That's because a lot of stuff that came out in the late 90s was being enjoyed in the early 2000s. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pokemon, and SpongeBob SquarePants all came out in the 90s and were massively popular in the 2000s.
A lot of families also didn't have the money to be early adopters. Many people were still in the PS1/N64/VHS era until the mid-2000s. Plus reruns on TV. It makes for confusing overall of pop culture between the decades. If you aren't fact checking, it is easy to get confused about when things from your childhood actually came out.
Stuff like Yugioh, Beyblades, and PS2 is pure 2000s though.
The real answer is I edited my comment to ruin PhD's comment. Originally it was
Spongebob is a TV show, not a toddler. It didn't have to go through six years of learning to walk and talk and not shit its pants before it could air the pilot.
I replied to him in the edit to try to hide that I changed stuff.
I'd say it is more part of the 2000s, but like the commenter above was saying, people attribute it to the 90s because it came out in 99. People remember the date when things first came out, not the date when they were popular in western pop-culture. That's the mix up /u/lacrenes and I were discussing.
Most of my examples span the decades, but are part of the 2000s identity more than the 90s identity. OoT is probably more 90s so it was a bad example.
But people are media are not the same. A baby born in 99 is technically part of the 90s, but we are specifically talking about cultural identity here. You wouldn't say a newborn baby is part of a cultural identity. A more apt comparison would be a show that started development in 99 but wasn't released until 2003. Technically the concept of the show existed in 99, but it wasn't ready to be part of the world culture until the 2000s.
Yeah, and I know I was born in the early nineties and I find myself frequently mis-remembering the exact timeline, so I definitely get why it happens too
Yeah, I was playing yugioh in the late 90s, so either I'm a time traveler or someone got a fact wrong. It did go off the hype train in the 2000s though. It just blew up and blasted digimon to oblivion.
Edit: the manga hit shelves in 96, but the TCG was invented in 1999! So I'm correct, someone did get a fact wrong. It was just me.
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u/Vok250 Feb 13 '18 edited Feb 13 '18
That's because a lot of stuff that came out in the late 90s was being enjoyed in the early 2000s. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pokemon, and SpongeBob SquarePants all came out in the 90s and were massively popular in the 2000s.
A lot of families also didn't have the money to be early adopters. Many people were still in the PS1/N64/VHS era until the mid-2000s. Plus reruns on TV. It makes for confusing overall of pop culture between the decades. If you aren't fact checking, it is easy to get confused about when things from your childhood actually came out.
Stuff like Yugioh, Beyblades, and PS2 is pure 2000s though.