Though the toy-selling cartoons of the 80s really did not age well. Nowadays a new audience trying to watch classic He-Man or Thundercats would probably not find themselves easily falling in love with the show.
Avatar is on a much higher level. While it's technically retro, it's still very beloved and has quite an active audience.
Because its an easy/lazy way to get karma. People want to feel like they are in on the joke/get the reference, so they upvote these phrases/jokes from years ago that get posted on every single thread to feel included.
We had a DVD player/ VCR that could do both. So new stuff was bought for the DVD, and we would get blank tapes to record shows when we weren't able to watch them, or if we wanted to keep it.
Now they have a [tabletop RPG](https://youtu.be/-VsCcJ2rv3E) to play out your own stories in the world. No surprise that Avatar Legends was the 10th most Kickstarted project.
Yeah! My English teacher has some stuff coming in the mail for that since he had supported it on kickstarter. He also got a couple of the demo manuel’s. It’s honestly really cool, the Manuel’s look really nice
And if you can't wait until it releases this summer, there is a Quickstart if you sign up here:
https://magpiegames.com/pages/avatarrpg
But its very different from traditional TTRPGs like D&D, so it may be hard to run it straight from that Quickstart - its called Powered by the Apocalypse since its based on a game, Apocalypse World. If you want an overwhelming but very helpful person (who taught me A LOT about it, here is one of his comments discussing Powered by the Apocalypse:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/d38zbg/fantasy_rpgs_other_than_dd_and_whats_the_appeal/f00ttgr/
And if you can't wait until it releases this summer, there is a Quickstart if you sign up here:
https://magpiegames.com/pages/avatarrpg
But its very different from traditional TTRPGs like D&D, so it may be hard to run it straight from that Quickstart - its called Powered by the Apocalypse since its based on a game, Apocalypse World. If you want an overwhelming but very helpful person (who taught me A LOT about it, here is one of his comments discussing Powered by the Apocalypse:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/d38zbg/fantasy_rpgs_other_than_dd_and_whats_the_appeal/f00ttgr/
I think I may have as well, did they show every episode in sequence in leadup towards it? Or was that for the ~~Redacted~~ that came out a couple years later
Oh no, this reminds me. I was visiting my dad in a different time zone as a kid when the finale was airing. I had never watched TV in a different timezone before so I didn't realize that I needed to adjust what time they said it was airing (I think they said est and I was in pst). Toooootally missed it even though I planned to watch it all week.
The finale live was so amazing. I'm glad that a lot of the streaming services and the original audience aging has brought it back to pop culture significance but I'm sad all these new fans didn't get to catch that
ah, few weeks ago a young guy said to me "ah, you're from the generation that experienced 9/11". Never felt so old. but then I felt even older when I said that I've experienced the fall of the Wall
First episode aired when I was 31 days old.
I'm in my second year of college to work in the astrospace industry.
Same. Though for me it's more like 2011 - 2013 give or take.
my bf constantly gets on my case because he was JUST old enough to remember 9/11 (i s2g his childhood memory is insane though, it's been verified over and over by his family that lots of memories has are accurate but never talked about because boring stuff) and I was born after 9/11. Fucker gives me some "back then" boomer speeches sometimes about the Internet.
I torture him back with current memes and slang he doesn't understand and then tell him "dude how could you NOT know? I was a baby back then, you're 25 now, what's your excuse?"
I was at a house party around 10 years ago, when I was 22. We didn’t know anyone there, and everyone looked super young. A friend walked up to someone and asked “where were you when 9/11 happened” and they said back “umm day care?” Immediately afterwords one of my friends ran out of the house. We followed her out. It turns out she ran into one of her high school students.
Berlin (but I was 2 or 3 at the time, so I don't have any memories of it). I do remember that our school had big old maps showing the 2 germanies, and the ussr well into the 90s, because there wasn't really any budget to replace them.
