Skateboards, Mountain Dew, Call of Duty, and graphic t-shirts with maybe an edgy picture of the Cookie Monster or something all seemed impossibly cool to me once, it’s kind of ridiculous to think about how unobtainable these things were in my mind. Because of course you could just buy these things, but from my point of view they might as well have been royal artifacts.
Born in '89 and let me tell you that the internet/technology balance was just about perfect from the early 2000s to about 2010. The internet wasn't something you were always on or had access to. You'd spend some time online talking to people, looking at funny shit and then then turn off the PC and walk away to do something else. Because you didn't always have the temptation to check your phone every few minutes, you actually got drawn into video games and movies properly. Same with hanging out with friends IRL. I know I sound proper old, but it's so true. Too much of a good thing (internet and connectivity) really is bad.
I understand you completely. The way ppl were using the internet back in that time was better, in my opinion. That's how I used it until I turned 12, I became addicted to social media, and I was always on it, I was so addicted because I have adhd, when I turned 14 my phone became boring and I watched some videos on how not to be addicted to my phone and social media, I deleted all the apps except UA-cam because I wasn't really on it much and only did videos and listened to music on here mostly. I also keep my phone on do not disturb now, only calls and text can come through. I only use my phone now to text, call, listen to music, and do videos for the most part. I use my tablet for movies, UA-cam, and omegle, but I'm not addicted. Seeing the 2000s stuff and just how ppl were in the 2000s influenced me in a way 😁😃
I still live similar to the 90s. I have a phone but I rarely even take it out of the house and hardly ever use it. I only use it as a phone and for texting. I can count the number of times I've used the internet out of the house on 2 hands. Wifi is disabled in my house. I've never even owned a laptop. The idea of being addicted to a smartphone is beyond depressing to me. I hate seeing what has happened to kids today.
I was born in 94, my parents allowed me and my brother (born 92) to use the internet for a one hour each. At first it was because dial-up was expensive, later when it got less expensive it was because they thought it was bad for us ("Your eyes will go square!!"). After a while they let us play the computer more, because they realized it was better for us to stay indoors playing Runescape or WoW than going outside at night, getting up to no good like most of our classmates. One must recognize the good even though there was a problem. It is only now that the online experience has become the majority of our lives, and we have to deal with the outcome and find a better path.
@@GrantTodd-eh7ub The smart phones are what’s keeping us disconnected from real life and each other. Also social media wouldn’t be as prevalent without smartphones.
1990 - 2010 was 20 years. 2010 -2020 a hundred years in terms of change. For the worst. It's not nostalgia, too many people are feeling it, it's just we can't agree on what it is that's the culprit. People in 2007 weren't pining for 1995. This is new.
I'm old enough to remember all this and it's so surreal seeing it become an aesthetic. These are the images of a time where stuff wasn't seen and contextualised online, and this stuff was all just kind of there. But now it's integrated into the archives. Feel like I better build a fortress around my memories to keep this from blending into the real ones.
I remember how in the late 00's how we tried to emulate the 70's. We just dreamed about it and tried to recreate it. It wasnt the 70's, it was its own original thing. It kinda is the same thing about the 00's. Teens today just dream about it, its their own take on dead memories.
I just really liked this style, and my uncle was kinda like this in the 2010s, I'm also kind of like this, so I figured I would make a collage about it with the music because it was nostalgic and I wanted others to feel it, also, I really like the 2000s. Sorry, I wasn't trying to put false stuff into ppls heads. It wasn't my intention at all, I wasn't trying to mess with ppls memories either. I'm so very sorry.
@@MacMyaa Haha nah all good man, I was being kind of dramatic. It's really cool seeing that era gain a new life again, and it brought back some great memories too ❤❤
I remember growing up as a kid in the 00s listening to my aunts and uncles talk about how the 80s were so good and nostalgic. Well now it’s come full circle. 00s are the new 80s.
My favorite part is probably seeing all the cds stacked together, the old Xbox, and the fitted caps. My uncle always would wear fitted caps. My uncle also taught me how to play the Xbox and got me into horror movies.
@@Fenrigalo idk, he has his own family now though and he did say happy birthday to me which was recently. Thx to my mom I'm sure that's why he doesn't come around, can't say too much though.
@@MacMyaa Dang, i hope life goes well for you and your family tho And hey, thanks for the video, you made me realize how I've become the "big brother" xD
This is aesthetic is so spot-on that it reminds me of my own older brother's high school binder from back in the day, which features a skateboarder jumping over a staircase.
Seriously, I'm wondering if I should just get a flip phone and do everything else on my laptop. The main thing stopping me is how good phone cameras are.
@@-Teague- im 35 now i had flip phones until late 2015 during trump era election.. biggest mistake of my life... should have kept it simple.. but then i'd have no friends... sad sad reality. i still hate smart phones and try to leave them behind. but wtf are u gonna do man. fuk it.
@-Teague-Yeah, clinging to pre-smartphone days would be like trying to get around town in a horse and cart in the 1920s when everyone else drove cars.
