For me since I'm 19, I'm obviously  not going to remember the 2000s that much. But it seems as though a lot of the culture and media from that time has been forgotten. I think this is the reason as to why many people have a hard time differentiating between the 2000s and the 2010s. The change from the 90s to 2000s was very smooth and gradual with the 90s lasting well into the 2000s. On top of this, the cultural 2000s were shorter than other decades and most people just wanted to forget about all the things going on at the time. A lot of the culture was a mash up or combination of the cultures of previous decades to create its own unique look. Where as the this decade was about trying to emulate the styles of previous decades without mixing them up. It feels like the 2000s almost didn't happen. Anyone else feel the same way?

I understand where you're coming from. The 2000s had a very fragmented pop culture zeitgeist and it's really hard to summarily define the decade. But honestly, that's why I kinda miss it.  ;D

There's a considerable amount of 2000s nostalgia circulating through certain aspects of pop culture. I don't think it's being forgotten and the nostalgia will only grow bigger as we make our way through the 2020s.

That's because the 90's lasted until 2005, and the 10's began in 2006, lol.

Nothing like a blur for me, I can remember it as clear as can be.

You're just young. I was born in the beginning of the 90s and most of it was a blur to me. That's what happens.

I understand where you're coming from. The 2000s had a very fragmented pop culture zeitgeist and it's really hard to summarily define the decade. But honestly, that's why I kinda miss it.  ;D

I think it had a certain rather unique vibe to it that differentiated it from other decades but it seemed like a dark time for the world at least politically and economically. No one seems to want to remember it and make a name for it to the point many mistakenly refer to stuff about it as being from the early 2000s, which infuriates me to some extent.

Sometimes yesterday can be a complete blur for me.

Not for me, tons of memorable things happened in the 00s that I can still vividly Fliphones. like the 2008 election, launch of the ps3, Fliphones, Myspace, MSN, Gameboy advance/sp, Pokemon transtioning from Gen 2 to Gen 3, WWF becoming Wwe, Michael Jackson death, Bow Wow being the Justin Beiber of rap in the early 00s, cornrows being super common among Blacks, baggy jeans, etc. How I defined the 00s is basically fliphones and baggy jeans they stayed popular all throughout the decade.

I’d say the 2010s felt more like a blur to me. I remember it felt like Bush was president forever. But Obama and Trump’s administrations seem to go by fast. Then again, that’s the whole our perspective of time changing as we get older. 

I think 2001 was actually a blur, I can't believe it's been 18 years since 9/11, time just goes by so fast and in just 2 years we will be talking about 20 years since The Twin Towers fell.  :o

I think 2001 was actually a blur, I can't believe it's been 18 years since 9/11, time just goes by so fast and in just 2 years we will be talking about 20 years since The Twin Towers fell.  :o


I was a little lid when 9/11 happened but just hearing that makes me feel old :(

That's because the 90's lasted until 2005, and the 10's began in 2006, lol.

No.... The '90s ended in 1998 culturally speaking and logically in 1999... It's so annoying when people try to extend the '90s. People saying the 2010s started in the second half of the 2000s bothers me less though. But it really started in 2008, and only hints of it started in 2006.

No it doesn't feel like a blur to me. The 2000s felt like they went by slower, but I grew up in that decade so that's why. 2000 - 2009 felt like an eternity. 2010 - 2019 felt like a flash and a big blur.

No.... The '90s ended in 1998 culturally speaking and logically in 1999... It's so annoying when people try to extend the '90s. People saying the 2010s started in the second half of the 2000s bothers me less though. But it really started in 2008, and only hints of it started in 2006.


I was joking, hence the lol at the end. But all joking aside, the Y2K era was it's own, no longer culturally 90's but not yet 00's either. 9/11 caused the culture to shift instantly. It did bother me, or at least annoy me when people on here always talked about the "2006 shift", when I felt like the shift occurred in 2005, to the second half of the decade. I felt the decade had two halves rather than three parts. The second half was more of a transitional period to the early 10's, which was finalized in 2009. 2008 was more of a preview of what was to come, much like how 2016 was a preview of what the late 10's were going to be like.

much like how 2016 was a preview of what the late 10's were going to be like.

That's where I disagree a lot because I think we were 100% in the late 2010s in 2016... Donald Trump, Pokemon Go, Brexit, EDM, etc. There was no doubt we were in a different era. I see the 2010s as a split decade, with the era we are currently in actually starting around mid 2015 when Trump announced he would run for president. There honestly was no "mid 2010s" this decade, there's no such thing culturally speaking.

That's where I disagree a lot because I think we were 100% in the late 2010s in 2016... Donald Trump, Pokemon Go, Brexit, EDM, etc. There was no doubt we were in a different era. I see the 2010s as a split decade, with the era we are currently in actually starting around mid 2015 when Trump announced he would run for president. There honestly was no "mid 2010s" this decade, there's no such thing culturally speaking.


One thing we can agree on is that we disagree 100%, literally every single word in your post (except maybe Brexit, but even that was just a vote in which the actual process hasn't started until this year). Late 2015 and 2016 was part of Trump's campaign and even though the election was decided in the November, it wasn't until 2017 when he assumed office. Obama was still president in 2016 and we had a lot of social justice issues such as BLM and transgender rights. The only thing about 2016 that said late 10's was mass shootings, and even that was happening before that year. It just seemed like it became a weekly occurrence. Pokémon go was just a fad in the summer of '16. Not sure about EDM, but most of the music sounded the same as 2015, and 2016 didn't have artists like Cardi B, Migos, or Post Malone. Also Fortnite didn't exist in 2016.

Looking back, I actually think 2013-2014 was it's own era. It was no longer culturally early 10's, but it was different from 2015 and 2016.

