I got 11th or 12th place ( can't remember ) in the original Xbox launch 48hr tournament at universal City Walk ..... Sponsored by Sobe and Taco Bell... I still have nightmares from the unlimited Sobe drinks
Same. I was born in 87. Also can’t forget about it being like Rocket Power mixed with WWF Raw is War. WWF Attitude era wrestling was everywhere from like 97 - 2002ish
@@williamdixon-gk2sk I remember it like it was yesterday, great one indeed, got to play all the launch titles a month before the release and met cool gamers.... Those were the days, sigh
I remember in the summer of 2002 walking past a movie theater marquee on the boardwalk with my aunt and she questioned why a movie theater would be showing a pornographic movie at a regular movie theater LOL. I guess she hadn’t seen the promotions for the Vin Diesel movie so I had to explain to her that it was a PG-13 action movie starring Vin Diesel. I thought it was a bad title for a movie too.
I actually think we're overdue for a new/similar era of this. People are sick of the dorky, sanitizatized, and overly online "vibes" of the previous several years people want a more expressive and "dangerous" feeling to things. A way to vent a feeling of collective anger.
@joeuknobro My college has a surprisingly active skater culture. Also forgot to mention. The youth of the turn of the 90/2000s are now probably old enough to be in for the nostalgia market.
@@gumpycognac4505right. They should have boomboxes! And Beastie Boys! That’s how you skate dammit. - born in ‘85 (yes, I’m aware 40 is on the horizon - but I still skate too, with my kids 😉)
The ninja turtles probably had a big impact on this trend. They were ridiculously popular. They did a bunch of “extreme” stuff and were surfer/skater/radical dudes. The show came out in 87 and every kid I know was obsessed with it.
I was born in 86 so I was the perfect age for many of these things. The movies, the games, the xgames, Tony Hawk, The Matrix, all the cartoons. it was awesome
@@amit_patel654 We didn't even know we were experience several video game and cultural golden ages we were so lucky. Game as a service and microtransactions didn't even exist yet. So good.
@@TheRopiak Dude tell me about it. The jump from SNES to N64 was phenomenal, then the jump to PS2 was amazing. When I had my fat PS2, there was a postcard in the box where if you filled it out and mailed it, they'd send you two free issues of PlayStation Magazine with demo disks inside (I had issues 61 and 62). After high school, I sort of lost those magazines (I think I gave them to my cousin or something). I actually managed to find them again on Amazon earlier this year for $12 each with the included demo disks sealed inside. The magazines were in good condition too. Flipping through those pages again was a trip! And now Sony doesn't even include the freaking vertical stand in their new PS5 Pro console. It's ridiculous.
@@TheRopiak I mean, I knew that we were in a golden age when the N64 and PS2 came out, but I didn't expect that we would sink so low to where we are now. It's like creativity is dead, all that matters is graphics graphics graphics, and things like wokeness that were only protested about are being injected into our games. It's just crazy. Back then, the most important thing about making a game was that it had to nail the fun factor. That's why games were so experimental back then. Now, that's almost a rarity in modern games.
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Everything hurts these days. I can't believe the hits we could take when we were young and get up and get back at it. If I sneeze wrong, my back is done for the week.
Same, although I’m too fat and old to be good. I can still flip my board around a little bit though. It was basically the only thing I did or cared about from 98-2010.
After much freestyle inline skating in my teens, I tried taking up slalom at 40. Promptly was informed by Newtonian physics that it is NOT a sport for old guys. I then switched to speed skating. I still take an epic crash about once a year, and I have scars all over my knees and elbows to prove it, but it’s at least survivable. Now I’m 50 and still at it. Irony: my knees are wrecked from karate, and inline skating is the only thing that makes them strong enough to not hurt-until the next crash, that is.
everything was cool the attitude era absolute laws of awesomness we do not have generic boring 9 to 5 breakfast >WE HAVE EXTREME ULTRA COOL BREAKFAST WITH ULTIMATE SAUCE OF AWESOMNESS >car screeching tires >crash sound >rock riff >offspring all i want starts playing
@@donnieconjure Lol, not even close to being true. Their ratings were in the dumpster and Vince was literally making plans to file for bankruptcy. Learn some actual history. 😂😂
In the 90s, it was all about going over to your buddies house for the weekend to enjoy some amazing Nintendo 64 and PlayStation games, while eating Papa Johns, pizza and drinking Pepsi and Mountain Dew, and watching MTV, and then the next day, taking our mountain bike(with suspension) into the woods on some of our favorite trails to do some extreme games of our own, driving dirt bikes, and go karts whenever we had the gas? Trying to find people's lawns to cut so that we could make money for the next weekend for blockbuster or maybe the movie theater? And one of the things that we all had in common back then as kids was, we all had a pair of shoes with wheels on it- called rollerblades!! And we used to skate on the main road with these things and go to the skate rink and the skate park and even jump, ramps ourselves and constantly be patching up, scraped knees and elbows?! in the summer, it would be going to the lake to camp, mountain bike, and rollerblade some more and if we were lucky, get to water ski? Or try...(it. It's easier on wooden skis if you've never done it! More grip) The 90s were so damn awesome!! it was the last great time of a time when things were more simple, and absolutely more enjoyable because of this simplicity... It's so sad to think today of the kids that are growing up with all of the "connection" that they have to the outside world and just, so many other avenues of stimuli and distraction that they will never know the simple, yet amazing enjoyment that we got during our time growing up in the 90s?
I wasn't alive in the 90s, yet I seem to remember XTREME stuff lasting well into the 2010s, at least in the realm of toy/candy marketing. Whatever the case, this video gave me a powerful feeling of nostalgia even if I never personally experienced the peak of this trend. Great job, hope this channel blows up!
"When's the last time we've had anything that was pure, consequence-free fun?" Obviously, the end game of any corporation is to make money, but at least they put more soul into their advertisements around this era. The commercials you see nowadays just feel so devoid of creativity and life and cater to the shorter and shorter attention spans the populace has had as of late thanks to social media and short-form video content.
Agreed. Even though the Xtreme movement was mostly a manufactured marketing tool, it was still fun and creative as hell. I'd love to have those kind of weird advertisements again.
Don't forget that episode of The Simpsons, where they had added a new character, Poochie, to the Itchy and Scratchy series. Homer had provided his voice, and he did everything to the EXTREME! Apparently, he was also meant to undercut the needless bloodshed of the series, by encouraging more positivity, instead, but the character wasn't meant to last. Oh, and thanks for including Animaniacs in this video! They were so cool! 😎I'm 46, and still watching them!
I think we are glossing over that we were constantly referred to as "Gen X" from the mid 80s on, by nearly every media outlet. I feel like that alone had a major impact on our "X" obsession, as it was literally part of our identity
@@StigPricemaking and consuming. The range of GenX during that era was from 10yo kids to 30yo adults. It was in fact Gen X decades. Millennials were just babies at that time.
