Who else gets mildly depressed when they see normal high-schools and innocuous white-bread communities in movies or TV shows from the 1980's? It really seems that the problems that plagued 80's culture were paltry compared to the social ills of today.
This is long before the whole LGBT movement started shoving their degenerate horseshit down everyone's throat (at least to the same extent as now), shitty nigger music and culture that pedestalize criminal gang-bangers and hedonistic behaviors weren't nearly as mainstream, media, in general, was absolutely amazing, the dollar had more purchasing power, people seemed to be a lot more straightforward and innocent, nationalism was more common and in a much healthier state in America because of the cold war and everyone's underlying fear of communism, and far-left politics were more likely to be dismissed than it is today. I guess the same thing can be applied to prior decades also.
I may have experienced the 80's vicariously through other people's accounts/experiences and media but I can't imagine it being just as bad as contemporary America. Oldfags, share your experiences and juxtapose America then and now.
I was watching Ace of Base music videos from the 90s and I couldn't believe how different shit was back then
Ethan Baker
Niggers would lose their shit if someone started pushing that black rights are the product of faggot's rights
Jaxon Sanchez
>t. 1988 doesn't count, faggot
Connor Torres
I was in high school in the 80s, you have no idea how amazing it was.
Grayson White
The 1990's were about as bad of a fuck job for me as possible so not able to live the depressed for nostalgia life you speak of.
If you were young in the 1990's you were supposed to hate yourself and want to die while stepping aside for the gangsta niggers to let them go after every white female from age 11 to 40.
If you paid attention to who was pushing what, you'd never let a Jew get away with their whole "its not all of us" bogus narrative.
Owen Gutierrez
In 88 I was 8. perfect time to observe and enjoy 80's chicks.
There was a huge push of nigger culture and music into mainstream media which wasn't pleasant at all, but most people saw it for what it was. Moral values were more wholesome, girls would be ridiculed by their peers and mothers for being excessively slutty/whorish. Being a fag wasn't acceptable and would get you bullied mercilessly. People were more reasonable and considered moving before suicide. Computer usage was rare until the late 80's. Cellphones weren't a thing so if you were out somewhere you had to use a pay phone or ask someone if you could make a quick call. No GPS either, so big road trips were much more tedious.
Being social in school actually mattered, whereas now you can just go to school/work, be as antisocial as can be, then come home and shitpost on the internet and still feel like you talked to someone that day. That said, and maybe this is just my thoughts, the snarky attitude everyone has now didn't exist either. Or at least it wasn't as abrasive as it is now. There were people that were sarcastic and had dry humor but it wasn't all this vicious "wow kys CRINGE" with no humility or forgiveness shit zoomers do now. Back then if you were wrong in a disagreement it was okay to apologize and people would forgive you and you'd both move on, but now the person in the right is required to be a jackass to look "cool" and people just don't apologize for anything anymore or try sympathy. The person in the wrong just gets angrier, acts childishly and huffs off.
Vidya wasn't nearly as in-depth and wasn't mainstream at all. "Gamers" and weebs didn't exist and neither did internet culture. Most people just enjoyed movies together, and there was a lot of good movies. Talking about the movie afterwards on a coke date was a good date. Men swore, women typically didn't unless they had issues at home.
Everything about the 1980s you hear is true. I was there. Started high school 1988. In Los Angeles.
AMA...I guess. I'll give more nuanced detail than anyone here.
Lincoln Wood
I always thought the 80s looked like a retro-futuristic version of the 50s.
Cooper Stewart
Any time TV or movies try and re-enact the 1980s, they get a LOT wrong. The styles, the clothes, the figures of speech, etc.
Lincoln Murphy
The photo in the OP is pretty accurate how girls dressed though, but it was only for about 3 years or so, the "neon" style was big.
Robert Phillips
Girls wore their shorts either like 2nd from the Left or all the way to the right. They called them "biker shorts". And they hardly ever wore pink ones.
