Y2K Critics SMASH Rachel Zeglers Comedy Debut

[@disparutoo]

Y2k is a new A24 movie and Rachel Zegler's comedy debut. One of, if not her first movie release that isn't a musical this comedy relies on her acting talents and social media presence for success. That's a long shot at best. But when the entire movie seems to be just relying on things that you might remember from the 90's, even at $15 million dollars this budget seems stretched. The marketing will rely on the people in it, and even then it turns out the social numbers are down even compared to other low budget first time horror movies. It wont come as much surprise that this is another movie in Rachel Zegler's career that looks unlikely to hit profitability. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

[@touchme7018]

Her first comedy movie, let’s be real her whole career is a comedy 😂

[@brockdavid]

“Did you grow up in the 90s? Does it matter? Do you speak the language? Does it matter?”

[@thetoonsaloon]

She's like a turd that won't flush when you are at a hot girls house

[@thetoonsaloon]

She is a turd that won't flush when you are at a hot girls house

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

@@disparutoo Her first movie that wasn’t a musical was Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Get your facts straight.

[@annecarter6192]

Rachel Zegler: Why are my movies flopping?! The audience: You didn't want our business, remember?

[@fydiousmckormick]

They’re not made by Spielberg. How do people not get that he’s the thing that makes his movies great. Not the actors.

[@DI-ry1my]

No no, she wants their business. She wants them to never know peace, but also to line up to see her like people do for the famous statue of the goddess Nike in the Louvre.

[@raunaqsharma6476]

​@@fydiousmckormick why do people not get that when your lead stars antagonize your core audience before the release of your film, it'll flop.

[@raunaqsharma6476]

@@DI-ry1my Want, doesn't get😂😂

[@fydiousmckormick]

@@raunaqsharma6476 if the film was amazing it wouldn’t matter. The masses are not seeing her stupid interviews.

[@zonzillamagnus5902]

I have never heard anyone ever say “that is a super Y2K outfit” ever in my life

[@LadyAxe13]

I know right? It reminds me of Professor Proton in Big Bang Theory who said: "Is that like...and internet?" That is what she sounds like!

[@Shirou_Emiya380]

Yup, because Rachel wasn't around then, so she has no idea what Y2K was 😆

[@CD-Gaming]

@@Shirou_Emiya380 Tell her about Y2J, watch her head explode from confusion!

[@kittygumdrop7442]

Need to meet younger people. My 14-year-old says that. Of course, she actually knows what Y2k is and loves that era of movies, music, and fashion. It helps that it's my era, so she shares stuff with me, and I correct how something should look or can point out that all the songs were huge hits, not just a 15-second clip.

[@discoshrew7403]

I have… my 10 year old 😂

[@jeremyk9000]

The problem is that nobody who remembers Y2K wants to see Zegler. The decision to cast her... weird weird

[@GhoodVibez]

I very much remember y2k

[@braydend9582]

Also her career path is West Side Story (Romance/Musical), Hunger Games Action/Musical, Snow White (Disney Princess/Musical), and now Y2K (Comedy?). Every project has failed at the box office, what is next horror? Weird, weird

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

Have any actress been so full of herself as she is?

[@maxTheTimeSlasher]

I never knew what y2k meant and I was going to watch it when I heard the concept but then I saw her.

[@MK-zi7ym]

Bingo.. Zegler not yet understanding that she is in the middle of a total career change.. weird, weird..

[@Burialofagod]

“thats a very Y2K outfit” …… WHAT? i dont think she even has the slightest idea of what Y2K was

[@marcosgin777]

It’s def not an adjective

[@Muna-Jlore0997]

She didn’t bother to look that up. For like under 5 seconds.

[@NotKD35]

I don’t know why they chose her. She was extremely opinionated and downright mean about the old snow-white.. so we know she doesn’t appreciate culture or older productions/things/events… so, they should have known she isn’t going to respect or appreciate 1999-2000

[@cdjxman]

I was thinking the same thing. Who says(said) that?! ONLY Rachel Ziegler, that’s WHO!🫤

[@laurisaarinen1126]

I mean to be fair, the meaning has kind of shifted... I was 8 in 2000 so i have that nostalgia, but i have even heard many millennials talk about Y2K as an aesthetic of the time, how everything looked, sounded or felt.

[@Rakkasan11b]

As a 90s teen, I can tell you. The VAST majority of Y2K chatter at the time was NOT killer robots or computers taking over. The entire jist of Y2K chatter was about all technology shutting down. This should have been a movie about an apocalyptic world after Y2K instead of robots. An apocalyptic world would have made for a much better movie scheme.

[@kathleenhensley5951]

Exactly. a lot of talk about computers malfunctioning because they couldn't handle change over to the new century is what I remember ... something about early computer programmers failing to think ahead and there being some kind of bug that could kill computers. I agree with you entirely. Showing a world where all computers shut down at once would be very interesting. That was the real threat. How would the modern world deal with a computer shutdown? I'm surprised that no one has made a movie about a solar EMP, to be honest, because that is the kind of scenario that could put us back into the 1800s.

[@aubreymorgan9763]

yep and there were 2 camps "the world is going to end planes will fall from the sky and money will be gone" and the "stop worrying about, we're fine, its only a glitch that will affect small amount of computers and they're fixing it"

[@sabinegierth-waniczek4872]

