Let's Be the Year 2000

I'm the rise and fall of Ralph Nader

I’m the optimism of the first 10 months of 2000 that we had a brand new century of human progress to look forward to. That all went sideways with the 2000 election hanging chad/Brooks Brothers riot debacle when the presidency was handed to George W Fucking Bush at the end of the year. The 21st Century has been a shit show ever since.

I'm the Y2K lunatics. We're sure glad that social media doesn't exist yet, because we'd have to explain ourselves to all the friends and family we've been ranting at for over a year. As it is, we can just delete our blogs and pretend it never happened.

I'm Enron! The most innovated company in the world. With multi-billion dollar earnings, we encourage our employees to invest their retirements all in Enron stock. Your investments are safe with us.

We also have Henry Kissinger and James Baker on our board of directors.

If Junior wins the election, Ken Lay most likely will be named Treasury Secretary.

I'm the Sopranos

I was in University at the time. What a time to be alive! No 9/11, no SJWs, no sense of impending doom. The drugs were better and the parties were FUN!

R6 It was also fun because it was the new millennium!

I’m the report of pea-soup fog south of Rhode Island John-John didn’t read (or heed.)

I'm the sad death of Walter Matthau.

I'm the fully intact Twin Towers

I’m powerhouse of the stock market America Online. I’m about to buy media giant Time Warner on my way to total global dominance!

I'm the new documentary reality show Survivor.

I just kicked two members out the group

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I'm the sound AIM makes

I'm a flip phone.

I’m an episode of Dharma and Greg.

I’m the pedant who got tired of explaining to people how 2000 was the last year of the 20th century and therefore not the beginning of the millennium. 2000 had to be completed in order to count as the last full year of the 20th century. The new millennium would begin with year 2001. If someone owed you $2000, and gave you $1,999, you’d be short one dollar. $1,999.01 isn’t good enough either. You need the whole dollar. It’s the same principle when you’re counting centuries which are 100 years and the 100th year ends in a zero, the zero being a multiple of ten. We count from 1 to 10, not zero to 9.

I’m exhausted. And exhausting according to some DLers.

I'm DL Fave Miss Julia Roberts loving my life at the peak of my career and writing my Oscar speech in March.

I'm J-Lo, hoping no one finds out about "my voice".

I’m Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

R6 … you equate 9/11 with “social justice warriors”?

I'm all the confused Prince fans. Should he have done a new version of 1999 for December 31, 1998 or 1999? I am still confused but I think the media started playing it a year early.

R22 yes. SJWs have done more damage to LGB rights than 9/11 did. I find them extremely dangerous to my existence as a gay man.

I'm an Internet cafe!

I’m Britney 💋

No one is questioning my sanity yet.

I’m the person who stayed at home drinking a glass of champagne. Meanwhile, my partner had to stay overnight at his oil company to make sure the computers didn’t go on the fritz when the date changed over. (They didn’t).

I went to a NYE party that night and somebody cut the lights at the stroke of midnight, just to fuck with people.

I’m fingers fingering the coin-return gully of pay phones all over NYC to find quarters to make their calls.

My person won’t get a cellphone til after living through 9/11

I'm the fabulous Gap In-Store Playlists throughout all of Y2K!

I'm chrome and glass.

I’m all the people who worked our asses off for years to avoid a y2k computer meltdown. When y2k came and our efforts bore fruit, people scoffed and said it was a lot of fuss about nothing.

I'm the toe rings and the thumb rings and nose rings and eyebrow rings and bellybutton rings

I'm that train fire that killed 156 skiers in Austria. You think of me every time you go thro a tunnel

I'm all the shitty/aggro nu metal music like Staind, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Evanescence. Low-common-denominator aggression,

Musical culture that I wouldn't have missed even in a coma.

I'm Meet the Parents starring Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, and the unknown Teri Polo

I’m Walter Matthau’s glorious film career being bookended by this piece of shit, Hanging Up, directed by that idiot Diane Keaton.

Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow as three sisters… could we have ANYMORE facial tics and upspeak?!?

I'm a hanging chad on a Florida punch-out ballot.

I’m the shift in cinema. There is a certain cheapness that comes to the forefront. Movies are no longer going to be fun, escapism fantasy, we’re shooting for depressing reality or goofy gross-out comedy. Nuance is dead, skillet to the face is the new method.

I'm those fucking motorola walkie talkies. Say again? I'm those fucking motorola walkie talky phones. Beep. Over

I’m the final death of Bette Midler’s lead film career. The massive bomb Isn’t She Great dumped at the beginning of the year, to be followed by Drowning Mona later the same year.