So this is gonna turn into a nostalgia thread eh??? I'll chip in
> Live in small town in the 80s > Visit friends, bike still sitting out in the street 3 hours later when time to go home > Friends older brother worked the local bars drive thru so hooked us up with beers or bourbon no problem > Security cameras weren't a thing so shit like that could happen, you went about your day knowing no one was observing you > There were only a couple gay kids at school and they kept that shit on the down low and tried to fit in. If they made a big deal if it, they knew they would get beaten up. I get the impression now teachers are actively trying to create faggots > no cellphones so sentences like 'Hey dude, meet you at the mall 3pm on Saturday' were common > No one cared what you had for lunch, and certainly didn't need to see a pic of it > Hear a song you like on the radio, you had to listen for it again to find out what it was > If someone bullied you you just sorted it out yourself or got your dad to meet the other kids dad > McDonalds was a once a month treat at best (my sister takes her kids there every other day now) > Drive ins were a thing. Got to sit in the car eating burgers and fries while watching Honey I shrunk the kids. > You found out about sex from conversations with friends, Playboy mags and late night cable. Lesbians were the most out there thing possible. No one knew about ass to mouth, bukkake, 28 man orgies. Well not kids anyway, we were never exposed to that degenerate shit, no wonder there are so many messed up useless kids now > you explored old houses or the woods looking for 80s kid holy grail- a hidden porn stash > If you fucked up, you got your ass whooped. Even in public.
I really feel sorry for kids now. Life for a child or teen looks like absolute shit compared to what I experienced.
Charles Bell
The sad thing is, the clip you showed is still less vulgar than what's allowed on TV now. You can see what I mean with how they tried to normalize black/white relations even though both communities mainly kept to themselves if they could help it.
I agree. Fiction really amped up the skinship. The neon thing was more like jackets/workout clothes, people still mostly wore normal jeans and trousers.
Leo Ward
You could basically go anywhere you wanted in the 80s and 90s as a kid. Now you're either risking your life or having nowhere cool to go because of sprawl and empty commercial property. Of course, it's even worse as an adult since you basically get confined to your domicile and maybe a park in the daytime
Jeremiah Mitchell
Ugh real world was horrible. Remember kids, (((Sumner Redstone))) owned MTV.
Anthony Hill
Nerds literally dressed like Anthony Michael Hall in the Breakfast Club.
Would you agree that white kids from that era were a lot more innocent and straightforward than they are today? Also, if you live in a white majority area today, what differences do you see among white youth now and then.
I went on this nostalgia trip because I recently rewatched the film "The Breakfast Club" from '85 and I was just amazed at how the popular girl in the film was appalled by the mere mention of sex and how taboo being a whore is to the other characters. You really get the sense that young people from that era were much less tolerant of promiscuity as they are today and that whores were actually made into social pariahs in places like high schools. White females weren't total whores and white males weren't self-hating/loathing sacks of shit.
Someone commented: >Also, the internet age sort of took away the beauty from real life moments like this. Before 2000, a moment like this would be lost in history, and theres something bitter sweet and nostalgic about that. It's beautiful to lose people, so that we can reflect on our time with them wearing rose colored glasses. Now days, you can just find a lost summer love on social media, and in my opinion, that sort of dulls the impact of a memory, meant to be lost in time. This goes deeper than a first kiss...all your memories of shit you did with your friends were just between you and them. You couldn't even really record it (videocameras were huge and clunky, you couldn't just whip your phone out), and even if you DID record it you only shared it with a handful of people in your little pocket of the world.
So all the things you did together, all the moments you had of fun, fear, excitement, disappointment, anger, tears, happiness, forgiveness, success, loss, bonding, near-death experiences from doing stupid shit that you swore you'd never tell your parents about, everything was a private memory between you and the people you were with in that moment. It didn't go viral, it wasn't shared on your Facebook wall for Likes with people leaving comments, it was just a unique life and unique memories that were special to you and the people involved that you could never go back and revisit.
And when you met that summer crush on vacation or made a new friend at camp or something, you had those moments together and then that's just it...maybe you exchange phone numbers or write a few letters that take weeks to send, but if you didn't grab contact info then there was just no way to find them again and you just look back and remember that moment with that person at that time.
Zachary Baker
I was born in 77. I wish I was older in the 80’s but I’m glad I remember them well. I genuinely feel for people who don’t know what we’ve lost in our country. At least I was there and have my memories.
Zachary Perry
It is worse now. The 80s were awesome. Please, God, end it.
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1) There were more White people in General. And we didn't play this "Your not Whyt yur a Med" shit. 2) People were phonies back then too 3) We were MORE sexual. I had sex at 13. 4) We drank more. The absolute state of the 1980s. Kids were drunks. Were drank at early ages, and many parents didn't care. 5) We weren't as repressed though, so we had more fun, but we didn't see half the degenerate shit kids are exposed to. Like someone else said, LESBIANISM in porn was literally as far as it went. That was the 'taboo". 6) Girls like her were called a "PRISS". Many of them existed. They were bitchy, but clean, Christian, usually Catholic, and hot Virgins. 7) Yes, being a WHORE in the 1980s got you branded as a girl. It was very bad for your rep. 8) Boys were more appreciated for being "Chads" but girls were knocked for being whores. Imagine how that dynamic played out?
