Growing Up In The 2000s... 

Np bro

@@_caydenn I agree

Dorbol

@@Settdaboss Dorbol

@@Settdaboss I respect it

Ikr.

I feel the same way. My mind is stuck in like 2009

I was born in 1995, yes it feels weird

Same here dude being born in 2000 we got to see the evolution of technology at its peak, went from flip phones to the iPhone, watched social media take over, and got to live without a screen for a few years. It’s crazy now how kids get a phone when they turn like 10, I feel lucky to have been able to live through the last few years where tech wasn’t absolutely everywhere. Don’t get me wrong I love having access to all of it but I’m glad I got to experience the final years where it wasn’t all consuming. It will never be like that again 😪

Those really were such simpler times

Yo

Sup I didn't expect to see you here lol

Kids today dk what the 2000s were like and now we're all adults in our 20s I'm 22 for god sake I miss the early to mid 2000s

Same *puts on shades while csi Miami theme played*

@@MR-RUBIX9119same I’m 20

Apparently sleepovers or simply leaving kids at a friend's house is uncommon nowadays... society's so cold now

⁠@@CrispyHulk1it’s not uncommon, what kinda kids are you talking to

born in 87 as well. everything here was accurate to pokemon on gameboy the pranks eventually the gamecube and sonic games. playing your first windows 98 dinosaur computer when some had xp. kicking each other off of trampolines and play fighting hard core after watching hours of dragonball z. getting confused after then ps2 comes out and you see the worlds first hd tv in game stop and the games looked so bad on it because the res was too high for the ps2. seeing newgrounds years before youtube exsisted. good times. the only bad thing was mic and pc speakers. those were crap

As an early 2010s kid, I really wish I could experience the 2000s, but I find it cool that in like 10 years the 2010s will feel really old and in 20 years the 2020s will feel old and so on, because then everyone gets to experience that great feeling of nostalgia

Late 90's and 00's kids basically have the same childhood

98' Gang!

This era started in 98 and died in 09

Nintendo sp, PS2 and then PSP were the real deal back then.

Yo I was born in 1992 and practically feel like a self created immortal I still look like a tweeny >_

saying block buster reminded me how excited I was when my parents let me slip the dvds through the returns box 😔

YES!!!

I’m a 98 baby so I feel you

When the worst things from the internet were the annoying orange, Fred, what does the fox say, Gangnam style and Slenderman

Can't forget about the PS2, it has so many good games.

I dunno how you would possibly remember the 2000's being born in 2005. I was born in the 90's and don't remember anything of it. Just growing up in the 2000's is all I know.

@@shtface9637 yah same im born in 2001 and can barely remember up to 2008ish

@@deadorelol exactly no one remembers those years as a person born in 2003 I only remember 2011 🤣🤣🤣nun earlier

@@joshuawilliams2447 unless they’re born with older siblings but I was the only child and the first console I remember having was a psp, 3ds and ps4, I was too young when the ps3 was out

I was born in 2000 as well. Those years were just so much better.

It was better being in high school in 2000. Best times

Just choose to, what's stopping you??

​@@jefftakesdscakes30🤨

@@tallicafan85 na people be like it can't compare to 90s

So relatable icl

Same

Same

I used to watch titanic so many times on cd the cd stopped working.

same

Me too! Being born in 2000, I grew up with some SpongeBob and Scooby Doo tapes. Plus I can even recall watching Nicktoons at the age 3, though on the TV I can really mostly recall the logo on the bottom right

@@MisterAutist Saaaaaaaammmmme 2000 babies!

1988 here and VHS and games consoles was our world, especially Disney movies. We had no internet, no mobiles, no computer and needed cable TV to get good cartoons.

Born in 2000 I remember watching Malcolm in the middle like it’s so weird to think about lol

How about a TV with a built in VCR? I always liked those despite not growing up in that time period.

I was born in 99 and I'm brazilian too, I kinda didnt relate to the video lol Ig I grew up like I was in the 90's xD or more early 2000's actually

cauldron938 u bending the childhood rules for sure.

@@PoorDog69not really, not everyone lives in America

Bro I was also born in 04 and I would rage so hard if your friend wouldn't pop the bubble. They would just laugh and call me trash.

