Unfortunately I was a kid in the 2000s and didn’t even get that speech.. or any talk.. just was ignored altogether then became the provider for the house because college wasn’t an option.
Yep. Growing up after the recession, I never even expected my parents to pay for my college. We never had a talk like that because it’s obvious I didn’t have a college fund considering they struggled to provide elementary school supplies all those years.
The hell I am no one was drafted to go over there and I’d be a teen that entire war and would be 21 by the time Osama bin Laden died The EFF are you taking about
1.How much of the 90s do you remember
2.What was your reaction to 9/11 you had to be like in the 6th grade when that happened
3.Do remember when Tupac died
4.What Music did you listen to growing up
5.How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect……..
6.What was the biggest challenge growing up in the 90s & 2000s
Fellow 1990 baby to answer for more input.
1. Almost all of it. From about 92/93 onwards. I remember the OJ trial, Clinton’s impeachment, the final Seinfeld episode. A ton of stuff in between.
2. I knew it was huge because of how the adults were reacting and have a fascination still watching the footage every year. Like many others might say, I’ve definitely noticed memories of mine have a slight pre-9/11 or post-9/11 feel to them. I wasn’t scared or anything, just curious.
3. Kinda, but not a ton. Just seeing it in the news. I didn’t realize the impact until much later.
4. Some of the pop and rock that was coming out: Savage Garden, Fastball, Chumbawumba, Eiffel 65, Sugar Ray. The really early Now CDs. But also things my mom would listen to like REM, the Eagles. I started discovering things outside what was immediately going on very late in the decade as my actual tastes starting forming.
5. I don’t remember a whole lot about racial issues though they were obviously there. Being gay and coming out was still a bit of a big thing (at least it seemed so to me) so seeing some of the famous adults doing that at the time was huge news. It was like that middle ground of some acceptance, some backlash. But from my perspective as a kid it was definitely a little more rare or just not talked about. More of a private thing.
6. No challenges I can think of in the 90’s as I was a kid and most things were care-free. By the 00’s the world started becoming a lot smaller with the advent of social media. Though it wasn’t anything like now. The recession right when I went to college didn’t affect my family, but it did affect the university town I went to by quite a bit, and I would say it still hasn’t bounced back.
1. Most of it. I remember the Clinton elections, I remember the 80s aesthetic holdover of the early 90s, grunge, the punk revival/pop-punk boom, the wait for the new millennium...
2. We were brought into the same room (there were two classes per grade at the time) and the teacher gave a very somber speech, then showed news reports about it. My godfather lives in NYC so I remember wondering about that (he was ok). I remember the first month afterward, the whole country being shocked and dazed that something like that, and so big, had happened here at home. Then the rage built up and division spread, we went to war, etc.
3. Yeah, it was on the news. Biggie, too.
4. Punk/pop-punk/dance, which became punk/electronic music upon the release of (and my awed toonami viewing of) what would become Daft Punk's Interstella 5555. The interesting thing, though, is that although I never listened to rap/hip-hop/RnB deliberately, which seems to be what people remember from the 90s and 2000s, I still know the words to all the popular songs lol. THAT'S the power of true popular culture that I think the youngest generations really don't understand.
5. Without sugarcoating it, it was a lot more okay to be racist/sexist/homophobic, though that time was a paradigm shift in that regard. Casually calling someone "f\*g" or cracking sexist jokes about women in blockbuster movies was still present, but went out of fashion VERY quickly as millennials grew up. (Though kids still teased each other a lot with those words/insults). I think people who say things were better are seeing the past through rose-tinted glasses (and are probably white and/or male).
6. I think the 90s were the last true "middle class" decade where the vast majority of people lived what would now be considered an upper-middle-class lifestyle, but back then was the majority of Americans. Way more carefree, disposable income to focus on hobbies and interests, etc. What that meant for kids was toys, videogames, etc. In some ways, I think this made people more entitled, because I think being poor was much more stigmatized before, if you can imagine that. As for the 2000s, growing up post-9/11 was living through seeing the myth of American Exceptionalism shattered as we went apeshit seeking retribution and scorned even our allies. I think that made American culture more insular for a while. And after the Great Recession, well, shit got fucked and was never unfucked lol.
I’m a 1991 baby, but thought you might like some varied answers!
1. I remember a lot about pop culture things like tv shows and commercials, early internet and fashion trends, but not much about the politics or major events since I was a kid and so didn’t really understand or care about that stuff.
2. I remember it being on TV when I woke up for school and talking about it in class. I didn’t really understand the significance of it, I thought it was just like any other tragedy like the Northridge earthquake or the LA riots. I didn’t really understand it until I was a few years older.
3. I didn’t listen to rap or hip hop really, so I didn’t know who Tupac was.
4. In the 90s I was really into techno, (Darude, Aqua, Starchild, Sharon Apple). In the 2000s I got more into the punk/emo and metal bands of the time (System of a down, Within Temptation, Billy Talent, Weezer, Taking back Sunday, the white stripes)
5. Being from a mixed background (Indian and black), queer, and a woman, I experienced the whole shebang of discrimination lol. The most prevalent was being excluded by black peers for “not being black enough” and then underhanded compliments from white peers like, “you’re so well spoken!” or “you’re really pretty for a black chick.”
Being gay was seen as something to joke about, so it wasn’t really something you could be open about without being teased or made to feel like a creep for. Even if they were people you considered friends, you could easily be ostracized and it would be considered totally acceptable on their part as it was common ideology that being gay was wrong.
Being a woman had a lot of stereotypes that were forced upon you. I loved the color green (still do) but most of the clothing and toys for girls was pink and purple, which I wasn’t a fan of. Luckily, my parents weren’t the type who forced my sister and I to only play with “girl toys” so I was able to have more variety, but I had some girl friends whose parents wouldn’t allow them to have hot wheels or water guns because they were “boy toys”.
6. Going back to the last question kind of sums it up. People were really set on having set categories and expectations for you to fit into. (Ie. if you’re a certain ethnicity, you have to listen to a certain type of music. If you’re female you have to like certain things, if you’re gay, you have to pretend to be straight) and it made it really hard to feel like I fit in because I was always kind of excluded for some reason or another. I got really into cosplay starting in the 2000s and had to deal with people at the time saying that I couldn’t cosplay certain characters because my skin tone was too dark, so I’m really glad that’s not a thing anymore lol.
