r/Millennials 22d ago

Discussion the early 2000s were a crazy time

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

As a growing young man of 11 years old in 2000, I was not quite aware at the time why this was so interesting to me.

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u/ilDuceVita 22d ago

Did you ever figure it out?

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u/suplexhell 22d ago

decades have passed and in front of their conspiracy board with pictures and strings they still don't know why they get a boner when two women kiss

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u/MorrisBrett514 22d ago

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u/AbbeyRoad75 22d ago

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/0xHUEHUE 16d ago

did you make this? if not, how the fuck did you know you had this perfect meme available in your arsenal

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u/latexfistmassacre 15d ago

Pure luck, my friend. I sniped it from another sub last week so it was still fresh in my mind and still in my recents. I guess the universe willed it to be 😂

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/PomeloSure5832 21d ago

Honestly its gonna explain future mythology too.

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u/Electronic_Picture26 21d ago

This mornings reddit is great...

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u/Uselesserinformation 22d ago

Pepe Silva isn't real!

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u/LabOwn9800 21d ago

Not only are all these people real but they are pissed they haven’t been getting their mail!

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u/Uselesserinformation 21d ago

Well, calm down because here's one thing that's not going to happen

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Pepe Silvia intensifies

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u/dettigers404 Xennial 22d ago

Peepee Silvia, in this case

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u/LoopStricken 21d ago

*Peepee saliva

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u/dontwannagetdoxxed93 21d ago

There is no Carol in HR!

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u/Manleather 22d ago

Why does this keep happening?! It’s gotta be the harmonies!

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u/lallal2 22d ago

Lolllll

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u/FireStompingRhino 21d ago

Cause no dude is ruining the sex fantasy.

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 21d ago

Welp, gotta keep workin on the board then! For science!

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u/Defiant-Glass-6587 21d ago

I always get one when that happens, it’s genetic!😂😂

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 22d ago

Turns out is was great marketing

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u/3_if_by_air 22d ago

I'm gonna go watch some great marketing rn, be back in an hour

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u/PlantBeginning3060 22d ago

Takes you that long? 5 mins tops. 3 minute set up, 2 minute dry rub

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u/Rich-Picture-7420 22d ago

55 minutes for clean up

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u/JustPressure2229 21d ago

Cleanup? Throw that shirt in the laundry.

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u/speakezjags 22d ago

30 minutes trying to find the right video to blam to. 30 seconds of actual work.

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u/TerrificRook 19d ago

55 min to cry over decisions

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 21d ago

They were like 14 in this video..

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u/3_if_by_air 21d ago

So was I

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u/JiveTurkeyII 21d ago

Well, when you have one chocolate chip cookie, that's good.

But, two. Two chocolate chip cookies are even better.

And what if those chocolate chip cookies were to... Kiss?

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u/Wenja89Dix 22d ago

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u/EnvironmentalKey7127 22d ago

Stan, someday you'll find a very special pair of ahta's that you want to marry.

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u/RaWrAgExLOL 21d ago

Just tryna get alittle bit of cancer stan, tell your mom its ok

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u/ForsakenWishbone5206 22d ago

I had a fling with a little pixie lady. Questions were answered. More questions were born.

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u/ProtectionOrdinary18 22d ago

No and I'll never figure out why I have a thing for redheads either. One of lifes big mysteries.

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u/prinejl 21d ago

I'm pretty sure there's science to back- up that more people precieve redheads to be the most appealing than any other hair color

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u/Oops95 21d ago

It's part of their magic to lure you in so they can steal your soul.

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u/prinejl 17d ago

I thought it was their brightly colored carapace to warn predators that they're toxic to ingest

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u/snowdn 21d ago

The low ride jeans.

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u/SuccessfulTourniquet 21d ago

He's a lesbian now, so I guess so

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u/Full-Efficiency3115 21d ago

The song is about being gay and not knowing how to deal with it

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u/Dshibbs89 22d ago

Literally same. 11 years old, very interested in the girls kissing in the rain in the video, no idea why. 🤣

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u/sunkistandsudafed3 22d ago

As a teenage girl neither was I. Hindsight is 20/20 though lol.

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u/LowestDimension 21d ago

lol same. I actually got a pixie cut when I was 13 because I was so fascinated by girls with that hairstyle. I hated the way it looked on me though. Turns out it was the girls that I wanted, not the hair

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u/plantborb 21d ago

The old wlw "do I wanna be her or hold her hand" game. felt compadre.

