Being a teenager in the early 2000s

[@AlishaDear]

This made me emotional. I loved the era I grew up in, I didn’t realize how much I’d miss these little things until they aren’t available anymore.

[@cassiej226]

I just had a similar conversation with someone over the weekend. Unfortunately, we took those times for granted. Had we known of the type of world we are currently living in, we would have been more grateful and appreciative 😔

[@hamcakes]

you never know what you've got until it's gone, right ? I feel the same way.

[@ChickenFerLei]

Sameeee😩

[@destineeblanco]

I got emotional too. 😢

[@JTCin2025]

You'll learn to appreciate this stuff again. Having kids or even being an uncle/aunt etc. gives opportunities to relive things thru ur family.

[@meloncholy413]

So true “we captured some moments in photos, but most are only in our memories”

[@Seca95]

We should strive to do that today

[@keetasingletary]

Thank goodness 😆 my kids shouldn't have proof I was once blessedly human

[@Imxel21]

@@Seca95where? Most third spaces are closed or are deserted. Let’s actually talk about how the world has changed instead of saying ‘oh we should do that’

[@Starlene24]

🥲🫂

[@brittanybehm2681]

So true

[@breestone8978]

90s and early 2000s were pure magic. God i miss those days they literally FELT different and beautiful i was always high from the happy energy i had

[@kat2025]

My mom was a teen and became my mom in the 90s. She recalls that the 2000s were fun for teens and kids but absolutely horrible for working age people. She also recalls the 90s as "fucking sucked but our music rocked" lmao it's all about perspective i guess.

[@BebeDaul]

Life was different, and no one who didn't live it will ever understand it.

[@fighterflight]

That’s just youth

[@breestone8978]

@@fighterflight yeah but kiids these days are more depressed and don’t feel the same way we did growing up with the pressure of life and social media. Kids are also more in a hurry to look and act like adults. Thats why i say it felt different

[@MeganSardo-ym4md]

I COMPLETELY agree 💯 Like took the words out of my mouth. It had a different like feeling

[@noestoo4225]

Kids growing up now will never experience the same joy. It feels like everyone is more pressured to grow up faster and be more sucessful than the others

[@clarevela8181]

Exactly it’s so sad

[@Red-wj2sj]

🙌

[@yikes7607]

@@noestoo4225 Yeah... It's probably better for them that they don't realise their generation got it bad and the shittiest time. Let them think they're oh so cool in their sweet ignorance. I feel sorry for them, really do, no sarcasm there. They're unwitting victims of a corrupt system that set out to turn them into perfect indoctrinated slaves who respond to dopamine spikes from dumb stimuli and all sorts of BS thrown at them.

[@Nightwillow-jk7zd]

@@yikes7607 they know, and by they I mean we. And I don’t just know because I have access to your comment. Every generation has the “wow I wish I grew up in that time!” Decade, and for ours it’s the 2000s, if it’s not the 80s or 50s.

[@dianamorales7335]

Might not be the same joy but they will have good memories anyway 😊

[@taybae561]

OMG I miss this era sooooooooo freaking much !!!!! 😢😢😢 Walkman’s, after school specials, belting Britney Spears, Linkin Park and Evanescence, infomercials, Sobey’s, Dial up Internet and AOL, Passing notes in class, Degrassi, Sketchers, MySpace, Lipsmackers ughhhhhhhhh I could go on and on !!!!

[@BingoNamo-gb8pz]

Degrassi? I only remember Saved by the Bell, Blossom, Boy Meets World, Full House, Step by Step, Sister Sister, Hangin with Mr Cooper, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, America’s Funniest Home Videos, The Price is Right, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, 7th Heaven, The Simpsons, Dawson’s Creek, Rugrats, Doug, Fresh Prince, Cosby.

[@jaylienwashington2382]

Don't forget the spice girl stickers 😂

[@taybae561]

@@BingoNamo-gb8pz All amazing shows !!! 🩷🩷🩷

[@IPanicwhenIfall]

Linkin Park!!!

[@nixsis5281]

For me it was Halo on Xbox, Linkin Park, Hoobastank, Breaking Benjamin, Limp Biscuit, watching TRL and hating the selection, The Real World, girls giving you their email address because their phones ran out of minutes, and watching slasher movies (Scream) in theaters.

[@roxy5759]

Oh my god I am absolutely sobbing. This feels like a memorial to a dear friend that has passed on...only instead of a friend, it's just our youth.

[@christiana_mandalynn]

That’s how I am feeling!!!! 😭💛

[@katelynvanh]

Perfectly said 👌🏼 I’m crying now 😢

[@hamcakes]

oh god lol 😭❤️ putting it in that perspective makes it even more deeply emotional

[@gaellegh5640]

I’m glad I’m not the only one.

