90s "Vibes" - Non-fiction shows from the decade

[Kofi Drinka]

Nigger, that was my literal childhood. I turn 35 today. You're hardcore projecting, you weren't there, and it shows.

So you were a literal baby for the early to mid 90s. You have to be born in the previous decade to have any real memory of that era. Being 5 isn't the same as being 15 or 25 in an era.

 

[Idiotron]

politics being about petty shit with no president that actually fucked everyone for decades

Politics especially is a bad example because of how little has changed over the last 30 years.
Read up a little on the things you've missed, there was a lot of horrible shit but nobody had a way to fact check the TV and talk about it with people from other cities/nations all the time.

To me, the 90's thing that brings me the most nostalgia is this:

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

So you were a literal baby for the early to mid 90s. You have to be born in the previous decade to have any real memory of that era. Being 5 isn't the same as being 15 or 25 in an era.

Move those goalposts further, faggot. I'm sure this will lend your argument credence.
FYI, everything made between 90-95 didn't just magically disappear when '96 rolled in. Creations of that time were built to last in both use and memory. Games, movies, books could be enjoyed all the way throughout the entire decade, even more for the latter two. It's not my issue your zoomer brain was eroded with chemicals to such a degree that you already don't remember your childhood.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Move those goalposts further, faggot. I'm sure this will lend your argument credence.
FYI, everything made between 90-95 didn't just magically disappear when '96 rolled in. Creations of that time were built to last in both use and memory. Games, movies, books could be enjoyed all the way throughout the entire decade, even more for the latter two. It's not my issue your zoomer brain was eroded with chemicals to such a degree that you already don't remember your childhood.

Calling someone a zoomer with brain rot is an interesting response to someone older than you.

Those things didn't disappear but a child's experience and a teenager and adult experience is very different. Children don't experience the real world, they've sheltered and have a very different experience.

One thing I forgot to mention was Reality TV existed in the form of Jerry Springer and other dramatic stage shows. They were booming in the 90s and arguably one of the top TV genres. "Reality TV" took the format and applied it to an outside setting rather than a studio.

Where is the nostlagia for the sports of the era? The hype of Football in the 90s is wildly different to today. Where teams still had white players. Wrestling hype? One of the biggest things of the 90s? The reason many got Sky (cable). Watching WWF and seeing Hulk Hogan, Undertaker and Bret Hart were a huge deal. They sold TVs and Sky subscriptions like nothing else. Where is all this nostalgia? The actual culture of the time, especially for kids and teenagers is never what people are nostalgic for. It's just things they downloaded from the internet and wish they were around for.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Sky

oh we're talking about filthy Europe things
my bad

 

[StarkRavingMad]

As a 90s kid myself, I want to make fun of all of the 90's nostalgia crap because it's so in-your-face and so many act cringey about it ... But then I look at comparisons to what the world looked like back then compared to today (where everything looks drab and downright colorless), and I'm like "they have a bit of a point ..."

 

[I'm Retarded?]

nostalgia is, by definition, a fanciful ideal constructed from cherry-picked and half-remembered symbols and bits of information. 90s nostalgia is great. the 90s itself were pretty cool, but the nostalgia is definitely better.

one thing the memberberries never mention is how fucking fake everything was back then. something that's hugely changed between then and now is how the constant barrage of online advertisement has made everyone immune to marketing. in the 90s, that didn't exist. marketing was shoved down your throat at every fucking turn, in movies and music, in shows and celebrities, absolutely everywhere. and it worked. all the era's most popular music acts were astroturfed garbage like Britney Spears or the Backstreet Boys. TV shows were all derivative as hell. the 90s was the peak of the sitcom, because the laugh track worked so well on gen Xers and boomers that they watched that shit religiously. everyone had a fucking sitcom. 90s meme culture was people just singing annoying commercial jingles or laughing hysterically whenever somebody referenced stupid shit from TV like the fucking Ally McBeal dancing baby. yes, plenty of culture today is fake and gay, but in the 90s, that's all there was. the nostalgia is better. trust the word of an oldfag.

