Are you a 90s Kid?

Honestly. What did I have growing up? Pokemon? Cartoons? Yeah, ok. Great. If all you can identify yourself with is the decade that you were born in, and pop culture at that time, then congratulations! You're mediocre. Guess what? Everyone else your age, or within several years of your age, had the exact same experiences with pop culture. Reminissing about it will only remind you about how miserable you are. You'll turn to self-inflicting injuries, to try and remind yourself that as painful as things are now...there was a better time. And do you know what that leads to? Killing yourself. Over the transformers. Or in this case, the Spider-man cartoon and VHS tapes.

Hope reminiscing is worth it for you! :heart:
 
Honestly. What did I have growing up? Pokemon? Cartoons? Yeah, ok. Great. If all you can identify yourself with is the decade that you were born in, and pop culture at that time, then congratulations! You're mediocre. Guess what? Everyone else your age, or within several years of your age, had the exact same experiences with pop culture. Reminissing about it will only remind you about how miserable you are. You'll turn to self-inflicting injuries, to try and remind yourself that as painful as things are now...there was a better time. And do you know what that leads to? Killing yourself. Over the transformers. Or in this case, the Spider-man cartoon and VHS tapes.

Hope reminiscing is worth it for you! :heart:

I'm sorry that remembering my childhood offends you. But, to be honest, I don't care. :roll:
 
Honestly. What did I have growing up? Pokemon? Cartoons? Yeah, ok. Great. If all you can identify yourself with is the decade that you were born in, and pop culture at that time, then congratulations! You're mediocre. Guess what? Everyone else your age, or within several years of your age, had the exact same experiences with pop culture. Reminissing about it will only remind you about how miserable you are. You'll turn to self-inflicting injuries, to try and remind yourself that as painful as things are now...there was a better time. And do you know what that leads to? Killing yourself. Over the transformers. Or in this case, the Spider-man cartoon and VHS tapes.

Hope reminiscing is worth it for you! :heart:

Or you recognize that your experiences with particular pop culture shaped who you are now, and that, while everybody who grew up in the era as you shared these phenomena, they all experienced them differently, and were affected differently. Pop culture and how we respond to it is vastly important in shaping who we are to day, and it also links us to our generation. I'm not bitter about my life now, but I recognize the importance of a shared, generational culture. As a writer, I find an understanding and memory of these things to be absolutely crucial.
 
Or you recognize that your experiences with particular pop culture shaped who you are now, and that, while everybody who grew up in the era as you shared these phenomena, they all experienced them differently, and were affected differently. Pop culture and how we respond to it is vastly important in shaping who we are to day, and it also links us to our generation. I'm not bitter about my life now, but I recognize the importance of a shared, generational culture. As a writer, I find an understanding and memory of these things to be absolutely crucial.

Saying Wade just got "Pwnxord!!!!" doesn't quite do this justice. I'm gonna go with "hit-in-the-face-with-a-rusty-shovelxord".
 
I'm not bitter about my life now, but I recognize the importance of a shared, generational culture. As a writer, I find an understanding and memory of these things to be absolutely crucial.
In the defense of cynics like Wade and myself, I will say that we are not opposed to the idea of a "shared, generational culture" -- we are skeptical about the underlying implication that this culture is something we're meant to regard in a sacred or reverent way, as a whole.

Stories like Planetary and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen work partly because writers like Ellis and Moore are willing to do the research and understand the context and history in which era-specific pop culture is produced (whether it's naively hopeful Silver Age comics, or Victorian-era penny dreadfuls). There's definite love and homage there.

But as writers, they're also willing to take a detached, cold, hard look at the shortcomings of the historical period that informed these cultural artefacts -- and give them a sly middle finger, if need be.

In order to do that, we have to remain wary of attempts to uncritically and sentimentally celebrate the pop culture we grew up with, ourselves.

I'm not denying that it shaped us, touched us, maybe even influenced the way we percieve the world, and art, and other people. But I don't think it should be elevated to the level of sacrosanct texts; gospel truths that can't be reinterpereted (which is the impression I get from people who, say, are offended by the idea of redesigning Transformers, just because it violates their personal sense of generational identification).

And I can't help but feel that the original post kinda encourages that kind of attitude.
 
Certain people are taking this wayyyyyyyyy to seriously.

People should be allowed to say "I love my childhood dog. He was the best dog ever." without other jumping in and saying "but make sure you realize that other people had dogs that they also love! Yours wasn't the best dog ever! You're idealizing him! Remember that time he shat on the floor?" .

