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@AMPProf

Ай бұрын

You are pushing something thats cool But.. Where are the Dunkaroos?

@KevinMiller2001

13 күн бұрын

The movie robots?

This is honestly the last time people were still optimistic about the future, and it shows through the art.

@prkrcnnn

3 ай бұрын

great comment

@SpartanArmy117

3 ай бұрын

Yep, you'll get gaslighted by someone saying "nOsTaLigA" but you're 100% on point. This was an era of innovation and creation. I'm not even saying its astetically pleasing, although I personally enjoy it, but just that people were actually trying back then and there was some optimism in the air.

@klaplays8853

2 ай бұрын

Yoo

@towcat

2 ай бұрын

Between 2001 and 2008, yeah that was the last good time Cars peaked in the 00s The economy was doing well Everything wasn't insanely expensive And pretty much anything built then of any sort of quality will still outlast a lot of stuff built now, but still have modern efficiency

@screwyourhandle

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, from a US perspective I think the whole 9/11 and War on Terror thing brought down the vibe, and then the Great Recession just killed it. And then Trump and covid desecrated its corpse

“The future we were promised but never got” hits hard. Totally accurate.

@mummyjohn

2 ай бұрын

You act like that's not something we've been saying about futuristic art for well over 100 years now.

@jimmywoo3885

2 ай бұрын

@@mummyjohn I know. The Metropolis movie's skyline, or William Gibson's "Raygun Gothic" concept in his short story The Gernsback Continuum.

@user-fx1vh6jw1x

2 ай бұрын

no, you just grew up. its nostalgia.. thats all..

@SaturnineXTS

2 ай бұрын

In many ways the future is pretty amazing, give it 10 more years and you'll see where we get thanks to AI

@jimmywoo3885

Ай бұрын

@@user-fx1vh6jw1x If you were not there then, you have no idea how horrible life is today.

imagine being a fucking goldfish and every day you look at your master's back as he sits down to drop a log. and that's your life whole

@ianbell9041

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like the makings of a great traumacore post.

@I_CANSPEAK_IN_CAPS

3 ай бұрын

I'd get used to it (maybe)

@jonathanjohnson9611

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ItsTheNatShack

2 ай бұрын

NAW

@scriptKiddieOG

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

1:44 OMG i remember these soaps! They had a physical plastic fish inside'em, it looked really cool with the background and the transparent graphics on the front of the bottle.

@ShadowMudkip123

3 ай бұрын

I think my parents still have a soap bottle with some floating penguins inside. Not the same exact one but similar aesthetic feeling. I hope they never throw it out, it’s probably been there since I could even conceptualize a bottle

@SpaceGhostDemon94

3 ай бұрын

I miss those.

@melley420

3 ай бұрын

Me too

@Miarai

2 ай бұрын

I have those still in regular use!

@daniellaherget3878

2 ай бұрын

Lol my grandparents still have their bottles that look like that in their house. They’ve been refilling them since I was a kid.

I feel like a lot of these videos ignore what aesthetics were actually shared and created by the average person at the time. I remember the whole Frutiger Aero look was more seen as a generic corporate thing that you associate with electronics companies, kind of like the generic minimal look nowadays. There were a few interesting takes on the aesthetic like what you see in Mirror's Edge or LittleBigPlanet but it was almost strictly made by corporations like Apple or Microsoft. Meanwhile, a lot of younger people were creating things that fell more in line with the Frutiger Metro look, or continuing the Y2K/Cybercore thing with hacker UIs and abstract 3D models. A lot of it had to do with it being simpler to create for forum signatures and wallpapers, so it was all over the place.

@Julian-tu6em

3 ай бұрын

THANK YOU, the Frutiger Aero look is akin to corporate memphis.

@-Patali-

3 ай бұрын

100%, but in retrospect I miss aero compared to the modern miniamlism "squarecore"

@juherd1967

3 ай бұрын

I reckon the "cluttered" advent of aero was meant to showcase the advance of color technology, like "look how many shades of blues and greens we can display." Just speculation tho

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

@@juherd1967 For sure, with all of the new HD tech.

