Ok i know how hipster this comment is gonna sound BUT I wish more of these images were of everyday hipsters & indie musicians instead of mainstream celebrities, trendy blogger, streetstylers imitating the style. It was cyclical btwn high fashion, trend blogs & fast fashion of but it was all informed by the indie subculture
What is so shameful about loving an asethetic that suits your colouring and is part of your cultural heritage? I doubt most people walk around using their clothes as a political statement. Some styles just suit how you look and what you love more than others.
Personally I just thought a lot of the styles that came with the hipster style were nice looking. I wasn’t trying to be “socially conscious” (though that IS VERY important) or “interesting” I wore what I thought looked cool 🤷🏻♀️
Mohawk style in Poland is called "irokez" (like "Iroquis"). I love that You used Polish movie as reference for Cossack hairstyle - It's "With fire and sword" and take place during times of Zaporozhian Sich.
I was born in 1991 and this does not define me, I never dressed like a hipster. even in the 2010s I shaved daily and still wore small narrow metal wire glasses from the early 2000s because I'm very nearsighted and I prefer baggy jeans like JNCOs over skinny jeans. early 2000s fashion forever. I will never conform to 2010s hipster stuff.
As little kid growing up at that time I looked at that style as pretty ridiculous. Sort of in the way my mum (gen X) talks about her hippy baby-sitters. I'd say the same of stomp-clap hipsters with beards. Not cool! I also think this style shaped everything I didn't want to look like when I started dressing up. It's too grimey for me; I feel like people after 2012 didn't want to be reminded of unstable drug-fueled life-styles when the world itself became so unstable, we wanted something cosier (cottagecore? Normcore? New romantic?) and less exposed. Also great that the "thin" look fell out. Terrible. Though the plastic glamour of the look perfectly encapsulates the life-style and I love Skins. Great video.
I was out to dinner the other night, and there was a group of early 20s kids, looked like a group of interns maybe, taking flash photos in the dark restaurant on a 2008-esque digital camera. My jaw was on the floor, I can't believe how fast we are cycling through trends that late 2000s is already back
for the tiara section it's important to know that it also trickled down to the general crowd due in part to the mtv show "My Sweet 16" which also highlighted the excessiveness and consumption of the mcbling era!
I skipped this whole era even though I lived through it. It wasn’t till I was saved by RU-vid fitness in 2016 that I could express myself and be in photos and stuff. Now I’m in an awkward I love Travis Scott in my mid 30’s phase while creeping out the younger generation.
this video needs to be plastered everywhere!! im so tired of seeing someone label something as y2k and it's a dress paired with jeans or That ashley tisdale red carpet picture
You've absolutely smashed it with this vid. From the influences, experience and effects - you've really captured what was going on back then. I'm also really pleased you've mentioned the darker aspects of it too though. I lost friends through suicide which was definitely accelerated by the drug use, and misogyny dressed up as harmless partying was rife. I know so many women who were put down, treated like shit and sexually abused and it all be written off as part of the party lifestyle. That said, it was a really exciting period when your mates were getting plucked out of nowhere, signed to a major and suddenly on the cover of magazines and hailed as fashion/music icons. It felt like a time when elitism was being eroded and anything was possible. Although, Apple, American Apparel and many other US corporations were really quick to cash in and control.
My fond memories of Y2K: scented nail polish, those brushes with hair dye that you brushed into your hair, bubble chairs, bubble backpacks, robot pets, platform sneakers and sandals, glitter, butterfly clips, lava lamps and glitter lamps, metallic pleather, chunky highlights, iBook clamshell, iMac with the clouds or the flowers, pre-iPod MP3, bucket hats, those tops that were scrunchie, Dickie’s, Steve Madden, those round rattan chairs from Pier 1, zen gardens…
“Black culture?” Why do ppl not want unity? Americans are American. You act like blacks / whites are so vastly different that we can’t be influenced by each other. 🙄 programming really got to some of y’all… I live in an area where there is majority black ppl & white ppl are the minority. This concept of “culture appropriation” has been seriously bent out of shape & misunderstood. You are perpetuating actual racism by using divisive terms suggesting that segregation should be what black Americans want. Subcultures can exist within a larger culture and remain valid to the culture within the larger cultural. It’s okay to be influenced by others who have (can’t believe I’m typing this in 2024) different skin tones and backgrounds. Nothing is reserved for one “type” of person. It’s so cringe to hear this narrative cause it predominately comes from people who lack real life experience with subcultures and clings to the popularized myth that black and white people can’t coexist and need to be segregated “for the black person’s benefit.” Peep the ⛽️💡
The dates are off. This was happening in AZ in 2002-2009. I was deep into it and covered it in the weekly indie paper I wrote for. By 2010 it was over; it had gone mainstream.
I graduated HS in 05 and learned to party in this era. I work with a wide age range and because I have a babyface and no kids, my zoomer co-workers think that I'm one of them and frequently invite me out with them. I am genuinely shocked by how hard zoomers don't party! No pregaming, no drugs except maybe a weed vape, no dancing, lots of screen time, they think it's weird to interact with anyone who's not in our group, then they get bored and go home a little after midnight.
I remember this look being huge when I was in college. I was definitely trying to emulate the soft grunge tumblr side of things back then. At the time I thought of myself as unique and original but watching this and seeing that I was just like everyone else at the time 😂
