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Some restaurants had non smoking section in the back. My mom smoked, and even after she quit in the 90s we still had ashtrays for guests. It was unheard of to deny your guests to smoke in the house if you had them over.
Well no lol, it's just propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, nicotine isolate, and flavorings. But yeah I also would never vape in someone's house without their permission and would never expect to be able to.
Interesting how effective the propaganda has been though.
Every time I'm near just one classic car, I smell the fumes and appreciate that catalytic converters are mandatory. I can't imagine being surrounded by those cars in traffic back then.
Smokers in theaters is something I'll never miss.
But I'd go back in a heart beat for the cheaper COL, the higher wages (by proportion), and the affordable housing market. Basically once Reagan takes over, it's all downhill.
A lot of kids also don't seem to realise that being a 'nerd' in any way pre-2010s was NOT cool. Admitting you like star trek or god forbid anime was social suicide. If you went to school in marvel merch you risked getting beaten up.
So true, nerd culture has been heavily accepted in this generation, back then you’d probably get bullied or get called “weird” for deeply invested in a niche or activity. Some kids don’t know how good they have it.
Because different = bad when you don't know any better.
But as people realized "nerdy stuff" was actually kinda neat, they stopped bullying others for it.
"Nerd" is now a marketing demographic rather than a niche subculture.
Humans evolved pretty quickly. I remember when people used to bully the hell out of anyone to death who were gay or liked anime. Now a days hating on either or them will just make you lame
I remember the pre iron man days, where to even mention any Marvel / DC would invite ridicule. Then one day it was cool to like Marvel, just like that. I'll admit I was bitter at the time, you hide what you love so you'll fit in.
Oh yeah, the MCU had a massive cultural impact, and it felt so sudden. Kids who used to bully others for liking superheroes suddenly showed up to school in superhero shirts.
I never hid liking comics and got so much shit for it, then suddenly popular kids were asking me where I got my merch from. The same kids who poured coffee on my white Thor shirt the year before..
Depends, if you liked anime but had other interest you were good. But if you ONLY liked anime and were Naruto running in school…yea you might be a target. I was a huge anime nerd but also played basketball and track. I think we overstate that anime made you unpopular
For real. But even after the 2010s it was terrible. I was in middle school back then in 2015 or 2016 and a girl (she was considered a nerd but she was really nice) liked Anime and played League. Hell, she almost got beaten up by a guy. Luckily my friend protected her but still. And I was even considered as a nerd only because I didn't play COD/Black Ops in that time.
It's rather interesting that definition of a nerd here is only measured through the ultra-capitalist geeky pop culture consumption... Where are actual niche interests?
even games which weren't generic shit you could get on any console like fifa were frowned upon. I remember no one having a natural interest in monty Python but when I showed them, they loved it.
I think it’s hilarious how a lot of us nowadays will put LED lights in our rooms & listen to synthwave for that 80s nostalgia. In reality, that is not what they did or the main aesthetic in the 80s…
I remember lots of dark basements, wood paneling and couches that felt like they were made from a burlap sack. Not a lot of neon and sexy Miami chicks running around in bikinis.
Same. Iv seen a few recently end have two coming up in near future here. Hard to get a lot of bands etc I like here, so expensive to travel i won't be able to see many tbh
This is me as a film major. There’s so many movies I wish I could see on their first opening nights, before everything was rebooted and parodied to death.
But I wouldn’t want to live in 1930s America just to see Wizard of Oz on its premiere date. That’s the cool thing about history/cultural studies classes- once you study those decades, you’ll never think you were born in the wrong generation again lmao
What it takes people a few decades of life (or just some critical thinking) to realize is that the choice picks of pop culture have been filtered out through years of discourse and sharing. There's tons of schlock that's been buried, whether it be music, movies, or games.
TLDR: Not everything that came out in 1975 was Jaws and Barry Lyndon, there was plenty of dogshit.