Owen Gray
Dave Chappelle just did a show where he told everyone recording to put their phones down to just have a shared private memory together for just the people in that room and no one else. That was pretty much ALL memories in the 80s.
>Would you agree that white kids from that era were a lot more innocent and straightforward than they are today? Take a glimpse into a time capsule kiddo: youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
Notice how no one is staring down at their phone silently ignoring the world around them. Notice how people aren't shocked or surprised or suspicious of basic social interaction with strangers. Notice how people have enough social skills to actually have a conversation and joke around with people they've just met, because they didn't grow up just txting in their bedrooms. Notice how even the non-whites act LIKE whites, assimilated into the culture...where was all this horrible racism the left has brainwashed you to believe was going on until they stepped in to take over? Very few people actually gave a shit about that stuff.
And none of these people will ever see eachother again or keep in touch or anything, and if this guy hadn't uploaded this VHS to the internet none of us would ever see it...it would just be a fun little memory that those people in that moment shared between them, lost forever when they all die off.
Grayson Rivera
Girls did NOT dress like this in the 1980s. These photos are basically bullshit.
Except the L.A. Gear shoes, which literally every girl wore
Cameron Sanchez
New Zealander kids nowadays probably have it better than basically everyone else in the West, for a myriad of reasons, but you're definitely right in that kids nowadays have been exposed to boatloads of degeneracy, which is because of the internet. Truly weird people with weird interests couldn't find a congregation of like-minded sick fucks on online forums/sites as they can now and produce all their reprehensible bullshit either. Over-abundance of easy to obtain pornography also hurt society in more ways than one.
It’s gay rainbow Jesus guy again. Are you a real person?
Xavier Martinez
It would have been so hot to perform oral sex on another man back then when it was totally taboo. Just like, mouthful of uncut cock in the garden shed.
>ifyouonlyknewhowbaditwas.gif Old fag here. I can't begin to tell you how much I miss the 80s and 90s. Women were women and wanted to be women. Cute, pretty, sexy, feminine, THIN. Not the butch feminazi #MeToo purple haired fat ass super sluts of today.
Kayden Gomez
Marginally obscure.
Julian Rogers
I was born in 82 but don't remember much from the 80s. The 90s is "my decade"
Also note no one they talk to is saying their instagram accounts or shouting "SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON IF YOU WANNA SEE MORE"...it was just genuine honest human interaction because they thought no one would ever see this.
These days everyone is "performing", all the time. And anything you do, good or bad, success or failure, SOMEONE will capture it on camera and upload it to the internet. In the 80s you could get into a fight or do something romantic with a girl or do something unusual and no one saw it or people might engage you and ask what you're doing...now it's just a dozen people huddle nearby and whip out their phones and point them at you, wordlessly, like you're a zoo animal, or whoever you're engaging pulls their phone out because you said something offensive or they don't like your behavior and you never know what the footage is going to be used for...maybe you'll become a viral meme, maybe it'll end your career, maybe you'll be bullied until you kill yourself, who knows...better to just stare down at your phone in public and not do anything worth recording.
It's sad. Try spending a week without letting yourself pull your phone out of your pocket in public and you'll see the world through a different lens when you realize how many people use their phones to avoid human interaction.
Parker Sullivan
Jams shorts, swatch watches, ripped jeans, gel bracelets, neon everything, nes, arcades, malls, actual good movies, white people wearing air Jordan’s, I could go on all night. God damn I would would do anything for one more day.
Robert Phillips
You must realize, the Real World was the start of when MTV turned shit and "Reality Shows" became huge.
William Hernandez
Same here user. I literally fantasize about taking a time machine to 1981 and never coming back.
Easton Fisher
I was 13 in 1980. We had one guy in high school who everyone thought was a homosexual because he was effeminate and one paki kid. That was it. No attack helicopters or trannies or 56 genders. Everyone voted conservative. Life was good back then
Carter Jones
>Drive ins were a thing Not really, as most of them were pretty much gone by then. If you still had an operational drive-in in your town, it was a relic from the past.
I agree with the rest of your post, though.
Nolan Reed
It's a reference to the classic novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
In it the protagonist derides everyone around him as being a phony., his way at lashing out at the world around him.