@@kathleenhensley5951 An EMP can also be generated by a really, really large seismic incident, like e.g. an eruption of the Yellowstone super volcano, or somewhere along the active rift valleys in Eastern Africa, or through the Mediterranean Sea to the Netherlands, or in one of the Siberian or Pacific Ocean active zones (Hawai'i, NZ) - I also am surprised that this is not identified as a major concern for our digitally dependent life. [One EMP is sufficient to wipe out all bank accounts, registrars, and e.g. medical data, and also all car/ plane electronics (bye bye EVs), satellites/ GPS, security circuits for power plants, hospitals, or prisons. Regarding the tendency to reduce all opportunities to partake in everyday tasks like money transfer to mandatory digital access, using the newest cellphone generation to be compatible to the banking apps, this is IMO extremely dangerous and risky. A few seconds can change our life dramatically and catapult us back to the Stone Age (or at least it would feel this way). Re Y2K: I remember very well this particular New Year's Eve, becauseat the time my now ex-hb worked at DEBIS (IIRC telecommunication) as database administrator - he and his colleagues had already worked overtime for at least six months beforehand, and ALL personnel spent the entire day and night until 01.01.2000 ca. 10.00 a.m. on the premises on emergency duty. As so many gloating commenters pointed out, nothing happened, but hindsight is 20/20. The situation was very stressful especially for the lower levels of employees, because they had to realistically expect that practically over night their job and all other potential ways to earn their livelyhood could be gone for a long time, or forever. It WAS this bad, and who denies it, was not there, or did not have enough expensive and sensitive electronic devices to worry about. It took several months for the IT scene to calm down to a "normal" anxiety/ attentiveness level, because it was still possible that somewhere a hidden timestamp could be activated and trigger a cataclysm, or that furious attempts to remedy the Y2K problem could have produced corrupted code in essential pathways, which had to be evaluated and reprogrammed. TMK Y2K ended the complacency of developpers and helped to make testing and recovery procedures more efficient and successful, but all involved persons were happy to finally leave the whole mess behind...]

[@jkseraphim4]

I just had an idea what if it took place in modern-day with all the technology and smartphones and its older adults who felt cheated at the time of y2k because they wanted to apocalypse at the time they were college kids. That's one way it could have been done.

[@jkseraphim4]

I was about 8 or 9 at the time and no one really mentioned y2k. I remember just having fun taking photos with a Kodak until the ball dropped. But I do remember a guy screaming outside the street. It was odd because that had never happened in the past.

[@brockdavid]

Why does she get to appropriate the culture of those of us that actually went through the Y2K

[@andrewnevermind4902]

Privallege NPC.

[@ErectusDicardIII]

She isn't white, therefore it is not illegal.

[@xManzi]

To paraphrase her "Was I alive then? Does it even matter?" "Do I know what Y2K is? Does it even matter?" 😂😂 Half Poland and Half Danish girls are ruling Hollywood. Somehow, at the same time white girls are at the top of Hollywood and at the same time white people are not welcome 😂😂😂

[@WhoCaresAnymoreTho]

Faxxxx

[@ErectusDicardIII]

@xManzi White people aren't at the bottom, white men are.

[@darkness2997]

You know a movie is bad when Pirates are not pirating it.

[@LePetitChatNoir79]

Lol!!

[@AnonymousNoNayme]

I will pirate this and turn it into a drinking game. Every time Zegler annoys me i'll drink. Goodbye cruel world🫡 (jk btw)

[@Wdavidmetzger]

TRUTH. I've noticed this about nearly all films of the last 12 years.

[@hewhobattles8869]

Not even Vaas from Far Cry 3 would watch this

[@CyPheR_N]

Damn 😭😭😭

[@UltimateUnleashedOfficial]

Knew it was gonna be a flop because she’s in it. 👎

[@mattdoherty7549]

😂

[@christopherblue2004]

I knew it was gonna be a flop when The Simpsons did it already, literally…it’s a Halloween segment.

[@Dickson-Ormous]

Yup. She's a real turd. 💩

[@artyblartyfartblast8465]

@@christopherblue2004 The movie aside, it’s funny as hell watching Zegler talk about $#!T she knows nothing about while trying to sound smart!

[@LordReginaldMeowmont]

WEIRD, WEIRD.

[@cipherthevcuber]

poster girl for Hunger Games? in what universe? That's Jennifer Lawrence. I bet a lot of people didn't even realise there was a Hunger Games that wasn't centered around her

[@awelshwhale]

theres another hunger games?

[@goldenlotus262]

i wanted to see the new hunger games movie soo bad but when i saw that She who is the worst was casted i couldnt watch it, but luckly the book came first

[@kelli6466]

@@awelshwhaleyep, the prequel called the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The book was really good, the movie not so much.

[@englishatheart]

Too bad Jennifer Lawrence is a shit person as well.

[@EndChineseGenocide]

First book was good, all the rest were cheap imitations that never recaptured the magic of the original

[@councilofkarens729]

I lived through the non-event of Y2k (the exceptional leap day in February 2000 caused more issues). We thought planes would drop out of the sky. It turns out that instead, IQ points dropped like a stone.

[@swebb1]

People worked for months to make sure nothing bad happened Jan 1st

[@councilofkarens729]

@@swebb1 Yeah, didn't mean to undersell the background work done behind the scenes, mainly by retired COBOL programmers, called back into action. Too much code still in use from the 70s underlying updated applications.

[@saladinbob]

Couldn't happen to a more worthy actress.

[@carbonc6065]

AAaaaaaaaaaannd ... It's Hollywood, baby!

[@simonhailom2477]

Weird, weird, weird.

[@ObsidianArrowYT]

STALKER

[@complexity5545]

Really, who is this girl screwing to get all those roles? Is her daddy a rich guy or something?

[@Glimmerrrrr]

This is why I dont like her: Since the creeps at show score keep taking down my review for the "per + verts", I mean "R+J" play on broadway starring rachel zegler and kit connor, here it is here ❤ "Actual critic reviews verbatim:"unabashedly horny","violent and sexy af","as she fans out her fanny","you don't forget that Juliet is only 13 here","a top comes off","vaping and grinding on one another with reckless abandon","humping teddy bears", etc, now look at the 13+ age recommendation. Btw absolutely NO clothes should be coming off at all in front of a live audience of 13 year olds. If you read all that and still believe this play should be open to (and ENCOURAGED to go to even, as also repeatedly said by critics and people here) 13 year olds and maybe younger to watch live, I invite you to seriously reevaluate your morals. This play, the people involved, and the adults here who are giving it good reviews and/or recommending it to teens need to go on a government list. Hope this helps!" Kit connor, rachel zegler, they could never make me like you ❤

[@burntpoet4376]

Yeah, movies IN the 90’s were awesome. Movies *about* the 90’s are not.

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

@@burntpoet4376 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is an exception. I hate it when movies go back to the past.

