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I was born in '79. I know a lot of 1980s/1990s stuff that's floating in popular consciousness right now is fictional romanticised bullshit, because it's based on romaticised fiction made in that era.
For example, I knew most kids didn't hang out at The Mall. I was a kid. We didn't have a goddamn mall. American movies and TV showed kids hanging out at The Mall. Maybe hanging out at the Mall was an aspirational thing. Or something.
It's a thing that happened for some people but it's not the entire truth about the era. It's not just that people tend to remember the good bits, they tend to remember the good bits that happened to someone else.
There's a reason why nobody makes AI slop about the Finnish 1990s banking crisis and its wide systemic repercussions felt to this day. Edit: Sorry if none of this makes sense, just ate something other than cheap potatoes for the first time in a week
One of my most vivid memories of the 80s was that bullying was absolutely rampant and no one did anything about it. Parents then were just like, "It's part of growing up!"
Bullying from all sides with adults taking part in ways no different than the children. Made me wonder if they whole 'respect your elders' made any fucking sense.
Wouldn't call it rampant.
Didn't really cause a dent on that generation either.
I copped a few dints
He is talking about his own experience, not for the whole generation
Then maybe they should choose their words more carefully, because that is not what their words portray
It was rampant where I grew up.
I was curious and I came back with a Wikipedia link for everyone else.
Thank you
That’s the thing about this. We lived through the 80s and know what it smells like, so this isn’t aimed at us. It’s all the kids who are into Stranger Things and the like with their weird Instagram Filter take on the decade.