Let's get it straight: Late 90s - 2002 - Y2K 2003-2007 - McBling 2008 - 2012 - Swag era

Y2K was essentially the end of 1998 to the end of 2001. In fact, September 11 ended the Y2K phase.

It’s funny because I don’t really see people give missy flowers and sooo many people use her image as a blueprint it’s crazy because she is the definition of the y2k aspect

The Matrix, Blade, XMen & Men in black are some good examples of films that encapsulates this era

When I think of Y2K, not only do I think of the music videos from late ‘90s and the year 2000, but I, also, think of that SpongeBob episode where everything was chrome in the future.

Other notable Y2K futuristic videos include What’s it Gunna Be - Busta Rhymes Bring it all to me - Blaque 808 - Blaque Larger than life - Backstreet Boys Scream - MJ & Janet You Don’t Know- 702 Irresistible- Jessica Simpson We need a resolution- Aaliyah Virtual Insanity- Jimiroqui Waiting for tonight- JLO Unpretty - TLC

Missy Elliot delivered during this era & went all out

"commentator Azealia Banks" That's her alright

People confuse MCbling (mid to late 00s) and Y2K (late 90s and early 00s) too much

I've seen people misunderstand Y2K on the Internet too and get butt hurt when those who've lived through the era call it out. There is a huge cultural difference between y2k and mid 2000's.

Left eye was responsible for pushing the futuristic image on Fanmail. Tboz and Chilli hated it and it caused some friction among the group. Blaque is a continuation for Left eye's futuristic vision.

I personally consider Y2K to be from 1997 to 2003. A lot of that aesthetic wasn't phased out until then. In 2004, we saw the Bling Bling or Faux Low Budget become the go-to aesthetics until 2008.

Nobody gonna talk about how MICHAEL & JANET SCREAM is basically the inspiration for TLC scrubs video … and the START OF FUTURISTIC MUSIC VIDEO TRENDS

Thinking 2006 is Y2K is like thinking Electropop Era is peak 2010s fashion and kids in 2016 dressed like the kids in Shake It Up & Victorious

My dad worked for MBNA at the time, (major computer company) they had to stay overnight and sleep in the office to “handle this catastrophe” on new years

R.I.P. Aaliyah, you are sincerely missed angel ✨

y2k is more a transitional era to the early 2000’s ppl think it’s the whole 2000’s decade. Destinys child whole run basically represents y2k. Or brandys career peak.

I think Ice spice naming her album y2k is so she can profit off of something that’s trending rn, she knew it’d grab ppls attention especially gen z (mainly her audience) I doubt she put much thought behind the whole aesthetic which makes me think less of her as an artist, how are you gonna name an album & having nothing that correlates to it? Just makes me think she doesn’t take her craft seriously & she’s just in it for the quick cash grab & not acc talented artistically.

Michael and Janet Jackson’s “Scream” video(1995) and Brandy’s “Full Moon” album(2002) are other prime examples.

Y2k and McBling eras are soooo different but of course I was alive back then. I was in middle school once mcbling was in full swing. I think of trashy, gaudy, loud, cheetah print, layered colorful tank tops, oversized sunglasses, the hair bump and hello kitty chains and silly bandz and jersey shore (later on) 😂 i cringe so hard seeing mcbling outfits but it comes from a place of tween/early teen embarrassment for partaking in those trends myself. However, i loooove when the younger folks post their mcbling fits. I just can’t do it for myself 😂😂 but i will partake in y2k fashion as i was a baby/toddler the first go around

The Y2K bug is a practical example of active prevention being misunderstood in hindsight as fear-mongering. There was a threat, it was mitigated, it doesn't mean there was never a threat. Coders and the likes were putting in crazy ungodly hours to work on all sorts of fixes. The general public just didn't know all the work done in the background.