This!

Boy you where latterly 6 in 2010 you don’t remember sheet

@@apersonyoudontknow3346 crazy that a rando can tell me what I do and don't remember. It screams chronically online. Go outside and touch grass, I promise it won't hurt you. Also, *were *literally

@@apersonyoudontknow3346 I was in kindergarten and yes I still have vivid memories of 2010 up till today. It was only 13 years ago. 80 year Olds can vividly remeber things from 60 years ago, so why can't I remeber something from a little over a decade?

I was born in 2003, & also completely agree & relate!!! 😁

Same bro, everything went to shit after 2013

i was born 1990 and im 32, the 90s and 2000s were the top eras of being a kid yep kids nowadays born 2007+ dont live the same as us, they grew up with tiktok

@@cannonball7309 Highly factual. They just don't understand.

I was born on the same month as you. Even though I am not American this video resembles very strongly to my childhood. Whenever I go to a restaurant and I see parents who let their 8yo kids watch tiktok and play mobile games while eating, I see the real generational gap. Maybe we are the last generation that is going to have a normal attention span...

As a 90s kid, I even had a black and white tv once until I was 6. 😅

Just remember that just because kids grow up differently today doesn’t mean they grow up worse. It can be easy to get caught up on nostalgia.

Yet they absolutely do grow worse.

Legit. I was born in 2000, and I didn't even get internet until I was about 11 years old. Before that, we had an internet dongle (Does anybody nowadays even know what they are?) that we used to plug into my sisters laptop that she borrowed from school and never gave back. It had windows XP on it, and we used to play minesweeper and space pinball on it. Going on youtube using that dongle was my first introduction to Owl city's other songs, since "Fireflies" was always on the radio back then - He's still one of my favourite artists to this day. My first phone was a brick that you had to press the numbers multiple times to get 1 letter, and I barely even used it. My mum and sister would literally just text me "I love you" every now and again and that was it. I played outside with my brother and our friend at the time, and we used to climb trees, have stick sword fights, or play on the trampoline. I used to collect yugioh cards and we used to play against each other. I had a DS and a wii and stuff, but I only played on it when I wasn't out. I used to think having 100 hours on my pokemon platinum save was an insanely long amount of playtime, yet now I have thousands of hours on some games. I used to watch monsters inc on repeat on VHS for some reason, and yet, it's been so long since I've seen it that my memory of the film is pretty foggy. It's mad how different it is today. My nephew, who is 10 years old now, had a smartphone when he was like, 6 years old. I got my first smartphone at 17 (Granted that was still pretty late by that time, most people I know had one at about 13 or 14. It was 2018 when I got one haha). He basically never goes outside, he's always playing on his playstation. He doesn't know what a VHS is, and doesn't even know the difference between a CD and a DVD. He's never known life without the internet and social media, I'm pretty sure he has had an instagram account for years, despite 13 being the minimum age for it, and he's always on tiktok. Some of the things he says and does baffle me for a kid that age. It's like kids today just don't want to be kids - they get ashamed of it. It's really sad. I'm very grateful we got to grow up in pretty much the last time period where kids just got to be kids and weren't exposed to all the crap on social media.

@@CCoreOW Exactly, precisely!! I 100% identify with what you say!!! We are only like 10 or even less years apart from today's kids, but we grew up SO massively differently it feels like we're worlds apart!!

Sucks getting older but low key I wouldn’t wanna be young in this generation, kids getting offended is wild to me, we weren’t offended by anything lol

1995 here

Born in 1996 too.

1994. Boy the kids this era missed out.

I'm '99 and I agree.

We're around the same age and grew in the same era

True, that is our childhood time. Being in elementary school in the late 2000s was a fantastic experience I never want to miss. It felt different.

I was also born in the year 2000. I actually even have some memories from the early 2000s! Although they are faint and scattered, they're there

hey i was born in 1988 so the early 2000s were my teenage era.(for me at least it was not awesome and infact was awful)

Born in 2002. 100% can relate. Mid-to-late 2000s into the early 2010s were our era.

Born 2004. Looking back at it I lived in a good time to grow up.