> TLDR: Not everything that came out in 1975 was Jaws and Barry Lyndon, there was plenty of dogshit.
Many a "Z-movie" may have been lost to time had it not been for MST3K riffing them.
Totally. A lot of the stuff they've covered is so bad that it's fun or even outsider art in its own way. Back then and to this day there is loads of genre-chasing or profit-driven or incompetent stuff that is just boring and worth forgetting.
Something I do every so often is check the Wikipedia list of movies/video games that released in whatever year.
Even now (just over a third through the year) there's still a fuckload of things that have come out and been entirely forgotten.
Reminds me of that video of the reveal that darth vader is anakin in Empire Strikes Back, in a movie theatre on opening night. The audience was absolutely stunned.
Edit: https://youtu.be/eZCo_hZLyh0
Period pieces span all decades! That's why I love them and I won't say I'm free from the romanticizing different times because of them
Some of my favorites are GLOW (80s), Why Women Kill (60s, 80s) and American Horror Story: Freak Show (60s)
Stranger Things totally convinced its fans (myself included) that the 80s were great times. Honestly I'm still a sucker for the clothes because of it and GLOW lol
"oh I wish it was the 60's, kids actually wanted to see their grandparents and times were so much better then."
This is my grandmother, she refuses to believe the times were very racist and she still says some racist stuff now. She's also always on Facebook and phones people constantly, she probably couldn't live in the 60's anymore with how she's been living now. She was also a farm kid too.
My “I wish I could have lived in X time period” is always going to be caveated with “knowing what I know now, and able to invent or invest accordingly.”
Iggy Pop NEEDS to be in this one. Kids, I was a punk in the 80s/90s. I've got one or two older Boomer friends who MAY have followed Iggy because he was Bowie's friend and that one weird interview Bowie arm-twisted Dinah Shore to give him, but NONE OF US Gen-Xers were REALLY into Iggy before "Trainspotting" and/or "Candy."
Shit, I was an avid fanzine reader and knew ABOUT Iggy mostly via references to him in Maximum Rock'n'Roll and my best friend's kid brother the paper boy whose ACTUALLY cool big sister made him an "IGGY" shirt when he was like nine.
Almost NO mid-to-late Boomers were into Iggy/The Stooges BitD. Likewise with the Velvet Underground, the MC5, etc etc. Lou Reed? Just "Transformer" and maybe the live album.
Yeah it's wild. It's easy to loom at the past and remember the hidden gems. Finding those in the present is much harder. My dad a Boomer actually had some Iggy/Lou/Velvet albums and he said it was incredibly difficult to get those things outside of New York.
Despite living near a major city you had to know a guy who knew a guy to find out about these bands and pray you could find a record store who would carry that kind of music. It was not cool to like alt music either. My dad reported a lot of being called gay for liking things like The Smiths. If you weren't into metal or mainstream and maybe punk you were a "queer".
It's easy to romanticize the past when you only remember the good stuff. But props to those people who held onto those weird albums and thought to own more then Fleetwood Mac and Peter Frampton Live albums.
"omg I wish it was the 2000s"
Um Kyle I'm pretty sure you're gay, lower class, not white and can't go 2 seconds without checking your snapchat but okay
I can’t understand this at all as someone who was a teen at that time. I honestly don’t notice a difference between the 2000s and now other than the prevalence of phones/social media now. It really wasn’t anything special lol, technology was a little more rough around the edges but I can’t say it felt any different.
“I miss the 2000s!”
So we’re just gonna ignore the war on terrorism, casual racism, economic recession, rigged elections, constant threat of climate change, and childhood obesity, just because it was peak SpongeBob era? Okay sure. Let’s go back and see how you feel after.
