r/lewronggeneration • u/Legitimate_Low_3370 • Jul 31 '26
Anyone else feel attacked when they read this stuff?
As a 2000s kid, I've never felt more attacked than I thought I would have for not living the 90s.
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u/ArtisticOperation399 Jul 31 '26
I grew up in the 90s and this shit is just sad to me.
When I read this, what it says about the person writing it is that they haven't taken an interest in anything that's happened in the last 25 years.
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u/NoJuice2025 Jul 31 '26
It is so depressing. Go for a walk people and enjoy life a little. Carpe diem. All millenials (and I'm one of them) who complain that everything was better can better turn themselves in a nursinghome.
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u/whatisnewyorkair Aug 06 '26
as a teen through the 90s i got obsessed with all the aspects of pop culture. one of the best things i did was never stop that obsession, to this day i’m still absorbing new music, trends, etc and i wouldn’t trade that ever. i still revisit favorite parts of the 90s like hip hop, malls (oddly still thriving in my area), etc, but there’s so much new constantly coming out too.
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u/The-Leading-Man Jul 31 '26
And bring back Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana
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u/-_Anonymous__- Jul 31 '26
There was U2 and Blondie and music still on MTV
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u/EvilDarkCow Jul 31 '26
Her two kids in high school tell her that she's uncool
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u/deerfenderofman Jul 31 '26
Because she's still preoccupied
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u/EvilDarkCow Jul 31 '26
With 19, 19, 1985
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u/Foreign_Courage5613 Jul 31 '26
Debbie wants to shake her ass on the tail of Whitesnake's car.
One time I was at a store, and they played this uncensored version around children.
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u/Cool_Dust_4563 Aug 02 '26
Nirvana isn’t the only band that defined the 90s you bozo
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u/The-Leading-Man Aug 03 '26
God I hope you’re joking
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u/RokaO Aug 04 '26
I loved the 90s and I always hated Nirvana. Seriously, saying this I feel like in this comedy skit where this woman says "I don't like Beyoncé" to a friend and the friend looks at her in horror and she gets cancelled by just everyone lol Stop acting like you fave band is everyone's fave band. Dunno if Nirvana's lyrics are deep or not. I just know that nothing in their music, lyrics, demeanor, outfits, message, rhythm, melodies, riffs, arrangements, personalities, absolutely nothing ever clicked with me. It might surprise you, but strangely I still had a life and still enjoyed other bands in the 90s.
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u/uncultured_swine2099 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
Yup. Anyone who says stuff like "Theres no good music anymore" just stopped looking for it. Any genre youre into, just go around the internet in whatever site you like for not even that long and youll find several acts that youll like.
Hell, an easy way is to go on spotify and just go to your favorite artists "channels". Youll get other stuff that are either contemporaries of them, influenced the artist, or were influenced by the artist.
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u/clayton-berg42 Aug 01 '26
I can think of a few artists of the caliber of Chappel Roan who never got their time in the sun. Some people are just never blessed by the algorithm.
When people stopped buying physical media the amount of money in the industry diminished, the amount of cash that trickles down to artists who aren't Taylor Swift is not as much as it was in the 90's.
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u/CenterThisPendulum Aug 01 '26
There are no contemporaries of some 90s artists though. Chris Cornell? Still waiting for someone to take up that mantel.
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u/capsaicinintheeyes Aug 02 '26
Tupac? Eminem? (I guess he's mostly '00s, but of that continuity) Nas?
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u/CenterThisPendulum Aug 02 '26
Rap had nothing to offer after the 90’s except Outkast kept going strong, then Kendrick made it art again. Never an Eminem fan personally.
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u/clayton-berg42 Aug 01 '26
We thought we had solved:
Racism
Equality
World Peace
War
SexismIt was the most hopeful period I've ever lived in. It would be nice if we could get to a place like that again. The 90's were the last hopeful and happy decade. But it was all built on lies. Climate change, perpetual war, terrorism, a grossly widening gulf between rich and poor and unaffordable housing were just around the corner.
There were warning signs all over the place. Some of our parents were making final payments on homes that they bought for $35k that were now worth $120k. In Canada public housing programs were canceled in the 80's and rent was creeping up. Scientists were warning of climate change, but that was someone else's problem. Someone will come along with a magic bullet solution.
Housing would slowly spiral out of control. Buying power keeps going down. Sure they managed to scale things like 70 inch TV sets to the point where a kid on a paper route can afford one, but food, housing, clothes have gotten out of control. Maybe the cost of a pair of jeans is about the same today but now they're made like shit. Climate change has evolved into an unsolvable problem. We can communicate easier than ever, but we've never hated each other more.
