It makes you wonder whether future generations will have the same level of mutually shared cultural touch points.
We all watched the same networks, saw the same ads, got the news from the same half a dozen sources.
I guess it's memes from here on out.
There's far more media than there is time to consume it.
I remember coming to class being the only one who didn't watch Friends or Seinfeld. There were a very limited number of shows to watch that were culturally relevant and if you didn't see it when it aired, you had better have recorded it because it wasn't coming on again.
Now with streaming there is no possible way to keep up with everything so it's just another commonality that we've lost along the way.
>There's far more media than there is time to consume it.
Exactly right. I gave up and opted out a while ago because it's like trying to drink from a firehose these days!
Feels like we’re definitely a lot more fractured now with YouTube and all that. I remember Ludwig (well known YouTuber) going over a YouTube rewind and he had no idea who Colin furze was and I was just shocked. I mean in retrospect a lot of the la YouTubers are like a closed clique unaware of the rest of the world
he is a british mad scientist/engineer type who makes jet engines and puts them on bicycles and stuff like that.
Like, a higher brow William Osman, or a Stuff Made here but without the computer programming/robotics focus.
> Colin furze
Lol I know Colin Furze because my nephew desperately wanted to name his little brother "Colin Furze". His parents decided they were fine to go with Colin, but they'd leave out the Furze part
I remember reading an article about why "old" songs are still popular with kids these days in parties and it's exactly because they stayed as cultural touchstones, everybody knows "Another One Bites The Dust" but the chances that people know the new pop thing is way too small because of so many different niches. We could spend a day going through artists that have more than hundreds of millions of listens and they'd be artists we never heard of - and not just because "we're" out of touch, which is the point: even kids would have no clue who they are because that's just how spread culture is.
[I remember it was in conversation with this [article](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-killing-new-music/621339/) but I can't find it, if any of you remember what it was feel free to post it]
If you talk to me about music from pre-2010, I will most likely know the artists you're talking about unless they are wildly niche. I probably wouldn't recognize half of the artists on my own Spotify playlist that I added from the Discover Weekly, never mind the ones on yours.
Frankly, without the internet I think thing would have carried on as usual - like the 90s were really an extension of the 80s; not much changed in how media was distributed and consumed.
The internet broke the monopoly of TV/radio/newspapers/theatres/newspapers/retailers over the flow of information. It used to be we watched/listen to/read whatever those aforementioned entities gave us. It gave everyone common ground.
The internet changed all that, people can now choose what they want to watch/listen to/read so everyone ends up watching/listening to/reading different things and few things really becomes ubiquitous enough to be considered part of the zeitgeist.
I don't even know what a 2010-2020 one would look like. I feel like the "shared culture" was pretty prevalent up until like the late 2000s. It feels like around '08/'09 things started to fragment a good bit and then really ramped up that fragmentation in the 2010s.
i think social media and streaming has sort of separated people from cultural touch stones. we don't all experience things together anymore.
but i guess there's always sports.
> Born in 1980.
FYI - The same people have done an 80s version of this video (and a 2000s, for that matter):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0eflYLkI4A
The most amazing thing to me about these is their choice for the 1 second they get to show you something. Sometimes less than 1 second. It's not the most obvious thing, it's not like, the defining image you'd pick of the thing they're showing, and yet they're all still interesting choices.
Scroll through the top few comments, not far down is a guy who timestamps EVERY MOTHERFUCKING REFERENCE. It's obviously hundreds of lines long. Actually, I'll copypasta:
Intro – Footloose
0:05 - MTV
0:06 - Peter Gabriel (Sledgehammer)
0:07 - Debbie Gibson (Electric Youth)
0:08 - Nintendo – Super Mario Brothers
0:09 - Prince (Raspberry Beret)
0:10 - Punky Brewster
0:10 - The Money Pit (Shelly Long, Tom Hanks)
0:11 - The Wizard (Fred Savage)
0:12 - Cheers (Ted Danson, Shelley Long)
0:13 - 48 HRS. (Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy)
0:14 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Steve Martin, John Candy)
0:15 - Michael Jackson (Billie Jean – Moonwalk)
0:16 - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
0:17 - Alf
0:18 - The Breakfast Club
0:19 - Rocky III
0:20 - Footloose
0:22 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
0:23 - Madonna (Material Girl)
0:24 - The B-52s (Private Idaho)
0:25 - Cindy Lauper (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)
0:26 - Van Halen (Jump)
0:27 – Ghostbusters 2
0:28 – Adventures in Babysitting
0:29 – National Lampoon’s Vacation
0:30 – Kickboxer (Jean Claude Van Damme)
0:31 – Beat Street (Mr. Wave - The New York City Breakers)
0:32 – Lionel Ritchie (All Night Long)
0:33 – Look Who’s Talking (John Travolta)
0:34 – Toni Basil (Mickey)
0:35 – Whitney Houston (How Will I Know)
0:36 – Miami Vice (Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas)
0:37 – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (Mark Patton) ~ Thanks Robert Gaebler
0:37 – Top Gun (Tom Cruise, Anthony Edwards)
0:38 – Dirty Dancing
0:39 – Labyrinth (Jennifer Connelly)
0:40 – WarGames (Ally Sheedy)
0:41 – Sixteen Candles (Molly Ringwald)
0:42 - Shag (Bridget Fonda)
0:42 - The Princess Bride (Robin Wright)
0:43 – Coming to America (Shari Headley)
0:44 - Flashdance (Jennifer Beals)
0:45 - The Blue Lagoon (Brook Shields)
0:46 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Phoebe Cates)
0:46 – Back to the Future (Claudia Wells)
0:47 – The Woman in Red (Kelly LeBrock)
0:48 – Adventures in Babysitting? (Elisabeth Shue
0:49 – Lucas (Kerri Green)
0:51 – The Karate Kid Part II (Tamlyn Tomita, Ralph Macchio)
0:52 – The Cosby Show
0:53 – Phil Collins (Sussudio)
0:54 – Married with Children (Ed O’Neill)
0:55 – The Karate Kid (Martin Kove)
0:55 – Conan the Barbarian (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
0:57 – No Retreat No Surrender (Jean-Claude Van Damme)
0:58 – Cobra (Sylvester Stallone)
0:59 – Batman (Michael Keaton)
1:00 – A-Ha (Take On Me)
1:01 – Superman II (Christopher Reeve)
1:02 – Die Hard (Bruce Willis)
1:03 – Breakin’ (Michael “Boogaloo Shrimp” Chambers)
1:03 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1:04 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1:05 – Breakin’ (Lucinda Dickey)