I wish I was this older brother (I was always the younger brother to a big sister) maybe you can do a cool 90s-2000s older sister core @macmyaa if you ever had someone like that in your life? Kinda like the song "vivian girls - take it as it comes" reminds me of her
I kinda wish that the internet wasn’t as much of a focus as it is now-I was born in the early 2000s. There are times I wish I could just toss my phone in the trash and forget about it, but I literally can’t because it’s a core component of communication between family and friends. I grew up on Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin, so that core music style of the early 2000s is embedded in what I enjoy. the 90s and early 2000s just seems like peak culture-obviously not 100% perfect, but nothing really is there is this game called Cry of Fear that always reminds me of that time, for whatever reason
I know what you mean But I’ve noticed Ask older people and they say peak culture was 80’s Older say 70’s Older say 50’s, etc. We’re all familiar with certain periods I guess. I’m 26 years old. So I remember this time well
I understand you, sometimes I wish I could just forget about my phone but it's not possible right now, but when I get a bit older I will definitely switch my phone to an pretty flip phone and only use it for calls and texting and just get a computer for videos and movies. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a big inspiration for me :)
Everything that is shown in this video is 100% nostalgia fuel for me. I never had a biological brother growing up as a kid, but my cousin was definitely the closest thing to a brother I ever had. His parents kicked him out at a very young age, so my parents took him in. I’m so glad I had such a great cousins/brother like him. he even drove me to middle school every day and he would freely smoke in front of me because he knew I would never rat on him. I just miss him so much.😢 (he moved away)
Oooooooohhhhhhhh mmmmaaaannnnn!!!!!!! Dude, I'm not remotely kidding when I say the nostalgia hit hard, I mean, hhhhhhaaaarrrrrrddddd! I was born in 1995, so the majority of my childhood was from the rest of the 90's and up until the late 2000s. I never would have thought I would live the day where I would see my childhood from 20 years. Oh my gosh I'm so old. And to me the best part about the 2000s, is that there was a balance between technology and normal life, social life or culture, it was before everyone turned into a leech with their phone or other devices. Don't me wrong we still played video games, watched UA-cam, shop online, but it didn't consume our lives and inhibited us from going outside to play, or go to the mall, convenience store. Or just do any activities that didn't always require some type of technology. Toys r us and kb toys was still around. There were play places at fast food restaurants. You had to physically go out and eat, there was no door dash or grub hub. Shopping malls were still relevant. Cartoon channels were still aimed towards family and children and didn't have some stupid political message. I'm not going to lie but I remember the original adult swim shows and bumpers because of course I was the little cheeky monkey that would stay up and watch shows that wasn't the most appropriate for me at the time. I remember the pilot episode of aqua teen hunger force and others. Oh man, I'm old.
You're so cool, and I'm glad you told me your story, I want my life to be like that in a way. I've already stopped my internet addiction and only use my devices for movies, photos, videos, youtube calls, and texts. I'm just not addicted anymore. I do other fun activities now, like reading, watching my outside cats, playing with slime, painting, learning the guitar, playing with my baby doll, sketching, going outside and watching nature, journal, and so much more. Thanks for the inspiration 🙏 🙌 ❤️ 💕
'96 baby here and I agree that the passage of time is so crazy. same way we were romanticizing late 80s/early 90s stuff is what the kids are doing for our childhood today. amazing haha
Fr bro, flaming hot Cheetos are illegal now and so are skateboards. Think I am telling a falsehood? Think again. Imagine if you will, a world where in fact they don’t even exist, and have been erased from their physical states of matter in this here universe, forced into not even dust, not even particles, and not even atoms of carbon. But simply *nothing*, the absence of matter, the same thing that “exists” in a vacuum. You don’t have to imagine.
Idk how many people will notice my comment, but I want to share a story too. Like the author! Great video! I was born in 2003, and at that time in 2009 my parents did not let me near the Internet and computer. So I played games on sega mega drive 2. And the PS2. Sega was inherited from my mom's brother's uncle. When the computer became available to me, gradually pc disks came along too. There was also a psp. From 1st-4th grade in high school, I traded disks with my elders until the last one. I've killed tons of time playing games since I was a kid, maybe it's because I didn't have any siblings. Skateboarding, yeah I've been skating since I was 5 and still do) phone, I've changed 4 phones and they were all button phones. Comic books, oh yeah. I still have a stack of Scooby-doo and Spider-Man comics from 2008. And Jurassic Park from 1990-s. The best part is that adulthood has arrived. But I haven't lost my interest in my childhood hobbies. And you friends also do not lose it! Have a good day.)
this reminds me of my uncle 😭 he’s like 20 years younger than my dad so he grew up with most these things. he moved but he still has a bunch of comics and stuff at home lol.
I know right! I grew up in the 2010s as a kid but as a teen growing up in the 2020s I feel so more connected to the 2000s as if I once lived in that time period.
Ha! I was born in ‘81 and *was* that older brother in the 90s and early 2000s. It was a pretty special time for sure! Edited to add: no one said ‘bro’ back then. Everyone was ‘dude’ or ‘man’. ‘Bro’ is some wack-ass gen Z shit 🤣
Then he died to a 14 year old with a AK in the middle of poppy fields in 2006, mom sold his stuff on ebay in the early 2010s parents got divorced in 2019 life keeps going on
I'm so sorry about that, again, wasn't my intention, though. Maybe you can try some great coping stuff, I just started coping right after my granny passed 9 years ago.
I'm 29 and you're gonna find some guys who were that guy back then, are still that guy more or less now. My childhood best friend, who I'm still friends with to this day is still into all that kinda aesthetic and still loves those edgy kinda vibes.