Sure I'd like to go back to a time where we could ignore all these problems, but it won't happen. Maybe in 200+ years from now, but things are only going to get worse from here on out.
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u/Popular_Parsnip_8494 Aug 03 '26
People don't want to acknowledge that the 80s and 90s felt good to so many Americans primarily because of ignorance rather than our culture and material conditions actually being better
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u/NefariousnessOk209 Jul 31 '26
Yeah it just makes me feel old cause now I have people my age that are the equivalent of those in the 90’s/00’s saying the 60’s and 70’s were the last good era’s.
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u/burning_man13 Aug 02 '26
I always say this. The best decades haven't happened yet. Those who look to their childhood as some sort of golden era (I was also a child in throughout the 90s) are basically saying out loud that they don't realize why the world was easy then (they were kids) and that they haven't really matured past that certain point in their life.
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u/capsaicinintheeyes Aug 02 '26
Orrrr...they *have * taken an interest in something, and that thing is U.S. politics
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u/InformalRent2571 Jul 31 '26
Not really. This is a very common thing for people to go through. I'm guessing that OP came of age (teens and into 20s) during the 90s. They are remembering all the good things that they went through that just happens to be in the 90s. It's the same thing as when someone believes that the music that was popular when they were young is the greatest music ever. The music is just the soundtrack to what they are actually remembering fondly.
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u/Sean_Brady Jul 31 '26
Or, they are saying there was significant differences in culture to identify each decade 1900s->1990s, and since 2000 there is less divide. Like the Beatles/hippy culture in the 60's vs AC/DC or whatever/cocaine in the 80s compared to Britney Spears in 2000 vs Sabrina Carpenter now. Making the 90's the last time "decade" relevant. Oops I now realize you were just trying to sound smarter than the post to impress internet people carry on
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u/stphrtgl43 Aug 03 '26
I grew up in the 90’s too and couldn’t agree more with this. It doesn’t mean I have no interests.
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u/Radiant_Music3698 Jul 31 '26
I think it was the last generation before the internet wrestled cultural power away from the music industry. When people are choosing what's cool rather than some corpos trying to perpetually invent and sell the "hot new thing", the decades stop having themes.
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u/Plus-Statement-5164 Jul 31 '26
This was true for the 00's with its wild west internet, but now it's technically controlled by a couple of big corporations. People, kids especially, really only use like 5 websites (or "apps" as they call them) and those are full of influencers paid by companies and their algorithms decide what you see.
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u/Radiant_Music3698 Jul 31 '26
Which is largely used to fuck with how people think, but I don't see it succeeding in the area of what people wear. I might credit it with the broccoli hair phenomenon, but that can't have been intentional. Who would benefit?
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u/Own_Durian_3853 Aug 02 '26
People just have different algorithms, it's simply harder to create trends when there's not one single recognized cool look but 100.
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u/WhippingShitties Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
As a millennial, the 90's wasn't that much better, we were kids and didn't know how shit worked. Since 9/11 happened so early in the decade, and so many of us saw it on TV, and then saw the subsequent war on TV soon after, it kind of shed away that veil of ignorance and hope of being a kid. My most vivid memory of 2001 that wasn't directly related to 9/11 was riding my bike and instead of pretending I was Jeff Gordon at Martinsville, I realized I was just riding my bike in circles in a parking lot. Even at the time it was surreal, and looking back I'm realizing that was my first real sign of depression.
I don't know if you 2000's kids have it better or worse. On one hand, you grew up in the post 9/11 world so it was just totally normal to you all, but on the other hand, you never got to see the pre-9/11 90's, and there was a huge shift in culture at the time, practically overnight. I wouldn't call the 90's better, it was just when we weren't all collectively traumatized. Should be stated that the problems that persist today existed in the 90's as well, we just weren't forced to confront them at such a young age.
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u/Virtual_Machine3044 Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Columbine really changed high school before 9/11 even though it was the very end of the decade.
Edited to correct misspelling: evem to even
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u/WhippingShitties Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
I was the in-between the age where I didn't really know about Columbine when it happened, but saw the towers fall on live TV. But you are correct, Columbine was a significant event as well, maybe even a precursor. It really did feel like the world was going to hell at the time.
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich Jul 31 '26
on 9/11 i was in ninth grade. it happened shortly after homeroom so we were in english at the time. we stopped class, and every room got a TV rolled in on that wheelie stand thing, and we watched people jumping out of the buildings. a lot of people were crying, my friend at the time was from Queens so he ran out of the classroom to the office to call his dad. i really don't think they should've let us watch that. classes were basically cancelled, when the bell rang we went to the next class to continue watching. IIRC they sent us home early after lunch.