I’m Courtney Cox’s bangs in Scream 3. Wait 2 decades and I’ll be this new thing called a “meme”.

I’m the death of Jason Robards, the inventor of BDF.

I'm Parker Posey an the best thing about Scream 3

I’m Julia’s fatphobic Oscar-shot role.

I’m Y2K and the ensuing conspiracies, the paranoia precursor to the mainstream schizophrenia that will come later. I’ll lead you down an internet rabbit hole that will go from the Bilderberg Group to the Illuminati, then after 9/11 you’ll wonder how those towers fell so quick, by the time Trump is elected you’re fully believing in Lizard People, Q, and baby-eating Democrats. Mental illness is fun for everyone!

I’m the Datalounge. I’m thriving and will continue to do so!

People will use the internet and browser-based websites FOREVER!!!

I’m the most underrated film of the year. You didn’t see me because my marketing campaign was horrible. Just look how bad my poster is…

I’m the heinous music. You have no idea that good music is never coming back.

I’m Garry Shandling’s one shot at being a leading man, What Planet Are You From?

The movie is hilarious but a spectacular bomb. My fantastic cast includes Annette Bening (fresh off American Beauty), Greg Kinnear, John Goodman, Linda Fiorentino, Ben Kingsley and Judy Greer. How I didn’t become a cult classic is perplexing.

I’m the Moonlight that you Can’t Fight.

I’m the songs you forgot. I’m what some would call “a bop”.

I’m the peak of the Boy Band. Just get 3-5 attractive guys in a studio and you’ll strike gold.

[quote] You think of me every time you go thro a tunnel

Oh, I thought I was the only one who thought of throwing tunnels.

I'm Laura Bush. Despite being on the campaign trail, I never gave a speech.

I'm a one-on-one type, and I actually listen. Even then, I would rather discuss reading and books than politics or world affairs. And I would never share what you told me. Never. That would be rude and uncouth.

Therefore, people like me.

I’m nutty, nutty, nutty for you!

I’m the anger and hatred, over who knows what, being pumped into the youth via song. I’m so angry at the world, but live in a gated subdivision and drive a new Jeep. I don’t want to be a doctor or work at a bank, I want to be a gangster and have a crew that respects me.

R57, I don’t think that’s 2000s per se, that’s pretty much late-stage capitalism in general. Spoiled, bored, privileged upper middlelings, not understanding how incredibly good they’ve got it, wanting to be feared badasses.

I'm the sex party I was offered just a little bump at...

R48 I’ve never even heard of that and I’ve seen Music of the Heart.

I'm the newly created office of the National Breast and Fried-Food Inspector.

I’m me, surprised to wake up at a friend’s house in Atlanta to find his best friend riding my dick raw.

It was a revelation.

I'm Paris Hilton. Nobody will ever get tired of me

I’m the posters here who weren’t even born yet. Us elders are getting old.

I’m the Pyrenean ibex, I went extinct that year.

I'm the people sniffing around your favorite thrift store. Snapping up the midcentury modern stuff before you can get to it.

I was in Las Vegas for 2000, and ... while I had fun, the actual "ball drop" (or whatever the Las Vegas equivalent was) was fucking terrifying.

The strip was packed. Couldn't move packed. A few of my friends who I were with were freaking out.

Lots of cops ... on HORSEBACK.

I have no doubt these horses were trained well, but the few I saw were ... just not having it. Too many people, too close quarters, too loud. No one got hurt from what I saw, but those horses were kicking/annoyed.

THEN

12:00 every casino closed their doors to non-guests. Meaning if you were saying at the Flamingo but were in the Luxor territory, you are fucked. I get why they did it, but it was a bad decision. People were pissing in the street. No where to go. It was chaos. The cops had no control over if the casinos let in people or not.

It was really the picture perfect example of how to NOT handle a crowd.

I lived, it was fine, but I will never stray far from my hotel in LV on major holidays.

I’m a New Year’s Eve dress.

I was 17 and stayed up until midnight and watched the Jerry Springer Y2K special Y2 Lovers

I became a vegetarian that New Year’s Eve. It’s the only resolution I’ve ever stuck to

I'm platforms! From sneakers to pleather solid soled shoes. I dominate.

I'm the scent of moldy Uggs, the fumes coming out of low rise jeans and Glow by JLo.

I'm Kim Kardashian, and I'm an UNKNOWN.

I'm the m4m section of Craigslist Casual Encounters, about to provide a steady stream of random dick for gay men everywhere.

I’m AOL M4M your city. I’m much busier than Craigslist.

