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depsidase:

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severalowls:

I think people sometimes forget that the Crazy Frog was literally a TV ad spot for a novelty ringtone. Which is such an unbelievably specific bygone era that its easier to imagine it as some kind of internet meme animation.

And then it was so wildly popular that the creators overlaid some of the sound effects onto bestselling 1984 movie soundtrack song “Axel F” and it was SO popular that people just imagine the song was written for the ringtone ad frog. From when you paid for ringtones. On TV.

campyvillain:

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for the love of god will you people read my dni FREAKS AND WEIRDOS DNI. you are all so fucking annoying

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even me?

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omg sorry what am i doing here.

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i don’t belong here

thesuperheroesnetwork:

afloweroutofstone:

There’s a very underrated lyrical moment in Lil Kim’s 1996 “Fuck You” where this guy who no one’s ever heard of brags that his rapping is well-liked by gay people and intellectuals

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jakesullypussyhair:

Most recent depictions of the 90s I’ve seen underappreciate how prominent bungee jumping was

You know if there was a national protection for abortion in cases of rape that would probably lead to red states shredding their statutory rape laws.

I don’t think I appreciated that all the ‘90s worry about teen pregnancy, daytime talk shows, “kids having kids” and all was–

Well, for one it was about welfare, that with the collapse of midcentury industry Black America was just being maintained as a purposeless urban mass with no legal way to obtain more resources but by breeding more purposeless urban masses.

But that to the extent it was a white thing it was about how the 70s way of life had spread out into the rural country and was, fundamentally, 20somethings and older knocking up high schoolers.

Which was maybe the next step after rural America spent the '80s parsing that it was an issue that girls’ dads, or stepdads, or mom’s boyfriends could be knocking them up.

Yeah the 90s started out with a strong Bulls run and then there was the whole Liz Phair/Smashing Pumpkins/Lollapalooza Wicker Park scene and then Chicago just vanished from American consciousness, behind like Detroit

We should have realized in the ‘90s when Comedy Central became a thing that we were training a generation to do stand-up and sketches

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

The first time I had sex was in 1994, in Washington, D.C. at a restaurant called Figs and Olives, where I was hanging out with my friend and his band. He was a drummer and I was friends with him because my girlfriend was dating his wife at the time, and I was like, “Why would you want to make this guy with no bass and a drummer part of your life?” So he had his bass player come along, which I later realized was a great way to introduce a lot of new members of our circle to the concept of gay sex, which they had previously been very reluctant to talk about.

The ‘90s!

K’s Choice’s “Not an Addict” and The Dandy Warhols’ “Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth”, also gesturing in the general direction of Red Hot Chili Peppers

Using music videos to convince a Zoomer that no, heroin really was a thing in the ‘90s

Wonder how Jeff Vogel’s parsing the way it’s only because every future creative with a Mac pirated them that Exile/Avernum are still discussed and “lizardmen use polearms, nekomimi are bow rogues” is part of the fantasy imaginarium now

::remembering I’ve seen all the Ah! Megamisama OVAs::

What the fuck?

Thinking about like, Guster and Ani DiFranco, and how after the 90s were over they didn’t end up being particularly important to anything

So in retrospect I guess we can flag “What was up with Princess Maker, why were all those 90s nerds obsessed with a game where you control a girl as she develops into a woman?” as resolved