Why are the Mid 2000s quite often overlooked as an era?

See, I actually believe the opposite is true about the Late 2000s. I've come across plenty of Late '00s nostalgia posts from people on sites like Reddit and because the electropop era had it's beginnings during the era, I've seen a lot of younger people especially name-check popular songs from 2008/09 such as "Gives You Hell", "Poker Face" etc.. Here are some examples:

www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/ekl23p/acutal_late_2000s_kid_starterpack/
https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/ghb3co/random_images_from_childhood_in_the_late_2000s/
www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/eqfr2m/anyone_nostalgic_for_the_late_2000searly_2010s/
https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/gitows/im_sick_of_late_2000searly_2010s_nostalgia/

In contrast, if you search for the "Mid 2000s" on Reddit, almost nothing of that nature comes up at all. It's as if the "nostalgia wave" has skipped a generation of people. I don't think I've ever seen anyone online express any fondness for kids movies from 2005/06 like "Monster House", "Hoodwinked!" or "Open Season". Even something like "Crazy Frog" doesn't get lumped in with trends from the Early 2000s.  It's as if half the shows/movies I grew up liking as a kid have long since been forgotten about, which is crazy to me seeing as how the Mid 2000s were only 14-16 years ago.

I just think it's just a question you're searching at the wrong places. There's plenty of nostalgia for the mid-00s throughout the internet, particularly on YouTube where the kids of back then (now in their twenties) are making videos about it.

I've seen nostalgia for 2017 on Reddit lately too, that particular site pretty much has nostalgia for every era in existence. I won't be surprised that we'll see "things we did during the quarantine" posts in two years.

I don't see it, I wouldn't have created this topic if I had only been looking at the one site. I'm not daft. I've searched up "mid 2000s nostalgia" on YouTube and the first thing that comes up is a video about "late 2000s/early 2010s nostalgia". If mid 2000s nostalgia is as popular on YouTube as what you're claiming it is, then shouldn't a mid 2000s-related video be one of the first videos to appear in the search results? 

Well that depends. Kids aren't exactly known for being the biggest critiques of new releases, and an adult's judgement of a movie is going to be totally different to what a kid thinks about the movie. If you asked a twenty-something year old now if they are fond/nostalgic for certain kids movies from the Mid 2000s, chances are, many of them will say they are because they liked the movies as kids. Ask a middle-aged adult that same question and you're going to receive a completely different answer. A kids movie doesn't have to be a masterpiece or have a particularly compelling storyline for it to be enjoyable to kids. Kids can laugh over a character in a movie making a pooping sound or a funny noise. 

I don't think the matter of how "good" a kids movie is, really applies when specifically referring to the lasting impression that these movies leave on the people who grew up with them. The 1970s are also considered to be a mediocre time for American animation overall. Does that mean that the kids of the '70s will not have any fondness/nostalgia for the movies they grew up with when they were little? Of course not. It's generally not the kids themselves who are claiming that these movies aren't "particularly good", its adults who are not perceiving these movies through 'rose-tinted glasses'. They're not bias towards them because they didn't grow up with them.

The movies I gave as examples earlier aren't exactly left of field either. Chicken Little was the second highest-grossing animated film of 2005 and grossed over $314 million at the box office worldwide. It was massively popular when it came out. Sure there's movies from people's childhoods that are naturally forgotten about over time, but why is it that kids movies from the other two '00s eras are more likely to receive recognition than many of the ones that were released between 2004-2006? The fact of the matter is, people still grew up with the movies from the Mid 2000s, as good or as bad as they may be. There really shouldn't be any less recognition for them on that basis alone, especially when you consider the fact that the Late 2000s and Early 2010s are now starting to be reappraised by younger people. 

Infinity, what do you make of the idea that nostalgia moves in cycles and that it may just be a matter of enough time passing before some parts of the mid 2000s come back ? This could also possibly be after people grow tired of when the late 90s/Y2K era becomes the focus point of influence in multiple ways; fashion, music, films etc

Do you think that at that point certain aspects of the mid 2000s that are not currently memorable or just did not create a lasting impact can be revitalized and become more interesting again ? Or is that not enough.

I personally am not sure. I know 70s nostagia in the 90s did not come across, in certain ways, as having the intensity and longevity that 80s and early 90s nostagia did during the last decade, but it’s hard to tell.

Wanted to hear your take.

It makes a lot of sense. I think part of the problem is that millennials, early and late X/Yers included, are also pushing this in real life as well And have been for a while. Sometimes it’s almost a bit cultish. Whether it is design, film, social media influence, fanboyism, geek culture. Tbh , even though I’m on board with most of it, I think other eras or less mainstream things sometimes have things to offer.

But for sure unredeemable, dated or stale trends or music just can’t garner more attention regardless of the era. Unfortunately the mid 2000s and other periods do suffer and some have more things that were better or stand the test of time than others.

On the other hand I still feel like we still loosely connected to mid 2000s world.

Part of the allure and nostagia is how we are disconnected in many ways to the 90s, 80s, and Y2K era.

I think once there are more shifts to create even more distance from the mid 2000s is when that when at least some of it might be possibly more interesting. Ex maybe looking back at Beginnings of Web 2.0 or flashy 2000s fashion is very meh or cringe now but might change at some point.

I find it pretty cool that cassette tapes, vhs movies were still around in stores even if they were at a low point, rock music had a stronger presence than today, and technology wasn’t running all of our lives back then.