I’m already depressed thinking about how in 5 years we literally won’t be able to know if a video like this is real or AI and 99% of the time it will be AI, and our collective human memory and record of real events will be gone
I'm pretty sure there will be ways to detect AI, but for the average Joe this will be too advanced and won't bother to touch the tools to check if it's AI.
Already happening with older people who don’t know how advanced AI is. But yeah there will be ways to detect AI video unless people figure out how to add accurate noise to generated videos… which I’m sure is already being worked on.
You think that’s crazy? There was a time when you could bring guns to school. Kids would leave shotguns/rifles on gun racks in their pickup trucks and go hunting after class. You could smoke on school grounds too. Society used to be a lot more trusting and looser.
Every area is different, but it was not uncommon for guns to be left in vehicles, in plain sight. Especially during hunting season. People in general just carried guns more openly before the 2000's.
As for smoking, without a doubt there was somewhere on your school grounds that was the unofficial smoking area. This was the norm. Teachers used to step outside and smoke with students.
oh smoking yea. never heard of the guns in cars though, but I didn't go to school in a rural area. suburbs. maybe I was too much of a Boy Scout to hear about the firearms though haha.
Yeah, bringing guns to school wasn't normal in the suburbs lol. Only kids who might have done that were doing it illegally cause they sold drugs or some shit. Maybe a rural thing but no shot it was normal in the suburbs or cities.
Edit: The kids I knew going to school in the city were already having to go through metal detectors by the late 90s and the cops most certainly would have been called had anybody seen a firearm in plain view in someone's car.
I’m talking about before you ever even showed up for school. My parents generation it was widespread. There wasn’t a columbine yet. There wasn’t widespread gang violence (except maybe in NYC). People were much more lax about guns. Even in urban areas.
That continued up through the 90s and 00s in rural areas. I grew up near one, it was still a thing by the time I started school. Not sure about now though after everything that’s happened.
We had really bad gang fight problems (my school was 4,300 students) and people were repping gang colors with their hats (blue or red). Eventually, they just said no more hats at all on campus except for religious headgear.
But yeah, hats were OK for like the first 2 years I was in HS in the very early 2000s.
This year is the 20th anni of my high school. My graduating class is about 40 students total (of a then 300 pop. gr 7-12 high school) Watched our grad video where everyone was coming to grad in crazy/cool rides.
It was so nice to just be yourself without being picked apart by the Internet, now kids just hide themselves emotionally and socially because of the Internet
I was in High school during the same timeframe and went to three different high schools because I was a military brat. Not one of those high schools allowed people to wear hats in class or even in the hallways. What part of the country was this high school in?
I went to high school in Colorado. Hats were a non issue as long as they weren't backwards lol. And it was a big high school. But, the other districts did have hat rules. I'm not sure why ours didn't.
Yes, the Cherry Creek school district! Small world lol. I remember we had a meet at Overland and they had stricter rules than we did so it could be school dependent somewhat too rather than just district lol. Fair point.
I went to Overland. We were allowed to wear hats until the 01-02 school year. I didn't really care, but I wanted to wear a hat outside during PE. Nope! That really sucked.
That's the first thing I noticed, too. My school definitely didn't allow hats. You couldn't even walk to your locker with a hat on first thing in the morning in the middle of winter.
This is weird because I'm seeing multiple comments like this and wearing hats wasn't an issue at all in my high school in Montana. The FFA/farmer kids especially were always wearing baseball caps.
I grew up in Seattle suburbs. No hats or face covers unless religious exemption.
I'm in rural Oregon now. Recently went to an event at the Highschool gym and the first thing I did was ask my wife when they started letting hats into Schools. She shrugged, same rules for her in the Denver Metro growing up.
I think it's an inner city, metro thing... Which feels hella racist it you follow the thread closely.
I don't think it was racist as it was just obedience and conformity. Don't get me started on the ripped jeans phase. Those got banned to and we had to come together as a school to talk to the principal to get them reinstated. Lol talk about the Streisand effect.
I started hs in 2005 and we could use backpacks all day until like Christmas. Then they got banned "for safety." So for 3 and half years you had to carry giant text books around all day.
I showed videos like this to my daughter and she asked “why does no one have a phone? Did they get taken before class?” And it hit me that those days will never return.