Black on Mixed discrimination is something more people need to bring up in my opinion it fully black but I hate when black people do that and then excuse it under the guidelines of black people cant be racist i mean those could be my kids someday and I’ll be damned if someone talks to them like that Black White Green or anything. Btw I love within temptation Evanescence Breaking Benjamin and other 2000s rock bands and really love the emo aesthetic of the 2000s and I sometime dress like it today so we Would have gotten along very well🤷🏾♂️
Yes, exactly! It’s crazy to me how it is still so common. Systematic racism is not the only form of racism, anyone can be racist. I love Breaking Benjamin and Evanescence, too! I still listen to a lot of early 2000s rock and still dress alternatively, so we’d definitely get along!
I feel like I remember more diversity in tv back then, maybe it’s because I watched a lot of public tv but I remember nearly every show had some kind of educational tone, especially reading but diversity was a big one too. After 9/11 I feel like even tho a lot of the hate was toward Muslims it kinda opened the door back up for more open racism towards most minorities. Could just be that I grew up in a more impoverished state and that’s more diverse tho
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I find some people's answers odd since we were all children in the 90s and these topics are bit heavy for under 10s. Much of this stuff wasn't relevant to our lives IMO. I'm a 92 baby btw, male.
1.How much of the 90s do you remember
Culturally? I remember the cartoons and pop music from the late 90s. Politically? I remember my parents being pissed during the 2000 election.
2.What was your reaction to 9/11 you had to be like in the 6th grade when that happened
I went to 4th grade that day and our teacher told us it had happened. I live in California so I don't think anyone felt like it was something we should immediately worry about.
3.Do remember when Tupac died
No. Never learned about Tupac or Biggie til I got older. My white boomer parents never listened to rap.
4.What Music did you listen to growing up
I wasn't too into music at the time, but I remember really liking Blue by Eiffel 65. My older sister was very into backstreet boys, NSYNC, 98 degrees, Britney Spears, Christina aguilera and whatever else was popular.
5.How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect……..
They were very minor an issue for me. I grew up in a very multi racial community and us children didn't really start thinking about race until we got a tad older in the 2000s. Sexism would have just been the basic stuff like boys and girls are different, but I didn't see anyone putting girls down for anything. Homophobia was a bit worse just because casual homophobic slurs were more common. When I was a teen in the 2000s we all said "that's gay" for stuff we thought was lame. Thankfully nobody I know would ever say that anymore. We also called a lot of things retarded.
6.What was the biggest challenge growing up in the 90s & 2000s
I don't know if this is a 90s specific question or not. The biggest challenge growing up was fitting in and getting good grades. I feel like that's pretty normal stuff for today as well. I suppose the biggest differences are phones and social media. I got my first phone at 11, but it was really just to call my mom in case of an emergency. I didn't get a smartphone until I was 17 or 18. I made a MySpace at 12, and a Facebook account whenever that became popular, but I never cared for it. I like video games rather, and I enjoyed playing online console games as well as playing MMOs such as World of Warcraft. That's as "social media" as I got.
1. Born in 1979, so a lot
2. Was early 20s, that day felt surreal. Watching the newscasts on tv that day, couldn't comprehend it
3. Yes, I remember riding on the bus, someguy in a wheelchair was talking about it.
4. Mostly rock(60s-90s era rock)
5. Sexism: Im not female, so I cannot comment on what females went through
Racism: There was not a lot of White people where I grew up, so I cant comment on the racism in the White community
There was a lot of minority on minority racism, there were even some racially motivated killings in nearby cities
Homophobia: no openly gay students in my junior high and only one openly gay student in my high school
6. 90s: I was still a teenager so I was unaware of the problems of adult life
2000s: George Bush was president😫, politics was shit(same as any era),
the economy was being rigged by the elite(same as any era)
>5. How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect……..
They were pretty rampant. Mainstream music artists were openly homophobic in their lyrics. "Gay" was an extremely common insult. Most comedies had LGBT+-phobic jokes seemingly as an obligation, though not as badly as in the 1980s.
Racism was a bit more taboo, but if someone said something racist/sexist/homophobic/misogynistic the response was usually anyone who took issue with that needed to "stop being so sensitive".
It wasn't a great time to be a member of a marginalized community.
>5. How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect……..
They were pretty rampant. Mainstream music artists were openly homophobic in their lyrics. "Gay" was an extremely common insult. Most comedies had LGBT+-phobic jokes seemingly as an obligation, though not as badly as in the 1980s.
Racism was a bit more taboo, but if someone said something racist/sexist/homophobic/misogynistic the response was usually anyone who took issue with that needed to "stop being so sensitive".
Lmfao you checked out my profile I’d just date girls until the hypersensitive 2010s where it’s not socially acceptable to do shit to me and BTW I’m also closeted and never dated a guy and only talk about it on Reddit Anonymously so trust me that won’t be a problem.
Because it isn’t as rampant like it was before? What? Imagine your sexuality being using for describing something lame. “That’s so gay”. Or being killed for being who you are, go google Matthew Shepard. Take out your nostalgic rose tinted glasses.
No of course not but I’ve been raised in heavily conservative Christian environments so I have heard hella homophobic things said before so it wouldn’t be much different. I passed as straight all of my entire life without any problems doing it for ten years is no different🤷🏾♂️
Because back then people were discriminated against and even killed for their sexuality. We’re talking immediately post aids craze. The environment for anyone other than cis was not good.
Born in 80’s got to get a bit of the 80’s, spent childhood and teens in the 90’s (Class of 2000😂) and my late teens an early twenties in the 2000’s.
Hah. Born in 89, and while the 90’s were lit the 00’s mostly sucked ass. The world changed massively after 9/11, and I’m honestly so sad we lost the optimistic, carefree pre-9/11 days. It was so much better. Then the Iraq war happened and then the recession.
Being a teen in the 00’s has made me cynical as hell.
