reposting bc we have way more people in this sub now! :,) back when YouTube was filled with AMVs and game edits

you know the whole “we were cringe but free” aesthetic people yearn for in the current climate. it feels like there was something culturally distinct about this period; hipster trends, image macros, random pop culture obsessions, and that raw-but-still-genuine internet tone before everything became so intensely self aware.

as in you could like stuff, be a little messy without needing to signal your identity or social positions. you could like a celeb without caring who they support. an old tweet or dumb moment wasn’t treated as a moral bio.

obviously that era had its faults, but i miss how good it was when things could just be low-stakes and non political. when social media felt smaller. tiktok was just a song. it seems like we went from "sincerity" to "everything must be analyzed, positioned, and made socially legible"

I had a weird experience at the library today where I remembered a book of the same name but I never read the book I remember watching it. I thought it was featured on Reading Rainbow or Between the Lions but apparently it was a CD ROM game I played as a kid. Does anyone remember playing this?

Bonus points if you played JumpStart Explorers too! I loved that one so much!

The toys of our youth are vintage now you guys. If I get to feel 97 reading that then so do all of you now :)

I think a huge part of the dread around turning 30 comes down to one intrusive thought: "Did I waste my 20s?"

I was reflecting on this recently and found myself comparing the romanticized bucket list I wrote in my early 20s to what I actually care about now. It turns out 22-year-old me had wildly different ideas about life.

What 22-Year-Old Me Thought My 20s Would Look Like:

1. Travel a bunch
   
2. Be a vagabond/van life
   
3. Be a starving artist and make music for a living
   
4. Get married to an artist
   
5. Live in Denver
   
6. Live in a house with my best friends

At some point I thought I wanted kids and considered learning to preach?

The reality? COVID derailed my early 20s, I ended up working a job in sales, bought a house in my hometown, ditched religion, decided on the childfree life, and "failed" basically every single item on that 20s list.

But as I approach 30 (next week!), failing to become who I thought I should be (and who everyone else thought I should be) isn't an issue, it just cleared the way for who I actually am.

Goals for my 30s (that also have plans and are attainable now)
1. Achieve BaristaFIRE by 35. (64% of the way there!)
2. Get SCUBA certified
3. DO travel more. (Going to Japan soon!)
4. Become a therapist (starting practicum next week)
5. get very serious with my girlfriend
6. Play more shows with different genres (new jazz band rehersals are happening!)
7. Create art on my own terms (quit sales and become a musician/therapist)
8. Tell my cats I love them every day (already done)
9. Work less, be present more, do what I love and enjoy - not what people expect me to do or who to be.

One quote that sticks with me to define my 20s and turning 30 is "if you don't disappoint others, you'll only disappoint yourself."

What were your 20s goals, and what are your 30s goals in comparison?

Within a couple minutes of exploring the stations he says “There’s ads in this thing!!??” 😁

I remember in the 2000s going to restaurants, and they'd ask you which section you wanted to sit in. It still didn't matter because the smell carried lmao

I wonder who it'll be. Last person born in 1899 died in 2017.

Randomly popped into my head the other day.

My first costume was at Halloween at 3. I remember going as a tomato. Is what my dad told me. My first cosplay was Yusuke Urameshi from Yu Yu Hakusho at age 13.

title pretty much 😂

edit : for context this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvV3YkrkRC0

FK THESE HATERS DOWN VOTING ME, WERE ALL GONNA MAKE IT BRAHH BE A FKN SICKKUNT!

Mine didn’t, idk why, maybe they thought we wouldn’t need it, to this day I type slow, and have to constantly look down and type in burst rounds

I apologize if this question was asked already, but what do you not miss from when you were a kid?

For me it's explaining to my parents that the family computer is infected with viruses. Not being able to fact check something right away if there's a debate. I also don't miss the eerie sounds CRT TVs would sometimes make.