To me, the 90's thing that brings me the most nostalgia is this:

this but the radio edit because saying F*CK was still extremely haram in polite society to the point where 90s rebel type public personalities staked their entire fucking image on it. you'd have bands like Korn putting out songs that say shit like ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT FUCKING but then they'd have to release an edit with cut or censored or altered lyrics so they could be played on the radio in much lamer form. and they had this attitude like they were hardcore animals that just didn't give a FREAK despite doing this. and there was this gay ass cultural dissonance where this kind of thing was acknowledged as popular culture but with this defensive distance because people thought your kids hearing some faggy rock star saying fuck too many times would turn them into drug addicts or something. the TV news would show beta reel of music store shelves full of CDs with the PARENTAL GUIDENCE: EXPLICIT CONTENT! label while some woman with immaculate hair and huge shoulderpads interviewed some retarded pastor who just shook his head in fatherly disapproval at the evils of modern culture

The 90's were the best decade ever (for America, sorry if you live in a shithole country)

Movies, music, the internet, the cell phone, people wearing neon colors, fanny packs (no idea why something so practical is seen as lame now), no people making being gay or an APOC (fucking kill me) as their whole identity. MTV not sucking, reality TV being non existent, unique cars, radio music, politics being about petty shit with no president that actually fucked everyone for decades. Cable TV with no ads, the birth of youtube being for people just fucking around and having fun without trying to make a career of it. Low housing prices, jobs that anyone could get and paid well, and people just enjoying life instead of doom scrolling all day.

Thread tax. Remember infomercials? The thing that showed up on TV at 2 AM, and tried to sell you some piece of shit like it was the most amazing thing ever. With a full studio audience. And you watched that shit. Because it was 2 AM, and you had nothing else to do.

I refuse to believe this is a serious post

 

[invisibult plus+]

I barely remember the 90's, but whenever I watch media from the 80's or 90's people sound... normal? It probably has something to do with the kinds of people making it now, but even in 00's media, people would talk normally.

 

[The Grognard]

My Summer Car is entirely built on this and it is a pitch-perfect reconstruction of rural mid-90's Finland.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Vibes was released in 1988. It was pretty good. Even though it was PG, I'm pretty sure it had some egregious titty shots in it (could be mixing it up with something else though). Does have Julian Sands, who's always awesome (as Julian Sands), and Peter Falk for one day of filming, I'd imagine. While it was a box office bomb (earning ~$2M on an $18M budget), and never really gained a cult following, I enjoyed it, and it actually had some decent and fun ideas in it as a proto-cape movie.

 

[PovertySprocket]

We looked way cooler than these fucking kids today, and the fact that they think their "vibes" are anything like our immaculate style, is frankly a fucking insult on par with the Holocaust. This is what we looked like. Anyone telling you otherwise, was friendless and poor.

Reject the fake ass Nickelodeon Slime nostalgia, embrace 90s Xtreme edge.

 

[Breadbassket]

When one goes far back enough in history, they will find themselves exploring the remnants of a "world" that no longer exists. One can only wonder how the 2020s will be seen in the 2050s.

 

[oldTireWater]

Liquid Television presents the CGI future.

If you think this sucks . . . don't worry, it was a nonsensical, un-funny fever dream back then too. At least it gave us Beavis and Butthead.

The same people who pretended to like this also pretended to like They Might Be Giants.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Reject modernity.


Embrace tradition.


Edit: I thought it was a general thing then I saw it was Multimedia. Can it stay though?

 

[The Backwards Man]

Bring back pop-up headlights
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This and old sodium yellow street lights are the only 90's things that were worth soyjaking over.
The few beamers that had them look so much better than the fat-looking gay brown-coded M3's.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

the 90s was the peak of the sitcom, because the laugh track worked so well on gen Xers and boomers that they watched that shit religiously.

Or maybe because times were so good we could just laugh without thinking more deeply.

I'm sorry but there has never been anything comparable to Frasier or Seinfeld in the 25 years since. Maybe Arrested Development or IASIP.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

One thing you've likely gathered from stuff I've posted is that I miss the lack of "smartphones", "social media", and "social justice" in the '90s. Although I don't miss the really early internet that was pretty much just text and images -- and maybe short crappy vids -- over dialup modem (though the 'net then was more varied and decentralized).

 

[sherwoods110]

I barely remember the 90's, but whenever I watch media from the 80's or 90's people sound... normal? It probably has something to do with the kinds of people making it now, but even in 00's media, people would talk normally.

This does not get talked about enough. I am so sick of hearing vocal fry and uptalk. Just a constant reminder of the societal decay that we are living through. I miss the '90s, too.

 

[Quijibo69]

'Member Steven Spielberg cartoons, I member! Freakazoid is still the best one.

 

[Rusty Hinges]

Reject modernity.
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Embrace tradition.
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Edit: I thought it was a general thing then I saw it was Multimedia. Can it stay though?

For as annoying as 90s kids can be when talking about their youth, there is something to be said about oversimplification in modern design. McDonald's today has more in common with Starbucks than the N64 kiosks and PlayPlaces of yesteryear. It's as if they went out of their way to make their aesthetic as mundane as possible.