I’m genuinely surprised to hear people had regulated play time for video games, but I guess I always liked to draw or play with my sisters so my mom probably wasn’t too worried

No they didn't lmao my parents sure as hell didn't regulate my time or make me play outside, and neither did the parents of any of my friends at school.

Fym when, my parents do this stuff to me

My parents regulated video games and I'm a 2010s kid

my parents didn't regulate mine much

same i was born in 1990

I mean most people still don’t give their kids personal devices. I wouldn’t get my kid an iPad/phone before age 10. I’m also banning cocomelon from my future home too!!

i was born 1992

For me, I was born in 1995.

I was born in 2005 and didn't get a phone until 16. I also still don't use much social media

Late 2010s? You mean pre-covid and war basically 😂 By the way I miss that world too.

Me too tbh

Ikr I was born in 1999

Did you mean late 2000s and early 2010s?

Same

Agreed! ‘92 baby here

Man ngl putting people born in the late 80s in the same boat as kids born in the early 2000s is crazy. Completely different childhoods

@@hypervenom6200yeah more like late 80s to like 95 or 96. I was born in 98, and while I did experience things like dialup, only having VHS tapes, having a CD Walkman, no social media, no wifi, and no smartphones, it was relatively short lived. I feel like 1997-2000 is in this weird middle period of being almost a 90s childhood but then having massive technological changes in your late childhood.

I feel like them 00s kids didn’t experience it quite like us. By the time they’d gotten old enough to know what’s going on the internet was in full swing, online gaming was a thing, smart phones were appearing. Going to high school before anyone really had phones and shit was awesome. Growing up on Cartoon Network, Dragonball z, Pokemon, yugioh, gameboy, ps1, sega Megadrive and all that good stuff was class. But also really seeing technology go from 0 - 100. I dunno where I fit on the scale man, born in 95, spent majority of childhood with my 93 cousin. I feel old hearing about this guy being a lil kid using his ds. Maybe I just got all the technology and stuff late here in the uk. I feel like I relate way more to the 90s and early 00s than these guys looking back on the DS and Wii as their childhood consoles. Pokémon pearl ffs? That ain’t even proper Pokémon.

Yeah exactly! I wish I was a 2000s kid :(

@@sageasauraus Back in myyyyy daayyy Lol. I was born in 99.

@@BrendanH99_ same bro i was born in 99

yeah kind off but looking back i kind of like how streamlined and convenient things are now.

@@BrendanH99_ i was born in 1988

2003? Hardly a 2000s baby

@@BILLZ32155 bull shit

Same bro😢

You're still basically a child bruh, not time to "look back" on those times yet.

@@ballbag reminds me of a time where online this kid was like "i wish i could go back to the old days" i was like "yeah i can relate to that! how old are you?" they said 15. like bruhhh. i told him he is def gonna miss being 15 when he is 20. i'm 22 and i know i will miss being in my 20's

Thank you. Some ppl would say they are 00s kid for being born in 2007.

@@PoorDog69 Ikr, It's annoying. They are a 2000s baby, but not a 2000s kid.

Late 96 gang!

Early 97 gang. I love the era we grew up in dude 🖤

95 gang and same Millenial gen z cusp

I was born in 1999 and don't really remember a whole lot before 2004. 2005 onward is when I can remember pretty well, but the decade was already nearly half over.

96 best year! I'm about to be 27, wtf...

Yo sonic david i love your videos

Good times

L year to be born in

@@melius0 Atleast not born in like 2015

@@UmerShoaib-yv7ql true could be worse

Ikr, I'm a middle class 2002 kid and I relate hard, not to everything but to most things

Truth to be told as 04 too that Is really eraly childhood. My life after 7 was 3ds time.

Fr.

Ngl I'm 2 years younger as a 06' kid but I can relate so much to this I remember when I just to play fancy pants, gravity guy, jetpack joyride, pixel gun and wii games and even my original 3DS back in the day, it was so much fun... Now I just feel old I mean hell Pixel Gun came out in 2010 wtf

LMAO y'all are 2010s kids. You guys barely remember the 2000s.

