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

I have no doubt that in 10 to 20 years people will be saying that the time we live in now was great and people will want to go back. It's basically a never ending cycle on nostalgia

I don't really feel nostalgia for times before I was born, but sometimes I do wonder what my life would've been like living through those times if I did exist back then. And when it comes to movies/music/tv shows from before someone was born, I think that just the memories of consuming that media earlier on in their life can help w/ being nostalgic for stuff that's older than they are.

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.

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.

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 KZfaqrs, the Wii, the Pixar golden age and so mutch more.

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

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

He strikes again. The editing in this is so good

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.

I remember staying up late to watch the og teen titans

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

“You can always go back, but they won’t be there.”

this channel is going to blow up!

Because of shame. 90s babies were shaming I guess, people my parents age was like in 2017, “oh, how easy yaw have it.” Now the same thing is still happening to gen alpha.

I miss 2005.

We don't miss it, we just missed it.

80s right before 90s was best imo

I was born in 87 and I can tell you that the 90s were the best. I don't wish to have grown up at any other time.

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.

It’s weird to me that I’m now old enough that grown ass adults wish they grew up in my era

I thought this was a huge channel just to see u have 136 subs? You’re too good to not blow up soon

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.

I dont know but i never understand peoples who miss times they dont live in, im grown up in the 90s in a healthy household and i miss this because i had a good times but never feel nostalgia for another times.

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

thank you, i needed this

My Dell Latitude D630 from 2007 is older than a lot of the people watching this video yet it's what I'm still watching it on today. Especially since everything modern keeps sucking more and more with companies starting to literally steal devices if the customer installed a third party part then sent the device to the manufacturer for repair, your original content being owned by the company who created the software you used to make it and computers being forced into things that don't need them to dictate what rights you have with that appliance. More than anything, I miss the era where I would run through the woods with the goat god Pan and every animal lived the way they were meant to without people who call child abuse raised christian trying to take away all of life's meanings and turn everyone into slaves for the rich.

This video was great, loved the editing style!

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 miss the 2000s/early 2010s and I was born in 2006 lol It just feels like I missed out on what was happening back then, and I wasn't old enough to experience it

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born in the 90ies and still love them... even though I love some 80ies, 2000s and some modern stuff aswell

Bravo. Interesting and well presented video essay. Nice work

This is an EXCELLENT video and this channel has some HUGE potential, keep it up!!!

The 90s were weird. The End of History nonsense was everywhere in media

I wasn't expecting ''you done goofed'' today Nice video btw

As a 2009 kid, i staryed watching youtube in 2018, aged 8, so i never knew "old youtube", but i still seem to feel nostalgia for youtube before i watched it. I don't wish that i was born early enough to watch smosh, or any other early youtube, and i think youtube is overall better now, but it was definitly more fun in 2013, (based on the few videos ive watched from back then)

I was also born in 2001, yet somehow you almost look 30, no offense lol Anyways, I wish I could have been alive for the rise in popularity of Pokémon in the late 90s, or Pokémania as some people called it. Pokémon was the biggest part of my childhood, and it's still a big part of my life today. Seeing that it's the highest grossing media franchise of all time, I want to go back to when it all started. What I wouldn't give to experience trading and battling with friends using the link cable, hearing playground rumours of secret Pokémon, waking up early on Saturday mornings to watch the anime, and even the fanatic religious parents that believed Pokémon was evil. I wish I was there for all of it.

I was born in 1982 and it sucked more than it was cool growing up. I wish I was born 20 years later.

It's simply our instinctual desire to be closer to death.

Im glad i grew up in the 2000s and 2010s

This video is how i feel sometimes

I think we all just yearn for a time of earnesty. Seriously... why else would something like incelcore take inspiration from 1950s rocknroll? And why are we spending more time looking to the past instead of right now? Its not bad but damn im way too stuck in the past. Nostlagia culture is becoming very consoomeristic... but man can you blame kids like me for wanting more freedom in a time when everythings been so commodified. Nothings changed, its just officially gotten more hellbent on taking away personal freedom. We dont miss the 80's, we just wanna convince ourselves we have culture even though everything was already bought and sold by then.

I wish I was alive during the 1930s in the 1960s the 1970s '80s and '90s

Extremely high quality video and production for a channel with 184 subs. Nicely done. This one's not quite as good as "Dr. Willy gets pooped on." but you've got potential for a great KZfaqr

I for one just miss the time I grew up in. The 90s and early 20s were great. It's because society has become so damn boring. We've sterilized everything down to its simplest form. Everything is so grey and boring.... companies can only do bad remakes for the most part they don't even go all in on the nostalgia. Nostalgia products are overpriced to hell now. It's just sad. I think we'd be happier if they brought back some of the things from the past and made them affordable too.

I think it would’ve been absolutely uncanny and just straight up absurd to just wake up one day in the 80s or 90s. Things would’ve WAY MORE different and it would’ve been hard to adjust into a new era you’ve never existed in before. To be a little more on topic I think the reason some people wish to live in past generations is because they dislike their current life or aren’t happy enough with it so they want to live in ones they’ve never experienced because they don’t know what it’s like at all and that’s what excites them.

I adore this video

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

The start of the internet. to experience the wild west it was.

This is the best time to be alive honestly 2024 is probably the best calm year like 2019 was compared to 2020 and 2024 is the chilliest year besides a handful of world wide events also I'm pretty sure 2025 is going to be either better or more chaotic but the 2020s started crazy and seem to be going alright by 2023 hopefully tho things get better

Past life experience

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

wait what 0;14 is "what nintendon't" and now i think was released in 2019 or 2018 "nintendont" for wii to play GC games in wii mode.