Let me give you a small window to these glorious days lads. >analog telephone networks >full-on bush/lucky if the edging is done >a car was a must >everyone looking for drugs >analog VCR height of entertainment media >big hair, boys and girls >DOS gods, no one could code shit >hardcore=fixed discs No where to go but up.
Kayden Lewis
Op, varnet, banana republic, and everyone wore rock band shirts.
Isaiah Cooper
>These days everyone is "performing", all the time. And anything you do, good or bad, success or failure, SOMEONE will capture it on camera and upload it to the internet. In the 80s you could get into a fight or do something romantic with a girl or do something unusual and no one saw it or people might engage you and ask what you're doing...now it's just a dozen people huddle nearby and whip out their phones and point them at you, wordlessly, like you're a zoo animal, or whoever you're engaging pulls their phone out because you said something offensive or they don't like your behavior and you never know what the footage is going to be used for...maybe you'll become a viral meme, maybe it'll end your career, maybe you'll be bullied until you kill yourself, who knows...better to just stare down at your phone in public and not do anything worth recording. just end me already
Eli Morgan
Hahaha I posted that video on here already It's honestly kind of unbelievable. Social interaction between total strangers was so organic and pleasant, people didn't instantly perceive as awkward for merely wanting to engage in small talk with a stranger unless it was warranted. Few people were political or even gave a shit in the first place. People have become too accustomed to just scrolling through their Facebook or Instagram feed when they're in a social situation. 80's folk just dealt with boredom and other shit through organic means. I used to have a crush on the weird girl, too bad she was half-Juden irl. Maybe amongst niggers, but whites, for the most part, weren't really exposed to that shit yet. Wiggers started coming about in the 90's, probably.
Leo Myers
Yes, I do realize that, but it was a new concept back then and people were more genuine.
Mason Lewis
i dunno, i thought it was kinda funny
Nathan Morris
/comfy/
Isaiah Rogers
Fast Times At Ridgemont High seemed pretty shitty
Andrew Jones
EVERYONE, at one time in the 80s, had a shirt like this in their closet. LOLS
OP well made stuff. l have one more than 28 years old still wear it.
Michael Russell
Weed is better now but that’s about it.
Isaiah Walker
This entire thread is textbook halo effect - cherry picked photos of reasonably attractive young women from the past to make it seem superior. I could also post pics of facially attractive young slim girls from 2018 and compare them to some old fat ugly hairy woman from the 80s
Levi Taylor
They made other stuff too.
Wyatt Miller
EVERY girl wore these in the 1980s, and we wacked off to photos of them in Sears catalogs
>80s >great pick one The 60s, 70s and 80s were degenerate as fuck, drug use and degeneracy was at an all time high. The only reason people think otherwise is because the media was more wholesome because only upper middle class whites had purchasing power so they tailored everything to them. When the 90s rolled around you had gang culture and former upper middle class whites were sucked into that because they got fucked economically to the point that there was no upper or lower middle class just a little better than dirt poor.
Everything post 2000 is literally a dystopian world that nobody pre 90s would recognise or understand. The only good era was the 50s.
>just end me already And that's not even accounting for being ON dates or WITH friends and having their actual attention when you engage them. Whereas now at least one person in the group is on their phone at all times or the girl you're cuddling on the couch watching a movie with pulls out her phone to check her Facebook Likes or a txt she just got, or you're having a talk with your buddy and he pulls out his phone to check whatever and you realize he's only half-paying attention to what you're saying...
Brayden Martin
thx bro. Couldn't agree more. I used to get up early on Sat morning, on the bike, meet friends, not back home until dinner. No one panicked. Life was good. Your last line was so true, you fucked up, take the punishment you knew was coming and move on. My old man let me know when I did wrong (nothing overly violent), but with minutes all was good in the world again.
Aaron Hughes
Dunno
Benjamin Reyes
That’s a good point. Porn is way more accessible now and the varieties wow. I can’t remember the last time I jerked to a magazine.
Elijah Ortiz
maybe we all died from y2k and now we're in purgatory
Aiden Gonzalez
It's the way the pants were cut, user.
Charles Hernandez
The cold war wrapping up was scary as fuck. I was 6 years old in 83. I thought we were all going to die.
88-92 were the glory years.
Jason Sanders
>Girls did NOT dress like this in the 1980s They did on the 100 percent accurate documentary "Saved by the Bell".
Jace Ramirez
Reagan era /pol would have been a much different place. Only a tiny fraction of men would have the ability to even connect to it. The times were much worse than today. The 'Time' is right now.
Caleb Garcia
>this was considered pure white in america OH NON NO NO AHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHA
