People who grew up in the 90s

[mykey]

The stigma around weed

I still express, yo, I don't smoke weed or sess
Cause it's known to give a brother brain damage
And brain damage on the mic don't manage, nothing
But making a sucker and you equal-Dr. Dre (1988)

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[NoirDynosaur]

Imagine a world where you weren’t tethered to the Internet unless you were in front a desktop.

- No social media / influencers
-Without a second line for the Internet, dial-up prevented phone calls
- Living in the moment
- Hyper localized social scenes
- No dating apps

Life was more simple

 

[The Guru]

I don’t think one person cared about the nutritional facts in the 90’s until super size me came out and everyone started paying attention.

True. Everybody smoked, drank sugar sodas and ate some form of junk food daily.

 

[JNew]

People lived life vs now people watch life.


Back then you might have spent 1-3 hours a day looking at a screen. (Mostly tv) but now you spend maybe 1-3 hours not looking at a screen.

People lived by a code.

It’s wasn’t really said but the goal of life back then was to get good grades, go to college and establish a family. And all that naturally came with a kind of national moral code. Now it’s still kinda their but people have so much for degenerate baggage attached to them.

People were humble.

Now everyone thinks they are a celebrity.

People had much more confidence.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

People are just a$$holes now man.
And there's too many of them.

 

[Stuntone]

Blockbuster Date > Netflix and Chill

R&B songs at the end of the party. Slow dancing and kissing on her neck, you were pretty much at 2nd base before you left the party. Made it so easy to take a girl home.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

- You had to physically buy music. But CD’s tapes were worth every penny because music was in a golden age in the 90’s. Hip Hop, R&B and even Rock were at a zenith. Classics dropping every month.

- Cacs had their own music. Yeah, cacs stole Rock music in the 50’s. But by the 90’s, Alternative Rock was the soundtrack to white suburban America. Some of it was universally acclaimed like Nirvana.

- You had to go to the mall to buy music, buy clothes etc. There were white malls and black malls. The black malls had all the fly urban gear you couldn’t get at white malls. You couldn’t find an Avirex leather or Phat Farm jeansuit at most white malls.

 

[zayk35]

I miss regionality…Every major city had a distinct style, and while it’s still true in some sense, internet/social media has made things a lot more “general”

slang and culture have branched beyond your city/state

I miss knowing where someone was from from the way they spoke or dressed

This

 

[8WON6]

when something premiered everybody watched it all at the same time. No DVR...unless you had to tape it on a VCR. I remember Michael Jackson premiered one of his videos on FOX. I think it was "Black or White". Or something like the OJ trial, everybody was talking about one thing. Everybody had to catch it on TV when it aired.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

What’s creepy about entertainment from the 90’s is how much it foreshadowed the current era and probably the near future.

Movies like Demolition Man predicted a post pandemic 21st Century where politically correct cancel culture was the law of the land and people were afraid to shake hands and only met in zoom calls.

The Truman show told the story of a man who was under surveillance 24/7 and constantly bombarded with stupid advertisements and didn’t realize his whole life was a simulation.

Rappers like AZ, Onyx and Goodie Mob predicted a New World Order where the global elite would institute worldwide dystopian restrictions on the global population under the guise of the greater good.

But now, if you call attention to any of this, you are labeled a “conspiracy theorist”.

If you think that, look at some picture of a some bad IG bytch and whisper into your screen that you would marry that bytch and watch ad’s for wedding rings start popping up on your phone.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Back in the 90’s...

- Not everyone needed to be able to be contacted 24/7. Only doctors and d-boys had pagers let alone cellphones.

- You were not an expert on something just because you researched it online. Couldn’t talk about it if you ain’t live it.

- You were bound to the social circles of your surroundings.

- People were more humble because no one was a virtual celebrity. Even rappers were visibly and audibly broke on their debut albums.

- Porn was not easily accessible and porn had a taboo outside of hormonal teenagers. Only fat ugly losers were into porn if they were over 21.

- There was much more privacy. Now, everybody feels like somebody’s watching them... and they’re right. No one seems to care that privacy is dead because of Google, smartphones etc.

- People naturally stayed in their own lane. Outside of a cringey year or two when Marky Mark and Vanilla Ice were the norm and Eminem later in the decade, cacs didn’t try to act black or hood. There were different lanes for black men too, conscious like Brand Nubian, fly regular guy from the hood like Will Smith, gangsta like Snoop, somewhat nerdy like the Pharcyde and De la Soul etc.

 

[milanoAT]

Kind of unrelated, but sometimes I wonder if the 90s were as good as I remembered them.. or if I'm just nostalgic about being a kid and having no real worries or responsibilities.



It'd be cool to go back for a bit and experience it as an adult. Drop me back in like '95 when the PS1 dropped..

 

[Deltron]

Kind of unrelated, but sometimes I wonder if the 90s were as good as I remembered them.. or if I'm just nostalgic about being a kid and having no real worries or responsibilities.



It'd be cool to go back for a bit and experience it as an adult. Drop me back in like '95 when the PS1 dropped..

prob both

 

[Payday23]

That society would let this gay agenda run rampant. They kept that shyt to themselves. The new generation is lost. Drag Queens and gays in almost every movie. Disgusting