It’s getting to the point where artist are leaning heavily on older eras to push forward because it’s no authenticity now. younger generations are obsessed with older music and past decades because it’s effort put forth. Nothing seems authentic now or seems as if everyone is following the same trend. Just imo.

Who remembers Janet Jackson's "Doesn't Really Matter" Video

Video for Doesn't Really Matter by Janet Jackson is so y2k to me

The Y2K era is really 1997-2002. The early '00s (2000-2004) Mid '00s (2005 & 2006) Late '00s (2007-2009)

I’m 30 and I absolutely love everything Y2K because it’s what I grew up on. But honestly, I’m really over this “Y2K” trend and am ready for it to end. It’s been played out and misused like crazy, and doesn’t feel authentic.

When ppl (not all but most) started lumping in media from 2005 - 2009 as “early 2000s” or Y2K I knew something was off.

Missy was doing the Black Girl nerd thing way back in the day. We lost our minds back in the day when she did a Megaman Video. Girls might not have gotten back in the day but boys knew what that aesthetic was. Missy is really the Creative Genius that we think some of these Modern Artist are. Also, don’t be fooled. We all thought her voice was sexy too. 😊 I used to love Airplane ha ha.

Did you just say “fear monJering”?! 😂

Britney and Aaliyah super iconic Queens. Even until this day if i see and Aaliyah tribute or post I always take time and appreciate her.

“Commentator Azalea Banks” 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

I was born the year 2000, the year everyone thought the world would end. Thankfully the world never ended and I’m blessed to be alive today!

Michael and Janet’s SCREAM video was very futuristic too! I think it inspired a lot of the Y2K visuals from other artists.

I'm so glad you made this because we got a bunch of children getting it all wrong lol

I missed the supermodel instrumental in the background!

Am I the only one who LOVES it when Honest posts videos? 😂❤

Everytime someone says "y2k stands for year 2000s" when im corecting them for mistaking it with mcbling style, i die

In my opinion people on social media use the terms y2k, y2k aesthetic, 2000s, alt, alternative predominantly even if the style is more 2006 or late 2000s because hashtags like McBling, Harajuku, RomCom and Cybercore don't have as much prominence. It all goes down to what hashtag is the most popular or relevant in our algorithms. The more niche groups and subculture fashion/style of the 2000s and y2k don't have strong prominence in the algorithms compared to 2000s, y2k, grunge. So using hashtag like #scene #emo #hyperfeminine #cybercore #mcbling #romcomcore will only allow a small group of people to see your content whereas #y2k #2000s #alt will allow for grander exposure. And with these platforms: tiktok, insta, youtube where everyone wants to be see this definitely plays a role.

I was a kid on New Year’s Eve in 1999 and I remember going to the store with my mom to grab some stuff and seeing so many empty shelves; very similar to how empty the shelves were during the pandemic. So many people actually thought that the world was gonna end on January 1, 2000. It’s very weird to me seeing Y2K be represented by things that are a stark contrast to what it really was. Especially when I grew up during that time and remember it being a futuristic craze. Everything was futuristic. I even had this baby pink and silver puffer and the shiny silver adidas shoes when I was a kid. Even putting glitter in my hair and on my arms and face too. Everything was silver and futuristic and glittery.

I remember my family had a huge new years party 1999. I was only 6yrs old but all i remember my cousins and i partying like were gonna die at midnight.. I remembee rhere was like idk an uncertainty about if things will still work or not once we enter 2000s. My step grandma really believed all our appliances and cars and everything would either stop working or blow up. Then when nothing happened after it ticked over it was like all forgotten lmao

Kylie Minogue too!!

At one point i thought y2k was the whole decade of 2000-2009 but then i realized it stands for the year 2000.

