Y2K: What The Year 2000 Problem Was & Why People Feared The World Would End

Rachel Zegler as Laura looking frustrated next to electrical lightning in Y2K trailer

The following contains spoilers for Y2K, now playing in theatersY2K takes inspiration from the real-life fears surrounding the Y2K bug. Directed by Kyle Mooney, Y2K takes place on New Year's Eve at the turn of the millennium. Y2K's main characters are teenagers who find their New Year's Party thrown into chaos by a sudden and brutal uprising of machines against humanity, all set off by the Y2K bug infecting various machines and uniting them into a cybernetic hivemind.

Related Y2K Meaning Explained: What A24's New Movie Title Means Kyle Mooney's upcoming directorial debut Y2K takes viewers back in time to a mythical end-of-the-world apocalypse at the turn of the millennium. While the Y2K bug does happen in Y2K , fears about the world's collapse didn't quite match the events depicted in the film...

&#x2715 Remove Ads Many Y2K anxieties are brushed off in the film, as the cast are mostly teenagers primarily concerned with being cool. However, some figures in the story actively warned the American public about the situation. Some characters, like computer expert Laura, are able to identify the bug and why it's dangerous.

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