This video is insanely perfect. From nirvana, to simpsons, to South Park, to WWE, thank you for acknowledging the pillars of perfection that was the late 90s
@cccaaaa-el5qf I don't know much about them tbh. I think they were pretty much just an American thing. Certainly not as big as those other bands across the world.
I was born in 2002, with an older brother from '96. everything he grew up with, I grew up with. I worshipped him, and he showed me all the raunchy attitude, definitely not appropriate for kids stuff. we watched Adam Sandler movies together and played mortal kombat on PS2. we liked the same animes, listened to the same 2000s rock music, we did everything together. he is single handedly responsible for at least half of my cultural background, and most of my interests to this day. we still play every new MMO game, even if we live hundreds of miles apart. man, this was not my gen, but it was SO my gen. my bro didn't hesitate on showing me everything he liked, even if I was a girl, even if I was too young. he's a great brother.
You’re so lucky! As an only child I’d never really wished I had a sibling, but when people ask me hypothetically if I did, what would I want? And I always say an older brother that could’ve shown me stuff and watched out for me. Kind of like how you describe your older brother.
I didn't expect to get the warm fuzzies on a video about abrasive 90s-00s culture, but as a 96 big brother to a 02 little sister, this made me think of all the cool stuff I showed (and still show) my sister growing up.
this makes me wanna cry. I remember watching all the shows, movies, songs, video games you talk about in this video. Those were the days man. late 90s early 2000s i will love forever.
The late 2000s was good, too. Things really started to change and feel different in the 2010s when everything in society suddenly became highly political.
@@robertpalermo7750 Im not sure about the late 2000s, this is ofcourse personal to me. My memory won't allow me to enjoy the time after 2005 as much, maybe because thats my last year at high school or whatever, but the 2000s man, american pie, scary movie, gta san andreas, south park, that was the time of my life lol
@@Legacyofmine I started my freshman year of high school in 2007.With movies like Superbad and Jennifer's body, the late 90's/Early 2000's culture was dying of, but didn't start to officially end till I would say about 2011 or 2012 when I was in college.
@@mankuro but thats your opinion, you started freshman in 2007, which is grade 7? Sorry im from uk lol but like I said and even in the video, he mentions how the attitude era ended by 2007, along with Chris Benoit of wwe. In my opinion someone who was a 12-13 when south park, jackass were popular on tv truly embodied the attitude era with all due respect, thats not to take away from your experiences man.
The attitude era felt like paradise compared to this sanitized joke of a culture that we have nowadays... It does feel like a complete different country that has abandoned everything that I love it about it, honestly I think I rather have a repeat of the moral majority of the 80s instead of the insufferable hyper sensitive psychopaths Progressives that we have nowadays
@@TylerRamos-h2o The real world is as unsanitized as its ever been in a long time, but the media is what's sanitized, so it's kinda like we flipped the 90s/00s, back then media was edgy but the world felt more innocent now its the opposite
I used to call this the "X-TREME Era" because that was the most common appellation onto everything. There was the X-Games (short for X-TREME games) the XFL (the X-TREME Football League), the X-Treme X-Men, the Extreme Ghostbusters, and even Xtreme Pringles. Everything was purposefully misspelled and edgy (see stuff like Mortal Kombat), and while this started earlier in the 90's by the late early 00's it was a trend at its peak.
High school for me was fall of 96 through spring of 00. I feel like this era pretty neatly fits into that box. I don't know if it was inherent in me or marketing or just being caught up in the times but the idea of EXTREME really took me. I didn't want anything bland. I didn't want just a taste of something. My soda had to have maximum caffeine and red dye number 72s. My music had to come with maximum advisory. My wrestlers had to have maximum muscles in places I didn't have places. And as that era ended and I grew older it took a very long time to minimize the maximums in my life. Tough lessons had to be taught more times than should be necessary but thankfully today, as a wise middle aged man, I can see what I couldn't then. Even if I still find myself occasionally buying a sour patch kid energy drink.
