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Sailingfanblues's avatar

There's so much I disagree with in Klosterman's argument about the 90s and beyond. That aside, something that comes to mind in distinguishing the 00s: Physical Media? Love the Paris Hilton Sims photo, as well as all the stylish cell phones, curated albums, etc. When streaming and always-on internet went universal, content kind of exploded and atomized and style dissipated (literally no boxes, devices reduced to a piece of glass). Early 00s was the peak of THINGS and they needed to look different. So much is downstream of this IMO.

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Colin Horgan's avatar

re: further avenues of inquiry:

fwiw, I think 2000s bro comedies were a/the(?) common link between the sleaze indie and Von Dutch cultural subsets – mostly providing members of each group a common meme-language in a [mostly] still pre-social internet age, centred on Ferrel and Vaughan quotes [ie. those with the most legit 'indie' cred via SNL & Swingers] – and thus fell out of fashion at almost exactly the same time. In other words, it was cool to like bro comedies for about as long as it was ok to like Von Dutch hats and Franz Ferdinand and to wear a Von Dutch hat to a Franz Ferdinand show.

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