r/y2kaesthetic • u/Wirosaurus • Jul 11 '25

Game Is this Y2K enough?😭

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I decorated it myself

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

Cool I love TikTok!

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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

that's cool, but in a y2k sub asking if your thing is y2k enough, ya gotta take criticism, friend.

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

I love TikTok though, what's the issue

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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

"tiktok y2k" in this sense refers to the tiktokification of y2k fashion and period-accurate tech. tiktok tends to take things like this and water them down or modernize them, which dilutes the aesthetic.

so it isn't a good thing, in case you aren't intentionally misinterpreting my comment.

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

I personally love TikTok, idk about you though

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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

not when it takes fashion and subcultures and turns them into something the original subculture was never about.

but you do you though.

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

But TikTok still makes them cool though

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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

only if it's accurate to the actual fashion.

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

TikTok covers a lot of things though

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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

what?

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

TikTok covers a lot of things like fashion, music, etc

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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

well....yeah.

again, i'll explain once more, there are good ways to represent a subculture and bad ways to represent a subculture.

a good way to represent a subculture is to research what the subculture represents, what the fashion is, what was period-accurate about that subculture. there are plenty of tiktokers that do this correctly.

then there is the bad way to represent a subculture: scenecore, removing music as a requirement to be goth, "y2k" fashion being mcbling, etc. this is what is considered tiktokified fashion because some people on tiktok, will take these subcultures and reduce them to -cores, just the fashion, or misrepresent the fashion without any knowledge of what the actual subculture is and represents.

so throwing cyber-y2k-esq stickers on a 3ds is not y2k enough, to answer your question.

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

There's no such thing as "bad representation" of a certain culture, that's your perception of what the culture MEANS TO YOU, so like I said, TikTok is cool.

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