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Flashbacks to bros wearing five polo shirts at once with all the collars popped
Eh, probably the same amount of alcoholism, just on a shorter time scale IMO.
I met one of them recently that I knew from my heyday of going to college parties and drinking rich kids’ alcohol for free, and he’s a landlord, of course.
Watching Star Wars Episode 1 as a tween and not understanding the bullhorn racism in some of the alien caricatures. Never mind the greater zeitgeist of casual racism against Muslims thanks to the "war on" terror and the casual homophobia.
Fuck yes, absolutely. Great writing and amazing cast. Used to catch it around when it was coming out, but I was too young to really appreciate it. Rewatched it as a 20 something and it was way too relatable lol
Scary Movie and then the sequels and then the birth of a weird run of increasingly bad spoof movies for years
God so much of it was dogshit. The fashions were all awful - and that's even comparing them to like 90s fashions. Music was terrible, too. Max Martin was everywhere, and I fucking hate his songwriting, and even in the spaces where he wasn't you had, what, the garbage pop punk everywhere? It was also when studios really got a handle on how to commodify rap music into pop songs and there was just garbage R&B everywhere.
Movies and TV shows had some bright spots - A lot of Adult Swim content still holds up, and I remember the Judd Apatow deluge pretty fondly though I'd be hesitant to revisit it now. And Shaun of the Dead, ofc.
Nu-metal was better than the buttrock like Creed. Wasn't great, though - Slipknot and Disturbed were okay. But its oversaturation did lead to the rise of metalcore, which is good, though at this point we're getting back into subculture stuff so I dunno if that's really under the umbrella of the discussion we're having.
