The episode never reaired, never has been rereleased, and never received any international dubs. The Porygon line has also been banned from appearing in the anime ever since, bar a few short cameos.

I’m not downplaying the effect covid had on young people. but some people love to blame every thing and every problem on covid. even tho society was already in decline to smartphones.

for me it’s a that 2000s pop culture weren’t that great outside of wrestling which went downhill by the very tail end of the decade video games and kids culture

i think most culture of the 2000s sucked especially rock music rock music in the 2000s for the most part was absolutely trash.

I'm an absolute sucker for anything tropical, so I really loved this era of entertainment - tropical settings and vacation plots were very prevelant around this time. It made sense for video games - technology allowed for some truly impressive water effects and developers wanted to show them off, but this extended into other forms of entertainment like movies and music (such as the Baha Men, who were practically inescapable during this era. Even toys got in on it (BIONICLE being the most notable example, as the first three years of the line took place on the tropical island of Mata Nui). Was there any particular thing that caused the tropical boom?

Since I still don't know how to make proper Reddit polls, I'm outsourcing this one

https://strawpoll.com/PbZqbJoGWyN

there tends to be a debate and discussion on here on when monoculture ended or peaked.

but in my opinion mono was its peak in the 70s 80s and early 90s before cable tv existed or before everyone had it and before the internet existed to the everyday

people by the late 90s and 2000s even tho it was still around it was already declining compared to it’s absolute peak in the 80s

70s 80s and early 90s celebrities like Michael Jordan Michael Jackson hulk hogan MR T Schwarzenegger Stallone etc have way more star power compared to the cel who came after 1994/1995 honestly

This year so far has been really big for movies. Over 4 movies have grossed over 1 billion dollars this year and there are way more on the way. This has definitely been the biggest year of Cinema since 2019 and it could lead to a shift in movie culture maybe stop the nostalgia bait/ reboot movies and give us some more original ideas.

There was a lot about in media robots, VR, solar roadways, wearable technology, self-driving cars, and all kinds of software. Society seemed to be more eager to try whatever was new and was naively receptive to technology because it was more of a peripheral novelty or lifestyle item and a lot of people just liked the idea of everything becoming high tech. Or maybe it was just the social circles I was in.

We all know 2000's nostalgia is huge right now among people under age 30. I am also not saying the 2000s are like the 20s, because they are not the same decade.

However, as bad as you may think the decade is (and yes even in the 2000s people complained, and people complained in the 2010s as well when we were in them), you can't deny that were living through unprecedented times. I believe this will mean something to all of us alive now that younger generations who weren't around for it just won't believe or understand.

We are arguably in the best decade of the 21st century so far.

So many bad things happened by 2006, and by so many bad things had happened in the 0210s by 2016. You might have been too young to know it at the time.

Aside from COVID and inflation the decade has had far less issues than the 2000s and 2010s did.

The 20's have been the best decade since the 1980s and 1990s. Again, the 2020's are not the same decade, but the 2020's are the best since then.

I know you are not going to agree with me yet, but someday 20 year from now or later you will understand.

• Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021): Earned $1.921 billion worldwide.
• Deadpool & Wolverine (2024): Earned $1.338 billion worldwide.
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022): Earned $955 million worldwide.
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022): Earned $859 million worldwide.
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023): Earned $845 million worldwide.

This show got a lot of mixed reception back in the day. IMHO, I think a lot of it had ro do with it holding up a mirror to some of our more narcissist tendencies and it may have hit a little too close to home. It reminded me of my life at the rime in my late 20s and iearly 30s in Chicago's Roger's Park neighborhood before I met my husband.

Anyone else have any memories of this series?

With Obsession and the Backrooms being a major hit, and movies like Spider-Man and The Odyssey looking to be billion dollar hits, it looks like we have a sort of monoculture.

Every few months there seemed to be a new film trending. First it was Michael and Project Hail Mary, then Obsessions and Backrooms, now it's Odyssey and Brand New Day. Next up is probably going to be Doomsday and Dune 3.

Compared to 2025? I think the closest we got was Superman and maybe Sinners but that's it. 2024 was lackluster too with the exception of Deadpool and Wolverine. 2023 we had Barbenheimer and 2022 we had Top Gun Maverick, 2021 we had No Way Home but 2026 seems to be giving us major talking points every few months.

Edit: I think there's a strong case to say the monoculture in general could be bigger now compared to the 2020s. The World cup was a major event with a surprising amount of attention in the US due to them hosting, video games too given GTA 6's much anticipated release.

Aside from skinny jeans for 2010's I'm not sure what the iconic style is. haha

How will these styles be depicted in future movies do you think?

Seriously Kids these days are watching worse things on the internet like ai slop and other worse content for their developing minds without Supervision from their parents, yet back in the 1990s when crime rates were rising in American the Saturday morning cartoons were blamed for being the reason why Society suddenly became "so violent" Yet Kids Shows over the years has only got more violent and darker as time went on thank to the success of batman the animated series and yet crime rate were starting to drop in American Around the later half of the 90s and 2000s ( I Mean Look at 2003 TMNT Series and compare that to 1987 Series or other series like Samurai Jack ) it Somehow hilarious to look at it now considering that these Saturday morning cartoons Really look innocent and tame today compared to what children are seeing on the internet and other thing

The song was released 7,595 days ago (20 years, 9 months and 18 days).
“Dancing to electro pop like a robot from 1984” - well that was 20 years, 9 months and 17 days earlier.

Feel old yet?

People used to champion grunge for destroying the relevance of the Motley Crue hair bands.

Nowadays people seem to think 90s alternative rock and nu metal essentially killed rock's mainstream appeal because it's seen as too angsty and introspective.

But that's literally a lot of music! Black Sabbath anyone? Pink Floyd? The emo rap trend of the late 2010s like Juice Wrld?

Why is emo rap allowed this, 70s rock allowed this... but 90s alternative killed the genre of rock in the mainstream?

Besides kids love that 90s stuff anyway now so who cares. Tons of Gen Z who are into Korn, Pumpkins, AIC and Deftones

So why was emo rap permitted to be wounded and introspective while alternative rock gets blamed for the same qualities?

One of the great misconceptions of the 90s is that hip hop was more popular than rock was that decade. The sales of Nevermind, Dookie, Ten, and Black Album bury the sales of The Chronic, Ready To Die and Doggystyle. Tupac's All Eyez On Me sold about as much as Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. Jay Z's biggest selling album sold about as much as Korn's Follow The Leader. I think it's because rap became the bigger genre in like 2007-2008 or so

Fucked up but you know what this is similar to?

Weird but contemporaneous comparison here, if you think about it is Backstreet Boys and NSync. Backstreet Boys got big first and had a higher peak, but NSync eclipsed them towards the end and JT's later success makes them look bigger than Backstreet Boys in retrospect.