It seems that for most people, 2000-2005 was good and 2006-2009 sucked. However, do you have different thoughts on the 2000s?

I have to admit, it's kinda hard to judge a year in an unbiased way. For example, most people on the Internet, from what I've seen, think 2009-2012 were absolutely atrocious. But for me, those were great years as my family moved to Belgium and had many memorable moments together.

I would say the 2000-2004 period was the best. 2005-2006 was descent. 2007-2009 was pretty bad. In fact for me personally and pop culture wise I felt 2007/8-2012 was a very dark time.

I know I'm a minority on this opinion, but I feel since 2013 things have been improving dramatically, my personal life, pop culture, etc. It sort of reminds me of a 'new' 90's; a Centrist Democratic President, an improving economy, huge technological advances, and a rising 'ironic' culture.

I love it

You should have been on this site in 2004. I had not joined yet but I lurked. People HATED music from that year, they overall hated music from 2001 and after then. Now people's minds have changed, or the younger crowd on here has a different opinion.

If you were on here in 2003/2004, it was unimaginable for people to like mainstream music from after 2001.

You should have been on this site in 2004. I had not joined yet but I lurked. People HATED music from that year, they overall hated music from 2001 and after then. Now people's minds have changed, or the younger crowd on here has a different opinion.

If you were on here in 2003/2004, it was unimaginable for people to like mainstream music from after 2001.


Lol thats crazy. Yeah it seems like people usually have this stigma that the current era sucks. Heck even in the 90's many gen xers thought the 90's sucked and the 80's were better

Lol thats crazy. Yeah it seems like people usually have this stigma that the current era sucks. Heck even in the 90's many gen xers thought the 90's sucked and the 80's were better


The whole "the current era sucks" mentality is always a bvocal minority. Sometimes they have a point, sometimes they don't.

Internet wise the 2000's was better in some ways. I miss chat rooms and the more simple ways of editing profiles on sites I used. Before downloading was cracked down on, I would spend a good share of the day talking to people in chats and messages in the program I used. Also email forwards and amusing joke lists. These days you have to watch yourself more because who knows who could see what. As for my offline life, I'm not nostalgia blind to that.

Gonna break down the decade, year by year:

2000 - Not the best year for me personally, but a lot of solid, millennial-era media came out of it.

2001 - 9/11 was awful, but 2001 was one of the better years for music of the decade and was possibly my favorite year for gaming ever.

2002 - The first full year that the 2000s feel had really established itself, and also when it was at its freshest.  Video games were a little weaker than they were during the first couple of years of the decade (though still better than most of the 2000s), but music had its best year of the decade, while television was also good.

2003 - Not a terrible year, by any means, but probably the least memorable year of the first half of the decade.

2004 - The best year of the decade for comedies, and the only year that the mid-2000s style of urban music was good.  It also had the launch of the DS.

2005 - This was where things started to really fall off for me.  Pop music started to really suck beginning around the summer, Cartoon Network jumped the shark, and both video games and movies had somewhat dry periods.

2006 - This was about the time I started to really use Wikipedia, which was extremely exciting at the time.  Unfortunately, the pop charts were still polluted with dimwitted snap/urban songs, and neither cinema, nor gaming had much to offer this year, either.

2007 - Even though music was still extremely hit-or-miss, I have unusually positive memories of this year.  For one, it was about when I discovered YouTube, which I quickly got addicted to, and it was also an above-average year for movies.  I also started high school this year, and unlike most people, high school is the time of my life I feel most nostalgic for.

2008 - Not a whole lot of development from 2007, and still a very weak year for music, but I was delighted to see Obama elected after eight years of Dubya, and I was still really blown away by YouTube.

2009 - My second-favorite year of the 2000s, second only to 2002.  This was the best year for music in ages, with electropop replacing the trashy snap music of the mid-late 2000s, tracks in general sounding much more layered, and interesting melodies finally being important again in hit songs and not just shock value alone.  In my opinion, this year felt drastically different from the rest of the 2000s and was really a premature beginning to the early 2010s, which were highlighted by the politicization of social media and the increased attention to serious social issues like gay marriage.  Obviously, the world was not in perfect shape, due to the bad economy, but 2009 was a very fun and colorful time, nonetheless.

