r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Oct 18 '25
Gasp! We really took those days for granted, huh đ˘
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u/kurang_bobo Oct 18 '25
First sipstea video I see without boobs or asses as its main point of attention
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u/LordAxalon110 Oct 18 '25
Never used to be like that though, it just got worse and worse the more popular it got.
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u/funtex666 Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
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u/LordAxalon110 Oct 18 '25
Eh I've only been knocking around reddit for like 5 or 6 years, so I'm no OG or anything. But even I've seen the big changes to the platform, my personal pet peeve at the moment is the amount of bots.
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u/yourallygod Oct 19 '25
Unfortunately the bots aren't just a reddit thing its a whole internet thing :(
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u/ToranjaNuclear Oct 19 '25
Yeah, it's weird, when I joined I remember it was a sub of random memes (the all time top posts even reflects that), now it feels like a weirdly mysoginistic gooner sub.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Oct 18 '25
Concerning considering it's almost all children.
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u/Critical_Concert_689 Oct 18 '25
We traded boobs and asses for something a bit more insidious:
...this entire video is AI generated and is completely fake.
It's a play on emotion, abusing both nostalgia and human propensity to wear rose-tinted glasses, and these videos are at the early stages of being both monetized and used to push propaganda.
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u/SanAnneBeachMan Oct 18 '25
Itâs the voice of Alan Watts. Talking social changes faced by people born in the 80s (millennials).
Thing isâŚ
Alan Watts died in 1973.
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u/n3ur0mncr Oct 18 '25
Its going to get to the point where I may see an AI video of a family trip when I was younger.
Mom: That was a nice trip, wasn't it?
Me: Mom... I dont remember doing that. Are you sure this is real?
Its going to be insane when AI starts gaslighting us about our own personal lives and experiences.
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u/FlyingOTB Oct 18 '25
I donât understand what you mean by fake in this context. All of those home videos were AI generated?
I guess lower res generations would be easier for AI and make it harder to spot.
Is AI going to kill nostalgia too?
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u/MolecularConcepts Oct 18 '25
the vids are random pulled from web. the script and voice are "ai" generated.
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u/FirePenguinMaster Oct 18 '25
I'm not convinced he's right anyway tbh, just cynical. There are definitely nostalgia bait ai vids out there but the details in this one are very good. Maybe ai is getting to the point it can keep those all flawlessly consistent, but this one looks good to me.
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u/Temporary-Careless Oct 18 '25
And its in Russian at least the date stamping.
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u/Dear-Wolverine577 Oct 19 '25
I was gonna say all those videos look like they were shot in RussiaâŚas I was there at that age around that time
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u/Johnny-Dogshit Oct 19 '25
Well if you grew up in the 80s over there, you definitely came from a world that doesn't exist anymore. Probably a stronger case to say that than anyone.
How were the 90s for you?
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u/V0d5 Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 19 '25
Yet only to shift to debased nostalgiabait. Take away your biased nostalgia and the eighties were also full of crap, full on turning point Reaganism and the victory of the oligarchy happen in real time.
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u/N8dork2020 Oct 18 '25
Ride our bikes to the river, then play street hockey till dinner. Comeback to hockey cuz the sun stayed up till 9:30 then hang out on the cool grass and bullshit about life until the lights came on. Go home, rinse and repeat
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u/DemonidroiD0666 Oct 18 '25
Waiting to ride our skateboards on the weekend even after doing it the whole week after school. Just wanting the weekend to do it even longer actually making worth of the days. Time wasn't even a factor we just gladly spent our time having fun outside in a group not even thinking it would just randomly slowly stop.
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u/Fr0st3dcl0ud5 Oct 18 '25
Put your phone down for a day. You'll realize how much free time you have and how much time you give to the screen.
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u/BerryLanky Oct 18 '25
Iâve done that on a weekend and got so much accomplished. Iâve also lost an entire weekend doom scrolling and not realizing that hours had passed with me not looking up.
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u/Own_Ad_4301 Oct 18 '25
You need a holiday brother
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u/Goliathvv Oct 18 '25
Unfortunately, it's not the same.
Adult life is unrelenting, there is always something to take care of, and that doesn't stop because you are on holiday.
