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Nostalgia can be a pleasant feeling, especially when you’re reminiscing about things like spending time at your grandparents’ or your favorite meals to have as a child.
However, some people seem to take nostalgia a step too far. Instead of recollecting the past as it was, they over-romanticize it, saying that things were better back in the day, erasing—or simply lying about—the things they didn’t want to see through their rose-tinted glasses.
That’s where the ‘Le Wrong Generation’ subreddit comes into play. As per their own description, they’re “dedicated to satirically mocking those people who, blinded by their own nostalgia, believe certain things in the past to be unequivocally better than today.” And if you’d like to see what that entails, you can find a number of examples on the list below, where you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with professor of literature and linguistics at Mars Hill University, expert in nostalgia, Dr. Hal McDonald.
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#1
Smarter Than The Previous Generation
Space Invader 8 months ago (edited)
Of course, manuals aren't written by Nostradamus but rather shaped by user feedback. So if the current generation isn't told about valves it's because too many representatives of the previous generations thought it was a swell idea to guzzle the sumptuous contents of a car battery (maybe to wash away the aftertaste of leaded gasoline) and the legal department intervened to rewrite the manuals. PS Written by a member of one of the previous generations...
BlackestDawn 8 months ago
Add in that such things like valve timing are now controlled by computers so there isn't much to adjust in the first place.
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Eliyahu Rooff 8 months ago
I still have the owner's manual for my 58 Chevy, and there's not a word in it about how to adjust the valves or pretty much any other maintenance beyond recommending service intervals.
Pferdchen 8 months ago
My first car was manufactured in 1970 and the manual had no such info. That's what Chilton manuals were for!
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
It was the idiots of previous generation that made signs like that necessary
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 8 months ago
Its literally just to prevent the smallest chance of being sued, ismt it? Nothing to do with stupidity
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Always remembering that the User's Manual was written by the engineers who were least needed for the next design task ...
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
That's mostly because in previous generations cars didn't have computers and therefore didn't have to be repaired by specialists. It HD nothing to do with how fitting we found battery acid as a drink.
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#2
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
May I present, as well, every single male wrestler in the 80s? XD Ric-Flair-...9cbc1c.jpg 
Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
Look up "We're not Gonna Take It" on YouTube (the music video specifically)
Clown fish 8 months ago
Lol dress up like men!!! That look like they only just got out of a hurricane 🌀 with their lives
Dragon Ashes 7 months ago
We were watching music videos from the 70s last night when I realized this exact thing.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Every one of that group would get relentlessly carded in any New York bar
Kalikima 8 months ago
Where is Jon Bon Jovi in this picture? None of these men look like him..
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
There are SO many 80s bands that would have been better for this. Where is the eyeliner and BIG hair????
#3
We Need To Stop These People From Using AI
Ritchat 8 months ago
Of course we can't start a lawn mower. We can't afford the house the garden comes with.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
When starting lawnmowers is outlawed, only outlaws will start lawnmowers.
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Khavrinen 8 months ago
Because anyone with a lick of sense uses *electric* lawnmowers now. Quieter, safer, better for the environment, don't have to pull the stupid cord half a dozen times trying to get it to catch; why would anyone use a lawnmower you have to "start" anymore? ( Gen-Xer who mowed lawns for spending money 40+ years ago. )
Dorothy Smith 8 months ago
Great if you have cheap costing electric, I don't! I still pull that cord (3 times) and I'm 76yo😁
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Rick Murray 8 months ago
Feel free to start a revolution. But just know that there are more stupid brainwashed people around than you can imagine, so good luck - you'll need it.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
One of the disadvantages of being old is that I find it *really* difficult to put up with arrogant statements by scruffy persons in uniform. 'Fear' is not equivalent to 'respect'.
Bananaramamama 7 months ago
This post is mostly amusing to me because the comments are divided up on who is the "problem" in this meme. 😂
So many things in life can feel nostalgic, from old songs to a favored T-shirt. But there is one thing that seems to be a universal nostalgia trigger, and that is food. In an interview with Bored Panda, professor of literature and linguistics at Mars Hill University, Dr. Hal McDonald noted that food can be a potent source of nostalgic comfort, because our memories of smells and tastes are closely connected to the emotional centers of our brains.
“Eating something we associate with a happy time in our lives can trigger a vivid memory of that earlier time in our lives, and allow us to once again feel the same positive feelings we felt way back during that happy time,” he explained.
According to the expert, an added reward comes when we experience the taste or smell unexpectedly. “For example, when someone serves us a dish we had when we were a child but were so young that we have no clear memory of it. Unexpectedly tasting the food item after all these years triggers the memory of the earlier time and the emotions associated with it, but it also carries with it the element of surprise, which triggers yet another reward system in our brains, intensifying the pleasure.”
#4
Millennials Believed That They Will Going To End Racism Forever?
DrBronxx 8 months ago
Literally every generation thinks this way when they're young. The issues may differ, but the way of thinking stays the same.
Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
And every generation, including my own, falls down on the job of making the world a better place. My generation, who came into adulthood in the early 1980s, fell victim to the temptation of moneymaking, and dropped all other goals in favor of making money and using our comparatively bargain basement-priced college educations, not for saving the world, but for devising ways to keep other people from making money too so we could have all of it. As a member of that generation who somehow missed that money-making train and instead tried to make the part of the world in my own orbit a little bit better, I apologize to the generations that followed us. We f*****k e d up big time, and are now handing you a world that’s worse than the one we were given at your age. I really do hope the up and coming young folks resist the temptations that the a s s h o l e s throw in front of them—-because keeping the world s h i t t y behooves them and no one else—-and actually follow through on the promise to leave the world better than they found it, not worse.
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Roxy222uk 8 months ago
The youth of the 60s thought they'd nearly solved everything (more than one told me that). In the 80s we thought women's rights, racism, and homophobia was only going in one direction and how wrong we were.
Nikole 7 months ago
Yeah, my parents were hippies. They can’t believe that the same old shít is still happening (and has resurged because of MAGA). Well, they *can* believe it; they’re just dismayed.
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Rick Murray 8 months ago
The internet was cool. Then companies started to notice and, well, then it all went to hell. You know, there was a time when Google was lean, fast, and was the search engine that didn't clutter your search results with unwanted advertising. Now look at it, can't bloody blink without a full screen unskippable advert, and it'll keep coming back over and over because advertising is pernicious and omnipresent. The idea that too much much make a person hate the product being advertised? They don't care about that because they get paid by views, not by items sold. Maybe one day companies might start to realise that there are better ways to get a brand known than repeatedly hitting random users over the head with it.
Kat Alison 8 months ago
The internet was a lot better when only smart people were interested in it. As soon as business people realized they could make money from it, it was doomed. Business people always turn gold into sh1t.
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kansasmagic 8 months ago (edited)
I'm Gen-X and started college in 1994. My generation *invented* "the internet will make everyone kinder and smarter". By '95 I was lurking on political message boards, so I knew better, but plenty of people believed it.
Oliver 8 months ago
I mean TV had more shows either black characters as well as gay characters. We weren’t in any major wars. There was a lot of reason to be optimistic about the figure then things started sliding backwards.
kansasmagic 8 months ago
"Fifteen years ago" (per OP) we definitely were involved in major wars.
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Was Watching A Scene From Grease And Came Upon This Gem Of A Comment
Roberta Surprenant 8 months ago
AKA "in the closet" as stated in original post.
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Trillian 8 months ago
There were a lot of "roommates", "confirmed bachelors" and "dressed like the opposite s*x and was only found out at death" though.