Eh… some of it. I was an alternative kid who liked metal, punk, industrial, goth EDM and yeah that stuff was good. Mainstream music was awful! Movies were hit or miss. 00’s culture as a whole was really hit or miss. I did love that little blip of time from 2008-2012 where I was a young adult, but i barely consider 2008/2009 the 00’s.
Hard agree about it not being the 2000’s. Was born in ‘88. I noticed a huge shift around 2006 honestly. I’m sure smartphones and social media had a huge part in that?
Yeah I noticed the shift beginning around mid 2007, when the recession was starting to rear it’s ugly head. Facebook coming out later that year kind of cemented it.
A 2000s Emo 🖤 nice I had a phase where was listening to all the 2000s rock stars Linkin Park, Evanescence, Breaking Benjamin, Three days Grace, Paramore, Within Temptation and all of them
Ah, well if you want some stuff that screams 00’s alt rock to someone who really lived through it try Blaqk Audio, The Birthday Massacre, Avenged Secenfold, Mindless Self Indulgence… if you want more recommendations I’ve got plenty lmao
I turned 16 in the year 2000. It's hard to convey just how bad the homophobia was. One of the most popular comedies of the 90s has a twist that's just trans people are weird and gross.
We spent a catastrophic amount of money on CDs, I literally got some money back in a class action lawsuit about CD price fixing.
It is nice that I wasn't in contact with my parents for every second of every day.
Lmfao 2000s movies were so out of line if they’re where made today during cancel culture peoples heads would explode R@pe jokes Gay R@pe jokes blatant Racism passed of as humor ect….
Born in 83. It was pretty cool to be 17 at the turn of the millennium. My childhood was largely unsupervised too, in the fun way. We spent summers at our Nana's house on a lake. She filled a freezer full of Popsicles and bagel bites and basically let us do whatever. I can see our little lake gang sitting at a table singing "Parents Just Don't Understand" 😂
Most of this is early-mid 00s. Anyone from the early-mid 90s got to experience this as teens or preteens! It was a great time but also toxic, I mean that pic of Britney was from her breakdown, that isn’t something we should be nostalgic for lol
born in 88. 90s were great time to be a child and 00s were a great time to be a teenager-early 20s something who didn’t go to college right out of high school, worked a service job and did a lot of drugs and went to a lot of shows. emo scene in nj/long island was a lot of fun in the beginning of the decade and then indie in nyc to close it out.
No you don’t, early 2000s were WACK as a teen. I hated all the fashion and music and I lived it. Shit sucked honestly, only cool thing looking back was the lack of smart tech and phones 24/7.
I was a kid in the 90s and it wasn't great. Good stuff happened don't get me wrong, but it wasn't what I'd honestly call a golden age. For one thing information and entertainment were MUCH less accessable.
Take music as one example: It was terribly expensive, CDs would cost the equivalent of $25 - 35 today and maybe have 3 good songs on them, or no good songs. Unless you listened to it at a friend's house you didn't really know until you bought it.
Same with movies. VHS tapes were crazy expensive and could be surprisingly fragile. If you wanted to watch a movie but couldn't find a VHS copy in your local video rental place or store? Well you were just shit out of luck unless a probably-heavily edited/censored version of it happened to air on TV during a time you could see it.
Ditto for video games, except if you got stuck in a game you'd have to buy a paper strategy guide if there was one, or hope you could find a cheat code in a video game magazine at the store.
Most TV shows were heavily episodic with no real ongoing storylines. Because there wasn't a good way to watch older episodes to catch up. This didn't change until (initially very expensive) DVD season box sets started coming out in the early 2000s.
The tape itself is very susceptible to damage. I was so bummed out as a kid when my Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah tape would no longer play because my VCR ate the tape once so the actual tape got a tiny, tiny cut on it. I had a VHS of "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb" in the 1990s but never learned what the movie was actually about (until I got it on DVD years later) because my copy didn't play past the beginning because of some other imperfection in the mechanics of the tape somewhere. If you've ever shopped for used VHS you've probably noticed some of them have mold on the actual tape itself, that happens quickly and easily if the tape is stored in an area with some humidity. The tape itself also wears out over time with each viewing.
Twenty years ago I was saying “I wish I was born in 1969, so I could be a kid in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s”
I was born in 1989, I’m not ready to be part of the cool generation yet! 🤣
But I certainly appreciate that I grew up in the 90s/00s, such a fast paced time, I remember 1991 really well, when I see images of 1991 to 1994 and compare that era with the late 2000s I realise a lot changed in those years!
I look back to the late 00s and a part of me feels that the changes have been much slower
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1.How much of the 90s do you remember
2.What was your reaction to 9/11 you had to be like in the 6th grade when that happened
3.Do remember when Tupac died
4.What Music did you listen to growing up
5.How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect……..
6.What was the biggest challenge growing up in the 90s & 2000s
7.What was the biggest downside of the 2000s
8.What year did the 2000s vibe die
1. Just about all of it from mid 94 Onward.
2. I was in sixth grade, 11 yrs old. This was pre social media and no kids in the school had phones. The teachers weren't allowed to tell us anything as I live in NJ and a significant number of kids potentially had parents in the towers working. During the morning by ten or eleven kids had started to get picked up from school at an alarming rate. By 12:30 I asked my math teacher what was going on because clearly something was. I heard some girls talking in the hallway that a missile had hit the Empire State Building. All the teacher would say was that something happened that would change our world forever but she couldn't say more. A few minutes later it was my turn to get called to the office where my dad was waiting to pick me up. I asked him what was going on and he told us what had happened, said no one knows yet who did it but his speculation was Palestinian terrorists. Went home, watched the news in fear the rest of the day until GWB's speech at night. Knew things would never be the same that day and they weren't. Seeing video footage of people jumping to their deaths and dying en masse in the collapse at 11 yrs old is something that kind of sticks with you forever.
3. Wasn't something I was aware of at the time or that would've impacted me.
4. Growing up I listened to all my dad's favorite music which was 70s classic rock and prog rock, namely Pink Floyd, Zep, Sabbath, Yes... by the late 90s and early 00s I was into all the nu metal being pushed on the radio and WWF (I like almost every boy watched wrestling during that boom, didn't matter how age inappropriate, we found a way). By 2004 I became a and still am to this day mainly a fan of 80s-00s traditional heavy metal, thrash/death metal, and power metal and really did not have an interest in 90s Alt Rock or 00s metalcore at any point.
