Why we miss times before we were born.

"I for one can't wait until jorts are back" he says in prime jort season

Though I am saddened I did not get to experience the things of the past, I am happy I grew up with Avatar the last airbender, classic MCU, Phineas and Ferb, Minecraft, the classic YouTubers, the Wii, the Pixar golden age and so mutch more.

I was born in 1989, I loved my 90s childhood and 2000s teen years, and I did have an "only 90s kids remember" phase when I was around 21, but eventually I realized I really just missed being a kid more anything specific to the 90s/00s. The main thing that kind of irks me a little bit is people who weren't there trying to speak like authorities on the past and often times getting it wrong. Which makes sense, because they're not nostalgic for the time period, just the image of it they got from media of that time and the Wikipedia descriptions of it. They merely adopted the 90s, I was born in it (well, late 80s technically), molded by it.

To the "music sucks now" crowd:  I'm middle aged & been involved in my local arts scene since I was a kid & there's good & bad music made all the time, every day, including now, in all kinds of genres, at all levels of popularity, plus a huge rich back catalogue of high quality recorded music to explore since the post WW2 era. I'm embarrassed when people my age or younger have such closed minds. When someone says they can't find "good" music "anymore", that tells me they stopped looking for it. That's fine if you want to stick with the music you already know you love, or if you stopped listening to radio, quit seeing new bands at smaller shows, or don't spend time looking at music reviews + news anymore. But a lot of people will stop engaging with music the way they did in their youth & then blame "music" + new musicians for "sucking". Maybe if those folks changed their framing to "I haven't found anything new that I want to listen to in a long time", people would recommend things to them, but starting a conversation with someone & having them drop "music/everything sucks now" feels like a metaphorical door slamming in your face. I guess a lot of my peers think it's easier to blame the world for sucking than to contemplate we all got older for, like, 2 seconds, & being honest with ourselves. TL; DR don't believe the non-hype; good sh-t is out there + plentiful, & please consider making your own music + supporting your local music scene.

Everyone here is the reincarnation of “Midnight in Paris”.

I was born in 92. Around 05 the 60's style was in and I began to feel that feeling of "being born in the wrong time" However, now at 32, I only feel nostalgia for my actual childhood. I was definitely born in the right time and was a 90s kid through and through. My generation was the last to grow up without the internet and social media explosion but also still young enough to see it happen and participate in it as it was happening in real time. We got the best of both worlds.

He strikes again. The editing in this is so good

im nostalgic for that time you made a video about collecting. those were the days dude

I remember staying up late to watch the og teen titans

I was born in 88. I feel nostalgic for the 90's, but realistically: most parents thought NOT spanking your kids would mess them up; alcoholic and/or repressed parents were also way more common; it was cool to be cruel, so bullying was pretty much like the movies; TV and movies were very "don't say gay" aside from Will and Grace and some very special episodes; being a teen in the 2000's felt like an assimilate or die situation. Honestly think I'd be a lot less messed up if I'd been born 7-10 years later, even with social media being the way it is now

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Insanely underrated. This is an excellent video essay dude this NEEDS more attention (and bonus points for awesome bgm choices)

Can we all agree this is a shit time to be alive, humanly speaking?

Great vid and very relatable! I born in 1992 so was too young to appreciate most things in the 90s but I remembered the music since there was always a radio playing. But for me its the 80s and a little the 70s since thats when my parents grew up and had their 'glory days'. I was the same hanging on their every word when they told me stories from that time.