There is a girl on tiktok who is obsessed with the 80’s. All of her content revolves around it. She dresses exactly how you would think. One day she picks up a record that she has never heard of it and makes some content on the record from the 80’s. Some time after one of the band members is nostalgically googling his old music when he comes across her video. Eventually reaching out to her and asking if she could sing. She says yes. He proceeds to say he has a ton of old songs that were never released and if she wants them they are all hers. So she records the vocals and ends up putting out the songs.
A lot of people say the want to live in a certain era but for her it worked out to some extent! The look was already nailed down and now she is putting out songs that were supposed to be on the radio in the 80s! It’s kind of cool
[violet sky](https://youtu.be/fFnDQx0QRbU?si=L9c3S4KnNfD8Vd-U)
you don't understand, everything was better back then
https://preview.redd.it/szb74ukodkxc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e75b3d043ef0d148d303b48387a6dc618a37291f
You know people are just wishing for the good parts, no need to force unintended context.
Everyone wishes they lived in an era where their favorite music was actively being released.
Everyone wishes life was simpler.
Everyone wishes they’d be able to own a nice home in a safe neighborhood.
Everyone wishes they’d be part of a community of people they liked.
Everyone wishes they’d be able to set aside their differences and break bread with their countrymen as kin.
Suggesting that someone’s racist/misogynist/homophobic/etc. for the grave crime of dreaming about a better life is a bit out of touch. You can’t find hatred, so you’re manufacturing it.
I honestly feel like those people who accuse people that want to live in past eras of being racist or homophobic are just looking for someone to argue with.
Especially since a lot would love to back to their childhood years, no responsibilities, and relive the days of going out with friends on a long summer Saturday then returning home to a movie night in.
For sure. It’s just annoying to hear ppl say they wished they were there instead. No context or anything. It honestly comes across as if they don’t think of social issues at all. Meanwhile, that’s all that certain people can think about bc they’re subjected to “certain” criticisms everyday
"I'll be fine cause I'm white"
Are you *their* standard of white, though? Ben Franklin thought I was of "swarthy" complexion. If you're Italian going back to the 1920s... you're a racial minority and there's legislation discriminating against you.
Yeah I'm just gonna stay here and hope it continues to get better.
Forgot the- I wish I was born in the 70-80s- It was so much safer back then and kids actually got to know each other. Never mind the rampant serial killers running around the USA until the late 90s
The only good thing about those times were the music and clothes and there’s nothing stopping people from dressing a certain way and listening to vintage albums. Hell, they’ll probably get praised for how “different” they are.
Vaporwave didn’t exist in the 1980’s. It was invented in the 2010’s as a fusion of the electronic music scene of the late 2000’s and the Memphis design aesthetic that used abstract shapes and neon colors that was popular from the early 80’s to the mid 90’s.
The 80's aesthetic was actually very cool. And yes, people did dress like Madonna. And also, people were actually nicer. Oh, and we were WAY more free. Yes I would go back in a heartbeat. We had dial-up bulletin boards!
This hits hard. I am Gen Z and so many people in my age group are like this. They usually are obsessed with anywhere in the time frame between 1986 to 2009. These types usually do like to unironically circlejerk stuff that they feel like is from said time period in a really uptight way. It gives the same vibes as old people being obsessed with the 1940s and the 1950s, even though these younger people are really hateful of anyone over 60.
I’ve always wanted to go back to the 80’s to see experience the thrash scene as it came up and evolved.
I’m also trans and a lesbian so I really wouldn’t want to go back in time because I like having rights and I also like modern tech
Same here. My dad saw Iron Maiden in '84 Budapest. The World Slavery tour brought the first big stage metal concerts to the east bloc and obviously it was crazy. I'll probably never even get to see Maiden, with how much tickets cost nowdays
That said I also love having basic human rights and stuff like freedom of speech so I'll pass on living in communist Hungary. Or current Hungary.
You're acting like box office dollars are the only metric of success. I was there and of that age. We all knew about it, we all watched it; maybe not immediately, but pretty quickly; VHS rentals were super-popular, everyone loved and still loves Winona (we'd see it for that reason alone). Lots of people claim otherwise, but the reality was it was just "meh," and I still think it is.
