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

[FartmingerFuckwadCheesest]

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.

 

[Goot]

Because they're fucking cacaots

 

[1876 o algo]

We looked like this in the 2000s albeit.

 

[𓅰𓅪𓃯]

UH .w. U no liek epix stylez??1 itz heckin awsum sauce nusoi >X3

 

[FartmingerFuckwadCheesest]

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.

 

[1876 o algo]

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.

 

[𓅰𓅪𓃯]

'tok toddlers should start larping as USENETGods by putting signatures on all of their posts doxxing themselves alongside an excerpt from a Sci-Fi novel/film.

 

[Goot]

Because they're fucking cacaots

holy slow noob jannies do your shit

 

[lifesucksthenyoudie]

My older brother actually got fu.c.ked by a girl that talked like this btw

>being fu.c.k.ed t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m IRL

 

[Herpes Trout]

'tok toddlers should start larping as USENETGods by putting signatures on all of their posts doxxing themselves alongside an excerpt from a Sci-Fi novel/film.

I used to do this

on whte_rbt.obj call link.sst {security, perimeter} set to off

nedry

040/#xy/67&

mr goodbytes

 

[Herpes Trout]

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.

 

[Goot]

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.

You mean like cassettepunk/cassette futurism?

 

[supersage]

Because they're fucking cacaots

rare goot trvke

 

[Mongoloigul]

 

[Joseph]

They want the 2000s feels of the internet while not using technology like CDs or iPods and without people saying noob in every chatroom

 

[Herpes Trout]

You mean like cassettepunk/cassette futurism?

I have no idea what that means

 

[jim🅱️o]

I have no idea what that means

Brapsil ahh post

 

[1876 o algo]

This was the last time whites had their own culture btw

 

[Joseph]

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

 

[Hillel Hartmann]

I use classic shell on w7 to differenciate myself from these noobs

which meant no good audio files like FLAC instead of MP3

Can you hear the difference between 320kbps mp3 and lossless ?