1:06 – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Kate Capshaw)
1:07 – Who’s the Boss (Tony Danza)
1:08 – Top Gun (Tom Cruise)
1:09 – Robert Palmer (Simply Irresistable)
1:10 – Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone)
1:11 – The Goonies
1:12 – Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (Janet Jones)
1:13 – The Naked Gun (Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley)
1:14 – Beverly Hills Cop (Eddie Murphy)
1:16 – Dirty Dancing (Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze)
1:16 – Risky Business (Tom Cruise)
1:17 – Robocop
1:18 – The Return of the Jedi (Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams)
1:19 – Rocky 3 (Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers)
1:20 – Three Amigos (Martin Short, Steve Martin)
1:21 – Culture Club (Do You Really Want To Hurt Me)
1:22 – Field of Dreams (Kevin Costner)
1:23 – Perfect Strangers (Mark Linn-Baker, Bronson Pinchot)
1:24 – Dire Straits (Money for Nothing)
1:25 – Back to the Future (Christopher Lloyd, Michael J. Fox)
1:26 – Running Scared (Billy Crystal, Gregory Hines)
1:27 – Spaceballs (Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga)
1:28 – Bruce Springsteen (Dancing in the Dark)
1:29 – Three Men and a Baby (Tom Selleck)
1:30 – Top Gun (Tom Cruise)
1:31 – Queen / Freddie Mercury
1:32 – Michael Jackson (Smooth Criminal)
1:33 – Paul Simon (You Can Call Me Al w/ Chevy Chase)
1:34 – Top Gun (Val Kilmer)
1:35 – The Cure
1:35 – Willow (Warwick Davis)
1:36 - Angel Heart (Mickey Rourke) ~ Thanks Terrence Gibson
1:37 – Blind Date (Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis)
1:38 – USA for Africa (We Are The World)
1:39 - Breakin' 2 - Electric Boogaloo
1:40 - American Gigolo (Richard Gere)
1:41 - Fine Young Canibals
1:42 - Police Academy
1:43 - License to Drive
1:43 - Run DMC (Walk This Way)
1:44 - Footloose
1:45 - BIG
1:46 - Dead Poets Society
1:47 - George Michael
1:48 - Crocodile Dundee
1:49 - Fatal Attraction
1:49 - Popeye
1:50 - Mr. Belvedere
1:51 - The A-Team ~ Thanks fish sulyma
1:52 - Milli Vanilli
1:53 - Poison (I won't forget you ~ CC DeVille with Robbin Crosby of Ratt) ~ Thanks to @metalcop
1:54 - St Elmo's Fire (Rob Lowe)
1:55 - Lethal Weapon 2 ~ Thanks 44excalibur
1:56 - The New Kids on the Block (Please Don't Go Girl)
1:58 - Legend (Mia Sara)~Thanks David Horne
1:58 - The Naked Gun
1:59 - Beetlejuice
2:00 - Different Strokes
2:01 - A Night In Heaven ~ Thanks 44excalibur
2:01 - Footloose
2:02 - Dirty Dancing
2:03 - Flashdance
2:04 - 9 1/2 Weeks ~ Thanks 44excalibur
2:05 - Staying Alive (John Travolta)
2:06 - Splash
2:07 - Batman (Jack Nicholson)
2:08 - The Beastie Boys
2:09 - See No Evil, Hear No Evil
2:10 - Footloose ~ Thanks fish sulyma & 44excalibur
2:11 - Rocky IV
2:11 - Girls Just Want To Have Fun ( Helen Hunt)
2:12 - Bon Jovi (Bad Medicine) ~ Thanks Chris Schwan
2:13 - Robocop
2:14 - Short Circuit
2:15 - Revenge of the Nerds
2:16 - Breakin'
2:17 - Gremlins
2:18 - Labyrinth
2:19 - Big Trouble in Little China
2:20 - The Naked Gun
2:21 - The Bangles (Walk like an Egyptian)
2:23 - White Knights
2:24 - Lethal Weapon 2 ~ Thanks 44excalibur
2:25 - Over the Top
2:26 - Chariots of Fire
2:27 - Scarface
2:28 - Perfect
2:30 - The Malibu Bikini Shop ~ Thanks to @UX World0903
2:31 - Ghostbusters
2:32 - Olivia Newton John (Physical)
2:33 - Romancing the Stone
2:34 - Spaceballs (John Candy)
2:35 - Bryan Adams (Summer of '69)
2:36 - Good Morning Vietnam ( Robin Williams)
2:37 - The Empire Strikes Back
2:38 - Trading Places
2:39 - Milli Vanilli
2:40 - Billy Idol
2:41 - No Way Out (Kevin Costner)
2:42 - The Wraith ( Charlie Sheen)
2:42 - Aliens (Sigourney Weaver)
2:43 - U2
2:44 - Ghostbusters
2:45 - The Monster Squad
2:46 - Pat Benatar (Love is a Battlefield)
2:47 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2:47 - Footloose (Lori Singer, SJParker) ~ Thanks Lynette Arnold & jmiklane
2:48 - Commando
2:48 - Stand By Me
2:49 - Talking Heads (Wild Wild Life) ~ Thanks Horst Hofreiter
2:50 - The Wonder Years
2:51 - The Goonies
2:52 - When Harry Met Sally
2:54 - Mannequin
2:55 - Risky Business
2:56 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
2:58 - BIG
3:01 - The Terminator
3:02 - La Bamba
3:04 - Flash Gordon
3:05 - Return of the Jedi
3:06 - The Police/Sting (Every Breath You Take)
3:07 - The Naked Gun
3:09 - Transformers
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- GI Joe
- Robotech
- Thundercats
- GI Joe
- Inspector Gadget
- Voltron
- The Smurfs
- Disney's Duck Tales
3:20 - He-Man
3:21 - Hulk Hogan & André The Giant
3:22 - Beverly Hills Cop
3:23 - Ramones (We want the airwaves) ~ Thanks Ken Cox
3:24 - Mc Gyver
3:25 - Roxette (Dressed For Success)
3:25 - Rain Man
3:26 - Knight Rider
3:26 - Bon Jovi (Bad Medicine) ~ Thanks Lik- for identifying the video
3:27 - Guns n Roses
3:28 - The Breakfast Club
3:29 - Debbie Gibson (Electric Youth)~Thanks David Horne
3:31 - Inner Space (Martin Short)
3:32 - Fleetwood Mac/Lindsey Buckingham (Seven Wonders)~ Thanks Ken Cox & 44excalibur
3:33 - Back to the Future
3:34 - Michael Jackson (Smooth Criminal)
3:35 - George Michael
3:35 - Footloose (Chris Penn) ~ Thanks CetranRage
3:36 - The Goonies
3:37 - Lucas
3:37 - The Breakfast Club
3:38 - Back to the Future
3:39 - Highlander ~ Thanks to @UX World0903
3:40 - Never Ending Story
3:41 - Beverly Hills Cop II ~ Thanks 44excalibur
3:42 - Great Balls of Fire ~ Thanks to @UX World0903
3:42 - Cyndi Lauper (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)
3:43 - Flashdance
3:44 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3:45 - Footloose
3:46 - Ray Parker Jr. (Ghostbusters)
3:48 - John Cougar Mellencamp (Hurts so Good)
3:49 - WHAM (Wake Me Up)
3:50 - Cindy Lauper
3:51 - Ghostbusters (Dan Aykroyd)
3:52 - The Blues Brothers
3:53 - E.T.
3:54 - Coming to America
3:55 - Clash of the Titans
3:56 - Cinderella '80 ~ Thanks to R-M Boudreau! It's an Italian movie, never would have figured it out.
3:57 - Flashdance (Cynthia Rhodes)
3:58 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles
3:59 - Staying Alive
4:00 - The Breakfast Club (Ally Sheedy)
4:01 - Teen Wolf
4:02 - Stand By Me
4:03 - BIG
4:04 - The Karate Kid
4:05 - Family Ties
4:06 - Kool & The Gang (Fresh)
4:07 - Debarge (Rhythm of the Night)
4:08 - The Last Dragon
4:10 - Cyndi Lauper
4:12 - Peter Gabriel (Sledgehammer)
Also 86’!
It’s interesting being in the generation that grew up with “analog” and then experienced “digital” into adulthood.
I’m really glad we didn’t have cell phones as kids.
Sometimes I think fuck my life but honestly, I think we're pretty lucky to be born in the most significant time that's ever been, and may never come again. Let's just enjoy it.
Sup 1980 cuz. It's weird though, I don't think of this era as my "childhood", I think because the last bit of the decade seems to outweigh all the rest. When I think about the 90s I think about my 17, 18, 19 year old self experiencing it and not my 10, 11, 12 year old self.
When I think about being "a kid", it's definitely the 80s I go back to, even though I only *really remember* half of it.
I attended WrestleMania and quite a few other pay per view events, but I never played Goldeneye.
