The Cult of M0iM (Mid '00s is Modern) Needs to Be Stopped
I'm convinced that the Aesthetics Community and a loud minority of the GenDec (Generation Decade) community are part of a cult. They've created a psyop to deceive normies into thinking the '90s lasted until 2003 and that the mid-late 2000s were just an extension of the early 2010s. I'm exaggerating/joking a little, but holy revisionism Batman!
You can show them data and statistics which easily debunk their claims, yet they won't even read it, only regurgitate the same bad faith points over and over. This dogmatic behavior strongly parallels cults or religious fundamentalists.
- The social media era began in 2004 because of Facebook!
- All the '90s shows ended in 2004!
- The streaming era began in 2005 because of YouTube!
- The mid '00s were seventh gen!
- Y2K ended and Frutiger Aero began in 2004!
- Everyone had flat screen TVs!
- Everyone was already using early smartphones!
These points can be easily debunked.
- Social media was in its primordial form and only used by 7% of American adults in 2005. It lacked algorithms and most features we see today. Most people were using forums and instant messengers. Comparing modern social media platforms to their primordial selves is a bad faith comparison.
- This myth is cherry-picked BS. Most of the shows they're referring to premiered their finales years earlier in Canada and had reruns after 2004.
- The mid '00s were predominately sixth gen. The Game Boy Advance was still relevant, the Xbox notoriously had technical problems at launch, and the PS3 and Wii weren't released until the tail end of the era.
- Physical media was at its peak, Blockbuster peaked in 2004 and Netflix didn't launch as a streaming service until 2007. YouTube was in its primordial stage, having a view-based system as opposed to a watch time-based one and wasn't mainstream overnight.
- Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Windows Media Player 10, and the Nintendo DS were released at the tail end of 2004 and had clear Y2K influences. Frutiger Aero didn't become fully refined and mainstream until around late 2006 or 2007 with the release of the remaining seventh generation consoles, Windows Vista, and the iPhone.
- CRTs weren't surpassed by LCD TVs until late 2007. Flat screens were luxury items.
- Believe it or not, smartphones didn't surpass feature phones until 2013, so insisting that happened before 2007 is frankly absurd.
These aren't opinions, these are FACTS. My autism is really showing, I know, but it's driving me insane how far these misconceptions have been spread. It needs to stop.
While it's fair to say the mid '00s was a progenitor to the early 2010s in some ways, it's just as much a successor to the late '90s, yet people want to act like it was exclusively one or the other, mainly the former.
It's perfectly fine if you, as an individual, had a pseudo-2010s experience in the 2000s because you were a wealthy American who lived in an urban area or something, but I'm sick of some people acting like everyone had that experience.
To be clear, I don't hate any of these people, but they need to be stopped and deprogrammed. They've completely ruined discourse about decades.