1985-1987 THROWBACK REPORT: "YUPPIES"

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  • Yuppie Stands for Young Urban Professional. Yuppies are usually the children of doctors and lawyers, hold Master's degrees from Ivy League universities, and are very concerned with their appearance. Many were in fraternities and many live in expensive houses or apartments.
    Yuppies can typically be seen in large metropolitan areas such as Portland or New York. Their wardrobe consists of grey, black or khakhi slacks, usually with grey, striped or pastel colored suit jackets and shirts. Yuppies typically take the idea of competing for social status extremely seriously. Their culture revolves around Starbucks coffee, expensive foreign restaurants and romantic comedies starring Julia Roberts or Tom Hanks. Yuppies generally only hold political views that are considered trendy.
    Many yuppies go into fields such as politics, big business, public administration, medicine and law. You may have worked for one.

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  • @bigpolitical8292
    @bigpolitical8292 5 років тому +605

    I wonder if any of them got a reservation at Dorsia. 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @MrMLBson09
    @MrMLBson09 4 роки тому +182

    I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Espace, since I'm positive we won't have a decent table. But we do, and relief washes over me in an awesome wave.

    • @BJ52091
      @BJ52091 Рік тому +4

      Impressive. Very nice. Let’s see Paul Allen’s “American Psycho” reference.

  • @trey8872
    @trey8872 3 роки тому +102

    People were out here aging like milk in the 80s! None of them looked close to their alleged ages.

    • @larryhughes4058
      @larryhughes4058 3 роки тому +40

      Smoking, booze, coke, sun, no moisturizer.

    • @tropicalpalmtree
      @tropicalpalmtree 2 роки тому +5

      Quick Money short lives.

    • @TheAto2000
      @TheAto2000 2 роки тому +15

      @@tropicalpalmtree not to mention not enough sleep (14 hour work days?).

    • @hyp3r-systems838
      @hyp3r-systems838 Рік тому +1

      actually, this is what 20/ 25/ and 30 yr olds ARE SUPPOSED to look like, there is a reason why most millenials growing up with Gen X/ Baby Boomer Parents thought getting to 30 meant you were REALLY OLD, and teenage/early 20 yr old girls were scared shitless about hitting the wall at 25, which traditionally has ALWAYS been the beauty wall for women until the past 20 yrs hit, and suddenly women are saying the wall is 30 or even 40, and they look generally younger

    • @jakecavendish3470
      @jakecavendish3470 Рік тому +2

      Lots of alcohol, cigs and the white stuff

  • @MildCholester28
    @MildCholester28 2 роки тому +19

    2:37 look at that subtle off-white colouring...

  • @colbysmellsgood
    @colbysmellsgood 5 років тому +196

    Sabrina don’t just stare at it, eat it

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 3 роки тому +3

      @Rowland Oh, that's well-behaved Patrick!

    • @BJ52091
      @BJ52091 Рік тому

      Yes, Daddy Bateman

  • @Fabian080690
    @Fabian080690 4 роки тому +46

    This video made me die of cocaine overdose.

  • @llkjjjss
    @llkjjjss 4 роки тому +39

    No wonder when I pulled up in my new BMW at my grandparents house my gpaw called me a yuppie lol

    • @MetalHead-ks9zq
      @MetalHead-ks9zq 20 днів тому

      Those things have a high depreciation and they break down often that’s why BMW means big money waster

  • @aertybhujm1
    @aertybhujm1 4 роки тому +31

    I have finished watching this video completely.
    (我看完這部影片了)
    I am a Taiwanese who cares about the global affairs.
    (我是一個關心全球事務的台灣人)
    And, sadly, most of my fellow Taiwanese don't really care about the world.
    (但是,很不幸地,我大部分的台灣同胞不那麼在意世界。)
    Hopefully Taiwan can become increasingly globally-aware and globally-competitive.
    (希望台灣可以越來越有全球意識與全球競爭力。)
    God bless Taiwan.
    (天佑台灣。)

  • @colinvespa4709
    @colinvespa4709 5 років тому +61

    British Yuppies are very similar but there is some subtle differences.n I grew up in the era and trained to be a banker just before I was ready to move to London, Black Wednesday stock market crash happened, loads of staffs got laid off and home repossessed.
    It was a shock as many thought the good times would never end.
    The Yuppies are still there but much more muted and less brash.