@Mr.Marbles

3 ай бұрын

@@-Patali-and in 20 years we will miss the flat design minimalism and dislike the new stuff the companies cook up then. You always miss what you dont have 😊

"i wish it was 2006." that man gets it.

@johngiles6376

3 ай бұрын

I know right I miss it.

@mcgasm

3 ай бұрын

I remember 2008 wishing it was 2006 😔

@MissEldira

3 ай бұрын

There was something special about 2006 wasn't there?

@johngiles6376

3 ай бұрын

@@MissEldira Yes, yes there was.

@NatLeRat

3 ай бұрын

@@MissEldirabecause it’s when I was born 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

I call it the Glass/Aqua/Aero era where everything had to be some sort of see through, clear, air like design that had some water like qualities to it, and everything was shiny with it too, like glass. It was just a weird time.

@EvzenEmanuel

Ай бұрын

It was awesome time. Definitely better and more interesting design than today's flat design abomination.

@amit_patel654

Ай бұрын

​@@EvzenEmanuel I hate today's designs. It's purposely so freaking bland and corporate. The McDonald's across the street from me is literally gray now. Wtf happened?

a lot of the weird core images here especially with children's bedrooms or blacked out people fit more the traumacore genre. I think.

@PeachysMom

3 ай бұрын

Totally agree. Those are absolutely traumacore.

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Fair point, I feel like there is definitely a lot of overlap between the two!

@illsmackudown

3 ай бұрын

commentcore much?

@neon_mineshaft

3 ай бұрын

"traumacore" 🤓

@Chopperdragon39

3 ай бұрын

@@neon_mineshaft someone seems upset

Back in the 2000s, we all wondered what the future would hold. Now that the future is here, we all wish we could go back to the 2000s.

Feels almost a bit depressing how so much of our current culture is shaped in some form or another by nostalgia.

@featheryfemme

3 ай бұрын

Eh, it kinda has been and is always gonna be. It's more like a cycle that evolves with every rotation.

@kewoshk

3 ай бұрын

It is most visible in fashion, designs come back constanly in infinitely rehashed ways

@sarakajira

3 ай бұрын

I agree. I think in large part this os because Zoomers don't have many defining movements across their generation, and so instead seek to emulate ever more micro asthetics of the past.

@ryang2573

2 ай бұрын

Children don't have a lot of responsibilities to manage, they are largely ignorant of the unpleasant aspects of reality, and they generally have a lot of free time to enjoy themselves. Then those children become adults and all three of those things stop. This creates leads to a sense that things were overall better in the past which, in turn, creates a desire to return to that past. That's the emotional root of nostalgia. Furthermore, this is also why nostalgia is relative to what generation one grew up in and why older generations can't relate to the nostalgia of newer generations. For older generations, the things newer generations are nostalgic for are corruptions of their own childhood cultural icons. I think this clip from the Simpsons sums up this phenomena well: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fopk2batma3fl7w.html

@Ratmilker

2 ай бұрын

@@ryang2573yeah dude, totally has nothing to do with a failing government, failing economy, and our nonexistent future. Nostalgia is prevalent but children or not shitty times are shitty times. Your grandparents might have nostalgia but they will tell you the 30’s sucked massive dicks. My dad grew up in the 70’s and became an adult in the 80’s and I assure you he has no nostalgia for either. The economy was trash, and everything sucked compared to the 90’s and 2000’s when he flourished. He has just as much nostalgia for this time period as I do not just because I was a kid, but because we could afford to live, and things were cool. Trust me, EVERYONE was let down by that whole “future we were promised and never got” thing

I remember in the 2010s everyone was obsessed with the 90s and now everyone moved onto the 2000s. I'm dreading 2040, where everyone will be obsessed with the 2020s... shudder.

@user-dz4eb5rb3g

3 ай бұрын

What is there to be obbessed about the 20s? The fashion is just 90s and 00s, corporate art too is from the 2010s, literally nothing to be obsessed about.

