Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Beavis and Butthead on the bus? Too young to remember hearing people yell beefcake in the hall and being toxic as all fuck because the South Park episode they saw the night before? Did you not have a kid at your school seriously injure themselves doing something on Jackass?
How about get the fuck off my lawn.
My mom spent the 90s hating all those things. Dead on.
back in my day, our shitheads were cultured shitheads!
No, I can assure you they were just shitheads. Just a different flavor of shithead.
I remember being a child back then. Every little girl knew unix.
And specifically SGI UNIX, right?
Of course; what other filthy variant would children learn? /s
the hell? skibidi toilet ain’t rizz?
Playing outside became too dangerous and putting kids in front of screens became too easy. We got what we paid for.
Correction: People think that playing outside became too dangerous, but all kinds of crime stats are down since the 90s. Social norms changed to make people think there is more danger due to all the post-911 fear propaganda.
You’re right, but both can be true at the same time - if your acceptable level of risk is zero then playing outside is too dangerous
Don’t forget the satanic panic of the 80’s!
This. It doesn’t help that that perception is universal, and mfs will call Child Protective Services if you let your kids go to the park on their own.
And best hope you’re not a minority when they come knocking.
The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That’s what happened.
old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking
Didn’t seem to help the boomers any.
c/badlinguistics
Lack of old-fashioned parenting
Parents trying to influence their children positively now compete with billion-dollar-corporations and enemy nation states that have a direct feed line into their kid’s mind.
And if you don’t allow your kids a phone they’ll be socially isolated.
And if you don’t allow your kids a phone they’ll be socially isolated.
That is a crock of shit and an excuse used by lazy parents.
It’s not nearly as hard as it sounds, kids will adapt readily to parental involvement in their lives, and good parents share digital activities with their kids like playing online games together as well as taking them out to enjoy real life. I know a couple dads who play games with their kids every night, their older kids are close to the parents, they go out and do adventures all the time.
The problem is that many parents are also locked into the feeds from billion-dollar corporations and enemy nations.
Most people would want to break this cycle if they had half a brain and had the mental language skills to reason through their life issues and goals, but almost a quarter of adults in the US are functionally illiterate.
How can we possibly expect parents to provide guidance and hands-on understanding of what’s going on in their kid’s world when they can barely read anything more complicated than a shopping list or text? Not that many teens are better off, the same issue impacts many young people who may need special education to become more literate but face too much social pressure to even admit they’re having a hard time with learning and reading.
There are a lot of problems with the modern family unit that could be solved much more easily and with fewer resources than most of our other societal issues, with active work and conscious effort to make guidelines in a family for better outcomes, but that’s also the environment where it’s just as easy to scroll and forget your problems.
Every generation needs to distance itself from their progenitors in some original manner, language is the easiest to adapt.
Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watchingEtc, etc.
Not the '90s
Longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
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That is true though.
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It’s hard to find any fault in you for that. I’m so sorry you had to go through that situation, but I’m glad you’re still here with us. You are stronger than most.
“All your base are belong to us” is from the like '92
Did not reach widespread knowledge until 2001
Memes weren’t a thing in 92. Or their rough equivalent certainly weren’t called memes.
No but there was ASCII art and image macros. They just didn’t really have a name.
Before 2003ish, they were called “fads”! At least on YTMND, and SA.
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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us
From Know Your Meme:
“All Your Base Are Belong to Us” is a popular engrish catchphrase that grew popular across the internet as early as in 1998. An awkward translation of “all of your bases are now under our control”, the quote originally appeared in the opening dialogue of Zero Wing, a 16-bit shoot’em up game released in 1989. Marked by poor grammar, the “All Your Base” phrase and the dialogue scene went viral on popular discussion forums in 2000, spawning thousands of image macros and flash animations featuring the slogan both on the web and in real life.
The phrase and game footage used in the meme come from the 1992 port of the 1989 side-scrolling arcade shooter Zero Wing, released on the SEGA Mega Drive.
So, the saying DOES come from 1992, but the internet meme formation did not happen until 1998.
I was wrong of when that meme started, but I do remember the meme when I was playing ROBLOX in 2008. Also, memes use to last a lot longer then they do now as well. But thank you for correctly correcting me 👍
Yeah… I’m that old man on the porch yelling about how you kids read about that shit, but I lived through it. Of course there wasn’t a meme of it in 1992 because 56 kbps was considered blazing fast internet. You could literally watch an image being drawn line by line in your web browser. Our main form of social media back then was a fucking mixtape.
Yeah, I’m sitting here like “memes? Motherfucker most people didn’t have internet in '94”. The same year JP came out, everyone was distributing shareware copies of Doom on floppy disks.
No we had kids yelling bits from the jerky boys, adam sandler nonsense, and ceaselessly yelling lines from movies, often times ones they hadn’t even seen, but some line became what we would call a meme today.
I am not saying social media hasn’t had a negative impact on kids, but slop entertainment isn’t the big problem. Also all of the big issues of social media are just one aspect of things that have been moving in this direction for decades now.
Lines from commercials too. Wazuuuuuuuuuuup!?
Yeah, that one made me want to scratch my eyes out, after a while.
Our copy of doom had a handwritten label
Legit.
You grew old, thats what happened.
They watched Jurassic Park and learned what happens to kids who read books.
They survive - even when the lawyers and programmers don’t.
I’ve seen plenty of teachers/professors reporting GenZers demonstrating concerningly diminished discipline, resilience, and interest, particularly when it comes to reading. My personal observations of GenZ discipline are mixed, but I’m not in education.
Would be good to see high-quality studies on the matter.
Art critic of a German newspaper reacting to Skibidi Toilet.
Pretty enlightening. He loves it says it’s nothing but “standard” surrealism. He can spot references to surrealist movies and speculates that the author has seen them and is at least referencing them subconsciously. In the end he decries that Skibidi Toilet seems to become too mainstream and is selling out with merchandise.
That’s entirely accurate from what little I have personally seen.
Yeah, when I bit the bullet and watched it to see what the fuzz is about I was very surprised how competent it is.
Isn’t the kid reading his book remarkable in the movie? Like, Dr. Grant’s whole deal with these kids is realizing not all kids™ are bad, and this is the first denial of his expectations?
yes… also, all generations have stupid slang that doesn’t make any sense by itself, and they drop most of it as the get older….
Generations! People in the 90s talking about how dumb the 80s stuff was is the best way. The dumb belongs to the decade, not the people.
Exactly! Here are a few I remember from the late-90s, early 2000s:
- Da Bomb dot com
- Fly
- Home Skillet
- Not!/Psych!
- Sup?/wazzap? - friends transformed to “wassabiii”
- crunk
- bad
- biotch
- served/owned - served is dead, but “owned” lives on as “pwned”
- chillax
- fo shizzle
- holla
Most of that is probably unintelligible to kids these days, and most were all the rage when I was a kid. I say literally none of that today.
i’ll keep saying home skillet until i’m deep in the cold cold ground
Das rite, you da real G. Keep it real, home skillet.
Look man, if Grants book didn’t have awesome dino illustrations, I’m calling this kids bluff. Even I had a dino book at that age (bit older than this…kid…man? This movies old) I still only looked at the pictures
Anon wants people off his lawn.
Pretty sure that both kids’ characters in that movie were intentionally written to not be average of children that age at the time
Like most kids in movies.
Otherwise, no one would watch movies with kids.
Like most characters in movies, even.