    • @colinvespa4709
      @colinvespa4709 5 років тому +3

      @Alqu001 ! I suggest you look it up on the internet, with specific term British Yuppies, you'll find its mostly about London centric young urban professionals of the 80s with Sloane Rangers s a counter culture to YUPPIES, the 80s in the UK is quite an interesting era.

    • @colinvespa4709
      @colinvespa4709 5 років тому +3

      Since you weren't around that time how would you know we're copying Americans ? We never did, we were distinct from American Yuppies, any similarities is only on the surface, if you lived during that era you would know.
      I did and we were different, the only thing we shared was a common language and work ethics.

    • @chrishenniker5944
      @chrishenniker5944 3 роки тому

      Colin Vespa I suspect the English yuppies were ex-punks or former mods.

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 3 роки тому +2

      In the City Of London, yuppie culture is still alive.

    • @colinvespa4709
      @colinvespa4709 3 роки тому

      @@yannick245 Its not the same as the 80s/90s tho mate.

  • @agreaves
    @agreaves 3 роки тому +20

    "it even has a watermark"

  • @Jojolexplosif
    @Jojolexplosif 2 роки тому +24

    The oldest 29 year old I’ve ever seen

  • @donttalktomeyoureannoying8736
    @donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 4 роки тому +52

    There’s no way in hell the guy at 7:15 is 29 years old 😂😂😂

    • @enoshf5040
      @enoshf5040 4 роки тому +3

      Lana's Daydream 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @salm6331
      @salm6331 4 роки тому +8

      men age horribly compared to women

    • @HeathenMetalhead221
      @HeathenMetalhead221 4 роки тому +9

      It's his hairline.

    • @MrCrosby.s_lunch
      @MrCrosby.s_lunch 4 роки тому +18

      During the '80 they didn' t remain very young very long and they dressed like older people

    • @YTOW85
      @YTOW85 3 роки тому +2

      Damn look at his hairdo!!😳

  • @JustinTime978
    @JustinTime978 4 роки тому +47

    These yuppies weren't kept in check and now the major cities are unaffordable and boring.

    • @StarlightEater
      @StarlightEater 9 місяців тому

      Lol there are plenty of rust belt cities with 1000 dollar houses homie get it together

  • @matiassur6832
    @matiassur6832 3 роки тому +45

    don't you just adore honest reporting? Oh man.

    • @smartchip
      @smartchip 2 роки тому +5

      That was a thing of the past, a handful of companies own 99% of the media of the world,
      Checkout:
      the Duran
      The lotus eaters,
      Sargon of akkad,
      Black pigeon speaks,

  • @nosferatuoddz7974
    @nosferatuoddz7974 2 роки тому +12

    The whiz kids were the original cryptobros

  • @niftyspock
    @niftyspock Рік тому +5

    Let's see Paul Allen's report on yuppies...

  • @TheOn3LeftBehind
    @TheOn3LeftBehind 4 роки тому +26

    And now in 2020 PhDs are saturated and my ass is making $45k in pharmaceutical industry and would make $35k in academia HAHA.

    • @donttalktomeyoureannoying8736
      @donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 4 роки тому +7

      Andy are you serious??? I thought you guys would make 6 figures no matter what.

    • @bsm201
      @bsm201 3 роки тому +1

      You probably chose a shit degree

    • @skylinez4793
      @skylinez4793 3 роки тому +3

      A bad day for these yuppies in the 80s is probably 20k

  • @chrishenniker5944
    @chrishenniker5944 3 роки тому +13

    Most English yuppies were ex-punks or former mods, especially the revivalist mods.

    • @cycologist7069
      @cycologist7069 8 місяців тому

      That's seems a bit of a stretch, especially taking into account England's caste system. Most punks and I've never stepped foot in Britan so I could be wrong but it just seems unlikely.