@hamiltonseggsgaming69

3 ай бұрын

@@user-dz4eb5rb3gDon’t drag the 2010s in the corporate realm, the 2010s are known as the last good decade

@whywhere1768

3 ай бұрын

@@hamiltonseggsgaming69lol that’s what people said abt the 2000s 10 years ago

@rmj8905

3 ай бұрын

The 2010s were only good up to about 2013. 2014 on I feel has lead us into the lousy world of the 2020s.

@hamiltonseggsgaming69

3 ай бұрын

@@whywhere1768 exactly but I don’t think the 2020s will be the same bcuz of covid, wokeness, brainrot, etc

I'm an art historian. The concept of "aesthetics" as gen z uses the word is really interesting to me. It's like the sane thing as how we try to categorize different art movements but somehow claims to be different? The ones you listed even fall in like chronologically with the movements of the beginning of the 20th century. Everything was bright and dreamy about the future, art nouveau 1900-1910ish. Futurism. Look to the future but also want conservative return to a time before the first world War. Up through the end of ww1ish, the dark aero. And then finally the post ww1 absurdity of Dada="weirdcore". It would be really interesting to look at the rest of this trend but I don't know enough about "aesthetics". What's the latest "aesthetic", or the one after weird core chronologically? I wonder if it also lines up.

@FayeVert

2 ай бұрын

@saratimbre "aesthetics" seems to mean a more broad zeitgeist-y bunch of trends than an art movement would be. I wouldn't consider dollar store soap dispensers part of an art movement, for example, but if HGTV has a show that does an aquarium-themed bathroom, that's going to start an aesthetic trend.

@gabriel9116j

Ай бұрын

The newest/current aesthetic is corporate Memphis

wow... great video... i did always want a toilet like that also... combine it with maybe racing cars or trucks maybe? definitely some money to be made....

@overlordbrandon

3 ай бұрын

Nowdays, I want toilet with a pop-able head model of male_07 from garry's mod

@Dogetheun

3 ай бұрын

@@overlordbrandonI can’t believe halflife 2 stole from Garry’s mod😤😤😤 I hope nobody takes this seriously

@snark567

3 ай бұрын

@@Dogetheun Can't believe Garry's Mod stole from Skibbidi Toilet. 😡

@overlordbrandon

3 ай бұрын

@@snark567 I can't believe they make a game and a spinoff from Skibidi Toilet

@HansWurst-lg1ws

3 ай бұрын

I used to have one of these toilet seats as a kid ... additionally we had a weird one in the same design but it was a seat out of soft foam wrapped in plastic. They were really warm & comfy to sit on for hours and play GameBoy instead of leaving lol. Apparently they were super annoying to clean so my mum binned them after a couple months or so

As someone who was a design student when iOS 7 came out, things like Frutiger Aero, the skeuomorphism of older iOS, and raster asset heavy, splashy skincare ads just seemed increasingly tacky, fake, lazy, and overwhelming. All of those shiny buttons and UI textures were more work to put in a website and didn't scale as the screens we used became higher resolution. Worst of all it, became a dated norm that was done poorly more often than it was pulled off successfully with often stolen and clearly regurgitated assets. It got to the point Flat, minimal graphics were like a nice break from the noise before they became the noise itself. Aero didn't feel like Ecofuturism at the end, it felt like a smarmy corporate lie. Another weird irony this historical lens presents is that modernist fonts like Frutiger's (Frutiger, Univers, and to some extent, Avenir) were seen as a cure to the DaFont driven craziness of the time that was more often associated with these images. I'm glad this stuff can be appreciated now for its best traits, and I'm terrified that nostalgia for 2010s the folksy Mumford and Sons skinny handwritten font tumblr core is only a few years away.

@Mares149

3 ай бұрын

Beautifully said

Never diss frutiger aero

@MOTO_DOSE

3 ай бұрын

I remember thinking most of these 2000s blob esthetics were so tacky at the time.... looking at them now makes me nostalgic as hell though.

@Tar.o

3 ай бұрын

@@MOTO_DOSE They are still ugly asf

Makes me happy that frutiger aero is getting popular again

@1cosmicdebris

3 ай бұрын

Never left in my world!