[@blj1523]

WOW THIS COMMENT HIT HARD

[@Mexdamax]

Crazy how one day in 20 years could be making a video like this with stuff like “our houses were 2 colors MAX” and “we would watch TikTok for hours”

[@jennaabarclay]

😂🤣

[@mstrikesback168]

No one will be nostalgic for this era. It's the Darkest Timeline.

[@Mario_1031]

@@mstrikesback168you say that and realize that it will become a nostalgic time for some people. Even in 2020 people said the same thing (especially teens), but when people look back at 2020 they find it nostalgic even including the pandemic

[@mynameisreallycool1]

​@@mstrikesback168 You'd be surprised. People can feel nostalgic for any time period, even bad ones, because people tend to look at the positive things from the past or miss things from the past that they otherwise wouldn't think much of, and then they ignore the bad stuff from that time. People long for things they can't have that are out of their reach, including the past.

[@onewingangel1117]

So boring 😝

[@8infinite8possiblities8]

“It wasn’t aesthetic, but we didn’t care” hit me the hardest ❤FACTS!!!🙌

[@southernbelladonna78]

Loved getting a mixed CD as a gift... So much thought went into personalizing it. ❤️

[@marielanomade]

I still have those I was gifted❤

[@j.sony.]

Same!

[@5superhombre]

Nothing is stopping you from making them 😂

[@southernbelladonna78]

@@5superhombre it's not about "making them", lol. It's about getting and giving them as a gift . There was a lot of thought put into it. Yeah nothing is "stopping" anyone, lol, but it's not on the radar anymore when it was once common.

[@5superhombre]

@@southernbelladonna78 then make and give them away. Nothing is stopping you

[@MichelleArielis]

I miss these times. So simple. So innocent. So in the moment. I still have some of my collages

[@a.g.demada5263]

Yes, me too I feel nostalgic. Especially about how small the phones were 😅 (at least, they could fit in my pocket)

[@bankrolldame]

I was only a kid, but i remember feeling so muxh happier, creative, and grounded. Constant stimulation and distracrion actually keeps us from dreaming (and in turn, living our dreams)

[@SpiritualWarrior]

I can relate ❤

[@BlackGirlLovesAnime6]

Same. It’s hard to tell if it’s because we aren’t kids anymore or if it’s because society really isn’t as “magical” as it used to be

[@eenchantress5113]

Same, old gen z here 🥹

[@eve_the_human]

Exactly

[@katl1489]

The black mirrors/EMF's have us feeling distraught

[@tlh0121]

The 90’s and 2000’s were an awesome time to be a kid and grow up in. I would kill for a few more years of it.

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

Seriously! The best of times! 🥹

[@corymiller536]

Just 90s

[@beckv.3963]

I think about it often❤

[@mallarielove]

@@corymiller536bro is desperate to feel special for nearly being 40

[@corymiller536]

@@mallarielove 90s last best decade before everything went to 💩

[@musiclist4792]

“We captured some memories in photos but most are only in our memories” is exactly the way it should be. You spend too much of a moment behind a camera and you never get to experience the complete essence of that moment firsthand; you live your own life as a spectator and not as a participant.

[@burungpipitmakanpadi]

Was just talking to two friends about this. All the wild things I did when young and foolish... Only stays in my memories and some drawings. Nowadays every adventure is documented and if there isn't a reel it didn't happen.

[@SimbiAni]

I'd rather have tangible evidence of things that happened than just my foggier-by-the-day memory which most are fading out of existence, but that's just me.. I prefer the ability to relive smth captured externally because I can't depend on my mind to be accurate nor permanent & it is so helpful to see & hear things exactly as they were 🌈

[@sjohnson65456]

That part really made me... 😭

[@justinsm]

@@SimbiAni different but the problem that they really not enjoyed the moment. The moment i really hungry but have to wait until my friend upload it.

[@Starlene24]

💯👏🏻

[@Naptural85]

I miss it so much 😢 But I feel blessed to have been a child in the 90’s and a teenager during the 2000’s. What a time, truly! 🫶🏾❤️❤️ #ThankYouForTheMemories 🥹

[@jaslyn5501]

Whitneyyyyy 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

[@Niqua10023]

Same 😢😊

[@shenrillbaylark6163]

When I was a little I use to be excited to turn teenage age bc I literally thought this was how it was going to be. Y'all were lucky to experience this

[@withtheflow7]

This made me tear up. So relatable. I miss existing before social media.

[@DoodlePoodle199]

Same. I’m 43 and could go back to no social media in a heartbeat

[@blushchuu]

@@DoodlePoodle199You can do it right now. Nothing's stopping you

[@AnotherUsername-oe5uy]

​@@blushchuu it is a societal and cultural thing at this point. It isn't just about one person choosing to have no social media accounts, but I think it is more about how culture as a whole is consumed by technology and social media

[@blushchuu]

@@AnotherUsername-oe5uy Cool. I just think it's silly to use social media to make a post about not wanting to have social media. If you dislike it so much then deleting it would solve most of your problems with it

[@tula1433]

@@blushchuuyou sound ridiculous. She made a very valid point about how her not having social media wouldn’t change society. Why have no social media and go to a party and watch your friends scroll tiktok. It’s either everyone has it or everyone doesn’t. Everyone having it effects the entire way things are done! No one’s in the moment, even if you aren’t on social media!

