Cultural trends from the late 2000s and early 2010s we don't miss

deer antlers, bone broth ice cream, mason jars, etc

communal seating in expensive resturaunts

Will Ferrell sport comedies

Twitter.

GAPDY

Indie Sleaze

The audacity of hope

Bands called Wolf...something.

James Franco

The fetishization of bacon

Urban chickens

Flash mobs

making fun of furries

wish I could say "stomp clap hey" but isn't that basically Shaboozey's "Tipsy"?

Hating "hipsters"

Being hipsters

the problem was that everyone had their own definition of what "hipster" meant and for lots of people it included LGBTQ people and anyone interested in art.

skinny jeans

Pitchfork

Justin Lee Collins

Collins has since been inactive. In 2022 JLC started a change.org, to get back onto the telly. It was signed by Lionel Blair and Alan Carr. [7]

weirdly, Lionel Blair died in 2021.

skinny jeans

― brony james (k3vin k.)

wait i still wear skinny jeans

i say "still" but i didn't actually wear skinny jeans in the late '00s and early '10s

Superfluous usage of Floor Toms

MiniDisc players

i feel like, in general, we don't have to care about Brooklyn anymore at all. i'm good with that.

yeah what was they all about

Superfluous usage of Floor Toms

― Maresn3st, Sunday, December 1, 2024 9:25 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh my god you’re so right

I absolutely love skinny jeans. The baggy jeans of the late '90s into the early '00s were an abhorrence.

If you live in Brooklyn do you still have to care about it?

The cobrasnake & extended universe of that whole crowd

Mustaches
Blingee myspace profiles

But honestly… a lot of the cultural trends of that era just evolved into more annoying things or weren’t actually that bad tbh

I dunno, Jersey Shore? Bro-step? To sarahell’s point, I had forgotten or had at least gone a long time thinking about most of these things until I looked at this thread.

Who knew that SFJ would be so correct about the rock music of the time

Like most of the obnoxious myspace stuff is now on Instagram … both platforms suck in terms of the way text is denigrated… and I can definitely say I don’t miss vintage 4 Loko … but compared to fentanyl… yeah, the former is clearly way more benign.

Cobrasnake and that whole thing are more early 00s imo

Troops

Cutesy swears like "cockwomble"

download codes

clear whiskey

I can definitely say I don’t miss vintage 4 Loko … but compared to fentanyl… yeah, the former is clearly way more benign.

lol i'm not so sure about that

Curious how you would argue this

casual use of the disablist R word, both irl and online. Probably hasn't gone away really, but I don't see it much at all these days.

I’d say 4 Loko + being in a place with stairs is about as dangerous as fentanyl

The "millenial whoop"

skinny jeans
― brony james (k3vin k.)

YEP. I hate them and never wore them so I am so fucking happy they're gone.

As far as cultural trends go, I don't think this time was especially bad.
Glad I don't really have to put up with skinny jeans though. And David Cameron/George Osborne

lol at almost everything in this thread having an ILX thread dedicated to complaining about it, at the time

David Cameron still around, changed his name to Keir Starmer iirc

The last thing I'll say in defense of skinny jeans: guys look hotter in'em.

hot guys looked hotter in them

I don't think they work for tall guys, at least I look like a stick man in them

I am glad they're going out of fashion, although I don't think UK menswear shops have got that memo yet, not that it matters much since they don't stock jeans in my size anyway. why I'm not sure, I didn't have this problem in the 90s/00s but jeans for tall men basically don't exist in shops any more, have to go online

I remember being very frustrated at the sudden impossibility of locating not baggy, but simply flared pants, circa 2005-2007. Even the vintage supplies had been brutally purged.