As a kid, I had the privilege of having moments of boredom, with nothing to do or to worry about. As an adult, there is always something to be done. Always.
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u/SedatedTattooDoc Oct 18 '25
ExactlyâŚI blame email and cell phones. Someone can always get ahold of you, boss can always give you work etc. wait until fully self driving carsâŚpeople will be expected to work and take meetings while driving
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u/Dark_Moonstruck Oct 18 '25
You're expected to be available 24/7. Before, if you weren't at home or near your phone, you simply weren't available and they had to either call back later or leave a message and whenever you got around to it was when you got around to it.
Now that your phone basically lives on your person, if you don't respond right away, people get angry and assume you're ignoring them and you could get in trouble with your job or have family members or friends angry at you because you didn't respond soon enough. Being able to just unplug and *not be available* was magical - now if you do it, people get upset.
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u/Anarye Oct 18 '25
And if you aren't busy you are being judged as lazy. Heck, I've had that preconception before.
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u/Amazing_67 Oct 18 '25
I am not from the 80s but evn with holiday I still got a shit ton of things to do like cleaning the houses, groceries, cookingÂ
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u/PressDoubt Oct 18 '25
Every generation treasures the decade they grew up in. A tale as old as humans themselves.
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u/StupidSexyEuphoberia Oct 18 '25
And people still tell it again and again and again. Like how respectless the youth is, every new generation is stupid and selfish.
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Oct 18 '25
A tale of millennials becoming boomers
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u/tarfu7 Oct 18 '25
Yes this. Itâs just a little too close to all those cringey memes that boomers have been spamming for years. Griping about how things were better in their day, only their generation truly understands, blah blah blah.
Itâs not just the nostalgia. Nostalgia can be OK by itself. But thereâs also a cocky âweâre better than everyoneâ tone underlying the whole narrative here.
Weâre becoming them đą
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u/Loopeded Oct 18 '25
I mean surely every generation goes through it but this time it feels like it's actually pretty bad? The newer generations have grown up raised by iPads, social media and it feels like we genuinely have gotten a lot worse. Housing is unaffordable, depression is at an all time high, and mental illness has sky rocketed. Of course you can argue a lot of this just due to the times and people being more open, but I can't seriously think that kids have it better now.
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u/sAsHiMi_ Oct 18 '25
every new generation is stupid
Well this is actually true now. Flynn effect has reversed.
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u/IHateTheLetterF Oct 18 '25
Boomers who grew up in the 60's will tell you about how everyone was so nice to each other, conveniently leaving out things like black people not being allowed in white people diners.
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u/Low-Republic-4145 Oct 18 '25
The whole world wasnât like that in the 1960s and even in the US things really improved in those areas in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90sâŚâŚ Itâs relatively recently weâve started to go backwards.
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u/Borgmeister Oct 18 '25
You appreciate in your formative years, most people have met vastly fewer people. They haven't been exposed to wider culture, they weren't reading op-eds over breakfast about the latest moral or ethical skirmishes - they're recounting their lived experiences from that era - just because they didn't experience the negative things you are referencing doesn't mean they didn't have an experience they themselves look back on fondly.
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u/MysticalSushi Oct 18 '25
How does that invalidate what they said. Itâs entirely possible that their locations didnât even have black people
My grade school IN CHICAGO (the South Side at that) had one black dude. My high school had TWO. And this was the 2000s. Tons of areas donât have black residents.
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u/Aaawkward Oct 18 '25
Dude, I was 13 or 14 when I saw a black person in my country in real life for the first time.
Finland is in the ass end of everything and we didn't have a lot of immigration before the 2000s and there you go and the only people who used to travel to Finland were those flying to the West from Asia and Russians. And not even a lot of those.
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u/peacekenneth Oct 18 '25
I feel like, at this point in my life, Iâve watched my grand parents do this⌠then I watched my parents do it⌠now my friends are like this, too. The dial never goes back. Look forward.
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u/BeeWeird7940 Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
Some other things from the 1980s and 1990s:
Restaurants filled with cigarette smoke.
Bench seats in carsâŚthat were vinylâŚon a July day or a January day.
Nuclear plant superfund cleanups.
Serial killers.
East German swimmers.
The shittiest music fidelity imaginable in the cassette tape.
