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Apr 28, 2020 16:18:14 GMT 10
Post by Early2010sGuy on Apr 28, 2020 16:18:14 GMT 10
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Apr 28, 2020 16:37:55 GMT 10
Post by #Infinity on Apr 28, 2020 16:37:55 GMT 10
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Apr 28, 2020 16:38:37 GMT 10
Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 28, 2020 16:38:37 GMT 10
Looks very Y2K, doesnt it? Besides some of the singles covers at the bottom (i.e "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys), I don't think it does at all. Looks culturally Late '90s to me.
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Apr 28, 2020 16:51:48 GMT 10
Post by #Infinity on Apr 28, 2020 16:51:48 GMT 10
Looks very Y2K, doesnt it? Besides some of the singles covers at the bottom (i.e "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys), I don't think it does at all. Looks culturally Late '90s to me. IDK, I would say 1998 was when the Y2K influences start to become legitimately noticeable. 1997 may have been very distinct from the mid-'90s, but it was really during the course of '98 that Y2K started to become a real culture. Not everybody has to look like a boy band or girl group member; the grunge influence is already barely noticeable here (it was evaporating in 1996 and 1997, but looking at these photos, you'd think nobody listened to Pearl Jam anymore, even though they released a pretty popular album in early 1998). Dawson's Creek quickly became a big TV hit, and teen pop had a new lease on life with TRL and the arrival of *NSYNC; this resulted in the Backstreet Boys' debut album also selling way better, even though the group already had a couple of big hits in 1997. Y2K culture wouldn't exactly hit its stride until 1999, but it was starting to really define itself by 1998.
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Apr 28, 2020 17:10:32 GMT 10
Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 28, 2020 17:10:32 GMT 10
Besides some of the singles covers at the bottom (i.e "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys), I don't think it does at all. Looks culturally Late '90s to me. IDK, I would say 1998 was when the Y2K influences start to become legitimately noticeable. 1997 may have been very distinct from the mid-'90s, but it was really during the course of '98 that Y2K started to become a real culture. Not everybody has to look like a boy band or girl group member; the grunge influence is already barely noticeable here (it was evaporating in 1996 and 1997, but looking at these photos, you'd think nobody listened to Pearl Jam anymore, even though they released a pretty popular album in early 1998). Dawson's Creek quickly became a big TV hit, and teen pop had a new lease on life with TRL and the arrival of *NSYNC; this resulted in the Backstreet Boys' debut album also selling way better, even though the group already had a couple of big hits in 1997. Y2K culture wouldn't exactly hit its stride until 1999, but it was starting to really define itself by 1998. I do agree that these photos look quite distinct from the overall aesthetics of the Mid '90s, but that being said, there's very little about the trends found in these photos which look strikingly "Y2K". Most of the people in the photos are wearing loose-fitting clothing with faded, earthy colours. Sure, fashion trends from earlier in the decade such as "the rachel", flannel shirts and bowl cuts may be absent, however I really don't think the photos above look anything other than Late '90s. I believe the "Y2K Era" as a whole is generally poor defined and it would seem as though the era itself is strictly based on the overall aesthetics of the teen-pop/bubblegum-pop acts who were popular at the time. Not that I have personal memories of the era, but I am skeptical over the idea that there was ever a true "Y2K Era" to begin with.
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Apr 28, 2020 18:58:09 GMT 10
Post by longaotian on Apr 28, 2020 18:58:09 GMT 10
Would agree it looks Y2K. Although I'm pretty sure one of those pictures is from 2002?
