Skateboards, Mountain Dew, Call of Duty, and graphic t-shirts with maybe an edgy picture of the Cookie Monster or something all seemed impossibly cool to me once, it’s kind of ridiculous to think about how unobtainable these things were in my mind. Because of course you could just buy these things, but from my point of view they might as well have been royal artifacts.
Born in '89 and let me tell you that the internet/technology balance was just about perfect from the early 2000s to about 2010. The internet wasn't something you were always on or had access to. You'd spend some time online talking to people, looking at funny shit and then then turn off the PC and walk away to do something else. Because you didn't always have the temptation to check your phone every few minutes, you actually got drawn into video games and movies properly. Same with hanging out with friends IRL. I know I sound proper old, but it's so true. Too much of a good thing (internet and connectivity) really is bad.
I understand you completely. The way ppl were using the internet back in that time was better, in my opinion. That's how I used it until I turned 12, I became addicted to social media, and I was always on it, I was so addicted because I have adhd, when I turned 14 my phone became boring and I watched some videos on how not to be addicted to my phone and social media, I deleted all the apps except RU-vid because I wasn't really on it much and only did videos and listened to music on here mostly. I also keep my phone on do not disturb now, only calls and text can come through. I only use my phone now to text, call, listen to music, and do videos for the most part. I use my tablet for movies, RU-vid, and omegle, but I'm not addicted. Seeing the 2000s stuff and just how ppl were in the 2000s influenced me in a way 😁😃
I still live similar to the 90s. I have a phone but I rarely even take it out of the house and hardly ever use it. I only use it as a phone and for texting. I can count the number of times I've used the internet out of the house on 2 hands. Wifi is disabled in my house. I've never even owned a laptop. The idea of being addicted to a smartphone is beyond depressing to me. I hate seeing what has happened to kids today.
I was born in 94, my parents allowed me and my brother (born 92) to use the internet for a one hour each. At first it was because dial-up was expensive, later when it got less expensive it was because they thought it was bad for us ("Your eyes will go square!!"). After a while they let us play the computer more, because they realized it was better for us to stay indoors playing Runescape or WoW than going outside at night, getting up to no good like most of our classmates. One must recognize the good even though there was a problem. It is only now that the online experience has become the majority of our lives, and we have to deal with the outcome and find a better path.
@@GrantTodd-eh7ub The smart phones are what’s keeping us disconnected from real life and each other. Also social media wouldn’t be as prevalent without smartphones.
1990 - 2010 was 20 years. 2010 -2020 a hundred years in terms of change. For the worst. It's not nostalgia, too many people are feeling it, it's just we can't agree on what it is that's the culprit. People in 2007 weren't pining for 1995. This is new.
My favorite part is probably seeing all the cds stacked together, the old Xbox, and the fitted caps. My uncle always would wear fitted caps. My uncle also taught me how to play the Xbox and got me into horror movies.
@@Fenrigalo idk, he has his own family now though and he did say happy birthday to me which was recently. Thx to my mom I'm sure that's why he doesn't come around, can't say too much though.
@@MacMyaa Dang, i hope life goes well for you and your family tho And hey, thanks for the video, you made me realize how I've become the "big brother" xD
I'm old enough to remember all this and it's so surreal seeing it become an aesthetic. These are the images of a time where stuff wasn't seen and contextualised online, and this stuff was all just kind of there. But now it's integrated into the archives. Feel like I better build a fortress around my memories to keep this from blending into the real ones.
I remember how in the late 00's how we tried to emulate the 70's. We just dreamed about it and tried to recreate it. It wasnt the 70's, it was its own original thing. It kinda is the same thing about the 00's. Teens today just dream about it, its their own take on dead memories.
I just really liked this style, and my uncle was kinda like this in the 2010s, I'm also kind of like this, so I figured I would make a collage about it with the music because it was nostalgic and I wanted others to feel it, also, I really like the 2000s. Sorry, I wasn't trying to put false stuff into ppls heads. It wasn't my intention at all, I wasn't trying to mess with ppls memories either. I'm so very sorry.
@@MacMyaa Haha nah all good man, I was being kind of dramatic. It's really cool seeing that era gain a new life again, and it brought back some great memories too ❤❤
I remember growing up as a kid in the 00s listening to my aunts and uncles talk about how the 80s were so good and nostalgic. Well now it’s come full circle. 00s are the new 80s.