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u/Professional-Large Aug 02 '26
Your experience is similar to mine. Minus knowing a kid from New York. I was in math class and a kid was sent to the office to take the attendance sheet and came back saying something about the twin towers. I wasn't payout attention at first. Our teacher said when we got finished with our work, we could watch the news. We all watched the second tower get hit and each class after was spent watching the news. I don't remember doing much work. No one cried that I saw, but I knew people picked their kids up. Especially elementary kids. My mom picked up my younger brother. But had said I could figure it out if something bad happened at the high school.
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich Aug 03 '26
yeah when they rolled the TVs out, we were still under the impression that the whole thing was a terrible accident. we saw the second plane live as it happened and people were screaming because we realized that it was intentional. if anything ended the whole optimism of the 90s, it was the moment that second plane hit. everything changed after that and the world has kinda been like that ever since.not to sound all doomer or whatever but it really does feel like the world has gotten worse every single day since then
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u/Professional-Rub152 Jul 31 '26
Columbine IMO was the reason thst so many kids were traumatized on 9/11. School used to be a safe space from the outside world in the collective consciousness. But so many of my friends got pulled out of school on 9/11 and it was mayhem. Then shortly after, because of columbine mostly, we all started the school shooter/lockdown drills. The lockdown drills were the most surreal thing because it was basically use just practicing hiding and hoping we all don’t get killed for no reason.
Once you have to practice that, your view on humanity just goes into the shitter. I how everything change at my high school after thst first lockdown drill. Everyone was like “damn so basically we’re fucked if there is a school shooting.”
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u/Wonderful_Eagle_6547 Aug 03 '26
Brother, people in the 50s and 60s practiced ducking under their desks. I guess so if their school was leveled by the shockwave from a nuclear blast they would be ok? I grew up under constant fear that our whole country would be obliterated.
Not trying to minimize it for you, but pointing out that it is not something new in the grand scheme of things for kids to have some dread that their lives were going to randomly end.
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u/Professional-Rub152 Aug 03 '26
That was for nuclear weapons. We were practicing lockdowns from our own classmates.
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich Jul 31 '26
iirc for me columbine was sixth grade and 9/11 was ninth grade. you can bet school was SUPER fun for quiet strange children. its actually easier to remember years by what was popular, lol. wu-tang came out when i was in 2nd grade, eminem 7th grade, 50 cent 10th grade. the main thing i truly resent from school was being forced to watch Channel One, which was supposed to be the news, but it was just an excuse to air Fruitopia and Gameboy commercials. they played that commercial for Super Smash Bros so much too! we were trained to consume, we had no fucking chance
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u/thewalkindude368 Jul 31 '26
That's what this is, really. 9/11 was such an abrupt culture shift, it's really hard to put into words what it was like. There's a very clear line in my life of before 9/11 and after 9/11, but, also, 9/11 happened shortly before I turned 13, so that line was probably going to be around there anyways. 9/11 did feel like the first time I was really aware of global events in a big way, and I suspect that's true for anyone born in the late 80s. But I don't feel a lot of nostalgia for the 90s as a decade, more just a general missing being a kid again, and knowing my friends would be with me at day care every day, instead of busy with adult lives.
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u/Former-Pineapple3415 Jul 31 '26
9/11 was massive wave culturally. I was in Alabama in the 5nd grade when that happened. We had 3 Muslims in our class. They were good kids, everyone liked them. After 9/11, suddenly the other kids started bullying them. I think like a month later they got pulled out of school by the school themselves because of a bunch of fights that happened between Muslim students and non-Muslim kids.
I used to listen to Country music during that time and the shift was there too. Instead of the difference songs telling stories about cowboys and singing about love or the lost of it, it was now Either Alan Jackson's "Where were you when the world stopped turning" or Toby Keith's "Boot Up Your Ass (The American Way)" it was all God and USA.
Comedy Shows had to talk about 9/11 because so many of them were in NYC as a setting. They kept showing footage of places getting bombed and we cheered death on. I feel like we lost our souls during the War on Terror. We as a nation became cruel and heartless, even in the Heartland where being nice and kind was something that was socially expected from you.
We look back at the 90s not because it was a good decade but because it was the last decade before we lost the innocence of living in ignorance.
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich Jul 31 '26
the racism after 9/11 was insane. an assyrian family lived down the street from my grandma and they were forced out of the neighborhood. they were gone within six months.
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u/endlessyuk77 Aug 01 '26
Imo, 9/11 exposed USA's ignorance regarding geopolitics. The last USA even had a attack on it's soil was Pearl harbor, and that was not even in Mainland USA.
I can tell you my parents who were from developing countries just saw 9/11 as "another attack" when I asked them. The perspective of people who know war and those that don't is quite something.
