Boomers were still pushing 60s nostalgia in 2001

Rent free

born in 1989

similarly grew up with loads of 80s nostalgia but also lucked into that transitional period where the 50s, 60s and 70s were still getting nods/parodies/what have you in pop culture

just turned 36 this year

tfw stuff like Bojack Horseman and Jentry Chau is the start of my generation getting into positions of power and looking back on our own upbringing with the beginnings of 90s nostalgia catching on

Count your blessings, son. Sooner or later they'll come for your most precious memories as well

Have they been pushing late 90s/early 00s nostalgia yet? That’s the last period I remember with fondness.

Blame the 90s for not having anything worth remembering about.

Yeah zoomers have made indie games with PS1 graphics and jungle music

If my most precious memories are a work of fiction and not the time I spent with my friends and family then I deserve it.

If we're going by video games then you start hitting nostalgia when enough time for about 2 console cycles have passed.

I wish people would shut-up about boomers already.

I wish people would shut up about generations in general already.

he actually likes spending time with his friends and family over mindless indulgence in endless escapism from a bleak, meaningless existence that offers no comfort or joy whatsoever

Look at him and laugh, children

We're almost at the point where they're pushing 2000s nostalgia

Clearly the most sane response is to murder literally everyone. Who wants to volunteer as Tribute?

this movie helped me more to understand the 60s spirit than the actual films from the 1960s.

from *Producer* Jonah Hill

Has his clout really evaporated that badly?

I'm with you. While we're at it, can all -oomer variants be banned?

In a perfect world, this site would've implemented a filter for all -oomer variations years ago.

Then we'll just make up another word to describe a given generation's fucksticks and the cycle will begin anew.
So it goes

boomers were in their 30s and 40s in 2001

did you think they were already 69 and making vietnam war movies

boomers were in their 30s and 40s in 2001

Nigga, no.

nearly 50 years later

be me

gen x

want to argue with this anon's math

but 1990 was 40 years ago

no getting around it

The 90s had a fucking fuckload to draw on though, there's all kinds of media to draw on, multiple aesthetics unique to the decade, a million music scenes that were all popular ranging from rap to grunge to europop/beat, college slacker culture, all sorts of iconic movies like Jurassic Park and the Matrix, the now blatantly naïve "end of history" optimism, the early form of the internet and the dot com bubble making computers have a real impact on the average person's life for the first time, it's an incredibly iconic decade. If anything it's fucking bizarre that we're still stuck on the 80s.

they were quite literally the last generation to get a good deal overall. people will be talking about them still when they're all dead.

Don't forget the massive fucking apocalypticism that accompanied the 90s.

do you think the 1946 cohort were still working in tv in the 1990s

do you even know anything about how long that generation spanned or how easy retirement was for them

are you a total fucking mong or just mostly cunting mong

still

50s nostalgia reigned supreme from the 70s through the 80s
60s nostalgia was only really big in the 90s and was rapidly fading out by then
80s nostalgia started around the year 2000 and we're STILL FUCKING STUCK ON IT
JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST CAN WE MOVE THE FUCK ON FROM THE FUCKING 80S

The last year of the Boomers was 1964. A late Boomer living in the 90s would be staring down 40 approaching as the new millennium came along

Are the 90s or 2000s any better?

I get that the 80s was good but holy shit when do we get to move on?

When we produce a cultural age worth being nostalgic about.

I went to a Shrek themed rave a few weeks ago. Y2K-core is blistering hot right now. However, Y2K-core leads way to an 80s synth pop revival so be warned that neon is coming back.

By your time everything will be banned for being problematic and all life will be regulated into mediocrity like in Harrison Bergeron

80s had a lot of 60s nostalgia as well. It produced the greatest 60s nostalgia movie in Stand By Me.

90s

Yes by a lot of objective standards like crime finally falling around the middle of the decade and that whole "10 years of rapid economic growth" thing. Also had its own aesthetic and fashion that was pretty neat.

2000s

2000s were pretty shit honestly, outside of some of the media. Overall sentiment was grim.

We did. The 70s. They were huge in the '90s but people kept calling it the 60s.