Happy to be alive!

If we were talking about our experiences in the 2000s, then I would say that I loved them. I love the 2000s. I'm a proud 2000s kid and I felt like the 2000s was better than the 2010s in some ways (despite having that recession in the late 2000s). I would say that the mid 2000s were the best part of the 2000s, including 2007.

2000..... nothing much about this year, the late 90's extension year, I can't say because I was too young at the time.

2001, 2002, & 2003 were my favorite years of the 2000's decade, everything that defined the early 2000's culturally happened during that time. Despite the election of George Bush and 9/11 happening, it was a great time with all the new games and all the TV shows that were on at the time, and even the movies at the time as well. This period was like a golden age to me.

2004-2005 comes in 2nd place, those two years of the mid 2000's were my favorite pop culturally and my childhood was still in its peak. Great games I got throughout these years and the movies still had its epic moments.

2006 for my personal life was the best, however on a scale here in this thread we're talking about the pop culture though, so I have to put 2006 in the same boat as 2007, those years pop culturally were a dull time when things started declining IMO. It had its ups and downs. Although 2007 was a really good year for movies though.

2008 & 2009 were flat out horrible, the Stock Market Crash occurred in September 2008 which brought the economy down, Michael Jackson & Farrah Fawcett had died, and it was an extremely weak time for television. Although Summer 2009 was the only great part about it for me. As someone already mentioned it was the year music started picking up again until it hit its peak in 2010 (although that's done now), however what's sad about 2008 & 2009 is that since then it seems like things in life have became over technologically advanced everywhere we go with all this social media and stuff.

Lol thats crazy. Yeah it seems like people usually have this stigma that the current era sucks. Heck even in the 90's many gen xers thought the 90's sucked and the 80's were better


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I don't really think that I hate any year of the 2000s, since they actually seem more nostalgic than the 2010s in my opinion. Even in 2008 and 2009, I seem to enjoy life. I just seem to dislike the 2010s because it has the lamest pop culture and media that doesn't seem to appeal me. Especially 2012, which is a year that I will NEVER get nostalgic about.  8-P

2000 was a great year.  2001 was the worst year of my life up until that point.  2002 and 2003 were great years in my personal life.  2004-2007 sucked.  2008 and 2009 were great.

Internet wise the 2000's was better in some ways. I miss chat rooms and the more simple ways of editing profiles on sites I used. Before downloading was cracked down on, I would spend a good share of the day talking to people in chats and messages in the program I used. Also email forwards and amusing joke lists. These days you have to watch yourself more because who knows who could see what. As for my offline life, I'm not nostalgia blind to that.


I miss chat rooms too.

I miss chat rooms too.
AOL had chatrooms, that was where I started.

It seems that for most people, 2000-2005 was good and 2006-2009 sucked. However, do you have different thoughts on the 2000s?

I have to admit, it's kinda hard to judge a year in an unbiased way. For example, most people on the Internet, from what I've seen, think 2009-2012 were absolutely atrocious. But for me, those were great years as my family moved to Belgium and had many memorable moments together.


From a pop culture vibe sense, I will break it down for you
As someone who pays attention to thinks very clearly I will help you.

2000- 
TRL is a staple of coming home from school, Dreamcast is still riding on its hype, NSYNC sells a record breaking number of albums,
WWF is still in its attitude with The Rock leading the generation,  Who let the dogs out was an annoying song.


2001
This year started off all bubblegum y2k ish, but once 9/11 happened  everyone in music started making it less
about pop and more about serious issues. At this time PS2 had come out and WCW and SEga have gone out
of buissness. WWF had also fallen with the horrible invasion angle.  Disney channel got huge thiis year with Lizzy
and the whole ZOOG disney block. Bernie Mac came out this year as well. 2001 VMAS were gold.