Dragon Ashes 7 months ago
Middle school English teacher had a "roommate" her entire adult life. I was one of the few that knew that,ost just assumed she was a " spinster". My cousin had his "roommate" for 50 years. My step aunt has lived with her "roommate" for at least 30. It's sad the lengths these people had to hide just to survive.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
They couldn’t be their authentic selves in public because they were all deadly afraid of being m******d in a gay-bashing attack by violent gangs of men in deep denial about themselves. Not to mention losing their jobs, being given dishonorable discharges from the military, being disowned by their families, and being relegated to the bottom of society. Yeah, I would hide my true self too with that kind of threat against me for nothing more than just being my true self in a society that didn’t accept me. Wouldn’t you?
karen snyder 8 months ago
While watching GREASE! A movie about highschool students played by people in their 30s, who smoke, drink, drag race and think date rãpë is just how dating works. Sure. The "good 'ol days."
JayWantsACat 8 months ago
This guy: "Why are there more gays now?" Also this guy: "It was better when gays were too scared to be public because of a******s, like me."
StretcherBearer 7 months ago
Thousands of years 😁 You guys must be doing something right you've outlasted many countries and a few religions. I say carry on! Signed an old straight white guy❤️
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SlothyK8 8 months ago
I had several gay classmates and one (I think) trans classmate. NONE of them came out. They'd have been beaten daily for it. Ah, the good old 80s.
Sue 8 months ago
I remember people thinking it was funny in the 80's, but never hating on gay people. I guess that was the segue decade.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 8 months ago
Gays were in the closet back then because sort of around that time everybody was in a panic about "the gay disease" and all sorts of misinformation about how it actually spreads. That plus it was often not that unusual for gay people to be beaten senseless "because". So, yeah, they stayed in the closet because it was safer. Wouldn't you if that's how you were treated just for being different?
But being taken back in time by tastes and smells or feeling somewhat nostalgic about some other thing is not what the ‘Le Wrong Generation’ is all about. It is focused more on people who are blinded by nostalgia, and their beliefs that a certain time in the past was way better than the time we live in now.
In their description, the community with more than 303K members noted that they satirically mock the people who are “blinded by their own nostalgia, [and] believe certain things in the past to be unequivocally better than today,” and browsing this list, you will see why.
#6
Looks Like Someone Was Born In 1999
Uncle Panda 8 months ago
I actually heard myself say, "I have socks older than you," but then I had to go lay down for a bit. Secrets of my Sockcess.
Tonyah Mcanelly 8 months ago
Depends on the advice . Sometimes understanding the newer technology of mobile devices can be tricky because technology evolves so quick and the younger generations tend to catch on much quicker.
Dragon Ashes 7 months ago
I was born in '64. I find the younger generation has always had opinions and insights I hadn't thought of. Kids are smart, we'd do well to listen to them.
Roni Stone 8 months ago
Being born in 1954 have to ask people whose birthyear begins with 2 a LOT of things - like how do I program my phone to do this or that or how to upload vids to YouTube. Tech is moving faster than I can keep up and they have grown up with this.
KieLeaHar 7 months ago
Oh god, yeah. If ANYONE ever tries to look at me and try and gives me advice and says I was born in the year 2… and .. I automatically just stop listening or I tell them to stop talking. Don’t even try it. I have raised and supported my nephew since he was four years old and he was born in 2003. If I want advice from anyone about something pertaining to that kind of thing I will ask him. Otherwise if I desperately want advice on music or whatever I will ask my 11-year-old niece and my nine-year-old nephew. Nobody else can talk to me about it. Get out of my face. 😂
Gavin Johnson 8 months ago
I was born in 1974. My step-daughter’s boyfriend was born in 2001, he’s a qualified electrician. If he wishes to advise me about safe wiring then I’ll be listening.
#7
“People Got Along” In The 90s?!
Damned_Cat 8 months ago
I remember when the world was perfect like that. I was 4 years old at the time. After I grew up, it was a whole different ball game.
Alex Mosby 8 months ago
I didn't even make to 4 before I was called a monkey n-word.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
In a way they're right. When they were a kid, they couldn't vote or drive a car.
Load More Replies... Trillian 8 months ago
Entertainment wasn't laced with agenda???? I can' t really reread books or rewatch most movies because they were SO problematic. We just didn't realize it at that time. Getting educated is NOT a bad thing.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
"Agenda" is always spoken in the second or third person. Never the first.
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BeKind&Rewind 8 months ago
We could argue the world was more perfect because we didn't have social media to serve up heaping servings of the trash going on in the world. It's not worse, it's just in our faces 24/7!
Just another idiot 8 months ago
Remember May 13th 1985 Philadelphia? The so called MOVE bombing?
Just_for_this 8 months ago
Granted i didn't grow up in a city, but i could leave by bike leaning up against a tree, forget about it, and go back and get it the next day - cant even guarantee it'll still be there after locking it away nowadays.
UpupaEpops 8 months ago
I do weep for the time when appliances were made to last. Even the affordable ones. Just yesterday I was researching dual-fuel ranges. I was soooo glad to find one with lifelong warranty, raving reviews, perfects size, look...........at the small price of $9000.
#8
Found This On R/Im14andthisisdeep, Of All Places
BeKind&Rewind 8 months ago
My boys both did this and my youngest does it now for neighbors who can't (and he doesn't charge either). Quietly doing his part to show people how they SHOULD act.
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
Uh, last week we had three groups of kids in my neighborhood push lawn mowers up to my front door. And to their further credit, they walked away the moment they saw my "no soliciting" signs. Can't say the same for the older generations that see that as a suggestion.
Nimitz 8 months ago
N0 oNe WAntS tO wOrk anYmoRE! I used to do that when I was a kid, but when you're busting your a*s to clear off 3 ft of snow from a double wide driveway for $2 in -20 C weather, it kinda kills your f*****g motivation. I guarantee you kids would do it if you paid them what the labor is worth.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
I used to go mow the lawns of elderly neighbours as a teenager. Payment was tea and cookies, and we'd talk about all sorts of things along the way. I didn't bury my head in television, social media, or any of that c**p (as it mostly didn't exist and the only time most television was worth watching was at 2am when it was pages from Ceefax set to pleasing music).
Load More Replies... Jossh Nine 8 months ago (edited)
I haven't read all of these posts yet, but I'm sure what I have to say goes to all of them. Each generation blames the younger generation for being lazy etc. My question is: Who raised the younger generation? I'm 45 years old and I still don't get the cynicism.
Megalodon Meg 8 months ago
My eldest will shovel our neighbor's drives for free then come and dominate Dark Souls for a couple hours. There has always and will always be entertainment not just for kids, but for everyone and that's a good thing. It's good to unwind and has nothing to do with your "work ethic". I guarantee if kids were reading a book and thus not working nobody would bat an eye but playing a game or watching TV while not working is always a problem?
The community’s description also notes that it all started with music. “We place a special emphasis on music, because this subreddit was created after annoyance over ‘born in the wrong generation’ attitude often expressed by fans of 60s/70s rock,” they wrote, and indeed, many people in their posts focus on how music back in the day was way better.
And while that may be true—you might subjectively enjoy music from that time more than you do what’s on the radio today—following the community’s idea, that doesn’t make the ’60s or ’70s an overall better time to be alive.
On the contrary, several netizens in the comments have pointed out that present times win in the battle of “now vs. then,” as now you can listen to music from whatever period, which wasn’t as easy to do back in the day.
#9
Real Men Don't Use Helmets
Enuya 8 months ago
So, they finally learned to wear helmets and don't produce exhaust fumes and noise? Sounds like a win to me.
Tabitha 8 months ago
Plus, the 2023 group don’t look like a violent gang with police records a mile long and prison sentences in their pasts. (Yes, I know a lot of bikers are not criminals but responsible adults with jobs and families, but there are still enough biker gangs that do engage in violent criminal activity to support the stereotype.)
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DrBronxx 8 months ago
Yes, because fluorescent colours weren't a thing in the 80s, and motorbikes have now completely ceased to exist.