[@therainman7777]

@@thedestroyer2alltrolls411 Really? You hate all movies that go back to the past? That seems excessive. There are bad movies and good movies set in the past, just as there are bad movies and good movies set in the present. Actually, there are dozens of absolute classic films that were set in the past.

[@nicoleackerman205]

@@therainman7777 No they just hate movies taking place in the 90's and I have to agree one that so know of is Capitain Marvel. 😝

[@therainman7777]

@@nicoleackerman205 I wasn’t responding to OP though, I was responding to the first comment underneath. That guy said he “hates it when movies go back to the past.” Not the 90s, but the past.

[@jeffpesos420]

Mid90s was a bit overrated but it wasn't bad, I don't think I would have been as interested if it wasn't about skateboarders

[@Olinser]

The most surprising thing about this flop is that anybody out there is actuallly hiring Zegler.

[@dontbeorbeevil]

It usually takes them a while to realize their star girl is unsellable. They still dont know about Zegler.

[@MSgt5J071]

​@@dontbeorbeevilYou're right, but what I don't get is how many flops and how many social media posts that bash millions of people does it take to get it through the thick heads of Hollyweird that this person is box office poison...

[@careyosoup274]

was probably already in production and coming down the pipe before she tanked her personality, was already cost committed by then.

[@MustertheBrohirrim]

They probably filmed this right around snow white thinking it would be a hit that y2k could spring up off of.

[@CoercedJab]

I mean I’d hire her if she called me daddy 😂

[@jonathanschubert9052]

I remember 9 year old me talking to my dad "Whats Y2K?" "People are worried that the computer clocks will reset to 1000 instead of 2000 and screw stuff up?" "Cant they isolate a computer and manually fastforward its clock to see if there is a problem?" "Yes, it was fine" "So this is all stupid?" "...Yes..."

[@carlweaselbear534]

I like the joke but it was a legit concern . I saw a great video that explained it In detail. Because again Y2K might happen in the future. I think in 40 years or so.

[@donalddeluxe6407]

"Y2K suffers from an aimless plot and an over reliance on nostalgia." basically every product made by Disney in the 2020's

[@cormoran2303]

Y2K. A movie that struck after the iron had cooled, gone brittle, rusted, then returned to the earth from which it was mined. This is a movie that's 25 years too late. We get a giggle when a movie from 1980 references a historically inaccurate 2015. This is a movie from 2024 that references a historically inaccurate 1999.

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

When did they release 2012?

[@cormoran2303]

@@DEATH-THE-GOAT 2009.

[@permagamerog5332]

Thank god someone else sees this as a bs maximum overdrive

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

@@cormoran2303 Thanks 😁👍

[@chrisschultz6129]

Giggling? I’ve been waiting for my flying car for 20 years now. Im definitely not giggling

[@Ronin8300]

Her soundbite of, "That's a YK outfit" tells me she is too lazy to even do the bare minimum of a google search about the topic her movie is based on. Incredible.

[@GhoodVibez]

Yes agreed was thinking that as well

[@Quickdrawingartist]

Hell, I prefer to ask others over using Google, but Zeiger (I don't care) can't do that either.

[@kimichan5]

For real! I thought research was a key part of acting!! Like if I’m cast in Pride & Prejudice you can bet I’m about to become an expert on London in the 1810s Jane Austin.

[@MysticaRealms]

I literally never heard anyone even say anything like that

[@charichari]

Seriously cringed when I got to that part -_-

[@VeraldoAncodini]

Didn't even knew this movie existed, and by tomorrow I will completely forget about it.

[@7735a]

I don't know, people will get even more Zeigler meme material from it, so it will lurk vaguely in the background as reference material.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Same.

[@councilofkarens729]

Rachel who?

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

I literally just saw the poster as I passed the local movie theater this morning on my way to work. I bet this film was hoping it could just sliiiiiiiiiiide in and out of theaters amidst the Zegler drama

[@deadcalm9016]

Ditto🔥🎪

[@thebilboshow168]

"Wow this guy really dislikes Rachel Zegler." Oh, so do I.

[@ithedominican]

The Latino community do not claim her 4:21

[@matthewalvarado8243]

I second that motion.

[@Garek_George]

I love how she throws in “the accent” when she says Latina 😂 So cringe.

[@LaLa-pz6ih]

Say that louder 👏🏽

[@ithedominican]

@ she’s making us look bad is really embarrassing🥲

[@G.McAllen]

Her saying she's white was also kinda confusing, because I've literally met Peruvians whiter than her.

[@MykeLewisMusic]

Literally no one at any point in the 90's said the phrase "Y2K outfit". I was there for the entire decade, the entire decade prior, and part of the decade prior to that one, and it was not said. Ever.

[@dlewis9760]

You witnessed an air head talking. She was caught out and had to say something/anything. I spent 2 years of my working life on Y2K mitigation.

[@NoahGooder]

@@dlewis9760 hardest issue was probably making sure the tech could handle the bigger date integer. Also funfact we are soon going to be reaching a new y2k in 2038.

[@dougfisher2060]

​@@NoahGooderWhat are you talking about?

[@tlrlml]

Can confirm.

[@barnbwt]

@@dlewis9760 I suppose it could be worse, and she could have droned on about being unburdened by what has been, or the fact we live in a society

[@jerrycaughman6324]

I’ve honestly never heard anyone refer to y2k like she did. That’s just bizarre

[@arvin8593]

That's because you are on the older side. (I think) Because everyone I know ever only refer to y2k like she did.

[@AnonymousNoNayme]

@@arvin8593 Cringe. Nobody from that time ever even thinks about Y2K or mentions it, it was a dumb media nothing-burger we hated cuz that's when the news started not being being bipartisan and started turning into the click and rage-bait propagandist BS we have today. We knew from the internet they were working to fix it preemptively and it was all sensationalism.

[@havingfun-u4g]

@@arvin8593 The people who lived through y2k didn't talk like that.

[@mikoto7693]

I feel so old for being old enough to live through Y2K. We didn’t talk like that.

[@johnmeneses7039]

Weird, weird, weird

[@Monkofmagnesia]

So Zegler did not even bother to research for her role.

[@M-S_4321]

What makes you think she'd be able to accomplish that task?

