I love how forgotten early 2000s culture feels. Youtube wasn't around, online porn wasn't everywhere yet so TV was really porny, 9/11 made everybody insane or nihilistic, and the internet paper trail is mostly gone. Marlon Brando did a movie with Ed Norton. It was wild. Godawful and wild. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

kalebhorton.bsky.social • 17 days ago

I love how forgotten early 2000s culture feels. Youtube wasn't around, online porn wasn't everywhere yet so TV was really porny, 9/11 made everybody insane or nihilistic, and the internet paper trail is mostly gone. Marlon Brando did a movie with Ed Norton. It was wild. Godawful and wild.

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i understand in theory why conservatives want to bring back the 1920's, 1950's or 1980's but trying to bring back 2005 is a wholly new kind of depraved freak shit

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chokoreetob.bsky.social•16 days ago

The Deniro Heist movie? I sorta liked it lol.

hollyanderson.bsky.social•17 days ago

I saw that thing in a theater! I paid money for a ticket and everything!

kalebhorton.bsky.social•17 days ago

I like it. Big 11 p.m. hotel channel surfing energy.

edrobot.bsky.social•16 days ago

But hey at least we got the first kingdom hearts game so that’s something

littlemunchkin.bsky.social•17 days ago

every now and then I go back to comedies i enjoyed during that era and it ends op being wall to wall racism and men concocting various harebrained schemes that boil down to sexual assault

igor-kitty.bsky.social•16 days ago

People talked on their phones and it was a plague.

crankgrimes.bsky.social•17 days ago

huge difference that the internet existed but you had to sit down at a computer to be on it

left a lot of spaces where things were still normal

sonicsean34.bsky.social•16 days ago

I’ve thought a lot recently about how useful boundaries were. The internet was a physical place in your bedroom that you left to go out. TV was on a schedule so you did other stuff when your shows weren’t on.

Now it’s endless streams of “content” whenever.

sonicsean34.bsky.social•16 days ago

Heck Google and social media having next page/load more buttons was better for us than infinite scroll

chelseagsummers.bsky.social•17 days ago

Not to mention the obsession with skinny girls and their thongs, whale tails, and tramp stamps.

kalebhorton.bsky.social•17 days ago

I went to a country school so small sample size but I remember all the girls looked like they had an undiagnosed 1800s wasting disease. (As for boys, I just remember that all shirts fit like trash bags.)

chelseagsummers.bsky.social•17 days ago

OH AND HUMVEES WHAT THE FUCK WAS WITH THE HUMVEES

chelseagsummers.bsky.social•17 days ago

The razorblade hips and narrow asses, the trucker hats, the frosted lip gloss and the hair extensions....it was so bad.

kalebhorton.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the aughts were the worst hair decade in American history.

chelseagsummers.bsky.social•17 days ago

Having lived through both the 1980s and the 2000s as an adult, I gotta say that the '80s were worse but also much more entertaining.

chelseagsummers.bsky.social•17 days ago

Hairstyles, that is. (forgive my jet lag)

leopazz.bsky.social•17 days ago

feels like what they're trying to bring back was that pre Obama "we can sort it out if we get a good guy there" feeling, which, as we all remember, quickly went to fuck in 2008

priceyeah.bsky.social•17 days ago

We listened to bands called Breaking Benjamin

bendiesbits.bsky.social•17 days ago

And Ben Folds Five

jasonrannells.bsky.social•16 days ago

Worst thing about that period other than the rampant homophobia and misogyny was the fact that nearly ever single horror movie that came out sucked out loud in sometimes fascinating but usually boring ways

electriceden92.bsky.social•17 days ago

Reinventing Spike TV from first principles https://bsky.app/profile/electriceden92.bsky.social/post/3lfghtf6ssk2x

antnisp.bsky.social•17 days ago

It is interesting that the male model in the photo is not gazing at the woman but at the male observer. She might as well not be there.

mantrabeeg.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's a crime that MXC has to be on that channel

lemonbars.bsky.social•17 days ago

The Score is quality escapism. And it me want to visit Montreal so there’s that.

lynninfilm.bsky.social•17 days ago

The Internet back then was the wild west as well. There's so many kids that grew up on Rotten dot com and LiveLeak. Then you had all the trashy tabloid stuff demonizing Britney's bipolar issues and celeb addiction. Jeans were either sagging or showing off thongs. Peak wild trash.

rabbitsblinkity.inklily.com•16 days ago

I still can't believe we let perez hilton become so influential for so long

lynninfilm.bsky.social•16 days ago

YES. That was insane.

