You Just Had To Be There!!! 12 Things Modern '90s Nostalgia Edits Out About What Life Was During The Decade

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A mates of years ago, I wrote a post astir the parts of the '90s that nostalgia tends to gloss over. You cognize the worldly that doesn't acceptable neatly into a TikTok montage of Delia catalogs and pictures of celebs from the epoch acceptable to Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You."

Recently, my TikTok provender has been filled (largely acknowledgment to the caller FX bid Love Story) with radical romanticizing the '90s arsenic immoderate carefree, stylish, pre-internet paradise. However, it feels similar full chunks of the acquisition get edited out. The simply forgotten things. The inconvenient parts. The uncomfortable parts. The things that were just… mean astatine the time, adjacent if they wouldn't alert today. So I decided to constitute a follow-up. A deeper dive into the parts of the decennary that don't usually marque it into the nostalgia posts.

1. Being a vegetarian oregon vegan was uncommon and seen arsenic extreme.

2. Movies took a agelong clip to travel retired connected location video.

3. Casual sexism successful media was conscionable portion of the norm.

4. And casual homophobia was everywhere.

6. Celebrity civilization could beryllium openly cruel.

8. Viral videos existed agelong earlier YouTube oregon societal media.

9. Seeing a large movie prima successful a TV commercialized was astir unheard of.

10. Bootleg performance recordings were hugely popular.

11. It was not uncommon for people to program their docket astir their favourite TV shows.

12. And lastly, precise fewer radical owned compartment phones.

Okay, erstwhile again, folks who lived done the '90s, bash you retrieve these things? Did they dependable right? What did I miss? Let maine cognize successful the comments below!!!

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