[@jcorbett9620]

"Research?...What's that?... Sounds like that 'W' word I don't like...work" Rachel Zeigler, probably.

[@6AxisSage]

research? rofl. She probably gets triggered at the suggestion, i doubt anyone thats cast her understands the meaning of research either else Zegler would be unemployed because they night learn what audiences want.

[@CD-Gaming]

No! Get out! What a total shocker! Next you'll be telling us it gets dark at night!

[@6AxisSage]

@@CD-Gaming it does!

[@885818499]

Y2K was terrifying. We were all legit scared. I remember my parents stocked up on water. People thought nuclear warheads were going to go off on their own. Planes were going to fall out the sky. My 10 yr old mind was blown.

[@splattersploosh3974]

me and my friends were playin smackdown 2 know your role. "oh its y2k? meh"

[@HominaHubba]

@@splattersploosh3974for real, I remember Arby’s had a kid’s meal bag that had jokes about Y2K doomsday theories. No one took it seriously at the time except for literal tinfoil hat people.

[@dukestone1]

Let me tell you as someone who was a child during the 80s and a young adult during the 90s I'm going to tell you right now, Y2K was not used to describe the aesthetics of anything, neither was it an adjective. What it was was a serious issue that we were really worried about. The fact that the computers may roll over to double zeros and quit, meaning in our minds, planes would just fall out of the air. When I say we were worried about it, I mean we were worried about it. When is this train wreck just going to fade into obscurity.

[@BloodyMidNightSun]

Rachel is the same age as my little brother and it’s amazing how much more mature he is compared to her, and I used to think that he was a bit on the childish side. Wow.

[@GreasyBeasty]

Its me your little brother, mom says quit telling strangers about me and my.. "habits"

[@BloodyMidNightSun]

@ lol you wish! My brother is preparing for his exams rn, or at least I hope he is 😅

[@ErectusDicardIII]

Unchecked ego makes monsters of us all. I suspect your brother and Zegler have lived different lives.

[@GH-ub7qz]

i have 2 sons older than her...one is in the Navy, one is in the Army... their dirty clothes are better than this bint

[@ADOGNAMEDCUPCAKE]

Lol your little brother is older than my big brother

[@silverscorpio24]

I grew up in the 90's and I am so confused by this movie

[@ste_zace]

'If i have to stand all day in a Y2K dress i deserve to paid for every hour its streamed online' Rachel Zeglar probably

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

*Zegler

[@greenmountainpokemon2112]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 awesome!!

[@Bowiebonolennon1982]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@B-TRU86]

I can't believe forty sumn people thought this was funny

[@Jokerfan45]

Sounds like she was just having a bad day. Not gonna lie I have said similar things when I was pissed off, so I can relate. If that makes me sound spoiled, so be it.

[@PhillyLittles]

December 31st 1999, when the clock hit midnight and we all counted down to zero my dad was in the basement and hit the breakers of the house. All the lights went off and I freaked the fuck out. I legit thought the computers were going to take over. Thinking back, I believe that was when and where my conspiracy theorist mind was born lol

[@LifeWithMatthew]

9:54 - "lackadaisical gags about dial-up noises". My ringtone is the dial-up noise. I use it because I love confusing people too young to know what it is and making old people laugh at hearing it again.

[@MoviesMusic-sb2dp]

Hahahha that's so funny :P

[@kenamaro3942]

"I don't need your business"...Rachel Z. Challenge accepted ...me.

[@Tsukasa829]

That phrase has never once been uttered by someone who didn't immediately destroy their career/business/industry.

[@mikoto7693]

I’ve taken it to heart. If she’s in it, I won’t watch it.

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

Rachel Z-list

[@patrickols]

Y2K A movie 25 years to late A movie that was not needed A movie that no one asked for A movie no one want’s to see What could go wrong?

[@TwilightAnarchy]

Signs of a industry fresh out ideas and creatively empty

[@sorbabaric1]

True. And unless they made it about Paris 1/1/2000, just why? I worked with a guy who made sure he was at the y2k party in Paris, that may have made a quirky flash back movie. Wild times in Paris waiting for everything to stop and the lights to go out.

[@sorbabaric1]

Like, the race to get off work and get to Paris, and party !!

[@collinkeyser6827]

And Include An Unlikable & Insufferable Actress. What Could Possibly Go Wrong 🤷‍♂️

[@Twotrainsrunning-u8y]

The Millennium Bug thing was such a non-event at the time. Maybe tech people were worried about it but almost nobody else was. And the tech people basically just crossed their fingers and hoped it would go okay and it did. Not really an exciting idea for a movie, huh? So let's make it a comedy with such a naturally funny and likeable newcomer as Rachel Zegler.

[@Spellbound_93]

How is she still getting work? Casting crew clearly weren't aware she's poison.

[@rubenfrankish]

Give it 2 years, she may struggle.

[@MonsieurDeVeteran]

She probably did a Harvey to some huge higher-up and now she's pushed just like that former B KZbin CEO Susan Jowiskysomething was caught on camera telling some young rapper/musician that they can make him a star.

[@ErectusDicardIII]

Depending on the employer, POC can get away with a lot without being properly disciplined for it.

[@jcdesantis69]

They put her there just because they know you dont like her and thats how they stick it to you (insert)phobes.

[@hawkeye5955]

I'm guessing this was already filmed before Snow White but I could be wrong. No one really pays attention to Zegler's filmography

[@raitonodefeat6503]

You can't tell me Zegler is not an industry plant, with that much arrogance and entitlement, she knows she can't get fired.

[@chriswyble143]

-Can I make a little horror comedy for teens, about a fictionalized version of real events that only adults will remember? I can pull it in at a slim $15 mill. -No problem. We'll get Rachel Zegler to star in it and you'll still have almost half your budget left over to make your movie. -Goddammit.

[@216trixie]

The original Y2K was a flop. Imagine them thinking they would make a successful movie about it.😂😂😂😂

[@theabhorrentchef7226]

My rich friend’s parents went all out on y2k preparation, but they did so as cliche American mega consumers. There was a whole room basically full of snacks and soda and candy. They did have some mre’s too so we were destroying that room afterwards, it was a great time

[@ptonpc]

As one of the, now old farts, who was involved in fixing it. Billions of £ and millions of people around the world spent a long time making sure it didn't happen.