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Apr 29, 2020 2:26:29 GMT 10
Post by John Titor on Apr 29, 2020 2:26:29 GMT 10
You should have let me take care of this one, one of the pics is from 1999
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Apr 29, 2020 2:34:18 GMT 10
Post by John Titor on Apr 29, 2020 2:34:18 GMT 10
Besides some of the singles covers at the bottom (i.e "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys), I don't think it does at all. Looks culturally Late '90s to me. IDK, I would say 1998 was when the Y2K influences start to become legitimately noticeable. 1997 may have been very distinct from the mid-'90s, but it was really during the course of '98 that Y2K started to become a real culture. Not everybody has to look like a boy band or girl group member; the grunge influence is already barely noticeable here (it was evaporating in 1996 and 1997, but looking at these photos, you'd think nobody listened to Pearl Jam anymore, even though they released a pretty popular album in early 1998). Dawson's Creek quickly became a big TV hit, and teen pop had a new lease on life with TRL and the arrival of *NSYNC; this resulted in the Backstreet Boys' debut album also selling way better, even though the group already had a couple of big hits in 1997. Y2K culture wouldn't exactly hit its stride until 1999, but it was starting to really define itself by 1998.
- MTV TRL started that Fall as MTV LIVE (The name would change to Total Request Live in 98)
- Backstreet Boy videos were tearing up the airwaves by Summer 97
- Spice Girls is the girl group that took over the airwaves in Early 97 in the USA, and became the defacto template for teen pop
- Fonts in commercials started getting future looking with fonts
- Music videos get futuristic looking (Men in Black, Missy Elliots The rain) Hype Williams a director is behind it
-5th gen systems finally gaining stream with ps1 beating n64 in sales
. WWF starting the attitude era, rebranding Raw as RAW is WAR, adding Red ropes/Titantron and going PG 14
- WWF unveils its new ATTITUDE LOGO
- 1996 Runway fashions started being released in 97
- Robyn debuts in the Untied States setting the Max Martin Template for BRtiney Spears songs
- Family Matters and Step by Step 2 Abc TGIF staples move to CBS and cause a decline in Friday Night Sitcom tv viewing
- Pokemon makes waves in USA but for not the right reasons, The Seizure episode in Japan made headlines everywhere
- Toonami debuts it's block on Cartoon Network
- Frosted Tips start being a trend
- Daria and King of The Hill Debut, Beavis and Butthead is canceled shortly after
- South Park debuts and becomes a y2k staple
- The fashion industry was moving heavy into y2k style, not sure if you were looking @ it like back then that but it was
1997 commercial for Pepsi, full of y2k life
TRL debut week on MTV (under a different name) 1997Yes there were some core 90s things in 1997, but it was obvious what was replacing it,
depends on what area you lived, infact in other parts of the world Y2k era started early
in 96.
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Apr 29, 2020 5:17:38 GMT 10
Post by #Infinity on Apr 29, 2020 5:17:38 GMT 10
What's with the Harry Potter picture?  The Battle of Hogwarts took place on May 2, 1998.
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Apr 29, 2020 5:24:02 GMT 10
Post by John Titor on Apr 29, 2020 5:24:02 GMT 10
You should have let me take care of this one, one of the pics is from 1999 Ohh shoot, sorry  I'm just a huge fan of your atmosphere threads, and I wanted to do one to support you... But thanks for pointing that out, which picture is it that's from 1999? But you guys still get the idea, it was evident that the Core 90s feeling was fading at this point, especially with Seinfeld ending Thank u I appreciate the love, bottom one, sometimes the date of when a picture is taken is incorrectly filed online, That shirt is the same one I had and it didn't come out until 1999 it's from delia.
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Apr 29, 2020 8:29:53 GMT 10
Post by karlpalaka on Apr 29, 2020 8:29:53 GMT 10
What's with the Harry Potter picture? The Battle of Hogwarts took place on May 2, 1998. Harry Potter is set during the years of 1991-1998, even though the first book released only in 1999.
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Apr 30, 2020 4:18:19 GMT 10
Post by John Titor on Apr 30, 2020 4:18:19 GMT 10
I hated harry potter
that 1st movie was fire tho
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I'm just a huge fan of your atmosphere threads, and I wanted to do one to support you... But thanks for pointing that out, which picture is it that's from 1999?