Seems like it was kind of overblown, if you ask me

Like the turn of a new millennium or are you talking specifically about the Y2K bug?

the bug

seems like it was a weird secularized way to channel millenarian anxieties. Like, of course we’d find some way of imagine that the world would end in the year 2000

I'm more concerned with the Y2.1K bug. Like, what am I supposed to do in the year 2100 when my Casio G-Shock's calendar will no longer be accurate?

It may be that I just am not around the places that would talk about such things, but it does feel like the popular concepts of an 'end-of-the-world' trigger event have largely been replaced with the "we live in the darkest timeline" mentality instead. Particularly in the roughly 50 years between the early 60s and the early 10s, there'd be various events from Cold War turning into WW3 to various doomsday prophecies such as Y2K and the 2012 Mayan calendar bit. I'm not weighing in on when humanity was "truly" near doomsday or what things may truly be events of a "darkest timeline" mind you, just general popular sentiments.

You’ll be like 300 years old then

Wookiees have long lifespans.

True

I remember being pretty taken with the idea that I was living in one of the darkest times on earth when I was an adolescent, but learning more about history we have it collectively better than probably any other time on the planet. Sure there is some messed up stuff happening, but even in the most poverty stricken countries there are humanitarian efforts being made from wealthy outside contributors. In the past things would arguably be far more bleak and apathetic.
We also don't have to worry about being killed and eaten by bears while we go outside to crap in a splintery outhouse, so that is a bonus too.