[@TwilightSagaCullen]

This actually makes me so emotional

[@Leolottie]

Same ❤️

[@TheAlexa1983]

Me too

[@monicageller226]

I feel the same such nostalgia.

[@jessicah3992]

Same 😂😂😂

[@gina-marie1621]

Same.

[@Brunettte-Barbie]

I don’t care what any other generation says. As a millennial, we truly grew up in the best of times. An analog childhood and a digital teenagehood.

[@automnejoy5308]

Also, politically and economically speaking, the 90's were inarguably the best time to grow up (at least for Western countries). We really had no clue how much of an aberration that decade was. It was normal to us, which is why we've been ill at ease and somewhat alienated with the world ever since. We remember how it SHOULD be! In the 90's there was no hiding under the desk from the specter of Soviet nukes like boomers and Gen X experienced. And there were no school shootings or terrorism fears yet (or financial crash) like Gen Z had to suffer. The 90's was factually a golden interval, and perfection for children. Our boomer parents did a lot of cool stuff for us, too. They were better parents than their parents were, I think. They also made the best movies, TV shows and toys for us, let's be honest. This whole experience defines us as millennials.

[@Brunettte-Barbie]

@@automnejoy5308 yes yes and yes, your comment just made me so nostalgic and a little teary

[@Daydreamerr13]

It’s true 😂 i’m an older gen z (26), so i think we are the closet to sorta experiencing both in a way. I was 7 in 04, but I have great memories from that time period. I was in hs 2012-2016 i think the was the last great era truly

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

Millennials got the best of both worlds. 🥰💖💕

[@Daydreamerr13]

@@DiaryofaMillennialASMR luv ur username!!

[@aaliyahkate3750]

I was OBSESSED with the A&F hoodies. They were literally so damn soft and warm. I still love them. The early 2000s were just so calm and different. I miss it so much. ❤😢

[@IamSoup09]

It's so cool to see how things were back then. This seemed like a very nice era to be in. I wasn't a teenager in the early 2000s since I was born in 2009, but I like seeing puctures from the past! It's nice to see how peoppe lived back then and how it was. :)

[@MilkWasABadChoice17]

From 1995 until about right before you were born was such an interesting, crazy, and memorable time period. Technology really changed everything after that, and it truly created a divide between people in so many weird and different ways. Being a kid during that time wasn't always easy either. I always wanted to grow up and become an adult, and I'm glad I have, but I wish I could be an adult living through times like that, I never imagined it would have changed in the fashion it has.

[@monicageller226]

It makes me sad to know my children won’t have this. I know things weren’t perfect back then but a lot more wholesome.

[@MisssPeachykeen]

Depends what kind of childhood you had. I definitely was not wholesome and had and did all of the above stuff. I just more or less lived that movie Thirteen.

[@amaryllisbelladonna3619]

This is pure nostalgia talking. I vividly remember the not-so-wholesome things. Simplest example, getting body shamed with a perfectly normal teenage body because you had to look anorexic to really fit into the 00's style (low rise jeans & tight tops).

[@VinnyGimino]

I agree it was way more wholesome!!!!!! just look at the difference between 12 year olds then and now. Now the 12 year olds look and act like 16 year olds.

[@belugaflying]

Read the book Female Chauvinist Pigs

[@CiGiDancer]

I think kids nowadays a a whole lot more wholesome than we were!

[@HeartCoils]

I love being a millennial… the 2000s were such a great time to be young. I cherish our formative years without much social media, making memories and passing time with friends ❤️

[@ilovetacobell777]

i genuinely wish i could experience it

[@brookephelps2162]

Me too! This video made me tear up with emotion. It was a simpler time. It was carefree! I remember parking my crappy car down the no trespassing lane and swinging from a rope we tied to a high limb down at the quarry. That was how we would pass the time. Scrolling our phones wasn’t an option to pass the time. I had a trac phone with about 45mins on it at a time lol. 😂 if you were really special to me you could send me a text and I’d use up one of my minutes to view your 3 word message 😅❤ Gosh, I would really love to go back just for a day.

[@carelixacosta5601]

I was only a child in the 2000s but I agree! I'll take the 2000s over this current era any day!

[@jessied3696]

I still know friends parents phone numbers, I remember too much lip gloss, I'll always know the hidden roads, the smell of grass from either outside, at the gap, or my scented nail polish, CK One, Pearberry. It's funny because trends were slower. We all had remarkably similar views at the time. And give me a for real kitchen to have solid kitchen conversations in. Everyone's mom smoked sometimes.