@kesamot

2 ай бұрын

It makes me mad. I hate frutiger areo.

@appl42

2 ай бұрын

@@kesamot why?

@kesamot

2 ай бұрын

@@appl42 It makes everything look older

@cherrybloodflavor

2 ай бұрын

@@kesamotyou have no soul

"shower-core" lmfao I love that description of frutiger aero, also I have some memories of playing flash games on (what used to be) my mom's dell inspiron that ran vista. Idk I like 2000s stuff, I still have my sillybandz

@kristofaxelson5088

3 ай бұрын

A lot of the examples seem similar to garish late-1980s CG images.

@sadhu7191

3 ай бұрын

Same it was a good faze.

@ThatGuy-bh9qh

Ай бұрын

If you didn't have an aquarium screensaver gtfo

In 2000s there was shower core. Then in 2009, League of Legends... can't have both

@XYZB0RG

2 ай бұрын

hey, what the everloving, undying FUCK is a shower core? it's a fucking design choice, not a goddamn nuclear reactor engine powering your fucking unit of self hygiene. why don't people just call it what it actually goddamn is, that cool shiny design? fuck!

Oh im happy to see a video on this! I adore how these aesthetics are coming back in popularity!

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I'm not sure if this would count, but there was also what I would call the "Motherboard" aesthetic. It was something I saw often, mostly on stuff like game consoles and computers. They were see-through, letting you see the technology underneath. Those were really cool!

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Awesome, I remember owning some Xbox controllers like that, it was such a cool design

@cattysplat

3 ай бұрын

The launch Game Boy Color was see through purple, along with GBC only game cartridges.

@ScreenSage_YT

3 ай бұрын

That's geeks more like a part of Y2k than it's own thing.

@DiscoTimelordASD

2 ай бұрын

I had a see through game boy😁

@Ballissle

Ай бұрын

I found it very tacky but at the same time i appreciate it. I just didn't like all the clear translucent hard plastic material.

Fun fact about Y2K. People actually thought that technology would cease to work after new years that year. My dad worked in a department store in the electronics section at the time and was tasked with sticking the Y2K compatible stickers on the electronics. Obviously there was nothing different about these appliances. The company just wanted to make people less worried so they’d buy them.

Awesome video, man! These aesthetics feel like home ...

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks!

I was born in '96, the perfect time to experience all of these aesthetics. I miss the very aquatic designs of the early 2000s. I was super into it then, I had one of those bubble column things with fish in them in my room when I was about 5 or 6. We always had the Softsoap in the bathroom. Very upsetting that they just changed the design of those bottles. I still love these water-y aesthetics and I want the 2020s to be the aquatic decade. I'm glad Frutiger Aero is making a comeback too. Also I played so much NFS Carbon back in '07. I loved that game. Dark Aero was a great theme too.

@lavenderflowersfall280

2 ай бұрын

There's something about a small body of water that I can swim around in That's essential to my childhood core

There was alot of silver and white in the 2000s. Fridges, Televisions, cameras, video game consoles, dvd players, clothing, shoes, boom boxes, mp3 players, CD players, cell phones, etc. Most technology nowadays though is basically black. Even the things that are still silver, aren't the same kind of silver of the early 2000s :P

@cattysplat

3 ай бұрын

2010s was all shiny black. Got scratches all over everything. 2015 moved to matt black.

@Galidorquest

3 ай бұрын

Theoretically, I think the transition from silver to black is a reflection of current events. Silver or light gray represents the hype we had for a promising new Century, and black represents post-9/11, war, recession and dark times.

@Ace_of_Horns

3 ай бұрын

@@Galidorquest hmm interesting take

@c.eb.1216

2 ай бұрын

​@@cattysplat ~late 90's my family got a small matte black TV. Most electronics like our VCR were either matte black or beige.

@animeloveer97

2 ай бұрын

looking at my crt tv your so right, its because the silver is more of a white silver vs just plain silver.