So correct, even the comments about 'disco '

I remember NYE 1999 so vaguely, I was barely 7. In NYC watching the ball drop with family, people murmuring about the “bug”. We had flashlights with us in case the lights went out ☺️😅

Missy+Timbaland+Hype Williams were an AMAZING trio during this time that influenced so much of the Y2K movement!! I honestly dont understand why Ice Spice & her team are so lazy! They could have easily tapped into real Y2K by consulting/hiring the originators of the style!

thx for the vid! I learned a lot from watching it. I always noticed a pattern when listening to songs from the Y2K era being futuristic (I knew abt the technical stuff behind Y2K being why it exists in the first place) but never really connected 2 n 2 together. Also this vid could def help out a lot of my peers 😭

Also do not forget the "Frutiger Aero" Design that was prevalent back then xD

Please do a video on Gracie abrams. I don’t get the hype

I miss the 2000s. Too many people try to copy everything from it in today's world and they can't. And I don't care anything for Ice Spice's trash music/album

I know he didn’t just say fear-monJuring😭

Yes! We need more videos like these! I'm so annoyed when I'm looking for Y2K items or music and get videos of stuff from mid to late '00. Mcbling, Motorola Razr, Paris Hilton all that c**p that isn't Y2K. For me Y2K started around 1995 and was pretty much over around 2003. I can even agree with people who say thay it ended in 2001 with WTC. For me Y2K is chrome or translucent plastic, futurism or aqua aesthetics (or combination of both!).

Fan mail was the first album o had a kid. My older cousin gave it to me. I was 7. Too young probably but it was what shifted me into loving music the way I do. The first track was ahead of its time.

I love the title of this video! 🩵

I’m lowkey happy that honest started incorporating the sza supermodel instrumental back to his videos 😭

As someone who was on the board of y2k aesthetic institute and mcbling aesthetic research, one thing that bugs me is that we don’t acknowledge Post2k which is the bridge from y2k to mcbling, roughly 99-2003. We saw a bizarre mix of y2k into early mcbling in strange ways. Y2k hair and make up but outfits were more mcbling in style but with some y2k colors mixed in until we got to head to toe mcbling. By 2007-8 most y2k colors were replaced by earthy or like nudes. This is what confuses people and blurs the eras together in a way that represents the miseducation imo. Also Y2k was even seen in the early 90s like in madonnas bedtime stories video. Specifically one scene where she is wearing silver metallic and looks cyborg esque.

The subtle sweet background music & your voice & lil education calmed me. Thank you ❤

Yes, fan mail 100% is what comes to mind for me too. Thank you for pointing this out. 🎶 Just like you, I get lonely too 🎶

Thank you for this cause I’m so tired

The Y2K era was from the 1997-2002 or 2003.

No need to tell me what Y2K is. I was 15 going on 16 at the turn of the millenia. Do you even know what that means? What a time to be a teenager! What a time to be coming of age ❤

💙 the narrative 🩵

I would do a video on The Veronicas

This is A timeline your welcome Core 80s-1983-1987 The Neightes 1988-1992 Grunge 1993-1997 Y2K 1998-2002 Mcbling 2003-2007 Electropop 2008-2012 EDM/Hipster 2013-2017 Clout Era 2018-2022 TikTok Era 2022-The Present

Hmmm, back in the day they would think of all sorts of spacey/future like things as well when technology was booming, but I guess the Y2K scare did kind of fuel the spacey look into clothes, music&movies even more! Which for some crazy reason I never thought of the Y2K as the main reason though.. I thought it was just mostly fashion etc repeating itself but modifying it a bit. They're really pushing everything electronical/spacey again.

Normani embodied Y2K well wild side and the futuristic vma performance of it

I was 12 in Y2K it kind of strange to see the Resurgence 😅❤

The title of this video perfectly describes the brainrot that the humanity goes through.We really went from Lauryn Hill to Ice Spice😂

The girl group BLAQUE also contributed a lot to the y2k era put together by left eye herself

One thing about my boy Honest he gone mispronounce something, but he gonna spit facts while doing so lol

LOVE TLC!! Rip Aaliyah

This is why we have things like… music history and even music theory. Lol. I know it’s not common for MOST people to know that but it exists for a reason.

