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Why are people obsessed with this faux "2000s" appearance?

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These are the same people really into "frutiger aero", the same people who have pushed against minimalist flat designs; they're all into drum & bass and shitty screamo/emo bands, among other things. There's a lot of overlap between them and the "web 1.0/old-web revival" crowd. The problem I have is how forced, superficial, inauthentic, and romanticised it all feels; their perception is skewed and based on popular anecdotes rather than personal lived experience and firsthand knowledge, which they don't have because they weren't even an embryo when Myspace initially launched. No fault of their own.
But the real issue isn't the nostalgia for a previous decade, as long as it's subversive, that is. It's more that they're trying to recreate the decade, or how they think the decade was, based off nostalgia compilation clips they saw on YouTube or TikTok or wherever. Imagine having such a dead culture that you have to essentially rip off the previous one; it's really lame in that regard. I'm fatigued by it.
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UH .w. U no liek epix stylez??1 itz heckin awsum sauce nusoi >X3
My older brother actually got fu.c.ked by a girl that talked like this btw

I know this is such a miniscule, insignificant bullshit topic that doesn't affect me personally, but I'm more so curious as to what you all have to say about it. It's just extremely cacay to me.
I wish I could go back. Bitches were still mentally ill, but they said noob back then at least and never cut their tits off. I was robbed.
 
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I’m just waiting for the 80s and 90s tech/aesthetic to really get a good revival. Last time it happened was with Stranger Things, but that shits too mainstream for me.
 
Some of the people that like this are like 30 year old boomer broads, which would explain their affinity as a form of nostalgiacacaing.

However, most of them seem to be like 12-17 year old girls for some reason. I don't know how they are reminiscent of times they never lived through. My explanation is that it's most likely an autistic interest and they just obsess over the period, yet are too young to realize the period had its downsides as well and it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. Dealing with tangled earphones, iPods being half the screen size of modern phones, 8GB of storage being considered large: which meant no good audio files like FLAC instead of MP3. None of these inconveniences exist nowadays unless you go out of your way to use archaic technology.

TLDR; It's autism
 
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