Yeesh.:roll:








Oh, and did I mention that THE 1990s WERE THE GREATEST DECADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:rockon::rockon::rockon::rockon:
 
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I'm not denying that it shaped us, touched us, maybe even influenced the way we percieve the world, and art, and other people. But I don't think it should be elevated to the level of sacrosanct texts; gospel truths that can't be reinterpereted (which is the impression I get from people who, say, are offended by the idea of redesigning Transformers, just because it violates their personal sense of generational identification).

And I can't help but feel that the original post kinda encourages that kind of attitude.

My original post was meant to invoke nostalgia. Nostalgia isn't elevating the past on some golden pedestal. There was plenty of good AND bad in the 90s. Pogs was one of the dumbest games ever invented, but it made the list because it was apart of 90s pop culture.

As a history major, pop culture fascinates me. Especially pop culture defined by decades, which really started in the 50s. I used the 90s as my topic because that's the decade I grew up in. Its somewhat concerning to me that you, Wade and Houde find a problem with reminiscing the past.
 
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As a history major, pop culture fascinates me. Especially pop culture defined by decades, which really started in the 50s. Its somewhat concerning to me that you, Wade and Houde find a problem with reminiscing the past.
First of all, I majored in History, as well. So your credentials don't work on me.

Secondly, I made it clear that I have no problem with digging up the past, especially as a source of creative inspiration -- I cited two of my favorite comics that were created by looking towards the history of previous decades, with both a critical AND loving perspective. In fact, I've done it, myself, in my fan-fic and original stories.

I think the difference is that you interpret nostalgia as reminiscing; I view nostalgia as reminiscing without criticism. So i'm totally cool with the idea of reminiscing itself -- I just dislike embracing historically-specific pop culture as *better* than another decades just because it's the one you grew up with. And I have a very specific, personal reason for doing so -- my Baby Boomer dad never shuts up about how much contemporary pop culture borrowed from the 60s. It's almost enough to put me off the idea of generational identification, altogether.

But I'll freely admit that I obviously misinterpreted the intention of your original post. So, yeah, my bad.
 
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First of all, I majored in History, as well. So your credentials don't work on me.

I was using that to show why I was interested in pop culture, not to make me look superior to you. Or rather, one of the reasons I got into History was because I was interested in pop culture. I have respect for you, compound, so no worries there. :wink:

I think the difference is that you interpret nostalgia as reminiscing; I view nostalgia as reminiscing without criticism. So i'm totally cool with the idea of reminiscing itself -- I just dislike embracing historically-specific pop culture as *better* than another decades just because it's the one you grew up with. And I have a very specific, personal reason for doing so -- my Baby Boomer dad never shuts up about how much contemporary pop culture borrowed from the 60s. It's almost enough to put me off the idea of generational identification, altogether.

Nostalgia is the longing for the past, often idealized. I understand where you're coming from in that respect. I think the idealized part comes from childlike innocence. It's idealized because most of us had a good childhood. The world looks more bleak when we grow up. Also, when we grow up, we often look at the current trends and find them silly, because we're adults. Which, of course, makes us think the pop culture we identified with is better than whatever's currently trendy.

Like I said, though, I know there was bad in the 90s. Hell, 1995 was probably the second worst year of my short life. And there were equally ridiculous things in the 90s, like the aforementioned Pogs. There are certain 90s TV shows that I do find better than a lot of what's on TV nowadays. But, that's because I like sitcoms better than dramas, usually, and the 90s was the decade of sitcoms compared to the 00s which is the decade of dramas.

I also think what happened to Nickalodeon was a shame. Part of that deals with the fact that I live rather close to the original Nickalodeon Studios. That was truly a network for kids. Now, it seems that its lost a lot of that magic. And so on and so forth.

But I'll freely admit that I obviously misinterpreted the intention of your original post. So, yeah, my bad.

No worries.
 
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Well, I'll thank Compound for expressing thoughts, nearly identical to mine, in a far more articulate fashion than I ever could.

Also, I didn't mean to offend anyone; pointless reminiscing bothers me. While Lynx has elaborated on the intentions of his original post, I basically thought that this was just another one of those annoying, copied and pasted chain emails or something.

That said, as interesting as I find Pop Culture, any interest that I have is killed when people sit back and talk about how much pokemon (or whatever they grew up with) maks thm feel so wrm nd fuzzi lolol
 
Well, I'll thank Compound for expressing thoughts, nearly identical to mine, in a far more articulate fashion than I ever could.

