garioshi posted...

As someone born in 2000, I have no idea what the 00's asthetic is, someone want to clue me in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E

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90's, 00's, and 10's all just kinda blend together in my brain. A lot of what gets attributed to 90's in the media was more like 80's holdovers that were only around in the very early 90's.

Garioshi posted...

As someone born in 2000, I have no idea what the 00's asthetic is, someone want to clue me in?

To me, it's everything you'd find on a PS2 demo disc, but particularly the music videos.

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Garioshi posted...

As someone born in 2000, I have no idea what the 00's asthetic is, someone want to clue me in?

Puffy jackets and timberlands

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Kisai posted...

That wasn't THAT common.

It was, my man, it was. That and the hair chopsticks, crimped hair, and awful, unflattering hats everywhere. It was a dark time.

Garioshi posted...

As someone born in 2000, I have no idea what the 00's asthetic is, someone want to clue me in?

live action Disney/Nick shows of the era are often perfect (albeit cheesy) of general pop culture of the era.
shows like That's So Raven, Ned's Declassified, Zoey 101, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, etc


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PepsiWithCoke posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E

...the "2000s aesthetic" is oversaturated colors, and Ben Stiller for some reason?

brestugo posted...

I'd say the 1990s aged more weirdly.

Yeah early 90s was all tie dye crap not the design itself but colors for different articles of clothing on one person, then just after mid 90s people started dressing in all black like Matrix characters (and then Matrix was released), and at the very end of the 90s and into the 00s oversized clothes was the norm

I've been wondering what the next fashion craze was going to be but the fitted borderline skinny fit clothes, flannel (to a lesser extent over the years) and hoodie look has been going strong since the early 2010s

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PepsiWithCoke posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E

I think this is more late 90s aesthetic. It takes a few years for a new decade to establish its trends. I'd say that what I think of as "2000s aesthetic" started to really take shape by 2002/3 and was firmly in place by 2004/5.

Other 2000s aesthetic things in my mind: Nu-Metal dominating the rock stations, grungy reality shows on MTV (like Jackass, The Osbournes, etc.), and "extreme" sports like skateboarding and motocross being cool.

M_Live posted...

Video Games from the 2000s overall aged worse than games from the 90s. Sprites hold up a lot better.

Some 2000s games still hold up in the graphics department. Super Mario Sunshine and the Resident Evil remake are gorgeous (imo, at least).

Generally though, you're right about sprites.

MacadamianNut3 posted...

Yeah early 90s was all tie dye crap not the design itself but colors for different articles of clothing on one person, then just after mid 90s people started dressing in all black like Matrix characters (and then Matrix was released), and at the very end of the 90s and into the 00s oversized clothes was the norm

I've been wondering what the next fashion craze was going to be but the fitted borderline skinny fit clothes, flannel (to a lesser extent over the years) and hoodie look has been going strong since the early 2010s

Even more puzzling is what we did to our hair. Everyone in general, but in particular, black people. At the beginning of the 90's people were rocking high top fades like Kid and Play. By the end of the 90's people were shaving their heads - and not just because of going bald.



White girls were doing weird shit with Aquanet and other things too.

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_Rinku_ posted...

Some 2000s games still hold up in the graphics department.

I still have no idea why "looks like a PS2 game" is supposed to be an insult.

M_Live posted...

Video Games from the 2000s overall aged worse than games from the 90s. Sprites hold up a lot better.

It's really only the 5th and early 6th gen that don't hold up that well, and even then it's really only games that try to be """realistic""".

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_Rinku_ posted...

It was, my man, it was.

I was 16 in 2000, and during the years, I pretty much never saw denim skirts with jeans. Also, it's not a bad look, either. _

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This thread reminds me of a conversation I had with someone a few months ago regarding Cliff Bleszinski's career arc and how he was the rare example of a game designer who embraced the spotlight and attained some degree of fame. He posted this link:

https://imgur.com/r/KotakuInAction/MX0vJ

to a 2000 PC Gamer article including Cliff and several more up-and-coming artists. It's very reminiscent of the late 90s/early 00s aesthetic, which was so focused on making things look cool and extreme; the word radical always comes to mind when I think of this time period, particularly in design.

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I found something painfully 2000s:

https://youtu.be/hpR83eSi7RI

Kisai posted...

I was 16 in 2000, and during the years, I pretty much never saw denim skirts with jeans. Also, it's not a bad look, either. _

I think we're using really different definitions of 2000s lol. I was 8 in 2000 and what I consider the 2000s didn't really take hold for a few years. I remember lots of teen stars (who seemed like cool adults to little me) wearing jeans under skirts. I also remember lots of women wearing bandana shirts, ultra low jeans, midriff baring shirts...

I thought the look was cool at the time. I was a bigger fan of girls wearing ties like Avril Lavigne though. ( )

I just remember a lot of frosted tips

It was all about jelling the SHIT out of your hair back then

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_Rinku_ posted...

I found something painfully 2000s:

https://youtu.be/hpR83eSi7RI

I think we're using really different definitions of 2000s lol. I was 8 in 2000 and what I consider the 2000s didn't really take hold for a few years. I remember lots of teen stars (who seemed like cool adults to little me) wearing jeans under skirts. I also remember lots of women wearing bandana shirts, ultra low jeans, midriff baring shirts...

I thought the look was cool at the time. I was a bigger fan of girls wearing ties like Avril Lavigne though. ( )

What you saw on Disney channel isn't what people were actually wearing.

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Alteres posted...

What you saw on Disney channel isn't what people were actually wearing.

Weird how I saw people wearing that to emulate those actors and I also saw pictures of those people dressed like that? It's almost as if people did wear those clothes.

I'm not sure I agree.

If you've ever seen Final Destination 5, the plot twist is that it's actually a prequel to the first film, which they don't reveal until the very end. There are hints of this throughout the movie, but oddly enough, 2000-2020 have blended together well enough for this to work. Like by 1980 culture was recognizable different from 1960. In this case everything is blended.

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popped polo collars

Phantom36 posted...

I'm not sure I agree.

If you've ever seen Final Destination 5, the plot twist is that it's actually a prequel to the first film, which they don't reveal until the very end. There are hints of this throughout the movie, but oddly enough, 2000-2020 have blended together well enough for this to work. Like by 1980 culture was recognizable different from 1960. In this case everything is blended.

I think the popularity of the Internet and the world just being more connected has led to this blurriness in culture.

_Rinku_ posted...

I think the popularity of the Internet and the world just being more connected has led to this blurriness in culture.

This is absolutely a big factor.

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Phantom36 posted...

This is absolutely a big factor.

It feels like trends change so quickly that nothing has time to really stick around and become part of the cultural identity.

Look at how quickly memes move: I remember in late high school/early college, a meme could stay fresh for months. Now anything that catches on is old hat within two weeks.