You’ll get crabs from me.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I’m R72 , I’m ahead of my time

I'm Hotmail

I'm also an email that I literally sent to Hotmail's help desk in the year 2000 complaining about a strange bunch of emails in Spanish that someone I didn't know had sent me, trying to sell me something I didn't want. Was it a scam? Fraud? A practical joke? Whoever heard of such a thing happening on email? How do I stop this?

I’m Sabrina, The Teenage Witch moving from ABC to the WB.

I’m WebTV. While the box makes the buzzy modem sounds to you get to watch a vehicle drive down a freeway. I think an Apple Watch provides a better browsing experience.

, you* not “to you”. I think with the freeway visual there was some sort of music also.

I'm Janet Jackson with the best song of the year, dethroning Madonna from the #1 spot on the Hot 100.

I'm also the first singer to achieve a number one in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, bitches.

I’m my amnesia regarding 2000. I was 27 and in a romantic/career/mental health slump. I remember my life up until then very well and of course 9/11 had my full attention and I remember a lot since then. But 2000 is blurry to me.

I’m Russell Crowe, and I’m back to being my usual hot, muscular self in Gladiator after gaining a ton of weight for The Insider. I promise, I will never let myself go like that ever again.

I'm Elian Gonzales, I just shat my pants when these scary men came to take me home to my dad...where the guns really necessary?

I'm a shady election...you'll get to know me better a little later

I'm the birth of reality tv....and I'm not as realas you think.

I'm Napster....the person writting did downloaded music from me for the 1st time in her life. The songs? American Pie by DonMclean, Angel by Gavin Friday and Sugar Sugar by The Archies.

I'm also the year before it all went to hell.

I'm hotmail. The person writing this post created an email address with me she still uses to this day.

I’m “Music” and the sluttiness is tightly scheduled - not on account of the crotchfruit, but because of aging sugar walls.

I'm Ian Thorpe (the "Thorpedo") and I'm not gay.

I’m the true explosion of “Pottermania” with the publication of “The Goblet of Fire”.

I'm EMMY WINNING Shemar Moore!

2 words: hanging chads

2 replies: R2 and R38.

Lockbox

I'm that ripped off feeling you got when W "won." And he was 1000 times worse than you could've imagined

I’m glowing, gold-toned Tommy low-rise jeans and you can get away with wearing me for the month of August. By September, the coating has faded and they become tan/yellow pants.

I’m chunky black shoes

I'm the flip flops

Platform, bedazzled flip flops.

I'm Nokia

I'm Carson Daly!

I’m Chandler and Monica getting engaged.

I’m a 9 minute Thunderpuss remix.

I Magnolia Tjunderpussy!

I’m Magnolia Thunderpussy!

I'm the Dell dude.

It really is crazy to go back to the world before the attack on the World Trade Center.

It’s still the most horrifying thing to witness.

Planes full of people, hijacked and flown into buildings full of people. Thousands die, live on television. You could see poor souls jumping out the windows. Then the buildings dissolve into dust.

We really were never the same.

I'm "Graduation Song" by Vitamin C playing at half the country's graduations.

I'm five-time gold medalist, Marion Jones. Jealous?

I'm Melania's GQ cover shoot in January 2000

I’m the workplace, where things still got done, before everyday was about walking on eggshells and diversity/harassment trainings.

I’m Don Ho’s daughter.

R111 OMG do I remember that song. Nickelodeon played it 500 times a day in the lead up to “Snow Day” opening.

I'm Aaliyah. I'm going to rule the 2000s. Music, movies, fashion, etc. Sit back and watch.

For everything that’s true I turn to you….

I’m THE YARDS, Dorothy Faye’s last respectable movie gig.

She plays Ellen Burstyn’s sister.

It’s a Beautiful Day.

I'm "Coyote Ugly". The most 2000-looking film of 2000.

R115 I disagree

I know y’all hate me but this is the video where it became clear the Queen would be a star. Like a golden black Barbie.

R118 TTCA was 1999. I disagree.

Y’all better watch yer FUCKIN’ backs!

R121 Check out my back and cornrows.

I made a great picture, called ‘Don Juan DeMarco’ why don’t you talk about that???!!!!

Because I know many of you elders have never experienced this masterpiece,I give you a gift to feast on

R124 that was a gimmick video that made a splash and simultaneously killed his career

R125 But the abs tho. I think more so he just never had anymore hits. He didn’t even produce another record for like another decade. I think Rollingstone ranked it one of the best songs of the year and the album won 2 Grammys. That video made him mainstream insomuch as that song was only played on black radio but was a staple on MTV.