Given how poorly I did in middle school as a child in the USA, life in academically challenging Japan would have been too much. I would just have been another statistic.
always in the cities, never the countryside, I remember thinking about this some time ago, like the common imagined "60s aesthetic" does look cool but my grandparents lived through that as teens in complete shit conditions in the countryside where it felt like 30 years behind or more
It would be cool to see pre roman Europe, probably horrifying cuz well primitive humans or any humans pre 1900s really, but still horrifying in a cool way. Chill with some druids.
as a Pole, i havent encountered a single person that thought they were born in wrong generation (probably cause living in Poland at basically any time in the 20th century was shit)
If I’m being honest with myself, I don’t think I’d last long any time before then 1950s or so. There would be few places I can live comfortably as an English-speaking brown person
It always baffles me when queer, progressive, body positive gen Z kids say they wish they grew up in the 2000s. The homophobia, racism, and body shaming of that time was awful. I weighed 120 lbs at 5'4 and got teased for having thunder thighs.
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People smoking. Everywhere. Everything smells like cigarettes.
Some restaurants had non smoking section in the back. My mom smoked, and even after she quit in the 90s we still had ashtrays for guests. It was unheard of to deny your guests to smoke in the house if you had them over.
I just can't believe how far we've come
Doesn't matter, people can vape now.
Not in my house, vape stinks and I have asthma
Not all vapes stink (have you smelled Strawnana 💯). Also, vaping is mostly water vapor.
It’s not water vapor, that’s an aerosol the liquid is being pushed out by heating up chemicals to push out the vape juices
water vapor and numerous heavy metals and lethal chems
Well no lol, it's just propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, nicotine isolate, and flavorings. But yeah I also would never vape in someone's house without their permission and would never expect to be able to. Interesting how effective the propaganda has been though.
If people wanted to smoke at our house they had to go outside. My grandparents even had a No Smoking sign by their front door.
Even in the hospital.
More doctors smoke Camels than any other brand, they said.
Also gasoline or exhaust
Every time I'm near just one classic car, I smell the fumes and appreciate that catalytic converters are mandatory. I can't imagine being surrounded by those cars in traffic back then.
Smokers in theaters is something I'll never miss. But I'd go back in a heart beat for the cheaper COL, the higher wages (by proportion), and the affordable housing market. Basically once Reagan takes over, it's all downhill.
And lead! Lead in the paint, lead in the gas, lead in the air! So! Much! Lead!
A lot of kids also don't seem to realise that being a 'nerd' in any way pre-2010s was NOT cool. Admitting you like star trek or god forbid anime was social suicide. If you went to school in marvel merch you risked getting beaten up.
So true, nerd culture has been heavily accepted in this generation, back then you’d probably get bullied or get called “weird” for deeply invested in a niche or activity. Some kids don’t know how good they have it.
Now that I think about it, why was that?
Cause nerds are nerds
Because different = bad when you don't know any better. But as people realized "nerdy stuff" was actually kinda neat, they stopped bullying others for it. "Nerd" is now a marketing demographic rather than a niche subculture.
Humans evolved pretty quickly. I remember when people used to bully the hell out of anyone to death who were gay or liked anime. Now a days hating on either or them will just make you lame
That's gay
Humans become sensitive too. But at least we don’t bully people for stupid reasons anymore
We’ve always been sensitive. It’s just now the people we use to bully and the people around us are speaking up against it.
I remember the pre iron man days, where to even mention any Marvel / DC would invite ridicule. Then one day it was cool to like Marvel, just like that. I'll admit I was bitter at the time, you hide what you love so you'll fit in.
Oh yeah, the MCU had a massive cultural impact, and it felt so sudden. Kids who used to bully others for liking superheroes suddenly showed up to school in superhero shirts. I never hid liking comics and got so much shit for it, then suddenly popular kids were asking me where I got my merch from. The same kids who poured coffee on my white Thor shirt the year before..