Also, I didn't mean to offend anyone; pointless reminiscing bothers me. While Lynx has elaborated on the intentions of his original post, I basically thought that this was just another one of those annoying, copied and pasted chain emails or something.

I got the idea from a list I saw on another message board. I didn't edit it very well, hence why I asked people to add as they fit. As for "pointless reminiscing" bothering you, why? Is it because, like compound, it's often idealized? Or do you just not identify with a certain pop culture period? Or something else?

That said, as interesting as I find Pop Culture, any interest that I have is killed when people sit back and talk about how much pokemon (or whatever they grew up with) maks thm feel so wrm nd fuzzi lolol

Focusing on one thing, perhaps. But a multitude such as the list I posted? There's nothing wrong with having fond memories of things. As I've gotten older, my "fond memories" tend to be more of a personal nature than of pop culture, but I can't reminisce personal memories with you all because none of you were there! So, instead, I gave a list of things I'm sure a good bit of you also have fond (or not-so-fond) memories of. Would this have been different if I had said made a topic on, say, old school Nickalodeon?
 
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So, I'm going to take a guess that a good bit of us grew up in the 90s. I found this about a week ago and it really made me miss the 90s. Feel free to add more.

You're a 90's kid if:

You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]

You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."

You remember:
-TGIF
-Step by Step
-Family Matters
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World.

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

You remember reading "Goosebumps"

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not

when everyhting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.

when cops and robbers was a daily activity.

when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.

when we used to obey our parents

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.

Your clothes with cartoon characters sticking out made all the kids on the block jealous.

"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.

Captain Planet. He's a Hero.

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together. ???

You owned the Power Ranger toys.

You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.

You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.

You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"

You remember that Polaroid cameras = instant pictures.

You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow on PBS.

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.

You remember those Where's Waldo books.

You remember eating Warheads.

You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-the little mermaid

You remember Ring Pops.

You remember falling asleep early at parties.

You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.

If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"

When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.

You would always want to play outside with your friends who lived in your neighborhood .. outside.

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.

You played and/or collected "Pogs" :)

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.

. . . Furbies.

You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.

And Windows 95 was the best,
no matter how slow it was.

You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.

Michael Jordan was a king.

Your parents bought you a playground for the backyard.

YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!

All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.

You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out

You collected those Beanie Babies.

Carebears

Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

Lambchop's song never ended.

The old dollar bills.

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

You remember a time before the WB.

You collected all the Troll dolls

If you even know what an original walkman is.

You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.

You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

You know the Macarena by heart.

"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said

You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"

You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.

You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.

Before the MySpace frenzy . . .

Before the Internet & text messaging . . .

Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .

Before MIKE JONES . . .

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .

Before Spongebob . . .

Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.

Man, you didn't even have homework.

When light up sneakers were cool.

When you would watch IT and be scared of clowns.

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

When we recorded stuff on VCRs.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman.

When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.

You had slap braclets!
There are maybe like, 5 things that I don't remember here.
Ivan Ooze scared the living **** out of me when I first saw that movie.
He tried to make all the grown-ups walk themselves off of a cliff.

What an *******.
what no Beast Wars? ReBoot? MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!

i was born in 89, and i spent the better amount of my formative years soaking up 90's culture (thats why i do like alot of 90's comic characters)

TMNT! Street Sharks! Biker Mice from Mars! Darkwing Duck! Mummies Alive! Beetle Borgs!

GOOD TIMES

ANIMORPH'S!!!!!!!!
Mummies Alive! and Animorphs were the ****.
I hate you all. I hate you and your dumb ramblings about a decade that passed. The 90's are over. Nostalgia is the feeling that one gets when they realize that their life sucks and things used to be better. Bah.
My thoughts exactly

And I grew up in the 80's. I don't go around going, "OMG TRANFORMERS!!111!1oneowiotfjgealLOL! HEMAN SHERA GOODNESS!!!!!111 PRINCE ADMA FTW!ROBOTECH RULED! VOLTRON UNITE!"
What he said.

Honestly. What did I have growing up? Pokemon? Cartoons? Yeah, ok. Great. If all you can identify yourself with is the decade that you were born in, and pop culture at that time, then congratulations! You're mediocre. Guess what? Everyone else your age, or within several years of your age, had the exact same experiences with pop culture. Reminissing about it will only remind you about how miserable you are. You'll turn to self-inflicting injuries, to try and remind yourself that as painful as things are now...there was a better time. And do you know what that leads to? Killing yourself. Over the transformers. Or in this case, the Spider-man cartoon and VHS tapes.