JB 8 months ago
Top picture reminds me of my moron ex who was delighted to remove his crash helmet in a State where it isn’t legally required (reason 382 why I’m happily divorced). I straight told him, if you come off and become paraplegic, quadriplegic or a vegetable because you’d rather exercise your freedom than commonsense, I will permanently dump your āss at the hospital! Been riding for over 30 years; my mantra? ALL THE GEAR, ALL THE TIME. I’m confident it’s why I’ve survived riding bikes for 3 decades. I have come off more than once over those years. Broke bikes to irreparable. Never broke any bones. I’ve slid along asphalt. Still have most of my skin (ok, fine, it’s different skin every 7years…not the point). I’ve hit my head so hard the helmet split in two. Yet here I am typing about it. There’s good alternatives to leathers for the summer. I get that full leathers can be uncomfortable when it’s 30*C or hotter. But, honestly, I’ll take swimming in sweat to do something I love, over dead.
kansasmagic 8 months ago
I was around in '83 and can confidently assert that I did not know *any* man who looked like that. And I'm pretty sure those particular men (i.e. bearded bikers) still existed in 2023. The good news is that we're finally starting to come around to the idea that there is more than one way to be "a man", even if some people need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world.
Sue 8 months ago
Plenty of men in gay clubs dressed like that too. That photo looks like it's from the 70's. Go watch Every Which Way But Loose to see those guys in the 80's.
Load More Replies... JayWantsACat 8 months ago
These are the same fragile, thin-skinned dudes who think it's gay to go to a concert by a woman but completely manly to go to a heavy metal concert and run around touching other shirtless dudes in a mosh pit.
Grenelda Thurber 8 months ago
There are still plenty of men who look like the top photo. I'm married to one.
#10
No One Saw Color In The 70s And 80s?! Wtf?!
persephone134 8 months ago
A Trump voter, perhaps? "Oh, the good old days.... Let's go back to the cozy 1950, when America was great, because women and ethnic minorities knew their place."
Clown fish 8 months ago
When they were scared to use the same loo as a any one that wasn't "WHITE"
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I'm white af but I was adopted at birth into a Mexican family. I was told as a child the story of one of my cousins, who was basically excommunicated/expelled from the family in the 1970s because she married a black man. There was also plenty of racism AGAINST my family when I was growing up in the 80s (witnessed a lot of it myself) especially when it came to healthcare/how doctors treated them. So, tl;dr my Mexican family was both racist against other races and also experienced racism against them. Plus if my dad's stories about Vietnam are any indication (he was in the Air Force and served during the Vietnam War), there was PLENTY of "seeing color" in the 70s. He told me that the higher-ups gave the black soldiers a TON of sh!t and outright abuse, though most of the lower-ranked fellow soldiers were just trying to stay alive and didn't really care about skin color. But that's war, and that's an *extreme* situation.
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Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
I lived through the seventies and eighties, and can tell you with authority that people saw color very distinctly, and not always in a good way. They were the eras that saw riots over bussing schoolchildren from poor (translation: non-white) neighborhoods in to the better schools in better neighborhoods (translation: white). The most vicious of the rioters were the white people, and they directed their vitriolic racism toward the poor little kids on those busses. This didn’t just happen in the south, either. Some of the most violent riots happened in places like Boston. The seventies and eighties also saw rampant discrimination against anyone who wasn’t a straight white male, so anyone not fitting that description was essentially s h i t on when it came to education, jobs, and all the great opportunities—-though the s h i t t y opportunities were made easily available to them, of course. Yes, there were people who tried, and in some cases, succeeded to change that. But there was, and still is, loads of pushback from those who benefitted from the way it used to be, because now they have to compete with educated and talented people who are not straight white men, and it galls them to have to either work harder than they had to before, and even worse, lose out to the better, non-straight white male, person who is simply better than they could ever be.
Sue User 8 months ago
See my post above. We were white bussed to black school. No blacks protested but lots of rich white kids got " waivers" to go to the white school.
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 8 months ago
B******t. I was a kid in the 80's and people most certainly saw color.
#11
Tf?
DrBronxx 8 months ago
Sure. No-one dresses like Cary Grant in this picture anymore. No-one. I went to work today in a yellow tank top, rainbow g-string and fishnet stockings. The only embarrassing thing about it was that another guy had the exact same outfit. Corporate law is a fun gig.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I bet you looked awesome, too! Probably better than I would in the same outfit XD (I know you're being sarcastic XD )
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Mavis 8 months ago (edited)
I bet the person who made this knows nothing about Cary Grant's sexual orientation.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Yes. The guy on the right may be straight. The guy on the left certainly wasn't.
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Joanne Mendonza-Earle 7 months ago
I dont care about what outfits people wear, just please no more man bun.
Talking to Bored Panda about the subreddit a couple of years ago, one of its moderators echoed its description, emphasizing the role music played regarding the ‘Le Wrong Generation’ community. “One of the core beginnings was based on music; such as people who becry musicians nowadays for creating their own sound and making it unique to themselves,” they said.
Delving deeper into why romanticizing the past is not too good of an idea, the moderator added that “Looking too much towards the past will only hurt your perspective towards the future.”
#12
Gen X Trying To Prove How “Tough” They Are
BeesEelsAndPups 8 months ago
In all honesty, I watched the explosion in my classroom. I don't think I was that traumatized by it. At least not in comparison to other events in my life.
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Traci Cobler 8 months ago
In 9th grade we had on the news and saw the twin towers fall…such an odd flex by this Mila lol oh yeah and no schools closed. Also, I just aged myself 😩
Load More Replies... Eliyahu Rooff 8 months ago
They weren't "made to watch" it; they all looked forward to seeing it.
Dragons Exist 7 months ago
Exactly, phrasing it as "were made to watch" implies that it's somehow the teacher's fault that the kids saw that happen
Load More Replies... kansasmagic 8 months ago
I remember this, and, no, we were not just sent to our next class. We were shocked and confused by what we just saw. Teachers were in tears. I'm sorry OP had such callous teachers.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Watched it from the side yard of the school, was ushered inside, the AV cart was wheeled in where we saw the whole story (as it was known at the time), and came back to school as normal afterwards. Were we shocked? Yes. Were some of us crying, including the teachers? Hèll, yes! So, yeah, it traumatized us (maybe some more than others, but I don't know about those folks, only about myself) but life also went on. The same could be said for many other traumatic events - I don't see what OP is trying to prove here.
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
I was SIX YEARS OLD and I still can see it in my head. STFU, lady.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Stop pretending your teacher didn't wheel the tv cart into the classroom just like every other classroom did in America.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
I saw it on Newsround just after lessons finished. It took a mere couple of days before a spectacularly unkind song (based upon the Rainbow theme song) was doing the rounds. Because I'm a child of the eighties and we all laughed at political correctness and called it a r****d (these days the word gets censored). Gen X is a tough bunch because if we can survive the playground and Thatcherism (where's my milk, b*tch?), we can survive anything.
#13
There’s So Many Things They Do That Would Get Them Beat Up Back Then They Don’t Even Realize
#14
I'm Sorry What?
I found this in a 90s facebook page/probably group. Does the person who made this meme understand that Vinyl existed long before the 90s and before they were born? Like it makes it sound like they seriously think Vinyl is some modern thing that the "kids these days use" and making it sound like a flex that CDs quality wise were better than Vinyl 😆🤣 when that is not the case at all. Like bruh companies brought lt back because they realized you shouldn't have gotten rid of them to begin with.
Tabitha 8 months ago
Well, at least once you bought that CD, you actually owned the music on it.
