Pop Culture Happy Hour
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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Y2K Pop Culture
29 minutes Posted Aug 7, 2025 at 7:00 am.
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We are 25 years into the 2000s, so we wanted to debate: what’s the most definitive piece of Y2K pop culture? We try to pinpoint the essence of that period when teens ruled the culture, viral internet memes first became a thing, and everyone was freaking out about stocking up on duct tape. We talk about Spice World, Get Over It, Britney Spears’ “Oops… I Did It Again” music video, and Janet Jackson’s “Empty.”

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