3.2 Millennium Ego: A Y2K Retro-Future

Still no space for creatives on Instagram: "The Y2K aesthetic emerged at the turn of the millennium as a visual language shaped by anticipation, anxiety, and technological optimism. Caught between the collapse of the 20th century and the promise of a digitised future, it fused futurism with fragility: chrome surfaces, translucent plastics, low-rise silhouettes, cyber fonts, and hyper-clean colour palettes. There was a fixation on the new, new tech, new bodies, new identities, filtered through ea