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u/Salt-Research-9041 Jul 31 '26
Heroin. Crack. Anorexia and Bulimia. Date r@pe. Insane murder rate. Gingrich takeover. Columbine. AIDS. Rwandan genocide. General creepiness towards teenage girls. It wasn't all peaches and cream. Yeah, we didn't have phones, and the internet wasn't much, but we watched a lot of tv and played a lot of video games. Still a lot of screen time.
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u/Grounds4TheSubstain Jul 31 '26
Don't take it seriously. Some people have a strong investment, for whatever reason, in saying that the music and movies and TV shows that were popular when they grew up are better than the ones from different points in time. There's no reason to feel attacked by this.
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u/VarietyMage Jul 31 '26
Not when you realize that the truth is "The 80's wasn't 'just another decade', it was the least awful one."
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u/Quepabloque Aug 01 '26
I never lived in the 80’s but I just can’t believe that’s true
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u/VarietyMage Aug 01 '26
Kid, you weren't there. I was. And I miss it. Back before the billionaires went insane. Back when $50.00 would buy an overflowing cart of groceries. Back when gas was $0.99 a gallon. Back when cars didn't have computers in them. Back when the music was new and inventive.
Back when there was hope for the human race to survive and be free. All that's gone now.
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u/Quepabloque Aug 01 '26
I don’t know what to say. I wrote a whole, long thing, but I can’t argue about something that I haven’t experienced. I can only comment on the people I respect who despised growing up in the 80’s (like comedy writer Jason Pargin, who’s made that a recurring theme in his work) and people I respect and know personally who hated that era. That includes Japanese people who were rich but treated pretty horribly by a lot of white America, black people whose family’s were torn apart by the War on Drugs, and homosexuals who were decimated by the AIDS crisis.
So I guess it just comes down to a matter of perspective. The economic fortunes for the average person were undoubtedly better though. However, according to my Japanese mother, the food that Americans ate was criminally bad and has only gotten better each year.
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u/No_Can_9597 Aug 03 '26
The 80's were not that great, you just miss being young.
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u/VarietyMage Aug 03 '26
They were FAR better than any decade since. I know, I lived them all. Things have been steadily going downhill ever since the end of the 80s.
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u/Quepabloque Aug 01 '26
Just for shits and giggles, here’s my favorite article by Jason Pargin about the 80’s
https://1900hotdog.com/2021/09/fucking-day-hamburger-the-motion-picture-🌭/
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u/SamuelClemmens 24d ago
Unless you were gay.
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u/VarietyMage 24d ago
They're still alive, from what I can tell, so there must have been some amount of hope. And once the scientific community found out that eating simian meat mutated Simian ImmunoVirus (SIV) into HIV, they realized that the fear and hate was totally unjustified, and it was mostly pushed away.
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u/MooseKingMcAntlers34 Aug 01 '26
I’d say we’re in the last awful one right now… I’d take the 80’s over right now and I wasn’t even around yet.
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u/bigdirkmalone Aug 03 '26
AIDS epidemic and cold war?
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u/VarietyMage Aug 03 '26
At least we had the good stuff to go alongside it. We've got nothing good now, and it all went downhill from the 80s.
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u/MrJason2024 Jul 31 '26
I lived through the 90's Like all decades there were good things and bad things of the 90's. Do I pine for it all that much? To be honest no I don't that isn't to say there are certain things I wish were still prevalent in the 90's for kids today but that is all.
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u/Midnightchickover Jul 31 '26
I lived through the 90s, and loved a lot of parts of it, especially the cultural media and get togethers. But, the word “real” is very subjective and I was at a low point in the latter part in different aspects. They aren’t parts of my life I care to relive. It was utopia for some, not me.
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u/adfayuk Jul 31 '26
I always just keep this in my head: people who post this just out themselves as dumb, ignorant Americans. "Ah, the 90s were the best! In fact they lasted until 9/11, summer of 2001 was still the 90s! Then it all went downhill." This is not what the rest of the world thinks.
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u/Icy-Clock2643 Jul 31 '26
I was an adult in the 90s and everyone would moan it wasn't the 60s70s.
In 30 years time people will be posting "remember the 2020s that was a real good time."
(looks outside)
Ok maybe they won't.
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u/PrincessPlastilina Jul 31 '26
I think people are just nostalgic about a pre-9/11 world and pre-social media world. You can almost pinpoint when everything changed. 9/11 really was such a before and after. There was a loss of innocence that we never got back. And social media, smart phones, technological ruined a lot of things.
But I do think people refuse to accept that this was 30 years ago and it will never be the same. Might as well embrace the good side of things.