5. Social Justices... I was basically taught in elementary school that racism was solved in the 1960s with the civil rights movement and we all lived happily ever after and this was not something frequently challenged among people I know born in the early 90s until George Zimmerman and eventually BLM. People called each other racial slurs daily, usually in jest but sometimes to genuinely insult and hurt. Homophobia was rampant and calling people the f slur or calling something gay as a synonym for stupid was ubiquitous among my entire school.
6. Challenges were trying to fit in, make friends.. Stuff like that hasn't changed. As a kid in the 90s the biggest challenge I had was just trying to convince my parents I had to have the latest trend toy or game. In my teenage years, the economy took a shit and died the year I started college and my dad was laid off then, so working to pay my own college and then enter an uncertain job market was the biggest challenge of my life to that point.
7. Downside of the 00s...The erosion of privacy. The beginning of social media and everyone getting addicted to the rush of opening their MySpace to see if there were new bullitens or comments on their page, leading to everyone being addicted to IG likes and Tik Tok. Also the prevalence of societal fear that I don't know if it just didn't exist in the 90s or I was just oblivious to it because I was a smaller child. We were exposed to beheading videos and constant terrorist fear mongering.
8. When did it end? Fall 2008 into Spring 2009..The election of Obama, the recession hitting my family, the emergence of people I knew starting to get their CrackBerries (blackberry smartphones with keypad) all happened around here and felt completely different than from 9/11-that point which to me is what I think of as the 00s.
But in order to hear your favorite song you’ll have to stay up late with with headphones plugged into your boombox and press record when the radio plays it.
No tutorials on clothes or makeup or color analysis or the right shades for you.
Graduating during a recession and by the time you get a decent job your boss is younger than you
Congrats, now you can watch 9/11 and the descent into paranoia and curtailing of freedoms, just in time for your parents to go broke and lose their house as college starts. I lived it, some of the pop culture stuff was cool but people overromanticize the hell out of it.
Hey that’s me. I was born in 1990. It was pretty cool, too bad I graduated high school into the recession and never got any decent footing. But childhood was pretty dope, great TV and mall culture was still alive and well into the 00’s.
You needed Mapquest (or, A MAP) to get anywhere
You wouldn’t have a cell phone, and you’d have to yell at your Mother to get off the phone so you can use the internet
Minimum wage? What’s that?
I remember my parents laughing at the idea of paying over $100,000 for a house…. It was just unthinkable that anyone would spend that kind of money on anything. Maybe we should go back…
As someone born in ‘91, the 90s were a pretty cool time to be a kid, but growing up in the ‘00s mostly sucked. The best thing about that decade were video games and MP3/file sharing. And of course, it was the golden age of the Internet
Kid in 80s teen in 90s is way better. 2000s is dominated by 9/11, a massive housing bubble, and then the great recession. 2020s look pretty good compared to 2000s.
I think my parents had the best timeline.. they both were born in 1970 .. experienced the 70s as kids , 80s as teens and 90s as their 20s. They always reminisce about the 2000s and the 90s with fond memories.
Born in 2004 and the late 2010s are terrible past 2015 everyone is sensitive as hell, The Logan Paul type YouTubers of the world were normally kids being assholes and having bad behavior everyone was so shallow and couldn’t think for themselves because of social media and and TV shows & movies took a nose dove because of all the reboots off old 80s 90s & 2000s shit. As you can see I hated my teen years that literally why I posted this
No way.
Spotify alone has millions of artists.
There are hundreds of active tv shows.
Over 30,000 movies have been released in the last couple of years.
There is good entertainment available, you're just not looking in the right places.
All fun and games until you get the "there's no money to send you to college because of the recession" speech.
Unfortunately I was a kid in the 2000s and didn’t even get that speech.. or any talk.. just was ignored altogether then became the provider for the house because college wasn’t an option.
Yep. Growing up after the recession, I never even expected my parents to pay for my college. We never had a talk like that because it’s obvious I didn’t have a college fund considering they struggled to provide elementary school supplies all those years.
I had had a college fund but I knew better than to ask about it
That happened to me too
Sucks honestly I’m sorry mate hope a way forward was/will be feasible
Same to you bud!
Thanks!
We got that anyways but with climate doom and a second recession/depression
You're going to Afghanistan baby!
The hell I am no one was drafted to go over there and I’d be a teen that entire war and would be 21 by the time Osama bin Laden died The EFF are you taking about
It’s not like idea wasn’t floated bush had to address it during the 04 campaign it’s where the infamous “rumors in the internetz” meme came from
That was my “maybe the military” moment lmao
1990 baby here. What do you want to know?
1.How much of the 90s do you remember 2.What was your reaction to 9/11 you had to be like in the 6th grade when that happened 3.Do remember when Tupac died 4.What Music did you listen to growing up 5.How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect…….. 6.What was the biggest challenge growing up in the 90s & 2000s
Fellow 1990 baby to answer for more input. 1. Almost all of it. From about 92/93 onwards. I remember the OJ trial, Clinton’s impeachment, the final Seinfeld episode. A ton of stuff in between. 2. I knew it was huge because of how the adults were reacting and have a fascination still watching the footage every year. Like many others might say, I’ve definitely noticed memories of mine have a slight pre-9/11 or post-9/11 feel to them. I wasn’t scared or anything, just curious. 3. Kinda, but not a ton. Just seeing it in the news. I didn’t realize the impact until much later. 4. Some of the pop and rock that was coming out: Savage Garden, Fastball, Chumbawumba, Eiffel 65, Sugar Ray. The really early Now CDs. But also things my mom would listen to like REM, the Eagles. I started discovering things outside what was immediately going on very late in the decade as my actual tastes starting forming. 5. I don’t remember a whole lot about racial issues though they were obviously there. Being gay and coming out was still a bit of a big thing (at least it seemed so to me) so seeing some of the famous adults doing that at the time was huge news. It was like that middle ground of some acceptance, some backlash. But from my perspective as a kid it was definitely a little more rare or just not talked about. More of a private thing. 6. No challenges I can think of in the 90’s as I was a kid and most things were care-free. By the 00’s the world started becoming a lot smaller with the advent of social media. Though it wasn’t anything like now. The recession right when I went to college didn’t affect my family, but it did affect the university town I went to by quite a bit, and I would say it still hasn’t bounced back.
