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okay, so I was born in 1998 but all my childhood memories stem from the early 2000's. am i a millennial fraud? iCarly, the Scholastic Book Fair, Blockbuster...you get the picture. i love imagining a simpler time before I was bombarded with every world problem at a moments notice. the past feels more comfortable and safe...that's why i'm embracing every bit of nostalgia i encounter.
shoutout to @poolsuitefm for making me feel like a kid again
shoutout to @poolsuitefm for making me feel like a kid again
Feb 19, 2025
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šI saw somebody else respond in this format so Iām going to provide my misc memories from being 6-16 in the 2000s:
ā¢ frying an egg on the sidewalk/asphalt/car hoods with kids from my apartment complex because we were convinced it was that hot out ā¢ watching SpongeBob seasons 1-3 on repeat ā¢ watching mtv after school and always having a talk show or pbs queued up on the āprevious channelā button so if my mom came home I could quickly look like I was watching Ellen or Oprah or cyberspace all along (mtv shows were so raunchy) ā¢you had to watch vh1 for anything music related ā¢ catalogs!!! i would do all my āscrollingā in limited too catalogs and then dig through racks at tj maxx to find similar things my mom could actually buy ā¢teen mags for the quizzes ā¢ driving around with my mom listening to her cds while she smoked and ran errands (honestly this still holds up today/ I keep it alive in my own ac-less suv) ā¢ beanie babies and being called out if you had fakes ā¢ listening to radio Disney on my boom box before bed ā¢riding my bike aimlessly when I had nothing else to do ā¢walking to the gas station with my $5 allowance and buying Sobe, now n later, tgi Friday potato skins, and cherry vanilla coke ā¢I also got in trouble a lot for wandering off or smoking rolled up sticky notes or vandalizing storage units with ābrat girlā or something so y2k ā¢I remember my outfits so wellā¦. Many cheeky graphic tees, ringer tees, layered tanks, peasant skirts, stripes, capris, platform sneakers, chokers ā¢redesigning my MySpace every weekend ā¢changing my aim screen name with the seasons ā¢being bullied by boys in middle school, over aim or getting prank called ā¢when I got a cell phone I never remember charging it, but I do remember trying to break my Nokia brick because I wanted a razr or a chocolate, but it was truly indestructible ā¢listening to mix cds in friends cars as they began to drive because nobody had an aux cord or Bluetooth ā¢2008-2010 weāre really dark so Iāll spare you more details
ā¢ frying an egg on the sidewalk/asphalt/car hoods with kids from my apartment complex because we were convinced it was that hot out ā¢ watching SpongeBob seasons 1-3 on repeat ā¢ watching mtv after school and always having a talk show or pbs queued up on the āprevious channelā button so if my mom came home I could quickly look like I was watching Ellen or Oprah or cyberspace all along (mtv shows were so raunchy) ā¢you had to watch vh1 for anything music related ā¢ catalogs!!! i would do all my āscrollingā in limited too catalogs and then dig through racks at tj maxx to find similar things my mom could actually buy ā¢teen mags for the quizzes ā¢ driving around with my mom listening to her cds while she smoked and ran errands (honestly this still holds up today/ I keep it alive in my own ac-less suv) ā¢ beanie babies and being called out if you had fakes ā¢ listening to radio Disney on my boom box before bed ā¢riding my bike aimlessly when I had nothing else to do ā¢walking to the gas station with my $5 allowance and buying Sobe, now n later, tgi Friday potato skins, and cherry vanilla coke ā¢I also got in trouble a lot for wandering off or smoking rolled up sticky notes or vandalizing storage units with ābrat girlā or something so y2k ā¢I remember my outfits so wellā¦. Many cheeky graphic tees, ringer tees, layered tanks, peasant skirts, stripes, capris, platform sneakers, chokers ā¢redesigning my MySpace every weekend ā¢changing my aim screen name with the seasons ā¢being bullied by boys in middle school, over aim or getting prank called ā¢when I got a cell phone I never remember charging it, but I do remember trying to break my Nokia brick because I wanted a razr or a chocolate, but it was truly indestructible ā¢listening to mix cds in friends cars as they began to drive because nobody had an aux cord or Bluetooth ā¢2008-2010 weāre really dark so Iāll spare you more details
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ā¤ļøThis feels like the platform I imagined the cool girls would post on when I was 10 years old. They always wore hoop earrings, had an extensive CD and perfume collection and were the kindest people you would ever meet.
