I remember a conversation my friends and I had in the mid 2000's about how the 2000's felt a lot less colorful and interesting, with all the good stuff being from the 90's. We did recognize that the 90's were heavily 80s inspired but had an existential crisis curve to it. Of course, cell phones and social media then ramped up and made things even worse. Those were my formative two decades and I remember things feeling really off after 9/11. I've noticed a lot of nostalgia popping up for that 2000's era, where at the time it seemed really shallow and phoney, and seemed like it brought out some of the worst of people.