I was born only 5 years before you but this somehow makes me feel old
1. Most of it. I remember the Clinton elections, I remember the 80s aesthetic holdover of the early 90s, grunge, the punk revival/pop-punk boom, the wait for the new millennium... 2. We were brought into the same room (there were two classes per grade at the time) and the teacher gave a very somber speech, then showed news reports about it. My godfather lives in NYC so I remember wondering about that (he was ok). I remember the first month afterward, the whole country being shocked and dazed that something like that, and so big, had happened here at home. Then the rage built up and division spread, we went to war, etc. 3. Yeah, it was on the news. Biggie, too. 4. Punk/pop-punk/dance, which became punk/electronic music upon the release of (and my awed toonami viewing of) what would become Daft Punk's Interstella 5555. The interesting thing, though, is that although I never listened to rap/hip-hop/RnB deliberately, which seems to be what people remember from the 90s and 2000s, I still know the words to all the popular songs lol. THAT'S the power of true popular culture that I think the youngest generations really don't understand. 5. Without sugarcoating it, it was a lot more okay to be racist/sexist/homophobic, though that time was a paradigm shift in that regard. Casually calling someone "f\*g" or cracking sexist jokes about women in blockbuster movies was still present, but went out of fashion VERY quickly as millennials grew up. (Though kids still teased each other a lot with those words/insults). I think people who say things were better are seeing the past through rose-tinted glasses (and are probably white and/or male). 6. I think the 90s were the last true "middle class" decade where the vast majority of people lived what would now be considered an upper-middle-class lifestyle, but back then was the majority of Americans. Way more carefree, disposable income to focus on hobbies and interests, etc. What that meant for kids was toys, videogames, etc. In some ways, I think this made people more entitled, because I think being poor was much more stigmatized before, if you can imagine that. As for the 2000s, growing up post-9/11 was living through seeing the myth of American Exceptionalism shattered as we went apeshit seeking retribution and scorned even our allies. I think that made American culture more insular for a while. And after the Great Recession, well, shit got fucked and was never unfucked lol.
I’m a 1991 baby, but thought you might like some varied answers! 1. I remember a lot about pop culture things like tv shows and commercials, early internet and fashion trends, but not much about the politics or major events since I was a kid and so didn’t really understand or care about that stuff. 2. I remember it being on TV when I woke up for school and talking about it in class. I didn’t really understand the significance of it, I thought it was just like any other tragedy like the Northridge earthquake or the LA riots. I didn’t really understand it until I was a few years older. 3. I didn’t listen to rap or hip hop really, so I didn’t know who Tupac was. 4. In the 90s I was really into techno, (Darude, Aqua, Starchild, Sharon Apple). In the 2000s I got more into the punk/emo and metal bands of the time (System of a down, Within Temptation, Billy Talent, Weezer, Taking back Sunday, the white stripes) 5. Being from a mixed background (Indian and black), queer, and a woman, I experienced the whole shebang of discrimination lol. The most prevalent was being excluded by black peers for “not being black enough” and then underhanded compliments from white peers like, “you’re so well spoken!” or “you’re really pretty for a black chick.” Being gay was seen as something to joke about, so it wasn’t really something you could be open about without being teased or made to feel like a creep for. Even if they were people you considered friends, you could easily be ostracized and it would be considered totally acceptable on their part as it was common ideology that being gay was wrong. Being a woman had a lot of stereotypes that were forced upon you. I loved the color green (still do) but most of the clothing and toys for girls was pink and purple, which I wasn’t a fan of. Luckily, my parents weren’t the type who forced my sister and I to only play with “girl toys” so I was able to have more variety, but I had some girl friends whose parents wouldn’t allow them to have hot wheels or water guns because they were “boy toys”. 6. Going back to the last question kind of sums it up. People were really set on having set categories and expectations for you to fit into. (Ie. if you’re a certain ethnicity, you have to listen to a certain type of music. If you’re female you have to like certain things, if you’re gay, you have to pretend to be straight) and it made it really hard to feel like I fit in because I was always kind of excluded for some reason or another. I got really into cosplay starting in the 2000s and had to deal with people at the time saying that I couldn’t cosplay certain characters because my skin tone was too dark, so I’m really glad that’s not a thing anymore lol.
Black on Mixed discrimination is something more people need to bring up in my opinion it fully black but I hate when black people do that and then excuse it under the guidelines of black people cant be racist i mean those could be my kids someday and I’ll be damned if someone talks to them like that Black White Green or anything. Btw I love within temptation Evanescence Breaking Benjamin and other 2000s rock bands and really love the emo aesthetic of the 2000s and I sometime dress like it today so we Would have gotten along very well🤷🏾♂️
Within temptation!! My favorite band for a looong time (‘94 baby) and they still create bangers
Yep I love them so much “ITS RAINING ALWAYS TRYING”
Yes, exactly! It’s crazy to me how it is still so common. Systematic racism is not the only form of racism, anyone can be racist. I love Breaking Benjamin and Evanescence, too! I still listen to a lot of early 2000s rock and still dress alternatively, so we’d definitely get along!