Hope reminiscing is worth it for you! :heart:
:roll: :roll: :roll:
In the defense of cynics like Wade and myself, I will say that we are not opposed to the idea of a "shared, generational culture" -- we are skeptical about the underlying implication that this culture is something we're meant to regard in a sacred or reverent way, as a whole.

Stories like Planetary and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen work partly because writers like Ellis and Moore are willing to do the research and understand the context and history in which era-specific pop culture is produced (whether it's naively hopeful Silver Age comics, or Victorian-era penny dreadfuls). There's definite love and homage there.

But as writers, they're also willing to take a detached, cold, hard look at the shortcomings of the historical period that informed these cultural artefacts -- and give them a sly middle finger, if need be.

In order to do that, we have to remain wary of attempts to uncritically and sentimentally celebrate the pop culture we grew up with, ourselves.

I'm not denying that it shaped us, touched us, maybe even influenced the way we percieve the world, and art, and other people. But I don't think it should be elevated to the level of sacrosanct texts; gospel truths that can't be reinterpereted (which is the impression I get from people who, say, are offended by the idea of redesigning Transformers, just because it violates their personal sense of generational identification).

And I can't help but feel that the original post kinda encourages that kind of attitude.
Okay, sorry. Alright guys I guess we're not allowed to talk about our childhoods, so lets do what they want and have a deep political discussion about the social issues of the 90s.
Certain people are taking this wayyyyyyyyy to seriously.
Definitely.

It's just nostalgia, people.
First of all, I majored in History, as well. So your credentials don't work on me.

Secondly, I made it clear that I have no problem with digging up the past, especially as a source of creative inspiration -- I cited two of my favorite comics that were created by looking towards the history of previous decades, with both a critical AND loving perspective. In fact, I've done it, myself, in my fan-fic and original stories.

I think the difference is that you interpret nostalgia as reminiscing; I view nostalgia as reminiscing without criticism. So i'm totally cool with the idea of reminiscing itself -- I just dislike embracing historically-specific pop culture as *better* than another decades just because it's the one you grew up with. And I have a very specific, personal reason for doing so -- my Baby Boomer dad never shuts up about how much contemporary pop culture borrowed from the 60s. It's almost enough to put me off the idea of generational identification, altogether.
I fully admit that I loved a lot of stupid crap when I was little, but it's not the crap itself, if it's just the fact that it reminds me of a time when things were simpler and better. Plus, it's nice to be able to randomly reference "Hey Arnold!" and know that anyone else my age would immediately get it.

Now, can people please stop ruining a perfectly good thread. If people are reacting this way now, why don't they throw a temper tantrum when VVD and others start reminiscing about 80s cartoons?
 
I was an 80s kid, but the 90s were way better.
 
There are maybe like, 5 things that I don't remember here.

He tried to make all the grown-ups walk themselves off of a cliff.

What an *******.

Mummies Alive! and Animorphs were the ****.





:roll: :roll: :roll:

Okay, sorry. Alright guys I guess we're not allowed to talk about our childhoods, so lets do what they want and have a deep political discussion about the social issues of the 90s.

Definitely.

It's just nostalgia, people.

I fully admit that I loved a lot of stupid crap when I was little, but it's not the crap itself, if it's just the fact that it reminds me of a time when things were simpler and better. Plus, it's nice to be able to randomly reference "Hey Arnold!" and know that anyone else my age would immediately get it.

Now, can people please stop ruining a perfectly good thread. If people are reacting this way now, why don't they throw a temper tantrum when VVD and others start reminiscing about 80s cartoons?

That whole post is awesome.
 
If you liked the 80s, I'd prefer it that way.

I'm sorry, I can't talk now, I'm playing way fun games with my Alphie.

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I'm sorry, I can't talk now, I'm playing way fun games with my Alphie.

alphi.jpg

I feel the need to clarify something here.

For boy's toys and TV shows, the 80s was the ****. Hell yes I had an Alphie. And a Speak And Spell. Star Wars, He-Man, M.A.S.K., Transformers, etc etc etc.

But the clothes, music, and styles were total **** and ruined the decade.

The 90s were better in that regard...by the time I was old enough to recognzie and care about those things, I wasn't into He-Man as much.

In other words, I'm glad my earlier childhood was in the 80s but I "grew up"" in the 90s.
 

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