No it doesn't feel like a blur to me. The 2000s felt like they went by slower, but I grew up in that decade so that's why. 2000 - 2009 felt like an eternity. 2010 - 2019 felt like a flash and a big blur.

Same here. My memories of the 2010s are obviously clearer by virtue of me being older, but since I was a kid in the 2000s the whole decade felt really long. 5 to 15 was like an eternity. 15 to 24 was like the blink of an eye.

That's where I disagree a lot because I think we were 100% in the late 2010s in 2016... Donald Trump, Pokemon Go, Brexit, EDM, etc. There was no doubt we were in a different era. I see the 2010s as a split decade, with the era we are currently in actually starting around mid 2015 when Trump announced he would run for president. There honestly was no "mid 2010s" this decade, there's no such thing culturally speaking.

Personally, I divide the eras as 2010-2013, 2014-Nov 9 2016, and Nov 9 2016-2019.

Also, honestly I consider Pokemon Go a mid 2010s thing because it died so fast, and now you have people making memes saying "Pokemon Go and summer 2016 was the last time people were united, before Trump was elected", which cements it as mid 2010s in my opinion.

Now if you think there was no mid 2010s, that's fine, agree to disagree.

Personally, I divide the eras as 2010-2013, 2014-Nov 9 2016, and Nov 9 2016-2019.

Also, honestly I consider Pokemon Go a mid 2010s thing because it died so fast, and now you have people making memes saying "Pokemon Go and summer 2016 was the last time people were united, before Trump was elected", which cements it as mid 2010s in my opinion.

Now if you think there was no mid 2010s, that's fine, agree to disagree.

Yeah I feel this was really like a split decade (yet fairly consistent at the same time) and the only year you can say felt uniquely "mid 2010s", or rather a transitional year from the early to the late 2010s, was 2014. But I feel like overall there was actually no mid 2010s and this decade was split between early and late only.

I was joking, hence the lol at the end. But all joking aside, the Y2K era was it's own, no longer culturally 90's but not yet 00's either. 9/11 caused the culture to shift instantly. It did bother me, or at least annoy me when people on here always talked about the "2006 shift", when I felt like the shift occurred in 2005, to the second half of the decade. I felt the decade had two halves rather than three parts. The second half was more of a transitional period to the early 10's, which was finalized in 2009. 2008 was more of a preview of what was to come, much like how 2016 was a preview of what the late 10's were going to be like.

I've mentioned this before but now you've got younger people on Twitter/Facebook/Reddit saying "2010-2013 was basically just a continuation of the 2000s" which I know many here disagree with, lol.

Since teens mostly only remember 08-09 from the 2000s, to them 2010-2013 was a continuation of that. But to those who were older at the time, 08-09 instead marked a new beginning. It's similar to people who think 98-99 was "peak 90s" vs people who think 98-99 started 00s culture.

I don't think it's any more of a blur than any other time.

I miss the simplicity of the early 2000s.  Even after 9/11 we seemed to recover pretty quickly.  It seemed to be a positive time.

Later on in the decade we had the housing crisis, $4 and up gas, massive layoffs.  Things have been better but it doesn't feel like we ever totally recovered from that.  Or that we ever will.  Factories and stores are still closing up like crazy.

Same here. My memories of the 2010s are obviously clearer by virtue of me being older, but since I was a kid in the 2000s the whole decade felt really long. 5 to 15 was like an eternity. 15 to 24 was like the blink of an eye.
Same, the 2010s felt like 5 years versus 10 years

The 00s were weird. 2000-06 was like a continuation of the mid to late 90s in a lot of ways and 2007-09 was a prelude to the 2010s.

With that said I do think there is some definitive 00s stuff. I can't imagine James Blunt or Sara Bareilles coming from any other decade. Or "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue, that song is SO 2001.

No way '00-'06 was a continuation of the 90s.... They were the 2000s, not the '90s.

No way '00-'06 was a continuation of the 90s.... They were the 2000s, not the '90s.


Not literally a continuation of the 90s, I think even 2000 is different from the 90s, but it wasn't really a "clean break" from the 90s, it felt very gradual from what I remember and a lot of 90s culture was still relevant.

Not literally a continuation of the 90s, I think even 2000 is different from the 90s, but it wasn't really a "clean break" from the 90s, it felt very gradual from what I remember and a lot of 90s culture was still relevant.


Everything is the same as 1989. That was the year that changed everything, lol

2000, in my view, was a transitional year. The Y2K paranoia lead up to what seemed like would be a new era. The Matrix, which came out in 1999, seemed ahead of its time. "Who Let the Dogs" out is an example of what I'll call "Pants on the Ground" syndrome. It's something that seems uniquely of the year it became popular. Both songs became popular at the beginning of their respective decades, but are both somewhere in between the aesthetics of Decade X and Decade Y... if that makes sense. "Who Let the Dogs Out" has about as much in common (decade-wise) with "Bye Bye Bye" as it does "Hey Ya."

"Dogs" may or may not have sounded like a taste of things to come, but you had plenty of 90s holdovers that were still popular such as NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, and Max Martin-era Britney Spears. All were still popular when I was a freshman in high school. They waned a bit in my sophomore year, and were definitely gone by my senior year. In fact, I was probably the only one at school who still liked Britney. About 2001 is when popular music started to go in a direction I wasn't really on board with at the time. I noticed a shift toward rap/hip hop/R&B/urban.

But 9/11 truly felt like the end an an era. A carefree song like "Steal My Sunshine" could probably never happen again even today.

So yes, the 2000s definitely happened. Bush, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein, James Blunt, Daniel Powter, American Idol, Amy Winehouse, Amy Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton, Linkin Park, Rob Zombie's film career, Transformers, Nolan Batman, American Idiot, Black Parade, Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Nickelback. It all happened.