>zoomers will never know how good we had itYou just had to be there.
watis this an ad? are you a bot?
Losing this experience is more about the concerted effort by multiple industries and cabals to make in person social interactions unnecessary. This has nothing to do with CRT TVs, VHS, physical media as a whole, or anything else this image is trying to imply.
>>217788937>watching BttF with your gf
>>217788986>uhhh uuhhh its not, its not about physacal mediuh, its about, its about uhhh, makign being around people illegull!?No, you fucking moron, its about physical mediaIf you have a working tv set and VCR, you can use those things to watch movies on VHS tapes you own, if you think the movies and tv shows you watch which are hosted on a server farm in Utah are going to still be there in 10 years I have some swampland in Louisiana I'd like to get off my hands
>>217788986It's about tailoring "experiences" to individuals so they can sell personalized ads to everyone
>>217788951>zoomers think everything is an advertisementGrim
>>217788937millennial here. I don't miss that at all.
>>217788937The only "good" thing was the physical media couldnt be edited to remove "problematic elements" years after its release. Donald Trump is edited out of home alone>Hurr that fits MY ideology so thats finekys commie. Many 60s and 70s films have been edited on streaming sites to remove language considered "racist" now. You cannot rewrite history commies. It always comes back to bite you in the ass.
>>217788937>filmed vertically>>:(
>>217788937These clips are so creepy. Ersatz archival footage. They can erase history so easily by inventing fake memories. GHOST IN THE SHELL
>>217789040How did you come into possession of Louisiana swampland?
>>217789111Yeah, same. I think only kids who were babies in the early 2000s think there's something wholesome or useful about shitty CRT TV's and a tiny limited amount of movies that you have to watch with your annoying family until the tapes wear out. At the same time, I just pirate what I want now. I have access to more softcore sex comedies now than any Blockbuster in history.
>>2177889371955>70mm is just the beginning, I hope my children get to watch movies in something higher than 12288x51421985>Oh boy a new movie, I can't wait to watch it in 480i on my screeching 22" living room shitbox
>>217789345>I have access to more softcore sex comedies now than any Blockbuster in history.Name five.
>>217788937light used to be yellow. all of it, the sun, the stars. now it's all white, clinical. It's not clear why the world changed into a dentist office, but it has
>>217788951It's ragebait but you're doing good for at least spotting that something is off with this thread.
>>217789478People still went to cinema in 1985, you dumb fuck
>>217789478>>217789620Vhs just meant that you could see your favorite movie more than once in 20 years.
My video rental store had a fucking fee if you didn't return a VHS tape fully rewound.
>HEY, WELCOME BACK TO THE 90SHate that shit
>>21778893725 years ago I went to my local video shop twice a week to pick up two films at a time. Once a week I went to the cinema. Then on Saturday I went to Woolworths and bought three films on VHS.
>>217789642This guy doesn't return his shopping carts
>>217788937I'm a zoomer and I grew up with VHS, CDs, streaming, flip phones, smart phones, renting movies at family video then redbox etc. Thinking back it was somewhat interesting growing up as a kid with all the old stuff while new things were also being introduced.
>>217789681I'm actually autistic about returning carts because I was a bag boy when I was like 16.
>>217788937Isn’t this literally from an AIPAC ad? Very subtly done, OP.
>>217788937>dude, our consooom was better than their consoom!Fuck off with your kiddy shit.
>>217789707broke ass nigga alert
>>217789111Basedllennial too. I miss the fact that movies were decent 20-30-40 years ago, and now they're most dogshit. The old technology I don't miss as much.
>>217789697>I'm actually autisticNo, you are not
>>217788937Nothing like a vertical video to remind you of the good old days
>>217788937Who the fuck had a literal office drop ceiling in their fucking house??
I miss literally nothing about watching movies on VHS on a tiny-ass 30 inch CRT other than the fact that the movies that were coming out then were vastly better.I was a laserdisc enjoyer, I always thought VHS looked like hot garbage.
>>217789084I hope zoomers are that aware.
>>217788951an ad for what?
>>217788937The fact that the VHS part has a warm and cozy lighting when the streaming one is cold and sterile really says a lot.
>>217790208>i don't know what it says but it sure is "a lot"
Me except it's the porkies shower scene and my dick is in my hand.
>>217788937I just miss when everyone didn't look like a fat stupid retard. I recently watched a friends video he took of us when we went to Virginia to see Blink 182 in 2008. Everyone we met was at worst kinda chubby but mostly they were skinny and didn't look haggard, even the 711/McDonald's crowds. Nowadays even the people in the gym look like diseased whales.
>>217790201Hell.
>>217788986This nigga gets it. >>217789040This nigga does not.
