Gen Xers used to consider 1998-2004 the downfall of pop culture and the cancerous teen pop / nu metal / trl / mike scully simpsons era. People kept saying "1993-1997 was the true 90s" or "That 98-99 pokemon britney nsync crap wasn't true 90s, felt more like proto-2000s".
But nowadays, you have people in their late 20s on Buzzfeed/Twitter saying 1998-2004 was the golden age of pop culture or "the 90sest era ever", and consider anything before 1998 to be outdated/overrated/not interesting for them. A complete reversal in opinions.
I'm 29 and find it weird when people my age larp about the 90s as if it was the decade they graduated. Then again I don't because I used to do the same thing online when I was 13 and trying to fit in with people who were actual teenagers then (and whos heads in turn were stuck back in the 80s / early 90s, you wouldn't believe the amount of nostalgiamongering going on around stuff like the A Team, Hulk Hogan etc. it actually lasted well into the late 00s when those guys were about the same age I am now)
Austin Hall
Who cares. The 90s sucked.
Lincoln Gutierrez
the 70s is 1971 - 1980 the 80s is 1981 - 1990 the 90s is 1991 - 2000 This is very fucking simple. There's no "feel" to it. Just because you "feel" that 1912 is "totally the 19th century" doesn't change the fact that it isn't.
Mason Cook
You posted this exact same shit yesterday and nobody cared Go to twitter, 9gag or ifunny to post That shit, maybe they will care for that
Blake Rogers
2010-2013 was the downfall of culture
Isaac Ortiz
there have been two stages in the downfall >May 1998 when Episode 1 was released >2008 when the iPhone was released
Lucas Flores
>meme wars Who fucking cares, Star Wars was never good.
Jayden Baker
Is it news to you that people idolize the culture that dominated their youth above all else? Give it a few more years and people coming behind this generation will say the mid-2000s was the peak of pop culture and it will still be no more true than when people in the 1940s were saying shit like this.
Colton Bailey
*ahem* wrong
Grayson Hill
Nah man, ignorant
Cooper Brown
>the mid-2000s was the peak of pop culture People are already saying this, Try the 10s
Jeremiah Robinson
this
Austin Gray
The 70s are the ones that start 197- including 1970 but not 1980 and so on for subsequent decades We didn’t celebrate the new millennium at the end of 2000 and the start of 2001
Camden Ward
Actually the downfall began with the first Star Wars movie in 1977 because it helped to create the franchise culture that has ruined everything
John Ward
2010-2015 for me it’s most the most kino experience i ever had if only i had a internet when 2006-2007 then i would say that’s my kinoest year.
Why does everyone idolize the 90s? People who lived through it seemed depressed as shit. Look at all the gloomy music that came out of it like Shoegaze, slowcore, grunge, black metal, radiohead, numetal, post-rock, emo, etc etc
Alexander Morgan
because when compared to today it was 100x better. Everything just keeps getting worse and worse. Things were better then but everyone just didn't realize it. Perspectives.
Julian Cooper
old good new bad
Jaxson Campbell
Says every generation ever
David Robinson
Doesn't mean they're wrong
Matthew Richardson
this time it's true though
Gavin Peterson
wow op, you might be a literal genius. You might have an iq of like 160 or something, you figured out that as time goes by, people get nostalgic for different things! Woah! Call the Nobel prize committee! I didn’t know this until you spammed Yea Forums with a million charts graphing this!!!! WOWWIE ZOWWIE!!
Hudson Cooper
The 2004 end point is a bit of a stretch but I think the cultural effects of the 90s didn't leave rural and suburban areas until later. Thought that point was actually 2001. 2002 was the transitional period and 2003 was the new beginning. I'd easily make the same argument for what we know of the 80s really transitioned into the 90s was 92.