@@Juansteadi but this videos about the 90s and 00s.. if gen x were consumers of the majority of Xtreme products it was because they were purchasing them for their kids.
@@StigPrice some toys maybe. I born in 73 has 17 in the 1990 and 23 in 1996. Im Gen X. A Gen X that born in 1980 has 10yo in 1990 and was a teenager during all 90s. Xtreme sports, jackass and that stuff is 100% Gen X. 2000+ is Millennials stuff
@@Juansteadi you are just reinforcing my arguement dude. Jackass are all gen x and they were creating the content. My generation, the millennials grew up watching jackass. It was marketed to kids and teenagers and it first aired in 2000.. gen x were not teenagers in 2000.. All the toys. The music videos. The boybands. The fashion. The movies. It's all aimed at KIDS. Not young adults in their 20s-30s. And even then you had the first crop of milenials starting to create things for the other milenials to consume.. Britney spears etc.. Movies like office space and the matrix were firmly marketed towards gen x.. but all the wild extreme stuff it was marketing for children dude.
Whoa, this video is extremely righteous and, like, totally radical, my duderino! Sorry, I don't really get to use language like that in modern parlance, lol!
Born in 89. Before the internet really took off, all us kids had were skateboards, BMX bikes and a few quarters for the arcade. We touched alot of grass and even more concrete. My mom hated this era. She thought I was gonna break my neck every single day. 🤕
Columbin and 9-11 also put a hard stop to the wackiness of pop culture. It would have died off on its own but those two events (especially 9-11) were extremely sobering moments for the country. The 90s was an era just after the end of the Cold War with a good economy that made people feel like everything was going well and counter culture felt more relevant. But even though there were many issues underneath, the average suburban family could avoid it until it was right in their face. Hard to want to fight the power and be extreme when it feels like the world around you is so dangerous and the heights of the economy were coming down.
Only 4 years after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, In Texas; Men, women, and children were [Fire Element] alive, live on television, by the ATF. No one missed a beat.
Born in 87. The 90s were awesome especially as a kid. Its a reason why we who grew up in the 90s are still so nostalgic and reminisce about it to this day.
Remember all the sports video games that allowed “violence” on the players. I remember a basketball game on the NES that allowed you to punch other players. NBA Jam, NFL blitz, Road Rash, there’s probably a ton of them I can’t remember.
I think some of us zoomers are still trying to live with this frame of mind, energy drinks and fighting sports are still popular at least. Thanks for the video.
@ashleybanks-wm4cg yep but before TNN, ECW was aired on public access channels, here in California the events would air at 12pm-1am , I would record them on my VCR lol
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XXXTREMELY interesting video as always! (You killed me with "I know google fu" 🤣🤣)
90s baby’s era is the extreme era !! I literally grew up wanting to do all the extreme things I even dreamed of going to the x games for motorcross but unfortunately I wasn’t blessed for that kind of life and now I’m a skater with a failed bmx experience
I called the 2000s the forgotten era… because it hardly gets talked about and nobody brings up how good we had it …. Anybody that was born in the 90s, knows exactly what I’m talking about ….
2000's was post-90's. We still had a lot of the stuff the 90's were famous for, but were just starting to transition into the new century. Also it was the greatest era for Pokemon fans, come at me kids!
Really wish people would mention the 2000s decade more instead of grouping it with the 90s or act as if things completely fell right away after 9/11. To me, it wasn't 2008 with the financial crisis that things never felt the same.
Proof that the 90s and early 00s we were actually tougher kids. 😂 i remember me and my friends getting hurt on the trampoline trying to do tricks we probably shouldve never tried!! 😂😂😂 we ripped a hole in it finally and we still kept trying to jump on the one side like dummies 😂😂
@ same hear at the age of 29. As much as I enjoy the technology of today, I would give anything to go back to the Simple times before the poison food the government kicked in and started turning people into lunatics. 😔😔😔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ not 6-8 year olds. And tiktok hype means absolutely nothing. Some people are so busy trying to document every single moment for fame to the point where it ruins the actual experience forever. Yes some children do get used and manipulated by parents for social media and money. What a great childhood that must be. Thank God I can only imagine it.
@@christianvance1614 All I wanna say is that kids in any generation are brainless shits doing random things. Problem today is adults who are so obsessed with safety so they prefer their children glued to screens rather going out there and being children. And of course corporations, ruled by the same adults, who profit from children glued to screens.
As a kid, I once jumped my bicycle into my neighbor's pool and ended up with bruises all over. I was too scared to tell my parents because I didn't want to get in trouble. The funniest part? My friend forgot to take the lens cap off the camcorder!
the same happened with the word "turbo", since the first turbo cars were made, everything else had turbo writed in it, like blenders, toys or even the induction heater for bearings that we have at my workplace. then was "X-treme" and now is "eco", because we are all very responsible with the environment... like i say its "turbo-money", "X-treme-money" and the biggest scam of all times: "eco-money" its all money.
I was born in 1994 and even I remember that. People were putting turbo stickers and badges on their cars and 99% of the cars you saw these stickers and badges on didn't even have a turbo 😆
Thinking about Mxc “Takeshis castle” did you ever saw ninja warrior on g4 tv? Pretty awesome cool obstacle course show that fit the whole extreme era as well.
What was so great about the 90s is how far everyone tried to push boundaries. This led to a lot of creativity and innovation across all genres and forms of entertainment back then. No better example of that in ECW and how they went away from the usual traditional heels vs face fueds and experimented a lot with ambiguous and nuanced characters. The same exact thing was going on in cartoons like the X-men where Magneto wasn't your typical Saturday morning cartoon villain with a maniacal laugh but a man doing heinous things for noble reasons. The 2000s is really where execs in entertainment had realized they had push things too far and began reeling everything back which helped lead to the rise of the corporate culture we now see today.
I discovered your channel in the fall & I've been really enjoying the content because I really love diving into the cultural elements that dont get brought up in more mainstream culture documentaries. Kinda takes a little of the soul out of the essence of a decade
I was born in 87. If you lived in one of the many impoverished Midwest towns along the Mississippi River that were riddled with boredom, drugs, and minimal parenting, then this period of time was extreme to the fullest extent of the word. We partied so hard, vandalized, fist fights, skate, bmx, hardcore music, chicks…lived life full throttle everyday. It wasn’t until I moved for college that I realized just how extreme we were and how all the kids at college were just pussies back then.
Plus generation X was in their prime at this time also X means unknown\ unidentified & the unknown that we was approaching was the new millennium (2000s)
That's something else to think. Gen X is largely just nothing after this period. When in reality every single big long running Gaming franchise, many of the most will known cartoons of the 2000s and even up to early 2010s are Gen X. Hell, even the two wealthiest people on earth are Gen X.