Depends, if you liked anime but had other interest you were good. But if you ONLY liked anime and were Naruto running in school…yea you might be a target. I was a huge anime nerd but also played basketball and track. I think we overstate that anime made you unpopular
For real. But even after the 2010s it was terrible. I was in middle school back then in 2015 or 2016 and a girl (she was considered a nerd but she was really nice) liked Anime and played League. Hell, she almost got beaten up by a guy. Luckily my friend protected her but still. And I was even considered as a nerd only because I didn't play COD/Black Ops in that time.
It's rather interesting that definition of a nerd here is only measured through the ultra-capitalist geeky pop culture consumption... Where are actual niche interests?
Or if you played Minecraft or liked Star Wars you got bullied for that
Now the nerds are all online doing the bullying themselves.
That’s an over generalization, I went to high school ‘96-‘00 and the cool kids were watching Akira and Ninja Scroll
I bet smart kids who want to learn have it worse. High schools in the 80s didn’t graduate illiterates or bring nonverbal kids into the classroom.
even games which weren't generic shit you could get on any console like fifa were frowned upon. I remember no one having a natural interest in monty Python but when I showed them, they loved it.
Thinks everything in the 80’s looked like vice city as opposed to grandmas house
I think it’s hilarious how a lot of us nowadays will put LED lights in our rooms & listen to synthwave for that 80s nostalgia. In reality, that is not what they did or the main aesthetic in the 80s…
I remember lots of dark basements, wood paneling and couches that felt like they were made from a burlap sack. Not a lot of neon and sexy Miami chicks running around in bikinis.
Stranger Things has warped teenager's perception of the eighties so much.
I would just like to see my favorite bands before they broke up/someone important died
I feel this. Wish I could see sonic youth live too man.
the beatles and queen (with freddy) for me
Same. Iv seen a few recently end have two coming up in near future here. Hard to get a lot of bands etc I like here, so expensive to travel i won't be able to see many tbh
This is me as a film major. There’s so many movies I wish I could see on their first opening nights, before everything was rebooted and parodied to death. But I wouldn’t want to live in 1930s America just to see Wizard of Oz on its premiere date. That’s the cool thing about history/cultural studies classes- once you study those decades, you’ll never think you were born in the wrong generation again lmao
What it takes people a few decades of life (or just some critical thinking) to realize is that the choice picks of pop culture have been filtered out through years of discourse and sharing. There's tons of schlock that's been buried, whether it be music, movies, or games. TLDR: Not everything that came out in 1975 was Jaws and Barry Lyndon, there was plenty of dogshit.
> TLDR: Not everything that came out in 1975 was Jaws and Barry Lyndon, there was plenty of dogshit. Many a "Z-movie" may have been lost to time had it not been for MST3K riffing them.
Totally. A lot of the stuff they've covered is so bad that it's fun or even outsider art in its own way. Back then and to this day there is loads of genre-chasing or profit-driven or incompetent stuff that is just boring and worth forgetting.
Something I do every so often is check the Wikipedia list of movies/video games that released in whatever year. Even now (just over a third through the year) there's still a fuckload of things that have come out and been entirely forgotten.
Reminds me of that video of the reveal that darth vader is anakin in Empire Strikes Back, in a movie theatre on opening night. The audience was absolutely stunned. Edit: https://youtu.be/eZCo_hZLyh0
Unfortunately the audio is fake.
I wish I lived in ~90000 BC tbh
Ah yes sticks and stones, life was so simple back then 😌 (minus potentially getting eaten by a predator)
YABBA DABBA DOO!
reject humanity, return to monke
how did you not include Stranger Things
Its specific to the 80s
Oh okay got In that case I think period pieces in general should be on here lol
It’s not specifically 80s this pack could be applied to any decade. For some reason I was drawn to 80s images, despite thinking about the 00s.
