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The 2000s fucking sucked (hexbear.net)
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Growing up in the 2000s fucked my brain hard. The sexism, homophobia and racism coupled with the free-range parenting that was simultaneously neglectful while gaslighting everyone into thinking that it was too coddling, and an internet that simply did not give a fuck who it traumatized. All topped off with a resurgence of Western jingoism from the "war in terror".

The only good thing about that period was some of the videogames were okay I guess but only if you avoid ANYTHING remotely military flavoured. A lot of shit outside of Nintendo was afraid of colour and everything was that washed out brown. Just a miserable time. Everyone was so uncreative and the world had some fucked up Southpark brainworms.

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[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

The music was awful. Hip-hop was like the only genre not completely garbage, but then you still had bullshit like Eminem getting called the GOAT.

Also, what the fuck were we doing with our clothes? I miss how women dressed in the 2000s, but men? JFC we looked awful. You had either big suits, baggy clothes, triple popped collars, or Hot Topic poser gear.