25 Controversial 2000s Opinions Millennials Secretly Agree With, Even If They Are Incredibly Unpopular

1.Shrek 2 was way better and more iconic than the first movie:

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Dreamworks / ©DreamWorks/Courtesy Everett Collection

2.Bring It On is the best sports movie ever:

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Universal / ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection

3.Almost all the cars on Pimp My Ride looked worse after the makeovers:

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They should've just bought them new cars.

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4.Mirror flash selfies were not cool and artistic — they were just blurry pics that you took because everyone else was doing them:

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5."Lady Marmalade" is the BEST and most ICONIC collab of all time:

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Christina Aguilera/ Sony Music/ youtube.com

6.Garden State is actually not a particularly deep or great film:

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Fox Searchlight / Fox Searchlight / Everett Collection

7.Texting or typing like this on AIM always looked awful and was a pain to read:

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8.Making a mix CD was more stressful than fun — there was always a lot of second-guessing and work:

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Blackred / Getty Images

9.Going to the video store to rent your movies was 100% more satisfying and convenient than waiting for Netflix to mail a DVD to you:

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Tim Boyle / Getty Images

10.Purple ketchup tasted exactly the same as regular ketchup:

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Getty Images

11.And Pepsi Blue was not good and tasted like medicine:

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12.Hildi Santo-Tomas (and her, um, interesting design choices) were the real reason we all watched Trading Spaces:

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Tlc / ©TLC/Courtesy Everett Collection

13.The kiss between Britney Spears and Madonna is the moment the VMAs peaked, and it has only been downhill since then:

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Christopher Polk / FilmMagic / Getty Images

14.Mariah Carey's Cribs episode was the best episode of the series, period:

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MTV

15.RealPlayer was a terrible way to watch videos, and it didn't work 85% of the time:

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16.And iPod Nanos were a terrible way to watch movies — you did nothing but strain your eyes (and your Nano's battery) watching low-res movies on it:

A finger pushing the button on an iPod Nano playing a Disney movie.
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17.That iPod Socks were the dumbest way to protect your iPod. The minute you pulled it out, your iPod was exposed to being damaged from a drop:

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18.iPod FM transmitters were a pain to use and never worked right:

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19.Jessica Simpson's edible body lotion was gross:

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Scott Gries / Getty Images

20.Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl had no business being that good:

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Walt Disney Co. / ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection

21.The last five minutes of Revenge of the Sith are better than the rest of the entire prequels:

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20thcentfox / ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection

22.Summer > every other character on The O.C.:

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Warner Bros / ©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection

23.Swoops weren't that great, and the ones at the bottom of the container would melt in your hands before you could get them out:

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24.JC Chasez should have been more famous than Justin Timberlake. He had, by far, the best voice in that group:

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Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic, Inc / Getty Images

25.And lastly, that Von Dutch trucker hats never looked good — you just wanted one 'cause you saw all the celebs rocking them:

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