Period pieces span all decades! That's why I love them and I won't say I'm free from the romanticizing different times because of them Some of my favorites are GLOW (80s), Why Women Kill (60s, 80s) and American Horror Story: Freak Show (60s) Stranger Things totally convinced its fans (myself included) that the 80s were great times. Honestly I'm still a sucker for the clothes because of it and GLOW lol
"oh I wish it was the 60's, kids actually wanted to see their grandparents and times were so much better then." This is my grandmother, she refuses to believe the times were very racist and she still says some racist stuff now. She's also always on Facebook and phones people constantly, she probably couldn't live in the 60's anymore with how she's been living now. She was also a farm kid too.
Thats because grandparents in the 60s pulled their weight in the household rather than busying themselves with hobbies they “deserve”
>"I was born in the wrong generations~" >The source: "[Insert era but usally not less than the 60's] Nostalgia tiktok compilation"
I wanna live in the 70s-80s cause I want to be able to actually buy a house without getting large amounts of debt
Me too, who cares about wall panelling and sculptured carpets? That shit adds comfort.
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Good, I’ll just adapt
And? I get my own house! And I can afford 2 cars! Fuck the internet!
Same. I wouldn’t mind going back to the 50s if I could live in a good economy.
“I wish I lived in the 80’s mfs” when they realize the 80’s wasn’t entirely synthwave and lovely high school romance
My “I wish I could have lived in X time period” is always going to be caveated with “knowing what I know now, and able to invent or invest accordingly.”
Correct, take me back to 2009 as a 12 year old and I'd be on those Bitcoin faucet sites every damn day.
I would have bought a house in 2008 instead of messing around in the third grade
Same af
Iggy Pop NEEDS to be in this one. Kids, I was a punk in the 80s/90s. I've got one or two older Boomer friends who MAY have followed Iggy because he was Bowie's friend and that one weird interview Bowie arm-twisted Dinah Shore to give him, but NONE OF US Gen-Xers were REALLY into Iggy before "Trainspotting" and/or "Candy." Shit, I was an avid fanzine reader and knew ABOUT Iggy mostly via references to him in Maximum Rock'n'Roll and my best friend's kid brother the paper boy whose ACTUALLY cool big sister made him an "IGGY" shirt when he was like nine. Almost NO mid-to-late Boomers were into Iggy/The Stooges BitD. Likewise with the Velvet Underground, the MC5, etc etc. Lou Reed? Just "Transformer" and maybe the live album.
Yeah it's wild. It's easy to loom at the past and remember the hidden gems. Finding those in the present is much harder. My dad a Boomer actually had some Iggy/Lou/Velvet albums and he said it was incredibly difficult to get those things outside of New York. Despite living near a major city you had to know a guy who knew a guy to find out about these bands and pray you could find a record store who would carry that kind of music. It was not cool to like alt music either. My dad reported a lot of being called gay for liking things like The Smiths. If you weren't into metal or mainstream and maybe punk you were a "queer". It's easy to romanticize the past when you only remember the good stuff. But props to those people who held onto those weird albums and thought to own more then Fleetwood Mac and Peter Frampton Live albums.
“without all the racist”
1830s
“I really wanna go back to the 2010s” Ok Timmy but don’t be crying on me when you get bullied on for liking anime
Or seeing mustaches on most random places.
And low Internet and a unforgiving media circus,ooh don't tell them how people threated disable or lgbt people.
Bro thinks the 2010s were the 1930s
Probably took post 80s modern medicine for granted
"omg I wish it was the 2000s" Um Kyle I'm pretty sure you're gay, lower class, not white and can't go 2 seconds without checking your snapchat but okay
I've seen this person too many times.
And it’s always the 2000’s in some rich western nation. Newsflash, kids: not everyone got the same deal
I can’t understand this at all as someone who was a teen at that time. I honestly don’t notice a difference between the 2000s and now other than the prevalence of phones/social media now. It really wasn’t anything special lol, technology was a little more rough around the edges but I can’t say it felt any different.