R6, there were "SJWs" - you right-wingers just called them "politically correct" instead of "woke"

R110 has a short memory. People have been talking about workplace harassment for decades. Republicans aren't bright

I'm r24. I'm a troll who is too dumb to realize that Republicans are responsible for hatred towards "LGB" people

I'm Bryan Singer. I directed X-Men and I'm riding high! I think I'll celebrate with a twink

R130 Me 2, I just won my first Oscar.

R56 Haha. I always thought she was saying that too. That’s when her whispercooing was getting rly outta control. I hated Janet songs during this time. And these songs would be hits, staples on the radio. It was so annoying.

I'm Kevin Spacey, America's favorite heterosexual actor. I love my beautiful girlfriend, Dianne, and I'm definitely not running around grabbing every young, cute guy who wanders into my field of vision

R131 That was actually your SECOND Oscar, you dumb old queen.

You earlier Oscar win - which you legitimately deserved - was for one of the most talked-about movies of the 1990s.

In the decades to follow your utterly undeserved win for American Beauty (weak category, default win), people will be baffled that the Oscar Gold didn't go to Bruce Willis ("The Sixth Sense"), Matthew Broderick ("Election"), or Larry Fishburne ("The Matrix" - with a little category fraud).

I'm Appletinis.

I'm the lights on the Hollywood Sign.

I’m Sketchers.

I’m jetBlue and I’m bringing low fares and satellite tv to air travel.

I'm the first #1 of the new millenium. My parent album sells over 8 million copies in the US and I solidify Xtina as not just a flash-in-the-pan but a true threat to the Britney throne!

^ r139 One of the first true horrors of the era (that was not Bush-induced).

I'm JC Chasez, pressured into sucking off Lou Pearlman. Help me.

I'm "She Bangs" - The most heterosexual music video of the year.

R5 1999 my friend.

I’m Carrot Top.

I’m 1 800 Dial ATT

Still going strong in 2000, r143. And that's good enough for me.

- not r5

R146 but its big debut hoopla was 1999. It stayed popular throughout the late aughts.

I'm Ricky Martin's "girlfriend"

He's totally not gay, I swear

I'm Rosie O'Donnell crush on Tom Cruise

R13 They quit you dumb ass cunt. They didn’t think they’d be replaced. They were crabs in a barrel and thought they’d fuck over everyone until they fuck around and found out and saw the Say My Name video.

I'm the belly chains and floor length sweaters with faux fur collars

I’m the Latin music explosion in general.

I'm Peter Thiel and Elon Musk! We just founded a company called PayPal. You probably don't hate us yet, right now we're just aspiring megalomaniacs instead of full-fledged megalomaniacs

I’m this cunt.

I'm Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in August. Despite being the greatest American conductor of the 1990's and hopefully 2000's, there are no pretentions about me.

I just love music.

I'm Carmen Electra. What happened to me?

I'm Lou Pearlman, abusing your favorite boy band twinks

I love how this turned into the “Let’s be music from 2000” thread.

I’m Yasmine Bleeth and, 2000 gave and took away. Holy Fuck!

Hey, hi, I’m Anastacia.

I'm the Atkins Diet vs Krispy Kreme wars! No matter who wins, you will hate your body, because body-hatin' is still in vogue in the year 2000.

Memba me? I coulda been OJ Beckham before OJ Beckham but I chose to murder my baby mother. My son, born with Down syndrome, survived in this year.

I'm the innocence that's about to be lost vaginally in November and anally next September.

I’m my discovery of eBay, where I can now buy old dishes without paying Replacements Ltd. prices. I have to remember to be the last bidder, though. This auction business is aggravating. I wish I could just buy things.

I am the fuck of the century: 31/12/1999 Four Seasons hotel Sydney.

I’m porn on cable. I still exist.

I'm buying every episode of Mama's Family on Ebay. On video cassette

Joop

I’m future superstar The Miz getting owned by his Real World cast mate.

Yes I was an MTV obsessed kid.

R160 “Paris is Paris!” 🕶️

I’m the Millennium Dome.

I’m, I swear I’ll be clean this time. Check me out on Ally McBeal this week.

R155 Now sadly burdened with a dire diagnosis: glioblastoma.

He's done much better than most people with the disease, having lived almost two years since being diagnosed.

R173 he is perfect

I'll be Spice girls' forgotten hit :

I'm David Hogg. I'm born this year on April 12. You'll be hearing about me.

I’m punk. Contemplating sui is so hot right now.

I’m the false hope that we have enough of a government surplus that we can weather four years of Fratboy Bush until we get Howard Dean.

I’m the WB.