I remember very well the transition from what you call Frutiger aero. I saw it mostly through the design of software UI and experienced it mostly as an inherent minimising of design. It went from optimism to minimalism. Exploring what can be done with new limits of software to then reducing to a boring husk. Depth became flattened and in general everything just became more lifeless and boring. I miss the Windows 7 days still

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Windows 7 on top

y2k was peak style. everything was covered with the word "extreme" and i loved it

@glory2cybertron

Ай бұрын

Everything had to be Xtreme 😂

@Legal-104

Ай бұрын

@sariofcybertron6956 hell yeah buddy, EXTREME CHEDDAR!

i may have been too young to truly understand the culture, but i had older siblings growing up that were super into all of the trends and various styles back then. i remember most of my sisters being very into the mcbling style. another factor that sort of pairs with this childhood impression of the 2000s is the fact that we lived in a very small town in the middle of a valley, but our house being fully surrounded by farmland. i remember walking to the school at night in this town with my sisters fully dressed in the most emo/mcbling outfits ever, the bright yellow light coming from the street lamps greatly exaggerated by the astigmatism i have, passing by house after house until we reached the school zone where you could look out at the vaguely lit farmland that stretched out miles into the base of a mountain you couldn't see because of the darkness; the mix of feelings i have for this era being influenced by living in a family full of 5-6 siblings that embraced its culture, not fully understanding it which adds to the mystery, but it fading away before i could even experience it as a kid their age due to them moving out and the family collapsing because of divorce soon after, completely changing the dynamic where i remember a more frutiger aero overtone to life taking over. sometimes movies from back then that are hard to find nowadays will resurface and ill be slapped in the face with the childhood feeling of these aesthetics, but those movies are few and far between.

This only has 500 views? I was under the impression that it had like 200k, super underrated.

@karlos1008

3 ай бұрын

183k now. Still needs more tbh

@pandivima

3 ай бұрын

well now it is, 210K views (feb 15 2024)

that clear hand soap with the fish on it was allways the best.

This was nice and calming to watch, more of this please! Next video could be some kind of guide on how to aeroify or Y2Kify your life (clothing, decorative elements, which software/tech to use), I always wanted to see something like that. Good luck, and again, really nice video!

My mom had a frutiger aero bathroom when I was a kid. It was very short lived and I miss it a lot. The curtain was blue and each hook had it's own fish, the bathroom was white but we had light green and coral rugs/seat covers we would swap between, there was a dolphin snow globe with a coral base that you could wind up and it would play a tune and the toothbrush holder and soap dispenser both had coral bases. I'm sure there was more but I was so young and this was so long ago for me. Maybe mid 2000's? We still have some of the things like the soap dispenser, toothbrush holder, and the dolphin globe which is now slightly cloudy, has a bubble at the top, and has a jammed wind up key (I don't even remember what song it played TmT), but that's about it.

Frutiger aero is a vibe I didn't know was defined... That is some wild nostalgia.

Most of these things are so nostalgic to me, half of me wants to bathe in it and the other half would rather stay out of it and forget it happened...

I honestly think all this is made up by zoomers now, the reason this was popular at the time was simple - it was first time graphic designers and animators could make things like this easily. It was combination of designers flexing their skills, companies flexing they have skilled designers and software developers flexing their software can do this. I’m not trying to make this less interesting, it’s very challenging art style, it takes skilled artist to pull it off. The fact that many found comfort in it is valid enough.

@claypotts2334

3 ай бұрын

We all think you don't know what you are talking about

@the__man

3 ай бұрын

@@claypotts2334said the 12 year old who wasnt even alive back then..

@doctahjonez

3 ай бұрын

Bro... What?

@albinoyak2755

3 ай бұрын

It's literally just that.

@jedisponge16

3 ай бұрын

Yeah these aesthetics definitely existed, but I nobody referred to them as any sort of name until I started seeing tiktok slideshows about them

You really are a delight to listen to, you have a rare talent for education. I find your videos fascinating as I'm learning about movements I didn't know existed! Thanks 4:05 4:06

I never leave comments on videos. This was incredible, as others have said this video needs more views! Great stuff dude.