[@216trixie]

@@theabhorrentchef7226 That's a great story! That sounds about right.

[@216trixie]

@@ptonpc Good work then.

[@dlewis9760]

@@ptonpc I spent 2 years working on Y2K. Going through probably a half million lines of low level machine code to make sure Y2K didn't happen in the my niche of the banking industry. The reason the world didn't end, was because every business that could be hit by it, spent a fortune making sure it didn't. Y2K had nothing do with manners of dress, music, popular culture. It had to do with the tech world kicking the can for years hoping that they'd migrate to a system where it Y2K wasn't an issue. And there were other people looking at the exact same code, to make sure each of us didn't miss something. Y2K was more or less the lack of a century in a date field. If you used YYMMDD is 991231 greater or less than 000101? If coded just with that assumption that the data was always going to be correct then the end of the century was further out than the beginning of the 21st Century. We cheated. We were already migrating to something better. That took 4 years. So, we coded based on the YY. If the YY was less than a certain 2 digit value it was 20YYMMDD if not then 19YYMMDD. Then we checked 4 digits. In banking the biggest issue was certificated of deposit and IRA accounts, like your birth date + 70.5 years (mandatory IRA distributions date). She and this movie and everyone involved are "Bless your heart" people. Always Pizzed me off that the media in hind sight made fun of it because nothing major happened. That's because effort was put in to make sure it didn't.

[@JustSomeGoy]

The 1990s was peak of humanity, it's all been down hill after 2000.

[@nicoleackerman205]

Agree I miss the 90's even though I was a little kid it was way better everyone was happier.

[@itsaKindaMagik]

💯

[@AnonymousNoNayme]

When we still knew affirmative action/DEI was bad and the cream rose to the top (across all demographics).

[@unskilledlabor5229]

Agreed.

[@drewb1979]

True

[@Treerootz1]

No one used Y2K except for when talking about the computers crashing when it rolls over to 2000….

[@dlewis9760]

Mostly for the lack of allocating a century value. We used YYMMDD. Had to make "Assumption" based on the YY value. If greater than a say 20 it the century was 19. if less than 20 the century was 20.

[@turenam2772]

Yes !!

[@aaronlewis2150]

Hence the term Y2K (year 2000)

[@IcecalGamer]

And now I've learned, as a computer geek, that year based inferences have/had a corresponding outfit "A Y2K outfit" existed

[@_Uh_Oh_]

We called it Millennium bug in the UK. Absolutely nobody here called it Y2K

[@NoNonsense316]

Zegler is a "charm factory" - holy sh**! That's the funniest thing I've ever heard!

[@breakinghands10]

Why is that funny? Let alone the funniest thing you’ve ever heard? It sounds like a compliment, that she’s charming, so why is it funny?

[@CJ-kg7yq]

@@breakinghands10 Because it is hilariously untrue, pretty obvious.

[@slimbombur7922]

- Is this comedy funny? - Does it matter? (Zegler)

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

Rachel Zeglers film career is basically Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes repeatedly.

[@InkedCarpenter1776]

The difference is: people might actually watch that!

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

No, Bob is actually incredibly talented but crazy. Zegler has 0 talent and before was backed by Hollywood so she believed she could do no wrong.

[@JaimeTanner-b2i]

No, Sideshow Bob has fans and could find an audience for his work.

[@NoahGooder]

and somehow its lecture about the patriarchy.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

@NoahGooder Oh GOD, they shove more of that into this crap? No wonder it's a flop. People, men and women, are tired of such hollow lectures.

[@jules2545]

She is a member of the Dunning Kruger club. The first rule of the Dunning Kruger club is, not knowing you are in the Dunning Kruger club.

[@martinh8784]

Thank you; you made my day 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnhart8856]

I hope Disney executives are seeing this... if Zegler is toxic enough to sink a 15 million dollar film at the box office, then how do they expect a 300+ million dollar film with her in it to perform well?

[@anthonyparkinson4517]

They don't. They know it will tank.

[@swizzamane8775]

​@@anthonyparkinson4517 so WHY are they trying SOOOO HARD to get it to work 😂

[@anthonyparkinson4517]

@@swizzamane8775 They're not anymore. Iger didn't even mention it in the list of upcoming movies in the recent earnings call. They spent a fortune trying to fix it but they've given up on it now although they're contractually obliged to still release it in theatres when the sane decision would be to dump it on D+.

[@endangeredspecies8441]

No Rachel is everything Disney wants women to be. So now they can reap what they sow.

[@stephaniecoomey2356]

@@swizzamane8775 they still make money, no ones throwing away 15m, id go as far to say its money laundering or tax write offs, some sketchy rich people shit.

[@mistermister5311]

"That's a super Y2K outfit." Did you not even look up Y2K when you got the gig??

[@TheREALSimagination]

Y2K was a single "blink-andyou'll-missit" event that didn't happen.

[@jimmelton5846]

The year 2000 definitely happened.

[@Mangolorian-je3eo]

Being trapped in a porta potty with Rachel Zegler and having to do a romantic scene makes me wake up screaming.

[@dougfisher2060]

Rather be in Diddy's freak-offs.

[@origamipein18]

🫂

[@tkps]

But who comes up with 'toilet humour' (literally in this case) and expects it to be funny? I don't know why certain Americans are fixated on the topic as being of comedic value. Now farts on the other hand......

[@martinh8784]

"Would you rather be in a porta potty with an alligator or Rachel Zegler ... " 🤔

[@swizzamane8775]

BWAHAHAHA, that's the only place she can hope to get any "action" 😅

[@RichardCheny]

My personal theory is somehow Rachel is tied to ESG loans. She’s the perfect little media puppet to spam THE MESSAGE to the younger masses. That’s how she keeps getting big rolls.

[@Andy-xx3wb]

Industry plant failure

[@MSgt5J071]

Spot on! 😊

[@therainman7777]

It’s roles bro, come on.

[@coffeyjjj]

bingo!

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

She's a nepo baby. That's how.

[@J3r_B3ar]

As long as the cast is diverse, the film shall be considered a supreme success.