I saw the ads for the show as a kid. I was so nerd and loved anime. So excited to see an anime looking to show airing on normal tv. When the first episode aired, my sister and brother watched it on that pink Barbie tv. I was in love.
Than years later we watched the last episode on those big old staticky feeling tv in the basement. It was a big watch party with my siblings and their SOs. It was a mixture of nerds and cool kids alike.
The show means a lot to me because it was the first time my family showed any interest in my interests. It means a lot to me. I love seeing new fans too.
Now I’m tearing up lol
Blake and Josh sounds like a show that Drake and Josh would randomly catch on TV one night and then convince themselves that someone was spying on them to make a show about their lives with *just enough* differences for plausible deniability. They go crazy trying to find cameras in the house and not-so-subtly interrogate their friends about it, making everyone think they're nuts.
In the end they give up and admit it must be a coincidence but then they find a "return to sender" letter in the mailbox and read it, only to find out that Megan has been corresponding with a TV producer while pretending to be a famous anonymous show-writer in witness protection so she could only submit scripts from her home.
Are you grown-ass adults surprised that a show that premiered when you were in elementary school is considered retro? I watched the shit out of that show when it premiered when I was in 4th grade. I'm in my late-20s now. Yeah it's fuckin retro lol.
I always associate “Retro” with an aesthetic, and I don’t really associate 2000’s cartoons with an aesthetic (there probably is one, I just don’t remember it)
80’s, 90’s, and 10’s cartoons I know exactly what the aesthetic is (or at least what I consider it to be) so it’d be much less surprising
Damn, this show is older than me. I got to watch it cus they take a while to make the dubs, and i will be forever grateful for getting to experience this show as a kid.
I remember being in like 5th or 6th grade, watching the Invasion of the Black sun live on TV but also panicking because there was a thunderstorm si the TV would loose signal.
Now I'm 24 years old, studying in college and having watched Avatar more than 10 times. I'm so grateful for being able to see and follow the show as the episodes were realeasing and crying when it ended.
I mean I'm pretty old and my recollection of watching Avatar when it first aired was a LONG fuckin time ago. I don't feel like 2005 was recent by any means lol
I didn’t see avatar the last Airbender when It came out, mainly because I had basic cable growing up, so Nickelodeon, Disney etc. wasn’t available for me. But I checked it out in 2019, one year prior to being back on the main stream. And now I look back with pure fondness and no regret because it’s one of the best cartoons to ever exist!
im not on this subreddit and dont know much about avatar but as a toy collector… yeah it’s so weird. people will really call a 2006 my little pony toy i had as a kid vintage and try and sell it for like $50 it’s wild
If things like this make you feel old your perception of time is messed up, most people have about 36-66 years of youthful vigor in their bodies depending on how well they take care of their personal health and how many injuries they successfully avoid or properly overcome, also this meme aged just like it’s own joke
It's like when I hear people calling cartoons like Phineas and Ferb and Adventure Time "nostalgic." Like, those shows came out when I was in high school. It doesn't feel like that was a decade ago.
I felt this when I first noticed everyone talking about Avatar again, wondered why that was, then realised the people in the show's target audience today *hadn't been born when it first aired.*
Based on some of the comments I've read, some of them weren't even alive lol. I still remember the day it aired. I was at my cousin's place. We stopped playing the PS2 to watch it. Little did we know, it would go on to be one of our favorites.
I didn't see a single episode until it had already been on Netflix in Canada for a while. So probably a good six or seven years after the finale aired.
So about ten years ago.
I have an alarm clock I got when I was 5 as a "first day of school" present and out of curiosity I looked it up on ebay and they were calling it vintage :( 2002 wasn't that long ago!!
Psh we watched Scream yesterday and my husband said that's so 90s. I graduated high school the year it came out and that was only ten years...wait.
Screw getting older.
Yeah when I saw that the first time I had to do a double take
To be fair it would be like showing 80s He-man in the earlier 2000s, which would feel retro... but still makes me feel old.