Seriously, I'm wondering if I should just get a flip phone and do everything else on my laptop. The main thing stopping me is how good phone cameras are.
@@-Teague- im 35 now i had flip phones until late 2015 during trump era election.. biggest mistake of my life... should have kept it simple.. but then i'd have no friends... sad sad reality. i still hate smart phones and try to leave them behind. but wtf are u gonna do man. fuk it.
@-Teague-Yeah, clinging to pre-smartphone days would be like trying to get around town in a horse and cart in the 1920s when everyone else drove cars.
I wish I was this older brother (I was always the younger brother to a big sister) maybe you can do a cool 90s-2000s older sister core @macmyaa if you ever had someone like that in your life? Kinda like the song "vivian girls - take it as it comes" reminds me of her
I kinda wish that the internet wasn’t as much of a focus as it is now-I was born in the early 2000s. There are times I wish I could just toss my phone in the trash and forget about it, but I literally can’t because it’s a core component of communication between family and friends. I grew up on Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin, so that core music style of the early 2000s is embedded in what I enjoy. the 90s and early 2000s just seems like peak culture-obviously not 100% perfect, but nothing really is there is this game called Cry of Fear that always reminds me of that time, for whatever reason
I know what you mean But I’ve noticed Ask older people and they say peak culture was 80’s Older say 70’s Older say 50’s, etc. We’re all familiar with certain periods I guess. I’m 26 years old. So I remember this time well
I understand you, sometimes I wish I could just forget about my phone but it's not possible right now, but when I get a bit older I will definitely switch my phone to an pretty flip phone and only use it for calls and texting and just get a computer for videos and movies. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a big inspiration for me :)
As a guy born in the early 90s I am always contemplating getting rid of my cell and only having a home phone. But as you said, unfortunately we’re trapped to the cell.
@@jamalydudeim so glad this is a common feeling among some younger ppl. i was born in the year 2000 and ive thought of doing that as well. since getting rid of phones is virtually impossible in this day and age, i try to be more intentional with how i spend my time so im not glued to technology 24/7. most apps and websites have an addictive feature that encourages mindless scrolling. so my laptop has chrome extensions that block the recommendations and comment sections of youtube ( as well as shorts), and i dont download tiktok, i stay away from most social media but kept snapchat because its a dying app and pretty quiet there 💛🙏 there are ways to make technology work for u, u just have to reach out and find it. also i'll just say as someone who doesnt engage with social media, its surprising to see how it leads so many people to think, act, and even behave the same way. tell the same jokes with the same cadence and everything - so many times i assumed my friends were just making a joke due to their original thoughts but its actually a trend or something online. i already have identity issues so for me, that was the breakthrough that i dont want to spend my time chronically plugged in, if i can help it. i still want to maintain integral parts of my personality without being influenced at all time 💕
what weirds me out the most about this is that it’s never you. Like, it was never actually the person who lived like this, instead it was always someone else they knew. I wonder how
We’re looking out at the world. So when we saw our friend’s older brother or someone who we didn’t know very well who had this aesthetic, it would be easy to say that they embodied it 100% based on our limited view of them. But, we would probably assume that we were more nuanced, even if at the time an outside observer would put us into this “2000’s older brother” box.
Fuck, this just made me think about 2007-2012 when I still had my gamer friend group and was with my ex during our early 20s. Back when RU-vid was full of UFO/Ghost videos and comedy sketch channels. Staying up playing COD, GOW, Rock Band, etc and going to GameStop for the midnight releases. We'd hangout all night watching horror movies until 6am eating pizza and baking Halloween cookies or running around town at 2am when everything was silent and no one else was awake or outside feeling that odd magic you do during your youth. I miss them a lot sometimes, I hope they're all doing well in life.
@xCreepyKidsx wow, I bet that was an amazing experience, I remember in 2018 I had a best friend, and we did a lot of great things together ❤️. It ended so soon, I hope she's doing well as well.
This is aesthetic is so spot-on that it reminds me of my own older brother's high school binder from back in the day, which features a skateboarder jumping over a staircase.
Ha! I was born in ‘81 and *was* that older brother in the 90s and early 2000s. It was a pretty special time for sure! Edited to add: no one said ‘bro’ back then. Everyone was ‘dude’ or ‘man’. ‘Bro’ is some wack-ass gen Z shit 🤣
Everything that is shown in this video is 100% nostalgia fuel for me. I never had a biological brother growing up as a kid, but my cousin was definitely the closest thing to a brother I ever had. His parents kicked him out at a very young age, so my parents took him in. I’m so glad I had such a great cousins/brother like him. he even drove me to middle school every day and he would freely smoke in front of me because he knew I would never rat on him. I just miss him so much.😢 (he moved away)
I know right! I grew up in the 2010s as a kid but as a teen growing up in the 2020s I feel so more connected to the 2000s as if I once lived in that time period.