At 4:30 you mentioned the iRiver mp3 player. I stopped the video in stunned silence. Seeing that mp3 player again made me stop and think of those days as a kid trying to decide what part of my music collection to keep on my limited space. I remember the selection knob and the little blue screen. Damn...very nostalgic. I wonder if my iRiver is still hanging around...Thanks for the video!

@ExtraMintyy

Ай бұрын

Yeah the limited space made it so hard lol

I recall the “Y2K” font aesthetic of wobbly, bubble fonts promoting raves and club nights. Looking back I thought it was tacky, and to be fair most the promoters working on these designs did it out of their own love (and very little money) for the scene had no formal training. Many of them were still in high school or first few years of college!

Loved this! One of the great things about this era of aethetics is that while some things, like the G3 iMacs for example, were rooted in real design of physical hardware, so much of it was digital.

Yoooo this brought me back! Great vid, needs more views lol!

A lot of information in a condensed format that doesn't waste the viewer's time. Good stuff.

These all bring so much comfort to me. I feel like whenever I feel so overwhelmed, I listen to music, look at wallpapers. I’d like to think It brings me a sense of peace in this chaotic world. One weird thing is that I always associated Fruiter Aero and other early 2000s aesthetic like this with guitars, summer and the afternoon. If anyone is interested in some of the 3D rendered images that show up in this video, I highly recommend checking out Bryce 3D!

That softsoap bottle took me back man, wish i knew they were the better times while i was there

@Galidorquest

3 ай бұрын

I loved the aquatic design on those Softsoap bottles. I was disappointed when they changed it back to something simplistic.

This video reminds me of my orthodontist's office and the basement bathrooms of my childhood church.

I love so many of us collectively became nostalgic for frutiger aero at the same time, many of us not even knowing it’s name but searching for it and finding it anyway. I was born in 1993. One of my finest visual memories is being in an airport in Spain in the early 2000s and seeing Frutiger Aero/Showercore-esque style in some of the lounges, especially where vending machines for bottled water were close by. I was (sadly) genuinely thrilled by Vistas UI when I first saw it. These memories always take me back to a time when I felt the most motivated and inspired for life, and I’m so happy videos like these exist to remind me how that feels.

These videos are always the best to binge on. Subscribed

Early 2000s aesthetics were 90s aesthetics until 2004 or 2005. And by 90s I mean starting in 1995 or 1996. Early 90s were basically 80s aesthetics. I think very soon we are due for a new aesthetic because what we've been seeing are mostly just late 2010s aesthetics

@Galidorquest

3 ай бұрын

'Late 2010's aesthetics', or flat minimalist hipster design as I call it, was trending since the Late 2000's. I saw it trending since 2006 and now the normies are finally talking about it.

@supermonk3y07

3 ай бұрын

@@Galidorquest ah good point. Maybe it's because sometimes aesthetics repeat every 10 years or so?

@supermonk3y07

3 ай бұрын

@@Galidorquest every other aesthetic ends up being pretty similar. It kind of goes in a pattern like A, B, A, C, A, D, E, A, F, G...

@belstar1128

2 ай бұрын

it was a slow transition you could have one commercial that looked like it was from 1987 and another one that looked like 2000 next to each other in the year 2000. the more old school one was probably going to be for something mundane like cleaning products while the modern looking one was going to be for a video game.

I LITERALLY HAVE THAT SHOWER CURTAIN OH MY GOD IT WAS A JUMPSCARE HONESTLY 😭

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Nice, I knew there was gonna be someone hahahahahaha

@lavosdream5809

3 ай бұрын

Same

wow I was so surprised when I saw the views on this, this is a great video! feels like it should have way more

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Thanks I really appreciate it!

Really cool video dude, great choices of visuals for each aesthetic

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed

i used to have a novelty toy, it was the Marlin Salt Water Car with a motor in it and then with salt water it would zoom. That toy cars design for some reason came to mind with this video. A very futuristic, bubbly look.