I do sometimes wonder what the world would be like now if the internet had never entered private use. How a mostly analogue world would have developed.
>>217788937>all that light and glare while watching a moviegrim
Everything was better when it was impossible to access everything in an instant.
>>217788937Is this an ad for netflix or a dystopia warning?
>>217791881>I do sometimes wonder what the world would be like now if the internet had never entered private use. How a mostly analogue world would have developed.
>>217788937This except everyone is sitting alone.
>>217788937I still have a big ole wood-style 'entertainment center'. Bigger than the one in the clip. Unfortunately there's nowhere to place a big screen tv. And it's too tall to place on the top. I want to keep but I don't know how to make it work. It is quite the conundrum.
>>217789642yes, people need to follow rules. that's what makes a harmonious society.
>>217792265sorry your family didn't love you
>>217788986>>217789040you will own nothing and you'll be happy
>>217788937that looks accurate, i'm too young to remember the 80s but i heard it was very orangey
>>217788937>small tv>VHSlets be honest most people dont miss thoseyou can simply not connect your current tv to internet and connect bluray player to it
>>217789786nostalgia is one hell of a drug
>>217792936You know what's possible now, there's no going back
>>217792768Too bad your projecting got in the way of your understanding of the present tense.
>>217788986This. The peak was actually going to parties with friends and someone popping on a Mario Kart Wii disk or Halo or COD: Black Ops I, or a 21 Jump Street/Tropic Thunder movie watch along at a boy's sleepover. DVDs were the shit, because they had all the special features, were good quality, and still provided social experiences. VHS was okay, but to me, I'll associate more with watching it alone as a kid when you're sick. Crop and scans also sucked for VHS. It was cool going to thrift stores and getting VHS tapes though. -t. 2002 born zoomer who was right at the tail end of the millennial culture
>>217789551I saw a thread about how all the street lights are blue or white these days, but that's certainly not the case where I live. I'd say about 50% are still yellow, and yes, they're all LEDs. They also seem to be deliberately mixed.
>>217788986The overall effect is not a deliberate effort, but the result of social media, technology and having access to an endless amount of entertainment from your own home. It would have happened one way or another, unless a powerful, authoritarian regime deliberately tried to stop it, and even then, it would be self-defeating due to the economic impact it would have.Sure, there are individuals and corporations with their own agenda, but that mostly revolves around making people use and pay for their products or services.The same shit happened when the TV became commonplace, given that it gave people a reason to stay home and remain passive in front of the TV all evening (or even during the daytime for women), rather than socializing, participating in the local community or pursuing hobbies during their free time. There's a reason it was such a common target for satire and criticism back in the 80s and 90s.
>>217788937Should have made the present day dude black
>>217788937>consuming 1990s:O>consuming 2020s:)Yeah, the future is shit and is going to be worst, but knock it off with your obsession of being at home and watching kikefilms in the past. Nostalgiafag.
>>217789301>Donald Trump is edited out of home aloneNo he's not?
>>217789040Swampland in LA is plentiful tho?
>>217790283Yeah thisIf they aren't fat but they could be high on like 16 different steroids and chemicals and then just be like a parody of manhood and still ugly as hell.
>>217788937>volume at 36>not at 35 or 40What the fuck is wrong with them?
>>217788937>not using the remote controlThis is an ad for retards>>217789040if you're torrenting and storing, the ratio of owned to borrowed media is probably the same as in the 90s, most people did not buy the VHS of everything they watched, you'd only have the most popular (if you had kids), the randomly taped and then most of it would be borrowed from a friend or a rental service.
>>217789642so? It took 0 effort to press rewind and go make a sandwich or something, I only saw the rewind machine like twice in the 90s no use for it.
>>217789696yeah if you're late millenial or early zoomer and depending on your local situation, the media change happened just as you were beginning to become a real person.
>>217790283just step out of the USA for a bit bud, most other countries don't have the same amount of fatties
>2025>I am forgotten by all except poor chinks who lived through the 00s
>>217795502It's just lazy cunts. Why wouldn't you rewind it? If it was your tape, you'd rewind.
>>217795581completely agree, because of dicks like that I remember the store had a small demo area where you could pop your tape and check if it was rewound. They had a little rewinder right next to it too.To be fair though, most of the non-rewound tapes were kid movies, kids forget this stuff.
>>217789642Smart. Better to have thousands of people spend 1 minute rewinding, then have 1 person spend thousands of minutes rewinding.
Ignore demoralizing threads until nose is posted.
>>217788937do people really watch their phone while watching a movie?
>>217795554I miss when technology was silver. It always looks futuristic. Now thanks to Apple everything is just black or white and it makes me want to die.
