Kontextmaschine

3rd May 2022

Post reblogged from sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com with 219 notes

coolclaytony:
Hey folks
If any of you were 18 to 24 in the early 2000s i need to know what that time period was like for you? I barely remember it and I was 15 in 2009?
@bogleech @dailycharacteroption
Media was kind of getting samey already but the internet was still like this amazing new frontier most older adults knew nothing about, goth culture was huge, 9/11 and the war on terror remained the big debate and everyone was certain George bush Jr. was the dumbest, most destructive political figure we could ever possibly have.
I don’t really remember much else but that weird cultural environment. A lot of it was ultimately boring or sad.

I was pretty bubbled in college for for a lot of it. “Alternative rock”, the thing for self-respecting white teens in the 90s went through a kind of declassing as the music industry, cycling through microgenres, moved on to rap-rock/“nü metal” – invoking the “college rock” label of proto-alternative I called it “some college rock”.

Proto-“hipsters” started to show up, early on they could have a kinda gore aesthetic and use gimmick names, it suddenly strikes me this is where a lot of “Suicide Girls” came from. Heavy tattooing became a thing. Stars on the collar/waistbones.

Blogs became a thing – political and “warblogs” often from people with some bylines but not a huge reputation, also some new stuff. Gawker was still largely about the excitement of moving to the Big Apple to get into media after college. Did you know there’s a coke bar named Cokies?

Internships.

Reality TV and game shows got big at the expense of sitcoms.

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