Wow man you really found all the best shit from that era lmfao great work I feel like I’m gonna be thinking about this summary for a long time, very interesting
“Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” is a 1991 novel by Douglas Coupland that attempted to capture the zeitgeist of post-baby boom generation. X referred to a variable in an equation, an unknown. Funny thing, it was these Gen-X’ers who created all this X-brand media. They’d grown up in the 70’s and 80’s and were disillusioned with overly-safe and overly-corporate media dominating the airwaves. Even sports were getting bland and boring-or at least staying exactly the same year after year. As Gen-X became the writers, directors, and advertisers they created media challenging everything the boomers had done to that point, but ultimately it was corporate-driven, too. And so the cycle continues. [I swear I started writing this with a larger point to make, but I don’t have enough coffee in me this morning to work it out. Whatever-posting this nonsense anyway.]
@ do you have a Discord server or something similar? Your videos always leave me pondering the topic for days afterwards. If you’re building a community of weirdos like us, I want in. 🙂
@@joshcarter-com Here's the crazy thing. I've hardly ever used Discord and have no clue how it works haha. But yeah, eventually I want to do something like that. My goal with this channel was to form a community to talk about these weird topics with, and its getting to the size where we could probably have a decent crowd. Unfortunately, right now I have a lot of IRL obligations and don't have time to oversee a forum. Once I get around to it, you'll be the first to know. Thanks for the support as always.
@@LifeofSlicey1 for anything Discord I honestly ask my daughter to help. 😂 She's set up servers and moderated them before. I'd fuss about that except 1) she's doing great in school and, 2) I spent those same years of my life playing MUDs seemingly all day, so I've got no place to talk. Anyway, I'm happy to help if you ever want it--or ask my daughter to. 😁
Awesome video! We had this trend in Brazil too, with it's ultimate representation being the classic skate/surf/rollerblade craze that gave us the Tilibra's Xtreme sports themed notebook: the ultimate way to flex your edginess on school! We loved beyblade, skateboarding was on it's peak, the "malhação" series, breakdancing, those funny disgusting themed toys was on the rise (remember boogerman, that game on sega genesis (mega drive))? Fun times. Another distinct caracteristic of the "xtreme 90's" was how teenagers and edgy people was always outclassing people who were too "normal" or "uptight". Since we faced a military dictatorship in the 80's, with it's rigid discipline and patriotic values, it's only natural that after the process of redemocratization after 85 we get inspired by something other than this rigid and uptight aesthetics that dominated the country.
You've earned a new subscriber mate. I loved growing up in the 90s in NZ. The 90s and early 2000s was a great time. I miss it and am hopeful we have a cultural resurgence of that time.
Idk why but the drink that comes to mind for me during this era was SOBE. Anyone else remember that bottled drink that was legitimately everywhere in the mid 2000s? Edit:maybe its a drink more associated with the mid 2000s era
I had an idea for an animated action series about snowboarders (and other kinds of winter sportsmen) who are stuck in a cabin on mountain in the midst of permanent snowstorm caused by the big bad. In order to fight the villain's minions and stop the storm, they have to become super sledders. I was even thinking about giving each character music themed after genres that were popular during the extreme sports trend. It's going to be the most unapologetically 90s-2000s and pay homage to actions cartoons, shows, and anime I grew up with like Teen Titans, Digimon, Power Rangers, and Code Lyoko. I was going to call it "Avalaunche Xtreme", although the group actually call themselves "Team Avalaunche".
As a dude born in 1997 watching these last 2 videos has me getting the most Xtreme nostalgia. Our childhood was truly a golden era of coolness. While it has passed by being a cool xtreme dude lives inside all of us and we can’t let that fire in us die
That time was fun. Ironically, I’m watching this video while in a waiting room for a pre-op appointment for an AC joint injury I got either from Roller Hockey or Dirt Biking 24 years ago. X-TREME!
i like the pointing out the transition period that i call Darxtreme or Dark Stream which would be the youtube era of analog horror and livestream content branching out from all corners of youtube like woodworking youtubers easily transition to woodworking livestreamers
You forgot the most glaring detail: the initial demographic for the trend was Generation X. They were at the height of their influence, both in youth and consumer base. Being the MTV generation, once their age group took over marketing departments it was inevitable that everything become XTREME.
The funniest thing about Sonic the Hedgehog is his character traits. They're based on the following: Santa Claus, Michael Jackson, and Bill Clinton, the most radical of dudes and ultra-extreme. Especially Michael and Bill, if you know what I mean
Everyone was taking part in this. In 2003 Intel released the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition - the $1000 flagship processor. They kept this branding until 2019.
born in the beginning of the 90s. Thank you, this was good. Xtreme sports and the 90s have a deep and profound affect on me, still do extreme sports daily even if the word sounds lame nowadays lmao
I love your videos about this era i grew up during. Born in 1992, i remember already as a kid wondering why the letter X was everywhere. It was my favorite letter back then, and i did like everything that was "xtreme". I think nu metal is one of the most defining extreme things of the era that i'm still in love with.
What I think of here is the extreme cuts and camera angles. Sam Raimi had developed a style that did this in the early 80s, with Evil Dead. In Darkman 1990 it was probably at his peak. Mostly extreme closeups and super wide lenses that made you feel a bit uncomfortable, also extreme lighting. The fast cuts would become more common in the years that followed, especially in ads aimed at teenagers.
I think there was another two things that might be related: 1) 80s were too competitive and many Gen Xers were burnt out. This led to the rise of the “slacker” culture. In other words middle class white kids increasingly interested in nerdy pop culture and “slacking” off aka spending all day skateboarding. Especially since it was like a low level suburban rebellion that allowed you to feel cool while mostly getting yelled at by impotent security guards. 2. The boredom of white youth in general as those seeking excitement were returning to the big cities their parents left in droves in the 50s and 60s. Especially in California and NYC.
Dude why are your videos so…. XTREMMMMEEEEEEE!?!?! btw you forgot the “extreme guy” from Harold & Kumar go to White Castle and his friend who made pterodactyl noises 😂😂
I don't know. I think this stuff is very familiar to those of us who were around in the 2000s. It was still pretty prominent. I think it was starting to wind down a little around the 2000s but didn't truly die until the 2010s.
Nice video and commentary! I agree with many of your points, although in my opinion extreme sports and Motorsports had a larger initial impact than the comics and x-men/x-force. You had many new generational techniques/tricks/competitions and racing never seen before that was growing exponentially. Not to mention all the big names and film being produced! As you stated everything worked in conjunction with each other to have that generational boom and each part is significant! I don’t mean to downplay the comics/etc significance at all, but I just think that Motorsports/extreme sports played the largest initial role! 👍🙂 Enjoyed watching, keep it up! Also catch some gnarly waves and righteous babes! 😂
I blame it on pre-90s cocaine usage. In the 90s all those coke heads became decision makers in companies and likely never stopped with the coke. Average coke usage rate in the 80s was 6.25%. Since the 90s it's around 2%. Stimulants were 4% in the 80s and 1-2% after. Then in the 00s pain killer usage exploded, which also explains a lot. I'm thinking Grunge, Goth, Emo, etc. It's Japan, but still, in the 00s everything was plastered depressing looking in media like Ergo Proxy, Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop, Texhnolyze, Haibane Renmai, Gantz, Elfen Lied, Blame!.
literally wrong 80's counter-culture is at the root of the thing entirely, it created a very obvious market for being off the wall and "not boring", literally no different than the 70's movie industry they just started throwing shit at the wall and saw what stuck. Young people are liking extreme sports? Young people like games? Young people like crazy music? Then let's advertise to them to show that we're cool and they'll buy from us. It's marketing fucking 101, MTV proved that you could make a killing off of being less corporate so that's exactly what they did
It wasn’t anymore extreme than the previous generations, it’s just that the counterculture got spotlighted and commodified. Every dork and dweeb was wearing skater/punk clothes and was a poser.
