When looking at the different aspects of pop cultural such as movies, celebrities, fashion, music, games, slang, toys, cartoons, sitcoms etc when do you think we've made the transition from the 1990s to the 2000s? For example when do you think music really began to change from the 1990s vibe to the 2000s vibe/style (can be different depending on genres). Or when do you think fashion was looking more 2000s than 1990s in style?

Different aspects of pop culture seem to make the transition at different times it seems. For example mainstream radio Hip Hop was changing into the style that would be popular in the 2000s by the year 1998 or 1999. But if we're talking underground radio Hip Hop scene it's like the vibe in music didn't make the change until half a decade later. 

When it came to gaming I feel like we transitioned to the early 2000s era around the time PC gaming was releasing things like Thief Dark Project or when the Sega Dreamcast released (sometime around 1998). But this is all just how I see it. Anyone got their own ideas on when the transitions happened? Feel free to get specific as pop cultural doesn't change all at once. When it comes to music different genres change in style at different times. New kinds of fashion takes over old fashion at different times etc etc.

We transitioned in 2013 between 2000s and 2010s pop culture. The music changed, the fashion changed and the overall aesthetic changed. Take this song from 2012 which I found from random browsing around in the web:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZnvAtxb2qQ

This is Greek, but it wouldn't really look out of place in the 2000s. This decade, it looks rather dated and/or out of place.

We transitioned in 2013 between 2000s and 2010s pop culture. The music changed, the fashion changed and the overall aesthetic changed. Take this song from 2012 which I found from random browsing around in the web:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZnvAtxb2qQ

This is Greek, but it wouldn't really look out of place in the 2000s. This decade, it looks rather dated and/or out of place.


2008 was the transition

2008 was the transition

For the aesthetic at least, but until 2013, I could still see guys wearing their hair in the emo style or at least long.

For the aesthetic at least, but until 2013, I could still see guys wearing their hair in the emo style or at least long.


2008-2012 was a unique era in its own way, not unlike late 1998-2002, which neither felt definitively '90s or 2000s, and of course for over a decade, is often branded the "Y2K" era and is seen as core adolescence for the earlier portion of the Millennials. Though if you look back hard enough, you'll even see differences between 1999 and 2001, the former the peak of the teeny pop with a few core '90s stragglers around and popular like TLC, NBC primetime sitcoms (except for the original Will and Grace, which is a classic Y2K-era and early 2000s show), and Mariah Carey. 1999 had a roaring economy much like 2017, while 2001 was a recession year. The Internet gradually penetrated more and more into daily lives like it had been doing since the mid-90s, so that by the end of 2002, it was practically an appliance for many and dial-up was going the way of the VHS format by then. Speaking of which, DVDs were around, but of course it wasn't until 2002 that DVD had surpassed VHS. I still feel that 2003 was the first year that felt distinct from the earlier (pre-2001) Y2K era and totally foreign from the core '90s. The fall of 2006 was also when it first started feel more like the 2010s than the '90s with social media taking off and cellphones now ubiquitous, with core '90s artists starting already to be called old school by then.

2008-2012 was a unique era in its own way, not unlike late 1998-2002, which neither felt definitively '90s or 2000s, and of course for over a decade, is often branded the "Y2K" era and is seen as core adolescence for the earlier portion of the Millennials. Though if you look back hard enough, you'll even see differences between 1999 and 2001, the former the peak of the teeny pop with a few core '90s stragglers around and popular like TLC, NBC primetime sitcoms (except for the original Will and Grace, which is a classic Y2K-era and early 2000s show), and Mariah Carey. 1999 had a roaring economy much like 2017, while 2001 was a recession year. The Internet gradually penetrated more and more into daily lives like it had been doing since the mid-90s, so that by the end of 2002, it was practically an appliance for many and dial-up was going the way of the VHS format by then. Speaking of which, DVDs were around, but of course it wasn't until 2002 that DVD had surpassed VHS. I still feel that 2003 was the first year that felt distinct from the earlier (pre-2001) Y2K era and totally foreign from the core '90s. The fall of 2006 was also when it first started feel more like the 2010s than the '90s with social media taking off and cellphones now ubiquitous, with core '90s artists starting already to be called old school by then.

I believe that 2013 was when this transition ended. Perhaps 2006 and 2007 were the start of the transition years, what with the iPhone coming out. At least technology then started to change.

I think around 2003 is when atmosphere started becoming mid 2000's, and late 2008 when atmosphere started becoming Electropop era

In terms of kid culture at least, summer 2004 was definitely the transition from early to mid 2000s.

1989-1992 - '80s/90s transition
1993-1997 - Core '90s
1998-2001 - Y2K era
2002-2008 - Core '00s
2009-2012 - '00s/'10s transition or I'll call it the "Lady Gaga" era
2013-2017 - Core '10s

I'm in the minority on this board but I strongly believe 2008 was more '00s than '10s.

2008-2012 was a unique era in its own way, not unlike late 1998-2002, which neither felt definitively '90s or 2000s, and of course for over a decade, is often branded the "Y2K" era and is seen as core adolescence for the earlier portion of the Millennials. Though if you look back hard enough, you'll even see differences between 1999 and 2001, the former the peak of the teeny pop with a few core '90s stragglers around and popular like TLC, NBC primetime sitcoms (except for the original Will and Grace, which is a classic Y2K-era and early 2000s show), and Mariah Carey. 1999 had a roaring economy much like 2017, while 2001 was a recession year. The Internet gradually penetrated more and more into daily lives like it had been doing since the mid-90s, so that by the end of 2002, it was practically an appliance for many and dial-up was going the way of the VHS format by then. Speaking of which, DVDs were around, but of course it wasn't until 2002 that DVD had surpassed VHS. I still feel that 2003 was the first year that felt distinct from the earlier (pre-2001) Y2K era and totally foreign from the core '90s. The fall of 2006 was also when it first started feel more like the 2010s than the '90s with social media taking off and cellphones now ubiquitous, with core '90s artists starting already to be called old school by then.


DVDs surpassed VHS in mid 2003, not 2002