Me too but in the 2010s, I was so jealous of my cousins because they had a older brother and kinda gave off their vibe but so did I and I still kinda do.
Then he died to a 14 year old with a AK in the middle of poppy fields in 2006, mom sold his stuff on ebay in the early 2010s parents got divorced in 2019 life keeps going on
I'm so sorry about that, again, wasn't my intention, though. Maybe you can try some great coping stuff, I just started coping right after my granny passed 9 years ago.
Fr bro, flaming hot Cheetos are illegal now and so are skateboards. Think I am telling a falsehood? Think again. Imagine if you will, a world where in fact they don’t even exist, and have been erased from their physical states of matter in this here universe, forced into not even dust, not even particles, and not even atoms of carbon. But simply *nothing*, the absence of matter, the same thing that “exists” in a vacuum. You don’t have to imagine.
Oooooooohhhhhhhh mmmmaaaannnnn!!!!!!! Dude, I'm not remotely kidding when I say the nostalgia hit hard, I mean, hhhhhhaaaarrrrrrddddd! I was born in 1995, so the majority of my childhood was from the rest of the 90's and up until the late 2000s. I never would have thought I would live the day where I would see my childhood from 20 years. Oh my gosh I'm so old. And to me the best part about the 2000s, is that there was a balance between technology and normal life, social life or culture, it was before everyone turned into a leech with their phone or other devices. Don't me wrong we still played video games, watched RU-vid, shop online, but it didn't consume our lives and inhibited us from going outside to play, or go to the mall, convenience store. Or just do any activities that didn't always require some type of technology. Toys r us and kb toys was still around. There were play places at fast food restaurants. You had to physically go out and eat, there was no door dash or grub hub. Shopping malls were still relevant. Cartoon channels were still aimed towards family and children and didn't have some stupid political message. I'm not going to lie but I remember the original adult swim shows and bumpers because of course I was the little cheeky monkey that would stay up and watch shows that wasn't the most appropriate for me at the time. I remember the pilot episode of aqua teen hunger force and others. Oh man, I'm old.
You're so cool, and I'm glad you told me your story, I want my life to be like that in a way. I've already stopped my internet addiction and only use my devices for movies, photos, videos, youtube calls, and texts. I'm just not addicted anymore. I do other fun activities now, like reading, watching my outside cats, playing with slime, painting, learning the guitar, playing with my baby doll, sketching, going outside and watching nature, journal, and so much more. Thanks for the inspiration 🙏 🙌 ❤️ 💕
'96 baby here and I agree that the passage of time is so crazy. same way we were romanticizing late 80s/early 90s stuff is what the kids are doing for our childhood today. amazing haha
being born in 2006 i feel that i was born at the of end of what was a great era. being able to see only a slight glimmer of a groundbreaking golden age. even though i wasn't born in the late 90's i still feel great nostalgia for it , just thanking back as a kid being freaked out by early adult swim bumps or seeing my brothers scream at one another over MK9. it was truly a time like no other.
I was born in 2005 but I can relate more to this than any other thing. Grew up with no phone, crappy computer, dumpster Skateboard, xbox 360 I still play on, climbing on rooftops and filming a lot with my grandpa's camera. I also punched other kids in the face when they bullied my little brother. Seems like a 2000s thing the more I think about it😂
u are still a kid savor your youth one day you'll be 30 and think "fk i should have done that" i did everything my gut told me to do and had a great time. and i still wish i done more. trust me bro DO. IT. BIG.
My little brother sent me a playlist of music that he remembers hearing me listen to when we were growing up, and it made me cry. It really floored me how much he remembered, much more than I did. It’s one of the most touching things anyone has ever done for me. I love my brother so much, man.
My older brother had all that in his early 20s, I remember I was a toddler, and he never let me enter his room, but when I had the chance to go in it was like another world, an aesthetic that I still like to this day. He's now 36 and with a family.
@xxangelthebearxx definitely, so far, a lot of people from Gen z bring back some of the fashion from that time period. I wanna bring back the technology, though. It might help with serious internet addiction in teens, I hope.