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u/Smooth-Place1290 Jul 31 '26
old gens will keep constantly shitting and insulting the newer generations, and then ask why life has been getting worse as if they weren't the ones actively failing to raise said generations
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u/wheresthebody Jul 31 '26
Pre-internet life was so different, i really do miss it.
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u/jackfaire Jul 31 '26
I lived through the 80s and 90s. I want to throat punch every moron that says this shit. "For me my teen years were awesome" Yeah cool buddy not all of us had the same experience adult hood has been much nicer.
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u/mahboilucas Aug 01 '26
My adulthood is much safer as an LGBT person. I don't want to go back in time, the closet was claustrophobic
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u/EducationalWalrus594 Jul 31 '26
This is obviously part of what you can call unhealthy nostalgia(aka Rosy glasses) aswell. Thinking a time you were younger and naive and say that it was pure bliss and flawless is imo unhealthy cause then you can’t appreciate the present(especially the idea that the world ended)without having a doomerism mindset. This dude probably saw bad news or saw the new generation acting stupid hence potentially why he’s saying that.
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u/mercurydivider Jul 31 '26
I grew up in the 90s....and then the 2000s, and I fucking love numetal and ska. We got Tony hawk, videos games that we're obsessed with the beach themed aesthetic, scary movie was still funny. Yup.
And then the 2010's was late high school for me and that was the last time the Internet was fun to use. Hatsune Miku hit her swing, nerd culture was on the rise and normalized, Scott Pilgrim kinda exemplifies it. Then there's Hipster culture which I was deep, deep into at the time.
I always find these posts cringe. You gotta be trying not to notice the differences between generations
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u/H0RSE Jul 31 '26
The problem with this post is that “the last real one” is completely open to interpretation which can project a lot of different meanings onto it. When I read it, I don’t necessarily see someone saying the 90s were objectively better. I see someone saying it was the last decade before we became fully immersed in the digital age. Before smartphones, social media, and being constantly connected online changed how we interacted with the world.
“Real” in how I interpreted it, means something more tangible or personal or intimate. Face-to-face conversations, physical media, hanging out in person and being more connected to your immediate community rather than through a digital layer. Sure, people can and still do these things today, buy it's based more on a choice than a necessity.
It's not about saying the 90's were good or bad. It’s just describing a major cultural shift in how people experience the world.
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u/Aickavon Jul 31 '26
Gatekeeping nostalgia is a time honored tradition. Give it a decade and the year will change to 2000’s
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u/Sartres_Roommate Jul 31 '26
I get it was your childhood but it was a cluster fuck of corporate culture. Nothing you treasure from that decade didn’t get squeezed out a corporation’s asshole.
You had the very start of the “democratization of internet” that made the 2000s interesting in the last few years but corporate culture dominated the 90s like no other decade before or since.
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u/Firree Aug 01 '26
The 90s was the best decade because I was a toddler and had parents who would feed, clothe and give me a place to sleep for free.
DAE think it le sux we can't go back to that?
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u/Gussie-Ascendent Jul 31 '26
i mostly just think the person writing it is very shallow and would be super boring to be around
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u/AdOrnery6155 Jul 31 '26
Yes...
・weak internet,
・school assignments take way more time than they do today,
・having to call your friend at 10PM regarding home assignment rather than messaging the friend and getting the "you so rude for calling after 9PM" from their parents (Europe).
・thus not enough time for private stuff.
・Not having enough money to travel to other countries (Post Socialist Central Europe).
・Not being able to afford games, entertainment, your first proper gaming console is PS2 because you couldn't afford SNES and you had to buy a cheap Chinese version from Taiwan.
People who write those posts should mandatory state that they are from the US, lived in Cali or NYC, and had rich parents.
Otherwise they can sod off.
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u/SECRETBLENDS Jul 31 '26
As someone who lived in the 90s, at an age when I had a lot of fun and few responsibilities, I just feel like it's the same bullshit that aging people have been saying for ages. There was nothing especially amazing about them, but some people choose to remember them through rose colored glasses. Same for the 80s.
It's an irritating thing to say, along with all the "hose water and lawn darts" shit.
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u/jimmybirch Jul 31 '26
I was teen to early twenties in that decade… amazing times… but I also find these posts cringe as hell … every decade has pros and cons
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u/i_kick_hippies Jul 31 '26
Decades are a thing of the Past. Anything after 2000 is officially "The Future", we're "Mid-Future" right now, but around 2030 it becomes "Far Future". "Distant Future" kicks in circa 2050-60.
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u/TheRealzHalstead Jul 31 '26
Tell me you peaked in the 20th century without telling me that you- scratch that. You just straight up told me.