2025 always sounded so futuristic but I feel like I am back in the 2010s again. As i try to disconnect from social media more and be more mindful of how and what media i consume, i chase this feeling from my childhood. Wasting my Saturdays behind the family computer and going down a Youtube rabbit hole, blasting music from my CD player and trying to text on my Nokia phone (by having to press a button three times to get one letter.) Is it the innocence i miss because i didn't have a clue about attachment styles in relationships or the imposter syndrome i get when i go on LinkedIn? I don't know. But since the beginning of 2025 I have noticed once more, I am still 10-year old Sara: I have been listening to Avicii again, since his new documentary came out at the beginning of this year. I am always on the hunt for 2000s Guess kitten heels and handbags on Vinted and Vestiaire. Watching Lamine Yamal play reminds me of the creativity that Brazilian Football represents and the joy i had when watching them compete in the World Cup in 2014.
There is this quote i love, which talks about you being a mosaic of the people you've ever loved and how they impact you in different ways. As much as I am a product of the people in my life i am also a product of my time. As a 2002 baby I do miss the simplicity of social media, post recession pop and my daily workout being completed on Wii Sports. As nostalgic as I am, i can't wait for what this year has in store.
2025 always sounded so futuristic but I feel like I am back in the 2010s again. As i try to disconnect from social media more and be more mindful of how and what media i consume, i chase this feeling from my childhood. Wasting my Saturdays behind the family computer and going down a Youtube rabbit hole, blasting music from my CD player and trying to text on my Nokia phone (by having to press a button three times to get one letter.) Is it the innocence i miss because i didn't have a clue about attachment styles in relationships or the imposter syndrome i get when i go on LinkedIn? I don't know. But since the beginning of 2025 I have noticed once more, I am still 10-year old Sara: I have been listening to Avicii again, since his new documentary came out at the beginning of this year. I am always on the hunt for 2000s Guess kitten heels and handbags on Vinted and Vestiaire. Watching Lamine Yamal play reminds me of the creativity that Brazilian Football represents and the joy i had when watching them compete in the World Cup in 2014.
There is this quote i love, which talks about you being a mosaic of the people you've ever loved and how they impact you in different ways. As much as I am a product of the people in my life i am also a product of my time. As a 2002 baby I do miss the simplicity of social media, post recession pop and my daily workout being completed on Wii Sports. As nostalgic as I am, i can't wait for what this year has in store.
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š¶some of my core memories:
- playing on webkinz or bearville with my cousin every night
- making random things out of duct tape (the wallets, the bows, omg) (definitely more late 2000s but still)
- the vibrant and fun patterns on everything (i loveeeeed lisa frank)
- being outside a lot more
- when I got a slide phone and I accidentally pressed the internet button and I had to viciously go back to the home screen or it would add a charge to the bill and my parents would get mad
- land lines, we still have ours, but I'm seeing less and less people have them now
- primarily listening to CD's (and not understanding pirating so I was amazed that my aunt could get me beatles CD's for free lol)
- having the computer in a different room and not being on it all the time besides when Id play games or watch cat video compilations on youtube
- speaking of games, the spongebob computer games were fire
- also speaking of games, playing my dad's ps1 (when we play them now we're like, how could we even play these?? the quality is so bad compared to what we're used to now lmao)
- then there were the unfortunate parts of it like the only jeans that you could find were low-mid rise, which Im pretty sure is why I hate them to this day š love that other people love them again but I can barely do mid rise lol
- also 2000's clothing sizing was INSANE, even for children, I don't miss that at all
- but at least I was alive and conscious for when High School Musical was released
- also the shows were so good (at the time anyway, looking at certain nickelodeon shows as an adult gives me the ick) (you know the ones)
- also you got peak spongebob
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