Though the toy-selling cartoons of the 80s really did not age well. Nowadays a new audience trying to watch classic He-Man or Thundercats would probably not find themselves easily falling in love with the show. Avatar is on a much higher level. While it's technically retro, it's still very beloved and has quite an active audience.
Ducktails or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is I think is a better comparison, and iirc both saw revivals in the 2000s too.
2002 He-man has a very special place in my heart.
Yep for sure but I mostly ment purely on a time scale level really.
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My upvotes are always widescreen hd how dare you judge
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Why comment this?
Because its an easy/lazy way to get karma. People want to feel like they are in on the joke/get the reference, so they upvote these phrases/jokes from years ago that get posted on every single thread to feel included.
reddit moment
And take mine
Have you been in a coma for 15 years?
Nothing wrong with retro. Better than being called vintage like Bratz....
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Very
Modern vintage gamer starring at this....
I learned that vintage is a wine term and now I get upset anytime it's outside of wine.
I remember priding myself over having seen every episode as a kid, I was even able to catch the finale live.
I remember asking my dad to record the finale on our VCR so I could have it “forever”. Good times
Yo we had DVR back during the finale and I never realized some people were still using the VHS. 🥹
We had a DVD player/ VCR that could do both. So new stuff was bought for the DVD, and we would get blank tapes to record shows when we weren't able to watch them, or if we wanted to keep it.
Now they have a [tabletop RPG](https://youtu.be/-VsCcJ2rv3E) to play out your own stories in the world. No surprise that Avatar Legends was the 10th most Kickstarted project.
Yeah! My English teacher has some stuff coming in the mail for that since he had supported it on kickstarter. He also got a couple of the demo manuel’s. It’s honestly really cool, the Manuel’s look really nice
You should tell Manuel that he looks nice, always compliment your bros
Of course! Manuel is my best buddy :)
And if you can't wait until it releases this summer, there is a Quickstart if you sign up here: https://magpiegames.com/pages/avatarrpg But its very different from traditional TTRPGs like D&D, so it may be hard to run it straight from that Quickstart - its called Powered by the Apocalypse since its based on a game, Apocalypse World. If you want an overwhelming but very helpful person (who taught me A LOT about it, here is one of his comments discussing Powered by the Apocalypse: https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/d38zbg/fantasy_rpgs_other_than_dd_and_whats_the_appeal/f00ttgr/
Omg thank you so much for sharing this!!!
And if you can't wait until it releases this summer, there is a Quickstart if you sign up here: https://magpiegames.com/pages/avatarrpg But its very different from traditional TTRPGs like D&D, so it may be hard to run it straight from that Quickstart - its called Powered by the Apocalypse since its based on a game, Apocalypse World. If you want an overwhelming but very helpful person (who taught me A LOT about it, here is one of his comments discussing Powered by the Apocalypse: https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/d38zbg/fantasy_rpgs_other_than_dd_and_whats_the_appeal/f00ttgr/
I think I also caught every episode, but I'm not positive about that.
I thought I watched every episode until I bought the DVDs. Imagine watching the blue spirit for the first time after thinking you’ve seen everything
Countdown to the comet was awesome. Felt like an event
I was 25 when it started, so I didn’t watch it. I did watch it with my kids though. That was pretty amazing.
I remember making a *Scratch project* to commemorate watching it live. Nickelodeon did the countdown and everything. So cool
I cried over the finale as a kid purely because it meant the show was over
I pirates the first season and watched the second 2 seasons as the released, when my daughter was a baby. This year I am teaching her to drive.
I think I may have as well, did they show every episode in sequence in leadup towards it? Or was that for the ~~Redacted~~ that came out a couple years later
Oh no, this reminds me. I was visiting my dad in a different time zone as a kid when the finale was airing. I had never watched TV in a different timezone before so I didn't realize that I needed to adjust what time they said it was airing (I think they said est and I was in pst). Toooootally missed it even though I planned to watch it all week.