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

So basically it is a failure on all fronts and the woke morons will not even show up to support the film and they will blame us for us having higher standards then them.

[@joetrolo7076]

That almost always works on Rotten Tomatoes, but not this time!

[@J3r_B3ar]

@ As long as the tomatoes are diverse.

[@johnmeneses7039]

@@J3r_B3ar 🤣

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

@@joetrolo7076 In their words they are that delusional or the companies are bribing or basically threatening them with de-franchising them if they do not give it a high score. That is why it is living up to its name of Rotten Tomatoes.......well the rotten part of it anyway.

[@EuniceRyan-yw1mr]

Hooked on your series. When's the next?

[@jeffzimmer2433]

People were nervous computers were going to roll back their dates to pre 1900 and they would forget how to work. Planes were going to drop out of the skies. Street lights were going to strobe and explode. That chick just called the fear around then an aesthetic? Wow...

[@drakocarrion]

So you're telling me actress who's been in nothing but flops is in another flop? Well I never would have guessed.

[@seefoghall]

Plot twist, this movie IS the Y2K virus that was foretold 25 years ago

[@jimmelton5846]

The millennium bug.

[@berserkasaurusrex4233]

Could they not at least make her watch the Y2K Family Guy episode or something?

[@Bethelhorses]

1:03 If they had styled her hair like that for Snow White... it would have looked way better

[@Gracchus_Maximus]

😂

[@natp8387]

We forwarded the date on our computers at our workspace to test the effect of Y2K (the problem being the date going from '99' to a three digit year when it wasn't programmed to have three digit spaces). Our computers put up an error message and wouldn't start properly. It was corrected in about 3 hours by our tech guys in 1998. Dunno what the fuss was overall.

[@MrsMacLover]

That's okay, she doesn't need our business after all.

[@keithmichael112]

Can't I say I've ever heard anyone say something has a Y2K aesthetic

[@alvin081988]

She created her own Dilemma by dissing Snow White.....even if she has a good movie or show....Everyone will hate the moment they see her

[@justforever96]

That started it, but she could have saved it if she had come back with some humility and grace. Like that could have been just a 22 year old talking dumb stuff she thought would sound funny and clever to the audience without considering what she was saying. I was even prepared to cut her some slack. Instead she decided to double down and insist she has a right to be herself and say what she wants. And she absolutely does. She can post all of it on her personal media. And we have the right to decide we don't like it or her and don't want to support her work. Having a right to say something doesn't mean you have a right to avoid all consequences for it. It's like in her mind she's already absolutely established as a star and her career is made so it doesn't matter what the peons think. And maybe she knows something we don't, it is strange that they keep casting her. She gets paid anyway. But in the end they will use her as long as she's actually useful and then dump her. But she will keep her millions. Question is what do they actually want? Do they actually want people angry and divided not than they want profit? Because it definitely seems that way much of the time.

[@fredmercury1314]

@@justforever96 _They want to destroy everything you love._ Then they can destroy you. Then they can rebuild everything in their image.

[@tkps]

@@justforever96 To me it's just lazy casting. If we think about it HW has always tended to cast especially women on looks over talent so are always looking for the next younger one. Some attractive women turned out to be talented, more by accident than design so their careers flourished. I've seen it so often where they find someone, in this case I think Spielberg based on her background and singing ability, then they're cast in everything. She's up to flop number how many? I think her time's nearly over and that was without opening her gob and sticking both her feet in it. Reminds me a bit of that Glee girl with the voice. Great singer but not HW material.

[@councilofkarens729]

"Y2k was 24 years ago. It's a different time. The Y2k bug isn't going to wait around to be rescued by some male coders. She's going to discover the power she had inside her all along and become the leader her father knew she could be. Who knows, Y2k could be written out of the movie altogether. that's Hollywood baby!"

[@stischer47]

I was a CompSci prof at the time and I was interviewed by a number of media outlets about Y2K but because I wasn't all doom and gloom, very little of my interviews was ever used. They even asked if people should be stocking up on food, water, batteries, etc. I replied that everyone should have about a week's worth because of natural disasters.

[@thenightowl_22]

I might’ve watched it for nostalgia, but not with zegler. WEiRd wEiRd!

[@ViolentMessiah666]

"That's Hollywood baby!"

[@Jburt571]

Nothing happened during Y2K because the entire IT world came together and fixed that shit before the deadline.

[@havingfun-u4g]

They can't admit that a possible disaster was fixed before it went bad.

[@marywarren8357]

TY!! I keep trying to tell people that!!

[@GIBBO4182]

Even the shills on the left are really struggling to like Zegler these days…that’s how insufferable she is!

[@jazzingpanda3190]

This channel is so good, just found it, blokes hilarious

[@anna_25]

Rachel Zegler: its a movie made in 1932 and very evidently so Also Rachel Zegler: what is Y2K

[@touchme7018]

Why are all these movie studios promoting her as the new “it girl”. Do they literally have no idea what almost everyone thinks about her on the internet 😂

[@jcorbett9620]

It's easy. The 'sh' that goes before "it" is silent!, so it doesn't register! 😁

[@ErectusDicardIII]

I hope the next it girl is likeable and Kawaii af.

[@HackerBapho]

@@ErectusDicardIIIkawaii af? Yeah you don’t get to be part of this discussion anymore.

[@ErectusDicardIII]

@@HackerBapho It's a joke, dude. Go put yourself back in your box.

[@Vherstinae]

She’s a jewish “white latina.” They want to push her regardless of what the people want.

[@Blackmetalhooligan]

having been there no one ever said "that's a y2k outfit or thats y2k music"

[@Muna-Jlore0997]

who the hell talks like that??

[@HominaHubba]

You people are just out of touch, calm down.

[@saladinbob]

Actually I've changed my mind on Zegler. She is the key to Hollywood's revival. All you need to do is cast her in the role of the character that gets bumped off and your movie is an instant success!