>>217793181>know what's possible nowLG stopped making 8k televisions because no one was buying them, so they did find a threshold to go back tohttps://www.pcmag.com/news/lg-stops-making-8k-tv-panels-as-next-gen-tech-slowly-fizzles-out
>>217795867It looked like fucking shit, because it was just painted plastic. Silver would have been cool, but that's not what it looked like. Besides, brushed metal looks much better.
>>217795867it depended a lot on the brand though, my dad mostly had sony and panasonic stuff from the late 90s/early 00s and it was all black with darkgold lettering.Modern tech is pretty bland though yeah, all of it looks like it's trying to self-efface as much as possible without the fun-weird gimmicks they used to try to set themselves apart.
>>217788937Dude back then girls barely shaved their pubic hair. Odds were when you pulled her panties off you'd be confronted by this big afro bush.
>>217795812yes, it is slightly annoying if you're supposed to both be watching the movie. Weirdly enough it doesn't bother me if someone does this during a conversation
>>217795812Ever been to a movie theater in the last 20 years?
>>217796039Yea, I don't see it there must be an American thing.>>217795978>Weirdly enough it doesn't bother me if someone does this during a conversationwhat
No one had a combo in their living room. The TV sat on top of the cabinet, with the VCR on the shelf directly underneath and two shelves, either side of the VCR, with blank tapes, in faux book covers.
>>217795740It actually wasn't. Many smarter, privately-owned video stores had stickers on their tapes that said "Be Kind, DON'T Rewind". The reasoning behind this is that after a tape has been in your VCR for an 100+ minutes, it's been heated up and is more prone to damage from the high-speed rewind function. Immediately rewinding a tape after it had been played could cause tons of wear in an instant.Big companies like blockbuster didn't give a fuck about this, but a small, mom and pop rental shop would rather invest in a handful of dedicated rewind machines and keep their tapes in good condition, especially since many of them might stay in rotation for 10+ years.
>>217796217What do I do with this information now
>>217795812Literally every human on earth
>>217796268only weak ones.
>>217796217>>217796247This read like a reddit comment, the formatting. And "fun facts" that the poster finds self-rewarding and safe.
>>217788937I get I'm pushing 30 (21) but I thought most older zoomers grew up with this technology?
>>217796247shove it up your ass, Larry
>>217796053at work everyone has a phone on them at all times and we use them as much as our laptops to communicate about the tasks we are doing and whatever is happening in general, my friends are mostly in the same field and it's not the kind of job that stops when you go home. It's sad but I'm conditioned to see it as a normal part of existing, like wearing shoes and driving a car. Probably why it annoys me more that people use their phone during movies or dinner or in bed because those are supposed to be pockets of time set aside to be separate from the busyness of everyday life.
>>217796133towards the early 00s everyone had at least one of those cheap tv sets with a VCR integrated into the bottom. Later on, towards the end of the decade those integrated VCRs were replaced by an integrated DVD player in the same price range, saw a lot of those in college dorms for the people that didn't buy a console.
>old: yellow tint>new: blue tint
>>217789642my local video store had stickers that said "be kind, rewind!" to remind faggots
I made a tik tok of me pushing a VHS tape into a vcr and got over 500,000 views
>>217788937>You just had to be there.meaning there was nothing remarkable enough to explain, i just want to be mysterious and make people feel like they missed out something that never existed.
>>217789642and how could the prove it? it could be a scam to illegal profit
>>217788937>member berries>member berries>member berriesthere's some big jew psyop going on because all its been is member berries pushed everywhere all the timesomethings happening and I don't know what but its a fucking trap
>>217797822>>217798023Every generation is like this. You are not special. Reply if brown.
>>217789584100% ragebait but definitely not towards us, if it was they'd have made the girlfriend black
>>217788937the boomer version wouldn't involve watching the movie either because they'd be fucking in a car at a drive-in
>>217789111Video stores were awful and far more expensive than a given streaming service.I admit I miss the independent video stores because your choices were limited but you got exposed to stuff you otherwise wouldnt and would find cool things but video stores as a means of consuming media were just inferior in pretty well every way.
>>217788937Imagine living in a paradise of slop and then throwing it away
>>217789642Please, they must have not liked youI worked at video stores from 87-93 and I never once charged anyone for rewinding. Porno tapes were almost never rewound
>>217794755Seriously are all you dumbasses to young to even remember the term “boob tube?” Watching tv at home was considered to be as mind numbing as gaming is now. It’s up to you to touch grass and connect with people. But you don’t want to do it and refuse to understand how
My fondest memory from back then was actually buying bootleg VHS and DVDs from this one dude at a supermarket parking lot.I think I only ever went to blockbusters to check which new stuff I'd buy from that dude later.