That was a great, very entertaining video dude. I think one other reason the X was used is it is the least used character in the alphabet with the exception of Z. Everyone wanted to set their selves apart from what was before while still staying connected. By using the letter X they accomplished that, an almost not used letter while at the same being known by everyone.
The woke trend seems to be on its way out. But we need to get rid of the overall fruity/quirky/dorky trend of the modern age. Coolness needs to make a comeback.
It's sad that modern culture has returned us to the safe and tame, but now with unparalleled cringe and constant crying anytime someone does something remotely edgy or extreme.
I was born in 86, and my life at this time was essentially an episode of "Rocket Power" sponsored by Sobe and low-grade pot.
I got 11th or 12th place ( can't remember ) in the original Xbox launch 48hr tournament at universal City Walk ..... Sponsored by Sobe and Taco Bell... I still have nightmares from the unlimited Sobe drinks
Same. I was born in 87. Also can’t forget about it being like Rocket Power mixed with WWF Raw is War. WWF Attitude era wrestling was everywhere from like 97 - 2002ish
@@hoshiref thats actually a pretty flippin' awesome childhood memory. Brought to you by Sobe snd the always delicious Taco Bell.
@@williamdixon-gk2sk I remember it like it was yesterday, great one indeed, got to play all the launch titles a month before the release and met cool gamers.... Those were the days, sigh
@@williamdixon-gk2sk so I was right,SOBE was huge during this time frame. I thought it was more associated with the mid 2000s
The fact they decided to make a movie called XXX shows just how big this trend was
I'm honestly so surprised that title got greenlit, if I were a movie producer I'd figure everyone would think it was porn 😂
I remember in the summer of 2002 walking past a movie theater marquee on the boardwalk with my aunt and she questioned why a movie theater would be showing a pornographic movie at a regular movie theater LOL. I guess she hadn’t seen the promotions for the Vin Diesel movie so I had to explain to her that it was a PG-13 action movie starring Vin Diesel. I thought it was a bad title for a movie too.
they made 2 of em
there was also the guitar amp company peavey that put out a XXX named amp model during that era. the 90s were a weirdly wild time.
Three actually @@SNOwyte
I actually think we're overdue for a new/similar era of this. People are sick of the dorky, sanitizatized, and overly online "vibes" of the previous several years people want a more expressive and "dangerous" feeling to things. A way to vent a feeling of collective anger.
Exactly. The counter culture era feels like it's on the horizon again. Dust off that skateboard bro
@joeuknobro My college has a surprisingly active skater culture. Also forgot to mention. The youth of the turn of the 90/2000s are now probably old enough to be in for the nostalgia market.
@@Marylandbronyyea but the people that skate now are extremely quiet and timid it seems. Earbuds in and won’t speak to anyone . Weird
Yeah we are totally ready for a new attitude era.
@@gumpycognac4505right. They should have boomboxes! And Beastie Boys! That’s how you skate dammit.
- born in ‘85 (yes, I’m aware 40 is on the horizon - but I still skate too, with my kids 😉)
The ninja turtles probably had a big impact on this trend. They were ridiculously popular. They did a bunch of “extreme” stuff and were surfer/skater/radical dudes. The show came out in 87 and every kid I know was obsessed with it.
True! Good spot
@@hermestrismegistus3417 who is your favourite 🐢
@@jalenikezeue4114 I was a 90s kid, of course I wanted to be like Mike but deep down I identified most with nerdy Donatello 🤓👍
@@hermestrismegistus3417 Cool my favorite 🐢Is Raph He's tough and he's got attitude
@@jalenikezeue4114 that's rad 🧣
You missed all those live-action disney movies about snowboarding and surfing
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Brink was pretty extreme 😂
@@Ghostie. im a "meet the Deedles" man, personally.
@@williamdixon-gk2sk sleeper classic!
remember the tv show "the jersey"
I was born in 86 so I was the perfect age for many of these things. The movies, the games, the xgames, Tony Hawk, The Matrix, all the cartoons. it was awesome
'88 here and I totally agree. It was awesome being a 90s kid and a 2000s teen. Everything was so freaking cool! I miss it.
@@amit_patel654 We didn't even know we were experience several video game and cultural golden ages we were so lucky. Game as a service and microtransactions didn't even exist yet. So good.
@@TheRopiak Dude tell me about it. The jump from SNES to N64 was phenomenal, then the jump to PS2 was amazing. When I had my fat PS2, there was a postcard in the box where if you filled it out and mailed it, they'd send you two free issues of PlayStation Magazine with demo disks inside (I had issues 61 and 62). After high school, I sort of lost those magazines (I think I gave them to my cousin or something). I actually managed to find them again on Amazon earlier this year for $12 each with the included demo disks sealed inside. The magazines were in good condition too. Flipping through those pages again was a trip! And now Sony doesn't even include the freaking vertical stand in their new PS5 Pro console. It's ridiculous.
90 here, and yeah we ate well in the 90's and early 2000's.
@@TheRopiak I mean, I knew that we were in a golden age when the N64 and PS2 came out, but I didn't expect that we would sink so low to where we are now. It's like creativity is dead, all that matters is graphics graphics graphics, and things like wokeness that were only protested about are being injected into our games. It's just crazy. Back then, the most important thing about making a game was that it had to nail the fun factor. That's why games were so experimental back then. Now, that's almost a rarity in modern games.
You got X games , wwe attitude and ruthless agression era, Nu Metal. Etc. What more could you ask for? Such a great time to be alive.
too sad i was born on the mid 2000s, i would have liked to live that phase
K1 kickboxing DVds were crazy back then I lived near a Military base and my parents would buy them for me dang now I miss putting CDs in things😢
Agree. Life was awesome
you need to be wearing a helmet for all of the above activities, but we didnt
This channel is X-tremely dope and underrated!
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Your video just made me fill up my watch list with all those 90s and 2000s movies.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
What was your favourite cartoon of the 90's
@@jalenikezeue4114 I was a kid, so early on Rescue Rangers and the Kickers, later the Simpsons.
How about you?