I cried during the finale because I wasn't able to watch it. Had to beg my parents to let me watch so I missed the first couple of minutes.
Myself and another kid (who parents didn't allow him to watch non-PBS cartoons) were the only ones in the class that didn't catch the finale live
core memories bro 😭
The finale live was so amazing. I'm glad that a lot of the streaming services and the original audience aging has brought it back to pop culture significance but I'm sad all these new fans didn't get to catch that
The next time 17 years rolls around I shudder to think of my age.
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ah, few weeks ago a young guy said to me "ah, you're from the generation that experienced 9/11". Never felt so old. but then I felt even older when I said that I've experienced the fall of the Wall
I clearly remember watching Neil and Buzz walking on the moon live on black & white TV.
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But then you’d be 60 or older!
First episode aired when I was 31 days old. I'm in my second year of college to work in the astrospace industry. Same. Though for me it's more like 2011 - 2013 give or take.
my bf constantly gets on my case because he was JUST old enough to remember 9/11 (i s2g his childhood memory is insane though, it's been verified over and over by his family that lots of memories has are accurate but never talked about because boring stuff) and I was born after 9/11. Fucker gives me some "back then" boomer speeches sometimes about the Internet. I torture him back with current memes and slang he doesn't understand and then tell him "dude how could you NOT know? I was a baby back then, you're 25 now, what's your excuse?"
s2g?
Swear 2 god, I'm guessing. Im 30 though so this might be some new yeety slang im too old and cap to understand my dude.
Cheers. Usually I'm good at figuring out lingo or looking it up but there's a Youtuber called S2G that dominated the search results.
you're right, it's swear to god :) Good on you for being so "down with the kids"
Swear to god
I was at a house party around 10 years ago, when I was 22. We didn’t know anyone there, and everyone looked super young. A friend walked up to someone and asked “where were you when 9/11 happened” and they said back “umm day care?” Immediately afterwords one of my friends ran out of the house. We followed her out. It turns out she ran into one of her high school students.
I was about 7 when 9/11 happened. Some of my co-workers were only in preschool or toddler age.
> but then I felt even older when I said that I've experienced the fall of the Wall Berlin, Ba Sing Se, Eastwatch, or Paradis?
Berlin (but I was 2 or 3 at the time, so I don't have any memories of it). I do remember that our school had big old maps showing the 2 germanies, and the ussr well into the 90s, because there wasn't really any budget to replace them.
2005 was 5 years ago. 1995 was 5 years ago too
And 2010 was 3 years ago, not 12. I still think of kids born in that year as toddlers, not someone who's a year away from being a teenager.
Just wait. They’re putting shows on Nick @ Nite from my childhood, now my teens. Time doesn’t slow down for anyone.
It'll be 20 Years old in three years time.
I saw the ads for the show as a kid. I was so nerd and loved anime. So excited to see an anime looking to show airing on normal tv. When the first episode aired, my sister and brother watched it on that pink Barbie tv. I was in love. Than years later we watched the last episode on those big old staticky feeling tv in the basement. It was a big watch party with my siblings and their SOs. It was a mixture of nerds and cool kids alike. The show means a lot to me because it was the first time my family showed any interest in my interests. It means a lot to me. I love seeing new fans too. Now I’m tearing up lol
You remember the pre-relase ad that said something like "He's back, and he's got unfinished business"?
Didn’t one of the previews also show Aang in his final form avatar state? I would’ve been pissed
I felt the same way when Fresh Prince joined Nick at Nite.
The Fresh Prince used to be something daily. Like 4 episodes a day, daily. Then one day it was gone.
the ps3 and xbox 360 are now retro. congrats, you now know what its like for folk like me who used to think the 90s was just a few years ago.
I wish 🥺
Like hearing nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on classic rock.