[@melrobertson2743]

In a humiliating way

[@melrobertson2743]

In a way that's completely humiliating (KZbin didn't post my comment so take 2)

[@AnonymousNoNayme]

I'd 100% hire her to be in a slasher film and then have her go off on the killer as some entitled Hollyweird starlet and he just nonchalantly shoves her in front of a bus. There's your teaser right there. Then just cut that scene from the actual film lol

[@raunaqsharma6476]

​@@melrobertson2743 it did, your comment is showing twice 😂

[@barnbwt]

@@melrobertson2743 She was rolling around in a toilet full of "mostly chocolate" in a movie that utterly bombed, what more you do want?!

[@Lucas-fo8ci]

Y2K was a scare because computers used 2 digits for the year, so they were worried that when computer dates changed from 99 to 00, it would cause issues. Computers had to be converted to 4 digit years to prevent a zero from causing havoc on programs.

[@MaroshBRuNo]

But it wasn´t necessary because we were able to try it up front, just change the date and look what happens. Some of us did and... nothing.😅 So some of us were not afraid at all.😌

[@umbrellacorp.]

She and her people has no right. Old actors can Not her!. Old actors and those of us from the 80's and 90's thought Everything was going to end. We literally thought we were going to die and the world would end!. Young people today can't understand that.

[@sorbabaric1]

I’ve never heard anyone say “that’s so a y2k outfit”. She needs to just say she doesn’t know instead of making shite up.

[@stischer47]

Apparently according to some posters it's a Gen Alpha term. You know, 12yo and younger.

[@Muna-Jlore0997]

Wouldn’t it kill her to look up on the internet??

[@chrimsonphantom]

Y2K was about all technology failing. This sounds more like 90's Maximum overdrive.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

Yep. Except Maximum Overdrive knew it was bad, and played into it.

[@BayAreaRoc]

We gon party like it’s 1999

[@reidmason2551]

There was a Superman story arc called "Y2K" (collected as *Endgame* for the TPB), where Brainiac hijacked all the tech in Metropolis on New Year's Eve 1999 and remade the city into a futuristic art deco landscape that was intended to be the launch point for a world takeover. So even that franchise knew how to spin the Y2K jitters into a story that made sense.

[@GH-ub7qz]

based on a couple of uis comments, yeah...e estavez? isolated truck stop

[@chrimsonphantom]

@@Kyle-sr6jm just saw the trailer where somehow a Tamagotchi turn itself into a killer robot. Which is really bad. Maximum overdrive at least made better sense.

[@ZolaRenard_01]

A24, I hope you learn your lesson of casting Zegler in your movie after deciding to replace Jenna Ortega with this bratty adult. Jenna dodged a bullet. Zegler burned Y2K. It's deserved.

[@swizzamane8775]

BWAHAHAHA, they got the fat kid from the Deadpool movies to show up for Y2K 🤣

[@TwoBs]

Rachel can’t even understand the buildup to Y2K to know it’s a moment in time that can never be replicated even in a movie, especially decades later. It’s one of those “you had to be there to even fully understand” things. Unsurprising they missed the mark. Like, I don’t think they get how it affected some people … like my dad. My guy stocked up on canned foods, non-perishables, toiletries/basic necessities, and water “just in case”. Our building out behind the house was stocked plum full. It was driving my mom up a wall. Enough to where when New Year’s Eve rolled around, she was like “nope, me and the kids are going out” lol Our little rural area had a local New Year’s Eve gathering at a church that made a big dinner for everyone to come and watch the ball drop, so mom took us there. They had a big fatback TV on a cart, and a bunch of us were in the kitchen/dining area doing the countdown. I remember sitting with some of my friends from school that were also there… and right when it hit midnight, we’re all up clapping, cheering, and telling everyone “happy new year”…. only for the power to go out. We could only see faint glows of amber from a few candles that were on some of the tables lit. Everyone was startled trying to figure out what happened. 13yo me is sitting there thinking “oh my god, the Y2K crash actually happened, dad was right.” Nope. The pastor of the church had snuck out a few minutes prior and turned off the breaker lol. He came back in apologizing, but said he had to do it because the opportunity was right there and couldn’t let it pass. We had come back home and I remember my mom turning to us and saying “just don’t say anything about Y2K to your dad” lol because we knew he had egg on his face. Moments like that just can’t be replicated in a quirky over the top modern “comedy” movie that misses everything. It can’t invoke the same panic and dread simultaneously paired with all the excitement and joy that spread in the air during that time to have it replicate with viewers watching it today, notably with stale actresses like that and having a story be so over the top and out of touch with how that era was. It wasn’t an ✨aesthetic✨ … it was a moment in time that had us all in a chokehold lol

[@ZephKin]

I never heard of this movie, nor will I ever remember it.

[@M-S_4321]

Me too!

[@kennyg1358]

Rachel Ziegler has something in common with Carrot Top; "box office poison"

[@nmmrg]

No one was a coder in 2000 except for people who actually looked like stereotypical geeks in their 20s and 30s.

[@fredmercury1314]

Yes. _Me._ Thank you. I didn't meet my first female coder until I went to Uni, and there was only 2 on my degree which had 200 people. Neither of them were pretty or popular.

[@Beanyurza]

I resemble this comment.

[@complexity5545]

I didn't look like this comment, but I get the joke.

[@councilofkarens729]

The coders for Y2k were mainly working in COBOL, which was antiquated (in IT terms) at the time, so the main people with the necessary skills were retired neck-bearded geeks who wrote the code in the 70s & 80s.

[@marywarren8357]

@@councilofkarens729Or their young geek protégés like my hubby.😁 It’s rare but useful for him to know COBOL to this day.

[@williamkitchen3277]

Thing is, the premise for this movie could’ve been good had it been like similar comedy to Pineapple Express or Harold and kumar type thing, but alas, we got underwhelming actors doing underwhelming comedy

[@mindwarp921]

Y2k literally stands for year 2000 so other than the Y2k scare in her own terms it doesn't say anything about the 90s

[@anubusx]

The Simpsons Halloween already did this.

[@PureSniperWolf]

Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it! - Know that reference? :3❤

[@swizzamane8775]

Which Halloween Special? There's like 20 of em 😅

[@CJ-kg7yq]

@@PureSniperWolf General disarray?

[@jong.7944]

"Yes, because he's fun, probably the kind of person you're meant to have in a comedy movie... and she's Rachel Zegler." Yep, I think I see the problem now!