My older brother had all that in his early 20s, I remember I was a toddler, and he never let me enter his room, but when I had the chance to go in it was like another world, an aesthetic that I still like to this day. He's now 36 and with a family.
being born in 2006 i feel that i was born at the of end of what was a great era. being able to see only a slight glimmer of a groundbreaking golden age. even though i wasn't born in the late 90's i still feel great nostalgia for it , just thanking back as a kid being freaked out by early adult swim bumps or seeing my brothers scream at one another over MK9. it was truly a time like no other.
I was born in 2005 but I can relate more to this than any other thing. Grew up with no phone, crappy computer, dumpster Skateboard, xbox 360 I still play on, climbing on rooftops and filming a lot with my grandpa's camera. I also punched other kids in the face when they bullied my little brother. Seems like a 2000s thing the more I think about it😂
u are still a kid savor your youth one day you'll be 30 and think "fk i should have done that" i did everything my gut told me to do and had a great time. and i still wish i done more. trust me bro DO. IT. BIG.
Me too but in the 2010s, I was so jealous of my cousins because they had a older brother and kinda gave off their vibe but so did I and I still kinda do.
All of my cousins were like this. They grew out of it through the 2010s. Some nostalgic shit tho as i look back. You cant find stuff like this no more.
Fuck, this just made me think about 2007-2012 when I still had my gamer friend group and was with my ex during our early 20s. Back when UA-cam was full of UFO/Ghost videos and comedy sketch channels. Staying up playing COD, GOW, Rock Band, etc and going to GameStop for the midnight releases. We'd hangout all night watching horror movies until 6am eating pizza and baking Halloween cookies or running around town at 2am when everything was silent and no one else was awake or outside feeling that odd magic you do during your youth. I miss them a lot sometimes, I hope they're all doing well in life.
@xCreepyKidsx wow, I bet that was an amazing experience, I remember in 2018 I had a best friend, and we did a lot of great things together ❤️. It ended so soon, I hope she's doing well as well.
what weirds me out the most about this is that it’s never you. Like, it was never actually the person who lived like this, instead it was always someone else they knew. I wonder how
We’re looking out at the world. So when we saw our friend’s older brother or someone who we didn’t know very well who had this aesthetic, it would be easy to say that they embodied it 100% based on our limited view of them. But, we would probably assume that we were more nuanced, even if at the time an outside observer would put us into this “2000’s older brother” box.
@xxangelthebearxx definitely, so far, a lot of people from Gen z bring back some of the fashion from that time period. I wanna bring back the technology, though. It might help with serious internet addiction in teens, I hope.
It's better when you're older brother 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 an ass. Lol, but what can I say? All siblings have their ups and their downs with each other, growing up with him every day of our childhood, but I love him. ❤
My older brother was into anime in the early 00s, StarCraft, Rurouni Kenshin, BMX, and rage -fixing his ancient Hondas. I was into bluegrass and alt-country, writing Star Wars EU fanfic, Wheel of Time, and Shining Force.
To all the older brothers who had to grow up fast because they had to be the man of the house just know that you're loved from the eyes of the younger siblings. That's why you're so cool to us.
I was a little kid in the 2000's, but I will never forget the feeling of stepping into an older cousin's or younger uncle's apartment. They always had Guitar Hero and an X Box.
We had bunkbeds, ps2/n64/gamecube, stayed up all night playing resident evil listening to tool and incubus. Bro got married, i went off to college. I never get to see him now that we are in our 30s working. Love you bro, thank you for everything.
This video awoke very old memories of how I used to view my late brother (r.i.p.) as a kid. They were good memories, though. Judging by everyone elses comments, I bet a lot of us who were kids in the 2000s had an older brother like this.
I was born in 2002, and this is exactly what I was grown up with. My stepdad (who was around in his mid to late 20s) was like a big brother that I never had, and he exposed me to a lot of shit that I continue to love to to this day. I loved him, and when I reminisce those memories (good or bad), I miss him and the lost masculine bond that we had. But now, I’m my own man and even though I moved on, I don’t let myself forget those memories, for complicated personal reasons. The only thing I wish now, is that I really hope he’s doing well.
I'm very glad for you! Same with me, though. I was exposed to a lot of 2000s stuff, but in the 2010s that I still want and like to this day. My uncle was the older brother for me.
My older brother wasn’t this grunge, but he did have a lot of things from that time period that we inherited: A Gameboy, Lego Harry Potter Sets, Bionicles, Kingdom Hearts, Star Wars Battlefront, a PS2. I have very fond memories of him growing up. Thanks for this. 🙏🏻
Born in 96 as well, but I wasn't around a social environment. I was around just about enough to see that this is real and that it really happened, but not much else. Even though I didn't get the whole experience, I can easily tell that people were better back then.
@stephen3765 I was born in 2009 and had an uncle who was like an older brother, but I just always felt connected to this style. I'm glad you felt the nostalgia.
Older brother’s vocabulary has heavy rotations of every slur imaginable. He is also 19 but has a secret “girlfriend” who is 14. Wears a red baseball cap backwards and stinks of weed. Listens to Weezer, and American Football because “real Emo isn’t sissy dudes wearing eyeliner!” Also has Green Day, Blink-182 and Sun 41 posters on his wall. There’s a greasy spot in the corner of his room that smells like fish.
Remember that feeling when certain things seemed like "only for the cool older kids" and know it's just like a skateboard or a computer game.