IORN 8 months ago
You didn't own the music but the disc. Still you could listen to it as many times as you wanted instead of today's "you bought the right to listen, not the file and we say how many times you ca listen"
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Donna Peluda 8 months ago
Companies didn't bring it back. The small record labels did. Independent labels and bands. Vinyl has it own sound that is a consequence of it's technology with it's limitations and pit falls. Anyone who says it better than a CD or properly recorded digital music (not the cheap MP3 you rip from internet) has know idea what they are talking about. Shure you might "prefer" the sound but that doesn't make it better.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
CD? CD? I had C90s, and would listen to the chart show with a finger hovering over the REC button.
Wintermute 8 months ago
I think the commenter is missing the point, and then getting mad about it.
Sven Horlemann 7 months ago
Sorry, but this time I think OP got it completelly a§§ backwards. The "this was our vinyl" and showing a CD is spot on. And yeah, I bought my first album 1979, I know what vinyl is. Vinyl simply did not matter anymore in the 90s, CD ruling everything.
DC 8 months ago
Ok ... there is a possibility that an analogue record is better than a CD. But, how long will that stay? How many of those experts who so dearly love to explain this actually have the equipment, and understand how to use it, that enables the first 3 times you play a record to exceed a CD's quality? By the way - CD's resolution should be minimum for any format following. .mp3 is a mistake by definition, and that's not a question of age, but of quality. Anyway, after a few times you play a record, it's quality will certainly never again exceed that of a CD, let alone would it in any, or even every, case. The majority of record players are cheapo record grinders that shouldn't even exist. The majority of expensice record players are full of bling, shine and other stuff aiming at primitive "WaNnAhAvE!"-impulses rather than actually improving sound quality or longevity of the medium to be played.
Rali Meyer 7 months ago
the bit depth of a CD is 16, the one of a vinyl in the 20s. And: "This creates a more dynamic sound with clear distinctions between soft and loud passages (vinyl)" But who can hear the difference? https://medium.com/@rum.coconutwater/cd-vs-vinyl-vs-lossless-a-detailed-duel-of-sound-titans-1bab396cdf2
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Danny Phantom 8 months ago
They actually are better quality wise. But there’s more than just quality.
wobbly jelly 8 months ago
As others have said C3-C60-C90 go - but the hours to make a compilation - borrowing an LP from a friend as they got it for Christmas / Birthday - planning with friends to get different ones so you had a selection. Buying a single a week or month if you were flush.
Novlette Williams 8 months ago
vinyl has been around at least since the days of Queen Victoria.
While over-romanticizing the past or turning a blind eye to its less positive aspects is what makes this community call people out, feeling nostalgic in and of itself is not necessarily bad. As long as you don’t have your mind set on the past being unequivocally better than the present, it can even be a pleasant experience, serving several important functions in people’s lives.
Talking about nostalgia on the Speaking Of Psychology podcast, licensed psychologist and professor of psychology at LeMoyne College, Krystine Batcho, PhD., noted that the thing that ties all those functions together is the fact that nostalgia is an emotional experience that unifies.
“One example of this is it helps to unite our sense of who we are, our self, our identity over time. Because over time, we change constantly, we change in incredible ways. We’re not anywhere near the same as we were when we were three years old, for example. Nostalgia, by motivating us to remember the past in our own life, helps to unite us to that authentic self and remind us of who we have been and then compare that to who we feel we are today,” the expert explained, adding that it gives us a sense of who we want to be down the road in the future.
#15
So No One Had Problems With Each Other In School In 2004
Enuya 8 months ago
Either this person never attended school or they were the ones doing bullying
DrBronxx 8 months ago (edited)
2004 actually had an unusually small number of school shootings in the US. But you know what? THERE WERE STILL F*****G SCHOOL SHOOTINGS!!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago (edited)
Hell, the Columbine mássacre itself happened in 1999. There may not have been as MANY school shootings "back then", as you say, but it definitely wasn't "hurr durr no one had problems with each other"!
Load More Replies... Shaggy 8 months ago (edited)
Columbine HS shooting, Basically the first large scale school shooting. Dillon and Kleebold, a couple of middle class white kids (parents were working at lockheed martin at the time). built pipe bombs in their basement, got trench coats and lots of guns. Went to Columbine HS and started shooting. I was living a few miles away at the time. My kid was born in 1998. I did not use google for that and it has been almost 30 years. My wife's best friend and her hubby went there during that time, I have met numerous people that were there. They can not forget.
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Sathe Wesker 8 months ago
Bruh… I graduated in 2007 and my high school was a complete sh*t show.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
You guys need to go back and watch a TV show called _Room222_, which dealt with difficulties in an average high school. Schools had the same problems back then we deal with now, only back then they had decent budgets and teachers didn't have to use their own money to provide school supplies.
KieLeaHar 7 months ago
Hahahahaha WHAT?! I was at high school and finished in 2003 and I can tell you now that bullying was absolutely throughout that school like a virus! It was ridiculous! They had to hire eight cops to be on full-time to be in our school to break up fights. And this is Australia.
Sven Grammersdorf 8 months ago
I graduated high school in 2002 and I don't recall any bullying going on there
#16
“Nobody Cared About Race” In The 90s?! Wtf?!
*raspberry sound 8 months ago
That Family Matters screengrab makes me so sad, that poor kid didn't deserve that. No child (or human) deserves to feel unsafe or hated for being born into their skin.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Sitcoms in the 80s and 90s made bank on their "Very Special Episodes," each of them highlighting problems that *gasp, shock* still exist today. Jebus, I still remember watching the Rodney King video and seeing news coverage of the travesty of a trial and resulting race riots (not to mention the massive skin color divide after the O.J. trial). Ron Rule is working with some white-out-colored glasses there.
Panda Cat 7 months ago
Talk to your Trump and Klan if you want to find out what happened to affordability and aspiring to be wealthy. Then there was Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House, 1995- 1999 who told fellow GOP critters that the point of having power was to have power… and to abuse it but that was the dog whistle part.He was- and probably still is quite a fan of divisive politics.
#17
So Millennials Brought Racism Back In The 90s
Nimitz 8 months ago
Yeah... Born in '84 and I grew up surrounded by white racists. Men in my area of Canada used ALL the bad words for anyone not white and hated beyond hate anyone not white or sympathetic to minorities in any way. The hatred of the boomers had to be strangled and fought to death brutally. And now it's back again.
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
lol, lady, my Northern Illinois home town had a freaking Klan rally in the early 90s. I invite you to bite me. (and to be fair to the old home, they were VASTLY outnumbered by counterprotesters. Still though)
Nikole 7 months ago
Skokie?? I remember when that happened! I was in college at NU.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
Poster is either an idiot, a liar, or a bigot. I'm betting the Trifecta.
Katchen 8 months ago
We all know that between the 1989 release of NWA’s Straight Outta Compton and January 1, 1990, racism was solved. Also nothing happened in Los Angeles on April 29, 1992.
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
Just ask Sublime. They didn't do an entire song about it!
Load More Replies... kansasmagic 8 months ago
I remember the 90s well, when "political correctness" was all the rage, and people like Rush Limbaugh reveled in their prejudice. Again, you just weren't paying attention.
Ipetmykitteh 8 months ago
90s kids were raised on the bullcrap “I dOn’T sEe CoLoR”. That was just racist BS teaching kids to not appreciate people in their entirety. We got scammed into being shamed for noticing when our darker skinned friends had way harder lives and staying quiet cause seeing color was racist.
“The other way that nostalgia serves an essential psychological function is that it is a highly social emotion. It connects us to other people,” Dr. Batcho continued. She noted that the feeling becomes a part of what bonds us to the most important people in our lives, starting with our parents and siblings or friends when we’re young and extending to a broader circle as we go through life.
“It’s a social connectedness phenomenon, and nostalgia is in that sense a very healthy pro-social emotion,” the expert pointed out.
#18
Worst Time Of My Life, But Still Better Than Today!
kzys59pcrp 8 months ago
Does he not realize the “woke” agenda is to accept all people and to not bully others?