[@arurora5474]

idk... the 2000s felt very unhinged to me. the magazines full of hatred for women "being fat" when they were thin but not skinny. telling you your life revolves around weather or not boys found you attractive. that is not stuff I wanted to be thinking about but it was everywhere. not to mention the constant slutshaming for literaly existing. without the internet allowing me to find out other people felt alienated like I always did it was a really lonely time for me. I'm glad you had a better experience. I hope it was because you had a good community around you.

[@williamheath8827]

Born in 85 and i miss my childhood. Before any type of social media was the best, where you actually had to a physical location instead of looking it up on the internet. One memory that was the best was my family playing Legend of Zelda on the NES and trying to race to the finish. I wish we could go back one day.

[@Faizasmith-pj4dz]

87 baby here

[@UnderHisWings0322]

I was also born in 85! My childhood was the absolute best. Not because everything was perfect but because of how simple life was then.

[@RobbyGT]

UNDERSTOOD

[@anniebe4992]

1984 hii

[@Jessica_Costantini]

i’m an 85 baby too. can’t believe WELL BE 40 NEXT YEAR WUT

[@ben_riley2]

These always make me emotional. My brother passed in 2009. My brain covers up most of the memories due to trauma, and these kinds of videos bring me back but in a good way. I sure do miss him. I was only 12 when he passed. Thanks for posting.

[@poetictrainquility]

I’m sorry for your loss

[@seaglass.jen86]

Class of ‘04 and this was perfect 🥲 mixed CDs truly were the best gift!

[@JudySterling]

I'm 69 and this is my three wonderful millennial nieces! I've been so blessed with every year of being in their lives and would happily re-live every minute. 💕 This video can even make an old auntie cry.

[@Starlene24]

💯👏🏻 I'm a mom of a millennial and this broke my heart ❤️ bc I had my child at a very young age and enjoyed HER youth so much more than my own since by then I was old enough to appreciate how short that time actually is!! 🥹🥲🫂👏🏻

[@erinstrickler1763]

This gave me more nostalgia than anything ever has. Life was so much simpler in the early 2000s

[@ReginaTrans_]

Tbh the 90s looked more like a perfect time to be a teen, I always looked up to teens in the 90s when I was a kid, they were the ones who did experienced the analog/digital world, they were the ones who rode cars in the afternoons going to malls, and arcades, not wearing seatbelts, with their feet in the windows, playing in random highway hills, tumbling and jumping down, asking for free sodas at some stores, not many rules, crashing at some random party, etc etc, in the 2000s we were already over protected by everything, rules appeared and phones and social media, all became staged and lame

[@tula1433]

@@ReginaTrans_I graduated in 2005. Everything was wonderful up until about 2009-2010. Once 2012 hit the world totally changed for the worse.

[@Whatever94-i4u]

Nah, YOUR life was simpler because you were a kid/teen...

[@Whatever94-i4u]

@@tula1433 Or you just reached that point where the responsibilities of adulthood finally started weighing on you... (Happens to everyone, I'm going through it rn myself, too).

[@erinstrickler1763]

@@Whatever94-i4u no life in general but as simpler. The internet wasn’t everywhere. People weren’t always connected to other people through their phones.

[@MariaPedersen-mq5hk]

I don't think most of us even took selfies at all. I remember thinking it was incredibly embarrassing to take a picture of YOURSELF, like who do you think you are?

[@nyceexo53]

Yes!!! What do you not have friends or something?! Wouldn’t be caught dead doing that, now kids practice their selfie faces since toddler age 😭

[@automnejoy5308]

The only time I took a "selfie" was when I sent a picture of myself to a friend on the internet whom I had never met. (Yeah, I know...)

[@TwoBs]

Nah, now I wouldn’t say that. This comes off as elitism to act as if our generation and those older were somehow more superior to imply we weren’t self-centered or whatever nonsense because we didn’t do X/Y/Z when we absolutely did lol. We absolutely had stuff like MySpace where the whole “selfie” term even exploded (along with the infamous “MySpace angle” from taking a photo from up above), and it was our generation (millennials) that made it popular as digital cameras absolutely were a thing at the turn of Y2K where we definitely took photos of ourselves often. Even before MySpace we had the ability to create personal webpages where I remember being a preteen at the turn of 2000 and seeing my older teenage sister have selfies of herself along with many of my friends starting to do similar. The only time it felt weird was with disposable cameras and Polaroids as the film was limited and was seen more for capturing moments, but digital cameras allowed for us to be more personal with it the more space you had on an SD card or however much the internal memory of the digital camera had. This constant need to validate ourselves and feel as if we were better as a generation compared to modern ones is so cringe….

