Chapo Trap House BONUS: Y2K feat. Colette Shade
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Jan 14, 2025 Colette Shade, author of 'Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything,' joins to dissect millennial nostalgia for the late 90s and early 2000s. She explores the sharp contrast between the era's optimism and the subsequent pessimism of the 21st century. The conversation dives into how the anxiety around the Y2K bug mirrored deeper material concerns. Shade also highlights the evolution of music and pop culture, critiquing early 2000s representations of sexuality and identity, while emphasizing the lasting impacts of key events like 9/11 on cultural perceptions.
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Inflatable Chair of the Future
- Colette Shade desperately wanted a silver inflatable chair marketed as "the chair of the future."
- It popped within a month, symbolizing the burst of the dot-com bubble.
Subconscious Fear
- The Y2K era's optimism masked a subconscious fear of its unsustainable nature.
- This fear manifested in anxieties like the Y2K bug and X-Files popularity.
Climate Change Awareness
- Colette Shade was born days before James Hansen's climate change testimony.
- The '90s awareness of climate change was framed as a future problem, not a present one.