2000 felt really different than 2009

Azelia was playing with y2k style a decade ago, so it's kind of perfect she said something on it.

These kinds of videos might begin to blow up.

I was a fresh teen in the early 00s it was a wonderful time glad I experienced it.

Don't forget Scream by Michael and Janet. I think it was one of the pioneers of "futuristic" music videos

I wonder if Taylor swifts 1989 album fits into the whole ice spice thing of “words have meanings” and or that the album name (1989)- should tie into the album sonically,visually and incorporating somehow in the project.

clock it !!!

if anything I would call this era neo-y2k because it’s not like Y2K fully but there’s some characteristics

It’s so weird that my time period is a trend now, but like misrepresenting it.

Remember Will Smith's "Willennium"? He went all in on Y2K as well.

A lot of the time these eras being around the middle of a given decade and not he very beginning of the like a lot of people may think trying to categories them in a way that neatly follows the names some are given e.g. as explained in the video Y2K began mid to late 90s and ended in the actually 00s. Thinking of the music that began the 90s is remembering the grudge rock and ballads and end of the mid 80s style of synth Pop with gated snare drums and orchestral hits.

To give ice spice her credit, her coachella performance was amazing. She had a held screen that she turned on during the show and it gave me y2k vibes for sure. Her entire stage setup was super colorful and fun. She didnt miss a beat on her rapping either, she really was impressive

I Consider Y2K 1995 Through 2005

Remember I was 3 during the Y2K Scare in 99. I was born 96. Us born in the mid-90s have no or vague memories of the late 90s. Plus 2000 was never the millennium. Thr true millennium was 2001. Yet people celebrsted it a complete year too early. 2024 is the pan ultimate yesr of the first quarter of the 21st century. Y2K and 2-0-12 were never the end of the world. Just fesrmongering over a meteorite to hit the Esrth and a Mayan calendsr that resets 52 Yesrs after December 12th 2012(when I was 16). Next will be the 2-0-38 scsre after Y2K scare and 2-0-12 scare. Thr Y2K bug was never the extinction of mankind on planet Esrth. Yet people panicked over the results of the year 00 with computers. People thought there would be a meteorite to end us all. Doom and panic for us all on planet Esrth. Yet it never happened. Despite BSB Millennium album, Fan Mail Scrubs, Opps I Did It Again, JLO, and Missy Elliot Bitch. Playing onto the fesr just like 20-12’a fesr with Kesha Lady Gaga and Britney again. Both times fesr and panic at the strike on midnight.

2:36 where r the 99 baby’s

Hi Honest can you make a video on George Michael and his impact on the music industry similar to a documentary. Can you also make a Eternal Sunshine review please. 💚😁

I've never heard of Y2K before,thanks honest.❤😮

Gave me 2 new albums to explore

Love this video!❤️🫶

When u gon speak on Megan’s album

Camila is the only one who is doing y2k right in my opinion.

This happens all the time. The did the same to the other decades and their styles

There's a whole documentary about the time/hour thing, called "time bomb Y2k". It was a lot more chaotic than you made it out to be ahhaah but the rest of the video, I totally agree with it. Getting tired of people connecting Y2k fashion (for example) to those 2000s ridiculous outfits from disney's channel red carpets 🗣️ Side note: the background music almost made me click out of the video. It gives off a contradicting feeling to what you are saying, it was too generic, too "elevator music". Don't know how to explain :/ sorry

Still waiting for you to cover Megan album

So are you saying that y2k aesthetic is only futuristic/spacey cyber punk? Because if anything I think of Cheetah Girls, Bratz, and girly type of aesthetics before i think of aliens idk

Yes you better recognize TLC the legends!!!

JANET JACKSON WAS THE Y2K QUEEN IN ‘DOESNT MATTER’ 🤖🛸

isn't y2k just 1998/2001

where is the Katy Perry video