Asking especially the old fags around here, am I wrong or feel the 2000s weirdly nonexistent in popular memory?

pretty much this, i think its because of the things created since are not memorable. movies, music, games. my life events are memorable but like Op said, in popular culture its a void

I think the aughts were all 911 and then the Great Recession brought on by unregulated capitalism wiped out most chances of waking up till around 2012 or so

Reason you feel that way is because SO MUCH FUCKING SHIT HAS HAPPENED it’s making the time go by so fast, like short term memory.

there's literally nothing there except endless consumerism and self-obsession

Everything changed after 9/11.

We shifted timelines once Leo won his Oscar.

After Y2K it all became the same shit. Just more digital bullshit followed by more and more electronic connections. I'm an old guy that remembers the '70's, '80's and '90's very well. Each of those decades had a certain feel and fashion that does not exist now. Fucking shame, too. I don't see it getting any better, either.

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I don't know, I feel like that was a pretty good period for film at least:

No Country For Old Men (2007)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Wall-E (2008)
Ponyo (2008)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Inglorious Basterds (2009)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
The Hangover (2009)
Watchmen (2009)
Inception (2010)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Drive (2011)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Gravity (2013)
Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Birdman (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Sicario (2015)
The Big Short (2015)

How old and where are you from elder user?

I'm being 100% serious here. I think the period starting from 2001 up until the present day was greatly traumatic for Americans' collective memory. You had 9/11, the invasion of Afghanistan, the Invasion of Iraq and insurgency, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, the election of one president that was near-unanimously hated by conservatives, followed by another who is near-unanimously hated by liberals. The War on Terror and rise of China in particular have triggered a kind of identity crisis regarding how America sees itself on the world stage. Now we have this fucking pandemic.

That trauma, I think, is what is going to define this period. Not fashion or movies or video games or music. Hopefully historians of the future will at least come up with a cool-sounding name for it. Something like The Great Unraveling.

I'm 55 and from Oklahoma. I've been on Yas Forums since around 2008. It was different then.

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Yes, we're in the down period for the early 2000's. It's how that shit works. Basically you have to wait for the people who grew up in that time period to be old enough to be the prime adult audience.

Currently the prime adult audience is millennials who grew up in the 80's and 90's... so it's what is in vogue pop culture wise.

Don't worry, when you're in your 30's and hating your day job and can't hang at the club no more with out being the creepy "old dude"... you'll turn on the movies and the tvs and it'll be your childhood all over again!

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Give it a few years. We're currently still in the nostalgia phase for the late 90s at far as mainsteam pop culture is concerned.

How exactly did the different decades feel?

this but unironical, every online movement or tech innovation is based purely in consumption, not in spirit like old days urban tribes and cultures. Now everyone is a gamer/otaku/nerd/internet memer/etc. Nothing is special anymore, thanks globalism.

I was a kid in grade school during most of the '70's. A very innocent time in America. Big arena rock bands, long haired kids and girls in tight jeans. Lived in a small town and was bored as hell most of the time. We grew up learned to drive and drank beer behind the school. Went to keg parties outside of town and got high listening to Led Zeppelin. The eighties were very much a big party. Most of those years between '81 and '85 are fuzzy to me due to the weekly partying. The nineties rolled around and I went to work for big company making enough money to buy a house. Lasted up until around 2000 when everything was sent overseas and we have what we have now.

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Actually the world exploded at the turn of the century and this is all a simulation

Okay, fair enough. Now consider that your perception of those decades is formed mostly by the way YOU experienced them.

You view the seventies as an innocent time because you were a child then. You view the eighties as one big party because you were a young adult then and partying is often what young adults do. You associate the nineties with prosperity because that's when you became financially stable. And maybe that's just the point you were trying to make all along, but surely we can agree that if you were a child in the 1990s, you would consider it a period of innocence largely the same way you perceive the 1970s.

90's kid only understand this lol here.

The world used to be more misterious and evrything, even the most popular things had this cult like feeling because there weren't a shitton of kids roaming around everywhere, at least in the cities, I live in a big city, even as big as it is, nothing never was as occupied and busy as right now. Now it's full of fucking rednecks and townspeople unable to behave themselves, entitled and annoying. Internet erased every trace of magic to anything, arcades got destroyed and that hurted me, now everyone can hit a Fatality via Twitch with tree buttons.

I wonder how many bros that grew up with internet porn and online games managed to do the family thing.

I'm 32 now and actually feel bad sitting in empty house.glad I got my money up and all. feels like I won the battle but lost the war:(

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The early aughts are tied so directly to the birth of the modern internet and the global war on terror it almost lacks an identity. technology and social structures were changing rapidly week to week. Geopolitical issues were also unfolding on a global scale at a blistering pace. It was a boom decade both in personal and historical growth it's almost impossible to quantify it. people started the decade on dial up modems and 9/11 and ended the decade with social media millionaires, smart phones, and drone warfare. It was fucking wild.

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I think most anons here are right about 9/11 but that was not a trauma just in American culture... the whole world changed that day, and not for the best unfortunately.

I think in the 90's and similar period of relative well-beingpeople have more time and energy, and a better mood, to be creative and "revolutionary", in art and science.

But maybe it also depends on your age. For me the 90's were the thrill of discovering the Internet and the grunge and punk and all the cool stuff. 2000s were mostly me nerding on WoW pirate servers and losing my sanity at the uni.

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