I’m 29 and can relate to all of this haha. 93’ baby

Lol I’m 16 I’m a ‘06 kid

@@DaVlogAndGamer same!

@@tomcoop9750 You were probably one of the cool teenagers we looked up to in the 2000s then lol

@@brechtxt8096 Late-90s or Early-00's born kids would've been lucky to have a household that had a Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3. The best console generation. They would also have access to the PSP Slim (2000 model) and the Nintendo DS Lite, some of the best handhelds in history. The PS3 was a very cheap BluRay Player, and it had some of the best single-player games of its time. The Nintendo Wii had a couple good games, and it was mostly great to keep guests entertained, or the odd mum or gran. The Xbox 360 had the best Online Multiplayer and great third-party titles. Not to mention that PC Gaming was potent and affordable during that era (Core i5-2500k, AMD HD7950). The DS Lite can play most of the Gameboy Advance games, can be hacked and play other systems too. The same could be said about the PSP Slim, a technological marvel. It was easily hacked and made for the best pocketable device of its time. That and your hand-me-down phone of that era, which was probably a Nokia N95. Kids in that era would've moved to High School or University. They would have moved to using new things like the iPhone 4 and iPad 2. PC Gaming was still sizeable at that time (Core i7-3770k, AMD R9 290). But consoles were on the downtrend with the likes of the new3DS and the PS4, both decent systems but not as magical as before. It's not all bad news because in this period you wouldn't have much time for those games anyway, since you would be doing more activities, studying, work, or just the explosion of the internet's social media or RU-vid. If you were lucky, you had young-X or old-Y generation parents, and maybe as a gag they participated with you in the early Bitcoin craze... this could've led to a lot of profits, potentially even paying off your parent's house mortgage.

I was born in 1995 as well!

1995 kids rise up. I also remember changing the time zone on our home computer to China after 8 so I could evade the parental controls and go on the internet to play Neopets lmao.

i like to think nostalgia is paradoxical

95 gang reporting. Been feeling super nostalgic recently.

I was born a year before you.. 1994. We were early 2000s kids not late 2000s like this video is explaining.

Well up to the 2000's kids played outside and you had a sense of community in every neighborhood 20 years later and its not the case anymore So i am unsure if its nostalgia or shit is just down bad currently.

@Buzás András shut up Buzás

Idk, this one I think is actually measurably better.

fr even thinking back to summers then, they feel like they were better

Agreed

The first thing that comes to my mind is the Genwunners of Pokemon fans. The OG. I've always heard them talk about nostalgia with Red and Blue. Being born in 96, my nostalgia was Ruby and Sapphire. It's our turn now.

@@BuizelCream As an OG, I always cringe at statements from Genwunners that say that it was the only time that mattered. I've loved Pokemon in every generation, and pretty much have a different nostalgic feeling associated with any generation as enough time passes. The time of Red and Blue did have its own distinct feel if one was around to experience it, but so did all the others if one was invested enough.

@@DaleKamp You're right though. As a Ruby Sapphire OG, I actually did miss Gen 4 a lot, and Legends Arceus was just right for the nostalgia season last year. Now I miss Gen 5 and 6 too. Been replaying my old files and stuff recently with friends. Each gen does have its own distinct thing.

The 90s was a very similar time to grow up, you had all the nice amenities of the modern world without the internet and social media.

@@BuizelCream I started with RBY but I fell in love with pokemon all over again each gen all the way up to scarlet violet lol

Also January ‘99, except with the GameCube

Me 2 I miss the 2000s.

Yeah I was born in 2001 too, I feel like anyone born between 98 to 03 kinda falls under the group that remembers life before smartphones took over and after.

@@oxy594 I am just one year younger than you

I was born in 97 and I briefly remember my childhood, only remember going out with friends, playing on game boy colour and ps1 I also briefly remember 9/11 happening

98 here bro. I still remember a lot of things, but not in clear detail. Maybe it’s just cause we’re getting older.

@@SlimKronic nah when I was 10 I deadass didn't remember shit before the age of 5. I guess some mfs got good memory I'm a 90s kid aswell

I keep track of my childhood by grade in school. Like in 2005 I was in 5th grade, and I hung out with _____ and I start putting pieces together from there. It really helps keep the memories there.