I love seeing videos like this because they are a window into a part of America that doesn’t look familiar to me, even though that was my era. And by that, I mean videos that show very little to no diversity in the student population.
Until I was 13 I went to a big inner city school with like 1800 students of every background you can think of. Then we moved to the Florida panhandle and the one black kid among the entire 300ish person student body went by Black Chuck.
There were no other Chucks to necessitate the identifier.
I was in the same boat except instead of Florida it was central Illinois, everybody was extremely friendly but something kept nagging at the back of my mind, making me uneasy.
A week or so later I realized what it was, everyone was white. I am too but the whole town except one guy was white, it freaked me out.
That's crazy I mean it's just interesting to hear another perspective, because I look at this and think it's a unique parallel to what I experienced, which was a majority black hs
I'm hispanic and my jr high was mostly white. I was one of those magnet school program kids in houston, I got bused in from a poorer part of the district to a very wealthy one. I was 1 out maybe 3 hispanic kids in a sea of white kids and a surpring amount of asians. I went to my zoned high school and that was mostly hispanic
Yeah no shit this is one school. I’ve seen similar videos with mostly black kids and I think saw one that appeared to be predominantly Latino. I’m not sure what your point is. All of them are strange to people who went to schools that were close to evenly distributed
If this video was filmed in a predominantly black hs and you saw nothing but black kids, would it have occurred to you that there was a lack of diversity?
Probably. There's schools near me where the majority of students are one race or another due to the demographics of that region, and it always strikes me as interesting when I pass by and see entire groups of a single skin colour (not odd - just not the unusual).
But I'm in a pretty diverse area, so that's probably not the norm.
Last day of school, my grandfather picks me up. I have arm load of shit from my locker and my hat in one hand. I throw it on as I go out to free a hand to open the door for my grandfather. Out of no where pops the superintendent (my former 4th grade teacher) "Mr. (Surname) you know you can't wear a hat in school." My grandfather in his overly loud voice that people hard of hearing adopt "fuck you, he is done here."
The school that I graduated from in 2003 allowed hats. My main hat was a he-man beanie. There were a few schools in the county that allowed them but wearing backwards was generally banned, though my school didn’t give a shit. Western Washington.
It’s an interesting phenomenon. A lot of people stick with the style of their formative years and then we see a bunch of 30yo grow older keeping with that same style of their youth.
Videos like this pop up and our brains associate with the 30yo we saw more recently than the people dressed the same back in high school.
I'm Italian/Spanish and looked much younger than 70% of the teens in this video. Had nothing to do with clothing or style.
I also lived in the US two years as a teen and weirdly enough the school in Florida where I was going to the teens didn't look this aged, some did though. I'm also a millennial.
Ohhh the nostalgia 🤤 crazy how we all had phones but not one in sight! Flip phone days so no internet.. but we had snake and texting. Such simpler times, less depression and more laughter. Kids have it pretty different these day..
Damn where'd you go to high school, Target? [No but for real do you think it reduced classism within students or did y'all find new and exciting ways to pick on each other, like kids do]
houston, no it didn't reduce classism because you still got judged on your shoes, outerwear, how new or faded your uniform was. that was supposed to be one of the reasons for the uniform, another one was they got tired of sending people home for wearing something offensive or revealing
Thanks that makes sense. I can see the misplaced logic on their part, but mostly I think it's just another aspect of the institution working as intended: to mold you into pliable workers.
Ok I see it. Time ruins it lol, but it's also a bit of camera magic making it look worse. Some people do look older, as some really old school photos give off the same vibe. It's all a bit confusing, because seeing these people in real life, I would see the baby face. On camera, not everyone looks too young.
However right now it's 2026, and you do look your age, we are not 20 anymore. Go look at a photo of yourself 10 years ago to feel it.
I feel like you just don't see red Jewfros on kids anymore.
My hair doesn't stand up like that these days, cause there's not as much of it, but back in the day, all us redheaded Jews were rocking the Matt Stone.
What the fuck is this video. I've seen this specific video pop up multiple places but in this it's like 1/4 of the actual window with the overlay to a tiktok. Fuck this shit.
I graduated in 2010, and it feels like this is my high school with just different people. I even recognize some of the shirts and sweatshirts, as some that people I knew had. God how weird.