  • @jeremiahhoward3042
    @jeremiahhoward3042 Рік тому +6

    One year later the stock crash of '87

  • @ladyrose3285
    @ladyrose3285 8 місяців тому +2

    RIP World Trade Center WTC @08:15
    Plus Bill Heenan I wonder where he is at now?

  • @pacoramon9468
    @pacoramon9468 4 роки тому +16

    This is a time capsule.

  • @bartolomeestebanmurillo4459
    @bartolomeestebanmurillo4459 4 роки тому +71

    The yuppies aka the 1960's hippies who realized after 1969 that success and prosperity were not so bad after all. The woke generation I see becoming the yuppies of tomorrow.

    • @benjaminmendezz
      @benjaminmendezz 3 роки тому +3

      Yep you got that right

    • @charliewalls2750
      @charliewalls2750 3 роки тому +7

      Not likely. Most of us were raised by yuppies, were nouveau yuppies in the 00s before The Great Recession, and haven’t had access to the wealth accumulated by the tech boom. We’ve seen and survived a lot of shit, that’s why we’re “woke”.

    • @Frankdrebin22
      @Frankdrebin22 3 роки тому +1

      Fuck ur woke asses i rather be a yuppie than a fucking crying woke ass bitch

    • @charliewalls2750
      @charliewalls2750 3 роки тому +3

      @@Frankdrebin22 who’s crying, tough guy?

    • @pedrolopes3542
      @pedrolopes3542 3 роки тому +10

      @@charliewalls2750 "We’ve seen and survived a lot of shit,"
      ROLFLMAO

  • @SchrodingersGat
    @SchrodingersGat 3 роки тому +11

    The more things change the more they stay the same.

  • @danielg3777
    @danielg3777 5 років тому +34

    BMW meant Beauty Money Wealth

    • @keenynthewise
      @keenynthewise 4 роки тому +5

      Money & wealth ?

    • @JerkVegas86
      @JerkVegas86 3 роки тому +5

      @@keenynthewise
      Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself.

    • @colinvespa4709
      @colinvespa4709 3 роки тому +3

      BMW- Big Massive Wankers

  • @IkanGelamaKuning
    @IkanGelamaKuning Рік тому +3

    hippie, yuppie, grumpy old man

  • @tickedoffnow
    @tickedoffnow 4 роки тому +41

    If I had alot of money I'd be smiling too.
    I'm sure not all them were idiots.

  • @Devonrgn
    @Devonrgn 4 роки тому +8

    Wow they seemed so happy

    • @tickedoffnow
      @tickedoffnow 4 роки тому +15

      When you have alot of money of course you're happy you can buy anything

    • @larryhughes4058
      @larryhughes4058 3 роки тому +1

      The only baddie was communism. Aids and ozone layer weren't even big deals till like 87/88.

  • @SingaporeSkaterSam
    @SingaporeSkaterSam 3 роки тому +10

    The graphic at 7:37.

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 3 роки тому +4

      Well, the WTC were iconic buildings.
      A landmark of Manhattan.

  • @jaysonb.6669
    @jaysonb.6669 Рік тому +3

    Japan Yuppies were on a whole different level tho. 😂😂

    • @millions2nette
      @millions2nette Рік тому +2

      Please share a link, if you saw a video on that.

  • @mannyrodriguez3933
    @mannyrodriguez3933 4 роки тому +9

    I can't speak for all of these individuals of the time, but i will say some of their mentality was so screwball. Yuppie culture was so self centered and all about money and wealth, never about staying true to your self or others. Obviously it probably still exists in some form or another but what a wild time the 80's were. I enjoy listening to these old news stories.

  • @minewheaties5029
    @minewheaties5029 2 роки тому +3

    The Yuppie who kept such a low profile and yet had so much prominence in the movement=Barry Diller.

  • @jb888888888
    @jb888888888 2 роки тому +2

    When I was young I had yuppies, but I forgot to clean out their tank and they all died.

  • @AugustMedia
    @AugustMedia 6 місяців тому

    Ha! ...and then Oct. 19, 1987 showed up. Thanks Hez, another great video.

  • @toneill3818
    @toneill3818 5 років тому +50

    The end of social conscience. Money, greed, me, me, me.
    This was the beginning of what we are now (Reagan/Thatcher).