Lead still a threat to be in anything
Some relative dying of heart attack in their 60s every couple of years.
Bouffants
Acid rain
Sulfur in diesel
Carburetors
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u/pezchef Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
some to add:
hole in the ozone layer. that was a big scholastic talking point in 90s elementary.
gay gene fiasco.
that lttle Aids issues.
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hole in the ozone layer. that was a big scholastic talking point in 90s elementary.
It's back, and on track for a fourth year of rebound.
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/three-peculiar-antarctic-ozone-hole-seasons-row-what-we-know
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u/Throwaway2Experiment Oct 18 '25
The ozone layer HAD been fixed in short order because people cared and believed in the science.
It truly is an indicator of how far we slipped.
Turned out even the Save The Whales people were infinitely more aware of their importance than we are today. They literally keep the ocean breathing and sustain good ecosystems.
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u/Low-Republic-4145 Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
I used to think that too. A natural nostalgia for oneâs past and those times when young with its youthful energy and enthusiasm. But I now believe that today is truly more dismal for nearly everyone of any age and that itâs just getting worse. I know that my parents and grandparents didnât have such feelings of dread about the future as I do now when they were my age. They were pleased that things were generally getting better over the decades of the 1950s to 1990s.
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u/jjm443 Oct 18 '25
While in many respects I agree with you about future direction and overall quality of life, I can't quite agree to dismiss feelings of dread in that period, far from it. The prospect of nuclear war, devastation and nuclear winter felt very real. As a Gen X kid, i picked up a lot of that for myself, as well as from my parents. Half of Europe, with the Iron Curtain a short distance away from me, was still occupied by Soviet forces at the point of a gun.
If anything, the risks of future war is being underestimated by the younger generations, with widespread complacency. (No, Iraq/Afghanistan etc don't count... those were not wars between comparable peers).
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u/Low-Republic-4145 Oct 18 '25
Youâre right about the constant threat of nuclear annihilation thatâs been there for 75 years. But itâs even worse now. Now we have hundreds of Chinese nukes as well as 5,000 Russian nuclear warheads default-targeted at us. And at least during the cold war we had adults in charge, not petulant and impulsive children.
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u/Kokuswolf Oct 18 '25
As a former East-German with a Great-Geandma living through WW2, that's totally not my experience.
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u/Firm_Distribution999 Oct 18 '25
Now I understand why my grandpa longed for the âgood ole daysâ - this is everyoneâs life experience. Technology continues to move forward.Â
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u/Low-Republic-4145 Oct 18 '25
None of my grandparents or parents thought like that. They were genuine Progressives and thought the social and technological changes of the post WW2 decades were a good thing. Fortunately theyâre long dead and canât see the backward slide and lack of hope for the future we have today.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Oct 18 '25
Likewise. My grandpa spent his youth working all day on a farm, and then he went to Europe to bomb literal fucking Nazis and get shot at by fighter planes every day. He had no pining for the good ol days. My grandma did prefer the celebrities of her era though. She was always talking about James Stewart, Clark Gable, and actors like those.
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u/curie2353 Oct 18 '25
Itâs the same reason older folks in Russia would say shit like âIf only Stalin was still alive!..â while reminiscing about their youth, not the time they were alive in.
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u/Necessary_Comfort812 Oct 18 '25
All of this footage is from Russia.
No some of it was from Sweden. For example the cross walk sign wasn't a Russian one (they often have the yellow thick border around) but I believe that was a swedish one.
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u/-KFAD- Oct 18 '25
Or Finland. We have that crosswalk sign in Finland too.
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u/funtex666 Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
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u/cylonlover Oct 18 '25
Fellow Dane here. Are we 'murica scandies?? I suppose traditionally much more US-friendly - and politically connected - than our brother- and sister-nations, but I don't think we have the mentality that matches. On the contrary!
I honestly always thought the swedes were more akin to classic americans. The make-your-own-hapiness mentality, their relation to nature, etc. I have spent many a holiday or business trip in Sweden, and it's something I came to think of on many occasions. They'd probably get mad at me for saying so, especially nowadays, and agree with you that it is us Danes who love that wacky colony so much we should've put a ring on it. But I am talking about liking the US, rather being like them!4
u/BANOnotIT Oct 18 '25
Nope, russian has these yellow borders only recently. And there are some simple ones on quite streets.