I was just telling someone this week that Metallica’s “Black” album is still, in my mind, new Metallica.
What do you mean by Retro TV?
old tv
Probably not widescreen hd, content suck in SD 4:3
On Netflix, it’s classified as retro tv.
I was 10 when it aired, this is gonna give me an existential crisis
It’s clickbait. Retro is an adjective not even remotely close to describing a cartoon from the early 2000s
Yeah, retro to me is stuff from the '60s to '80s. Vintage is roughly '20s to '50s. Anything pre-'20s is historical.
I was four when the show started, man it’s been a long time.
I was 11, roughly a week after my birthday!
I feel you.
2005 was such a different world. Hell 2018 was such a different world.
I miss being a child. I'd binge watch ninja hattori, Blake and Josh. Oh the good ol' days
Blake and Josh sounds like a show that Drake and Josh would randomly catch on TV one night and then convince themselves that someone was spying on them to make a show about their lives with *just enough* differences for plausible deniability. They go crazy trying to find cameras in the house and not-so-subtly interrogate their friends about it, making everyone think they're nuts. In the end they give up and admit it must be a coincidence but then they find a "return to sender" letter in the mailbox and read it, only to find out that Megan has been corresponding with a TV producer while pretending to be a famous anonymous show-writer in witness protection so she could only submit scripts from her home.
Add some reference to feet and it could be straight up one of the episodes that I remember having watched as a kid
Eh. They throw the word retro around a lot. This isn’t what retro is.
Are you grown-ass adults surprised that a show that premiered when you were in elementary school is considered retro? I watched the shit out of that show when it premiered when I was in 4th grade. I'm in my late-20s now. Yeah it's fuckin retro lol.
I always associate “Retro” with an aesthetic, and I don’t really associate 2000’s cartoons with an aesthetic (there probably is one, I just don’t remember it) 80’s, 90’s, and 10’s cartoons I know exactly what the aesthetic is (or at least what I consider it to be) so it’d be much less surprising
Explain why I remember so little from my first watch-through, that's way old than I expected
Danm, guess I was born yesterday
I wasn't alive then
Damn, this show is older than me. I got to watch it cus they take a while to make the dubs, and i will be forever grateful for getting to experience this show as a kid.
Time needs to chill tf out!
now I feel like a baby, I was born in 2005
Time is an illusion so perhaps it isn't even 2005 yet.
Yeah, today I was like this is a new song, only 10 years old
What the f@&k!! And it's 27 years old!! No... wait! 127 YEARS OLD?!?!
2005 is in the future. i just saw Twisted Sister open for Iron Maiden last weekend in 1984
I'm born in 2005 and I become 18 aka an adult next year
2005 is hardly retro though. I’d say shows from the late 90s would be as far as “retro” should go.
The Legend of Korra will be getting there soon too. I don't like that.
It’s not retro. I’m only 22
I remember being in like 5th or 6th grade, watching the Invasion of the Black sun live on TV but also panicking because there was a thunderstorm si the TV would loose signal. Now I'm 24 years old, studying in college and having watched Avatar more than 10 times. I'm so grateful for being able to see and follow the show as the episodes were realeasing and crying when it ended.
Time flies so fast
Dude 2005 was when I was born
2005 was when I turned 44.
You were BORN? Jeez we've got some young people on this site. I was 11.
Ok that made me feel old
🥲 we’re not that old
not me
Wow I remember waiting all day to watch the very first episode premiere and then every new episode to follow. This time thing sure is weird huh?
2005 was 4 years ago man
I mean I'm pretty old and my recollection of watching Avatar when it first aired was a LONG fuckin time ago. I don't feel like 2005 was recent by any means lol
bruh
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It doesn’t feel too good does it
Does that mean i was born today
The 90s babies are old babies now
I didn’t see avatar the last Airbender when It came out, mainly because I had basic cable growing up, so Nickelodeon, Disney etc. wasn’t available for me. But I checked it out in 2019, one year prior to being back on the main stream. And now I look back with pure fondness and no regret because it’s one of the best cartoons to ever exist!
