Remember that time when everybody was just massively obsessed with the 80s for some reason?
>>218214578>for some reasonYou mean, because they were far superior to the current year in almost every way? Yes, I remember.
that's when Gen Xers were at their prime in the entertainment industry
>>218215430Yeah private equity didn't own as much of the world back then
>>218214578Because the most popular tv show at the time (Stranger Things) was all about 80s nostalgia?
>>218214578Does Michael J. Fox have Tourettes or is that the guy from Ferris Bueller?
>>218214578The 90s were literally the last great decade of American prosperity. Of course people are nostalgic about the 90s, the 80s, the 70s, the 60s, and the 50s, and the 40s, and the 30s, and the 20s, and the 10s. Every goddamn decade since then has been an utter fucking disaster, starting with 9/11. 9/11 is the reason aliens won't come and visit us.
>>218216188>Yeah private equity didn't own as much of the world back thenAlso, crack was brand new and Somalian niggers hadn't invaded the US yet.
>>218214578Yeah I remember the years 1990-2026.
Back to the future is meant to be one of the best scripts written
>>218217867I'm still blown away at how Minnesotans are willing to die for people that came to their state very, very recently and has since then only existed as a parasitic growth. I've never heard of Somalian cuisine, Somalian music, Somalian cultural traditions. Their people offer nothing to Minnesota, and yet people will die for them.
>>218214578The 80s were fucking good, bruh
>>218214578Your example is the perfect answer. Back to the Future was nostalgic for the '50s. Happy Days, Grease. Made around the same time. Also '50s nostalgia. Nostalgic trends are cyclical. Obviously because they're catering to an emerging consumer base who fondly remember their youth. Go outside, you'll see Y2K fashion. What's old is new again. This has always been. Couple decades ago becomes cool again.
>>218217813The 1910s fucking sucked. The 1920s rocked.
>>218214578GenX midlife crisis but were over it now. Youre turn millenials
>>218218168>i dont know anything about these people.>i dont understand would people would defend their own neighbors.>everyone else is ignorantK bro
>>218218192Yeah 1955 Hill Valley is idyllic but it's a shithole in 1985 with lots of closed down businesses and a homeless guy sleeping on a bench. I guess it's still miles better than whatever 2025 Hill Valley would look like though.
I love Back to the Future, Bros.
>>21821457880s kids never got over their childhoods
>>21821781350s nostalgia was HUGE but I can't really think of much for the 60s and 70s. Other than That 70s Show and some generalized hippie stuff. Those were pretty shit decades for most people with Vietnam going on and lots of industries shedding jobs, high inflation, the oil crisis, etc.
>>218218655There was for sure a nostalgic '70s revival in the '90s. At least a bit. I'm watching Homicide: Life on the Street right now. From the '90s. And a 'sode I watched couple days ago, there's this scene where one of the detectives has a big rant about women all wearing platform shoes and bellbottoms again. That '70s revival lacks originality, they should be going forward to the new millennium. Not backwards. And there was Britpop like Oasis who labelled as just being Beatles clones. Which is '60s, but still.
>>218216102I don't recall the 90's getting as much shit. Soon the 2000's will be in the same boat
>>218214578Is anyone else pissed that Michael J Fox is always drunk? What a piece of shit it’s so disrespectful to his fans of which I am no longer one of them.
>>218214578I member. This is the best thing Seth Macfarlane ever did. He owns the original DeLorean.
>>218214578>that time It's still ongoing. There's a subset of Gen x and millennials that pretend stuff like The Goonies is the greatest thing in history
>>218220500On its own or compared to anything modern?
we live in the "permanent now", take for example american graffiti a film made in 1972, a movie nostalgic about the mid 60s and treating it as some long bygone era, thats how fast eras used to progress before the 00s, that's why you are only allowed to be nostalgic about the 80s and nothing after that
>>218222574There are a lot of counter-examples against that.
>>2182181922000s fashion is amazing with the girl tummy and thongs and miniskirts Now I also fuck those girls which I couldn’t do back then And they’re the same age!