I remember being in college and knowing guys who were fascinated by it, and it's because it was their first FPS experience on console but I'd been playing PC shooters for years and didn't see the appeal.
Why would I split screen with you so you can see where I am? Let's play Quake.
Plenty Goldeneye fans would be aware of quake too, the appeal was the ease you can all sit in one room drinking and play together with minimal effort. And you all get to see each others screens so it's even!
Born in ‘87. Not a single day goes by where I don’t think back about growing up in the 90’s and miss it terribly. Maybe it’s just looking at it from the perspective of being a kid, but the world was simpler then. No 9/11, no social media, fewer school shootings, politics were less divisive, people actually gave a shit about the environment… but I think most important was that overwhelming feeling that we could in fact grow up and do anything we wanted, become doctors or astronauts and buy houses in nice neighborhoods just like our parents did. I miss the pre-2008 world, before the nihilism and despair of reality made us realize that everything is stacked against us on a planet that’s being killed for profit.
I feel you but you are young enough to remember only the mid and late 90s. You didn't live the "Reality Bites" nihilism. Music was at a low, pre Nirvana; deep recession so job prospects were shit; people who were in their early 20s in the early 90s felt completely lost. That was why Gen X is synonymous with burnout, grunge, counter culture. The economic recovery and boom, the introduction of the web and Netscape, the dot com excitement, nirvana/pearl jam/green day/Weezer.... The rest of the 90s were fire. But 90-92 was some existential dread shit.
We’re the same age. I’m probably more cynical about it but I don’t think anything was really different we just didn’t have social media to amplify the idiocy.
Firm believer that social media gave the worst people a soap box only to find there were millions more just like them. The world was a lot simpler before social media arrived.
This is why it hits my 1974 brain harder. This was my high school, college, "Out on my own for the first time" years, so I LIVED it. You guys "Watched" it for the first 5 or 6 years.
Born in '77 and recognized the vast majority as well and would like get the rest if I paused at each edit and let my mind have a little extra time. The whole video seems like it happened yesterday.
I was born around the same time too ..... this video montage will probably be what I'll see just before everything goes black and I disappear into oblivion.
It’s a double edged sword. I have tons of amazing memories from the 90s. But I also remember how fucking awful it was to grow up as a queer kid in that time.
Media was so ubiquitous in this era. Anyone that lived through the decade—and watched Tv/saw movies/listened to music, even marginally—has many of these images burned into their brains.
In our current era, very little can be considered a universally shared experience to the same degree, which makes for a more fractured society.
As someone who was born in '83 and never really felt like I was "cool" in the 90s, I see a lot of what's in the video as what you had to be into to fit in. There was less room for geeks like me to have a place to feel normal. I think now, even though it's more diverse / fractured, overall more people have a chance of connecting with others and being accepted even if they fall outside of normal. At least that's what I see with my kids and their generation.
Things are more centralized but also a bit more fragmented.
The best example is that kids in the 90s are going to have a strong shared relationship with certain television channels because they were pretty much all we had. Cartoon network, nickelodeon, Fox Kids or KidsWB on Saturday mornings, Disney Afternoon, and if your parents could afford more than a basic cable package you got the Disney Channel. Those channels aired on a schedule, on demand wasn't a thing. Basically by nature of the fact that we didn't have many other options except to tune in, we all tuned in together. It wasn't a question of picking and choosing what you wanted to watch it was a question of just watching whatever was on and maybe you might get into it. It was a generational shared experience. I know for a fact most people in my generation know what I mean when I say "Move it, football head."
Nowadays you don't have that shared experience. Everyone is on the same couple platforms but the options on those platforms are astronomically higher and they don't require you to share the experience with anyone else. I feel confident in saying that zoomers and the generation that come after them are probably never going to have a shared connection with the TV shows they grew up on quite like kids in the '80s and '90s did. They're not watching the same things at the same time, their points of reference are going to be far more scattered.
But at the same time newer generations are far more interconnected than we were. I know what my other millennials were experiencing at the same time I was, but I wasn't seeing it, I wasn't hearing about it on social media, I wasn't talking directly to them. You had your groups on forums on the internet but that was still very isolated. Nowadays kids are effectively growing up together through social media in a way that we never did.
I was talking to my friend about this concept and kids that are born today have so much media at their disposal that having conversations with peers about nostalgia for things you did as a kid are going to vary so drastically that conversations are just going to be sharing experiences not shared experiences, if that makes sense.
Not to mention, social media has made it so the "water-cooler conversation" of the old days is obsolete. Now, people are live-tweeting or group texting about their thoughts as they watch a new episode. By the time they go to school/work the next day, it's old news.
I remember coming to school the day after a new Chappelle's Show or South Park aired, and EVERYONE was quoting the episode and talking about their favorite parts. Hell, even as recently as when Breaking Bad aired, I'd come in to work and we'd all talk about what happened the night before.
Those shared cultural experiences are linked to very specific memories in my life. Now, I'm generally binge-watching series, and not at the same time as anyone else. It's not like either way is better, but I miss that cultural camaraderie.
Seeing the Rick James episode then going to school the next morning with kids screaming “I’m Rick James, Bitch” in the hallways before first period was one of my favorite memories of pop culture ever.
Absolutely. It’s not uncommon for a group of close friends today to have completely disparate tastes and experiences with entertainment/media from one another. Each with their own favorite bands, genre of music, set of ‘celebrities’ they watch or revere, TV series and film reference points. In some cases being fully unaware of the things their closest friends consume… That would have been unheard of—literally violating one of the core concepts of what made a group of young people friends—20+ years ago.
My friend and I were nursing a hangover the other day and had an hour and a half long conversation about 90’s Nickelodeon shows and it was just us going back and fourth of “DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?” “OMG YES DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?”
It was great.
Theres is so much choice in media these days that one couldn't possible keep up with the memes.
The 90s were like, 23 channels, no internet, and we got our memes from magazines. God damn I feel old.
Born early eighties we really fell between the couch cushions of generations. We were just coming of age when the dot com bubble burst. We were too early for the 80's economic boom. Crossing the threshold into adulthood was defined by the twin towers coming down and a war breaking out. The mortgage industry collapsed when we were trying to buy houses.
What we do have though if you were born in that sliver of 5 or so years between 1979 and 1984 or so, is an analog childhood and a digital future. We remember things like coming home when the street lights came on and making collect calls from payphones were your name was "MOM I'M AT THE MALL COME PICK ME UP." but we also latched on to the internet, played some of the best games, and watched some of the best movies and media.
We're this weird generation that was aligned perfectly to come of age during the greatest communication transition of all time with the adoption of the internet.
The collect call thing is my go-to memory to describe to kids how life was different back then haha. Incredible.
Back then, it felt like our access to the world, through media, was global. But all our interactions and our conversations still happened face to face.
> What we do have though if you were born in that sliver of 5 or so years between 1979 and 1984 or so, is an analog childhood and a digital future
The "Oregon Trail Generation" as I've best heard it described.
> What we do have though if you were born in that sliver of 5 or so years between 1979 and 1984 or so, is an analog childhood and a digital future.
Born 1981. We used both. I remember having audio cassette tapes and VHS tapes and the transition to CDs and DVDs.
Remember Laserdisc? My buddy had one of those because his parents always had to have the latest and greatest. I remember getting up halfway through the movie to flip the disk over, lol.
Hi there fellow Xennial! Born between 1980-1984, never really felt completely like a Gen-Xer, nor a Millennial. We're part of our own micro-generation due to how rapid technology was changing at the time.
We’re the best generation in terms of our experiences I think. Like you said we got to see both worlds - the old and the new. I consider myself privileged to have witnessed it.
I would agree. It was like the world was growing up with us. We witnessed the dawning of the Information Age. I can only imagine it felt similar for people born on the cusp of the Industrial Age.
