Posters are saying today is way better than the 90s. Is that true?

[Vandelay]

2007-2014 was peak
But overall life is better now than >>1997

This. Something happened in July 2015.

 

[Laidbackman]

Sometimes I think my best year was the second half of the 5th grade

 

[Crayola Coyote]

the loss of internet porn alone would make these nikkas' decision.

Wait until they find out about AOL and kazaa. They gonna want to come back 2023

 

[Redwood]

1996-2010 were the GOAT years.

I'd say after 2005 it became status.

 

[TDA92]

Depends on what you mean by better.
Technology wise? We are way better with modern technology. shyt I remember texting in 2007 vs today. Oooof.

Culturally and socially? The 90's just seemed...idk, normal? I feel like everyday is a Family Guy episode now. Society in my opinion was much more authentic because we didn't rely on so much technology to do everything for us. A blessing and a curse.

 

[Youngblood Priest]

If you was getting money you wouldn't say that. I was, and no, the 90s were too lit.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

 

[8WON6]

there's nothing stopping any of yall from "unplugging" now days. you can still go do all your 90s shyt now. AND you can still have 2023 technology and other entertainment options available to you.

the problem for alot of yall "the culture was better people" is yall enjoyed everybody being forced to do YOUR shyt like going to clubs and the club being packed. YOU can still go to your clubs now. Yall can all go meet up somewhere and have your precious face-to-face interactions. LOL

 

[invalid]

Definitely not.

90's was good. But the rise of gangsta rap and gang culture infiltrating the black community is a sore spot.

The 80's was actually the best decade. It was actually a second Reconstruction era for middle class professional blacks. A lot of black people touched by the crack epidemic would not have known or experienced it though. Which was the same with the first Reconstruction. While the professional blacks were building the Greenwood's and Wilmington's, most black people in the south at the time were settling into the sharecropper system and would not have experienced the economic gains being made from that era.

The best years of the 2000s was 00-10. I would say those years were better than the nineties.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Definitely not.

90's was good. But the rise of gangsta rap and gang culture infiltrating the black community is a sore spot.

The 80's was actually the best decade. It was actually a second Reconstruction era for middle class professional blacks. A lot of black people touched by the crack epidemic would not have known or experienced it though. Which was the same with the first Reconstruction. While the professional blacks were building the Greenwood's and Wilmington's, most black people in the south at the time were settling into the sharecropper system and would not have experienced the economic gains being made from that era.

The best years of the 2000s was 00-10. I would say those years were better than the nineties.

the 70's were better for blacks, through the early 80's, the 80's began a mass dismantling of the black community again that came to a head in the early 90's.

i also don't see how the decade of the war on terror, rapidly increasing wealth inequality, and a mass recession that further wiped out black wealth is better than the 90's

 

[Dynamite James]

2007-2014 was peak
But overall life is better now than >>1997

 

[duck]

Alot people bringin up modern tech making today better, which is mostly true

But back in the 90s , just chillin with your boys smokin some blunts drinking a few drink, everybody was talking more, joking more , just overall engaged with each others company. Didnt have a bunch of people staring at phones like a bunch of zombies.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Whatever age you were as a kid/teenager, that will always be the peak of your life, no matter what you do after that. Your childhood is something you only get once, so everything that happens during that time will be what you remember the most. For me, the mid 2000s to the early 2010s is the peak of life. Nothing can top that period because the memories made then were so significant.

After you reach a certain age, nostalgia kicks in and you're just trying to survive each day. Your childhood will always come first even though you can do way more at 24 than you could at 14. You watch your friends disappear, the stores you grew up with close down, you get more tired even though you have something to do every day, you're constantly stressing about what you're not doing and if there's any hope for you. If you grew up in the 90s and you had a great childhood, why would you be happier now? Kids that grew up in the 2010s are going to hate life by the end of this decade if they already don't.

 

[Coolin']

Whatever age you were as a kid/teenager, that will always be the peak of your life, no matter what you do after that. Your childhood is something you only get once, so everything that happens during that time will be what you remember the most. For me, the mid 2000s to the early 2010s is the peak of life. Nothing can top that period because the memories made then were so significant.

After you reach a certain age, nostalgia kicks in and you're just trying to survive each day. Your childhood will always come first even though you can do way more at 24 than you could at 14. You watch your friends disappear, the stores you grew up with close down, you get more tired even though you have something to do every day, you're constantly stressing about what you're not doing and if there's any hope for you. If you grew up in the 90s and you had a great childhood, why would you be happier now? Kids that grew up in the 2010s are going to hate life by the end of this decade if they already don't.

Gon’ head and take this rep

 

[Rell84shots]

Technology is the only thing that's gotten better over time, everything/everyone else has gotten worse.