I have the fucking 2000s, that sucks ass
Static Shock, Dragon Tales, Samurai Jack, Toonami, Colored Ketchup, some buildings that fell down or something, the horrors of the Iraq war broadcast on television every night, getting your older cousin to help you torrent Dragon ball Z, “Welcome. You got mail.”, that stupid D.A.R.E shit in school that made me WANT to do drugs, accidentally breaking my bionicle at my sister's gymnastic recital
What a cultural wasteland of a decade, like holy shit
Some of the cartoons you mentioned were actually good. But yeah, fuck colored ketchup.
Oh, yeah they were amazing, but they weren't enough to make up for the sheer cultural and political derangement that gripped the country
that stupid D.A.R.E shit in school that made me WANT to do drugs,
I remember the first time I got super high on my own volition, it was during an extra-long break period the school had before the drug talk assembly. If it wasn't for that break, I couldn't have had the same free period to get some older kid to roll my joint for me. And then the assembly itself was so out of date and boring...
Thanks, ineffectual anti-drug crusaders!
Static Shock
Bring back Static Shock!
I was watching Black Lightning, hoping it would be similar enough but I never stuck with it.
When I was a kid Static Shock confused me because I wasn't sure if he was Black Lightning or not. like, I thought he was supposed to be a sort of Superboy character that would basically end the series as Black Lightning once he had matured.
Yeah and I had the inverse, lol....
Expecting Black Lightning to have the same back story as Static Shock!
I get nostalgic about other people’s childhoods
Maybe it’s because my own was between miserable to just meh. Culture in the 2000s was alienating and cynical
I feel like teens nowadays are so much more awake and honest about the bullshit the world's in right now. So many of the people I went to uni with are as dumb today as the boomers.
The secret is it’s a minority of every generation that’s not as dumb as the boomers and we like to pretend our issues are solved with generations because it’s a soothing lie that things can get better without any change in the underlying conditions.
Every generation has their greats. Fred Hampton was a boomer. Makes you think!
COINTELPRO boomed him before he became a Boomer
:fred-hampton:
Rest in Power, Chairman Fred
Probably something to do with him being a black man raised in 50's america.
i disagree. i think changes in the underlying conditions express themselves with a strong generational skew. it's nothing to make predictions with, but there's a huge difference between your average boomer and your average zoomer today.
yeah, I mean we're definitely a weird group.I mean aren't advertisers kinda shitting their pants right? cause like we've been bombarded with 1000s of advertisements a day, being raised on the internet and all and culture at the time was steeped in heavy cynicism.
I was thinking "it wasn't that bad" but I had steeped myself in 80s/90s punk/alt shit and basically ignored the actual culture around me. Looking back I can see why.
"Your day is over and there's new shit that you won't accept. Old people do it, they look back at the good ole days and it was good because they were young. But they act like it was the day. No, it was because youth is good. That's gone, you're fucked." - Doug Stanhope on Boomers
So you know, if you already think the world is shit, you're probably safe.
I kinda do but in the way that I wish I could go back and live my proper childhood since I spent so long pretending to be a boy.
I despise the 1990s, but maybe that's just because I grew up in it. Sometimes I feel like I'm broken for not being sooo nostalgic about my childhood and the 90s like everybody else is. Fuck that.
90s were objectively terrible. 2000s were even worse. 2010s were fine but got worse the longer they went on.
I was lowkey confused and inclined to disagree with that title until i read on and realised we're the same age-ish. futureless gen z solidarity, comrade! :agony-deep:
On the bright side, there won’t be more that many gens after us feeling the same way :desolate:
if it makes you feel any better lots of young people in a country with no future is basically the recipe for terrorist/freedom fighter activity so things should at least be shaken up a bit soon
all we need now is the govt to start locking young ppl up en masse and end up sticking people with no future with very ideological radicals, I mean that's the last step right
The early 2000s were so alienating and toxic that I turned inward and became a g*mer. Bush did 9/11.
Don't worry. People will treat it with 80s nostalgia soon enough. That Numanuma song will be used to sell a new Ford fiesta with seats that recline so far back it's comfortable enough to sleep in
I actually really liked the music from the 2000s and have several large playlists so let's go with kryptonite by 3 doors down
It was such a garbage decade that people thought Mr. brightside was some incredible, mind blowingly good song. It's extremely average and the killers are dogshit.
Shake Ya Ass by Mystical came out in 2000 though.
Yeah I'm just messing with you. I was in highschool/college during the 2000s. It was an impressive cultural wasteland.
Oh I know, I didn't want to bring it up yet but I was waiting to bring up your username
Haha yeah, people in glass houses. Phish was smart enough to sit most of the 2000s out though!
the 2000s were not that bad on brazil, so i am, lula was the president, things were looking up, no one could even consider bolsonaro as something more than a fringe politician good times
I was talking to my buddy the other day about how that might be the first decade that doesn't have a nostalgic resurgence. At least not the fashion. Would be funny if people started dressing like characters from the Matrix though.