That's because of Vietnam.

Anon, Stand By Me is set in 1959 and is a quintessential 50s nostalgia movie. The early 60s kind of blurred with the 50s, granted, but the things people associate with the 60s like the Vietnam War angst and rise of the counterculture didn't really become a major nostalgia thing until the 90s.

Y'all seem to forget the 80s was the last time the Western world had any sense of purpose. We were still the "good guys" that was locked in an eternal struggle with the horrible, terrible Soviets. Then they quietly imploded on themselves and we all celebrated because we had "won". But then we started drifting, because we no longer had the yard stick by which we measured our success ("We're still doing better than THEM!"). We were a nation of warriors with no war to fight anymore. 9/11 was in a bizarre sense a good thing for us because it finally gave us an new enemy to focus on.

True. The 90s was the victory party and then we had 9/11.

It's kind of interesting actually, if you pay attention to 90s media you'll notice it starts out gritty and angsty as a reaction to the 80s, then kind of becomes chill, then towards the end of the decade becomes full of dread and anxiety as people started to go "Wait a minute. Now what? Is "The End of History" really just sitting around in a cubicle all day doing busywork?" Of course it seems almost selfish looking back, but there's a lot of media that came out from about 1997 - 2001 (pre-9/11) that was full of this creeping sense of dread at day-to-day life.

We were already entering a period of financial crisis before 9/11. 9/11 overshadows all of it. Since then, every 5 years or so we have another financial crisis of some kind. It hasn't stabilized really.

I know it's kind of cliché, but when I think of the closing years of the 90s I think of OK Computer. It even has an interlude of a computer voice pretty much stating that exact kind of anxiety.

youtube.com/watch?v=O4SzvsMFaek

Yeah 90s kind of merged/overlapped the 60s and the 70s. Pop culture would have Summer of Love themes mixed with disco styles.

in the Matrix, Smith refers to the Matrix itself as a simulation of "the peak of [human] civilization."

even ten year old me at the time had that nagging thought of "......really? This? *This* is it?"

Its amazing what a few thousand years of not having to worry about a tiger eating your face does to a people's sense of self

It's especially interesting because the Matrix also starts with an office worker trapped in an endless cycle and beginning to feel like something's off. Almost mentioned it specifically in my post.

Never. Come on think about it, the 90s were the beginning of a huge progressive era with more diversity and Girl Boss shit. The only good thing about the 90s was the gaming industry's huge unexpected impact that made stupid old people angry like the old farts who hated Pokemon and considered it blasphemy or the idiots who hated Mortal Kombat for the violence and who can forget the other adult idiots who hated Grand Theft Auto during the early 2000s. This is the only good thing about these decades. The rest of it is a precursor of the shit we are dealing with now with diversity, feminism, homo shit, etc.

You will be hearing about the 80s forever. If you hear about the 90s it will be squarely about the gaming industry taking the world like a storm. But nothing else because culturally western civilization went to the dogs during this decade.

Retard

Always hated this shitty cartoon strictly because I found the character designs ugly. And the only thing uglier than this at the time was Teacher's Pet. And the sad thing is that Americans kept glorifying ugly art styles later like Adventure Time. What is it about North Americans that make them go...

Oh my god its so ugly that its cool!

Why are Americans stupid?

Recess was made by 1959 boomers

Because their generation is not dead yet. In fact most of the boomers are still alive. Oh sure they are wrinkled and old but still alive and still a large voting block of easy to dupe old farts. Combine that with being stubborn as is human nature and you get enforcement of a lot of annoying shit. People won't shut up about Boomers until enough of them die so that their generation becomes a minority incapable of affecting the nation.

And then you will have Gen X who will become the New Boomers and the same tedious process will continue.

aw sweet a schizo post

Brain absolutely POISONED holy shit

The United States stopped being the good guys when they allowed Jews to take over and defeated Hitler. There it needed to be said.

>the same 10 80s songs are all they play on the radio

cause that decade sucks for music.

Even if I ignore all the culture war shit you posted, saying that the only good thing about the 90s was the video games is just fucking retarded in its own right.

Shut the fuck up faggot