@Kaaletram They were very much an early-2000s thing. Specifically, like 2002.

But they were ubiquitous at that time and heralded as the Saviours of Rock Music or whatever, when they were just a bunch of boring white dudes from New York who ripped off the White Stripes' low-fi aesthetic and replaced the raw emotions and hard-driving beats with an obnoxiously affected detachment.