[@foxyroxytm]

The only time I took a selfie was when I was 16 right before prom in 2004 😂

[@skyegroome223]

​@@TwoBs not at first. I'm from the MySpace era and it was really odd to see people take pictures of themselves in the beginning. I remember going to the mall with a friend and seeing a woman at the bus stop taking pictures of herself and thinking how weird she looked.

[@itssilvermadallion]

AS TOLD BY GINGER!!! “PACK YOUR BAGS!!!!” 🌻 my show for lifersssss

[@NicoleGibson-87]

😂that was my favorite show

[@itssilvermadallion]

@@NicoleGibson-87 I just rewatched the entire 3 seasons I wish they’d bring it back!

[@kingcat1437]

Can’t help but feel it must have been a better time than the one i got with Covid and social media

[@kingcat1437]

Still feel like a lot of my generation are socially stunted I still don’t really know how to talk to people my age

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

​@@kingcat1437 :( You are absolutely correct, 100%.

[@bastetowl3258]

yes. there’s even more pressure now to look perfect. at least back then you could just avoid looking at magazines. you weren’t comparing yourself as much to others. also having no smartphones actually forced you to be present in the moment and talk more with other people out of sheer boredom. i feel like kids got way more socialization back then and were more physically active playing outside instead of sitting at home being addicted to their phones and apps

[@SimbiAni]

​@@bastetowl3258- video games were invented in the '80s, trust me the '90s was full of ppl lamenting how awesome the '60s & '70s were before video games & PCs took over - but guess what, the '60s & '70s were equally full of ppl all lamenting how they miss the '40s & '50s, before TV hit big & music got so funky! those same ppl forgot the parents of the '40s & '50s missing the good old '20s & '30s, etc etc..

[@jennymanker6478]

Wow I feel like crying! This was beautiful. It’s so true.

[@Sew28]

❤exactly

[@shamirquinones8607]

Same… 😢

[@crunchyflakepusssuk]

huh. I was like, not everyone was like that. I guess a lot of people were.

[@Ooxxls]

It's okay to not be okay. 😢

[@qiqilu123]

😢

[@flowerpower7065]

My heart and mind can comprehend that life isnt like this anymore. Colorful, hopeful, and fun. Very nostalgic

[@zukielife]

As a Millennial in South Africa, this was exactly how I spent the early 2000s

[@LGM2000x]

If you're from Africa, why are you white?

[@waverider8549]

I moved to South Africa in 1997 aged 14. Hi there..

[@keyiarich3900]

This makes me wish I had taken more pictures, seriously this is the best video Ive seen all year on KZbin! We truly grew up in the best of times.

[@Demthorshie]

I miss these more simpler times. We weren't addicted to our computers and phones, we actually had real life social circles and there were things to do outside of the home so we were always out just living life.

[@giorgiaalexanderactingothe1892]

Stop I’m crying. I was born in 93 so was pretty young in the early 00s but remember all of this so well, and miss it so much. Can we make all the technology (the kind we don’t need) stop?!

[@Year_of_1993]

Born the same year🥲

[@HoomanthingMeetDog]

This is why I'm scared to have kids . I want people around me that think somewhat similar so that my kids will grow up with friends that also aren't living in screen time

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

Exactly!! It’s gotten to be too much!

[@ajstudios9210]

Same. 94 baby here. 🥲 It was quite a time to be alive. I miss it.

[@jesscasey3788]

I’m born 92 and I could 😭 I loved her prom dress and her fashion 😂

[@Goldengurl85]

Us mellinials I can say we had it good!! No one will experience the moments we had❤ wouldn't mind going back to this time! No social media, just us growing up being kids.

[@ElectricSoul828]

This song makes the nostalgia so real. Omg. Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s was truly the best.

[@kaitlyngault3987]

Nah, the programming & decay started long before us.

[@bellagarzia9653]

I was just a kid but still remember looking up to the older girls and thinking how much I wanted to be them🥲recognize a lot of this stuff and miss it

[@STdoubleDs]

Michelle Branch went so hard in the feels. Still have my sisters copy of the spirit room when she moved out and left her cd collection.

[@charichari]

I did the same, being the youngest I often snuck into my eldest sister's room and use her CD player to listen to "Spirit Room" for hours at a time. That was my absolute favorite album growing up (right after Avril's "Let Go").. I still love it and Michelle Branch to this day

[@hazeleyes2115]

There's a huge part of me missing those times, constantly nostalgic, sometimes ignoring the reality of nowadays, but still living a full and active life. 32 years, three kids

[@mae1036]

Literally me watching Zenon occasionally and sneaking 2000s style into my 33 year old wardrobe 👀

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

Forever cherishing the 2000s 🥹💖✨

[@disneydaniella7514]

Praying for you and your family ❤

[@arianemuckner7399]

I was a Teenager in the 2000s in Germany. At 16 I spent a year in Mississippi. Went to Highschool, made amazing friends, found my home away from home. It was exactly like this. Wrote my parents a monthly e-mail from the family computer and called long distance once a month, too. Used the landline to have friends pickt mehr up. I still have a very low rise jeans the big sister of a friend gave to me. Was one of the best years! Now I am emotional 😫😍

[@sjohnson65456]

How cool! My best friend moved about 30 minutes from me in 7th grade. I would go stay with her every chance I could. In high school they also had a German exchange student. She was Ms. Teen Germany I remember my friends telling me (Was that a pageant there?). We were so amazed at 16 being told by her that you could drink at 16 in Germany. 😅 Why was there such an exchange student program at the time or does it still exist?