2002
VHS tapes become a thing of the past, Super Mario sunshine was an awesome game, Carson Daly appears less
and less on TRL this year. EMO becomes a thing with AVRIL, and Good Charlotte, 8 mile came out that year,
start of the Highschool year for me, (2002 was the last year with any 90s influence )

2003
Really bland year, Thats so Raven blew up, THE OC blew up, the whole trend of tanning and going to a beach became a huge thing.
Crazy in love was a hit. Kobe went to court for you know.........,  We went to WAR with IRAQ and everyone was pissed, nothing much
to say about this year it was pretty bland.

2004
MEAN GIRLS, everyone saw that  movie,  Ashlee Simpson gets her own show, I member girls swooning for
Ryan Cabrera, Ushers confessions drops and becomes a classic. EMINEM falls off fast with his encore album.
Myspace.com is launched and quickly people adopt. Nintendo DS is launched and becomes a hit.


2005
Myspace.com quickly becomes the 1# site in the world leading into the next, All American Rejects become an emo
anthem for the decade. 2005 trys to come back with comedy's on FOX, but to no avail. Mariah Careys we belong together
plays in every Stop & shop, Blockbuster, CVS you can imagine. AIM is in its peak period this year.  PussyCat dolls were
all over the radio, the apple IMAC g5 comes out this year, as well as the slim IPOD, this year IPOD craze was huge.
Kanye West becomes a future ICON with Golddigger. Weezers beverly hills becomes a huge hit, and is almost impossible to escape
the song. WWE in 2005 got better with Batista leading the new generation as well as Edge and Lita becoming heels. A great feud
with Hogan and HBK happened during this time. 50 cents new album becomes the last gangsta rap album to ever chart as high as it did.
21 questions was everywere,  People were still using windows xp and pcs , HD tvs start getting big around this year but not many get them.
XBOX 360 launches, and quickly ushers in the new gen. A good year for movies.


2006
Timbaland ruled the airwaves this year, as well as Nelly Furtado, The WB changed to the CW, HD tvs start to take off
and more and more people buy them. Myspace still king at this point even tho Facebook.com is open for free to people
without a college ID. I remember using facebook in 2006 and thinking.. meh this will not catch on.  Cartoon network starts
to fall off hard this year. A boring year for movies, nothing really good came out.  A this point mall traffic is still big,
and starts to dip, but still the economy was still doing good at this point (despite warnings)  The electropop trend starts
with SEXYBACK, SOS, and a few other dance songs. Kramer goes on a racist rant and gets blacklisted by everyone.
My Chemical Romance hit their peak this year and never return. Youtube picks up alot of steam this year, abeit no one
really knowing what it is. WWE in this year was good, you had the whole ECW coming back, even tho it started to suck.
PS3 and Wii are launched, and become a huge hit  (even tho ps3 sales were relly really slow). Overall I would sat 2006
was 2000s version of 1996.  With new things being introduced while phasing out the old. NeYO was the R&B king at
this point. TRL and 106 & park still were getting decent ratings.

2007
Nothing to say about this year, was really bland, IPHONE came out thats about it, and Spears shaved her head and went crazy.

2008
A really weird ass year, TRL shuts down, Lady Gaga debuts and changes the music landscape, The Dark Knight rises becomes a huge hit,
last year of any classic 2000s influence. At this point Facebook starts to get neck and neck with Myspace ( with people starting to leave myspace
at this point) Obama gets elected, American Apparel clothing gets huge, the whole neon fad was big. 808s changes rap. The economy tanks
this year, and leaves that year in a state of confusion. Many of the classic 2000s thing such as ,  Snap rap and gangsta rap are phased out this year.

2009
Another weird year, after the mess of 2008s economy crash, we are left with crap pretty much, pop culture was good tho to make up for it,
Gaga at the VMAs was good, KEsha debuted in the last half along with Jersey Shore  (which becomes a hit) Alot of 2010s trends star popping
up this year (mainly the 2009-2010 period) people are using blackberrys more, overall the mood this year was colorful and dark at the same time,
it was trying to articfual pump you up, but it was hard because we were in a recession at the time,  Hipster culture really came in this year.  2009 was
just really a DREAM year  (not in a good way but in a WTF way)