Omg yes. I wanted to play gta when I was younger but wasn't allowed until my uncle left the controller, and I just started playing.
this is so real
Skateboards, Mountain Dew, Call of Duty, and graphic t-shirts with maybe an edgy picture of the Cookie Monster or something all seemed impossibly cool to me once, it’s kind of ridiculous to think about how unobtainable these things were in my mind. Because of course you could just buy these things, but from my point of view they might as well have been royal artifacts.
I RELATE TO THIS SO MUCHHH (i was born in 2021)
@craftysteve176 Why the heck do you have a device??? You are 3.
rodrick core
Ohhh, definitely reminds me of him.
exactly
😂😂
Yess
Rodrick was my least favorite
Born in '89 and let me tell you that the internet/technology balance was just about perfect from the early 2000s to about 2010.
The internet wasn't something you were always on or had access to. You'd spend some time online talking to people, looking at funny shit and then then turn off the PC and walk away to do something else. Because you didn't always have the temptation to check your phone every few minutes, you actually got drawn into video games and movies properly. Same with hanging out with friends IRL.
I know I sound proper old, but it's so true. Too much of a good thing (internet and connectivity) really is bad.
I’m 22 and skateboarding is more tempting than TV or my phone besides listening to music while skateboarding lol.
I understand you completely. The way ppl were using the internet back in that time was better, in my opinion. That's how I used it until I turned 12, I became addicted to social media, and I was always on it, I was so addicted because I have adhd, when I turned 14 my phone became boring and I watched some videos on how not to be addicted to my phone and social media, I deleted all the apps except UA-cam because I wasn't really on it much and only did videos and listened to music on here mostly. I also keep my phone on do not disturb now, only calls and text can come through. I only use my phone now to text, call, listen to music, and do videos for the most part. I use my tablet for movies, UA-cam, and omegle, but I'm not addicted. Seeing the 2000s stuff and just how ppl were in the 2000s influenced me in a way 😁😃
I still live similar to the 90s. I have a phone but I rarely even take it out of the house and hardly ever use it. I only use it as a phone and for texting. I can count the number of times I've used the internet out of the house on 2 hands. Wifi is disabled in my house. I've never even owned a laptop. The idea of being addicted to a smartphone is beyond depressing to me. I hate seeing what has happened to kids today.
I was born in 94, my parents allowed me and my brother (born 92) to use the internet for a one hour each. At first it was because dial-up was expensive, later when it got less expensive it was because they thought it was bad for us ("Your eyes will go square!!"). After a while they let us play the computer more, because they realized it was better for us to stay indoors playing Runescape or WoW than going outside at night, getting up to no good like most of our classmates. One must recognize the good even though there was a problem.
It is only now that the online experience has become the majority of our lives, and we have to deal with the outcome and find a better path.
You're the same age as my older brother! He was born '89 and i was born in '05
Older bro was always playing Halo 3 and smoking weed in his dungeon-like room. I always thought he was the coolest.
What he is doing now?
He prolly was hit him up
Dying at 40 ahh build
@@secho88wtf are u yapping about
@@KH-nova sm shit, but i betcha that mf cant yap no more at 40🙏😂
I was born in 99 and this is exactly how i perceived my cousin who was born in 89
Oh wow! That's cool, I perceived almost every older guy like this, but mostly my uncle.
Omg u were born in the nineteenth hundreds
@@TheAvarageHomeschoolKid Really living up to that name
Dude... My '89 cousin got all of the other giys in the family suuuuper into Halo when we were younger. My brother was '94 and I'm '98.
Comment right below you was born in ‘89
"Hey kid, this is only for the cool kids" this was a time when high schoolers used to feel really intimidating
high schooler were intimidating when i was a little kid too. but now we're all stupid and rude to each other.
@@sober_katzthey were stupid and rude to each other..
High Schoolers were never intimidating. We were just 5 years old wanting to be them.
I miss when life felt this pure
Me too
You mean before smart phones?
@@williamcooper8599 It's not the smart phones it's social media.
@@GrantTodd-eh7ub The smart phones are what’s keeping us disconnected from real life and each other. Also social media wouldn’t be as prevalent without smartphones.
1990 - 2010 was 20 years. 2010 -2020 a hundred years in terms of change. For the worst. It's not nostalgia, too many people are feeling it, it's just we can't agree on what it is that's the culprit. People in 2007 weren't pining for 1995. This is new.
Life felt more real back then. The colors and lights were more vivid. People seemed like people.
I'm old enough to remember all this and it's so surreal seeing it become an aesthetic. These are the images of a time where stuff wasn't seen and contextualised online, and this stuff was all just kind of there. But now it's integrated into the archives. Feel like I better build a fortress around my memories to keep this from blending into the real ones.
I remember how in the late 00's how we tried to emulate the 70's. We just dreamed about it and tried to recreate it. It wasnt the 70's, it was its own original thing.
It kinda is the same thing about the 00's. Teens today just dream about it, its their own take on dead memories.
I just really liked this style, and my uncle was kinda like this in the 2010s, I'm also kind of like this, so I figured I would make a collage about it with the music because it was nostalgic and I wanted others to feel it, also, I really like the 2000s. Sorry, I wasn't trying to put false stuff into ppls heads. It wasn't my intention at all, I wasn't trying to mess with ppls memories either. I'm so very sorry.
@@MacMyaa Haha nah all good man, I was being kind of dramatic. It's really cool seeing that era gain a new life again, and it brought back some great memories too ❤❤
@@angledcoathanger ohhh, okay 👍
Happens to every decade. You don't notice when you're there, only when enough time has passed that everything surrounding you then is gone.