Also a 96er here - I have memories similar to this, just starting a bit BEFORE this video. I get the sense Birdie is an 01’ so similar to my brothers age. Early 00s were a different time

1998 gang

Gang gang😂

Pls tell me you know invader Zim

For sure, I think its was because our tech was booming so fast it made social class really obvious. As kids we didn't really care, since a lot of us had experience in all the systems before the latest and greatest, and chances were pretty good that one friend had a wii and another a Nintendo 64. But yeah, tech just moving super fast and now just seeming stagnant. Even more so with the push to bring old tech back because its nostalgic.

YES SAME 2011 After seal-team 6 and Trevon Martine in 2012 for me was when I notice and felt change.

Same here man.

2011-2012 was when the first smartphones and social media services were becoming popular which meant that more and more people changed how they used the internet. pre 2010 it was mostly internet on the family computer. after 2010 you could bring the internet with you outside on a smartphone in a meaningful way. now its the 2020s and most everyone has internet access everywhere they go, meaning the internet has changed from an inside activity to becoming completely meshed with all of life all the time

@@jasukun spot on

What year were you born in? I was born in 91.

@@thedarkforce9596 I was born in 91 also.

@@SethEssington Me too! (yay for the 90's ^^) For me it was: super Nintendo, the good old cartoon network/nickelodeon shows, Pokémon games and cards, playing with Lego's and marbles and be outside a lot back in those days! Playing soccer, building secret forts in the nearby woods. Ahh, Good times! :D

I can recall all my childhood half the people I met growing up are all gone as if I am in an Alternate Reality.

It was even tho I was just a lil kid. 💯

Same, I was born in 1992 and I relate a lot, especially to the first part with VHS. I miss those days a lot. Not long time ago I re-watched the soundtrack of my favourite TV programme as a child and it made me cry 😭😭😭

Facts. I arrived on earth late 1988, our 2000's were just like this. We were teens but still "kids". Now were older but not "old" and at least we can say we've experienced the 90's!

Just replace the ds with a gameboy original, pokemon pearl with red/blue, and cars with toy story and you got yourself an early 90s kid.

I’m supposed to feel old as if I wasn’t playing Mario galaxy on my old wii a week ago lol

Yea a lot of this stuff was more high school nostalgia but that was also a long time ago.

@@chadwellington2524 That should be directed at anyone born after 2004 tbh.

@@awesomecocoapuff99 maybe you have good memory i just thought most people dont remembr much before age 6/7

@@chadwellington2524 I know a lot of people born in the early 2000s who remember the 2000s pretty well. I'm not the only one. It's actually pretty normal to have memory at age 4-5. Hell, my earliest memory traces back to 2004. What about you?

@@chadwellington2524 CAP.

@@chadwellington2524 no, memory forms at age 3. I remember seeing bridge to terabithia in theater, blockbuster, Obama vs Romney, etc. 02

no

"As a kid who grew up in the 2020s, I loved being depressed."

@@slyapbg Lol. That’s awesome. It’s funny because unironically, as a kid growing up in the 2000s, that was the same feeling we had. Imagine feeling depressed all the time and having teen angst and *get this* you ACTUALLY had a musical outlet for that? Emo music! Screamo! Man I listened to so much Red Jumpsuit App., The Used, Slipknot, Evanescence, 30s to Mars, All American Rejects, Simple Plan, Green Day, Blue October, etc. What a time. The music was more varied. ☺️

@@slyapbgCovid baby’s bout to have whole Ted talks

I have had these very same thoughts as well. I like your way of thinking…

thats true

We think alike, too. As someone who grew up in the 90s, I felt like kids who grew up in the 2000s got to experience an enhanced version of a lot of similar experiences 90s kids had, similar technology but more advanced and with a healthy amount of connectivity (relative to these days) for those who clicked with it.

2030 or 2040 probably the internet won't be a thing anymore idk i see alot tech companies fallin off.

@@dubstep1 I mean we still use steel and it's been centuries since it's been invented. We've even found good alternatives to it and we still use it a lot. Don't be so pessimistic.

