Box Office
Flop · 0.3xBudget$15M
Worldwide Gross$4.5M
Y2K scores a low 1/10 on wokeness by delivering pure horror-comedy thrills through classic teen survival tropes, crushes, and gadget gore with zero identity politics or social messaging.
Y2K is a straightforward horror-comedy centered on the Y2K bug causing household electronics and computers to gain sentience and attack humans on New Year's Eve 1999.
The premise follows high school outcasts Eli (Jaeden Martell) and Danny (Julian Dennison) crashing a party to pursue Eli's crush on popular girl Laura (Rachel Zegler), then surviving a tech apocalypse alongside a small group of teens including nu-metal fan Ash and aspiring rapper CJ. No plot points, dialogue, or character arcs involve identity politics, systemic oppression, critiques of traditional norms, or social justice messaging; the story relies on classic teen comedy tropes of social awkwardness, crushes, and chaotic survival mixed with gore gags from killer gadgets.
We've run a full content analysis on Y2K and scored it 1/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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