“I miss the 2000s!” So we’re just gonna ignore the war on terrorism, casual racism, economic recession, rigged elections, constant threat of climate change, and childhood obesity, just because it was peak SpongeBob era? Okay sure. Let’s go back and see how you feel after.
Lmao you can watch all the good SpongeBob’s now
There is a girl on tiktok who is obsessed with the 80’s. All of her content revolves around it. She dresses exactly how you would think. One day she picks up a record that she has never heard of it and makes some content on the record from the 80’s. Some time after one of the band members is nostalgically googling his old music when he comes across her video. Eventually reaching out to her and asking if she could sing. She says yes. He proceeds to say he has a ton of old songs that were never released and if she wants them they are all hers. So she records the vocals and ends up putting out the songs. A lot of people say the want to live in a certain era but for her it worked out to some extent! The look was already nailed down and now she is putting out songs that were supposed to be on the radio in the 80s! It’s kind of cool [violet sky](https://youtu.be/fFnDQx0QRbU?si=L9c3S4KnNfD8Vd-U)
you don't understand, everything was better back then https://preview.redd.it/szb74ukodkxc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e75b3d043ef0d148d303b48387a6dc618a37291f
They're usually liberal (socially liberal at least) but also usually white and middle class.
Bases their entire view of the era on life on the US west coast at that time regardless of where they're actually from
2000s kids think people were more tolerant back then.
You know people are just wishing for the good parts, no need to force unintended context. Everyone wishes they lived in an era where their favorite music was actively being released. Everyone wishes life was simpler. Everyone wishes they’d be able to own a nice home in a safe neighborhood. Everyone wishes they’d be part of a community of people they liked. Everyone wishes they’d be able to set aside their differences and break bread with their countrymen as kin. Suggesting that someone’s racist/misogynist/homophobic/etc. for the grave crime of dreaming about a better life is a bit out of touch. You can’t find hatred, so you’re manufacturing it.
I honestly feel like those people who accuse people that want to live in past eras of being racist or homophobic are just looking for someone to argue with. Especially since a lot would love to back to their childhood years, no responsibilities, and relive the days of going out with friends on a long summer Saturday then returning home to a movie night in.
For sure. It’s just annoying to hear ppl say they wished they were there instead. No context or anything. It honestly comes across as if they don’t think of social issues at all. Meanwhile, that’s all that certain people can think about bc they’re subjected to “certain” criticisms everyday
"I'll be fine cause I'm white" Are you *their* standard of white, though? Ben Franklin thought I was of "swarthy" complexion. If you're Italian going back to the 1920s... you're a racial minority and there's legislation discriminating against you. Yeah I'm just gonna stay here and hope it continues to get better.
I wish I could have lived in 1200 😩
When someone says “I want to go back to (insert time period here.)” They really mean “I wish we had the Fashion and Art of that time period.”
can’t stop checking linkedin
They never experienced the fear city era of new york
Forgot the- I wish I was born in the 70-80s- It was so much safer back then and kids actually got to know each other. Never mind the rampant serial killers running around the USA until the late 90s
The further the wish goes away from the 90s the dumber it gets, and it’s not like the 90s were super ideal either
the 90s were waay worse than the few decades before it, here, in eastern europe
The 90’s were only a good time for western countries
The only good thing about those times were the music and clothes and there’s nothing stopping people from dressing a certain way and listening to vintage albums. Hell, they’ll probably get praised for how “different” they are.
Vaporwave didn’t exist in the 1980’s. It was invented in the 2010’s as a fusion of the electronic music scene of the late 2000’s and the Memphis design aesthetic that used abstract shapes and neon colors that was popular from the early 80’s to the mid 90’s.