rjd.bsky.social•17 days ago

Kayne was an icon and source of inspiration…

missrori.bsky.social•16 days ago

P.Diddy to a lesser extent...and Michael Jackson because anyone who tried to argue otherwise would be persecuted.

mneko.bsky.social•16 days ago

A lot of us tried to blot the 2000s out of our minds, unaware that the worst was yet to come...

matthiasellis.com•17 days ago

I love watching VHS rips from that era of TV with the commercials still in them. Shocking how bad even ads have gotten in the years since!

bpamf.bsky.social•17 days ago

so did you watch rap world yet or what

kalebhorton.bsky.social•17 days ago

Good reminder. Had that in my watchlist.

bpamf.bsky.social•17 days ago

it’s 56 minutes no excuses

coletteshade.bsky.social•17 days ago

That’s why I wrote my book. It was a kind of fever dream from which we all awoke in a cold sweat in 2008. The woke 2010s was basically a rejection of that awful dream. https://bookshop.org/p/books/y2k-how-the-2000s-became-everything-essays-on-a-future-that-never-was-colette-shade/21416954?ean=9780063333949

londonlee.bsky.social•17 days ago

Putting that on my list

coletteshade.bsky.social•16 days ago

Thank you!

kalebhorton.bsky.social•17 days ago

Oh man, this looks great.

coletteshade.bsky.social•17 days ago

Thanks! The NYT liked it which makes me happy https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/books/review/y2k-colette-shade-essays.html

mja004.bsky.social•17 days ago

Trying to imagine a TV show like "The Man Show" existing today and it lasted 117 episodes and launched the career of Jimmy Kimmel while being the high point for Adam Carolla.

valociraptor.bsky.social•15 days ago

Homophobic and especially transphobic jokes were acceptable too.

leavittalone.bsky.social•17 days ago

Truly a cursed era, I can see why we collectively decided it didn’t happen

missrori.bsky.social•16 days ago

Thinking about early '00s stuff about the only things that have hung around (and aren't part of much larger/older franchises) are kids/family media like Pixar movies, the Shrek franchise, Harry Potter, and a few Christmas movies. When was the last time anybody talked about Pirates of the Caribbean?

missrori.bsky.social•16 days ago

Okay, Wicked held out longer than a lot of us thought.

fedbelly.bsky.social•17 days ago

I saw that movie in the theater and can’t remember a thing about it other than an Ed Norton affecting a “disguise” that wouldn’t go over these days

danielwcarlson.bsky.social•17 days ago

I went to college 2000-2004 and it honestly feels like memories from another planet

voguingtodanzig.bsky.social•17 days ago

You should pitch a book

endsbetter.bsky.social•17 days ago

in the early 2000s they were also like its your patriotic duty to be a slut because women in afghanistan cant. incredibly weird time to be a 14 year old girl!!!

heathercosta.bsky.social•17 days ago

They've probably forgotten about how big emo was during that time and how many of the bands are still touring from that era. Not everything was Affliction tees and sex comedies. Emo kids didn't die, they're just sad about poverty and the state of the world now instead of about girlfriends.

bobbker.bsky.social•17 days ago

At the DVD store trying to decide between the latest Girls Gone Wild and Bumfights offerings.

fnarf.bsky.social•16 days ago

Real ones used to download our porn in 18 parts from Usenet over dialup, and use a special program to reassemble the parts into a single photo.

adeniro.bsky.social•17 days ago

I worked in advertising and it was interesting before YT they were creating bespoke video players on brands’ websites . There were also TV shows that were just about showing commercials from around the world.

americandem.bsky.social•16 days ago

If you were old enough to be an adult and actually fully remember 9-11 you would understand why most Americans were a little temporarily insane after 9-11

gothwillywonka.bsky.social•17 days ago

Early 2000s culture was not worth remembering

hunterfelt.bsky.social•17 days ago

The R. Kelly assault video got leaked and he became MORE popular.

missrori.bsky.social•17 days ago

Crowds of fans flocked to stand vigil outside of the courthouse where Michael Jackson was tried on child molestation charges!

missrori.bsky.social•17 days ago

(Actually I've long felt that how society as a whole has been willing to humor crazy Michael Jackson fans, especially after he died, is a skeleton key to understanding a lot about where we are now.)

vron.bsky.social•17 days ago

They said make America into Nip/Tuck again!!!

pixeladay.bsky.social•17 days ago

Don't forget the curse that was nu metal.