UKDeek 8 months ago
Yup, school was a breeze for me growing up in the 70's and 80's. Coming from "working class" parents and my dad working down the colliery, my future was already mapped out for me by the careers advisor; i was to be a colliery worker so no real need for the school to support me in any of my subject choices. Bullying was rife, and if you raised the issue with the school you just got told to bring proof or you would get a detention for lying. School trips had to be paid for in full and were complusory, otherwise you would get a lower grade at the end of the year. I failed my Design and Technology course because we had to design something, then only after we designed it we had to build it and pay for the materials... I designed a flip over table, but failed because my parents couldn't afford the cost of the wood, so for about 18 months I attended that class and basically sat and watched the world go by...
Kalikima 8 months ago
That's so sad, I'm sorry. Did you go work at the colliery? Or did you overcome that terrible start in life?
Load More Replies... BeKind&Rewind 8 months ago
This pic reminded me when my 9th grade typing teacher was showing us how to put paper in it and his hairpiece got caught...
Matthew V 7 months ago
Also that AI classroom photo is giving 50’s, 60’s not 1970’s where most girls had long middle parts and not beehive bobs. I cannot with this thread.
Panda Cat 7 months ago
No, there were girls with those styles. I remember my friend’s older sisters with the little flip at the ends. My friend’s piano teacher had been Miss Congeniality, and I remember her flip and pantyhose under a slim skirt. The person in yellow with the beehive is actually a boy, and another boy is behind him. Beehives were well and gone by 1974, but the “guidance counselor” in my middle school had one all through the 70s. Hairstyles began to change dramatically with Dorothy Hammill’s hair in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck figure skating. Prior to seeing her haircut that worked with her hair instead of being forced into shape, women had been sporting teased (backcombed) and flipped styles with plenty of AquaNet to hold it in place.
Load More Replies... Kat Alison 8 months ago
Yeah, because Marxism and communism are so popular….so popular that the Berlin Wall went down and the Soviet Union ended. 🙄
#19
H**flation
Orysha 8 months ago
Nope you're just an incel who can't get laid if the woman has any choice in the matter, nothing to brag about.
Tabitha 8 months ago
An incel on 4chan, ffs. Can’t get much more desperate than that.
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Michael MacKinnon 8 months ago
I was going to say...who knows, that **might** just be the most intelligent thing posted on 4chan...the bar is set pretty low....
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Enuya 8 months ago (edited)
Modern people in general have to work few times harder. I'm nkt sure about physical labor, but office workers are actually few times more productive than in 60s. It's because with faster transfer of data came bigger workload and the offices didn't really adapt to it. And let's not even start on the fact that most of people have to work fee jobs or overhours just to be able to support themselves financially.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 8 months ago
They actually have the ability to leave with a bank account and not being shunned by society now! I'm so sorry you cant do less than the bare minimum now :)
Megalodon Meg 8 months ago
Probably because women were seen as property and very rarely were able to survive on their own thanks to the toxicity of patriarchal b******t.
Dragons Exist 7 months ago
Posts like these are half the reason why 4chan is (rightly) seen the way it is by the rest of the internet
#20
Found This Pic On R/Facepalm
KatSaidWhat 8 months ago
yup - offical stats: https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
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persephone134 8 months ago
Because only black people wield guns. And who is giving those flowers to whom?
Panda Cat 7 months ago
Yeah. The flowers from a male teacher to a little girls is not ok.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 8 months ago
Too many of those teachers gave flowers to their much younger students as a way of grooming them, ffs. So I really don’t think that was an example of things being better back in the day.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
My first grade nun gave me a cauliflower ear. I grew up in the 50s.
Load More Replies... john doe 8 months ago
I hate all this AI slop that boomers just guzzle down these days. Honestly I don't buy into generational divides it's just a tool to keep people from coming together on issues, but lately I've been realizing that maybe the lead paint or something actually has affected people born before about 1975 quite a bit, they seem to be unable to understand pretty basic things.
Lowrider 56 7 months ago
There is a theory that some people in previous generations had undiagnosed brain damage because of the fumes from gasoline before the lead was taken out of it.
Load More Replies... Roberta Surprenant 8 months ago
Teachers never gave flowers, students did give them to teachers.
“The other way that it’s unifying is that it helps us to unify what otherwise would be felt or experienced by us as conflicts,” the expert continued. As nostalgia is a bittersweet emotion—sweet because of the beautiful memories and bitter because we can never actually experience them again—it can help us deal with conflict more easily.
“The irreversibility of time means that we absolutely cannot go back in time, so it helps us to deal with the conflict of the bitter longing for what can never be again together with the sweetness of having experienced it and being able to revisit it and relive it again.”
#21
Way Back When Games Were Played Outside
Sandella 8 months ago (edited)
This from the adults who thoughtlessly pushed out endless technology without any thought to safeguarding the children that were exposed to it until it was too late and the a*diction to and reliance upon tech had already set in. Guaranteed these old timers are also just as addicted to the tech they have that they can understand how to use
Megalodon Meg 8 months ago
It's almost like the point of humanity is progress. Can't wait for the memes of cavemen painting bashing on the generation that first got bikes. "Not a wheel in sight just sleeping in dirt dying before age 30"
*raspberry sound 8 months ago
Those are some pretty sweet bikes, though. Banana seats as far as the eye can see.
Lowrider 56 7 months ago
The bike all the way to the left is the model I had. I thought I was super cool because I had shifter on the frame.
#22
The 2000s Were Not All That!
Moxitron Jazz 8 months ago
"I totally wasn't living in a pre--conceived bubble of ignorance and ethnocentric cowardice..."
Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
The 2000s saw the rise of the Tea Party republicans, which spawned the alt right MAGAts we’re seeing today.
L.V 8 months ago (edited)
I remember the rise of Islamophobia and paranoia post 9/11, better not look even remotely Arabic then; also the 2008 recession. And conservatives reactions to Micheal Moore's films, or when same s*x union/marriage started to become legal. Guess someone was living in a bubble...
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 8 months ago
Lol theres been non binary genders in lots of cultures for forever
#23
Rose Tinted Tolerance
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I grew up in the 80s and 90s. When I was a kid (at least where I lived), we used the word "gay" to mean "lame" or "stupid" - so: "Aw, my mom won't let me go to the arcade with you guys." - "That's gay!" Then, my childhood best friend came out to me when we were 12-13ish or so. I learned VERY fast that using the word "gay" as I had been using it really hurt my friend's feelings, so I STOPPED. It's the same as learning to stop using the r-word (which we also used a lot in the 80s/90s.) Most people who are decent people DON'T use words like "fággot". People who are ássholes DO use words like that. It's not "hurhurr the whole generation of xellinials call people 'fággot'!!!" (...what is a xellinial, anyway?) Mean, sh!tty people in ANY generation are going to use slurs and insults. It's not restricted to any particular generation/group.
Uncle Schmickle 8 months ago
1920s and 30s " I'm gay " ..... " great, I'm happy too. Let's go to a party. The CORRECT meaning of the word. Flintstones : " let's have a gay old time ".
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
And "nice" used to mean "ignorant", and then it meant "meticulous" and now it means "pleasant". Drop you in England a few hundred years ago and you'd be completely lost.
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It’s safe to assume that the bittersweet feeling of nostalgia is something that occasionally overflows in most of us. And there’s nothing wrong with reminiscing about the good old days. But going overboard and saying that the good old days were a better time to live in than now might lead to you being called out on the ‘Le Wrong Generation’ subreddit, so keep that in mind.
#24
So They Think That Some Gen Z Like Myself Never Went To A Video Rental Store When We Were Younger
john doe 8 months ago
We had a betamax! My dad chose very poorly during the format wars lol
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Jeff Hunt 8 months ago
Technology advances. Would you prefer to have driven your horse and buggy to the video store?