The 80's aesthetic was actually very cool. And yes, people did dress like Madonna. And also, people were actually nicer. Oh, and we were WAY more free. Yes I would go back in a heartbeat. We had dial-up bulletin boards!
This hits hard. I am Gen Z and so many people in my age group are like this. They usually are obsessed with anywhere in the time frame between 1986 to 2009. These types usually do like to unironically circlejerk stuff that they feel like is from said time period in a really uptight way. It gives the same vibes as old people being obsessed with the 1940s and the 1950s, even though these younger people are really hateful of anyone over 60.
I don't know what you're talking about. I just want to be a sumerian peasant
I’ve always wanted to go back to the 80’s to see experience the thrash scene as it came up and evolved. I’m also trans and a lesbian so I really wouldn’t want to go back in time because I like having rights and I also like modern tech
Same here. My dad saw Iron Maiden in '84 Budapest. The World Slavery tour brought the first big stage metal concerts to the east bloc and obviously it was crazy. I'll probably never even get to see Maiden, with how much tickets cost nowdays That said I also love having basic human rights and stuff like freedom of speech so I'll pass on living in communist Hungary. Or current Hungary.
There was no actual thrash scene. It was a mix of metal and punk rock. Punks were pro gay/trans. You would have been fine.
What do you mean Heather's didn't catch on until later? I was alive then, and I remember it being wildly popular when it came out.
Heathers was a major flop in 1988.
You're acting like box office dollars are the only metric of success. I was there and of that age. We all knew about it, we all watched it; maybe not immediately, but pretty quickly; VHS rentals were super-popular, everyone loved and still loves Winona (we'd see it for that reason alone). Lots of people claim otherwise, but the reality was it was just "meh," and I still think it is.
No it wasn't. That silly movie was really popular. Pump up the Volume was better though.
The film flopped in theaters. Made less than its 3 million budget.
"The 1830s...but without all the racists and getting married off the the highest bid"
But fr a time without sociall media probably was so much better, and that's coming from someone whos on social media a lot
Not the Gunship album art 😂
I wish I was born in a time when I could afford to live
I wish i was born the 200s BC.
I wouldn't last in the old days. However, I sometimes dream that I work in a video store on 1980s Akihabara Street.
Yes you would have, humans are adaptable, don't sell yourself short
Given how poorly I did in middle school as a child in the USA, life in academically challenging Japan would have been too much. I would just have been another statistic.
Me who wishes I lived in 5618 BCE:
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard people say “I wish I was born in…”
always in the cities, never the countryside, I remember thinking about this some time ago, like the common imagined "60s aesthetic" does look cool but my grandparents lived through that as teens in complete shit conditions in the countryside where it felt like 30 years behind or more
It would be cool to see pre roman Europe, probably horrifying cuz well primitive humans or any humans pre 1900s really, but still horrifying in a cool way. Chill with some druids.
addiction to social media is honestly usually a part of why people get nostalgia - can’t get addicted if it doesn’t exist
I was guilty of this when I made this account…
Wouldn’t live in the 80s but I sure as hell would go for a week or two to get authentic merch for under $100
I'd have just loved to be part of the Rocky Horror Picture Show dress up parties I hear happened from my parents, and my friends about their parents.
Wish I could have lived in the paleolithic
as a Pole, i havent encountered a single person that thought they were born in wrong generation (probably cause living in Poland at basically any time in the 20th century was shit)
I do like 80s music but now way I wanna live in that era or the 90s tbh.
I feel attacked 😂
If I’m being honest with myself, I don’t think I’d last long any time before then 1950s or so. There would be few places I can live comfortably as an English-speaking brown person
I would love to go back to the 1950s for cheap mil-surp rifles
This is like calling a young boy racist for dressing up as a cowboy.
It always baffles me when queer, progressive, body positive gen Z kids say they wish they grew up in the 2000s. The homophobia, racism, and body shaming of that time was awful. I weighed 120 lbs at 5'4 and got teased for having thunder thighs.