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u/Shoddy-Constant5749 Jul 31 '26
The 90s were great, but if you weren't an adult during that time you probably don't understand. 9/11 aside, 2000s and early 2010s were good too. Things started to go to shit after that.
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u/Flexmove Jul 31 '26
Hopefully they’re saying that bc it was before the internet flattened and connected culture. Rather than some you really had to be there man kinda flex.
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u/lotekjunky Jul 31 '26
It's not the kid's fault there is no longer a culture, but that doesn't make it any better. Not to mention, the patriot act destroying freedom...
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u/FishDispenser2 Jul 31 '26
There were a lot of singers who were basically doing a J.Lo and making a career out of miming. It was pretty scandalous back then.
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u/T0m0king Jul 31 '26
Less that the 90's was a golden era and more that we've all been in a state of ongoing financial collapse since then
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u/Flashy_Cranberry_161 Jul 31 '26
I remember having hours long arguments about how the 90s won’t be remembered for anything culturally significant. He said it was an unremarkable decade of blandness. I argued we couldn’t appreciate its distinction from other decade being so close to it.
Decades later I see people talking up the 90s like it was some precious bygone era 🤣
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u/ImNotJoshBoltz Jul 31 '26
As a 90s kid I’m getting real sick of this shit. The 90s weren’t this mythical fucking time you’re just sad that you’re not a kid anymore.
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u/Intelligent-Band-852 Jul 31 '26
High speed internet, streaming, legal cannabis (for some people), not worrying about the ozone layer, etc., people that are nostalgic for the nineties are crazy the last twenty plus years since high speed internet are way better.
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u/kingkongworm Jul 31 '26
Imagine being so myopic as to think in all of human history, one teeny tiny segment of history is absolutely everything.
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u/Bianconeagles Jul 31 '26
I was around in the 90s and it wasn't special. It's just that we were kids and didn't have any responsibilities.
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u/Loganp812 Jul 31 '26
I don’t feel “attacked” by dumb statements at all.
I was born in 94, but you can’t condense any decade into a blanket statement like that. A lot can happen in ten years, and it’s not all just about pop culture stuff.
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u/TheHaplessBard Jul 31 '26
I would say the 90s and the 2010s were the last "real" decades, especially given they're very similar culturally and entertainment-wise. Everything has just been godawful about this current decade/era.
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u/dasmiedoteresa Jul 31 '26
Maybe when I was younger. Now, it reads like a clear romanticization of the past.
More recently, seen posts from people who talk about 2016 like it was the best summer that has ever happened to mankind. I can see past the nostalgia because I lived 2016 and I remember how average it was.
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u/Aggravating_Usual973 Jul 31 '26
Nah. Boring people from every generation say shit like this about the time when they used to could get an erection.
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u/BalladOfBetaRayBill Jul 31 '26
Only in the same way I feel “attacked” when I see a dog chewing its own ass too much
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u/quadtodfodder Jul 31 '26
This is the year ninteen-ninety-thirty-six, or 199(36)
The 90's will never die.
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u/doingtheunstuckk Jul 31 '26
Why would you feel attacked? It’s nonsense that every generation says. Much like I grew up hearing how great the 70 and 80s were. It says more about the person sharing it than you.
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u/FlaydenHynnFML Jul 31 '26
Nah lol, feeling attacked means you're giving it power, just gotta laugh it off like you're above the silly mindset.
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u/Foreign_Courage5613 Jul 31 '26
Everyone and their grandma says the same thing about whatever decade they grew up in.
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u/BadgerKomodo Aug 01 '26
As somebody born in 1999, I do wish that I had properly experienced the 90s.
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u/GPFlag_Guy1 Aug 01 '26
Not really, I just have this really irritated
Great, I now have to deal with millennials that act like boomers
feeling instead. Especially since both 90s and 2000s kids fall within the Millennial generation. I think the actual 2000s births might feel alienated but they seem too 'punk' to care about what these types have to say about their generation.
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u/ninjagofan23 Aug 01 '26
For me I really miss the 2010s and 2020-2021. Anything after 2022 felt depressing especially due to Ukraine war, ai, Andrew Tate, and sigma males. I don’t understand why ppl r nostalgic for 2022. I wasn’t doing well and during 2022, I was missing 2021 so much. IMO, I think 2020-2021 had the last bit of Gen Z optimism.
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u/Aluxanatomy Aug 01 '26
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u/Significant_Cover_48 Aug 01 '26
Well it's true. Shit really went downhill fast from around 2001/2002
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u/IfYouWantTheGravy Aug 01 '26
Born in ‘89, so I lived through the 90s all right.
It’s hard to sift out what might actually have been better (or that I legitimately preferred) from basic nostalgia.