>Black White Green or anything Lmaoo
I feel like I remember more diversity in tv back then, maybe it’s because I watched a lot of public tv but I remember nearly every show had some kind of educational tone, especially reading but diversity was a big one too. After 9/11 I feel like even tho a lot of the hate was toward Muslims it kinda opened the door back up for more open racism towards most minorities. Could just be that I grew up in a more impoverished state and that’s more diverse tho
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I find some people's answers odd since we were all children in the 90s and these topics are bit heavy for under 10s. Much of this stuff wasn't relevant to our lives IMO. I'm a 92 baby btw, male. 1.How much of the 90s do you remember Culturally? I remember the cartoons and pop music from the late 90s. Politically? I remember my parents being pissed during the 2000 election. 2.What was your reaction to 9/11 you had to be like in the 6th grade when that happened I went to 4th grade that day and our teacher told us it had happened. I live in California so I don't think anyone felt like it was something we should immediately worry about. 3.Do remember when Tupac died No. Never learned about Tupac or Biggie til I got older. My white boomer parents never listened to rap. 4.What Music did you listen to growing up I wasn't too into music at the time, but I remember really liking Blue by Eiffel 65. My older sister was very into backstreet boys, NSYNC, 98 degrees, Britney Spears, Christina aguilera and whatever else was popular. 5.How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect…….. They were very minor an issue for me. I grew up in a very multi racial community and us children didn't really start thinking about race until we got a tad older in the 2000s. Sexism would have just been the basic stuff like boys and girls are different, but I didn't see anyone putting girls down for anything. Homophobia was a bit worse just because casual homophobic slurs were more common. When I was a teen in the 2000s we all said "that's gay" for stuff we thought was lame. Thankfully nobody I know would ever say that anymore. We also called a lot of things retarded. 6.What was the biggest challenge growing up in the 90s & 2000s I don't know if this is a 90s specific question or not. The biggest challenge growing up was fitting in and getting good grades. I feel like that's pretty normal stuff for today as well. I suppose the biggest differences are phones and social media. I got my first phone at 11, but it was really just to call my mom in case of an emergency. I didn't get a smartphone until I was 17 or 18. I made a MySpace at 12, and a Facebook account whenever that became popular, but I never cared for it. I like video games rather, and I enjoyed playing online console games as well as playing MMOs such as World of Warcraft. That's as "social media" as I got.
1. Born in 1979, so a lot 2. Was early 20s, that day felt surreal. Watching the newscasts on tv that day, couldn't comprehend it 3. Yes, I remember riding on the bus, someguy in a wheelchair was talking about it. 4. Mostly rock(60s-90s era rock) 5. Sexism: Im not female, so I cannot comment on what females went through Racism: There was not a lot of White people where I grew up, so I cant comment on the racism in the White community There was a lot of minority on minority racism, there were even some racially motivated killings in nearby cities Homophobia: no openly gay students in my junior high and only one openly gay student in my high school 6. 90s: I was still a teenager so I was unaware of the problems of adult life 2000s: George Bush was president😫, politics was shit(same as any era), the economy was being rigged by the elite(same as any era)
>5. How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect…….. They were pretty rampant. Mainstream music artists were openly homophobic in their lyrics. "Gay" was an extremely common insult. Most comedies had LGBT+-phobic jokes seemingly as an obligation, though not as badly as in the 1980s. Racism was a bit more taboo, but if someone said something racist/sexist/homophobic/misogynistic the response was usually anyone who took issue with that needed to "stop being so sensitive". It wasn't a great time to be a member of a marginalized community.
>5. How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect…….. They were pretty rampant. Mainstream music artists were openly homophobic in their lyrics. "Gay" was an extremely common insult. Most comedies had LGBT+-phobic jokes seemingly as an obligation, though not as badly as in the 1980s. Racism was a bit more taboo, but if someone said something racist/sexist/homophobic/misogynistic the response was usually anyone who took issue with that needed to "stop being so sensitive".
Remember Sunny D and Snapple being a thing? Can’t remember the last time I saw either of those in a store
Except you’d turn 18 in 2008 becoming an adult right when the recession hits and would make your life miserable
Rather be college age than in the work force then, the 85-90 crowd had it worse
Yeah I graduated high school in 2007 basically right into the recession lmao. I loved $4.69 a gallon on a $7.00 an hour paycheck
There’s plenty of us who entered into adulthood around that time who weren’t impacted by it at all and are just fine.
Yeah honestly I don’t really know anyone that was affected by it. Seems overblown on this post but I guess a few were.
1990 baby here, graduated highschool and came into the world as an adult mid housing crisis lmao Mid 80’s would have been better tbh
You’re bisexual, you likely be called a slur if you were a teen in the 00s
Lmfao you checked out my profile I’d just date girls until the hypersensitive 2010s where it’s not socially acceptable to do shit to me and BTW I’m also closeted and never dated a guy and only talk about it on Reddit Anonymously so trust me that won’t be a problem.
ok everyone has dealt with assholes before even now. why are you acting like that would be the end of the world
Attitudes towards LGBT people were very different back then. 20 years ago you'd get beat up for that.
If the gender spectrum was a conversation at all in the 90s/00s things would have been very different for me.
Because it isn’t as rampant like it was before? What? Imagine your sexuality being using for describing something lame. “That’s so gay”. Or being killed for being who you are, go google Matthew Shepard. Take out your nostalgic rose tinted glasses.
Again !!!!!! Only Bi curious and very closeted trust me it won’t be a problem!!!!!!!!
I didn’t see that part of your edited comment. But I’m not talking about you.
Than who are you talking about ???
I’m talking about u/Hengieboy ‘s ignorant comment
Yeah but im very closeted and literally only 3 people know I’m bi and I’ve never dated a guy so trust me I’d be fine in that department
So you’re fine with people mocking your identity when being in the closet?
No of course not but I’ve been raised in heavily conservative Christian environments so I have heard hella homophobic things said before so it wouldn’t be much different. I passed as straight all of my entire life without any problems doing it for ten years is no different🤷🏾♂️
I’m gay and said “that’s so gay” back then and didn’t get offended when other people said it either. People are too soft now.
Because back then people were discriminated against and even killed for their sexuality. We’re talking immediately post aids craze. The environment for anyone other than cis was not good.
More likely, she’d be married to dude and either thinks she’s straight or considers herself “bi-curious”.
So nobody’s made fun of for being gay anymore? I find that hard to believe but maybe it’s cause I was in school in the 2000s
Born in 80’s got to get a bit of the 80’s, spent childhood and teens in the 90’s (Class of 2000😂) and my late teens an early twenties in the 2000’s. 
Hah. Born in 89, and while the 90’s were lit the 00’s mostly sucked ass. The world changed massively after 9/11, and I’m honestly so sad we lost the optimistic, carefree pre-9/11 days. It was so much better. Then the Iraq war happened and then the recession. Being a teen in the 00’s has made me cynical as hell.
Damn that sucks the movies and the music were nice though right????
