Misss2005’s Y2K Survival Guide: Nostalgic for 2000s Media

Authors Note: For my Nostalgia and ‘Old’ Media capstone class this past semester, I had the honor of interviewing my best friend, Nicole Randone (Instagram’s Misss2005). In this unit, we were tasked with interviewing people in our lives, with the central question being, “how do people remember media of the past?” The following is the excerpt I wrote about Nicole, a fellow digital content creator with a strong affinity for the early 2000s.

Finding Solace In The Early 2000s

Growing up, yearning for a sense of belonging, and struggling to learn about who you are can be difficult. In the age of the internet and social media, trends fade out in a blink of an eye. Nicole lives in the early aughts when girls dressed in Juicy tracksuits matched their Sidekicks, and guys wore puka shells and Von Dutch trucker hats.

Nicole and I met through a Twitter group chat in 2016 to connect fans of “Girl Meets World” and one of the show’s leads, Sabrina Carpenter. The two of us clicked, and we talked for hours on end as if we had known each other all our lives. In interviewing her, we realized that we both became fans of the show under different circumstances. Nicole grew up loving shows from the late ’90s and early 2000s that her older brothers first introduced her.