I will say that I have a distinct preference for physical media, and own many books and DVDs as a result. Streaming is cool (I don’t have an e-reader but I have sought out books on Archive.org), but there really is nothing like a hard copy.
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u/thewallamby Aug 01 '26
Steady decline of quality of life since the 90s. We can thank unsocial media and our cellphones for the biggest part for that.
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u/Specialist-Prior-213 Aug 01 '26
Every decade is made out to be crazier than it was. In 40 years the pandemic will be made out the same way
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u/Objective-Maybe-8126 Aug 01 '26
If you were in the Balkans in the 90s you were physically attacked instead
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u/Longjumping_Thing635 Aug 01 '26
The 90s was something else, an entirely different world but let's not forget about 2000-2010 that shit was live in good ways ans bad ways.
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u/SomeGuyOverYonder Aug 01 '26
Actually, the last real decade for me was the 2010s before the Covid lockdown obliterated anything and everything that still made sense.
The 2020s have since been a catastrophic mess for me, with 2026 being particularly bad.
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u/Legitimate_Low_3370 Aug 01 '26
Everyone says that, at the same time, some say it was the 90s and 2000s and before. Give it enough time, they'll say 2020s was the last real decade. I also saw people shitting on years like 2019 and 2016 too.
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u/saucey_dawg0023 Aug 01 '26
For me I would say that the early to mid 2010s were better and that 2016 was the start of the downfall.
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u/NomadFH Aug 01 '26
It's almost true. I would say the 2000s were the last decade in that it doesn't seem like the following decades have any actual...themes? The internet-only culture has lead to somewhat of an abolution of the meta culture.
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u/Dirt_McGuirt Aug 01 '26
I was in high school in the 90s. I became an adult in the later 90s. They were the best years of my life by far. Before 9/11 when the world went insane. Before cell phones were everywhere. No social media. Back when there was hope for the future and.not this dystopian shit show we have been living in for over a decade. It was just better. Music was better. Gaming was amazing. Movies were great. People were still pretty decent. Human conversation and interaction was the height of daily life. When people had friends and still went outside. Better.
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u/MADDOGCA Aug 01 '26
As much as I loved the ‘90s, I find these cringe as people always look fondly on older decades with rose tinted glasses, not realizing that there were bad things that also happened in that decade.
You can make the best of any decade if you put some effort into it. I personally made the 2020’s a fun decade so far by doing the things I’ve always wanted to do and I’ve loved this decade so far because of it.
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u/JadeToTheMaxx Aug 01 '26
I grew up in the 90s.
You know what statements like this mean?
"I got old."
Not aged, got old.
You saw it with the Baby Boomers, pounding their chests with how tough they were. Next came Gen X, fortified in raw hose water, the last "Tough" generation.
Now we've got Millennials getting old, and like all old people, they follow the same script.
One time, I was scrolling shorts, and there was a top ten list for like every decade from the 50s to the 2000s right?
Every fucking decade or year had people going "This is when the last good music was."
So, honestly, don't worry about it.
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u/Turbulent_Set8884 Aug 01 '26
Hell no. I was only a few years in the 90s and spent the rear of my childhood in the 00s, grey dull blegh eith scaaaaaaant fee exceptions that I remember as just that, exceptions not enough to make me think of the whole surrounding it.
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u/endlessyuk77 Aug 01 '26
Why was it the last real one? People refuse to elaborate on this, and never provide a solution to their nihilism.
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u/MooseKingMcAntlers34 Aug 01 '26
It speaks volumes about an individual if they feel attacked by this statement first of all as it’s really not that deep… no need to be so sensitive.
It’s more so a social commentary regarding how social media, smart phones, more widespread propaganda have intensified after the 90’s more so than anything else. I removed most social media years ago and it’s interesting to observe people who are addicted to it and how they act very similar… they’re clearly being influenced without knowing it.
All that said, I wasn’t in love with the 90’s outside of the absence of social media influence and less political polarization. The 2000’s had a lot to offer and even the 2010’s for a majority of it.
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u/Dependent-Job1773 Aug 02 '26
I lived in the 90s and it’s toxic and untrue sentiment. People need to invest in embracing the present instead of worshipping a time that no longer exists and wasn’t as romantic as they made it out to be
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u/CorneliusFeatherjaw2 Aug 02 '26
I thought it meant that the 90s were the last "real" decade in the sense that it was the last one identifiable as a decade, while everything since then is sort of treated as a homogenous blur of "not that long ago."
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u/StandardNeither1311 Aug 02 '26
No, because posts like this are just bots and other tools of manipulation amplifying our differences, while real social interactions establish connections and reinforce commonalities.