@@mono432mono hey arnold Mona The Vampire Mummy's Alive Power puff girls Beyblade mega man NT warriors Samurai Jack and Johnny quest the real advantages Archie's Weird mysteries Gargoyles Spiderman hulk And Pepper Ann
@@mono432mono hey arnold Mona The Vampire Mummy's Alive Power puff girls Beyblade mega man NT warriors Samurai Jack and Johnny quest the real advantages Archie's Weird mysteries Gargoyles Spiderman hulk And pepper ann
@@jalenikezeue4114 CN was king late 90s/early 2000s. Dexter, Johnny Bravo, Courage, Ed Edd Eddy, Power Puff Girls, Dragonball Z it was amazing.
I miss the 90s, to the extreme bro'
like, totally duude
Because of this whole trend, I still skateboard to this day! (despite all the bones I've broken over the last 20 years)
And I still inline skate. 😁 Hurts a lot more when you hit the pavement these days, doesn't it?
Everything hurts these days. I can't believe the hits we could take when we were young and get up and get back at it. If I sneeze wrong, my back is done for the week.
Same, although I’m too fat and old to be good. I can still flip my board around a little bit though. It was basically the only thing I did or cared about from 98-2010.
Started skating because of a game called 3Xtreme hahaha
After much freestyle inline skating in my teens, I tried taking up slalom at 40. Promptly was informed by Newtonian physics that it is NOT a sport for old guys. I then switched to speed skating. I still take an epic crash about once a year, and I have scars all over my knees and elbows to prove it, but it’s at least survivable. Now I’m 50 and still at it. Irony: my knees are wrecked from karate, and inline skating is the only thing that makes them strong enough to not hurt-until the next crash, that is.
everything was cool
the attitude era
absolute laws of awesomness
we do not have generic boring 9 to 5 breakfast
>WE HAVE EXTREME ULTRA COOL BREAKFAST WITH ULTIMATE SAUCE OF AWESOMNESS
>car screeching tires
>crash sound
>rock riff
>offspring all i want starts playing
Attitude Era was not good lol. It nearly put WWE out of business for a reason. 😂😂
@@dangerousdays2052attitude era is what kept them in business
@@donnieconjure Lol, not even close to being true. Their ratings were in the dumpster and Vince was literally making plans to file for bankruptcy. Learn some actual history. 😂😂
We flew too close to the sun I guess to they how to correct it with woke culture…
@@DataBattlesZ2087
In the 90s, it was all about going over to your buddies house for the weekend to enjoy some amazing Nintendo 64 and PlayStation games, while eating Papa Johns, pizza and drinking Pepsi and Mountain Dew, and watching MTV, and then the next day, taking our mountain bike(with suspension) into the woods on some of our favorite trails to do some extreme games of our own, driving dirt bikes, and go karts whenever we had the gas? Trying to find people's lawns to cut so that we could make money for the next weekend for blockbuster or maybe the movie theater? And one of the things that we all had in common back then as kids was, we all had a pair of shoes with wheels on it- called rollerblades!! And we used to skate on the main road with these things and go to the skate rink and the skate park and even jump, ramps ourselves and constantly be patching up, scraped knees and elbows?! in the summer, it would be going to the lake to camp, mountain bike, and rollerblade some more and if we were lucky, get to water ski? Or try...(it. It's easier on wooden skis if you've never done it! More grip)
The 90s were so damn awesome!! it was the last great time of a time when things were more simple, and absolutely more enjoyable because of this simplicity... It's so sad to think today of the kids that are growing up with all of the "connection" that they have to the outside world and just, so many other avenues of stimuli and distraction that they will never know the simple, yet amazing enjoyment that we got during our time growing up in the 90s?
I wasn't alive in the 90s, yet I seem to remember XTREME stuff lasting well into the 2010s, at least in the realm of toy/candy marketing. Whatever the case, this video gave me a powerful feeling of nostalgia even if I never personally experienced the peak of this trend. Great job, hope this channel blows up!
What was your favourite Superhero TV Show Of the 90's
The 90s was amazing. The atmosphere back then was something words cannot describe.
@kgyeatman3569 oh Yeah definitely Dude 😎
Six Flags Magic Mountain became the “Xtreme Thrill Park” and opened a roller coaster simply called X… it was an extreme time to be alive
Ok I knew it was a rollercoaster I just couldn't know if I misremembered it thanks for confirming that
Your vids about the 90s always bring the nostalgia. Good stuff, dude.
"When's the last time we've had anything that was pure, consequence-free fun?"
Obviously, the end game of any corporation is to make money, but at least they put more soul into their advertisements around this era. The commercials you see nowadays just feel so devoid of creativity and life and cater to the shorter and shorter attention spans the populace has had as of late thanks to social media and short-form video content.
Agreed. Even though the Xtreme movement was mostly a manufactured marketing tool, it was still fun and creative as hell. I'd love to have those kind of weird advertisements again.
I liked the 90s and early 00s creative commercials on tv.
It's so strange given most of their employees making them grrw up in the 90s.
Ken Block's gymkhana stuff was the last remaining vestiges of this. Think even that petered off once his unfortunate death happened.
It’s not even because of social media. People just wanna be lame.
Don't forget that episode of The Simpsons, where they had added a new character, Poochie, to the Itchy and Scratchy series. Homer had provided his voice, and he did everything to the EXTREME! Apparently, he was also meant to undercut the needless bloodshed of the series, by encouraging more positivity, instead, but the character wasn't meant to last.
Oh, and thanks for including Animaniacs in this video! They were so cool! 😎I'm 46, and still watching them!
Pinky&The Brain! And Larry!!
Sighs remember that as well?!?
I’d forgot about poochie.
Please continue making content about the 90’s and 00’s eras. I feel like these times in pop culture are not well documented
They're legitimately not think about all the trendsetting reality shows that don't get the credit for how genius they were
Wait a decade or so, and it’ll likely become like the 80s nostalgia is now.
I think we are glossing over that we were constantly referred to as "Gen X" from the mid 80s on, by nearly every media outlet. I feel like that alone had a major impact on our "X" obsession, as it was literally part of our identity
1981-1996 is millennials..
But yeah the adults making the adverts and TV shows were mostly gen x
@@StigPricemaking and consuming. The range of GenX during that era was from 10yo kids to 30yo adults. It was in fact Gen X decades. Millennials were just babies at that time.
@@Juansteadi but this videos about the 90s and 00s.. if gen x were consumers of the majority of Xtreme products it was because they were purchasing them for their kids.
@@StigPrice some toys maybe. I born in 73 has 17 in the 1990 and 23 in 1996. Im Gen X. A Gen X that born in 1980 has 10yo in 1990 and was a teenager during all 90s. Xtreme sports, jackass and that stuff is 100% Gen X. 2000+ is Millennials stuff
@@Juansteadi you are just reinforcing my arguement dude.
Jackass are all gen x and they were creating the content. My generation, the millennials grew up watching jackass. It was marketed to kids and teenagers and it first aired in 2000.. gen x were not teenagers in 2000..