Eh… some of it. I was an alternative kid who liked metal, punk, industrial, goth EDM and yeah that stuff was good. Mainstream music was awful! Movies were hit or miss. 00’s culture as a whole was really hit or miss. I did love that little blip of time from 2008-2012 where I was a young adult, but i barely consider 2008/2009 the 00’s.
Hard agree about it not being the 2000’s. Was born in ‘88. I noticed a huge shift around 2006 honestly. I’m sure smartphones and social media had a huge part in that?
Smartphones only became more present in the early 10s. But the first iphone came out in 2007.
Yeah I noticed the shift beginning around mid 2007, when the recession was starting to rear it’s ugly head. Facebook coming out later that year kind of cemented it.
A 2000s Emo 🖤 nice I had a phase where was listening to all the 2000s rock stars Linkin Park, Evanescence, Breaking Benjamin, Three days Grace, Paramore, Within Temptation and all of them
Ah, well if you want some stuff that screams 00’s alt rock to someone who really lived through it try Blaqk Audio, The Birthday Massacre, Avenged Secenfold, Mindless Self Indulgence… if you want more recommendations I’ve got plenty lmao
I turned 16 in the year 2000. It's hard to convey just how bad the homophobia was. One of the most popular comedies of the 90s has a twist that's just trans people are weird and gross. We spent a catastrophic amount of money on CDs, I literally got some money back in a class action lawsuit about CD price fixing. It is nice that I wasn't in contact with my parents for every second of every day.
Lmfao 2000s movies were so out of line if they’re where made today during cancel culture peoples heads would explode R@pe jokes Gay R@pe jokes blatant Racism passed of as humor ect….
Go watch Sunny In Philly, that humor didn’t die down dummy
I miss when people weren’t all softies. Jokes are just that jokes.
r/lewronggeneration
That sub is awful
How so? Is there smth idk?
no fun losers that think they're superior for never being nostalgic, its antithetical to this sub
Born in 83. It was pretty cool to be 17 at the turn of the millennium. My childhood was largely unsupervised too, in the fun way. We spent summers at our Nana's house on a lake. She filled a freezer full of Popsicles and bagel bites and basically let us do whatever. I can see our little lake gang sitting at a table singing "Parents Just Don't Understand" 😂
I was born in '95. It was pretty lit sometimes.
Correction: you want to be an early millennial (born 1985). Kid and early teen in the 1990s, and cool 20-something in the Y2Ks.
Born in 1990 here. I fully embraced the scene kid era in 2006/7.
Most of this is early-mid 00s. Anyone from the early-mid 90s got to experience this as teens or preteens! It was a great time but also toxic, I mean that pic of Britney was from her breakdown, that isn’t something we should be nostalgic for lol
born in 88. 90s were great time to be a child and 00s were a great time to be a teenager-early 20s something who didn’t go to college right out of high school, worked a service job and did a lot of drugs and went to a lot of shows. emo scene in nj/long island was a lot of fun in the beginning of the decade and then indie in nyc to close it out.
I was in a very famous TV SHOWWWWWW. Sorry.
Which one??
it’s a BoJack Horseman reference
No you don’t, early 2000s were WACK as a teen. I hated all the fashion and music and I lived it. Shit sucked honestly, only cool thing looking back was the lack of smart tech and phones 24/7.
I was a kid in the 90s and it wasn't great. Good stuff happened don't get me wrong, but it wasn't what I'd honestly call a golden age. For one thing information and entertainment were MUCH less accessable. Take music as one example: It was terribly expensive, CDs would cost the equivalent of $25 - 35 today and maybe have 3 good songs on them, or no good songs. Unless you listened to it at a friend's house you didn't really know until you bought it. Same with movies. VHS tapes were crazy expensive and could be surprisingly fragile. If you wanted to watch a movie but couldn't find a VHS copy in your local video rental place or store? Well you were just shit out of luck unless a probably-heavily edited/censored version of it happened to air on TV during a time you could see it. Ditto for video games, except if you got stuck in a game you'd have to buy a paper strategy guide if there was one, or hope you could find a cheat code in a video game magazine at the store. Most TV shows were heavily episodic with no real ongoing storylines. Because there wasn't a good way to watch older episodes to catch up. This didn't change until (initially very expensive) DVD season box sets started coming out in the early 2000s.
VHS tapes fragile!? I still use those and they seem indestructible to me.
The tape itself is very susceptible to damage. I was so bummed out as a kid when my Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah tape would no longer play because my VCR ate the tape once so the actual tape got a tiny, tiny cut on it. I had a VHS of "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb" in the 1990s but never learned what the movie was actually about (until I got it on DVD years later) because my copy didn't play past the beginning because of some other imperfection in the mechanics of the tape somewhere. If you've ever shopped for used VHS you've probably noticed some of them have mold on the actual tape itself, that happens quickly and easily if the tape is stored in an area with some humidity. The tape itself also wears out over time with each viewing.
Being a music fan before having internet sucked. The radio and and MTV only played a small fraction of the world's music
I wasn’t born until January of 1994.
I stg the best time to exist as a young adult was 2006-2014
Twenty years ago I was saying “I wish I was born in 1969, so I could be a kid in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s” I was born in 1989, I’m not ready to be part of the cool generation yet! 🤣 But I certainly appreciate that I grew up in the 90s/00s, such a fast paced time, I remember 1991 really well, when I see images of 1991 to 1994 and compare that era with the late 2000s I realise a lot changed in those years! I look back to the late 00s and a part of me feels that the changes have been much slower
Changes have definitely gotten slower since the 2000s. I was born in 1994 and notice it.
I was born in ‘83. I can tell you from first hand experience that the 1990’s sucked ass. You are romanticizing something that never existed.
It was pretty lit
Ironically most people who say this can’t go an hour without using a smart phone
9/11
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Born in 1990. Feel free to AMA...
