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🐐 Certified GOATs of the 2000s
As compiled by me, Asten: nostalgia queen, chaos gremlin, and defender of discontinued snacks. Let’s be honest: some things are just objectively iconic. But this list isn’t just about what was “good” — it’s about what lived rent-free in our childhood brains. These are the snacks, TV shows, toys, and songs that made the 2000s… Read more
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Sticky Fingers and Ice Pops: A British Kid’s Guide to Surviving Summer
Ah, British summers. Where the second the sun came out, your mum whipped out the paddling pool, someone ran through the house soaking wet (and got yelled at), and you were somehow both sunburnt and freezing by teatime. If you were a 90s or 00s kid, summer survival looked something like this: Honestly? It was… Read more
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Confessions of a 90s Baby with an 80s Soul
I was born in the 90s. I grew up with dial-up internet, Groovy Chick, and CBBC on a chunky TV. So why, lately, does my brain keep doing the electric slide straight into 1985? It’s not like I lived through it. I have zero firsthand memories of legwarmers, mall bangs, or mixtapes made on cassette.… Read more
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The Magazines That Didn’t Try to Fix Me
A love letter to the ones that let me just be… me. When I think back to the magazines I read growing up, a lot of them were—let’s be honest—absolute chaos. From the cupcake-coded quizzes to the relentless advice columns on how to make boys like you (pass), they often felt like they were trying… Read more
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Apparently My Whole Personality Was Autism?
I was told I was autistic at age nine (diagnosed at four, but I wouldn’t have understood then). And yet… AND YET… there are still things I’m only now looking back on and thinking, “Wait… that was autism?” Because I did a lot of quirky things as a kid. Here’s my list of things that… Read more
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🧠 MSN Messenger Drama: The Original Group Chat Chaos
Before WhatsApp, before Snapchat, even before Facebook Messenger… there was MSN. And it was glorious. You’d rush home from school, log on with your cringiest email address (mine involved ‘xoxo’ and far too many underscores), and hope your crush was “online but away” so you could decode what that meant. The drama? IMMACULATE. Emojis were… Read more
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💔 The Day S Club Split: A National Tragedy (Okay, a Personal One)
I remember it vividly. The day the news broke: S Club were splitting up. No more Reach. No more Don’t Stop Movin’. No more neon flares and matching outfits. Just… heartbreak. For a kid whose entire personality revolved around 00s pop, this was the apocalypse. It didn’t matter that I had never met them. It… Read more
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🎶 The Buggles, Dance Mats, and the End of an Era That Wasn’t Even Mine
There are some songs that burrow into your brain and make themselves at home — and right now, for me, it’s Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. Released in 1979 (well before I was born, thank you very much), it somehow manages to feel like part of my pop culture history. Maybe it’s… Read more
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Dance Mat Anthems That Nearly Killed Us
Let’s talk Dancing Stage, because those channels didn’t just raise us — the music games tried to end us.Between slippery floors and impossible footwork, here are the tracks that made us sweat (and sometimes fall over) — all in the name of rhythm. 🎶 Video Killed the Radio Star – The Buggles This song went… Read more
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