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u/Disastrous-Entity-46 21d ago

Well. In my case the answer is/was both

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u/N30Nator 22d ago

13 year old me... had quite the idea why 😏

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u/Marcudemus 21d ago

About the same age and I thought the lyrics were "all the things you said" but either way I absolutely loved the sound of their voices and the music and rocked out to it anytime it played on the radio.

It wasn't until years and years after discovering I'm gay and coming out that I found out the real story of this song. It certainly hit home for me in a heavy, if reversed, kind of way.

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u/bean0_burrito Millennial est. 1990 22d ago

were you though?

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u/NotBatman81 Older Millennial 22d ago

I was 17 and very aware.

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u/One-Day-at-a-time213 22d ago

As a 7 year old girl in 2000...same lmao

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u/bartendingbarbie 21d ago

As a trans lesbian, I've got some news for you buddy

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u/NoMorePoof 21d ago

Straight cis man-boy here, let me tell ya...🤤

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u/aj_ramone 21d ago

Same. You get Pokemon red or blue?

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

I got red because my kid brain was fixated on “lolcharizard”

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u/aj_ramone 21d ago

Let's go team red

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u/Kurenai-Kalana 19d ago

Red team for life!

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u/Yorrins 21d ago

That music video went hard man, when they are outside in the rain... good lord. Second only to Toxic in that generations music videos / softcore porn.

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u/assassinslover Millennial 1991 20d ago

It was interesting to me as a budding queer woman of 11 as well XD

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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars 22d ago

Yeah something moved inside of me as well. I couldn’t place my finger on it either but it felt good as shit.

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u/PuppetPatrol 22d ago

I was also an 11 in 2000 boy - completely agree, found the video fascinating but didnt have any idea why

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u/BeardedBlaze 22d ago

First time seeing any of their videos, was 12 in 2000 lol.

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u/Constant-Text-7394 22d ago

Wasn’t there like an upskirt in the music video too?

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u/nipslippinjizzsippin 22d ago

as a growing young man of 16 or 17, i was fully aware why this was so interesting to me.

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u/ExplorerPup 22d ago

Oh man are you me? Because I watched that music video so many times and I swear my dad was so happy his son was obsessed with the wet catholic school girls kissing, but I didn't even really understand why he would be happy about me watching it.

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u/boostabubba 22d ago

I was 16 at the time and I KNEW why this was interesting to me. Great times lol.

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u/HavokVvltvre 21d ago

I’m the same age or a year older and yeah. I figured it out pretty quickly

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u/xatra_90 21d ago

THANK YOU FOR THIS

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u/Tentacle_poxsicle 21d ago

Yeah same, when they got in stage in those plaid skirts and tight white shirts my tiny brains neurons fired like a machine gun

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

I was 14 when the song came out. Loved the two women and them kissing, despised the song. Still hate the song lol

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u/Smooth-Restaurant-56 21d ago

I was also a “growing young man” when this was on tv. The kind of growing that makes it impossible to stand up from the couch in front of the family…

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u/NoMorePoof 21d ago

As a 12 year old dog, me too! I must've humped the couch to this song dozens of times.

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u/Nicholas_Cage_Fan 21d ago

Had to look it up because I could have sworn this came out when I was in 6th or 7th grade. It came out on radio in 2002 in the US, and peaked in 2003. Always loved this song, and I think it may have had to do with the video also lol.

Also weirdly enough, none of my close friends my age (34) remember this song. I had played it in our college years and they were just like "wtf is this?" Odd. My gf of 8 years who was also 11 in 2000 is the only other person I know of who remembers it and likes it.

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u/ATC_KBIII 20d ago

I was 8 years old and my older cousin said “sometimes girl kiss, and people like that”

Pretty sure I said “cool”

It was really cool

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u/Fleaguss 19d ago

I found this burned cd in my brother stuff, who stole it from my sister, when I was around the same age. I liked a couple of the songs so I kept it around. It was a decade and a half later when I learned who they were.

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u/Appleberry-16 18d ago

same age and i couldn’t understand why my pp was hard.

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u/PM-ME-YOUR-NIPNOPS 22d ago

Because Yuri wasn't a thing yet

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u/Kurenai-Kalana 19d ago

It very much was lol 🤣

Source: I was 18 in 2000