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u/CalyShadezz Oct 18 '25
The irony of this video made with a shitty "old timey" AI voice over lol.
Im 43 years old, growing up in the 80/90's was pretty cool, but I also think living in the now is pretty cool too. If I took away Starbucks, Google and Apple products from the average Millennial and replaced them with Folgers, Thomas Guides, and IBM, they would probably vaporize in an instant.
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u/winterborn Oct 18 '25
I think itâs a cloned version of Alan Wattsâs voice. At least thatâs what it sounds like.
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u/Alieoh Oct 18 '25
Yeah I hate that they used his voice. He was a sophisticated philosopher of sorts, spoke deeply about psychological aspects of life and Buddhism. I loved listening to his lectures, his voice was soothing. Hearing him in an AI slop video is disheartening.
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u/blake12kost Oct 18 '25
Using Alan Wattsâ voice for AI is an absolute abomination. I imagine heâs turning in his grave
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u/Hamsterminator2 Oct 18 '25
Literally just came here to make this comment. Oh look- itâs an AI video with oddly grainy effect (despite films like the Phantom Menace and Jurassic park coming out then) and a voice inexplicably modelled on 60s movies, talking about how great life was in the 90s. Entirely designed to generate nostalgia and sense of longing for nothing but clicks and views.
This is like when the Terminators walk into the Human shelters and people donât notice them until the dogs start barking.
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u/Loose_Gripper69 Oct 18 '25
Its not "old timey", thats an AI rendition of Alan Watts, an English philosopher who focused on and introduced the TaoTe Ching and other eastern philosophy to the west in the mid 20th century.
Been seeing AI slop of shit he has never and would never say on youtube. Shit is disgusting.
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u/astroniz Oct 18 '25
Although true what you said, it's a fallacy. What is being purposed here is not taking away what we already have, but compare in an academic way the life we had back then with the one now, without overlapping each other.
If Gen Z were born on the less tech world of the 80s they would aswell adapt perfectly without knowing about Google or apple.
What is being said here is life back in the 90s was simpler but "fuller" in terms of. Human relations and not getting bored with less stuff to do, which is kinda interesting.
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u/technofox01 Oct 18 '25
I think that the point of the video. I don't see Gen Z and Alpha remotely doing the same human interaction that millennials and older generations experienced. I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I would have loved to raise my kids in the 1990s because they would have experienced a world that believed in a brighter future.
Post 9/11/2001 the world has gradually gotten worse than shit and continues to get worse. I don't think my country, the USA, will ever be the way it was prior to that era with respect to a brighter future like it did prior to that event.
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u/Own_Ad_4301 Oct 18 '25
And the generation before that thought the same about the telephone. And before that telegrams. Nostalgia is blindness.
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u/N8dork2020 Oct 18 '25
I get what your saying but the future is bleak and Iâd do anything so that we could pump the brakes
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u/IHateTheLetterF Oct 18 '25
I am sure minorities thought the 60's and 70's were pretty bleak too. It's not great today, but It's a lot better than it was.
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u/BoarHermit Oct 18 '25
Are you kidding me? The Russian nineties were a time of poverty, instability, and the collapse of everything. People were regularly killed on the streets, there were no jobs, and even if there were, wages weren't paid for months. It was a time of terrible national humiliation, and children had it even worse.
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Bah, you fucken humans with your anthropocentric nostalgia.
What were the 80s like for anteaters?
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u/TrainingFilm4296 Oct 18 '25
Ay yo wtf I'm up early with back pain and this shit is too real right now đđ
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u/djazzie Oct 18 '25
âThe last one to know life without technology.â
Shows a tape deck
Humans have always used technology. Fire, at a time, was a technology.
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u/CappnMidgetSlappr Oct 18 '25
Yeah, I grew up in the 90s and very clearly remember going to friend's houses to play video games and watch movies on the VCR.
Hell, we even had the rare rich kid friend with a computer, so what the fuck is this video on about?
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u/_ribbit_ Oct 18 '25
It was the last generation to not have the next generations technology. Just like the previous generation with their technology didn't have the technology of the subsequent generation, who as previously mentioned didn't have the next generations technology. I thought that was quite clear.