[@arianemuckner7399]

There are still programs like that :) And there are even more countries you could go to. However it was expensive back then and is even more now. As a mom I think a lot about if my children could go. I am forever greatful for my parents and grandparents to make this possible for me. Next Spring my former hostmom will visit me. We kept in touch for almost 20 years and I love her as my american mom.

[@cip6292]

Class of 06, late 90’s early 2000s were definitely a vibe.

[@roxana_88]

Class of 06 too 🤗

[@katemiller5990]

I remember the grief and struggles in my teenage years, this was one of the songs that led me to God.

[@GodISSovereign17]

All this! I was in such a hurry to grow up, never knew how much I would miss those days. Family, friends, and living life in person. Blessings

[@ChristmasSeasonIsHere]

When I hear this song, it definitely brings back so many moments during that time. I love your videos 💕 this one might be my favorite so far!

[@BingoNamo-gb8pz]

This CD was in my car the day I met my first girlfriend in person (we met online in a yahoo chat room). She was wearing a yellow Abercrombie top, wearing “lucky you” perfume. We watched “Final Destination” in her living room when she kissed me half on the lips/half on my cheek. Will never forget that moment.

[@MLaker221]

You're going to make my cry!!! Plus the song combo. You know we are all thinking of our own friends beds we sat on... the computer rooms we typed our papers, those school dance dresses. And I'm the retro king in my own right.. you're not showing me anything new... but the way you put it together is a WORK OF ART. 1987/m/il here

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

A/s/l brings it back!! I miss aim days 🥹

[@sjohnson65456]

1987/F/MI! 💜🖤🫂

[@CreatedANewHandle]

I used to be jealous of girlies like you back in the day because you were always top of the trends when I was too lazy to follow them, but I am so grateful that there are memories living in people like you that we get to share.

[@blueseptember2174]

Here's to the girls who were doing the most 😅 🍻 . You're organization and drive to be in the know saved our memories ❤. We appreciate you😊

[@cloudsn]

I was jealous because my parents were conservative/religious and I wasn't allowed to do a lot of stuff that the popular kids did. No low rise jeans, belly button showing, no makeup, I had to get permission to go out to a movie or a friends house. I got good at lying, though.

[@CreatedANewHandle]

@@cloudsn Oop. Same but I’m grateful because a lot of it I would have come to regret

[@CreatedANewHandle]

@@blueseptember2174 Cheers mate

[@cloudsn]

@@CreatedANewHandle That's fair, but I'd liked to have the opportunity to make some silly mistakes as a kid, in the relatively safe space of my family home. I have a lot of memories of wishing I could join in on fairly tame activities, like the Senior Trip in high school.

[@Banyo__]

I started college in the early 2000s, and that picture of the room looks like the one I took of my dorm room. It's crazy to think in four years, I only took like maybe 30 pictures, now, everyone takes like 30 pictures a day because you don't have to develop them, and wait forever. Also SUPER weird now to think that we allowed some random strangers we'd never met to see all our family and friends photos.

[@YTLJE]

The best times. I feel sorry for kids today.

[@gillagroupie]

I'm really really grateful I grew up during this time. It was such an experience. Things today are so different- when I was a kid I don't think I realized how much things can change over time. This made me a little emotional. ❤ Thanks for the memory triggers❤

[@nothingtofind9099]

Top tier Americana culture! Good job Millennials for living it up in your youth!

[@lesliecheneydasilva6992]

It was purly awesome would do it over again

[@malinia.20]

Please do not romanticize "Americana" while we're currently committing genocide. And the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started in the early 2000s. This is early 2000s youth culture, not Americana!

[@kaishel3037]

@@malinia.20it ain’t that deep.

[@mynameisreallycool1]

I wasn't a teen in the 2000s, but I was a kid, and there are some things about it I miss.

[@carelixacosta5601]

Same! We had it just as good as the teens did!