    • @BigSCTVfan
      @BigSCTVfan 5 років тому +1

      P O'Neill Trickle down economics is pretty much ruining the world.

    • @lenini056
      @lenini056 4 роки тому

      @Sherlock Holmes i guess your sick hobby is beating a random homeless person you see.

    • @razorized
      @razorized 4 роки тому

      @Sherlock Holmes fuck yourself

    • @roymarshall_
      @roymarshall_ 2 роки тому +1

      This is the dumbest theory I have ever heard

  • @ALI_FA17
    @ALI_FA17 Рік тому +4

    His name is Paul Allen

  • @MichaelLantz
    @MichaelLantz 3 роки тому +10

    Did anybody think that The Yuppies were Kool in 1980's

    • @larryhughes4058
      @larryhughes4058 3 роки тому +4

      Dude they think they are cool right now. They simply have tattoos and piercings now and code.

    • @matrix91234
      @matrix91234 2 роки тому +1

      I find Yuppies a fascinating piece of history

  • @pacoramon9468
    @pacoramon9468 4 роки тому +34

    ok boomer.

  • @alexdonnithorne5116
    @alexdonnithorne5116 5 років тому +8

    Hey did you have back ups of all your old special reports?

  • @BJ52091
    @BJ52091 2 роки тому +19

    Unpopular opinions incoming: The yuppies and the yuppie era was awesome, greed is beautiful and good, and I would have loved to be Patrick Bateman 40 years ago.

    • @pepsi_man4962
      @pepsi_man4962 Рік тому +3

      Same here friend. But how about this. How about we bring back that style? I am trying to currently. Even if it doesn’t become popular. We will be the yuppies. We will be the cool and logical ones of modern messed up society.

    • @BJ52091
      @BJ52091 Рік тому +3

      @@pepsi_man4962 That style never left. A well-to-do individual dressed for success, as if he already owns the company that owns the building he happens to be in at any given moment in time, will always be in fashion.

    • @pepsi_man4962
      @pepsi_man4962 Рік тому +2

      @@BJ52091 I’m talking about the 80s coolness of it all bro

    • @BJ52091
      @BJ52091 Рік тому +2

      @@pepsi_man4962 Even better! 80s coolness never stopped being cool in my opinion

    • @pepsi_man4962
      @pepsi_man4962 Рік тому +2

      @@BJ52091 it never did! Im sick of modern day bs. Society is a mess these days

  • @johnecoapollo7
    @johnecoapollo7 2 роки тому +6

    I want... to fit... in

  • @TheAto2000
    @TheAto2000 2 роки тому +1

    Now I know after all these years (I would've been still in my crib back then) what a Yuppie is.I can be like them but not be out of touch.

  • @richyr5876
    @richyr5876 3 роки тому +14

    now if a stock brokers gets fired. well he will just open a robin hood account or a TD account and boom hes back on top lmao well kinda.

  • @sithconsole
    @sithconsole 3 роки тому +5

    7:37 lol

  • @movietimemachinepodcast
    @movietimemachinepodcast Рік тому +5

    Remember kids, don’t be a yuppie, otherwise you WILL be tomorrows Boomer

  • @Msimportant1111
    @Msimportant1111 7 місяців тому +1

    100k salary in the 80’s was like 300k that’s why boomers were able to buy a house lmaooo

  • @feelsbadman1754
    @feelsbadman1754 Рік тому +3

    7:38 didn't age well

  • @GigiDAmico
    @GigiDAmico 3 роки тому +3

    lifestyle idea changed

  • @JerkVegas86
    @JerkVegas86 3 роки тому +7

    Where are they now?

  • @666Otomo
    @666Otomo Рік тому

    This day still wondering how Paul got the Fisher account...

  • @tonyneal359
    @tonyneal359 5 років тому +3

    I wonder where they are now i was 8 then smh

  • @favorhere
    @favorhere Рік тому +1

    hard to believe these are the 70 and 75 year olds of today :D

  • @Ryantravisaol
    @Ryantravisaol Рік тому +1

    7:15 this guy is only 29?! I look younger than him today and I’m 39. Wow. And he refers to people in their twenties as kids haha.

