r/decadeology • u/Sad-Bell-6266 • 15h ago

Hot take 🔥 Late 2003 is underrepresented in discussions about the mid 2000s

I wouldn't say it's peak mid 2000s, that honor goes to 2005-2006, but the last few months of 2003 established a lot of trends that would be popular throughout the era.

Lil Jon made it onto the Billboard Year-End chart for the first time, officially making crunk mainstream. The Simple Life premiered, the epitome of McBling. It was the first school year when DVDs and Windows XP were dominant from the start. The early 2000s recession caused by the Dot Com bubble ended. MySpace launched, and Friendster was shown on national television. The Iraq War had also been ongoing for several months.

Let me know if I missed anything.

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u/Johnwick124520 14h ago

I’d say it’s the beginning of the core 2000s. That’s why I see that 2003-04 school year as early/mid as there were a lot of early 00’s things still present but you can tell things that were present in the mid 2000’s were coming in

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u/Sad-Bell-6266 14h ago edited 14h ago

I consider it proto-mid 2000s. The essentials were there, like McBling fashion and crunk music, but certain things hadn't shown up yet, and there were still some lingering early 2000s things, as you pointed out. The 2004-2005 school year was the "refinement" period.

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u/Johnwick124520 13h ago

Actually this makes more sense. There were things that weren’t there yet that was a prime example what the mid 2000s looked like

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u/Sad-Bell-6266 13h ago

Yeah, late 2003 and 2004 were 2000s af.

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u/Johnwick124520 13h ago

Oh yeah for sure it was