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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2021 11:43:28 GMT 10
I am lucky to have been a kid in the 2000s. However the first half of the 2000s was bomb for kid culture. The trends at the time were in your face extreme, hit clips, Razr scooters, colored ketchup and more. Many late 1990s trends carried over, but the first half of 2000s had unique kid culture. Also the variety of shows to watch on Nick, Cartoon Network and Disney were epic. I was into Hot Wheels cars. Card games were popular, Pokemon and Yugioh. Toys seemed to be of higher quality. Going to Toys R Us and KB Toys around this time was fun. I will try to be happy that I experienced it, not sad that it is over, although it is hard not to be sad.
Would you say kid culture is dead now? It doesn't seem as huge as it was in the first half of the 2000s. Now a days, I see kids playing mostly on iPhones, iPads and video games. Sure they still play with toys, but not as much as before. Toys R Us closing is proof of that, although they have struggled for a long time with their 2005 leveraged buyout. However, I am not sure if I can say 100% that kid culture is dead.
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Post by slashpop on Oct 28, 2021 21:58:31 GMT 10
I am lucky to have been a kid in the 2000s. However the first half of the 2000s was bomb for kid culture. The trends at the time were in your face extreme, hit clips, Razr scooters, colored ketchup and more. Many late 1990s trends carried over, but the first half of 2000s had unique kid culture. Also the variety of shows to watch on Nick, Cartoon Network and Disney were epic. I was into Hot Wheels cars. Card games were popular, Pokemon and Yugioh. Toys seemed to be of higher quality. Going to Toys R Us and KB Toys around this time was fun. I will try to be happy that I experienced it, not sad that it is over, although it is hard not to be sad. Would you say kid culture is dead now? It doesn't seem as huge as it was in the first half of the 2000s. Now a days, I see kids playing mostly on iPhones, iPads and video games. Sure they still play with toys, but not as much as before. Toys R Us closing is proof of that, although they have struggled for a long time with their 2005 leveraged buyout. However, I am not sure if I can say 100% that kid culture is dead. It’s hard to tell unless you are young enough to have experienced the current kid culture. Personally, I don’t think every era is equally exciting or that people will be will always drawn to anything they are exposed to enough as kids no matter what it is. I don’t think the 1910s, 1940s or at least most of the 1970s had rich or interesting kid culture compared to other eras like late 70s-some point in the 2000s. I used to think kid culture after 1992-1993( marked by the death of the ninja turtles) wasn’t as good as good earlier but then I remembered each had something to offer, 92-96 had a lot to offer. I think the main reason why you don’t see original crazes, lots of effort and money put into crafting extremely high quality franchises aka like something equivalent in originality and genius to the Simpsons or the 80s transformers for example and intense fads like the past is technology and the money model has changed, causing genius+authentic+creative 80s/90s style franchises to not be as feasible or motivation worthy to even consider coming up with. 2004-2005 was also the last gasp of the old world. People nowadays are so used to mediocre culture it’s scary. 90s kids/teens were much more critical of everything.
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Post by Telso on Oct 29, 2021 6:46:02 GMT 10
I don't think it's necessarily dead. Kid's content is well and alive on the internet and app stores for sure for one thing. But I guess with the pandemic, recess trends and toys have taken a bit of a backseat. And of course as you age up you're naturally less in touch with what kids are into, especially if you're in your 20s with no kids of your own.
I'm sure in 10 years we'll hear how great an era the present is from today's kids, with this show or this toy being amazing and so on.
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Post by dudewitdausername on Oct 30, 2021 9:28:20 GMT 10
It's on YouTube and I'd imagine TikTok now. I imagine Roblox, Fortnite and Among Us too.
Toys R Us is still around here in Canada lol.
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Post by astropoug on Apr 22, 2022 9:30:17 GMT 10
I wouldn't say it's dead so much that it has evolved. There's kid shows and movies on streaming platforms, some dedicated kid-oriented streaming platforms, tons of games, toys, etc. I mean, some of the biggest YouTube channels out there right now are kid channels, and Baby Shark, a children's song, was HUGE a couple years ago, so, no, kid culture is not dead.
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