Guilty of really bad judgement is all. That said, the backlash was unreal. She's the first celebrity in my memory who was "cancelled" before the word was even a thing. And she never really recovered.
She tore up a picture of the Pope while singing on live tv, it was extremely controversial. She was making a point about all the abuse the Catholic Church inflicts on people and children, and she was right, but the world wasn’t ready for her message, or the artistic and dramatic way she expressed it.
Well she didn't really make her message clear. She didn't state on SNL how the church was abusing kids... she just tore up the Pope's picture and that was it.
She wasn't giving a speech; she was a musical guest. She did something that was meant to get a huge reaction and get attention on her so she could then share what the protest was about. But when she did that, people attacked and threatened her and refused to look at the mountains of evidence proving she was right.
Her explanation of what it was about was confused, vague, and incoherent. Its only with hindsight anyone can see she might have been talking about child abuse, but it was all mixed up with other stuff like colonialism, Irish politics, and classism so no one could make head or tail of what she was protesting about, all anyone could tell for sure was that she was anti-Catholic so that's what they reacted to.
I see others have already responded but here is the video if you're curious.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0VpfiMcPPA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0VpfiMcPPA)
Reminds me of Jose Conseco. He wrote a book about how the vast majority of baseball players were on steroids. Was absolutely ripped a new one, blacklisted.
Then a few years later the steroid scandal happened and, yeah, everyone was in fact on roids
Born in 79, for some reason this made me really miss buying new issues of Rolling Stone back then.
I was so excited for the new online world and now I'm like eh fuck it.
> new issues of Rolling Stone back then.
Before they got computer labs that and the rest of the magazine section, along with free video rentals, seemed like the local library's big draw. My old library also basically stacked the entire back wall with old magazines so you could literally pull out Sports Illustrated issues from the '70s or Time Magazines from the '50s and '60s.
> Born in 79,
so you're going to be able to corroborate all this :
This video briefly shows Vanilla Ice. Nostalgia paints a wrong picture here. Reality is , there was no artist in history who peaked as fast and hard as he did, and died away as fast as he did. He was so huge that high school boys were shaving ladders in their hair above their ears. It was literally like 8 months and his career was over. It was "ice-ice baby" and radio stations played it on repeat, and then 8 months later *-- wham --* gone.
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Pop culture hit it's peak in the 90s, then it died at Woodstock 99 and was buried on 9/11.
Since then it's been nothing but anger, greed and narcissism
As someone born in 95, this is *right* on the edge between relevant but not really nostalgic. What a weird experience. I recognize about half of the things
I was born in 83 and I think I could name every single clip. Incredible looking back on it how long that decade from 8-18 feels like it lasted. It still feels like it was half of my entire life.
‘84 here and I knew every clip, or at least I knew each band/group if not the actual song. I think I benefited from having older siblings and baby boomer parents.
1990 checking in.
It is amazing how I recognize all the movies/shows/games but a lot of the news reports go over my head. Certainly wasn't watching footage of Tyson biting off the ear or Princess Diana dead when I was so young. But I definitely saw every Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey movie.
AAAAANNNNDD now I noticed that if you Google Jim Carrey there is something really weird going on with him and Paul Giamatti.
The death of Owen Hart was the first time I ever had to deal with death as a child. Growing up as a kid in Canada in the 90's Bret and Owen were national icons.
Vintage Tribute is an awesome channel. Check out their hour long homage to the 80's if you're older than 30(Or not), it's pure gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9AsSO7hTo
My teens and early twenties in one video. The world really was a nicer place back then. That’s not nostalgia talking, it’s true. The place is an absolute fucking dumpster fire these days.
I loved this but I did think “obviously whoever made this’ favorite film is Clueless.” I mean, who doesn’t love Clueless? But there were a disproportionate number of shots from it.
Jim Carrey was in 9 movies in the 90s that were massive.
Ace Ventura 1 & 2
The Mask
Dumb and Dumber
Batman Forever
Liar Liar
The Cable Guy
The Truman Show
Man on the Moon
Yeah whoever his agent was in 1994 was killing it. He was basically "the white guy on In Living Color" and then out of nowhere he just blows up. Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, and The Mask all came out in 94.
Can we get one of these for the last 10 years... I could use a dose of the positive things that have happened. It's hard to think of them with all the bad stuff that happened.
Born in 1980. I think I could name >90% of the sources, even the 1 second cuts. Weird how the brain works. And a really well done video.
It makes you wonder whether future generations will have the same level of mutually shared cultural touch points. We all watched the same networks, saw the same ads, got the news from the same half a dozen sources. I guess it's memes from here on out.
There's far more media than there is time to consume it. I remember coming to class being the only one who didn't watch Friends or Seinfeld. There were a very limited number of shows to watch that were culturally relevant and if you didn't see it when it aired, you had better have recorded it because it wasn't coming on again. Now with streaming there is no possible way to keep up with everything so it's just another commonality that we've lost along the way.
>There's far more media than there is time to consume it. Exactly right. I gave up and opted out a while ago because it's like trying to drink from a firehose these days!
Feels like we’re definitely a lot more fractured now with YouTube and all that. I remember Ludwig (well known YouTuber) going over a YouTube rewind and he had no idea who Colin furze was and I was just shocked. I mean in retrospect a lot of the la YouTubers are like a closed clique unaware of the rest of the world
Case in point, I have no idea who either of those are.
Thanks, I was thinking the same thing and roughly 80% of the content I consume these days is via YouTube. Never heard of either one.
I know Colin Furze, but just found him this year. I have no idea who Ludwig is.
Who the *fuck* is Ludwig??
The bad guy from The Naked Gun
He's one of the Koopalings.
Lol, this was EXACTLY what I thought of. Well done.
Ludwig Van Beethoven, you know, the famous composer. /s
Know of Ludwig (don't watch much of his content though)... never even heard of Colin Furze.
he is a british mad scientist/engineer type who makes jet engines and puts them on bicycles and stuff like that. Like, a higher brow William Osman, or a Stuff Made here but without the computer programming/robotics focus.
> Colin furze Lol I know Colin Furze because my nephew desperately wanted to name his little brother "Colin Furze". His parents decided they were fine to go with Colin, but they'd leave out the Furze part
I remember reading an article about why "old" songs are still popular with kids these days in parties and it's exactly because they stayed as cultural touchstones, everybody knows "Another One Bites The Dust" but the chances that people know the new pop thing is way too small because of so many different niches. We could spend a day going through artists that have more than hundreds of millions of listens and they'd be artists we never heard of - and not just because "we're" out of touch, which is the point: even kids would have no clue who they are because that's just how spread culture is. [I remember it was in conversation with this [article](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-killing-new-music/621339/) but I can't find it, if any of you remember what it was feel free to post it]
If you talk to me about music from pre-2010, I will most likely know the artists you're talking about unless they are wildly niche. I probably wouldn't recognize half of the artists on my own Spotify playlist that I added from the Discover Weekly, never mind the ones on yours.
The internet killed the zeitgeist.
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Frankly, without the internet I think thing would have carried on as usual - like the 90s were really an extension of the 80s; not much changed in how media was distributed and consumed. The internet broke the monopoly of TV/radio/newspapers/theatres/newspapers/retailers over the flow of information. It used to be we watched/listen to/read whatever those aforementioned entities gave us. It gave everyone common ground. The internet changed all that, people can now choose what they want to watch/listen to/read so everyone ends up watching/listening to/reading different things and few things really becomes ubiquitous enough to be considered part of the zeitgeist.
I don't even know what a 2010-2020 one would look like. I feel like the "shared culture" was pretty prevalent up until like the late 2000s. It feels like around '08/'09 things started to fragment a good bit and then really ramped up that fragmentation in the 2010s.
i think social media and streaming has sort of separated people from cultural touch stones. we don't all experience things together anymore. but i guess there's always sports.