I remember growing up as a kid in the 00s listening to my aunts and uncles talk about how the 80s were so good and nostalgic. Well now it’s come full circle. 00s are the new 80s.
It happens to every generation eventually
Yes haha
Nostalgia is the liquor of fools and the crumbs of wise men
It’s funny because people are now starting to feel nostalgic about the early 2010’s. Lol
@@krabgrass yess you're right haha
My fav part is the old tower PC we all started with our big toe
My favorite part is probably seeing all the cds stacked together, the old Xbox, and the fitted caps. My uncle always would wear fitted caps. My uncle also taught me how to play the Xbox and got me into horror movies.
@@MacMyaa He sounds like a really cool dude
Where he at today?
@@Fenrigalo idk, he has his own family now though and he did say happy birthday to me which was recently. Thx to my mom I'm sure that's why he doesn't come around, can't say too much though.
@@MacMyaa Dang, i hope life goes well for you and your family tho
And hey, thanks for the video, you made me realize how I've become the "big brother" xD
@@Fenrigalo you're very welcome 🙏 🤗
0:42 *THERE'S ONLY 1 BEER LEFT*
😅😆
Rappers screaming in our ears like we're deaf
The fact that MF DOOM actually fits this era makes it all the better
Tempt me, do a number on the label
Do a number on a label……
This is aesthetic is so spot-on that it reminds me of my own older brother's high school binder from back in the day, which features a skateboarder jumping over a staircase.
@@alexsaffamerica wow, kinda reminds me of when I always used to draw in my math notebook
my drywall is sweating nervously at this video
So i guess we 2000s kids are old enought to feel nostalgia
I think it all just started to suck when we all started carrying smart computers around in our pockets nothing is sacred
Seriously, I'm wondering if I should just get a flip phone and do everything else on my laptop. The main thing stopping me is how good phone cameras are.
@@-Teague- im 35 now i had flip phones until late 2015 during trump era election.. biggest mistake of my life... should have kept it simple.. but then i'd have no friends... sad sad reality. i still hate smart phones and try to leave them behind. but wtf are u gonna do man. fuk it.
@-Teague-Yeah, clinging to pre-smartphone days would be like trying to get around town in a horse and cart in the 1920s when everyone else drove cars.
not really, everything went to shit around the mid-2010s when everything had to be political or part of some bigger culture war
Now youre just sounding like some boomer
My brother was nothing like this, but my friend had an older brother that embodied every, single, image.
My uncle, older friends, and older cousin were like this, and I became hooked to this kind of style/imagine, as well.
I wish I was this older brother (I was always the younger brother to a big sister) maybe you can do a cool 90s-2000s older sister core @macmyaa if you ever had someone like that in your life? Kinda like the song "vivian girls - take it as it comes" reminds me of her
@rokukou okay, sure, and I've had someone as an older sister in my life :)
Me too
@@MacMyaa I'll be looking forward to it !!
When I was little, this is basically how I thought life was gonna be for me as a teenager. Boy was I disappointed.
“LOWER THE VOLUME MIKE, I CAN HEAR YOUR MUSIC FROM ACROSS THE HOUSE!”
"SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
WHAT?
Its crazy how the taco bell guitar hero meal was 6 bucks
you can still eat at Taco Bell for $6 bro
Bro this is making me cry i miss my brother sm
I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention at all, I just wanted ppl to feel the nostalgia.
I lost mine too over the winter man i feel you on that one , gotta keep on movin for him
I'm so sorry to hear bro, I hope one day his memories can bring you smiles again. May he rest in peace ❤️
@@yanntasse493Yours too, may you both find as much peace as you can ❤️
@yanntasse493 so sorry, he'll definitely be very proud of you, though.
I kinda wish that the internet wasn’t as much of a focus as it is now-I was born in the early 2000s. There are times I wish I could just toss my phone in the trash and forget about it, but I literally can’t because it’s a core component of communication between family and friends.
I grew up on Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin, so that core music style of the early 2000s is embedded in what I enjoy.
the 90s and early 2000s just seems like peak culture-obviously not 100% perfect, but nothing really is
there is this game called Cry of Fear that always reminds me of that time, for whatever reason
I know what you mean
But I’ve noticed
Ask older people and they say peak culture was 80’s
Older say 70’s
Older say 50’s, etc.
We’re all familiar with certain periods I guess.
I’m 26 years old. So I remember this time well
I understand you, sometimes I wish I could just forget about my phone but it's not possible right now, but when I get a bit older I will definitely switch my phone to an pretty flip phone and only use it for calls and texting and just get a computer for videos and movies. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a big inspiration for me :)
Everything that is shown in this video is 100% nostalgia fuel for me. I never had a biological brother growing up as a kid, but my cousin was definitely the closest thing to a brother I ever had. His parents kicked him out at a very young age, so my parents took him in. I’m so glad I had such a great cousins/brother like him. he even drove me to middle school every day and he would freely smoke in front of me because he knew I would never rat on him. I just miss him so much.😢 (he moved away)
Wow, no one ever told me they full on had the full experience! That's amazing, my uncle was like my older brother but we don't talk much anymore.