Yeah but that’s said every era. What is considered a bad era now will one day be considered a golden era

Facts when he said 2011/2012 and how old he was during that time I was like "dam I was already well into high school by that point, talkin sophomore and junior year"

Right! I was already on my 2nd year of college at that point feel like an ancient now

hes born 2002/2003 hes barely a 2000s kid too lol

Born in 1992 and can confirm! We got the best of both, a childhood in the 90s and were tween/teens in the 2000s.

I feel the same, 1995 represent ✌️ I am now at the age where my mom had me, but having a baby of my own right now would only emphasize the feeling of my childhood world remaining a thing of the previous generation. We can't go back to that world without tech 💔

You're right...I was born in 1991 and will turn 32 tomorrow

All 1990 borns Assemble ✊✊

Damn. I was born in ‘93, and I can most certainly remember the “vibe”. There was this feeling in the air that I can’t describe. I mostly just remember the late 90’s, 97-99, but I have very brief memories from probably ‘95-‘96, I didn’t really feel the feeling until it was the late 90’s, though. 97-99 felt very special in an indescribable way to me.

I was born '95 too, but my two siblings were both born in the late 80s (and my cousins as well) so I grew up with ALL the 90s hand-me-downs. That said, I also had plenty of early 2000's exposure. It's weird, I feel like the early-mid 90s kids had the borderline experience where it's not fully millennial but not fully GenZ either.

@@MasiukA I feel that same way! It's like we're in this weird limbo stage where we can kinda identify with both millennials and gen z'ers but not fully lol

I was born in 95 and I agree. The kids in these comments saying that they are 2000s kids when they are born in 2004 are delusional. Nobody after 2001 can really claim being a 2000's kid.

ur more 2000s kid if u were born 1995 because u spend more years of ur childhood in 2000s

And watching WWE in mid 2000s was different compare today

How were they a better generation? 90s and 2000s kids had practically the same generation and childhood except with a few advancements

lol you sound like your parents complaining about your niece

Yes there area where i live you walk out and everyone was outside and everyone knows eachother and everyone is habing fun no matter how old someone was or we he came from

Then you need to get off RU-vid

@@freemokeraines2121 lol what?

@@LewdMe based off of what he said since he wasn’t born in the 2000s he/she is under 13 so they need to get off of RU-vid.

@@LewdMe Get your mind straight

@@freemokeraines2121 all I did was ask. I just assumed they were born before the 2000’s.

Yeah, despite being born in 98 and living since the 2000s, I still consider myself a 90s kid because of that, we aren't too different

This video hits different as a 90s kid

@@Extis lol

Thank you for not being one of those “Gatekeepers” and actually admitting that 90s/00s kid pretty much grew up with the same shit. All this gatekeeping BS that’s plagued the internet for over a decade is exhausting

@@HelderGriff no, us 2000s kids aren't 90s kids, but we are the closest gen to the 90s kids, along with the 80s kids. We need to embrace the awesome 2000s childhood we had.

yep this is nostalgic, am a 90 child, but unlike u i had sleepovers in the 90s and 2000s and we were playing actual good games, sleepovers nowadays dont feel the same as kids are prob gonna bring their consoles for fortnite or watch tiktok on their smartphone

@@cannonball7309 you do know that the generation before us also considered our games and activities absurd too right? At least our generation had to listen to the previous one complaining sometimes bout "these kids nowadays are only playing these videogames smh". Which just wasn't true and didn't do any harm. Let children have fun in their own way. Whether it be games like Fortnite or similar, and watching TikToks together. If it is even that, I mean kids still go outside and have sleepovers like ours, just that they deviate from our experiences. That's the fun of childhood. To experience things together and in a unique fashion makes it so wonderful and memorable.

lol I’m an 06 kid so I loved growing up in the 2000s and 2010s

Same here, I never visited my friends houses though when I was a kid nor did I have sleepovers. I am a 2002 kid as well so I relate to most of what Birdie is saying

Thats cause not really anything changed from the 90s-2000s tech and culture wise (except history wise, 9/11). Things started changing faster around 2018

@testvideos4837you can’t buy what we had

@testvideos4837you can’t buy the same culture and mindset of that era