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
Yup. I'm sure the bronze smiths were irate when everyone switched to iron. Though I must admit I miss "owning" most of the media I consume these days.
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The First Gen Z Borns Was On 1996 Or 1997 So This Take Is Not True!
Sandella 8 months ago
I love how everyone who makes this claim is white.. as someone who is not white and grew up in the 90s I can tell you how wrong he is!
arthbach 8 months ago
Sandella, I'm a cis-het white woman. My recollections of the 1990s are far closer to your memory than the fantasy described above. As you say, racism was most definitely a problem. There was horrific homophobia, the AIDS explosion, a huge disparity between the rich and the poor, disparity in pay between men and women...
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OnlySometimes 8 months ago
"Everyone just got along" from the man describing himself as anti-Communist?
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
I'm getting "living in Montana with my militia bros" vibes from this post.
Megalodon Meg 8 months ago
"I'm a privileged and sheltered white person who never saw racism or struggle so obviously it didn't exist" 🙄
#26
So He Thinks That In 2005, There Was A Culture Of Happiness And Everyone Had Respect Towards One Another
PeepPeep the duck 8 months ago
The literal peak of those wars too 😂 what an idiot
Load More Replies... V 8 months ago
I had to pick my eyes back off the floor and put them back in my head after reading that!
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Dawn Marie 8 months ago
I taught a 6th grade class in 2005-2006 that thought they were so entitled that they had to do no work, that it was acceptable for Mom to do their homework, that said Mom could pick them up in the middle of the day for a salon day and the boys were just as bad as there lunches being brought in from restaurants around town. Designer clothes were the norm and sports teams (even in 6th grade) ruled the school!!
Kalikima 8 months ago
The education system has gotten so bad even teachers don't know their, there, and they're.. lol kidding, that story was something else, can't believe there were kids like that.
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#27
The 70s
Trillian 8 months ago
Survivor's bias. Goes for all the stupid posts about not wearing seatbelts, swimming in rivers etc. Those who didn't make it aren't around today to post büllshit on social media.
BeKind&Rewind 8 months ago
And because of "antibacterial" EVERYTHING, we WILL see antibiotics stop working in our lifetimes. These are words from my daughter's infectious disease instructor in grad school.
#28
Ironically, The Song Is Called Stressed Out
Clown fish 8 months ago
Hmmm they are stressing because they can't get a f#cking affordable home and the gunning down of children in schools got worse
Panda Cat 7 months ago
Had to waste a trip to the public library trying to find information for your report on (the country then known as) Dahomey after you’d written their embassy to ask for their info pack. No stress about a father’s physical abuse because at least no one was going to say anything about it.
#29
People Really Believed That By 1999, Black Celebrities Ended Racism
PeepPeep the duck 8 months ago
All of the race and politics aside - how cool was grace jones, she was so cool and pretty and awesome
Tabitha 8 months ago
No, it was getting to be under a lot more control, but it wasn’t gone. That was proven when the Supreme Court declared racism was dead and ended the Voting Rights Act. Looky looky what that opened the door to—-all the MAGAt racist s h i t we have going on right now.
Nads 7 months ago
I googled voting rights act and I don’t understand why someone would end a law like this, or how would they succeed in it.
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MsPlants 8 months ago
white people for the love of god stop being so obviously white.... (I know im white but god im at least self aware enough to know that while I grew up dirt poor on food stamps and section 8 housing I STILL had it easier being white) There has never been a time in history where there was no racism and good old days where everyone was accepted. those good old days you are thinking of is when you were young so self absorbed you didnt notice the world falling apart around you.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
More like "If I close my eyes, it doesn't exist."
Load More Replies... Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
i AM 100% SURE THIS DIPSH!T DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE DEFINITION OF RACISM.
#30
R/Memes Always Cooks
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
Or the black album(s) (counting Spinal Tap and Metallica)
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Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
I love the album cover for LOOM (Imagine Dragons, came out in 2024), it's so pretty.
#31
I Found This On R/Genz
Tabitha 8 months ago
I go through periods where I’m depressed I wasn’t born 20 or 30 years later than I was. I came into adulthood before a lot of the norms of today were even thought of, much less expected. Things like equal rights, diversity, employee rights, work-life balance, etc. We were still fighting for those things, and back then we were definitely not in the majority, and if you advocated for those things, you were turned into a pariah, you were not in the running for raises and promotions at work, no matter how good you were at your job, and your work life was made as unpleasant as possible. If they couldn’t find a concrete reason to fire you for your “rabble rousing” and demands for better pay and treatment at work, then they’d make you as miserable as they could to make you want to quit.
Billo66 8 months ago
I was born in '66. By the time I knew what was going on Disco was in full swing. The '70s Disco scene was totally not my thing. That's when I got into KISS, Nugent, Aerosmith, Sabbath, etc. Zeppelin and Metallica are high on my list. Cant forget Stevie Ray.
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
Just caught a recording of one of Stevie Ray's concerts. We lost sooo much in that helicopter. I recall an interview where Eric Clapton said he'd never seen anything like Stevie before.
Load More Replies... SouthernGal 8 months ago
Ah yes, the 1970s. The days of Watergate, unchecked environmental destruction, the Vietnam war, Kent State, no gay rights, few women’s rights and racism was openly practiced and accepted. Those were the days. /s
Uncle Schmickle 8 months ago
I don't know about the USA in the '60s, but I was there for a few years in the early '70s and it was a good place with good people. Where I'm from ( Australia ) our best period was post WWII up to the '80s.
#32
So Millennials Had Completely Forgotten About Columbine, 9/11, Bush II, Or The 2008 Recession When They Were In High School
Sarah 8 months ago
Second main concern in the 90s.. Oasis or Blur . Wrong choice and you’re a pariah
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Can I like both? D: Because I like both XD
Load More Replies... Tabitha 8 months ago
I went to high school in the seventies, and boy were we political! Of course, we still had classes like Civics and Current Events, so we actually learned about government and politics and all the s**t going on in the world, which made us more aware of the inequities going on around us. That was part of what ,ace us politically aware and active.
cadena kuhn 8 months ago
The bush gore thing was pretty big nothing like today but politics was an issue
ZombieMommy 8 months ago
To this day I remember our Econ teacher telling us we were doomed when we graduated because of the recession. I remember school threats, lockdowns, suicides, car accidents, and politics both school and country. Where did these people live?
kansasmagic 8 months ago
We definitely had politics in my high school (90-94). I even helped start a student group called "Politically Active Youth". The other founders wanted to start a conservative student group, but couldn't because I was on team. They did reject my logo idea though: P.A.Y., with the anarchist symbol for the " A".
Grenelda Thurber 8 months ago
No d*****s, it just means you were a high school kid and didn't care about anything more than your crush.
#33
I Guess This Millennial Slept Through The Whole LA Race Riots Of 1992 And The Oj Simpson Case In 1995
Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
My goddaughter's first day of school was 9/11/2001. So talk about growing up in a peaceful world.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 7 months ago
oh sure. it's the liberals that are promoting racism. not the gentle, tolerant right wing, who are so well known for their lack of prejudice based on race, gender, sexuality, disability and so on.
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
Awww he thinks the word "academia" makes him sound smart. Bless his stupid little heart
#34
“The Air Isn’t The Same As 10 Years Ago” 🥀🥀
Khavrinen 8 months ago
But significantly less smog and acid rain. ( Not *everything* is getting worse. Just most of it. )
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Dae Gen Z And Gen Alpha People Will Never Understand 90s And Early 2000s Animation
DrBronxx 8 months ago
I am trying to understand what this guy is saying. Is he saying that animation peaked in that period? Because that is ridiculously stupid. Look at Pixar, independent filmmakers like Tomm Moore, and Japanese directors like Makoto Shinkai. You will never see a more beautiful film than Your Name. Look at the Spider-Verse films, for f**k's sake.