This was a great summary. Thanks and subbed.

the specific sub-aesthetic I REALLY miss is Frutiger Metro Having grown up in an urban armpit type neighbourhood I have a real close attachment to urban designs and Frutiger Metro was always so uplifting to me Embracing the urban element without shunning it in favour of more idealistic futurism but still having the bounce and fun of the overall frutiger vibes

Great analysis, you extract feelings and articulate them well.

Man, I miss the times when user interfaces actually had some design going on. Nowadays everything looks like programmer art that somehow made it into the final product. :/

@Aqueox

Ай бұрын

Everything is either flat and boring or a fucking hulu/Netflix/Disney+ interface. Dull and idiotic. Lowest common denominator type bullshit.

@EvzenEmanuel

Ай бұрын

Couldn't say it better. Flat design is boring and borderline disgusting. A really miss the times of 2000s design. XP, Vista Aero, iOS skeumorphism, OS X aqua. It was so awesome and felt like you had to have some truly design skills to actually design something. Not so much today.

I like this stuff but the naming scheme of putting "core" into everything is so unbelieveably annoying.

@featheryfemme

3 ай бұрын

i think you mean annoyingcore

@mass._.619

2 ай бұрын

Bruh fr i thought I was the only one😭

@omgodification

Ай бұрын

agreed

@patrickisswayze3446

9 күн бұрын

It's really bizarre. Especially considering the time period being referenced the only time "core" would of been used would have been for metalcore and hardcore.

My Ed Edd n' Eddy AU "Rétro Future" is based heavily on Y2K and Frutiger Aero(and a couple others featured in this video), not only aesthetically but also fundamentally. The aesthetics make me happy, nostalgia aside. The chrome and bubbles tickle my brain in just the right spot

For me modern day design just boils down to depression greys, and uninviting basic shapes. I miss a time where color was everywhere and corporations actually wanted to make everything interesting looking. I craved this 2000s design but know it was a product of time.

@cattysplat

3 ай бұрын

Flat design and tired sad nordic color schemes cannot die fast enough.

@CoasterToast

3 ай бұрын

@@cattysplat honestly

This was fascinating. I could easily watch an hour more of this.

Cool video. Interesting to see all the 2000s aesthetics.

dark aero… frutiger evil

The visuals of water and chrome, and then high-saturation photoshop were both odes to the graphics of the day making leaps and bounds. We had never seen cgi water that well rendered before. It was a bragging right to show it for your company or product. Screens had never had that level of pixels and fidelity before. It was a bragging right to have very colorful stock photography. It looks dated now, but it was jaw-dropping at the time.

Awesome video about stuff I knew was interested in but didn’t know how to search for 🤷🏻‍♂️ great recommendation KZread.

@ExtraMintyy

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed! The algorithm works in mysterious ways

Dark Aero and Frutiger Aero were awesome. Also, love the use of Wii Games (for Frutiger Aero) and Windows Vista ultimate (Dark Aero) as example.

Please! Keep doing this analysis on nostalgic themes of the internet!

That Pontiac G8 advert gave me a flashback to the time I switched our family computers wallpaper to a really low quality version of that specific G8 advert

I think I have one of those shower curtains somewhere...

5:52 "Spechelle"… that made me laugh out loud.

This is probably a "boomer take" but things just haven't been the same ever since Google adopted Material Design and Microsoft adopted the Metro look, and flat design took over. For decades, designs were about looking forward to the future and envisioning an utopia, perhaps a strange one, but utopia nonetheless. But then flat design stepped in and it was all about promoting simplicity and efficiency, and avoid distraction. Somewhere along the way we traded the soul for the efficiency.

@XYZB0RG

2 ай бұрын

it's really stupid, isn't it? it doesn't hurt to have a little flair on the GUI of a computer or a webpage or anything. it's not even trading for efficiency. they're just getting rid of soul, everything is devoid of soul. we need to bring it back

Playstion Demo Discs menu backgrounds dipicted 2000s so well! Even the music... damn miss those times!