I really miss 2d animations, cartoons, I wish they would make a comeback. 2D animation & practical effects did wonders for creative storytelling. Things made us utilize our intelligence. No matter what kind of character, creature, species they were, they found great ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition that connected us on a deeper level. From the 80's-00's we had such well made stories & animation. Such creative ways to show expressions, emotions. To give the audience feelings without overly explaining it. I really miss it all. So much now is just bland green screen CGI disconnected hollow movie's/TV shows. *(If you would have told kid me back in the early 90s that most animation in media would basically disappear. I wouldn't have believed you and gone back to watching X-Men the animated series. That was just 1 of many animated shows that was so well crafted. The story of mutants was so universally relatable. Media abstractly taught me life lessons, touched on difficult situations, found intelligent ways to tell stories. So much so that when I've gone back & rewatched them as a adult. I realized how well they told & crafted stories that anyone can enjoy & appreciate them no matter what age they are. Great examples are (Pretty much anything created by Don Bluth or Written by Roald Dahl) The Brave little toaster, James and the giant peach, The never ending story, Rocko's modern life, The secret of the Nimh, Sword and the stone, black cauldron, Little Nemo and the adventures of Slumberland, Beetle juice, Alice in wonderland, Rock-a-doodle, Captain Planet, Thundercats, He-man, Spawn, Batman, Batman beyond, toxic crusaders, Matilda, The BFG, Ren and stimpy, courage the cowardly dog, magic school bus, Dexter's laboratory, pinky and the brain, I am weasel, IR Baboon, Ah! Real monster's, goosebumps, are you afraid of the dark, pee wee's playhouse, she-ra warrior princess, cow & chicken, gargoyle's, power rangers, TMNT, the Indian in the cupboard, Addams family, toy soldier's, honey I shrunk the kid's, wild thornberries, hey Arnold, angry beaver's, Flintstones, the Jetsons, Kablam. There's so many more I won't list them all. They all had such a unique impact on my life & my love for media, drawn animation, practical effects. So many ways of telling stories. So many types of creatures, unique worlds, weird things, macabre things. I loved how we used to embrace those things. Seeing how things are nowadays, i feel so lucky that i got to grow up in the 90's. Back then I never could have guessed that things would have changed the ways they did. It was such a great time to be a kid. The world seemed to have so many creative ways kids, teens and adults could all enjoy themselves. Entertaining movies with practical effects. Animated movies/shows galore. If they used CGI it was used intelligently. I really miss the Vibe of that Era. The creativity that came from that era. I really hope we find a way to reconnect with it because the world seems like it really needs it right now. I mean just look at the aesthetics compared to now? Things have somehow become so bland, bleek, and minimalism that it doesn't even make since. Most Old house's/building's/uúnique shop's are gone. Interesting oddities like drive in movies, indoor fun zones, arcade's, magazines that came with a demo disc to try out game's, blockbuster/Hollywood video, McDonald's had N64's, you could preview music before buying it, they had great kid's toy's, Roller Rink's, Garbage pale kid's card's. You get the point. I want to reignite that feel sort of like Retro-Futurism or that Y2K Vibe compared to this current Dystopian pessimism that seems solely focused purely on capitalistic agendas. Our Quality of Life should be better than this.

I support the notion of finding a balance, but I feel like any honest discussion of nostalgia must come with the caveat that history isn't a perfectly progressive upward trend. The explosive improvement that formed the foundation of today's world is a recent and likely unsustainable phenomenon. On a smaller scale, many are set to live less prosperous and less fulfilling lives than their parents in a world full of issues that are demonstrably trending for the worse. Sometimes the past really was better, even when viewed without rose-tinted glasses. At least in some regards. Excess nostalgia can blind people to the flaws of the past and make them hopeless for the future, but I don't see many people actually engaging with nostalgia in that way. (I mean lots of people feel hopeless, but not because of nostalgia). In my experience, most critics of nostalgia end up unintentionally shaming people for one of two things: 1 - Casually appreciating the qualities of the past. 2 - Soberly drawing analytical comparisons between the past and the present. I don't think either of these are intrinsically or even commonly unhealthy behaviors. I see a lot of criticism of nostalgia, but most of that criticism seems divorced from how people are actually engaging with it. Like I said at the top, I agree with the message in abstract, but repeatedly offering the same lesson to people who've seemingly already learned can changed the effect of the lesson from what was intended.

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My curious ass pausing at the 1:03 mark having to slow at 25% speed and frame pausing 😂