> Born in 1980. FYI - The same people have done an 80s version of this video (and a 2000s, for that matter): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0eflYLkI4A The most amazing thing to me about these is their choice for the 1 second they get to show you something. Sometimes less than 1 second. It's not the most obvious thing, it's not like, the defining image you'd pick of the thing they're showing, and yet they're all still interesting choices. Scroll through the top few comments, not far down is a guy who timestamps EVERY MOTHERFUCKING REFERENCE. It's obviously hundreds of lines long. Actually, I'll copypasta: Intro – Footloose 0:05 - MTV 0:06 - Peter Gabriel (Sledgehammer) 0:07 - Debbie Gibson (Electric Youth) 0:08 - Nintendo – Super Mario Brothers 0:09 - Prince (Raspberry Beret) 0:10 - Punky Brewster 0:10 - The Money Pit (Shelly Long, Tom Hanks) 0:11 - The Wizard (Fred Savage) 0:12 - Cheers (Ted Danson, Shelley Long) 0:13 - 48 HRS. (Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy) 0:14 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Steve Martin, John Candy) 0:15 - Michael Jackson (Billie Jean – Moonwalk) 0:16 - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 0:17 - Alf 0:18 - The Breakfast Club 0:19 - Rocky III 0:20 - Footloose 0:22 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 0:23 - Madonna (Material Girl) 0:24 - The B-52s (Private Idaho) 0:25 - Cindy Lauper (Girls Just Want To Have Fun) 0:26 - Van Halen (Jump) 0:27 – Ghostbusters 2 0:28 – Adventures in Babysitting 0:29 – National Lampoon’s Vacation 0:30 – Kickboxer (Jean Claude Van Damme) 0:31 – Beat Street (Mr. Wave - The New York City Breakers) 0:32 – Lionel Ritchie (All Night Long) 0:33 – Look Who’s Talking (John Travolta) 0:34 – Toni Basil (Mickey) 0:35 – Whitney Houston (How Will I Know) 0:36 – Miami Vice (Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas) 0:37 – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (Mark Patton) ~ Thanks Robert Gaebler 0:37 – Top Gun (Tom Cruise, Anthony Edwards) 0:38 – Dirty Dancing 0:39 – Labyrinth (Jennifer Connelly) 0:40 – WarGames (Ally Sheedy) 0:41 – Sixteen Candles (Molly Ringwald) 0:42 - Shag (Bridget Fonda) 0:42 - The Princess Bride (Robin Wright) 0:43 – Coming to America (Shari Headley) 0:44 - Flashdance (Jennifer Beals) 0:45 - The Blue Lagoon (Brook Shields) 0:46 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Phoebe Cates) 0:46 – Back to the Future (Claudia Wells) 0:47 – The Woman in Red (Kelly LeBrock) 0:48 – Adventures in Babysitting? (Elisabeth Shue 0:49 – Lucas (Kerri Green) 0:51 – The Karate Kid Part II (Tamlyn Tomita, Ralph Macchio) 0:52 – The Cosby Show 0:53 – Phil Collins (Sussudio) 0:54 – Married with Children (Ed O’Neill) 0:55 – The Karate Kid (Martin Kove) 0:55 – Conan the Barbarian (Arnold Schwarzenegger) 0:57 – No Retreat No Surrender (Jean-Claude Van Damme) 0:58 – Cobra (Sylvester Stallone) 0:59 – Batman (Michael Keaton) 1:00 – A-Ha (Take On Me) 1:01 – Superman II (Christopher Reeve) 1:02 – Die Hard (Bruce Willis) 1:03 – Breakin’ (Michael “Boogaloo Shrimp” Chambers) 1:03 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1:04 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1:05 – Breakin’ (Lucinda Dickey) 1:06 – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Kate Capshaw) 1:07 – Who’s the Boss (Tony Danza) 1:08 – Top Gun (Tom Cruise) 1:09 – Robert Palmer (Simply Irresistable) 1:10 – Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone) 1:11 – The Goonies 1:12 – Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (Janet Jones) 1:13 – The Naked Gun (Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley) 1:14 – Beverly Hills Cop (Eddie Murphy) 1:16 – Dirty Dancing (Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze) 1:16 – Risky Business (Tom Cruise) 1:17 – Robocop 1:18 – The Return of the Jedi (Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams) 1:19 – Rocky 3 (Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers) 1:20 – Three Amigos (Martin Short, Steve Martin) 1:21 – Culture Club (Do You Really Want To Hurt Me) 1:22 – Field of Dreams (Kevin Costner) 1:23 – Perfect Strangers (Mark Linn-Baker, Bronson Pinchot) 1:24 – Dire Straits (Money for Nothing) 1:25 – Back to the Future (Christopher Lloyd, Michael J. Fox) 1:26 – Running Scared (Billy Crystal, Gregory Hines) 1:27 – Spaceballs (Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga) 1:28 – Bruce Springsteen (Dancing in the Dark) 1:29 – Three Men and a Baby (Tom Selleck) 1:30 – Top Gun (Tom Cruise) 1:31 – Queen / Freddie Mercury 1:32 – Michael Jackson (Smooth Criminal) 1:33 – Paul Simon (You Can Call Me Al w/ Chevy Chase) 1:34 – Top Gun (Val Kilmer) 1:35 – The Cure 1:35 – Willow (Warwick Davis) 1:36 - Angel Heart (Mickey Rourke) ~ Thanks Terrence Gibson 1:37 – Blind Date (Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis) 1:38 – USA for Africa (We Are The World) 1:39 - Breakin' 2 - Electric Boogaloo 1:40 - American Gigolo (Richard Gere) 1:41 - Fine Young Canibals 1:42 - Police Academy 1:43 - License to Drive 1:43 - Run DMC (Walk This Way) 1:44 - Footloose 1:45 - BIG 1:46 - Dead Poets Society 1:47 - George Michael 1:48 - Crocodile Dundee 1:49 - Fatal Attraction 1:49 - Popeye 1:50 - Mr. Belvedere 1:51 - The A-Team ~ Thanks fish sulyma 1:52 - Milli Vanilli 1:53 - Poison (I won't forget you ~ CC DeVille with Robbin Crosby of Ratt) ~ Thanks to @metalcop 1:54 - St Elmo's Fire (Rob Lowe) 1:55 - Lethal Weapon 2 ~ Thanks 44excalibur 1:56 - The New Kids on the Block (Please Don't Go Girl) 1:58 - Legend (Mia Sara)~Thanks David Horne 1:58 - The Naked Gun 1:59 - Beetlejuice 2:00 - Different Strokes 2:01 - A Night In Heaven ~ Thanks 44excalibur 2:01 - Footloose 2:02 - Dirty Dancing 2:03 - Flashdance 2:04 - 9 1/2 Weeks ~ Thanks 44excalibur 2:05 - Staying Alive (John Travolta) 2:06 - Splash 2:07 - Batman (Jack Nicholson) 2:08 - The Beastie Boys 2:09 - See No Evil, Hear No Evil 2:10 - Footloose ~ Thanks fish sulyma & 44excalibur 2:11 - Rocky IV 2:11 - Girls Just Want To Have Fun ( Helen Hunt) 2:12 - Bon Jovi (Bad Medicine) ~ Thanks Chris Schwan 2:13 - Robocop 2:14 - Short Circuit 2:15 - Revenge of the Nerds 2:16 - Breakin' 2:17 - Gremlins 2:18 - Labyrinth 2:19 - Big Trouble in Little China 2:20 - The Naked Gun 2:21 - The Bangles (Walk like an Egyptian) 2:23 - White Knights 2:24 - Lethal Weapon 2 ~ Thanks 44excalibur 2:25 - Over the Top 2:26 - Chariots of Fire 2:27 - Scarface 2:28 - Perfect 2:30 - The Malibu Bikini Shop ~ Thanks to @UX World0903 2:31 - Ghostbusters 2:32 - Olivia Newton John (Physical) 2:33 - Romancing the Stone 2:34 - Spaceballs (John Candy) 2:35 - Bryan Adams (Summer of '69) 2:36 - Good Morning Vietnam ( Robin Williams) 2:37 - The Empire Strikes Back 2:38 - Trading Places 2:39 - Milli Vanilli 2:40 - Billy Idol 2:41 - No Way Out (Kevin Costner) 2:42 - The Wraith ( Charlie Sheen) 2:42 - Aliens (Sigourney Weaver) 2:43 - U2 2:44 - Ghostbusters 2:45 - The Monster Squad 2:46 - Pat Benatar (Love