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If the 20-year nostalgia cycle holds...

AnonusAnonus
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...then 2000s nostalgia is coming soon.

What the fuck is there to be nostalgic for? I grew up in the 2000s and hated it.

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  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    "Country Grammar" by Nelly.
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    If you had made this thread a few months ago I could have said "another Bush presidency".

    Instead, uh...flip phones? MySpace? 
  • TreTre
    image
    • G4 and TechTV
    • the PlayStation 2/Xbox/GameCube
    • Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens
    • Guitar Hero
    • the Motorola RAZR
    • *NSYNC
    • S Club 7
  • AnonusAnonus
    edited 2016-06-08 07:22:13
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    me no likey the disney channel of the 2000s

    but yay, gamecubes
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    wanna hear a joke I learned in the 2000s?

    Where do Nintendo employees work?

    A GameCubicle.
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    Tre said:

    the PlayStation 2/Xbox/GameCube

    never mind these, the fucking gameboy advance
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    oh you mean like this?


  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    yes

    only sonic game I ever played
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    the second one was so boss to my eight-year-old self, even though it was basically holding right you went FASTER in this one
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    I didn't learn there was more than one sonic advance game until years after they came out

    I was truly shocked
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    There's already a kind of early 2000s nostalgia going on with certain elements of crunk, but Jane could say more about that than I could.
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    oh goody, I kiiiiinda want to forgot most of the 2000s. In fact, I mostly have already
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    BOOT-CUT JEANS

    GRAPHIC T-SHIRTS

    SWOOSHY HAIR
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    also does this mean that Ludacris can make a comeback? I'd like that.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I wouldn't mind that.
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Ludacristopher Lee Clark Kent.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    We're not done with the 90s yet.
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    glennmagusharvey said:

    We're not done with the 90s yet.

    the empire never ended
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    Today is Tomorrow said:

    BOOT-CUT JEANS


    GRAPHIC T-SHIRTS

    SWOOSHY HAIR

  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Some people still haven't come out of the crappy part of the '80s yet, either.

    Honestly, I'm still waiting on a revival of all the weird shit that got quasi-trendy during the time that music magazines thought bearded folkies and orchestral bands were the future. Or maybe a second post-punk revival that's significantly less narrow in scope than the first; we really don't need another fifty bands trying to remake Entertainment! without the political bite, but at least three trying to recreate Deceit or Those Deep Buds would be nice.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I was under the impression that some form of 80s nostalgia was "in" now. Well, it is for me, anyway.

    90s nostalgia is coming up next.

    00s to me still seems like just yesterday, and honestly I'd rather forget almost all of it.
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    90s nostalgia is already happening:

  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    oh
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Was it really better back then?
    Were there really less problems?
    Or was really that because then
    you weren't so numb?
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Imipolex G said:

    I was under the impression that some form of 80s nostalgia was "in" now. Well, it is for me, anyway.

    90s nostalgia is coming up next.

    00s to me still seems like just yesterday, and honestly I'd rather forget almost all of it.

    Yeah they're both in

    It's just that '80s nostalgia has gotten to the 30-year point, which is when the culture starts to canonize the bits of it they decide are worth canonizing
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    well, I hope they canonize the Smurfs
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    although not really
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2016-06-09 04:27:12
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Elantris*, Harry Potter.  Junie B. Jones.  Molly Moon's incredible book of Hypnotism.  Magic Tree House.

    The no 1. Ladies Detective Agency**.  Discworld.  Redwall. Peter and the Starcatchers.  Dragons of Deltora.

    Percy Jackson.  Series of Unfortunate Events.  A to Z mysteries.  Animorphs(technically, it ended in 2001)***.

    Inkheart, Artemis Fowl, Leven Thumps, Fablehaven.  A House on Awful End. The works of Pseudonymous Bosch.

    * Read by me after the 2000s ended
    **read by my mom, not by me.
    *** Hey, I waited for the books to come to the library in 2002.
    The others on this list were series that came out that I read in the 2000s, awaiting new installments.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Imipolex G said:

    well, I hope they canonize the Smurfs

    can't the Snorks be included too?
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    who?
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    The Snorks, who were the Smurfs except they lived underwater and were thus more fun to me
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    This is what happens when one watches too much Boomerang
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    Aliroz said:

    Elantris, Harry Potter.  Junie B. Jones.


    The no 1. Ladies Detective Agency.  Discworld.  Redwall. Peter and the Starcatchers.  Dragons of Deltora.

    Percy Jackson.  Series of Unfortunate Events.  A to Z mysteries.  Animorphs(technically, it ended in 2001).

    Inkheart, Artemis Fowl, Leven Thumps, Fablehaven.  A House on Awful End. The works of Pseudonymous Bosch.
    Somehow this reads like an updated "end of the world as we know it" even though I know it's not.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2016-06-09 04:31:21
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    So, yeah, the 2000s were pretty great, children's-book-wise.

    They were one of the best times of my life.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I was too old for children's books then, else my 2000s might've been better.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I also read books from other eras, I didn't think about what decade things came out of.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    MetaFour said:

    Was it really better back then?

    Were there really less problems?
    Or was really that because then
    you weren't so numb?
    I think this is generally a good response to generational nostalgia. 
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Or any longing for a non-existent Golden Age.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I don't really get the idea that nostalgia equals "it was better back then"
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Imipolex G said:

    I don't really get the idea that nostalgia equals "it was better back then"

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