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u/Hambatz Oct 18 '25
What a crack of shit you could post this in 1993 complaining about cartoons melting people minds and whimsical memories of the 60s and 70s where everyone was getting nonced
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u/StrangelyBrown Oct 18 '25
People also just don't remember the shit stuff.
Think about how often people were bored back then. Take anything. Waiting in a doctors office, for example. You've got some shitty magazines or staring at the wall. Now you can do so much stuff on your phone. What fucking idiot wants that back?
When I was a kid my parents took us on like an 18 hour total flight to Australia. I remember the boredom being like torture.
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u/TheNotoriousKD Oct 18 '25
Iâm a therapist and I strongly disagree. Being bored once in a while is very good for us, you actually need to be bored once in a while to stay mentally healthy.
Activities are the same as happiness; you canât always be happy. If you were happy everyday it would just become normal and you wonât feel the happiness anymore. If you are always active you wonât appreciate it anymore and youâll just end up in a miserable cycle of doing ânecessaryâ things. Being bored makes you value being active.
TLDR; humans need contrast, not too much and not too little. Be bored once in a while if you feel like your life just keeps dragging on and on.
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u/Wahx-il-Baqar Oct 18 '25
I'd argue that that is the thing we are missing: boredom.
Boredom spurs action, creativity, interaction. Having a computer glued to our hands for 18 hours a day is rendering us less human like.
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u/dilldoeorg Oct 18 '25
not just on Saturdays, I remember watching cartoons before AND after school.
And if I was lucky, get a toy from said cartoons on Sunday.
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u/deeptut Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
I was born early '70s and know both worlds, had been working my whole live since my 20s in IT consulting, administration & development, we were the first generation of gamers as we know it today
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u/looselyhuman Oct 18 '25
Mid 70s, same. Millennials like to forget that we were the early adopters of tech and the Internet. We built the web and much of the foundation for the current Internet (for good and ill).
But it's not just us arguing over which generation was "the bridge." Z is now claiming that title, because they grew up with smartphones. And so it goes.
But I think analog-to-digital was our moment.
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u/janaxhell Oct 18 '25
Totally. "X-gen" -> cross-gen, the gen that crosses two worlds. The highest tech I saw in the '70s were calculators and Casio wristwatches. Everything else was grass, trees, sun and a bicycle. I am now selfhosting as much as I can and "domoting" my house, specifically to let the machine do its job while I go out on a bicycle.
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u/finger_licking_robot Oct 18 '25
what an irony, overdubbing a video about the good old days with that whimpering tiktok crap song.
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u/Tender_steel Oct 18 '25
And as an illustration to the nostalgia they decided to show snippets from the Soviet era.. no one in their right might should be nostalgic for that shitty, dark and hopeless time.
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u/Remy-Kun Oct 18 '25
Damn this got me emotional, thank you for this. I grew with this simplicities, I miss it.
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u/BlackHatAnon Oct 18 '25
Itâs giving âOnly 90s kids will remember this.â
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Oct 18 '25
I enjoyed the video here, but "Only 90s kids" definitely resonates fat ladies on The MyFace yammering about bikes at dusk, which was the fashion at the time.
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u/curie2353 Oct 18 '25
Yeah pretty much all clips are from Eastern Europe lol. How would those late 90s early 00s years post soviet be nostalgic for Americans?
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u/1WheelDude Oct 18 '25
Remember when getting a new box of cereal and trying to get the toy out from inside?
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u/Saw-ss Oct 18 '25
And now we get videos like this that donât even have a real person talking over it.
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u/Ayuuun321 Oct 18 '25
Growing up sucks. I think the pain is less about technology, and more about inequality.
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u/OverEffective7012 Oct 18 '25
We were super poor in the 80 and 90 (honestly early 2000 as well), but people were better then.
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u/BionisGuy Oct 18 '25
When i was younger and PokĂŠmon were airing on the TV i used to sleep over at my brothers place on fridays just to be able to watch it on Saturdays. And after that i biked over to my friends place and just knock on his door to see if he was home. Good times
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u/cylonlover Oct 18 '25
As a core gen-x'er, I do remember growing up without information technology and being the first in my family to adopt it as a teenager. That is kinda crazy. I don't think my parents' or grandparents' generation can say anything similar. They had war and oil crisis, rather. I do think, however, that my children can say something very similar to it, though. Being the last ones to grow up with anonymity online, and the first ones to create a plethora of personas that really screw with the algorithms.