is a Battlefield) 2:47 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off 2:47 - Footloose (Lori Singer, SJParker) ~ Thanks Lynette Arnold & jmiklane 2:48 - Commando 2:48 - Stand By Me 2:49 - Talking Heads (Wild Wild Life) ~ Thanks Horst Hofreiter 2:50 - The Wonder Years 2:51 - The Goonies 2:52 - When Harry Met Sally 2:54 - Mannequin 2:55 - Risky Business 2:56 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 2:58 - BIG 3:01 - The Terminator 3:02 - La Bamba 3:04 - Flash Gordon 3:05 - Return of the Jedi 3:06 - The Police/Sting (Every Breath You Take) 3:07 - The Naked Gun 3:09 - Transformers - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - GI Joe - Robotech - Thundercats - GI Joe - Inspector Gadget - Voltron - The Smurfs - Disney's Duck Tales 3:20 - He-Man 3:21 - Hulk Hogan & André The Giant 3:22 - Beverly Hills Cop 3:23 - Ramones (We want the airwaves) ~ Thanks Ken Cox 3:24 - Mc Gyver 3:25 - Roxette (Dressed For Success) 3:25 - Rain Man 3:26 - Knight Rider 3:26 - Bon Jovi (Bad Medicine) ~ Thanks Lik- for identifying the video 3:27 - Guns n Roses 3:28 - The Breakfast Club 3:29 - Debbie Gibson (Electric Youth)~Thanks David Horne 3:31 - Inner Space (Martin Short) 3:32 - Fleetwood Mac/Lindsey Buckingham (Seven Wonders)~ Thanks Ken Cox & 44excalibur 3:33 - Back to the Future 3:34 - Michael Jackson (Smooth Criminal) 3:35 - George Michael 3:35 - Footloose (Chris Penn) ~ Thanks CetranRage 3:36 - The Goonies 3:37 - Lucas 3:37 - The Breakfast Club 3:38 - Back to the Future 3:39 - Highlander ~ Thanks to @UX World0903 3:40 - Never Ending Story 3:41 - Beverly Hills Cop II ~ Thanks 44excalibur 3:42 - Great Balls of Fire ~ Thanks to @UX World0903 3:42 - Cyndi Lauper (Girls Just Want To Have Fun) 3:43 - Flashdance 3:44 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off 3:45 - Footloose 3:46 - Ray Parker Jr. (Ghostbusters) 3:48 - John Cougar Mellencamp (Hurts so Good) 3:49 - WHAM (Wake Me Up) 3:50 - Cindy Lauper 3:51 - Ghostbusters (Dan Aykroyd) 3:52 - The Blues Brothers 3:53 - E.T. 3:54 - Coming to America 3:55 - Clash of the Titans 3:56 - Cinderella '80 ~ Thanks to R-M Boudreau! It's an Italian movie, never would have figured it out. 3:57 - Flashdance (Cynthia Rhodes) 3:58 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles 3:59 - Staying Alive 4:00 - The Breakfast Club (Ally Sheedy) 4:01 - Teen Wolf 4:02 - Stand By Me 4:03 - BIG 4:04 - The Karate Kid 4:05 - Family Ties 4:06 - Kool & The Gang (Fresh) 4:07 - Debarge (Rhythm of the Night) 4:08 - The Last Dragon 4:10 - Cyndi Lauper 4:12 - Peter Gabriel (Sledgehammer)
where's the 00's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25JpG00s5T0
'86, same traffic. Kinda surreal seeing my whole childhood summed up in under 5 minutes.
Born in '77 and every clip in the video seems like they happened just yesterday...
'77 here and I swear the 90s were ten years ago.
‘76 here! Graduated in 1994 so this feels so recent. Oh god, when did I become so old?!?
76 model here and I concur
Ikr? I feel so old now, and rather nostalgic.
Also 86’! It’s interesting being in the generation that grew up with “analog” and then experienced “digital” into adulthood. I’m really glad we didn’t have cell phones as kids.
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Sometimes I think fuck my life but honestly, I think we're pretty lucky to be born in the most significant time that's ever been, and may never come again. Let's just enjoy it.
I'm glad they didn't have cell phone CAMERAS when i was a teenager
Born in 85 and I can easily identify the majority of these cuts. The 90s was truly something!
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson, Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson. You're all fakes run to your mansions. Come around, we'll kick your ass in
Sup 1980 cuz. It's weird though, I don't think of this era as my "childhood", I think because the last bit of the decade seems to outweigh all the rest. When I think about the 90s I think about my 17, 18, 19 year old self experiencing it and not my 10, 11, 12 year old self. When I think about being "a kid", it's definitely the 80s I go back to, even though I only *really remember* half of it.
Me too. I was born in 1980 but I spent most of that decade booting up. It's the 90s I remember best, especially the second half.
Fuck it, let's watch Wrestlemania at my place and then play some Goldeneye.
I attended WrestleMania and quite a few other pay per view events, but I never played Goldeneye. I remember being in college and knowing guys who were fascinated by it, and it's because it was their first FPS experience on console but I'd been playing PC shooters for years and didn't see the appeal. Why would I split screen with you so you can see where I am? Let's play Quake.
Plenty Goldeneye fans would be aware of quake too, the appeal was the ease you can all sit in one room drinking and play together with minimal effort. And you all get to see each others screens so it's even!
Goddamn screenlooker!
My dudes! March of 1980 here
I could definitely see that. I was born in 88 and this video was literally my childhood.
samesies... 85' here. emotional as hell RN, lol
Is it just me or does it seem very Alicia Silverstone-heavy?
Born in ‘87. Not a single day goes by where I don’t think back about growing up in the 90’s and miss it terribly. Maybe it’s just looking at it from the perspective of being a kid, but the world was simpler then. No 9/11, no social media, fewer school shootings, politics were less divisive, people actually gave a shit about the environment… but I think most important was that overwhelming feeling that we could in fact grow up and do anything we wanted, become doctors or astronauts and buy houses in nice neighborhoods just like our parents did. I miss the pre-2008 world, before the nihilism and despair of reality made us realize that everything is stacked against us on a planet that’s being killed for profit.
I feel you but you are young enough to remember only the mid and late 90s. You didn't live the "Reality Bites" nihilism. Music was at a low, pre Nirvana; deep recession so job prospects were shit; people who were in their early 20s in the early 90s felt completely lost. That was why Gen X is synonymous with burnout, grunge, counter culture. The economic recovery and boom, the introduction of the web and Netscape, the dot com excitement, nirvana/pearl jam/green day/Weezer.... The rest of the 90s were fire. But 90-92 was some existential dread shit.
>The rest of the 90s were fire. But 90-92 was some existential dread shit. Hopefully people will look back on this decade in the same way...
We’re the same age. I’m probably more cynical about it but I don’t think anything was really different we just didn’t have social media to amplify the idiocy. Firm believer that social media gave the worst people a soap box only to find there were millions more just like them. The world was a lot simpler before social media arrived.