All the toys. The music videos. The boybands. The fashion. The movies. It's all aimed at KIDS. Not young adults in their 20s-30s. And even then you had the first crop of milenials starting to create things for the other milenials to consume.. Britney spears etc..
Movies like office space and the matrix were firmly marketed towards gen x.. but all the wild extreme stuff it was marketing for children dude.
I just want to say your voice is perfect for these types of videos, clear but still showing that you care about the topic
Whoa, this video is extremely righteous and, like, totally radical, my duderino!
Sorry, I don't really get to use language like that in modern parlance, lol!
This comment is the bomb!
The thing I miss most about this xtream time was nobody really had cell phones! Time was just different take me back!
Born in 89. Before the internet really took off, all us kids had were skateboards, BMX bikes and a few quarters for the arcade. We touched alot of grass and even more concrete. My mom hated this era. She thought I was gonna break my neck every single day. 🤕
Lol here in Europe its lucks and still normal for many kids to go outsite
Pretty much sums it up lol. 89 as well
Columbin and 9-11 also put a hard stop to the wackiness of pop culture. It would have died off on its own but those two events (especially 9-11) were extremely sobering moments for the country.
The 90s was an era just after the end of the Cold War with a good economy that made people feel like everything was going well and counter culture felt more relevant.
But even though there were many issues underneath, the average suburban family could avoid it until it was right in their face.
Hard to want to fight the power and be extreme when it feels like the world around you is so dangerous and the heights of the economy were coming down.
Even the sobering moments were EXTREME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@growngrownman5950 omg 😂
Only 4 years after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, In Texas; Men, women, and children were [Fire Element] alive, live on television, by the ATF.
No one missed a beat.
"good economy" AHAHAHAHAAAAAHA!
Because both decades reminded everyone about good times and the 2000s was the final great decade for sure
The 2010s were cringy and cheesy good
@@MadPaperMario>2010s
>good
was your reply just bait or are you a zoomer?
@@theactualTVB that’s just my personal opinion but ok
@@MadPaperMarioThen your personal opinion stinks.
@@MadPaperMariostill a very bad take
Born in 87. The 90s were awesome especially as a kid. Its a reason why we who grew up in the 90s are still so nostalgic and reminisce about it to this day.
Blockbuster.
Facts bro 😎
Remember all the sports video games that allowed “violence” on the players. I remember a basketball game on the NES that allowed you to punch other players. NBA Jam, NFL blitz, Road Rash, there’s probably a ton of them I can’t remember.
Arch rivals was an arcade game that did that we loved it
NHL on Genesis was the king
I think some of us zoomers are still trying to live with this frame of mind, energy drinks and fighting sports are still popular at least. Thanks for the video.
Glad to hear it!
ECW and RVD was a big part of my youth🤘
Hell yeah the whole fn show Mr 420 rvd was amazing
@brockst9190 Also, probably the best entrance song ever 👍
@seblo8462 agreed, in my opinion there's was the best. Second would be raws from 97 then raws from 99
Yu had to stay up to catch it on TNN then tell everybody at school what you saw and they wouldn't believe you
@ashleybanks-wm4cg yep but before TNN, ECW was aired on public access channels, here in California the events would air at 12pm-1am , I would record them on my VCR lol
XXXTREMELY interesting video as always! (You killed me with "I know google fu" 🤣🤣)
90s baby’s era is the extreme era !! I literally grew up wanting to do all the extreme things I even dreamed of going to the x games for motorcross but unfortunately I wasn’t blessed for that kind of life and now I’m a skater with a failed bmx experience
I called the 2000s the forgotten era… because it hardly gets talked about and nobody brings up how good we had it ….
Anybody that was born in the 90s, knows exactly what I’m talking about ….
2000's was post-90's. We still had a lot of the stuff the 90's were famous for, but were just starting to transition into the new century.
Also it was the greatest era for Pokemon fans, come at me kids!
Really wish people would mention the 2000s decade more instead of grouping it with the 90s or act as if things completely fell right away after 9/11. To me, it wasn't 2008 with the financial crisis that things never felt the same.
We had it so good, but we at the time we thought our lives were falling apart.
its cause it wasnt as good as the 90s, as someone who knows both decades
Proof that the 90s and early 00s we were actually tougher kids. 😂 i remember me and my friends getting hurt on the trampoline trying to do tricks we probably shouldve never tried!! 😂😂😂 we ripped a hole in it finally and we still kept trying to jump on the one side like dummies 😂😂
Yes at 27, I still have the scars
@ same hear at the age of 29. As much as I enjoy the technology of today, I would give anything to go back to the Simple times before the poison food the government kicked in and started turning people into lunatics. 😔😔😔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude, kids these days lick toilets on airplanes and surf the subway trains for tiktok hype.
@ not 6-8 year olds. And tiktok hype means absolutely nothing. Some people are so busy trying to document every single moment for fame to the point where it ruins the actual experience forever. Yes some children do get used and manipulated by parents for social media and money. What a great childhood that must be. Thank God I can only imagine it.
@@christianvance1614 All I wanna say is that kids in any generation are brainless shits doing random things. Problem today is adults who are so obsessed with safety so they prefer their children glued to screens rather going out there and being children. And of course corporations, ruled by the same adults, who profit from children glued to screens.
In the 90s we were nowhere if we weren't
IN YOUR FACE!!!
Always in your face. God damn I miss the 90's.
Up your butt and around the corner, sit and spin, we talked to each other like demented asylum mates
Also, but did it happen.
And cksmkr
@@stevebirk6399 Pop Quiz HOT Shot
I still have battle scars from those X-TREME days.
As a kid, I once jumped my bicycle into my neighbor's pool and ended up with bruises all over. I was too scared to tell my parents because I didn't want to get in trouble. The funniest part? My friend forgot to take the lens cap off the camcorder!
the same happened with the word "turbo", since the first turbo cars were made, everything else had turbo writed in it, like blenders, toys or even the induction heater for bearings that we have at my workplace.
then was "X-treme" and now is "eco", because we are all very responsible with the environment...
like i say its "turbo-money", "X-treme-money" and the biggest scam of all times: "eco-money"
its all money.
I was born in 1994 and even I remember that. People were putting turbo stickers and badges on their cars and 99% of the cars you saw these stickers and badges on didn't even have a turbo 😆
Takeshi's Castle AND SWAT Kats in the same video!? Am I in a fever dream or what!?
Right you are Ken!
@@LifeofSlicey1buahahagahahahaahahagahagagahahahahah
Thinking about Mxc “Takeshis castle” did you ever saw ninja warrior on g4 tv? Pretty awesome cool obstacle course show that fit the whole extreme era as well.