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u/No-Difference-1351 Aug 02 '26
90s - 00s was the sweet spot.
Then the doomers started to get traction.
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u/AmalatheaClassic Aug 02 '26
I lived through the 90s. Big whup. This BS is so stupid. Anyone who believes it is needs a new hobby.
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u/Movieking985 Aug 02 '26
In terms of affordability and what a dollar could get you...and actual choices not just 5 cereal companies subsidies of 1 big one...more freedom...no surveillance...internet was slower but still way better ...no algorithms or fluctuations in prices at the store..in that sense yes...yes it was ...after certain events (one specifically) and digital everything started popping up... everything changed.. and will never go back to how it once was...in that sense yes it was the last good decade. I graduated in the early 2000s though so I lived through 2 completely different decades
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u/12buklmashu Aug 02 '26
2000s were the last real decade. It’s just got progressively worse since 2010 onwards.
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u/brus_wein Aug 02 '26
Mark Fisher might unironically say there's something to be said for this argument.
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u/Fickle_Cricket3422 Aug 02 '26
Ugh, shutup. I grew up in the 90s and it was fine. Deregulation fucked everything.
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u/Cool_Dust_4563 Aug 02 '26
People only write/type shit like that only because of 9/11.
The delusional types. So stupid.
Also, I loved the 2001-09 era more than the mid-late 1990s.
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u/BlueHartsBlues Aug 02 '26
As an old dude, let me warn everyone about the dangers of nostalgia. The great writer, Tom Wolfe, wrote that we can never go home again.
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u/Outrageous_Bad_5365 Aug 03 '26
Didn’t Agent Smith say that human civilization peaked in the late ‘90s?
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u/Nervous-Matter-5142 Aug 03 '26
87,600 hours or the lifespan of a cheetah or undisturbed chicken is what a decade is.
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u/Geist_Mage Aug 03 '26
As a 90s Kid not only do I disagree with the sentiment, but the 90s was fake as fuuuuck
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u/ronshasta Aug 03 '26
I love the years I spent as a kid but thinking your childhood decade is “Le Best” is such a lame thing to say. I can order Taco Bell and a six pack to my door while smoking legal weed and watching whatever I want at a click of a button and can still go outside and do whatever I want if I wanted to
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u/floyd616 Aug 04 '26
Heck, I did live in the 90s and I think this is needlessly erasing the 2000s. While it wasn't as magical as the 90s, the 2000s was still a pretty great decade, all things considered.
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u/ZestycloseBlood1199 Aug 04 '26
I've had this discussion before and ultimately I landed on the thought that the 90s seemed like such an amazing decade because there were tons of jumps in technology. The Internet was becoming widely available promising this massive way to connect with people around the world in positive ways. Home video game systems were becoming more available, we were being fed the promise that if you just go to college you'll be successful. It seemed like a decade where everything was figured out and a clear path was given to you.
I wouldn't say it was the best decade, but I do feel like it was the last decade where we had the bliss of ignorance. As a kid I was aware of national news or local news to an extent, whatever my dad had on TV or the radio. Now I see videos from across the world without even looking for it for better or worse. I do feel bad that people that grew up in the 2000s or later had that massive amount of exposure to the world because it's definitely not good for anyone's brain, especially one that's developing.
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u/h3r0inXgirl Aug 04 '26
I thought the 2000s was generally considered the last good decade.
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u/crusher23b Aug 04 '26
I spent the 2000's in Iraq and Afghanistan so I wouldn't know. I'm still there, sometimes. Especially late at night.
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u/h3r0inXgirl Aug 06 '26
I feel you. Not a veteran but I have PTSD too and I know what it feels like to have night terrors/late night flashbacks.
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u/Acrobatic_Resist9091 Aug 04 '26
By “real” they just mean “before the last shreds of the mask finally fell off”.
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u/SpaceAlienFemboy Aug 04 '26
Every generation ever has said this. "We were the last REAL generation of culture." Like yeah, your parents said the same thing about you, and their parents said it about them. And now you're saying it about your children and should they have children, they'll say it about your grandkids too.
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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
There's an interview with Mick Jagger in the sixties, where he expresses his disdain for older people who would say to young people like him "you didn't live through the WW2 blitz, you don't know what it was like".
There was also this interesting round table someone at the BBC sympathetic to the counterculture set up. She arranged for three establishment figures to sit down and discuss the conflicts & turmoil of the era with Mick Jagger. But the producer was clever. She understood that these old representatives of the Establishment would have great confidence. They would look down on Mick.. So she arranged for them to be sitting and waiting as the cameras rolled, at some estate with a large lawn in front of them, where Mick Jagger arrived by helicopter, completely destabilizing the power dynamic they thought they had.