Oooooooohhhhhhhh mmmmaaaannnnn!!!!!!! Dude, I'm not remotely kidding when I say the nostalgia hit hard, I mean, hhhhhhaaaarrrrrrddddd! I was born in 1995, so the majority of my childhood was from the rest of the 90's and up until the late 2000s. I never would have thought I would live the day where I would see my childhood from 20 years. Oh my gosh I'm so old. And to me the best part about the 2000s, is that there was a balance between technology and normal life, social life or culture, it was before everyone turned into a leech with their phone or other devices. Don't me wrong we still played video games, watched UA-cam, shop online, but it didn't consume our lives and inhibited us from going outside to play, or go to the mall, convenience store. Or just do any activities that didn't always require some type of technology. Toys r us and kb toys was still around. There were play places at fast food restaurants. You had to physically go out and eat, there was no door dash or grub hub. Shopping malls were still relevant. Cartoon channels were still aimed towards family and children and didn't have some stupid political message. I'm not going to lie but I remember the original adult swim shows and bumpers because of course I was the little cheeky monkey that would stay up and watch shows that wasn't the most appropriate for me at the time. I remember the pilot episode of aqua teen hunger force and others. Oh man, I'm old.
You're so cool, and I'm glad you told me your story, I want my life to be like that in a way. I've already stopped my internet addiction and only use my devices for movies, photos, videos, youtube calls, and texts. I'm just not addicted anymore. I do other fun activities now, like reading, watching my outside cats, playing with slime, painting, learning the guitar, playing with my baby doll, sketching, going outside and watching nature, journal, and so much more. Thanks for the inspiration 🙏 🙌 ❤️ 💕
'96 baby here and I agree that the passage of time is so crazy. same way we were romanticizing late 80s/early 90s stuff is what the kids are doing for our childhood today. amazing haha
Never forget what they took from you 😤
😅😞
Fr bro, flaming hot Cheetos are illegal now and so are skateboards. Think I am telling a falsehood? Think again. Imagine if you will, a world where in fact they don’t even exist, and have been erased from their physical states of matter in this here universe, forced into not even dust, not even particles, and not even atoms of carbon. But simply *nothing*, the absence of matter, the same thing that “exists” in a vacuum. You don’t have to imagine.
no one took this from you but time itself
Idk how many people will notice my comment, but I want to share a story too. Like the author! Great video! I was born in 2003, and at that time in 2009 my parents did not let me near the Internet and computer. So I played games on sega mega drive 2. And the PS2. Sega was inherited from my mom's brother's uncle. When the computer became available to me, gradually pc disks came along too. There was also a psp. From 1st-4th grade in high school, I traded disks with my elders until the last one. I've killed tons of time playing games since I was a kid, maybe it's because I didn't have any siblings. Skateboarding, yeah I've been skating since I was 5 and still do) phone, I've changed 4 phones and they were all button phones. Comic books, oh yeah. I still have a stack of Scooby-doo and Spider-Man comics from 2008. And Jurassic Park from 1990-s. The best part is that adulthood has arrived. But I haven't lost my interest in my childhood hobbies. And you friends also do not lose it! Have a good day.)
this reminds me of my uncle 😭 he’s like 20 years younger than my dad so he grew up with most these things. he moved but he still has a bunch of comics and stuff at home lol.
It’s crazy that you can feel nostalgic for something you like, weren’t even alive for
I know right! I grew up in the 2010s as a kid but as a teen growing up in the 2020s I feel so more connected to the 2000s as if I once lived in that time period.
@@MacMyaa ye
You werent alive during this?!?!
@@soupdrinker nah I’m 17 💀
@@jonahnewt4412 whaat, we're not that far apart though, I'm 22
That was me. I was the older brother in the early 2000s. Skateboarding and all. It was a great time to be a teenager.
Born in ‘95. I saw the late 90s and early 2000s. It was dope bro
Lucky, I wish I was a teen or at least in my 20s in the early 2000s.
I was born in 91 and barely remember the the 90s.
I also wish I was born 5 or 10 years earlier...
Ha! I was born in ‘81 and *was* that older brother in the 90s and early 2000s. It was a pretty special time for sure!
Edited to add: no one said ‘bro’ back then. Everyone was ‘dude’ or ‘man’. ‘Bro’ is some wack-ass gen Z shit 🤣
You were a teen in 2013
Just get a skate board and go ride it guys
I like rollerblades better. The last time I tried skateboarding, I fell on my face 🥲
perfectly captured the vibe, had a friend growing up whos brother was just like that
Thanks, and similar here just with my uncle and cousin
Then he died to a 14 year old with a AK in the middle of poppy fields in 2006, mom sold his stuff on ebay in the early 2010s parents got divorced in 2019 life keeps going on
I'm so sorry about that, again, wasn't my intention, though. Maybe you can try some great coping stuff, I just started coping right after my granny passed 9 years ago.
i was a toddler in this era but i remember it. it was a vibe for sure.
yeah haha
So was I, but I had uncles who still carried it on.
I'm 29 and you're gonna find some guys who were that guy back then, are still that guy more or less now. My childhood best friend, who I'm still friends with to this day is still into all that kinda aesthetic and still loves those edgy kinda vibes.
My older brother had all that in his early 20s, I remember I was a toddler, and he never let me enter his room, but when I had the chance to go in it was like another world, an aesthetic that I still like to this day. He's now 36 and with a family.
being born in 2006 i feel that i was born at the of end of what was a great era. being able to see only a slight glimmer of a groundbreaking golden age. even though i wasn't born in the late 90's i still feel great nostalgia for it , just thanking back as a kid being freaked out by early adult swim bumps or seeing my brothers scream at one another over MK9. it was truly a time like no other.