>>217789642a lot of local ones did, that was their extra revenue to cover employee overheadvideo rentals shops were cash cows if they had high trafficblockbuster came in and knocked them off the streets because there was so much cash to be made
>>217788937It was fine when I was 15. I don't miss it at all now. Plus VCR is shit quality on HD tvs
>>217798098my local indie video store had > 100,000 unique titleshow many does your streaming service have?and my local video store didn't charge me every month if I didn't watch any movies
>it's either an ad and i'm too smart for it... or it's fuckin nostalgia uncfuckin broken robot zoomies, time to pull the plugg
>>217795029>Yeah, the future is shit and is going to be worst, but knock it off with your obsession of being at home and watching kikefilms in the past. Nostalgiafag.this is how you spot a zoomer. “nostalgia” translates to “i am so angry i missed out on the good times”. “kike” translates to “trust me i’m a fellow millennial”.
>>217788937My mom is 58 and does this shit
>drop ceiling>goodsmells like poverty in here
>>217788937Sagging ceiling tiles were pretty comfy now that I think about it
>>217789329>How did you come into possession of Louisiana swampland?Mario Kart 64
>>217798777>just have the air ducts all over the ceiling with birds nesting over it, INSTEAD OF BEING A POOR BOI
>>217795969BASED
>>217788937what's this trend of pretending disgusting 1970s oak walled rooms are le soul or even a 1990s thing?that shit was for poor white trash
>>217789642My grandpa made some good money selling clandestine pornos to the imitation Blockbusters in the 80s. He’d hire a hooker and pay some random dude to have sex with her, film it, then sell the video for more than what he paid them. He was a visionary, because one day he filmed a blonde lot lizard and a black trucker, and the video rental place owner (who for $5 would let you watch it for 30 mins in another room) told him to get more black dudes and white chicks because that video was being rented so much that he couldn’t keep up (he would make copies). By the 90s it was mostly interracial stuff back there. He would take a Polaroid of the hooker and the John and glue it to the tape. I watched one once and towards the end, instead of ejaculation being the “end” I clearly heard my grandpa say “do it!! Do it right now!!” And the black dude took a huge shit on the white woman’s chest. It was really bad quality, but for some reason, the black dude looked sadder the white chick that got shit ON. I always wonder if my grandpa started the whole no-story-just-sex interracial porn thing. Funny, because he was a family portrait photographer at sears. Made good money too.
There's a lot of things I agree with as far as the "old good new bad" sentiment goes but VHS was not one of them. The bigger problem with the switch to the future in that image is them being distracted brainlessly scrolling on their phones.
media > mediumit wasn't the way you watched it, but what you were actually watching, that is where the real decline is
>>217800319What anime is this?
>>217800328Ruroni Kenshin
>>217788937Zoomers will experience the legalizationnof pedophilia around the planet.For that, I kneel.
>>217800299I agree... I think any nostalgia people have for VHS is nostalgia for a time when movies were actually good
>>217800319>15 second shot of the sword>all those stillsand just when I thought japs couldn't become even bigger cheapskates, it gets worse every year kek
>>217788937>36that shit is loud as fuck
>>217800372impossible, unless public education would be dismantled completely (that's why "age of consent" meme exists in the first place, for useful retards who were given things for free not to mess with state property)
>>217788937>vertical phonefag video for tiktok>nostalgiabaitingkys
>>217789642I had a rewind machine that could bust that shit out in under 2 minutes, plus it saved your delicate VCR wear and tear.
The medium does matter, because even though it was shittier in many ways, you appreciated your limited VHS/DVD collection more. Now that streaming gives you access to an virtual infinite library, that subconciously causes you to significantly devalue it. We naturally value that which is harder to obtain.
>>217788937There were ads that you had to fast forward to back then to watch the movie, but yeah, basically.
>>217800999checkedalso back then you actually had film reviewers and shit, even if you did not agree with them at least it was a good reference pointtoday people just watch youtube slop movie reviews (at least they did last time I checked, today with chatgpt etc. who knows how bad it really became)
>>217795502Its purpose was to save wear and tear on the motors in your vcr. >>217796217My local mom and pop video store wanted you to rewind and fine you if you didn’t. >>217797969Uh, people that are valued customers will stop renting from them after getting hit with fees they don’t deserve, retard.
>>217789642it costs you nothing to not act like a nigger
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>>217798135When I was a teen the rental stores didnt have adult sections. The only porn I was interested in at the time though was hentai and they stock plenty of OVA with nudity in the foreign section.
>>217802810i believe Ghost in the Shell had nipples on the back cover of the DVD case, saw it in Hastings in 2000
>>217802875Yeah, I would rent practically everything and make copies. My favorite was Slayers the Movie.
>>217795898Fucking gottem