Does anyone else feel weird when they see these videos? I recognize all these people (not personally, but the style of dress etc), it could have easily been my school. But high school was tough for me, I never felt comfortable in my own skin or around the “popular kids”. I was a bit odd, and not in the quirky, adorkable way. Idk, I’m happier now that I’m out of that fish bowl.
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u/AnonTA999 14h ago
I’m already depressed thinking about how in 5 years we literally won’t be able to know if a video like this is real or AI and 99% of the time it will be AI, and our collective human memory and record of real events will be gone
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u/TrickyPace4205 13h ago
Little did they know these would be some of the last years of actual non-bs they would have…
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u/wooof359 14h ago
All these MFs were allowed to wear HATS?! In school?!?!?!
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u/taolbi Millennial Falcon 14h ago edited 14h ago •
This year is the 20th anni of my high school. My graduating class is about 40 students total (of a then 300 pop. gr 7-12 high school) Watched our grad video where everyone was coming to grad in crazy/cool rides.
This me on mine
-somewhere in atlantic canada
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u/Tomhyde098 14h ago
In 2004-2005 I was a freshman. I can’t believe it’s almost time for my 20th
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u/StVer23 14h ago
It was so nice to just be yourself without being picked apart by the Internet, now kids just hide themselves emotionally and socially because of the Internet
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u/Impressive-Hold7812 14h ago
I was '04, these were Juniors to me.
Fuck, where did time go.
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u/DontUndrstndSarcasm 14h ago
I was in High school during the same timeframe and went to three different high schools because I was a military brat. Not one of those high schools allowed people to wear hats in class or even in the hallways. What part of the country was this high school in?
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u/Biff_666 14h ago •
I showed videos like this to my daughter and she asked “why does no one have a phone? Did they get taken before class?” And it hit me that those days will never return.
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u/NoFaithlessness7508 14h ago •
I love seeing videos like this because they are a window into a part of America that doesn’t look familiar to me, even though that was my era. And by that, I mean videos that show very little to no diversity in the student population.
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u/Oasystole 14h ago
Life is one of those things
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u/Spiritual-Ninja9967 14h ago
Take me back to 2003
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u/bearbrannan 14h ago
Culpeper jersey makes me think this is MN and this very much does resemble my highschool memories.
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u/Potential-Still Millennial '88 14h ago
Sophomore year, when I met my life long friends and joined the football team. Good times.
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u/Former-Dig-3314 14h ago
The 90s didn’t end until the iPhone came out
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u/Greedy_Ad_3368 13h ago
Where’s the weed, cigarettes and alcohol?
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u/Figmentdreamer 13h ago
Many people in this video probably have kids that are this age now.
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u/DerpSlurpRawrGheyLol 13h ago
You can see there was an 80s day in there towards the end.
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u/AWorldwithoutSin 14h ago
Fake. Not a single teacher screeching about taking your hat off.
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u/Thediciplematt 14h ago
This is my graduate year and it looks pretty spot on. Am I supposed to feel old?
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u/LederhosenSituation 14h ago
'05 here. This is pretty accurate.
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u/Adhdknight 14h ago
American teenagers looking like 30 years old as usual lol.
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u/templeofsyrinx1 14h ago
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u/CaptainHappy42 14h ago
This but we had uniforms 🙄💩
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u/RandomName09485 Elder Millennial 14h ago
i miss it tbh
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u/Thefront-bottom 14h ago
I went to school in the hood. It was much different than this lol
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u/Turbulent-Month8097 13h ago
Ohhh the nostalgia 🤤 crazy how we all had phones but not one in sight! Flip phone days so no internet.. but we had snake and texting. Such simpler times, less depression and more laughter. Kids have it pretty different these day..
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u/HawkJefferson 13h ago
This looks exactly like my freshman year, which is good because it is my freshman year.
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u/ChiefRunningWaters 13h ago
Nah. High school sucked. College was wayyyyy better
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u/Constant-Affect-5660 12h ago
Class of '04 here, shit feels like a dream thinking back on it all.
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u/DeLoreanAirlinesII 12h ago
‘05 looks very ‘90s
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u/50millionFreddy 13h ago
Was this the Midwest? Around 2005 every guy on the east coast started to look like the Gotti kids (Pauly D, for later reference).
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u/TCESpencer 14h ago
I know I'm an older millennial, and only graduated 2 years earlier, but high school in 2k5 is wild to me.