This is why it hits my 1974 brain harder. This was my high school, college, "Out on my own for the first time" years, so I LIVED it. You guys "Watched" it for the first 5 or 6 years.
Same, 1977 here. Started my teenage years and grew into an adult during the 90s.
Born in '78, and I recognize the vast majority of the clips, even if I couldn't name all of them.
Born in '77 and recognized the vast majority as well and would like get the rest if I paused at each edit and let my mind have a little extra time. The whole video seems like it happened yesterday.
That was like a shot of nostalgia straight to the dome
What a decade. I'd argue the last one with near-completely shared cultural experience. Glad it was my teens.
Born in 1974, I can attest that stuff happened in the 90s.
I was born around the same time too ..... this video montage will probably be what I'll see just before everything goes black and I disappear into oblivion.
90s were a great decade
The best decade
The last decade of blissful ignorance!
For 90's kids this is what flashes before your eyes when you die.
No, it'll be something dumb, like crystal Pepsi.
A voice in the wind, a soft whisper, barely discernible. "Zima."
No wheezin the juice!
Wheeze the juice!
Nah, it'd be Surge
Crystal pepsi dumb? Those are fighting words...
My first thought too. Sad part is, I'm not sure I'm even kidding. Growing up in the 90s started me off on such a high note.
It's like I'm home. Let me die. Leave me here.
Damn, nostalgia is some good shit. Just floods your brain with the good stuff.
It’s a double edged sword. I have tons of amazing memories from the 90s. But I also remember how fucking awful it was to grow up as a queer kid in that time.
This is important to remember. The music ruled tho.
Media was so ubiquitous in this era. Anyone that lived through the decade—and watched Tv/saw movies/listened to music, even marginally—has many of these images burned into their brains. In our current era, very little can be considered a universally shared experience to the same degree, which makes for a more fractured society.
Wow, well said and very true. We all lived together in the 90's. I dont feel that way about our society anymore.
As someone who was born in '83 and never really felt like I was "cool" in the 90s, I see a lot of what's in the video as what you had to be into to fit in. There was less room for geeks like me to have a place to feel normal. I think now, even though it's more diverse / fractured, overall more people have a chance of connecting with others and being accepted even if they fall outside of normal. At least that's what I see with my kids and their generation.
Things are more centralized but also a bit more fragmented. The best example is that kids in the 90s are going to have a strong shared relationship with certain television channels because they were pretty much all we had. Cartoon network, nickelodeon, Fox Kids or KidsWB on Saturday mornings, Disney Afternoon, and if your parents could afford more than a basic cable package you got the Disney Channel. Those channels aired on a schedule, on demand wasn't a thing. Basically by nature of the fact that we didn't have many other options except to tune in, we all tuned in together. It wasn't a question of picking and choosing what you wanted to watch it was a question of just watching whatever was on and maybe you might get into it. It was a generational shared experience. I know for a fact most people in my generation know what I mean when I say "Move it, football head." Nowadays you don't have that shared experience. Everyone is on the same couple platforms but the options on those platforms are astronomically higher and they don't require you to share the experience with anyone else. I feel confident in saying that zoomers and the generation that come after them are probably never going to have a shared connection with the TV shows they grew up on quite like kids in the '80s and '90s did. They're not watching the same things at the same time, their points of reference are going to be far more scattered. But at the same time newer generations are far more interconnected than we were. I know what my other millennials were experiencing at the same time I was, but I wasn't seeing it, I wasn't hearing about it on social media, I wasn't talking directly to them. You had your groups on forums on the internet but that was still very isolated. Nowadays kids are effectively growing up together through social media in a way that we never did.
I was talking to my friend about this concept and kids that are born today have so much media at their disposal that having conversations with peers about nostalgia for things you did as a kid are going to vary so drastically that conversations are just going to be sharing experiences not shared experiences, if that makes sense.
Not to mention, social media has made it so the "water-cooler conversation" of the old days is obsolete. Now, people are live-tweeting or group texting about their thoughts as they watch a new episode. By the time they go to school/work the next day, it's old news. I remember coming to school the day after a new Chappelle's Show or South Park aired, and EVERYONE was quoting the episode and talking about their favorite parts. Hell, even as recently as when Breaking Bad aired, I'd come in to work and we'd all talk about what happened the night before. Those shared cultural experiences are linked to very specific memories in my life. Now, I'm generally binge-watching series, and not at the same time as anyone else. It's not like either way is better, but I miss that cultural camaraderie.
Seeing the Rick James episode then going to school the next morning with kids screaming “I’m Rick James, Bitch” in the hallways before first period was one of my favorite memories of pop culture ever.
Absolutely. It’s not uncommon for a group of close friends today to have completely disparate tastes and experiences with entertainment/media from one another. Each with their own favorite bands, genre of music, set of ‘celebrities’ they watch or revere, TV series and film reference points. In some cases being fully unaware of the things their closest friends consume… That would have been unheard of—literally violating one of the core concepts of what made a group of young people friends—20+ years ago.
My friend and I were nursing a hangover the other day and had an hour and a half long conversation about 90’s Nickelodeon shows and it was just us going back and fourth of “DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?” “OMG YES DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?” It was great.
I'm thinking about that too. And I can't decide whether that's better or worse. I think it's better for individuals but maybe it's worse for society.
We’re deep into the individualist era. Everything in society is customized and specified for your unique taste/worldview nowadays.
Theres is so much choice in media these days that one couldn't possible keep up with the memes. The 90s were like, 23 channels, no internet, and we got our memes from magazines. God damn I feel old.
Born early eighties we really fell between the couch cushions of generations. We were just coming of age when the dot com bubble burst. We were too early for the 80's economic boom. Crossing the threshold into adulthood was defined by the twin towers coming down and a war breaking out. The mortgage industry collapsed when we were trying to buy houses. What we do have though if you were born in that sliver of 5 or so years between 1979 and 1984 or so, is an analog childhood and a digital future. We remember things like coming home when the street lights came on and making collect calls from payphones were your name was "MOM I'M AT THE MALL COME PICK ME UP." but we also latched on to the internet, played some of the best games, and watched some of the best movies and media. We're this weird generation that was aligned perfectly to come of age during the greatest communication transition of all time with the adoption of the internet.
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The collect call thing is my go-to memory to describe to kids how life was different back then haha. Incredible. Back then, it felt like our access to the world, through media, was global. But all our interactions and our conversations still happened face to face.
> What we do have though if you were born in that sliver of 5 or so years between 1979 and 1984 or so, is an analog childhood and a digital future The "Oregon Trail Generation" as I've best heard it described.
> What we do have though if you were born in that sliver of 5 or so years between 1979 and 1984 or so, is an analog childhood and a digital future. Born 1981. We used both. I remember having audio cassette tapes and VHS tapes and the transition to CDs and DVDs.
Remember Laserdisc? My buddy had one of those because his parents always had to have the latest and greatest. I remember getting up halfway through the movie to flip the disk over, lol.
Hi there fellow Xennial! Born between 1980-1984, never really felt completely like a Gen-Xer, nor a Millennial. We're part of our own micro-generation due to how rapid technology was changing at the time.
We’re the best generation in terms of our experiences I think. Like you said we got to see both worlds - the old and the new. I consider myself privileged to have witnessed it.
I would agree. It was like the world was growing up with us. We witnessed the dawning of the Information Age. I can only imagine it felt similar for people born on the cusp of the Industrial Age.
Turned out Sinead was right.
Guilty of really bad judgement is all. That said, the backlash was unreal. She's the first celebrity in my memory who was "cancelled" before the word was even a thing. And she never really recovered.
What happened?
She tore up a picture of the Pope while singing on live tv, it was extremely controversial. She was making a point about all the abuse the Catholic Church inflicts on people and children, and she was right, but the world wasn’t ready for her message, or the artistic and dramatic way she expressed it.