BlackestDawn 8 months ago
Adding on: Many also don't separate style/aesthetics from quality and treat those as one thing when they should be completely separate.
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Millennials And Gen X Fighting Ghosts With This One
Megalodon Meg 8 months ago
It's because they're so technologically illiterate they don't know how to find the emojis and that gives them big feelings.
typepy type on a rectangle 8 months ago
The fact that it says Millenials and gen x is wild (THEY ARE THE SAME)
UKGrandad 8 months ago
Gen X - born 1965-1980: Millennials - born 1980-1996. Different generations.
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No They Don’t 🤦♂️
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
The same kids that think Carl Winslow cured racism.
Load More Replies... DC 8 months ago
So? At least, it's a protest fueled by compassion, and not one fueled by the desire to depict yourself as better, but not having any point to make really. And ... who is? I only ever hear omnivores complain if a new sort of ice cream is introduced that is vegan, that this would "shove their beliefs down our throats", while, actually, there's just another ADDITION to the selection that doesn't take anything away from anybody, not even cows. Is crying a legit profession for GenX? Seems like.
Hassel Davidhoff 8 months ago
People get triggered by vegans and began stuff. I don't know why.
Load More Replies... Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
It's called allergy awareness, and it's one of the reasons South Canada's population isn't below Canada's (but we are a bigger place)
#38
In 1998, Gen X Fixed Racism!
Janet Sparrow 7 months ago
I appreciate you saying that right out rather than trying to craft a smart allergy response. Thank you.
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Guys, I PROMISE most of Gen X isn't like this idiot. We just want to chill out quietly and NOT be noticed XD
Megalodon Meg 8 months ago
Morons like him have nothing else going for them so they spew stupid s**t online for a shred of attention they never got from their fathers. We know you're not one of these idiots Lakota 🖤
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#39
Believing That Mccarthyism Having Class And Sense Is Wild!
persephone134 8 months ago
Oh, the good old 1950s, when women and ethnic minorities knew their place.
Billo66 8 months ago
He had a hard on for segregation didn't he? I spent several years with a person of color as a bunkmate in a gated community. iykyk. I never once caught "The Black" or even slightly tinted. We both agreed fried chicken is delicious and I don't like watermelon. We got along like brothers. Knock that s**t off.
Billo66 8 months ago
When I was very young I was poking around in closets as one does. Grandpa had this silly dress with a big white hat. I put it on and ran around saying BOO!! because I thought it was ghost costume. He was livid. Took it off of me and sat me down and explained what it meant and how important it was and why. When I got a little older I took it and burned it in the yard. F**k him.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
Well, when the right-wing thug McCarthy was driven from power, people in the 50s made sure he stayed that way. Fast forward to November 2024.
#40
Kids These Days Won't Understand
Ahnjunwan 8 months ago
Maybe he had some problem with his foot and did not have to go 🤭
Load More Replies... Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
When they say "Summer of '69" I think of the namesake Canadian song by Bryan Adams
Caffeinated Ape 8 months ago
How... how did they manage to describe an existence of having everything great essentially handed to them and then equating it to kids these days not understanding having to work hard for things?! They cherry-picked their examples and still utterly failed to back up their reasoning with them!
#41
And The "What Happened To Music" Cycle Continues
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
Imma say it, I like Arriana Grande, but Chapell Roan is musically better.
David Jeffery 7 months ago
I'd rather listen to Chappell Roan than Ariana, any day and I'm way outside their demographic
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
She is undeniably talented. I just don't like everything else about her.
AverageCommenter (she/they) 8 months ago
Chappell roan is a music artist that very recently got famous
Load More Replies... Hassel Davidhoff 8 months ago
I hate pop music with the power of the fire of a thousand suns but Ariana Grande is gorgeous!
#42
And Yet Gen X Can’t Stop Whining About How They’re Better Than Millennials!
Fred L. 8 months ago
Guns aren't the solution - MORE guns are the solution. /s
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 8 months ago
Gen X here. I've never once whined that I'm better than anyone else in my entire life.
Trillian 8 months ago
Fück them for using that picture and username. The White Rose was all about nonviolence. They would have wanted nothing to do with that attitude.
john doe 8 months ago
Lol GenX is the only generation that never had to fight in any wars, millennials on the other had had to fight the 2 longest wars in US history, I myself spent over 3 years of my life deployed in a combat zone. My grandfather who fought in WW2 was away from home for 2 years. This is a point I bring up a lot millennials also have the highest percentage of veterans since the WW2 generation, we aren't weak we are sick of your b******t
Motherofguineapigz 8 months ago
I find it hard to say we will save the day. Dude -we ignore everyone.
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
I'm sorry, but let's be real here. 20 years of stupid warfare fell mostly on the laps of Millenials.
Clown fish 8 months ago
I'm a millennial and I can fire a gun but that won't help anything. And I was out playing all day
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Yeah millennials were literally the last generation to regularly play outside as kids, we remember life without the internet 😂
Load More Replies... Panda Cat 7 months ago
How *dare* he try to align himself with White Rose! If he thinks he’s experiencing pain he’s kidding himself. I doubt the White Rose would have had anything to do with a whiny litte annoyance like him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose I can see him playing the role of the janitor more than being part of the non-violent resistance.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
I'm a teen (not sure my exact generation, but I know I'm not alpha) and honestly archery is so much cooler. We really need to go back to swords imo (/j)
Rick Murray 8 months ago
This GenX can't fire a gun and probably won't save the day, but will be the one sitting on the fence with a large mug of tea watching the chaos unfold with a "yup, figures" expression.
#43
Sure 3 Years Ago Everything Was Fine 💀
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
People who believe this bulls.hit didn't even do social distancing in 2020.
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#44
Who The F**k Thinks That Kids Aren’t Drawing Suns In The Corners Anymore?
Michael Largey 8 months ago
To hell with the sun, OP. How did you cancel out the effect of aging over thirty years?!?!?
#45
What's Wrong With How The Rapper Today Is Dressed?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Oh, you sweet summer child XD I present to you MC Hammer! 552imbn0i7...56b586.jpg 
CD Mills 7 months ago
LOL Those pants would suck in the Summer, go out in the sun and those metal rings are going to build up some heat and burn you, plus you are going to have some odd tan spots. In the Winter, you have the wind blowing frigid air, and snow all over your legs and the rings will give you frostbite!
#46
Ah Yes, Woodstock 99 Was Peak Humanity With All Of The Riots That Most Of Gen X Did In That Festival
*raspberry sound 8 months ago
Humanity at its best, huh? Tell that to all the women who were gang r***d for trying to listen to music. It happened to DOZENS of women there. And for those who typically care more about property than humans, plenty of that was destroyed too.
#47
Millennials, Don’t Become The Next Boomers!
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
It's not entirely unhinged, but I don't like the undertone of "kids these days suck." Sure, my gen Alpha kids won't know how cool it was to go to Blockbuster on Friday to pick out movies for the weekend. But my daughter also has never been bullied out of the D&D club at school because it's for boys or it's demonic or whatever.
Load More Replies... Megalodon Meg 8 months ago
As a millennial I f*****g hated and still hate when people just come to my house. I like my screens, we still had screens as kids they're just easier to take with us now. I hated listening to an entire album to hear one song when I just wanted to fixate on that one song. All of these experiences though still exist in one way or another this nostalgia b******t is just that, nostalgia b******t. Things weren't better we just look back with rose colored glasses because its not what we're living through now.
#48
A Meme That's 20 Years Too Late
#50
What's Happening To Men? 🤔
persephone134 8 months ago
So the good old days were better? Not a very well chosen contrast, then.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
What happened to men? Well, for one, they stopped wearing their wife's bathing suit.