    • @jakecavendish3470
      @jakecavendish3470 Рік тому

      Tbf he probably got to retire on a full salary pension at 60, if he didn't die of a heart attack

  • @Msimportant1111
    @Msimportant1111 7 місяців тому

    Yuppie= content creators of today Gen Z

  • @raymondmeyers8983
    @raymondmeyers8983 Рік тому +10

    In the 60s and 70s it was the hippies
    In the 80s and 90s it was the yuppies
    In the 00s and 10s it was the hipsters
    I think now it’s the wokes

    • @lenini056
      @lenini056 Рік тому

      And that's why we slipping into fascism because anyone who spews out "woke" is another way of saying "I am racist, sexist, homophobic and embrace the most bigotry I can and won't stop until the government is on our side where we can force everyone who are different than us to either follow our ways or if they don't, DIE"
      And there's no way you can defend your stance since anything called "woke" are by very paranoid white cis Christian men with a few tokens (I'm looking at you Candance Owens) here and there that will serve the majority until their use are no longer relevant and thrown under the bus once power has been achieved. So fuck you!

    • @hyp3r-systems838
      @hyp3r-systems838 Рік тому

      Sharonnn doooont you meeeean... WOKIES??

  • @j2times2006
    @j2times2006 5 років тому +23

    Not one of them with any ounce of rhythm

    • @peggypeggy4137
      @peggypeggy4137 3 роки тому +3

      & aside from the fact that they couldn't dance, they were obnoxious.

    • @arribaficationwineho32
      @arribaficationwineho32 2 роки тому

      Financial brilliance doesn’t need to dance.

  • @putocelular9375
    @putocelular9375 5 років тому +12

    Wish to know where they are now.

    • @MeltinJohn
      @MeltinJohn 5 років тому +17

      They're older primadonnas making life hell for the lower working class thats where they are.

    • @BigSCTVfan
      @BigSCTVfan 5 років тому +3

      A lot of them are probably working as Wal-Mart greeters since they spent everything and saved nothing!

    • @donttalktomeyoureannoying8736
      @donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 4 роки тому

      BNO97 ! They are generation x. Gen X has no beef with no one

    • @Andre.felipe84
      @Andre.felipe84 4 роки тому +7

      The famous one is in White House now.

    • @patb00y
      @patb00y 3 роки тому

      @@MeltinJohn You sound bitter

  • @OldHeathen1963
    @OldHeathen1963 4 роки тому +20

    Sell outs ! ( hurray for me and screw you, greed is good ) ~ Boomers for Reaganomics

  • @barniespacullie3812
    @barniespacullie3812 3 роки тому +17

    Lmao I grew up in SF and watched this movement emerge then kick out and now they are trying into Karen's and Boomers

  • @tickedoffnow
    @tickedoffnow 4 роки тому +12

    Yuppies aren't inherently bad people.
    They're just like any type of radical.
    Yes alot of them did bad things with alot of money but so do people that win the lottery.
    No difference really.
    Just gambling.

  • @feyrol42
    @feyrol42 2 роки тому +1

    Make a video on ‘Buppies’ please 😀

  • @pancake9812
    @pancake9812 Рік тому +1

    What a time to sell coke

  • @jakecavendish3470
    @jakecavendish3470 Рік тому

    Kind of both hilarious and awful that it later transpired that absolutely none of these people had a clue what they were doing 📉

  • @firelioness363
    @firelioness363 7 місяців тому

    Less than Zero ... Im going back to... No I don't think us ...

  • @u235u235u235
    @u235u235u235 5 років тому +7

    good christian boys

    • @u235u235u235
      @u235u235u235 2 роки тому

      @Marco Zepeda what's wrong with coke? only lasts 30 min and back to normal ready to drive. it's a great party drug.

