Over a decade later, why aren't the 2000s romanticized like the 90s were?

[Marlo Barksdale]

The reason is because the 90's (and parts of the 80s) never left.

The 00's was spent with people trying to recreate the past so much that it birthed the term "throwback."

Think about it: the 2000s (and 2010s) was basically people wearing, dressing and trying to recreate the 90s. From the old jerseys to the old hairstyles to baggy clothes to 90s sitcoms being the main thing shown on TV.

And that's wild because those 90's shows were in sydication even while they were still airing new episodes. Martin, Fresh Prince, Living Single, etc have never not been on TV every single day. Every movie is a remake.

A good question is this: "how do you dress like a 2010s person for a party? Skinny jeans and...90's clothes?"

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

They are, by younger people

This. Give it another 10 years and you'll start hearing from young folks about how dope the old skul (2000's) were.


Side note: 2007 had the best music of the 2000's. The hits from that year were

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

2000's objectively speaking was:

-Internet golden age
-media consumption golden age (i.e. ipods, iphones, limewire, end of 56k modems, etc)

The internet golden age had such an enormous net positive/net negative effect on the world that it's almost impossible to quantify.

Everything in day-to-day life gotta be understood through that filter at this point.

The biggest net positive is o/a awareness... people these days are more aware in general of the world around them even though it don't seem like that at times. People became way more aware about diet, health, wage inequity, worker's rights, etc. in the post-internet era than they ever were before. Before the 2000s was basically the last era where certain information could literally be obscured from millions by not putting it in public school textbooks.

The biggest net negative is the hyper stratification of everything. There's less and less common ground within larger communities... I'm sure I don't gotta explain what I mean by that.

 

[basedlawd]

I'm already seeing people on social media start to reference and go back to 00s fashion, kids broadly refer to a mishmash of styles from the entire decade as the "y2k aesthetic" and you're starting to see musicians in their 20s such as Normani or Saweetie reference music that they grew up with in the 2000s in their own music.

It's happening, we're just at the beginning of it. I do have a feeling it won't be as prevalent as other nostalgia waves however and not because there's nothing to be nostalgic over but because we're more critical of the past than we used to be. The moment something from the 2000s starts becoming popular again there are going to be think pieces on how problematic that thing was at the time and people will try and cancel it.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

It seemed like as soon as 2010 hit, a lotta ppl just wanted to pretend like the 2K’s never happened. Basically treating the whole decade like a bad dream since 9/11.

Me personally, about 65% of my childhood and damn near my entire teenhood was in the 2000’s (I was born in 1992) so I still have a big soft spot for the decade.

 

[Exlurkernegro]

The 2000s wasn't that bad.

The 2010s tho.

 

[Carlton Banks]

I think it's when BET got bought out by Viacom is when shyt starting falling off.

 

[HoldThisL]

Honestly the only reason why the 2000s is not heavily worshipped like the 90s is 9/11. It really changed the world and once people see one bad thing, all you can really remember is all the bad things following it. Natural disasters, school shootings, war, etc. If you were to ignore those things when it comes to the 2000s, the other things like entertainment, fashion, and technology were equal or even better than the 90s, which people are actually actively talking about still .

 

[Mr swag]

And bonus question around what year did nikkas start to romanticize the 90s

it was the Afghan and Iraq war/ terrorism

shyt was horrible

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

The way we got hit with Kobe starting off 2020 is what 9/11 was. Decade came out the gate with negative energy

 

[ISO]

And bonus question around what year did nikkas start to romanticize the 90s

there’s a huge Y2K resurgence going on right now nobody gives a fukk about the 90’s anymore

 

[ISO]

The 90s is not "romanticized". The 90s is the peak of the Human Empire so far.

The 90s was the best decade so far in all of history. May never be topped

 

[ISO]

Lol 70s nostalgia was never a thing

70’s nostalgia was huge in the 90’s. It’s all over the music of Wu-Tang, Snoop, Camp Lo in that era.

 

[West Coast Avenger]

there’s a huge Y2K resurgence going on right now nobody gives a fukk about the 90’s anymore

......you stay talking out your ass...........

 

[ISO]

......you stay talking out your ass...........

U you don’t know what’s going on