[@LoserDjv]

I saw the trailer and was interested at first, then I saw her and I was just filled with apathy.

[@M-S_4321]

She's anti-popularity

[@M-S_4321]

She is the black hole event horizon

[@chiapets2594]

What a clown she didnt even know what y2k was yet she starred in it. Hollywood when they make movies about things they need to force their actors that star in a movie about a thing or time STUDY IT

[@fydiousmckormick]

This isn’t a Hollywood studio. Its new york. avoid calling people clowns while being one yourself.

[@Inastewpopotogo]

How can she be so ignorant about Y2k, it was basically yesterday...25...years...ago... Im so old😫!!!

[@desupair]

I feel sorry for the actors and film makers who work behind the behind the scenes who had to work with Rachel Zegler. She drags down whatever chance a movie has to profit with her foul mouth😂

[@jeniferclemente1252]

Another flop to add to her list of failures. Snow Brown is next. She can’t act as a likeable hero. Let alone be likeable in real life.

[@TopJazzCat]

The arrogance of a group of people in the business of needed an audience to sustain their business saying that they don't need said audience's business is astronomical. Especially coming from a non-moviestar.

[@RyanDemers-lr3jb]

The highlight of the film was The Kid Laroi making a cameo

[@joshuapatrick682]

I was 16 in 1999. This did not represent my life experience at all. The Girl Next Door did…

[@David_Mattox]

Figured it would flop because of Rachel, but it’s flopping with a 15M budget? I guess this proves Godzilla Minus One can’t be copied lmao.

[@Mister_Clean]

After this and the Snow White movie, I really doubt she'll ever grace a Hollywood set ever again She's bad for business. Even Disney is separating itself from her before the release of her "big movie"

[@RichardCheny]

Nah she’ll keep getting rolls in big movies. She’ll be a prerequisite cast for directors to receive ESG loans.

[@therainman7777]

@@RichardCheny I don’t blame you for thinking that, but I actually think she’s crossed the threshold where even ESG won’t keep getting her roles. I guess we’ll see.

[@sorbabaric1]

She’s one if the selected people ( selected by Hollywood movers and shakers and their masters). Not selected by the audience saying they enjoy her acting and want to see more of her. I wonder if they will keep insisting on casting her. While the actors people want to see, are sidelined.

[@nicoleackerman205]

@@therainman7777 After Snow White there is nothing in pre production for her according to imdb.

[@gypsyjengypsydogs9320]

When my girlfriend threw the main breaker in the bar EXACTLY midnight New Years Eve, 1999. 😂😂 It was hilarious.

[@op-us2xz]

This movie is what I used to call an air-conditioning movie back when I lived in the desert and air conditioning was incredibly expensive. We buy a ticket for a five dollar movie and sit for the air conditioning. Their mistake was not releasing it during a hot summer

[@Phaota]

"Face like a slapped ass". LOL So good. Thanks for the laugh, Disparu.

[@rjkbytes1]

As someone who worked on y2k (it wasn't a bug) why did people think it was going to be the end of the world? We (me and over 100,000 others) fixed it. The idea that a girl boss can fix it with her 'hacking' skills is offensive.

[@British_Rogue]

The number '2'. The belief that computers wouldn't know how to handle a date starting with '2,000' leading to power malfunctions. If you worked on it, surely you'd know why the general public thought it would be _'the end of the world.'_

[@ErectusDicardIII]

​@@British_Roguehe probably meant he was the janitor.

[@rjkbytes1]

@@British_Rogue Nope, it was the 6-position date coded in as a memory save. Unremedied, on 1/1/2000, the code would force 01/01/01 depending on syntax or simply crash. Work began in the 1980's to expand the date fields to 8 positions and update the computational code. The rest was media hype. The billions spent to fix the problem was, unfortunately, not spent on taking us to strip clubs.

[@dlewis9760]

@@rjkbytes1 In banking the biggest issue would be maturing CDs and mandatory IRA distributions at age 70.5. We were already transitioning to a Oracle based Banking system. A process that took 4 years as we had a hundred something client institutions. What we did was link out for every date check. This was NCR Neat/3 Level 2 code. More or less assembler. We would take the 2 dates and arbitrarily change them to 8 for the compare. If YY was under 20 then 20YYMMDD if 20 or over 19YYMMDD. That was for birth days. We figured the amount of 80 year olds with bank accounts that it was safe enough to do. Also IRAs would be figured out for 80 year olds. Fun Fact, the machine code in Atari 400 + 800 home PCs generated the exact same machine op code. One of my coworkers came in for a job interview. Never worked on the language in his life. The computer code print outs had the commands on the left of the green bar and the machine code on the right. The boss shows him some green bar code. He knew exactly what the code was doing.

[@rjkbytes1]

@@ErectusDicardIII Yup, just a janitor that spoke COBOL and FORTRAN.

[@dogofwar6769]

The real Y2K was actually closer to being a problem than people realize. Specifically for the power grid and the need for load balancing of the grid. Had family that worked for a major power company in the south east of the USA. Luckily the power companies did limited tests and realized the danger so they spend the time to do the updates. So nothing major happened.

[@rochskier]

I feel like Y2K was a rare episode where mankind planned ahead and actually fixed a crisis before it could happen.

[@justforever96]

I knew about it because my mother worked for the DMV and they had her on the team updating the systems before the turnover. I was only like 13 but I had a pretty good understanding of the problem. Although I think a couple of our teachers did a good job of explaining it to us as well.

[@Jsa460]

Very true, except this isn't a doco on how the Y2K disaster was avoided and instead a s**tty movie about the Y2K bug causing technology to become sentient and go on a rampage killing all humans until the "beautiful talented hacker" played by Rachael creates a code to shut the machines down and save the world. I mean blegh....

[@marywarren8357]

I wish more people understood this!!

[@umbrellacorp.]

I prefer to watch Dwayne The Rock Red One than this thing Rachel Zeigler made. It's an insult to us in the 80's and 90's.

[@daveminion6209]

If it has Rachel Zeigler in it, you know a good name for it -- "BOX OFFICE POISON ", lol.