Y2Craze

This timeline is meant to help people navigate this aesthetic thoroughly, from it’s start in 95 to it’s decline in 04 and the other aesthetics that overlapped, let me know if I should make one for Frutiger Aero/Metro.

McBling already covers a lot of aspects of the 2K1 Aesthetic, McBlings peak was 2003 declining in 2008 onwards, Generation Z often confuses McBling with Y2K which is understandable as they overlap so I don’t blame them, but the main aspect of Y2K is the futurism aesthetic the 2000’s main motif didn’t arrive until 2K1 and peaked with the McBling aesthetic as shown in the post.

Gen X Soft Club arrives in 1996 and declines in 2002, often overlapping the Y2K aesthetic and they both have elements that feed off of each other, Gen X YA/C is mostly a leftover aesthetic from the 90’s so it stops at an appropriate time which was a little after 9/11.

Maybe my favourite design of the Y2K era, that reminds me of that SpongeBob episode where squidward lands in the future and everything is chrome.

Although they’re a few designs that are still silver to this day, nothing beats the late 90s - early 00s silver obsession which was often mixed with blue. If you notice the post is a little cramped, that’s because there was almost too much material nearly everything had a silver tint, from fashion, cars, interior design, makeup, technology, furniture and the list goes on and on.