@johnvictorfs8194 Ninja Warrior? Oh i remember. I used to recreate the Spider Climb (or whatever it was called) when i was younger
What was so great about the 90s is how far everyone tried to push boundaries. This led to a lot of creativity and innovation across all genres and forms of entertainment back then. No better example of that in ECW and how they went away from the usual traditional heels vs face fueds and experimented a lot with ambiguous and nuanced characters. The same exact thing was going on in cartoons like the X-men where Magneto wasn't your typical Saturday morning cartoon villain with a maniacal laugh but a man doing heinous things for noble reasons. The 2000s is really where execs in entertainment had realized they had push things too far and began reeling everything back which helped lead to the rise of the corporate culture we now see today.
I discovered your channel in the fall & I've been really enjoying the content because I really love diving into the cultural elements that dont get brought up in more mainstream culture documentaries. Kinda takes a little of the soul out of the essence of a decade
I was born in 87. If you lived in one of the many impoverished Midwest towns along the Mississippi River that were riddled with boredom, drugs, and minimal parenting, then this period of time was extreme to the fullest extent of the word. We partied so hard, vandalized, fist fights, skate, bmx, hardcore music, chicks…lived life full throttle everyday. It wasn’t until I moved for college that I realized just how extreme we were and how all the kids at college were just pussies back then.
I agree im from east st louis 💯 all of us born along the Mississippi River towns are just built differently no lie
we got a badass over here look out yall.
@@jerseygetsherwetter345 E st Louis All day 618
Plus generation X was in their prime at this time also X means unknown\ unidentified & the unknown that we was approaching was the new millennium (2000s)
That's something else to think. Gen X is largely just nothing after this period. When in reality every single big long running Gaming franchise, many of the most will known cartoons of the 2000s and even up to early 2010s are Gen X. Hell, even the two wealthiest people on earth are Gen X.
Gen X has gay offspring
It's crazy it feels like Americans were more proud back then
@@ashleybanks-wm4cg till 2001.
Wow man you really found all the best shit from that era lmfao great work I feel like I’m gonna be thinking about this summary for a long time, very interesting
“Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” is a 1991 novel by Douglas Coupland that attempted to capture the zeitgeist of post-baby boom generation. X referred to a variable in an equation, an unknown. Funny thing, it was these Gen-X’ers who created all this X-brand media. They’d grown up in the 70’s and 80’s and were disillusioned with overly-safe and overly-corporate media dominating the airwaves. Even sports were getting bland and boring-or at least staying exactly the same year after year. As Gen-X became the writers, directors, and advertisers they created media challenging everything the boomers had done to that point, but ultimately it was corporate-driven, too. And so the cycle continues. [I swear I started writing this with a larger point to make, but I don’t have enough coffee in me this morning to work it out. Whatever-posting this nonsense anyway.]
Thanks for that! I plan to do a deep dive into the X Obsession someday, so I'll have to look that book up when I get there.
@ do you have a Discord server or something similar? Your videos always leave me pondering the topic for days afterwards. If you’re building a community of weirdos like us, I want in. 🙂
@@joshcarter-com Here's the crazy thing. I've hardly ever used Discord and have no clue how it works haha. But yeah, eventually I want to do something like that. My goal with this channel was to form a community to talk about these weird topics with, and its getting to the size where we could probably have a decent crowd. Unfortunately, right now I have a lot of IRL obligations and don't have time to oversee a forum. Once I get around to it, you'll be the first to know. Thanks for the support as always.
@@LifeofSlicey1 for anything Discord I honestly ask my daughter to help. 😂 She's set up servers and moderated them before. I'd fuss about that except 1) she's doing great in school and, 2) I spent those same years of my life playing MUDs seemingly all day, so I've got no place to talk. Anyway, I'm happy to help if you ever want it--or ask my daughter to. 😁
Now, THIS is pod racing
Awesome video! We had this trend in Brazil too, with it's ultimate representation being the classic skate/surf/rollerblade craze that gave us the Tilibra's Xtreme sports themed notebook: the ultimate way to flex your edginess on school! We loved beyblade, skateboarding was on it's peak, the "malhação" series, breakdancing, those funny disgusting themed toys was on the rise (remember boogerman, that game on sega genesis (mega drive))? Fun times. Another distinct caracteristic of the "xtreme 90's" was how teenagers and edgy people was always outclassing people who were too "normal" or "uptight". Since we faced a military dictatorship in the 80's, with it's rigid discipline and patriotic values, it's only natural that after the process of redemocratization after 85 we get inspired by something other than this rigid and uptight aesthetics that dominated the country.
You've earned a new subscriber mate. I loved growing up in the 90s in NZ. The 90s and early 2000s was a great time. I miss it and am hopeful we have a cultural resurgence of that time.
Very good video I remember the stuff you mentioned,being a kid in the 90s,and a teenager in the 2000s.
Idk why but the drink that comes to mind for me during this era was SOBE.
Anyone else remember that bottled drink that was legitimately everywhere in the mid 2000s?
Edit:maybe its a drink more associated with the mid 2000s era
I miss it, that glass bottle was indestructible and a weapon.
Dude, i still think about the milky-pink flavor. Sounds odd, but it was so good. It was like strayberry coconut milk maybe?
As proof it was definitely a 2000’s staple, it was featured in the first Splinter Cell game.
@johnlynch42069 oh yeah! For anyone that wasn't there, that is unironically a pretty big deal for the record.
fruitopia
I had an idea for an animated action series about snowboarders (and other kinds of winter sportsmen) who are stuck in a cabin on mountain in the midst of permanent snowstorm caused by the big bad. In order to fight the villain's minions and stop the storm, they have to become super sledders. I was even thinking about giving each character music themed after genres that were popular during the extreme sports trend. It's going to be the most unapologetically 90s-2000s and pay homage to actions cartoons, shows, and anime I grew up with like Teen Titans, Digimon, Power Rangers, and Code Lyoko. I was going to call it "Avalaunche Xtreme", although the group actually call themselves "Team Avalaunche".
Sounds like a kids show I would have watched in 2000. With the nostalgia wave coming back around, the timing might be right for an xtreme homage.
I think so too. I also meant to cite Ben 10 as an inspiration too.
As a dude born in 1997 watching these last 2 videos has me getting the most Xtreme nostalgia. Our childhood was truly a golden era of coolness. While it has passed by being a cool xtreme dude lives inside all of us and we can’t let that fire in us die
then you dont remember the 90s dude
I miss the 90's to the xtreme
xX"insert name here"Xx was the coolest gamertag.. just sayin
And having numbers meant you were a lame follower.
I miss 90s Deodorant commercials
That time was fun. Ironically, I’m watching this video while in a waiting room for a pre-op appointment for an AC joint injury I got either from Roller Hockey or Dirt Biking 24 years ago. X-TREME!
as a wrestling fan it was my only duty to jump as high on a trampoline as possible until i got my first skateboard. lol. limp bizkit and eminem.
Another quality video my guy! I swear this is the only channel covering this era in pop culture and it’s such a treasure trove of nostalgia!
DINOSAURS, LET'S GET EXTREME! EXTREME DINOSAURS!