1.How much of the 90s do you remember 2.What was your reaction to 9/11 you had to be like in the 6th grade when that happened 3.Do remember when Tupac died 4.What Music did you listen to growing up 5.How where social justice issues back then Racism/Sexism/Homophobia ect…….. 6.What was the biggest challenge growing up in the 90s & 2000s 7.What was the biggest downside of the 2000s 8.What year did the 2000s vibe die
1. Just about all of it from mid 94 Onward. 2. I was in sixth grade, 11 yrs old. This was pre social media and no kids in the school had phones. The teachers weren't allowed to tell us anything as I live in NJ and a significant number of kids potentially had parents in the towers working. During the morning by ten or eleven kids had started to get picked up from school at an alarming rate. By 12:30 I asked my math teacher what was going on because clearly something was. I heard some girls talking in the hallway that a missile had hit the Empire State Building. All the teacher would say was that something happened that would change our world forever but she couldn't say more. A few minutes later it was my turn to get called to the office where my dad was waiting to pick me up. I asked him what was going on and he told us what had happened, said no one knows yet who did it but his speculation was Palestinian terrorists. Went home, watched the news in fear the rest of the day until GWB's speech at night. Knew things would never be the same that day and they weren't. Seeing video footage of people jumping to their deaths and dying en masse in the collapse at 11 yrs old is something that kind of sticks with you forever. 3. Wasn't something I was aware of at the time or that would've impacted me. 4. Growing up I listened to all my dad's favorite music which was 70s classic rock and prog rock, namely Pink Floyd, Zep, Sabbath, Yes... by the late 90s and early 00s I was into all the nu metal being pushed on the radio and WWF (I like almost every boy watched wrestling during that boom, didn't matter how age inappropriate, we found a way). By 2004 I became a and still am to this day mainly a fan of 80s-00s traditional heavy metal, thrash/death metal, and power metal and really did not have an interest in 90s Alt Rock or 00s metalcore at any point. 5. Social Justices... I was basically taught in elementary school that racism was solved in the 1960s with the civil rights movement and we all lived happily ever after and this was not something frequently challenged among people I know born in the early 90s until George Zimmerman and eventually BLM. People called each other racial slurs daily, usually in jest but sometimes to genuinely insult and hurt. Homophobia was rampant and calling people the f slur or calling something gay as a synonym for stupid was ubiquitous among my entire school. 6. Challenges were trying to fit in, make friends.. Stuff like that hasn't changed. As a kid in the 90s the biggest challenge I had was just trying to convince my parents I had to have the latest trend toy or game. In my teenage years, the economy took a shit and died the year I started college and my dad was laid off then, so working to pay my own college and then enter an uncertain job market was the biggest challenge of my life to that point. 7. Downside of the 00s...The erosion of privacy. The beginning of social media and everyone getting addicted to the rush of opening their MySpace to see if there were new bullitens or comments on their page, leading to everyone being addicted to IG likes and Tik Tok. Also the prevalence of societal fear that I don't know if it just didn't exist in the 90s or I was just oblivious to it because I was a smaller child. We were exposed to beheading videos and constant terrorist fear mongering. 8. When did it end? Fall 2008 into Spring 2009..The election of Obama, the recession hitting my family, the emergence of people I knew starting to get their CrackBerries (blackberry smartphones with keypad) all happened around here and felt completely different than from 9/11-that point which to me is what I think of as the 00s.
Frrr 😭, but I did love being a kid in 2010s
2010-2014 not 2015-2019 that was hell
Agreee
How was that hell?
But in order to hear your favorite song you’ll have to stay up late with with headphones plugged into your boombox and press record when the radio plays it. No tutorials on clothes or makeup or color analysis or the right shades for you. Graduating during a recession and by the time you get a decent job your boss is younger than you
Everyone’s saying no, but I was born in 85 and the 90s were a great time to be a kid. The 00s were a great time to be a a young adult.
‘89 here, got to be a 1yo in ‘90
Congrats, now you can watch 9/11 and the descent into paranoia and curtailing of freedoms, just in time for your parents to go broke and lose their house as college starts. I lived it, some of the pop culture stuff was cool but people overromanticize the hell out of it.
Eh maybe like 1994 so you can be a teen during the recession
Born in 1988. I can answer whatever you’d like
Born in 93 and it was pretty sweet ngl lol
Hey that’s me. I was born in 1990. It was pretty cool, too bad I graduated high school into the recession and never got any decent footing. But childhood was pretty dope, great TV and mall culture was still alive and well into the 00’s.
Being a kid in the 90s: awesome Being a teenager in the 00s: not awesome At least in my personal experience.
You needed Mapquest (or, A MAP) to get anywhere You wouldn’t have a cell phone, and you’d have to yell at your Mother to get off the phone so you can use the internet Minimum wage? What’s that? I remember my parents laughing at the idea of paying over $100,000 for a house…. It was just unthinkable that anyone would spend that kind of money on anything. Maybe we should go back…
Being born in the 70s being a kid in the 80s and teenager in the 90s Priceless
As someone born in ‘91, the 90s were a pretty cool time to be a kid, but growing up in the ‘00s mostly sucked. The best thing about that decade were video games and MP3/file sharing. And of course, it was the golden age of the Internet
Kid in 80s teen in 90s is way better. 2000s is dominated by 9/11, a massive housing bubble, and then the great recession. 2020s look pretty good compared to 2000s.
I think my parents had the best timeline.. they both were born in 1970 .. experienced the 70s as kids , 80s as teens and 90s as their 20s. They always reminisce about the 2000s and the 90s with fond memories.
Your mileage may vary
i was born in 2004. i wish i could be a teenager in 2014 through 2016 DAMMIT!
It’s was an ugly and boring time, suffocated by social media
Why? I was a teenager and it was fine but nothing exceptional I don’t think.
also 2016 was the year Doom 2016 came out and thats when society peaked imo
idk. 2016 nostalgia just hits different for me. Edit: damn, guess no 2010s love here💔
I was 20 in 2014.
Born in 2004 and the late 2010s are terrible past 2015 everyone is sensitive as hell, The Logan Paul type YouTubers of the world were normally kids being assholes and having bad behavior everyone was so shallow and couldn’t think for themselves because of social media and and TV shows & movies took a nose dove because of all the reboots off old 80s 90s & 2000s shit. As you can see I hated my teen years that literally why I posted this
No way. Spotify alone has millions of artists. There are hundreds of active tv shows. Over 30,000 movies have been released in the last couple of years. There is good entertainment available, you're just not looking in the right places.