Does anyone else miss 1990's/Y2K culture?

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Papenbrook

I can't believe 2003 was twenty years ago ...

That was an entirely different life for me altogether. 2003 was a big year of life-reinvention for me.

[Papenbrook]

Since 2000's culture seems to upswept by popular consensus, I wonder what will ultimately come out from it.

I hope we start seeing bell-bottoms again.

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On a similar note, the music from the late 2000's sounds primarily ... uninspiring.

There are some good songs, but overall, I'm just not fond of the music from that era.

[Zulithe]

I maintain that the 00s were a terrible terrible decade culturally. The shadow of 911 ruined everything. 90s were lit though.

[Papenbrook]

I wonder what the Technodrome was like during the 2000's era.

Seemingly, it was more active than today.

[Coola Yagami]

Definitely more active during the 2K3 show and Volume 4/Tales Vol 2 era.

[Papenbrook]

This came out when my brother was born ...

Spoiler:

[Papenbrook]

As I was scanning the forums' older threads, I noticed that the overall atmosphere was more dispassionate, at least when it came to controversial topics.

Initially, immaturity seemed to pervade most of the website. The general environment seems to have evolved within recent years, and the surrounding bitterness between forum members seems to have diminished. Resultantly, the forums seems to have benefited, as the changes helped improve the website.

I'm thankful that I was able to evade most of it.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Papenbrook

As I was scanning the forums' older threads, I noticed that the overall atmosphere was more dispassionate, at least when it came to controversial topics.

Initially, immaturity seemed to pervade most of the website. The general environment seems to have evolved within recent years, and the surrounding bitterness between forum members seems to have diminished. Resultantly, the forums seems to have benefited, as the changes helped improve the website.

I'm thankful that I was able to evade most of it.

I think there is a lot of recency bias now though - something I'd imagine a group like this would succumb to easily. People forget that this place was utterly overrun by anti-America, non-tolerant, left-learning weirdos for years. Many of us pushed back hard and thinned the place out significantly.

And although there are still varying opinions, the truth is that without the routine "assault-sentiment" the vitriol here has diminished from "political-geniuses-and-life-victims doing Napolean-Dynamite" down again to your average "Napolean Dynamite" poster.

So yeah, it's better here. Minus the one or two guys who misattribute statements because they need a win. But other than that, yeah.

[Papenbrook]

I had just viewed Chromeo's music video for "Fancy Footwork".

Women were more objectified in the 2000's. I'm glad that's changing.