This is a fantastic video essay
i like the pointing out the transition period that i call Darxtreme or Dark Stream which would be the youtube era of analog horror and livestream content branching out from all corners of youtube like woodworking youtubers easily transition to woodworking livestreamers
Yea those VHS type videos
Thank you for making this! The 90's was such a brilliant fun time to grow up (X-treme!!!). It seems so boring now.
You’re a straight up anthropologist specializing in modern culture top of the field hahaha
You forgot the most glaring detail: the initial demographic for the trend was Generation X. They were at the height of their influence, both in youth and consumer base. Being the MTV generation, once their age group took over marketing departments it was inevitable that everything become XTREME.
I can definitely see how much of this “x” stuff had an influence on elon musk lol
love your videos man
The funniest thing about Sonic the Hedgehog is his character traits. They're based on the following: Santa Claus, Michael Jackson, and Bill Clinton, the most radical of dudes and ultra-extreme. Especially Michael and Bill, if you know what I mean
I can see the Michael Jackson influence but how did you get Santa Claus and Bill Clinton out if Sonic?
Poochie the Dog episode already explained this marketing phenomenon TO THE XTREME!!!
Man this video was XTREME 😎
Everyone was taking part in this. In 2003 Intel released the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition - the $1000 flagship processor. They kept this branding until 2019.
Because the 90’s were fucking awesome and XTREME!!!!!
born in the beginning of the 90s. Thank you, this was good. Xtreme sports and the 90s have a deep and profound affect on me, still do extreme sports daily even if the word sounds lame nowadays lmao
and there was always one character in a wheelchair
Well yeah, he already brought his wheels how can you tell him he can't do sports that's all about wheels man?
I love your videos about this era i grew up during. Born in 1992, i remember already as a kid wondering why the letter X was everywhere. It was my favorite letter back then, and i did like everything that was "xtreme". I think nu metal is one of the most defining extreme things of the era that i'm still in love with.
I don't care what people say about the 90's, it's corny as hell and that makes it my guilty pleasure
What I think of here is the extreme cuts and camera angles. Sam Raimi had developed a style that did this in the early 80s, with Evil Dead. In Darkman 1990 it was probably at his peak. Mostly extreme closeups and super wide lenses that made you feel a bit uncomfortable, also extreme lighting. The fast cuts would become more common in the years that followed, especially in ads aimed at teenagers.
Gen X had it great
I love your videos this was spot on
I think there was another two things that might be related:
1) 80s were too competitive and many Gen Xers were burnt out. This led to the rise of the “slacker” culture. In other words middle class white kids increasingly interested in nerdy pop culture and “slacking” off aka spending all day skateboarding. Especially since it was like a low level suburban rebellion that allowed you to feel cool while mostly getting yelled at by impotent security guards.
2. The boredom of white youth in general as those seeking excitement were returning to the big cities their parents left in droves in the 50s and 60s. Especially in California and NYC.
Dude why are your videos so…. XTREMMMMEEEEEEE!?!?! btw you forgot the “extreme guy” from Harold & Kumar go to White Castle and his friend who made pterodactyl noises 😂😂
Don't forget about the video game 2xtreme for the PS1.🎮
I think I still have that in my collection haha wow it wasnt fun from what I recall, bad controls an gameplay
Or Extreme G for the Nintendo 64
Man this video is tight!!
9:38 Gone in 60 seconds?
You do know thats just a remake of a 70's film right?
I am eagerly awaiting your next video on early UA-cam and the Internet "culture" of that time.
Thumbs up just for the title of this video
🎉🎉🎉🎉 Happy to have your content! CARRY ON!
I think the era ended already at 09.11.2001
For me, the era truly ended when the recession happened in 2008
It's arguably the 08 recession marked the end but midway through the 00s there was a slowing down.
I don't know. I think this stuff is very familiar to those of us who were around in the 2000s. It was still pretty prominent. I think it was starting to wind down a little around the 2000s but didn't truly die until the 2010s.
G.I. Joes parachuting off the roof onto the driveway
XTREEME
The extreme culture promoted so much heterosexual masculinity. i love the 90s and early 2000 🖕😎👍
Nice video and commentary! I agree with many of your points, although in my opinion extreme sports and Motorsports had a larger initial impact than the comics and x-men/x-force. You had many new generational techniques/tricks/competitions and racing never seen before that was growing exponentially. Not to mention all the big names and film being produced! As you stated everything worked in conjunction with each other to have that generational boom and each part is significant! I don’t mean to downplay the comics/etc significance at all, but I just think that Motorsports/extreme sports played the largest initial role! 👍🙂 Enjoyed watching, keep it up! Also catch some gnarly waves and righteous babes! 😂
Harold & kumar. Extreme!
X-actly
i still quote that scene lol
Remember when the Malcom X movie came out and we saw those people wearing jackets with a huge X on the back?
I blame it on pre-90s cocaine usage. In the 90s all those coke heads became decision makers in companies and likely never stopped with the coke.
Average coke usage rate in the 80s was 6.25%. Since the 90s it's around 2%.
Stimulants were 4% in the 80s and 1-2% after.
Then in the 00s pain killer usage exploded, which also explains a lot. I'm thinking Grunge, Goth, Emo, etc.
It's Japan, but still, in the 00s everything was plastered depressing looking in media like Ergo Proxy, Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop, Texhnolyze, Haibane Renmai, Gantz, Elfen Lied, Blame!.
literally wrong
80's counter-culture is at the root of the thing entirely, it created a very obvious market for being off the wall and "not boring", literally no different than the 70's movie industry they just started throwing shit at the wall and saw what stuck. Young people are liking extreme sports? Young people like games? Young people like crazy music? Then let's advertise to them to show that we're cool and they'll buy from us. It's marketing fucking 101, MTV proved that you could make a killing off of being less corporate so that's exactly what they did
Glad to have been around during that time 💯👌🏾🔥
Aww yea man, nostalgia
It wasn’t anymore extreme than the previous generations, it’s just that the counterculture got spotlighted and commodified. Every dork and dweeb was wearing skater/punk clothes and was a poser.
That was a great, very entertaining video dude. I think one other reason the X was used is it is the least used character in the alphabet with the exception of Z. Everyone wanted to set their selves apart from what was before while still staying connected. By using the letter X they accomplished that, an almost not used letter while at the same being known by everyone.
The 2010s and onwards suck. Everything is soft and woke and people nowadays get offended too easily.
Tumblr really ruined everything.
Thanks for that slice of nostalgia. I miss those days.
I much prefer the xtreme corporate trend over the woke trend. Maybe it is time to bring xtreme back.
Define Woke.
The woke trend seems to be on its way out. But we need to get rid of the overall fruity/quirky/dorky trend of the modern age. Coolness needs to make a comeback.
What you're complaining about doesn't exist
@@Vivi_9 it obviously does exist
Jumping on board at 18k subs and 12 videos.
Very well done!
It's sad that modern culture has returned us to the safe and tame, but now with unparalleled cringe and constant crying anytime someone does something remotely edgy or extreme.