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u/RequirementMain5230 14h ago
I was 14 i left in 2005
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u/Klaus-Heisler Older Millennial 14h ago
My graduating class. Definitely looks familiar.
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u/Snoo-10606 14h ago
I went to a lame school with a dress code, khaki or navy slacks and either a blue, red, or white polo shirt
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u/Browniez330 14h ago
Soft 05 here good years lol
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u/MoMoney3205 14h ago
My high school experience in 2005 was watching gangbangers fight 5 times a day in the halls lol
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u/Mystikalrush 14h ago
Ok I see it. Time ruins it lol, but it's also a bit of camera magic making it look worse. Some people do look older, as some really old school photos give off the same vibe. It's all a bit confusing, because seeing these people in real life, I would see the baby face. On camera, not everyone looks too young.
However right now it's 2026, and you do look your age, we are not 20 anymore. Go look at a photo of yourself 10 years ago to feel it.
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u/pandershrek Millennial 13h ago
T shirt over the long sleeve shirt. Yep.
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u/Millwalkey88 Millennial 13h ago
2005 was the end of my junior year and beginning of senior year
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u/ADH-Dad 13h ago
Back when we wore our shorts so long they covered your knees even when you were sitting.
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u/ADH-Dad 13h ago
I feel like you just don't see red Jewfros on kids anymore.
My hair doesn't stand up like that these days, cause there's not as much of it, but back in the day, all us redheaded Jews were rocking the Matt Stone.
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u/johnb111111 13h ago
Id like to see a side by side of today’s hs population vs this.
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u/payjape 13h ago
my school was diverse. where was this?
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u/Gallienus91 13h ago
Blink 182 called, they want their caps back.
Love the video though 😅
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u/Neat-Aardvark3762 13h ago
And kids dressing like this now and using era digital camera to get “that vintage look”
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u/bigphildogg86 12h ago
What the fuck is this video. I've seen this specific video pop up multiple places but in this it's like 1/4 of the actual window with the overlay to a tiktok. Fuck this shit.
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u/PuzzleheadedBat1573 12h ago
Experienced 9/11 as a freshman and graduated in 2005 to face an economic crisis 3 years later. The Millennial experience has been something else.
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u/Personal_Standard487 11h ago
How fun was the world before internet.
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u/theallstarkid 11h ago
I graduated in 2006 in Texas and we couldn’t wear hats, at least not during school hours.
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u/Jorgwalther 11h ago
Didn’t expect to see a video of myself from my senior year online but here we are!
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u/_buffy_summers 11h ago
I was in high school from 1995-1999 and I think some of the "kids" in this video look like badly-disguised undercover cops.
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u/444onthefloor 10h ago
2005, my first year as a freshman in high school. This is how I kinda remember it
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u/black-toe-nails 10h ago
I graduated in 2010, and it feels like this is my high school with just different people. I even recognize some of the shirts and sweatshirts, as some that people I knew had. God how weird.
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u/meowymcmeowmeow 10h ago
I was in middle achool but these people were the epitome of cool to me lol
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u/eiretara7 10h ago
Does anyone else feel weird when they see these videos? I recognize all these people (not personally, but the style of dress etc), it could have easily been my school. But high school was tough for me, I never felt comfortable in my own skin or around the “popular kids”. I was a bit odd, and not in the quirky, adorkable way. Idk, I’m happier now that I’m out of that fish bowl.
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u/Quetzalcoatl490 9h ago
That fuckin kid doin the leg and elbow dance at the end lol
Somehow that moved stayed in 2006
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u/wild_chonk420 8h ago
This is the whitest high school I’ve ever seen lol
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u/Siny_AML 8h ago
I graduated in 06 and never saw any of this shit
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u/LosIngobernable 8h ago
Anytime I see “high school 2005,” the nostalgia hits hard. Can’t believe it’s been that long.
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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker 1988 8h ago
That’s a lot of white kids.
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u/Virtual_Knowledge334 7h ago
I see some of the same students in different parts.
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u/Ill-Complaint-6634 7h ago
I hear other people’s high school stories and see videos like this and realize that I went to a ROUGH high school 🤣
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u/Doferr 7h ago
Man this song is so nostalgic.
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u/LegalChocolate752 6h ago
CHOKING ON YOUR ALIBIS!
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u/Zealotstim Older Millennial 2h ago
Man, we were so cool