2006 used to be LOVED now it's HATED by the general public

I can understand what you mean in a way even if I don’t like the pop culture of that time, it’s also not my era as well.

Tbh I think early 2005 is totally disregarded and mid-late 2006 as well.

Early 2005 is last very last echo of lingering 2003-2004 influences and mid-late 2006 is kind of like the basic sketch map for the late 2000s, kind of like the first building block towards 2008.

I’m not a fan of the in between but always it’s interesting to hear positives:

Here are some random points I recall from early to spring 2005 to mid 2006 period.

 (Sorry went on a bit of tangent and some of it is more personal. It still largely applies to 2006.) 

- Ipods and Itunes gets bigger than earlier with more artists to choose from making digital and legal music purchasing a bit more of an official option
- Blogging is massive and a fun thing to try for the first time 
- Great period for stand up comedy
- Less online censorship rules and strict regulations against copyrighted material.
- Less political correctness
- Taking pictures on your phone and actually using the internet and watching videos seems a bit more noticeable.
- Selfies become more of thing
- Wikipedia feels much more developed than earlier and there is MUCH more info online in this period.
- MySpace is ubiquitous and massive more than 2004-2005 a bit beyond music fans etc 
- YouTube takes its modern form with big stars slowly getting popular
- The start of the AVGN getting popular and retro video game fandom and popularity of game collecting sort of starts
- Geek culture and nostagia industry start growing. 80s movie and related toys and merch starts increasing  in stores a lot more than 98-04
- Hipsters more visible, cohesive and their aesthetics become more recognizable.
- USBs start to have a lot more storage and you see more of them around 
- Video store still have large vhs collections 
- Last period of official vhs releases
- Punk fashion can be found easier with more big brands adopting it and more hot topics.
- Film still used in varying degrees not totally dead
- Online culture feels more developed and is onto something in a way
- The Internet close to or early web 2.0
 - Major record labels, corporations and MTV, print start to have less influence in determining rock music culture and media, which is more independant and Internet driven , compared to the early 2000s
- Skateboarding culture still hanging in there
- You can pretty much download almost any album - A lot of options and choices compared to stuff shared online in 99-04/05
- Kinda around first proper period of having a decent amount of blurry but watchable streaming and torrented films and series online - Earlier periods are too low res, not enough choices or unwatchable with dial up
- Smartphones start to have a few similar features and layouts to modern ones
- Average person  into mainstream rock like limp bizkit in like 2001 could now possibly be exposed to 80s punk, post-hardcore, metalcore or death metal and are familiar with bands like Motorhead largely thanks to easy access on the internet and the amount content on it by this time, that wasn't as easy to discover or as accessible as a few years earlier. 

I think its because when this site came out the love for 2006 was dying down, but a video like this




got lots of love online, but this was way way earlier in the 2010s

I hated 2006 when it was going on. Like 2002, Too much BS happened in my personal life. The only thing I really liked was early YouTube.

2006 was noticeably different from 2004 just like how 2016 and 2014 are different from each other. 2006 had a more "digital" feeling than 2004. Motorola Razrs and digital cameras reached its peak in 2006. You could at least get away with wearing frosty tips in 2004 whereas in 2006, the shaggy "wings" haircut are a standard for popular male hairstyles. MySpace was not very ubiquitous in 2004 in contrast to 2006 when it was absolutely massive. The Timbaland dance-pop sound wasn't around in 2004.Though, we must recognize that both 2004 and 2006 do have a lot of similarities as well such as emo taking over skater pop punk. Fashion for women didn't really changed that much since flared jeans were the norm but 2006 was more neon-y than 2004. Crunk was mainstream in both years as well.

Personally, I liked it. It was one of the highlights of my childhood years.

 I remember a lot of people with faux hawks and different spikey hair variations in 2005-2006. They were quite common hairstyles next to the shaggy wings haircut from what I remember. 

I can agree with this. I because of YouTube becoming popular really fast, 2006 felt like the first year I didn’t have to fire up RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, or Realplayer to watch content online. 

I also remember around this time girls had that “ponytail with the bump” hairstyle if anyone knows what I’m talking about?