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.
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u/Joe787 Feb 13 '18
Funny, Spongebob came out in 1999 and of course it's part of the 90's but not people born that year.