The HTC HD2 phone design and marketing really captures the Dark Aero aesthetic for me, though I don't know if it really falls into that category of aesthetic

Great video. This reminds me of my early childhood.

Honestly, as someone who hated the rounded, plastic and glossy look (especially Frudiger era) in everything from digital to physical design I was literally waiting for the next decade so things don't look awful anymore, and finally one day I saw the Volvo V60 2018 model in the streets and thought to myself "it's finally over"

I've been a huge fan of almost all of these "micro-aesthetics" since they happened and never had a name to unify and categorize them. It's pretty neat that people are doing it now. I remember it started when I stared at some handsoap.

dark aero and vista aesthetics is such a beauty for the time, i remembered installing vista visual package apps for my XP back then

Earthsuit's Kaleidoscope Superior album cover was so y2k and went hand in hand with that mp3 player!

Good video. Not too short for me to appreciate the effort, and not too long to even start watching it

The Foto with the black silhouettes at around 7 min caught me off guard. The living/dining room scenery reminds of intimate gatherings of family and friends in childhood, while the low quality underscores that feeling of having forgotten where and when it was, kinda cut out of time and space. Meanwhile the black shapes represent to me how these people might have changed or even died. Crazy really. Shed a lony tear even

I loved watching this video. The bathroom/tropical fish/water aesthetic was huge where I lived. our family had an all tropical fish themed bathroom with one of those holographic fish soft toilet seats. Every one of my friends had fishy accents to their bathrooms. I loved my water/Ocean themed puzzles. We also had weird water themed fidget toy's. they were weird plastic tubes that were designed to slip out of your hands when trying to hold them. They were filled with water and tiny plastic fish or dolphins. I also remember having those "moving pictures" night lights. it was cool, but loud as hell. Couldn't sleep with it on. Still don't understand it, but it reminds me of my childhood and I've got a fishy night light in my bathroom as a reminder.

I was incredibly young in the 2000s but man this sh$t gives me memories

This video feels like one that will get heavily pushed in the algorithm, and will get 100k-300k views.

Amazing video as always.

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

Good stuff. Thank you. Love and blessings!

@ExtraMintyy

3 ай бұрын

Love and blessings 🙏

Excellent video my guy

Back then it was just "the design". What is weird is that it is a nostalgic topic now :-)

how are you not more famous this video was so fun to watch and super well made :)

Even during its prime, I enjoyed all of these, except for McBling. And Weirdcore was just something I found interesting at night. As an artist, these styles look really cool and they have a lot of hard work put into it.

I wanna go back… it’s scary here

Calling every aesthetic 'something-core' is beginning to get on my nerves

@thisprojectisretired1164

3 күн бұрын

Same bro, same

I feel like an old man watching this video

I’ve always thought of it as a time where everything looked really advanced, but it was actually basic in function

that toilet seat was something i completely forgot about and had seen and used before somewhere. It was weird back then too

Around 2003 or 04 I had a clear toilet seat similar to the fish one but with yellow ducks instead. Also I'd love to see your take on pre-Y2K styles like grunge, Memphis, and earlier.

The Y2K aesthetic was a dope one. I never really thought much about it until this video. Its always felt a little weird to me when I see people nostalgic for an era they didn't live through but at the same time when I was a kid I always thought the 70s and 80s were cool.

I absolutely adore Dark Aero and use it with Open Shell all the time. But if there's one thing that I get my 2000s future vibes from are SSX 1 and Midnight Club 2. The menus, music and over all art design are my jam.

Yes there's a sort of uncynical, youthful exuberance pre-2008 crash and the descent into horror that followed it. A sort of naivety. I don't necessarily miss it, but you've helped me to remember it.

The industrial metal band Sybreed definitely falls into this aquacore thing, I think that's a really cool aesthethic to be nostalgic for. LEGO's Aquazone line from the late 90s could also be considered a prototype to that in some ways

LOL "McBling" is great. Idk why but I always used to call it Ghetto Glam growing up. Great video dude!!

loved it,do one for the 2010s!

@XYZB0RG

2 ай бұрын

anything past 2011 is dead.