#51
Because Every New Game Is Gay & Feminine
Hassel Davidhoff 8 months ago
Toxic right wing types only recognize the most horrible traits of mean as "masculine". They're telling on themselves and they don't even realize it.
#52
Oh Great. Victim-Blaming Modern Femicide Victims
#53
But For Every Michael Jackson, There Was Also A Milli Vanilli
V 8 months ago
There really was some absolute rubbish. It's just that most people don't keep playing the stuff that sucked, so most people only remember the good stuff, especially those who have been introduced to music from those decades later.
Eliyahu Rooff 8 months ago
When you think about it, that can be said for every generation since music began.
Load More Replies... kansasmagic 8 months ago
"Sugar, Sugar" by nonexistent band The Archies was the Billboard top single in 1969.
Queen Boudicca 8 months ago
This was less threatening than some of the heavy metal bands. People were still burning records because Rock N Roll was Satanic.
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Kids Only Twerk In School In 2025
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
Mmm, yes. All the Catholic schools became social media workshops in 2021, of course.
#55
Kids Today Are Snowflakes
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 8 months ago
*cough* Ren & Stimpy *cough* can’t believe that’s a children’s show
#56
It Isn’t Even That Old
Katchen 8 months ago
I think they mean the new generation will never have high hopes. On my dark days I agree, sigh.
Megalodon Meg 8 months ago
Because previous generations ruined the f*****g world for them.
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#57
Also You Was Bullied For Watching Anime In The 2000s
Rinso The Red 8 months ago
Gen X - We had Voltron, Gatchaman, and Robotech. Not to mention AKIRA "I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago..."
#58
After 9/11, Americans Went On A Full Rampage Against Any Black And Brown Person That They Can Find
Paul Kinnear 8 months ago
Yes it absolutely is. Krugman is well known for his liberal views
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 8 months ago
So later that day when I went to my neighborhood mini mart and the doors were locked, and they wouldn't open up unless they knew you, and the Sikh man that owned the store started crying because someone tried to smash the window earlier and called him a murdering raghead...all that was a calm reaction?
#59
Asking For A Non “Woke” Song On Popheads Is… Stupid 😭
#60
People Already Wishing To Be Born In The 2000s
#61
Posted To R/Nonpoliticaltwitter
#62
We Will Pretend That All 8 Year Olds Twerk Nowadays
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
Re the top: I'm not even sure that my 12yo and 6yo even know what twerking is. Re the bottom: my 6yo came home from kindergarten 3 days ago and told me all about how he and his friends played House during recess that day so my guess is this person hasn't been around an actual child since they were an actual child.
kansasmagic 8 months ago
The expression on the stick person saying "I'm the dad" is a little sus, but the kid who wants to play the dog checks out.
#63
All Of Today’s Music Is Slop 😡
DrBronxx 8 months ago
The guy on the left was a*****e with mafia connections that he used to apply pressure to people he didn't like, and the guy on the right groomed a child to be his wife. They have some good songs, but I wouldn't idolise them at all. Both were misogynists, but some would explain that away as "being a product of their time".
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
And why do they need to come back to life when their music is available all over the internet for free???
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Kids Today Are Rookies For Not Bringing Vodka To School
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 8 months ago
Oh no ik someone who smuggled alcohol. Its still going dw!
DC 8 months ago
Yes, and during 8th grade, we smoked so much ... yes, 8t grade, but as I repeated one year, and a friend was a persian atheist and also, a relatively early smoker, it's more like 9th to 10th about us, but anyway, ... we were pretty fücked up, it just wasn't that school was anything of a challenge, even high as a kite. I was considered weird, and it was pretty close to being sent to special ed in primary school, because obeying wasn't my strength, and those I should obey, were dumber than I was, and didn't miss any chance to prove it. Yes, looking out the window bored, after half the time scheduled for a task, was considered punishable, somehow. Not taking that without resistance, of course, made it worse. Anyway, school really sucked back then.
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
We live in a desert state and my kids's dad is an Eagle Scout. You bet your g.oddamn a.ss that my kids bring a water bottle EVERYWHERE!
#65
Not If You’re A Millennial
SouthernGal 8 months ago
Sort of like childbirth, when looking back you tend to remember the happy parts, not the pain. If not, most families would only have one child.
DrBronxx 8 months ago
Given the resurgence of right-wing politics in the last 10 years, I would say yes, absolutely. By no means perfect, but better.
Jeff Hunt 8 months ago
At the time I’m sure you were yelling at the sky about George Bush ushering in the end of the world.
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Says The Person Who Is Born In 2002 Or 2003
#67
Til That American Culture Peaked From 1998-2004
#68
So Gen Z Ruined The 2000s
Megalodon Meg 8 months ago
False, all the bad s**t we have now, we had then. We didnt fix s**t, if it did it would still be fixed.
#69
Western Animation Declined In The 21 Century!
#70
Didn’t The 80s And 90s Also Have Some Cr**py Animated Movies Back Then?
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
There are still amazing animated movies being put out. I haven't seen Minecraft (although both my kids have), but Inside Out 2 was AMAZING, imo better than the first one!
#73
This Is Like How Millennials Talked About Myspace And Aol Instant Messenger To Gen Z In The Previous Decade, And Now Zoomers Are Apparently Reciprocating That Ethos To Gen Alpha With S**t Like This
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
As an older Millennial, I...have no idea what any of these are.
#74
It's Not Even That Much Of A Change
#75
The 2nd Picture Has One Of The Dumbest Takes I’ve Seen
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Francois 8 months ago
Where is the mocking??? Do we need to mock the posts ourselves? I came here to be entertained not provide it. ;)
LillieMean 8 months ago
Wow, this was so toxic that I think I'm going to the hospital because I need chelation therapy.
Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
This is why I read the comments first, saves me a lot of negative energy! Thanks BPs 🙂
Dragons Exist 7 months ago
Why do so many fúcking idiots think that racism didn't exist or was fixed in the 90s
solace in rage 8 months ago
I mean, we did weather the Rodney King and OJ scandals and all come together for Occupy Wallstreet. That very much was a thing that happened. That is why corpos like blackrock and vanguard fund anything and everything related to gender or racial or identity politics. Fighting each other based on those new, unimportant issues keeps us from coming together and pushing against the real enemy again.
Paulina 7 months ago (edited)
Can someone explain to me why so many of these accuse the YOUNGEST generations of being racist?! That's... the opposite of what they're doing 🤨 Is this some kind of reverse psychology thing or what? 😅
Sheena Leversedge Wood 7 months ago
they have this weird idea that if people didn't stand up against racism it would just go away, and that people being decent to each other, and calling s****y people out for it are "making it worse"
Load More Replies... Francois 8 months ago
Where is the mocking??? Do we need to mock the posts ourselves? I came here to be entertained not provide it. ;)
LillieMean 8 months ago
Wow, this was so toxic that I think I'm going to the hospital because I need chelation therapy.
Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
This is why I read the comments first, saves me a lot of negative energy! Thanks BPs 🙂
Dragons Exist 7 months ago
Why do so many fúcking idiots think that racism didn't exist or was fixed in the 90s
solace in rage 8 months ago
I mean, we did weather the Rodney King and OJ scandals and all come together for Occupy Wallstreet. That very much was a thing that happened. That is why corpos like blackrock and vanguard fund anything and everything related to gender or racial or identity politics. Fighting each other based on those new, unimportant issues keeps us from coming together and pushing against the real enemy again.
Paulina 7 months ago (edited)
Can someone explain to me why so many of these accuse the YOUNGEST generations of being racist?! That's... the opposite of what they're doing 🤨 Is this some kind of reverse psychology thing or what? 😅
Sheena Leversedge Wood 7 months ago
they have this weird idea that if people didn't stand up against racism it would just go away, and that people being decent to each other, and calling s****y people out for it are "making it worse"
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