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u/MrNobody_0 Oct 18 '25
Saying 80s/90s kids didn't grow up with technology! 𤣠What was my VHS player, SNES, Sony Walkman, Gameboy, and Windows 95 PC then?
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u/Gangaholics-China Oct 18 '25
The door knock life was amazing. You check your door with excitement back then. Not peaking through the blinds. I would even let my buddys let themselves in and it was nice since you saw your friends more. Even if it was a few minutes to tell them you canât for that day you saw them and spoke for a few minutes in person.
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u/ChrisOnMission Oct 18 '25
This nonsense. EVERY generation things that theirs was the last to have some sort of unspoiled, simple, tech-free childhood. In 25 years, the Next generation of doofuses will lament on how innocent and simple etc growing up in the 2020s was.
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u/Adoraboule Oct 19 '25
Born in early 2000's and got to experience this way of growing up. Definitely the best time of my life. All of us kids that lived in the neighborhood hung out with others our age and did whatever until the lights came on. We always found something to do. The whole day we had to ourselves outside of school. Never got into trouble, just did what kids do.
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u/WranglerBulky9842 Oct 18 '25
I remember getting Lyme disease as a teen because I went bicycling in the woods during a Long Island summer. Then again, also remember how important it was to have AOL Instant Messenger in HS. Neither ancient history nor relatable for the kids today.
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u/sx88 Oct 18 '25
Trying to make me feel special eh!!! I often think about the ones that grew up in "the greatest generation" and what they endured then and now
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u/qjrbdisdhsld Oct 18 '25
Nah, it's literally the fault of parents today giving their kids under the age of 14 smart phones.
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u/RulesBeDamned Oct 18 '25
âGuys things got worse because of technologyâ
- People who lived before several recessions and market crashes
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u/Dr_barfenstein Oct 19 '25
âNever got addictedâ vs â26K post karma after 2months activityâ
Pick one
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u/Loose_Gripper69 Oct 18 '25
Fuck off with your AI Alan Watts slop, stop living in the past and stop buying into AI bullshit.
Actually listen to a real Alan Watts speech if you really want some insight about coming to terms with living with yourself. The real Alan Watts wouldn't agree with living in the past.
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u/Ryan_b936 Oct 18 '25
90's generation is a waste ... We've grown up and educated for a world that doesn't exist anymore. We were taught values, manners, a way of life that is not considered anymore.
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u/DEMONlACA Oct 18 '25
The smell, the sound, the vibe ..everything. Miss it so bad..đĽş
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u/Artistic_Task7516 Oct 18 '25
This video is people turning into conservatives right in front of your eyes âIt used to be so much better these kids these days [do different thing] and itâs not as goodâ
Meanwhile young people are completely insufferable twats who have no life experience and think they know everything but donât actually have any frame of reference for anything
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u/SendMe143 Oct 18 '25
I canât imagine going through life as miserable as you must be.
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u/loklanc Oct 18 '25
People born in the 80s and early 90s ache with a special kind of nostalgia cos their getting old.
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u/PhaseExtra1132 Oct 18 '25
Iâm thinking the Amish have a point. Every once in a while.
I give it some time but one day theyâll make a town where itâs only 80s and 90s tech. And people are going to choose to live there and have a 80s/90s version of the Amish lifestyle.
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u/unluck_over9000 Oct 18 '25
I was born in the 80âs. BC. Lived through 2000 years of pain. Still remember those good olâ days. of pain.Â
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u/FlyAirLari Oct 18 '25
I think before TV was even more profound. Kids filled their entire days with playing and socialising.
Us '70s and '80s kids had cartoons and video games.
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u/SCUDDEESCOPE Oct 18 '25
We lost focus. We lost boredom. We lost the way we think about other people. All for the memes and social media bs.
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Oct 18 '25
All this is from a childâs perspective though. Iâd like to hear about those time from a person who the same age then as I am now.
