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>It annoys a lot of people as a grouping because it blow up the midwit "9/11 killed optimism" they cling to.
You can always tell when someone is a zoomer or retarded when they say that because even despite 9/11 and shit like the GWOT and Katrina, people were still very optimistic about the future until around 2009-2012, which coincides with the Great Recession starting, the Occupy movement and the worsening of race relations.

A big aspect of technology, media, aesthetics and their intersection from the early 90s to the mid-to-late 2000s formed a natural evolution centered around technology and the use of said technology to make a better world.