I was just out of college during this era, graduated in 2004, age 22. Luckily, I missed being a teen during this, but was a young adult and it still had an affect on us. Caught between being an adult and having substance to wanting to regress to being a teen as if we missed out on something and wanted to still capitalize on the benefits of being a teen as we did in the late 90s and very early 2000s. Giving into this nonsense had us caught up! It was true bipolarism at its finest. Depending on what direction you went in during this era, determined alot of how my generation has spent their time and outcome of our lives in our 30s and now looking at 40 in just a few years. Its really a toss up, some of us made it out mature, with families, a place of our own, some type of career and well travelled. Some of us are still in our parents basement wondering what could have been and WTF did we do with our lives...its a toss up!
@@Mario_N64 lol I'm not worried about that, I was just never there. I grew up in a 5 bedroom house and had my own room that wasn't the basement. I went back to my parents home after college and stayed for 6 months until I got my 1st real career job 6 months later. The basement thing was a figure of speech all though it does apply to some. No judgement here, we all come from a place and you are blessed if you did have a place to always go to when you were still trying to figure your life out.
I hate each and every one of these commercials. Not because I have disdain for nostalgia - I love Y2K aesthetic and vaporwave - but because I was the target audience at the time and I hated it even when it was called "Gangsta" instead of McBling. This crap was the primary substitute for a personality chosen by every idiot who bullied me for not buying into any of this. Thanks for giving me advance warning that this is going to be "retro" in the 2030's, ick.
O K First and foremost, sorry you went through that. Especially when it came to what I think is a really materialistic and unattractive aesthetic. Growing up as a kid, I was exposed to these kinds of things with reggaeton having music videos of women in bikinis, fast cars, parties, money, and of course, bling. Looking back, it was pretty ugly haha. Luckily I didn’t grow up to be into those things as I fit into a completely different crowd. At least there are good people in this world. There are better aesthetics out there too! Best wishes
@@isolar_THE_576th Don't worry, I don't have anything against you or anyone else who may have followed the McBling aesthetic. I just can't stand that marketers and executives unanimously pitched this crap when the Great Recession was just around the corner. I was mostly pointing out how even at the time it was popular I couldn't stand it and was bullied for not buying into it.
Yeah, I was in high school during this era and I cringed at some of these ads. They didn’t age very well. I like the Vaporwave, Y2K, and even the Millennial aesthetic much better.
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Does anybody notice a slight goth/emo sub aesthetic to some of these ads such as the HP, Ford, and Vh1 ads?
The emo aesthetic was taking off in this period.
mcblinge n scene culture kinda walked side by side
God... I didn't know how badly I missed this... The last of my childhood years.
Now ur old
@@Mario_N64 fr tho, my knees remind me every day lmao
Good times in the mid00s.
16:52 that’s the most 2008 thing I’ve ever seen.
I still have one of those Fords. It has like 90000 miles on it. It's in tip top shape.
lmfao
It's the aesthetic of my pre-teen and early teen years. I like it though not as much as the Y2K aesthetic.
Tween
I never understood the motive behind those Carl’s Jr. commercialsas a kid😂😂😂😂😂 like why were they doing all that to advertise burgers
i forgot how funny the tag body spray commercials were
Anyone know the song playing around 1:20? After the Flaming Lips song?
I was just out of college during this era, graduated in 2004, age 22. Luckily, I missed being a teen during this, but was a young adult and it still had an affect on us. Caught between being an adult and having substance to wanting to regress to being a teen as if we missed out on something and wanted to still capitalize on the benefits of being a teen as we did in the late 90s and very early 2000s. Giving into this nonsense had us caught up! It was true bipolarism at its finest. Depending on what direction you went in during this era, determined alot of how my generation has spent their time and outcome of our lives in our 30s and now looking at 40 in just a few years. Its really a toss up, some of us made it out mature, with families, a place of our own, some type of career and well travelled. Some of us are still in our parents basement wondering what could have been and WTF did we do with our lives...its a toss up!
Yep
Are u still in ur parents basement
@@Mario_N64 I never was.
@@TTSantiago821 It's okay if you were we won't judge u. U can say it
@@Mario_N64 lol I'm not worried about that, I was just never there. I grew up in a 5 bedroom house and had my own room that wasn't the basement. I went back to my parents home after college and stayed for 6 months until I got my 1st real career job 6 months later. The basement thing was a figure of speech all though it does apply to some. No judgement here, we all come from a place and you are blessed if you did have a place to always go to when you were still trying to figure your life out.
02:00 thanks I hate deviantART Boost Mobile ad
So basicaly y2k meets hiphop.
Guess so
Yeah, something like that
This is not y2k
mcbling was also way more hyper feminine
I hate each and every one of these commercials. Not because I have disdain for nostalgia - I love Y2K aesthetic and vaporwave - but because I was the target audience at the time and I hated it even when it was called "Gangsta" instead of McBling. This crap was the primary substitute for a personality chosen by every idiot who bullied me for not buying into any of this.
Thanks for giving me advance warning that this is going to be "retro" in the 2030's, ick.
O K
First and foremost, sorry you went through that.
Especially when it came to what I think is a really materialistic and unattractive aesthetic.
Growing up as a kid, I was exposed to these kinds of things with reggaeton having music videos of women in bikinis, fast cars, parties, money, and of course, bling.
Looking back, it was pretty ugly haha.
Luckily I didn’t grow up to be into those things as I fit into a completely different crowd.
At least there are good people in this world. There are better aesthetics out there too!
Best wishes
@@isolar_THE_576th Don't worry, I don't have anything against you or anyone else who may have followed the McBling aesthetic. I just can't stand that marketers and executives unanimously pitched this crap when the Great Recession was just around the corner. I was mostly pointing out how even at the time it was popular I couldn't stand it and was bullied for not buying into it.
Yeah, I was in high school during this era and I cringed at some of these ads. They didn’t age very well. I like the Vaporwave, Y2K, and even the Millennial aesthetic much better.
Sorry to hear that.
Better than anything we have these "uncertain times".