>>218214578I still am massively obsessed with the past because the future has turned out to be so terrible.
>>218218379>20252015 hill valley was a no-go area akin to compton
>>218218251>The 1910s fucking sucked. The 1920s rocked.The 1910s had the most kino war in history, while the 1920s had commies, prohibition, and feminists.
oldfag here, 80s has had a resurgence every 10 years since 2000s. The only difference is that now, which makes me feel weird, is zoomers post 2000-04 highschool videos like we had some great childhood or that 911 didnt fundamentallly ruin everything. Probably the same feeling the 60-80s years old about 80s. What was a decade culture before only lasts weeks or months now. 80s pop, cocaine culture is last palpable decade to consume. The 90s were great but lets not kid ourselves, its on the level of 70s with aesthetics, its not fun, its niche. The 80s will repeat over and over
>>218216631Michael has Parkinsons
Everyone is still obsessed with the 80's.It's just that kids now are getting a version of the 80's that's two or three steps removed from the actual 80's, so they have a completely warped idea of what everything was.>dude, I'm a goth!>dresses like a vaguely goth themed prostitute, and listens to nu-metal from the 00's
>>218214578The 80s was consumerist conformity hell.All the retarded but at least healthy anti-government/corporation trends of the 60s and 70s fell flat when the boomers grew up and became rich and their children had mass produced new toys and entertainment instead of healthy rebellion against ”the man”.Gen X is a truly cursed generation and they will be remembered for nothing.
>>21822396870's and 90's aesthetics might be my favourite, actually. Very comfortable decades. Woody decades.
>>218218192The 80’s had 50’s nostalgia but didn’t drag that nostalgia into the 2000s. Our culture has been obsessing over the 80’s for longer than the actual decade has lasted at this point. Are we still going to be worshiping 80’s aesthetic in the 2040s?
>>218219586this is the only thing i remember from that movie
this clip of Jim Carrey on Space Ghost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_1dTn9QbpQIs where my brain goes when I think of the 90's.
>>218224382that stranger things spinoff "tales from '85" with a very obviously current-year dangerhair as the protagonist is a bad recent offender of this
>>218224397they were even beaten into the white house by millenials
>>218218379>2025 Hill Valley would be literally abandoned like every small town. It's got one dispensary Biff's grandson who's the only person who stayed in town after high school works at.
>>218224397It depended what side of the Reaganite divide you fell on. While some (a minority, really) thought it was hell, plenty of people were swept along by Reagan and the "morning in America" optimistic bullshit. After Watergate, America suffered a crisis of confidence for the first time but by 1980 people were tired of all the introspection and just wanted to believe again.
>>218224695>After Watergate, America suffered a crisis of confidenceBased Carter-poster
>>218223050Babes wearing tight '00s fashion. Midriff exposing. Nice. But, It's not like babes ever stopped wearing skimpy club outfits. Just a slightly different style. Hate the '00s baggy though. Hideous. Fashion peaked with 2009 twee tumblr Williamsburg hipsters. I will die on that hill.
>>218219460>I don't recall the 90's getting as much shitAs a "90's kid" seeing older generations go on and on about their favored decade and having nostalgia revivals all the time where they declare it the best time for humanity just cringed me out. I assume other people who grew up at the same time felt the same way and didn't want to come off as some old fogy obsessing over the same fucking songs over and over and so vetoed the while idea of "celebrating the 90's" in favor of just continuing to like what they liked from the time and not making a big deal about it as a whole.Gaming still peaked in 98 though.
>>218224824I think part of the problem is the 90s doesn't have a particularly distinct visual style, at least of fashion. Even as a boomer growing up then, if someone says "90s fashion!" to me, all I can really think of is... baggy clothes?
>>218224970I think you are forgetting all the wind breakers and Starter jackets....and how turquoise everything was in the early part. Then baggy clothes and Spice Girl stuff.
>>218225051I don't remember wind breakers and Starter jackets seems very American to me. Retarded looking Oakleys were a thing too, I guess? The Matrix goth/leather looks came too late in the decade to really be a 90s things as well.
