That’s always a fun game for these nostalgia capriccios. There’s one digital artist who always blatantly shoves in barely-redrawn popular objects, and has a very loose grasp of how time works. So it’ll be a whole bunch of very specifically 1993-ish merchandise, and then also an N64… and Game Boy Color. Not even addressing inclusions that were obviously complete mistakes, like going ‘Nerf was around back then’ and picking a Maverick revolver from 2005. Just asking - why would a kid’s obsessively decorated bedroom, on or after November of 1998, be a celebration of exactly five years prior?
It’d be like if one of these girls was watching The Dark Knight on her iPad.
The 2000s were my favourite decade, from beginning to the end. I missed them as soon I realised they were over, which was probably around 2013, lol.
Interesting enough, I was far happier last decade, but compared to the 2000s the 10s were forgettable.
I remember buying my first mp3 player and years later my first iPod. It was so freeing waking through the city while listening to music that wasn’t on a clunky portable cd player. And the music was so great, from Indie Rock to Nelly Furtado.
The political climate was… interesting. But the post 9-11 terrorist-scare-years seem now somehow simpler then the political situation today.
And the internet was great! Pirate bay, tons of interesting blogs altogether with the beginning of YouTube. I loved it.
In my experience nostalgia for a decade arrives in society about 10 years after + a few more. But I‘m already here, waiting for it.
Recognized it right away. So much here that I recognize. @Saturdaycat, I only have nostalgia for it because I ended high school before this era. Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes, once wrote this: People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Accidentally serious answer: a gradual slide from neon Memphis / Googie / Lisa Frank stuff circa 1990, to darker-and-edgier extremes in the late 90s, continuing on to piano-black ultrasleek bullshit being easy to sell to anyone.
Everything became a hi-fi set. But first, some of it had to become a car dashboard.
Honestly it’s kind of a return to the mean. Monochromaticity seems normal. The 80s were an explosion of colored plastic and differentiated consumerism. Someone once said of the 70s, “I cannot overstate how brown everything was.”
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