  • @DjgcjhDghffgf-p1u
    @DjgcjhDghffgf-p1u 10 днів тому

    Lee Betty Hernandez Deborah Jackson Patricia

  • @RonaldRaiden
    @RonaldRaiden 10 місяців тому

    They're not confined to a generation though. Yuppism is people who define themselves by what they own

  • @siddharthbhoite8682
    @siddharthbhoite8682 Рік тому +1

    He was right , the crash of 1987 followed , which turned out to be one of worst crashes

  • @joshseeley7
    @joshseeley7 2 роки тому +2

    30k a year lol. so rich

    • @AS-bs8tb
      @AS-bs8tb 2 роки тому +4

      In the 80s 30k went a long way

    • @joshseeley7
      @joshseeley7 2 роки тому +3

      It’s the equivalent of 83k…. Again, not rich at all.

  • @guilhermebhs
    @guilhermebhs 11 місяців тому

    7:38 😅

  • @adamkhabazian3249
    @adamkhabazian3249 9 місяців тому +1

    they were hated for being rich and successful. now look at all the getto people covered in tattoos. nobody hates them

  • @cobracommander8133
    @cobracommander8133 10 місяців тому

    B O O M E R S

  • @missj.4760
    @missj.4760 Рік тому

    The background logo is quite annoying.

  • @MetalHead-ks9zq
    @MetalHead-ks9zq 20 днів тому

    Not a lot of Black people in that crowd I see

  • @sassoscrib
    @sassoscrib Рік тому +2

    Back when you needed a Human to buy and sell a stock..They got paid a commission for simply pushing buttons.

  • @tommasoraite7067
    @tommasoraite7067 11 місяців тому

    Based culture. Hard work and enjoyment

    • @cobracommander8133
      @cobracommander8133 10 місяців тому

      Ok boomer.
      And don’t tell me aCtUaLlY iM a gEn-z/X/y cause you definitely a
      B O O M E R

    • @strangelylookingperson
      @strangelylookingperson Місяць тому

      ​​@@cobracommander8133I don't think he's a boomer, cause he used the word "based". I think he is more like a modern brainrot z/x-ippy.

  • @thegaijin872
    @thegaijin872 Рік тому +1

    They all look the same tho

  • @movesky6696
    @movesky6696 2 роки тому +1

    greed minder 1980s

  • @tropicalpalmtree
    @tropicalpalmtree 2 роки тому +1

    Same greed different year. I like capitalism but the greed of people on Wall street and in other financial markets is something i will never support.

  • @cccpredarmy
    @cccpredarmy 4 роки тому +3

    why would you throw away your hard earned money like that?

    • @tickedoffnow
      @tickedoffnow 4 роки тому +3

      Only stupid people waste their money on pointless things

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 3 роки тому +6

      _"I want to fit in!"_
      -Patrick Bateman

  • @oswaldoautomata
    @oswaldoautomata 4 роки тому +3

    Yuppies are boomers or generation X ? For me generation X but if somebody could enlighten me !

    • @Rokiotop900
      @Rokiotop900 4 роки тому +3

      X Generation

    • @larryhughes4058
      @larryhughes4058 3 роки тому +2

      Every generation since boomers. Jerry Rubin was the first.

    • @rafaitcherif8197
      @rafaitcherif8197 2 роки тому

      No boomer born between 1943 and 1960

    • @cobracommander8133
      @cobracommander8133 10 місяців тому

      B O O M E R S
      these tools were in their late 20s & 30s in the 1980s, they are definitely boomers. I was 10 when this video was made and I’m Gen-X

  • @MeltinJohn
    @MeltinJohn 5 років тому +13

    Worst generation of the times, right here.

    • @gh3860
      @gh3860 5 років тому +29

      Says the guy with a confederate flag as your profile picture.

    • @j2times2006
      @j2times2006 5 років тому +2

      gh3860 stop bitching little man

    • @donttalktomeyoureannoying8736
      @donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 4 роки тому +2

      Meltin John I really wish it was like this now

    • @matrix91234
      @matrix91234 2 роки тому

      If it wasnt for the crazy period, i dont think we would have modern rock (or atleast inspirations that came from blues that became rock n roll (mix of blues and country). And that madness probably transpired to modern day rock. So some good did come out of the absolute mad house of expressive people

  • @AtticTapes14
    @AtticTapes14 Рік тому

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