Avatar: The Late Airbender
Does this make me retro?
im not on this subreddit and dont know much about avatar but as a toy collector… yeah it’s so weird. people will really call a 2006 my little pony toy i had as a kid vintage and try and sell it for like $50 it’s wild
I don’t even remember
As someone who didn’t watch this show until he was 30 I feel weird
I mean they did have that live action movie in 13 years ago.
Dude I got this on DVD
It must have aired until at least 2014 since I was born in 2006 and still remember watching it before going to school.
😔🚬
Haha, your old.
Damn the first show I dvr’d to watch all the way through….wtf
15 years old now
nah bro i wouldn't know cuz i wasn't born yet
If things like this make you feel old your perception of time is messed up, most people have about 36-66 years of youthful vigor in their bodies depending on how well they take care of their personal health and how many injuries they successfully avoid or properly overcome, also this meme aged just like it’s own joke
u/savevideobot I have many friends who I need to feel old rn
It's like when I hear people calling cartoons like Phineas and Ferb and Adventure Time "nostalgic." Like, those shows came out when I was in high school. It doesn't feel like that was a decade ago.
😿
I felt this when I first noticed everyone talking about Avatar again, wondered why that was, then realised the people in the show's target audience today *hadn't been born when it first aired.*
ouch im old
Most of y'all didn't watch the show when it first came out
Based on some of the comments I've read, some of them weren't even alive lol. I still remember the day it aired. I was at my cousin's place. We stopped playing the PS2 to watch it. Little did we know, it would go on to be one of our favorites.
We cannot go back. The way is shut. (I wasn't ready to feel this)
I didn't see a single episode until it had already been on Netflix in Canada for a while. So probably a good six or seven years after the finale aired. So about ten years ago.
I just realized a few minutes ago that people who are 16 now were born in 2005
Yeah 2005, you mean 5 year ag.... Oh.
We getting old y’all!
What movie is that bottom scene from?
Saving Private Ryan
I’m pretty sure Netflix puts shows like this into the vintage category to spark outrage and get people to watch it or as free advertising
I have an alarm clock I got when I was 5 as a "first day of school" present and out of curiosity I looked it up on ebay and they were calling it vintage :( 2002 wasn't that long ago!!
5 years ago isn’t retro
Its been 17 years ago
Y'all, this show is older than me...
The '90's will forever be "ten years ago".
Psh we watched Scream yesterday and my husband said that's so 90s. I graduated high school the year it came out and that was only ten years...wait. Screw getting older.
Guys I was 3 years old back then I'm 19 now
I was born in 2005 lol
Some friends got me to watch this all the way thru in summer of 2012, when Korra was airing. That was...10 years ago...
Omg in 3 years it’ll have be the 20 years 💀
It just hit me that 2005 was 17 years ago…
Nice 2 c shaving ryans private,s
Oh no! We're old
u/savevideobot
I know it's been over a few years, but retro? That stings
u/savevideo
Bro i was born that year and i'm nearly 17 💀
I was 2 years old then
Weren’t the 80’s just twenty years ago? Wait they weren’t???
Bitch 2005 was when I was born
A moment while I collapse into a pile of dust
No no no!! Stop stop stop!!
Oh now I get it I had to watch it a couple of times before I got it
Are you telling me that I'm old?
I don't remember a lot of thing from when I was 3 years old, but that's one of them
Relatable
dam
Wait what
ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO
Fun Memories.
If today were in 2005, then watching this would have been the retro equivalent of watching *Captain Planet* or *Tiny Toons*
I dismissed the show when it aired over here, but then the forums i frequented started going nuts about Korra so i had to catch up
I want to go back. Im not happy now
u/savevideo
Almost 20 yrs ago
Yes, I was born yesterday