Really creepy how everyone is imitating all eras and all Cultures we grew up in tho

Such a high quality video. Thanks for the great watch

bro you look like the answer in progress dude!111!!!

If you're gen z like me but mainly born in the 2000s rejoice in the fact we'll be growing up with our numbers in check with the dates. If you were born any time before 2010, you'll be in your 20s in the 20s and so on for the rest of your years. It's exciting to think about the tech and general advances that will be coming about in the later parts of this century, I look forward to seeing you there.

so this isn't just me

i miss the 90s and wish i lived in the 80s since it looks really interesting but i noticed that when i ask most people online it just seems like a more funky version of the 90s but when i ask my dad or random old people about the 80s it seems like some dystopian version of 1972 with never ending cold war fear and non of the technology i associate with that time being available to the average person. i also am starting to notice it with the 90s people say its more high tech than it really was people acting like the internet and early cellphones was common and saying i am too young to remember certain things because they came out in the 80s not realizing that that they were less than 10 years old when i first saw or used them. and regional history gets forgotten too people don't remember the random issues and quirks my region had compared to America like i was really surprised when i found out nickelodeon was founded in 1979 since it came out there in 2002 and i always say i am a pre nickelodeon kid and i assumed the American version launch in the early 90s with rugrats and Doug at least from what i have heard from my parents in 1979 this country literally only had 1 yes 1 tv channel but it was ok because its a small country and people just watched tv from other countries if they got bored. i remember when we had maybe 5 or 6 not counting the foreign language ones in the 90s (this is a very rich country in western europe btw i am not from the east block because people think i am from eastern europe when i talk about this)

Yeah what a great time to be alive with the internet in the palm of our hands. But no the 90's to 2000's where sooooo much better on a lot of things, we evolved for the better and the worse.

Can't believe this video only has 3000 views! This is quite good for such an unknown channel, really feels like KZfaq is doing **something** with their algorithm at this moment. I personally think that old shouldn't overshadow the new, and neither should the new overshadow the old. There were a lot of great things from the 2000s, 1990s, 1980s and etc, but there are a lot of things that wouldn't even have a chance to exist that long ago, and are still amazing. Another problem that people really don't understand is, not just is their vision of the old times quite rose-tinted, it's also cherry picked. Doing things such as comparing literal peaks of a specific medium to an average piece of that type of medium is not really that fair, and if you really look into something much more average back then, you'll easily notice that not much has changed, it's just that the medium of lower quality was forgotten, but ones of higher quality remained (and did so for quite a good reason too).

Star wars :(

insane bro only has 251 subs

What. Was that clip a @ 2:40 of the crying woman as your bumper video for Chapter 1?

Interesting theories and might be real in some cases, but it's certainly more nuanced than that. Unfortunately a lot of things have degraded in industries. Mainstream music is worst now because the music industry corporations only promote their corporate controlled puppets than actual artists and bands that they can control less as oppose to the 90s where any band or artist good enough was worth signing and promoting for profits. There are tons of great bands and artists still around, but those are more from the independent part of the music scene than the mainstream. Mainstream animation is worse now because the mantra for over the last decade has been to make it as fast and cheaply as possible, this is where the calarts criticism comes in. On your example of people forming communities and "influencing" each other's opinion falls short on this one. Go look at the ton of videos talking about or showing amazing anime movies and OVAs from the 90s, every single person that watch those become awe struck by the mind blowing gorgeous animation and wish modern day anime would look like the stuff from the 90s. There are still animation movies etc produced today that can stand head to head to productions from the 90s, but those are more from independent indie projects. Mainstream movies are worst now, because big studios have become too corporate in their creativity processes. Most big movies are practically directed by the executive board room and not really the directors themselves anymore. The directors just act as a extension of the board room's directions. And the real hot button topic, people are too over sensitive today, so much we got people freaking out on social media if something is remotely offensive to them on screen or in music. Restricting and censoring art will always produce inferior art compare to ones made in a more freedom of expression environment. a Load of movies, music and anime from 90s wouldn't be able to be made today due to that specific point and if they were, they would be so drastically changed as to try and not be as offensive that it hurts the project. Even though there were tight regulations for stuff in the 90s. It wouldn't restrict those mediums if they just slapped a higher age rating on the media. But today even R or mature rated stuff are heavily curated to not be "offensive". So due to over reaching corporate control and safety boards trying to restrict the medium at the conception point results in just that, inferior products. This is not even touching the state of the internet in the 90s/2000s which was more open and free back than, as opposed to the centralized social media sites we have now. I can understand when someone who wasnt born in the 90s yearn to experience it. It was great. But that level of culture can be achieved again if we walk back the centralized corporate control that is right now ever growing.

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I wanna know Taylor Swift's reaction to Django Unchained

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wish could been born before deoderant took over the market as i naterlay stink and have to poision self with deoderant to not stink if shower 2x a day i still stink. and the nateral healthy formulas just nto as strong as the toxic formulas. wish could go back where stinky was sexy. would make it helluva lot easier on me!

Youre just dying. Its a part of life. You've left the garden of Eden and are wandering the wastes like the rest of us.

I was already ready to dislike your video when I saw the thumbnail because I thought it was just another zoomer making vast overgeneralisations about the past and endorsing escapism, but you really do have such a mature take about why these days we yearn for a past we did not live.

I kinda wish folks could return to describe mental illnesses in bit more poetric way. The overclinical nature of mental health discussion about human psyche just feels so... fruitless to really describe or handle its woes.