All of my cousins were like this. They grew out of it through the 2010s. Some nostalgic shit tho as i look back. You cant find stuff like this no more.
I was an older brother in this era. A lot of this is nostalgic, the converse, South Park, Icees, skater culture...etc. I realized pretty late that my little brother really looked up to me during those times. I wish I could go back and enjoy those days just a little bit more.
I'm 29 and you're gonna find some guys who were that guy back then, are still that guy more or less now. My childhood best friend, who I'm still friends with to this day is still into all that kinda aesthetic and still loves those edgy kinda vibes.
Idk how many people will notice my comment, but I want to share a story too. Like the author! Great video! I was born in 2003, and at that time in 2009 my parents did not let me near the Internet and computer. So I played games on sega mega drive 2. And the PS2. Sega was inherited from my mom's brother's uncle. When the computer became available to me, gradually pc disks came along too. There was also a psp. From 1st-4th grade in high school, I traded disks with my elders until the last one. I've killed tons of time playing games since I was a kid, maybe it's because I didn't have any siblings. Skateboarding, yeah I've been skating since I was 5 and still do) phone, I've changed 4 phones and they were all button phones. Comic books, oh yeah. I still have a stack of Scooby-doo and Spider-Man comics from 2008. And Jurassic Park from 1990-s. The best part is that adulthood has arrived. But I haven't lost my interest in my childhood hobbies. And you friends also do not lose it! Have a good day.)
this reminds me of my uncle 😭 he’s like 20 years younger than my dad so he grew up with most these things. he moved but he still has a bunch of comics and stuff at home lol.
To all the older brothers who had to grow up fast because they had to be the man of the house just know that you're loved from the eyes of the younger siblings. That's why you're so cool to us.
Dude this hit me hard. My older bro was my guardian growing up. He was there for me more than the parents were. He’d show me the good stuff. Music, how to dress, how to have fun and be confident. These photos brought back some beautiful memories being with my brother. Miss you Robert. Your always in my heart.
I like how these aesthetics from the early 2000 are coming back with nostalgia, some say it feels weird to have them back so early but It's been 24 years since the beginning of the 2000, I think it's a breath of fresh air
39. Most of us didn't get a mobile phone until we were in our early 20s. Hell, I rarely took mine out with me. Gigs. Merch. CDs. Girls. Hang-out culture hipster bars. Scott Pilgrim was a way of life in the 2000s.
My older (and only) brother died back in March a week after his 30th birthday with zero explanation, we still don't know what happened. Thank you for giving me back some memories I thought I had lost.
Born 85 I miss skating, we did so much campaigning with our local councils to get them to build skate parks like what americans had, they finally built them as we all went away. Now years later I see them in all the parks I've walked through but they're always empty
@@MacMyaa I was considering it with my post military knees....then I found out that my board manufacturer became a seller of cheap substandard decks (Element)
This is a master piece, I hope this video stays on RU-vid forever. This is literally a window in to my childhood. I could add a few pics to this video, need a couple large Taco Bell sodas, or any Big Gulp from the gas stations. BMX bikes laying in the front lawn. What a time to be alive man
Damn that riff hits hard. I was the 2000's big brother. Parents tried to keep us separate because of my lifestyle, but the time we were able to spend pre WiFi and cell phones was good. All backed up by early 2000's metal core and post hardcore.
My younger brother used to look up to me this way, and now he’s married with children and even surpassed me in height... I love you so much “little” bro.
I don’t have an older bro and my older cousin was kind of a nerd but my friends older bros along with TV still made me feel like I authentically experienced it.
Teens back then used to look dangerous man i dont know if it was because i was a kid but they actually could scare you back then also they were always doing cool bad ass shit like skating or messing around in the parking lot
@furrycircuitry2378 I know, right? It's like I was the only one with this vibe. Even the skater kid didn't match the vibe, and he was a bit mean to me just because I sat in "his friends seat" at the library. I really thought I were gonna meet teens that I met and saw when I was a kid 🥲😅
Even tho we grew up in an urban setting and my older bros didn’t listen to rock much, the “cool older brother” vibes still hit the same. I love my bros lol😭😭😭
0:46 Those old gamer pictures really takes me back to being 16 years old again, and getting my first 360 in 2006. Good times. Anyone else remember nearly tearing their fingernails off trying to get the face-plate off their 360? The price we paid for having the perfect console.
