Leeeeeroy Jenkins! It's 2005 Week on Noisey!

When you think about it, a lot of crazy shit went down in 2005: YouTube launched, music bloggers became power players, Live 8 happened, Green Day resuscitated a 21-year career that had been waning to become one of the biggest bands in the world (again). Myspace had yet to hit the peak of its powers, asymmetric hair cuts were still a thing, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fell in love, Kanye dropped Late Registration, Tom Cruise jumped on a couch, Rihanna turned 17. Michael Jackson was deemed not guilty and a bunch of white doves were let loose in celebration. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published and shifted nine million copies in the first 24 hours. Back then, Twitter didn't exist, nor Instagram, and we didn't even know what a Kardashian was, really, apart from in conjunction with the OJ Simpson trial. Heady days.

A lot can happen in ten years: You can mature from tweendom to signing your first lease, you could have a four-foot-something, ten year old child, you could get married and divorced to Deryck Whibley and Chad Kroeger. Like, woah.

Here at Noisey, we're taking a moment (a week) to appreciate and assess some of the awesome and downright bizarre stuff that we were into ten years ago—the defining pop culture moments, weird internet stuff that we obsessed over, some game-changing moments in music, and the art we overlooked and overhyped.

Let's rewind. Nostalgia baby, yeah!

Eleven years ago, Zach Braff released his indie cult classic. A year later, we rewatched it and realized we'd made a huge mistake.

We talked to Ben Jorgensen what it was like to be at the center of the scene in 2005.

From The Fray to John Mayer to James Blunt to Coldplay, these were the songs that rocked you to tears.

In 2005, two guys were given two months to create a music video channel called IMF. It failed, but it had a glorious run.

The ideology behind these artists was decidedly indie, which was to say alt, which was to say, anti-corporate and pro-creative freedom. But the way they broke into mainstream culture was old school.

From "My Humps" to Destiny's Child to the Ying Yang Twins, 2005 was a golden era for awkward songs about boning.

In the summer of 2005, the Michael Ian Black/David Wain/Michael Showalter comedy troupe got a shot at network television. It didn't last, but what a run.

Here's the thing…

The iconic British death metal band hasn't released a note of new music since 2005 because of this album—and their fans absolutely adore them for it.

Before she was Badgalriri, she was Kelly Rowland for an evening at the 2005 World Music Awards.

Never forget.

Maybe if we could see from under our asymmetrical haircuts, we'd have seen how bad we all looked.

In 2005, Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas peed her pants on stage. Don't you dare make fun of her for this.

Hello? Yes, this is dog.