I agree, I loved seeing my uncle fit this kind of style a bit
Ya you pretty much missed it all if you were born in 06 kiddo. You got a taste tho.
Tbh, i thought they quit making new kids around 03 loll
wow people born in 2006 are 18
@@henriquealejandro7247 there are people born in 2006? LOL
will always treausure my time in 1990s early 2000s. such precious memories
@@extremeoctane666 People born in 2010 are already 14
me with the older brother of my friend, he was playing skyrim and batman arkham, and listened to greenday
My uncle and cousin played COD and skateboard games a lot and gta
reminds me of my older bro in the 2000s miss him💔
Sorry, I just wanted people to be happy by feeling the nostalgia .
@@MacMyaa all good it was good to be reminded of him and that nostalgic time, you captured it really well
I was born in 2005 but I can relate more to this than any other thing. Grew up with no phone, crappy computer, dumpster Skateboard, xbox 360 I still play on, climbing on rooftops and filming a lot with my grandpa's camera. I also punched other kids in the face when they bullied my little brother. Seems like a 2000s thing the more I think about it😂
You are the older brother
@@mcboyyy.9391 yep
u are still a kid
savor your youth
one day you'll be 30 and think "fk i should have done that"
i did everything my gut told me to do and had a great time. and i still wish i done more. trust me bro DO. IT. BIG.
@@extremeoctane666 Wisdom right here
Man 2000s were peak. Last good decade
Man, i wish i could have been a 2000s older brother but i wasnt old enough for that and im also a girl
You can still have the style, though because I do, kinda.
This is how I used to see every high schooler ever
Me too
I watched this wishing I had an older brother in the 2000s because they had good taste, then i realised I was an older brother in the 2000s.
Me too but in the 2010s, I was so jealous of my cousins because they had a older brother and kinda gave off their vibe but so did I and I still kinda do.
All of my cousins were like this. They grew out of it through the 2010s. Some nostalgic shit tho as i look back. You cant find stuff like this no more.
I know right, you really can't.
I'm the oldest of three siblings, but I always wanted an older brother. this was what I imagined his vibe would have been like
@soso-chan5075 I wanted an older brother, too, but I am the older brother even though I'm a girl.
same here
I remember those days, I was 17 in the year 2000
back when it was "it's my turn" simplier times, no internet, people were less miserable, and everything seemed good
the friends cool older brother vibe-felt that one in my bones
Me too. 😖
2000s older brother core but if you were a scene/skating kid.
Fuck, this just made me think about 2007-2012 when I still had my gamer friend group and was with my ex during our early 20s. Back when UA-cam was full of UFO/Ghost videos and comedy sketch channels. Staying up playing COD, GOW, Rock Band, etc and going to GameStop for the midnight releases. We'd hangout all night watching horror movies until 6am eating pizza and baking Halloween cookies or running around town at 2am when everything was silent and no one else was awake or outside feeling that odd magic you do during your youth. I miss them a lot sometimes, I hope they're all doing well in life.
@xCreepyKidsx wow, I bet that was an amazing experience, I remember in 2018 I had a best friend, and we did a lot of great things together ❤️. It ended so soon, I hope she's doing well as well.
Woah that’s a trip. Finally young kids look back on “my” era even though they haven’t experienced it. Weeeird
Yup, this is exactly how I spent my teens in the 00s!!
what weirds me out the most about this is that it’s never you. Like, it was never actually the person who lived like this, instead it was always someone else they knew. I wonder how
We’re looking out at the world. So when we saw our friend’s older brother or someone who we didn’t know very well who had this aesthetic, it would be easy to say that they embodied it 100% based on our limited view of them. But, we would probably assume that we were more nuanced, even if at the time an outside observer would put us into this “2000’s older brother” box.
I miss it all late 90s and 2000s were the best
goldsrc
my brother was a juggalo 0:27
I used to see them on UA-cam when I was younger, I was terrified of the makeup because I was scared of clowns.
Never had an older brother, but had friends that did, why did this have to be so damn personal 😂😭
I never had an older brother either, but I had an older uncle 😅
real.
I've never heard my speakers make that sound before.
this was literally my brother before he got stationed in iraq back in 2004
I feel for them kids crying missing and thinking bout they brother rn I love y’all stau safe
your child hood is a story that no one knows but we all had
As a younger brother this gives me so much nostalgia for when me and my older brother were on better terms 😭😭
Same man. All we can do is love em and miss em.
I can still smell the old booze and cigarettes mixed with the still air of an hot room where they kept all their guns.
THIS IS EXACTLY THE AESTHETIC IVE BEEN TRYING TO COMPREHEND
I miss this time so much it physically hurts.
I get sadder everyday knowing I will never live in the 2000s ever again
Well, it's still possible in a way.
@@MacMyaa i'm sure future gens can bring back the 2000s vibe
@xxangelthebearxx definitely, so far, a lot of people from Gen z bring back some of the fashion from that time period. I wanna bring back the technology, though. It might help with serious internet addiction in teens, I hope.
I love this. Nostalgic for me as well even though I was 25 in 2000 lol…..
@@user-xd3du4im4i that's fine, I wasn't even alive in 2000, I lived the 2010s as a kid.
Me and my older brother used to fight a lot but I always thought everything he did was so cool. He's my best friend to this day.