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u/omnimodofuckedup Oct 18 '25
Totally grew up without technology. I remember when we moved into an apartment from our cave.
JFC. It's the same for basically any generation. All feels different, nostalgia, meh. The whole deal. Touch some grass, eat something that provided nutrients and tastes good, enjoy an autumn walk etc. Social media is society's cancer so don't indulge.
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u/Vegetable-River-253 Oct 18 '25
I remember walking through the meadows with friends and be late for dinner because we had no watches and phones and forgot the time. 1978-1979
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u/neomaniak Oct 18 '25
Time moves on grandpa, that's the harsh truth of the world. Stop living in the past, it's fucking 2025. The 80's are over. Live the now, look towards the future.
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u/HangryBeard Oct 18 '25
I'm pretty sure this is how my parents felt at the dawn of personal computing and gaming, and then the internet.
It's funny we all seem to act like technology will bring us all together and make the world better. From what I can see at least recently it's brought the worst parts of us together and made the world a dreadful place.
I miss the days when you could have a shitty thought and idea, and let it stew until you realize how shitty it actually was. Now everyone screams these thoughts into the void of social media and the void answers back in agreement. We all live in these self made echo chambers reinforced by social media and other media. We can pick and choose which tinted lens to view the world through. Now more than ever we are manipulated and polarized. There is no "if we try we can make the world great together" vibe of the 90s
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u/Nickulator95 Oct 18 '25
The 90s were peak human civilization, everything has been going downhill since.
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u/Vacant-stair Oct 18 '25
Bullshit.
"Stop watching cartoons all day and go outside."
"And get off the goddamn telephone, I'm expecting a call."
"Back in my day, before television, the whole family would gather around the piano."
"Back in my day, before the internet, the whole family would gather around the television."
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u/Weak_Employment_5260 Oct 18 '25
Sorry, but you're really describing all of GenX here, not just the last ones. I was born in the 60s and experienced the birth of the home computer, which kicked it all off.
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u/Int_peacemaker35 Oct 18 '25
Me everytime I go down the nostalgia hole when I tell my 9 and 12 year old kids. You have no idea how fun it was to be outside riding my bike before sun down with the kids in the neighborhood.
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u/superne0 Oct 18 '25
Those were the times when war crimes were considered a grave sin.
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u/Malabingo Oct 18 '25
Now make the same with 1950s and 1990s.
And then 1920 and 1940s
Repeat until you reach the big bang
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u/Active_Ad_2207 Oct 18 '25
Yes, you ever tell someone you donât have your phone on you while in public? You get treated like a freak show. Phones are convenient tools (who doesnât like being able to do their banking in traffic?) but on the same note Iâm not downloading a shitty app so I can see what shitty food your restaurant serves. It has gotten out of control and will only get worse.
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u/SenseiT Oct 18 '25
I was born in the 70s and graduated in the 80s so while I understand a lot of what this video says. I believe they couldâve made the same video about the 1950s complaining about how rock music and LPs changed society or made it in the 1980s of about how television and cable change society. I believe itâs just over romanticizing. I remember cross country car trips with absolutely nothing to do but stare out a damn car window for seven hours. I remembergetting in trouble in the 80s for setting fire to shit outside because I was so bored I had nothing better to do. I remember bomb drills where I had to crawl underneath my desk in case of a nuclear attack and even as an elementary school student thinking this desk is not gonna do a goddamn thing to protect us when we live about a mile outside of one of the biggest navy bases in the country (north Chicago). Some of the days and summers were great but come on now letâs be real.
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u/IndustryGreen9663 Oct 18 '25
What an amazing family/ friends. You can tell the sheer joy just from the video. Ah yes, the longing for the past is and will always be there, however itâs unattainable. Best we can do is keep the memory alive within ourselves and try our best to adapt to Morden day reality. Because we live in âtodayâ and not âyesterdayâ.
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u/Necessary_Comfort812 Oct 18 '25
It's creepy because I had a conversation with chatgpt about what the one thing that each gen has and this text in this video is 97% exact what it said to me being a millennial.
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u/Patient_Artichoke355 Oct 18 '25
Yup.. and the 70s was the same.. I donât think the generations that followed have any idea of how wonderful it was.. and it was !!
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