[@potato1084]

Sameee😂😂🥺

[@foshizzmahnizz]

Gotta love the 90s, the last great decade for anything and everything. ❤

[@JDfaith2024]

Yes 🥹 ❤️

[@Tvtybubbyyb2]

The generations today and after will never know this pure enjoyment and feeling of growing up. Nostalgia is real. I’m so blessed to have lived through these moments

[@christinaphx]

That's what I did in the nineties also. Lots of pen and paper pen pals tho. Tying up the land line starting in 1995. Most of the rest is the same. Collages. Disposable cameras. The mall. But our clothes were "grungey".

[@vloy3080]

This was so nostalgic! I spend so much of my teen years at the near by mall and loved going to the movies! We’d spend all day at the movies when matinees were only $3 😭

[@kurlykaitlyn]

Right!! I think it costs like $20 to see one movie now! And I hear it’s harder to sneak into other movies after your first ends lol

[@SimbiAni]

AMC last I checked still does $5 Tuesdays in many places, which is the same as my local lil theater used to do (& that one is now long gone 😭) plus they have the monthly plan that for $25/mth gives you 3 showings a week, so one may see basically 12-15 movies a month if they wanted for just essentially $2/each, a great deal for those who still like the big screen experience! in case anyone didn't kno about that option, from one movie fan to all others 😎🎫🎬

[@tiffanybordes5326]

I’m crying! Miss these days so much 😢. Class of ‘06 😎✌️

[@b2k551]

Facts Class Of '05 😎

[@bluwater1422]

I graduated in 06

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

The best of the 2000s!!🙌

[@Ericasentertainments]

02 😀

[@XxslumbunnyxX]

09 here!

[@Maw0]

The last line hit hard. "We captured moments in photos, but most are only burned into our memories."

[@BingoNamo-gb8pz]

More like only in our memories. If mom wasn’t there taking pictures then there’s no evidence it ever happened.

[@soliferi]

@@BingoNamo-gb8pz i guess i was lucky i was either given disposable cameras or spent the money i could on them. of course its more like one camera every year or two vs digital which is every day.

[@beccalomax9533]

This made me way more happy and calm and sad then I expected and I loved it

[@SomethingClever18]

Gosh, this made me emotional. I can physically feel the nostalgia. Thanks for sharing your memories with us.

[@sjohnson65456]

IT IS so visceral! Thanks for sharing that. I'm finding so many comments in here that are straight out of my soul.

[@animami-8]

The melancholy 😢This almost made me cry. Simple times that literally mostly live in our memories

[@cass.m__fit5862]

I feel so blessed to grow up in the early 2000s. Class of 2007 ❤🎉 and I can relate to a lot of this 😂

[@dcbabe0270]

Also class of 07! It truly was the best time!

[@rajithapv]

I wish I could be alive in this time. It seems so precious 🥲

[@BingoNamo-gb8pz]

All of life is precious. It usually just takes too long for us to realize how precious life was. When you are in your late 30s you’ll be thinking back on your teens as well remembering how precious life was.

[@BookTubeGirl]

This makes me sad we can never live like this.

[@thehapagirl92]

I still have a mixed cd a guy gave me when we were 16 back in 2008😂

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

Omg what is on it!? Burned cds…so romantic. 🥰💖

[@SnozBerryQueen]

Lol what songs are on it? Love that.

[@lorelei1782]

My husband gave me a mixed cd in 2007… I don’t remember what was on it but I married him a year later so it must’ve been good 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

@@lorelei1782 lol must have been good for sure!!

[@shelbyboxes93]

Same! My guy friend burned a copy of American Idiot by Green Day for me 😂 good times

[@TheAlexa1983]

This made me cry a little.

[@footballbabe9821]

These were the days ❤

[@FloppingandRollingAround]

This pulled at my heart strings. Things were just more real back then. No one had social media. No instagram models, no news in your face all the time. Just living in the moment and not having to worry about the internet. The kids of today will never know what it's like. I'm glad I was part of the last people who lived many great years without a cellphone. It was a good time to be alive. This was my youth, and now I'm in my forties. Time goes so fast. It hurt a bit and made me smile watching this.

[@MrColdwilliam]

Its CRAZY to see what smart phones and social media stole from us. We traded ourselves for so so so cheap.

[@Kaylaerxtica9751]

This is really nostalgic. I loved this.

[@Mudpuppy9722]

I'm 63, no selfies, no cameras, just loads of sweet memories. You don't need pictures, it's all in your mind.

[@apg5922]

But these days everyone feels important enough to SHARE everything on facebook

[@jen-m5r]

Yes yes you do. Your memory fails you when you get older. Pictures help you remember those who you have lost and loved. One every second is not needed at all tho.

[@Katz_Pajamas]

​@@apg5922but you don't have to look at it or partake in it.

[@Mudpuppy9722]

@jen-m5r No, they don't. They get sweeter.

[@jen-m5r]

@@Mudpuppy9722 try telling that to someone with dementia. When their view and memories are twisted and destroyed by memory.

