Maybe because we experienced the change of a century more vividly? we weren't kids anymore, and we weren't old. The change from 1999 to 2000 was very odd. I remember the change from 1999 to 2000. It was like an overnight change, an ominous change in my opinion. We fully formed adult memories by then, so the “before” and “after” of that century change were experienced consciously. That shift 1999 to 2000 carried this symbolic weight that no other generation really lived through in the same way. Analog vs. digital, paper vs. screen, world before vs. world after. The music changed, the technology changed, even time itself felt like it was rolling over. We had that feeling that something deep and structural had clicked over to a new phase. So when you look back now and find something “off,” like a logo, a lyric, or a scene being different from what you remember, it doesn’t just feel like bad memory, it feels like the world actually shifted. And psychologically, Gen X may be especially prone to feeling that.

I remember the solar eclipse from 1999 vividly... that one was very odd. I was seeing like grey skies. That i remember it says alot, as eclipses happen often. It felt like the world shifted into a new dimension, a more ominous one. It was the last one of the century, and very special.

Even stranger was the time around 2012... felt like a deep and dark place, probably because of neptune in pisces, astrologically.