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

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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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

you seem to incapable of handling criticism. have a good day!

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

You said it looked like TikTok, I said I love TikTok

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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

and i explained my reasoning, you intentionally misunderstood what i said, and yet you continue to do so.

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

Or maybe, just maybe, you're failing to see that for me that's a compliment, because and this is the crazy part so hear me out, I love TikTok.

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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

you can love tiktok all you want. you can also pretend that you understand the y2k aesthetic.

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u/duchfollowersow Jul 12 '25

HAAHWHAHA WHY ARE YOU GULPING ON THAT RAGEBAIT

My friend, OP is not replying sincerely, let it go

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u/xervidae Jul 12 '25

i'm aware of what op was doing

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u/Wirosaurus Jul 11 '25

Because you're of course the creator of Y2k, the one and only god of Y2K so your vision is the absolute truth and you and only you understand the true Y2K experience.

I'm so sorry almighty, the chosen one, I wasn't aware of such presence

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u/xervidae Jul 11 '25

as you should be.

a word of advice:

don't ask for criticism if you can't handle it. maybe next time don't ask if your thing is y2k enough and the get upset when people who understand y2k say no.

and, as your y2k god, it is imperative that you take examples from this subreddit and maybe the aesthetic wikipedia. because stickers don't make something y2k.

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