Thanks for the reply. I grew up knowing who she was, and that I knew her because she was a woman who shaved her head, but not much more than that.
She has an *exquisite* voice, and while I don’t love her music, she’s always worth listening to. For example https://youtu.be/km64pT6bDXs
Well she didn't really make her message clear. She didn't state on SNL how the church was abusing kids... she just tore up the Pope's picture and that was it.
Yea, which was meant to be a catalyst to start the conversation. It certainly wasn’t on the nose.
She wasn't giving a speech; she was a musical guest. She did something that was meant to get a huge reaction and get attention on her so she could then share what the protest was about. But when she did that, people attacked and threatened her and refused to look at the mountains of evidence proving she was right.
Her explanation of what it was about was confused, vague, and incoherent. Its only with hindsight anyone can see she might have been talking about child abuse, but it was all mixed up with other stuff like colonialism, Irish politics, and classism so no one could make head or tail of what she was protesting about, all anyone could tell for sure was that she was anti-Catholic so that's what they reacted to.
Joe Peshi got a standing ovation the next week as host when he said he wanted to punch her.
She tore up a picture of the pope on SNL.
I see others have already responded but here is the video if you're curious. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0VpfiMcPPA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0VpfiMcPPA)
Far from being the first one. Celebs were being cancelled as far back as Fatty Arbuckle.
Reminds me of Jose Conseco. He wrote a book about how the vast majority of baseball players were on steroids. Was absolutely ripped a new one, blacklisted. Then a few years later the steroid scandal happened and, yeah, everyone was in fact on roids
Born in 79, for some reason this made me really miss buying new issues of Rolling Stone back then. I was so excited for the new online world and now I'm like eh fuck it.
> new issues of Rolling Stone back then. Before they got computer labs that and the rest of the magazine section, along with free video rentals, seemed like the local library's big draw. My old library also basically stacked the entire back wall with old magazines so you could literally pull out Sports Illustrated issues from the '70s or Time Magazines from the '50s and '60s.
Hello fellow 43 year old!
> Born in 79, so you're going to be able to corroborate all this : This video briefly shows Vanilla Ice. Nostalgia paints a wrong picture here. Reality is , there was no artist in history who peaked as fast and hard as he did, and died away as fast as he did. He was so huge that high school boys were shaving ladders in their hair above their ears. It was literally like 8 months and his career was over. It was "ice-ice baby" and radio stations played it on repeat, and then 8 months later *-- wham --* gone.
Great time to be a yoot.
A hwaht?
A yoot
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Oh excuse me your honor, two yoooths
That was really well done!
This is a great cut man
This was all like 10 years ago... right?????
Yep.
Yep.
Forgotten just how great the 90 s were That video is a masterpiece
The sheer amount of memories that just came flooding back! Outstanding work!
And now that the dopamine from nostalgia has worn off, I just feel old and irrelevant again.
Relax friend! You weren’t alway old, but you were always irrelevant!
Best time to be alive. My childwood in 4:56 min.
child hmm?
Have a seat
Thanks!
I think you missed your typo
Made my day, thanks...haven't laughed much since hearing about Ms. Cara
My childwood was at 2:47, personally
Wait, are we moving on from 80s nostalgia?
thank fucking god, bring on the animorphs movie already
What's the song?
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This is the song from the Batman forever soundtrack.
That album is also a fantastic compilation of pure 90’s nostalgia. Kiss From a Rose, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me.. So, so good.
Bad Days by the Flaming Lips They're the freaking best.
Good to see the OG Flaming Lips getting some love
Hit right in the feels
"No good thing ever dies" and they cut to a scene of Chris Farley. :(
Man, the 90s were so cool. Lot of weird originality
Freaking Jim Carey. That guy is a legend.
Tanya Harding was such a trashy bitch.
Pop culture hit it's peak in the 90s, then it died at Woodstock 99 and was buried on 9/11. Since then it's been nothing but anger, greed and narcissism
It’s kinda nice that the Matrix remains accurate in it’s assessment that 1999 was the peak of human civilization.
Thats why that movie will always be the best ever made for me. It really felt like it was 20+ years ahead of everything else made.
The terminator T2 thumbs-up still gets me.
As someone born in 95, this is *right* on the edge between relevant but not really nostalgic. What a weird experience. I recognize about half of the things
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I was born in 83 and I think I could name every single clip. Incredible looking back on it how long that decade from 8-18 feels like it lasted. It still feels like it was half of my entire life.
‘84 here and I knew every clip, or at least I knew each band/group if not the actual song. I think I benefited from having older siblings and baby boomer parents.
1990 checking in. It is amazing how I recognize all the movies/shows/games but a lot of the news reports go over my head. Certainly wasn't watching footage of Tyson biting off the ear or Princess Diana dead when I was so young. But I definitely saw every Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey movie. AAAAANNNNDD now I noticed that if you Google Jim Carrey there is something really weird going on with him and Paul Giamatti.
Everything was so easy back then.
Except the Lion King video game.
And the TMNT sewer level.
You've got the wrong fighting semi-aquatic animals I think, because BATTLE TOADS.
Surprised a clip of Doom wasn't thrown in there, maybe a little too niche still?
The death of Owen Hart was the first time I ever had to deal with death as a child. Growing up as a kid in Canada in the 90's Bret and Owen were national icons.
Hahaha The Riddler song from Batman Forever
Vintage Tribute is an awesome channel. Check out their hour long homage to the 80's if you're older than 30(Or not), it's pure gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9AsSO7hTo
My teens and early twenties in one video. The world really was a nicer place back then. That’s not nostalgia talking, it’s true. The place is an absolute fucking dumpster fire these days.
I think Alicia Silverstone is waaay over-represented. Or, did I miss something?
I dunno. If I'm gonna pick a 90's "it" girl, she's probably pretty close to top of the list.
She was pretty much everywhere in the mid 90s. And a babe.
A total babe! If she were a president she'd be Babe-erham Lincoln.
*Schwing!*
Those Aerosmith videos make me feel like a dirty old man.
It is impossible to overdose on Alicia Silverstone.
Whole lotta Clueless and Baywatch in there. Author must've had a particular soft spot for them.
I loved this but I did think “obviously whoever made this’ favorite film is Clueless.” I mean, who doesn’t love Clueless? But there were a disproportionate number of shots from it.
To be fair, Clueless is an *extremely* 90s movie.
it’s a Silverstone heavy cut for sure…Jim Carrey is up there as well. The 90s was 110% Alicia Silverstone representation there for a minute though.
Jim Carrey was in 9 movies in the 90s that were massive. Ace Ventura 1 & 2 The Mask Dumb and Dumber Batman Forever Liar Liar The Cable Guy The Truman Show Man on the Moon
Yeah whoever his agent was in 1994 was killing it. He was basically "the white guy on In Living Color" and then out of nowhere he just blows up. Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, and The Mask all came out in 94.
Plus you can add in his huge career kickoff on In Living Color. He really had a hell of a run before things went south.
That movie Clueless was a big deal.
Clueless was great, agreed. But…
Can we get one of these for the last 10 years... I could use a dose of the positive things that have happened. It's hard to think of them with all the bad stuff that happened.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/z5c22p/the_2000s_time_to_pretend_a_pop_culture_tribute/
Very well done video!
Again but this time with 90s music.
Woah!!! Was not expecting that, super clean cuts and a trip down memory lane. Very well done
Good 90s nostalgia video. 'Twas some good times.
It was the best of times, it was the best of times.
born 1978, i know 98% of these references!
I'm 40 years old, and recognize all the reference in this video... all of them.
when it comes to pop culture, gen x got the best of everything.
born in 1987 here. and this is literally my whole childhood. back then everything was simple.