>>218224437Hard to escape that since anything made after it has been worse
>>218224824Inevitably someone was born when things were better, whenever you place that era
>>218224970>I think part of the problem is the 90s doesn't have a particularly distinct visual style, at least of fashion.Watch Fresh Prince if you want to see the quintessential 90s style
The 90s had it's nostalgia obsession the only difference is 90s kids were doing it on the internet and not through late night TV, this video is almost 15 years old and it's making fun of how everyone was so obsessed with the 90s on the internethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pa6SGYWADU
>>218224970lol wat
>>218214578Being obsessed with recent decades has been a thing for a while now. It’s how consumers with no personality can feel superior to other consumers with no personality.
>>218226997Obsessing with products made when products were good definitely makes them better, even if it doesn't give them a personality
>>218227050Obsessing about products is never good. Also these people aren’t actually interested in the era, they just want to be seen being interested in the era. It’s surface level; it’s vanity.
>>218218192>Go outside, you'll see Y2K fashion. What's old is new again. This has always been. Couple decades ago becomes cool againThis is just not true. The media was sucking off the 80's in the 2000's and twenty something years later, all nostalgia bait is still 80's focused.
>>218218379taken over by liberals and low-income browns, and the mcfly home is now worth $2m (in the timeline they weren’t even rich)
>>218218168Oh look more racist shitbags hating on a group he didn’t give two shits about until his group just randomly decided to focus all their energy to be hateful against them
>>21822742080s nostalgia didn’t really gain traction until about 2011. it was a slow build up before then, and that’s what you’re witnessing with Y2K nostalgia now
>>218218379We didn't get Hill Valley 2015 we got alternate 1985 (and not because of the Hollywood executive Biff Tannen is named after, that Bob Gale lied and said was based on trump)
>>218218168White guilt is powerful
>>218218655The Wonder Years was channeling 60s nostalgia and 50s-60s retro sometimes blurred together like 80s-90s did in the 2010s. If you played Playstation 1 its 1990s game library was filled with 1970s retro
>>218224970early, mid, and late 90s have a quite different style
>>218227420drive around your local college, zoomies dropped 2010s skinny jeans for 2000s baggy pants and bare tummys. But right now y2k retro isn't as strong as the 80s in the 2010s
>>218215430>"greed is good" the decadeyeah great times
>>218218373>>218227930Nta. Imagine simping for FGMistan and calling yourself a liberal lmao
>>218224970colourful shirts, with slightly garish patterns. Often some kind of African influence, because people hadn't decided that was racist yet.Full leather outfits being basically the coolest thing ever.Short gelled hair, or the Leon Kennedy parting.Flannel and denim, if you were more into grunge or skater punk.
>>218224824I really feel like the 90's basically never ended.The Simpsons is still on.South Park is still on. Conan O'Brian is still on TV. Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves are still pretty big stars. Pokemon is still the biggest media franchise in the world. All of the 90's sci-fi shows all feel perfectly current and watchable. Sopranos feels perfectly current and watchable. 90's sitcoms feel perfectly current and watchable.What did we lose, really? Apart from everything just getting increasingly stale.
>>218224970Early 90s - Saved by the BellMid 90s - Nirvana Late 90s - Hackers, The Matrix, Blade, Run Lola Run
>>218214578It won't end either. It was the best decade and everyone who was there knows it. 80s nostalgia began in 1992. Look up the films of 1985 and have a good cry after you see what's offered today at your local shitterplex.
>>218220500The Goonies alone, as compared to anything put out today, practically is the greatest thing in history.
>>218228874early stage
>>218224695>After Watergate, America suffered a crisis of confidenceSo what about today's Pedogate and our ruling Pedocracy?
>>218224970I'd argue aesthetics stalled and we've been stuck at the late 90s since.Our world doesn't that much different from the one portrayed in the Matrix (and yes I know the "peek" reference).
>>218229445This is correct. My life alone is a combination of the late 70s-80s, but most of the tech I use came out in the 90s, or had their roots in it.
