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Y2K Aesthetics: E66 Luigi’s McMansion | with Colette Shade

Jan 8, 2025

Join Colette Shade, author of "Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything," as she dives into the vibrant world of Y2K aesthetics. Discover how the dot-com bubble, alien fascination, and post-9/11 culture shaped consumer trends. Colette reveals the impact of Y2K futurism and the era's intense sexism. She also connects past movements to today’s social challenges, critiquing media influence and technology. Fans of nostalgia and pop culture will find her insights both enlightening and entertaining!

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Quick takeaways

The Y2K era marked a significant cultural transformation driven by the dot-com bubble, optimism, and a contrasting eventual disillusionment with technology's societal impacts.

Nostalgia from the Y2K period serves as both a refuge for millennials facing modern crises and a form of 'anti-politics' disengagement from the present.

Sexism in the 2000s was deeply entrenched, with media portraying women through hyper-sexualized and infantilized lenses, affecting societal perceptions of gender.

Deep dives

Defining the Y2K Era

The Y2K era is defined as spanning from 1997 to 2008, marking a period of cultural transformation influenced by the dot-com bubble and its aftermath. This time coincided with notable global events, including 9/11, which drastically altered the American social landscape. The discussion highlights how the societal rhetoric during this period celebrated the notion that nothing bad would ever happen, reflecting widespread optimism. In contrast, the end of this decade was characterized by the financial crisis, disrupting the previously held beliefs of stability and progress.

Intro

2min

Nostalgia and Aesthetics of the Y2K Era

13min

Exploring Alien Fascination and the Internet's Rise in the Late 90s

2min

The Rise and Fall of the Dot-Com Bubble

5min

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Aliens and Cyber Nostalgia

2min

Aesthetics of Post-9/11 Culture

28min

Nostalgia and Social Change

5min

Upcoming Book Release and Events

3min

Let’s fall into a Y2K-Hole. The Shuffle bois turn to the world of pop culture and consumer aesthetics with expert guest Colette Shade, author of “Y2K: How the 2000’s Became Everything.” Colette walks us through what the defining features of the Y2K era were, the history of the dot com bubble, some of the period’s most iconic styles and movements (Y2K Futurism, Frutiger Aero, Blobject, 2K1, Techno-orientalism, McBling), as well as various manifestations of the intense sexism of the time.

Follow Colette on Twitter (@MsShade) and check her website out here: https://www.coletteshade.com/. Her tour dates are as:

1/8/2025 • 7:00 PM • Baltimore, MD

1/9/25 • 6:30 PM • New York, NY

1/15/25 • 6:00 PM • New Haven, CT

1/17/25 • 7:00 PM • Cambridge, MA

1/22/25 • 7:00 PM • Los Angeles, CA

1/24/25 • 7:00 PM • San Francisco, CA

2/1/25 • 6:00 PM • Washington, DC

2/6/25 • 7:00 PM • Baltimore, MD

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2000s Aestetics websites:

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Category:2000s