My older brother was the type of brother to give me an unconnected controller.
Omg, I used to do that to my younger sister and said just pretend you're playing 🤣😂😅
I broke so many PSPs and original Xbox controllers in those days . Back then we had pieces of the 1990s left over …
It's better when you're older brother 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 an ass. Lol, but what can I say? All siblings have their ups and their downs with each other, growing up with him every day of our childhood, but I love him. ❤
Those were the days. Nostalgia stings your skin as sweet as it is on your tongue.
Such a great quote 👌
My older brother was into anime in the early 00s, StarCraft, Rurouni Kenshin, BMX, and rage -fixing his ancient Hondas.
I was into bluegrass and alt-country, writing Star Wars EU fanfic, Wheel of Time, and Shining Force.
To all the older brothers who had to grow up fast because they had to be the man of the house just know that you're loved from the eyes of the younger siblings. That's why you're so cool to us.
I was born in 1993. I am that 2000's older brother.
I was a little kid in the 2000's, but I will never forget the feeling of stepping into an older cousin's or younger uncle's apartment. They always had Guitar Hero and an X Box.
We had bunkbeds, ps2/n64/gamecube, stayed up all night playing resident evil listening to tool and incubus. Bro got married, i went off to college. I never get to see him now that we are in our 30s working. Love you bro, thank you for everything.
Awww
0:07 Gorillaz Demon Days!
we really didnt deserve these awesome times
As someone born in 2003 this is what my older cousin born 1995 seemed like
This video awoke very old memories of how I used to view my late brother (r.i.p.) as a kid. They were good memories, though.
Judging by everyone elses comments, I bet a lot of us who were kids in the 2000s had an older brother like this.
I learned to play music and about the magic of improvising in rooms like this at the Tancredi’s house
Man my brother used to be my hero lol now he’s just some middle insurance agent. Wish I could go back for a day tho
I wish I could go back to the 2010s :)
As a 2000s baby, can confirm that this was my brother and sister growing up
My uncle was pretty much my older brother growing up so I highly relate to this 😭
My uncle was like my older brother too
me too ! he’s quite young compared to my dad so I guess we’re more close.
@@staeriix For me, he's my mom's half brother and was born when my mom was in her 20s
Just a _little_ late for me, maybe by 4-5 years. If this were full of PS2s...
This means everything to me! I love that era and these vibes are perfect. Great video
I was born in 2002, and this is exactly what I was grown up with. My stepdad (who was around in his mid to late 20s) was like a big brother that I never had, and he exposed me to a lot of shit that I continue to love to to this day. I loved him, and when I reminisce those memories (good or bad), I miss him and the lost masculine bond that we had. But now, I’m my own man and even though I moved on, I don’t let myself forget those memories, for complicated personal reasons.
The only thing I wish now, is that I really hope he’s doing well.
I'm very glad for you! Same with me, though. I was exposed to a lot of 2000s stuff, but in the 2010s that I still want and like to this day. My uncle was the older brother for me.
More like 2000s uncle core
Yea! It's like how mÿ uncle kinda was, but in the 2010s
My older brother wasn’t this grunge, but he did have a lot of things from that time period that we inherited: A Gameboy, Lego Harry Potter Sets, Bionicles, Kingdom Hearts, Star Wars Battlefront, a PS2.
I have very fond memories of him growing up. Thanks for this. 🙏🏻
I've got a wii game and Xbox a long time ago. Also, you're very welcome.
kingdom hearts was my childhood too. i'm forever grateful my brother introduced me to that amazing game at a young age
@@MacMyaa
I still have my Wii from 2010 lol. Honestly the best console of all time imo
@vi0let831 Yes, I loved dancing on there
@@MacMyaa
Personally I prefer dancing on the Xbox 360 because of the Kinect but using the Wii for that was cool too :)
How did they afford all those things back then???!!! That stuff was way above my pay scale
THE HALO REACH BOTTLES AHHHH
Ah, love this +new subscriber :)
Thank you
Bro I’m the youngest sister out of 3 older brothers. Born 1996 and holy shit this was literally them! 😮 I love my dumb brothers! ❤
Born in 96 as well, but I wasn't around a social environment. I was around just about enough to see that this is real and that it really happened, but not much else.
Even though I didn't get the whole experience, I can easily tell that people were better back then.
I love my uncle, he was an older brother to me.
I used to love skating with friends..
this is too real.
Uhh big bro is it my turn yet
Omg, I just remembered I always used to ask my uncle if I could have a turn for the video games. 🥲😂
THE GOOD DAYS.
Yes, I agree 👍
Love how I was born in 2010 and I’m an only child yet I feel so nostalgic for this
@stephen3765 I was born in 2009 and had an uncle who was like an older brother, but I just always felt connected to this style. I'm glad you felt the nostalgia.
Older brother’s vocabulary has heavy rotations of every slur imaginable.
He is also 19 but has a secret “girlfriend” who is 14.
Wears a red baseball cap backwards and stinks of weed.
Listens to Weezer, and American Football because “real Emo isn’t sissy dudes wearing eyeliner!”
Also has Green Day, Blink-182 and Sun 41 posters on his wall.
There’s a greasy spot in the corner of his room that smells like fish.
huh?
I will forever be pissed about being a teenager in the 2020s just because I have to.
Live while you can. Life goes quick, one day you're going to want to be a teen in the 2020s again.
same. why can't we be cool and not annoying