[@BrittanyBlizzard]

Those were the days ❤

[@violettiplady3113]

I was only 6 + by the time the 2000s came. And when I saw teenagers with their cool walls. I started putting posters up too. Some CDs even had.payers for you to hang up. I also recall cd shops having headphones for you to listen to a cd to see if gou liked it. Man things where so pure without screens in our faces

[@IPanicwhenIfall]

"It wasn't aesthetic but we didn't care"- best line ever

[@Nightwillow-jk7zd]

Yeah true the only problem with that line is that it is LOL

[@tammystiletto]

Can we bring back cutting out magazines for our walls??

[@blueseptember2174]

But magazines nowadays are trash

[@Shpdrp8080]

My 16yr old daughter does and everytime I go in her room it reminds me of my room being a teenager. She's more music actors actresses words positive things. Just the same as mine was! Except her walls are so much cooler hahaaa. Mine was better though 16 in 97😂😂

[@kamii_kaizen]

@@blueseptember2174Yeah they don't really make magazines for teens anymore unless it's something Disney related 😔

[@burungpipitmakanpadi]

I cut out magazines to make collages for my journals. I journaled.. a lot. One for every year of adolescence almost. And still do! I homeschool my children and am happy to report that cutting things out of supermarket magazines is still a fun activity in my home. We use it to learn about meals, shapes, culture... Paper just keeps giving ❤️❤️❤️

[@xTIYx]

Well, we are grownups now, and we can do whatever we want 😁

[@sarlandobriseno3894]

I actually miss those days

[@grinstaspinsta]

I graduated HS in 2001. What a time! We didn't know what we had. 💔

[@roseandstem8054]

Same

[@psyched3lic347]

The best. You can really feel it, the magic of being young and trying to figure things out. Unfortunately, we're the last ones. Very blessed.

[@tetethatsme28]

The good days 😢 my era too... i miss it so much

[@abmi4259]

Flash back to 20 years ago 😍 I'm in just aww of how many of us women today had the same teenage life! Lol

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

Millennials unite! 🥰💖🥹

[@oneofakind3818]

I miss those days 😭

[@sourgummiez]

Ahhhhh this entire video ❤❤❤ When we had so much time to kill, we would go to the movies. And our walls were totally covered with cut outs and posters ❤

[@BellaMertens]

Good times!! i hope people will realize again how valuable REAL connections are, speaking to people, instead of a device...we will miss it before soon

[@jimbo5816]

Those times were amazing. So glad I could enjoy them, too!

[@lavenderoh]

You actually have a lot of photos from that time! How lucky! I lost most of mine. Only a few left.

[@kyleroberts1276]

I remember my first phone. Silver verizon flip phone that could customize screen color based on who was calling. I loved that phone. Felt so badass.

[@StarlaBizarre]

I remember I had low rise jeans once where the zipper was like 2cm! I was fooling around with some guy and he unzipped it and was like, "...what was the point of that" lol

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

😂 this memory is gold

[@BingoNamo-gb8pz]

I remember trying to cram my hand down those pants in the movie theater. Talk about carpal tunnel.

[@Emmilynn7]

I really wish I grew up during these times. Growing up now is horrifying😭

[@27sadhu]

Life was perfect back then..this video gives you emotions that cant be explained in words..and i am not even a girl from america,i am a man from india where the culture is completely different but somehow i found like minded friends and we were just different from everybody else

[@Puppies-z9h]

Wish my nieces had this

[@AuroraCarlisle]

I'll never forget the rush of hanging up on someone with my Razr - just flipping it closed. Also those fluffy Abercrombie hoodies were my favorite 😂 I have such fond memories of this all now.

[@SocialExperiment232]

It was just a way better decade ❤

[@nicholej]

saddest part is that i was a teen in the 2010's and i thought that this was going to be my teens and it wasn't im 30 now and i crave this so much the teens in 2000s HAD IT MADE IM TELLING YOU

[@SarahAliceDouglas]

Ahhhh the nostalgia! I was a kid in the early 00s but things were still like this in the late 00s too when I was a preteen/teen.

[@ChristineCava]

You just took me down the rabbit hole and now I don't want to come back 😢....the z's WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND

[@DiaryofaMillennialASMR]

Our own millennial secret 🥰💖

[@coconutmilkhoney]

Except many of us do cuz we were born in the mid 90s-early 00s. We weren’t teens then, but we did see what you guys were up to and we experienced the era in our own ways as younger children. It’s mainly gen alpha that truly won’t get this at all.

[@riseaboveyougotthis]

Yesssss

[@Sapphires1985]

Yes🥹🫶🏼

[@Insanity_awaits]

Man, such a simpler time. My brain was flooded with memories. Thank you! The 90s and early 00s was it for me.

[@Ashershey]

Bruhhh im in tears seeing this. Im a 90s kid and Im glad I born during that era. Growing up in 2000s having a normal childhood w/o social media was the best!