Generation X and the X-men where at their peak of popularity and coolness, compared with todays most popular superheroes, in the 90s considered the lamest of all superheroes: Avengers
Being born in the early 90s,this late 90s and early 2000s era was my pre-teen childhood. Growing up back then was awesome,wish I could experience it again.
I was born in the year 2000 so I missed being a 90s baby by a year but this video is like compilation of a bunch of the entertainment and artists that I loved when I was growing up. The main thing they all have in common besides being “edgy” is it’s just good quality entertainment and it was an awesome era for sure.
91 here, glad I experienced almost the whole of the 90s and the early mid 2000s, id do anything to be back in that era lol this era we are all in is depressing tf
@@ZP1993 1987 here and I'm blessed to have grown up during the 90s and early 2000s. So many memories and nostalgia. Oh how much I miss 90s and early 2000s, it pains me that much.
For me 3 things killed this era: - The 9/11 tragedy, blinded any sense of dark and edgy humor. - 2004 Nipplegate at the superbowl, essentially forced the media to tone down everything. -2008 crisis, lead many grownups of the Attitude era, to drastically change the way they lived in order to survive. The social media becoming mainstream in 2013, put the final nail in the edgy coffin.
Social media made it come back around. These apps are the darkest public platforms to have ever existed. Genuinely, you can see and read essentially anything. Limp Bizkit starts to feel like forced market tested edginess for young teens after a short scroll through Twitter right now.
@@lox7923there is no comparing modern social media to the Wild West of the internet in the late 90s through the late 00s. Maybe if you go on the dark web, but everything gets censored/canceled in a heartbeat on anything remotely mainstream nowadays
@@lox7923 they came back… so the people who are against it. That’s what the current “culture war” became reality in the 10’s: Anti-Attitude vs Pro-Attitude. It’s not surprise that nostalgia over the “good years” they had in the 90s-00s have lead many into thinking over those “conspiracies”.
Agreed. Also, I'd consider Owen Hart's death in 1999 making the then "WWF" tone back a lot of their more "extreme" content, and then the whole Chris Benoit situation made the at that point and now "WWE" tone back even more. I was never a big wrestling fan, but I had a lot of friends growing up who were, and most of them quit watching after they said that it got neutered (phrasing it that way due to censorship). Moreover, and far more relevant to the decline of the "extreme" era was after the Benoit situation, CTE became focused on way more, not just in wrestling, but in ALL sports, which isn't exactly a bad thing. I'd also add Dale Earnhardt's death in 2001 that lead to significant safety regulations, and far less risky behavior from other NASCAR drivers. Another thing that just crossed my mind is how a lot of action movies started incorporating more comedy and drama. Take Rush Hour for example. Yeah it had some good action, but not nearly as much as other Jackie Chan movies (definitely not knocking him for it; getting old is real and it sucks). Another point that can be made regarding films is the advancements in CGI, which lead to less risky stunt requirements. Again, I wouldn't necessarily say any of these changes were a bad thing, but they definitely influenced the zeitgeist. The last thing that I can think of for now is the ubiquity of the internet, and eventual smart phones becoming not just available but practically necessary. This, and online gaming lead to a generation of people who were less daring and active than the ones that came before them, who did things just because they had nothing else to do. I will say that for this last point, I'm projecting my own experiences, observations, self reflection, and introspection when it comes to this one in particular. From my experience growing up (born in 1991), as a kid to around 15 or so, I was almost always either outside riding bikes, walking in woods, shooting hoops etc. or I'd be reading books, playing guitar, or socializing "irl." Basically, I just experienced life without following some "influencer" nonsense. (I still don't follow them or anyone *now* for that matter.) I didn't do things because I saw it on the internet, I did them out of spontaneity/impulse, because I wanted to, or because of good old classic peer pressure, and some clout. But my point is that I did things. But once the internet became better (after dial up haha), I got into online gaming, UA-cam, social media, and reading articles. Basically, I became more sedentary and less active - habits that I'm still dealing with to this day as you can probably tell by this extremely long comment. My apologies, but you have to admit I circled that around quite smoothly. I didn't even intend to do that, so I suppose that also attests to the amount of time that I've put into this confounded time vampire that I can't kick completely because I'm addicted. I have been trying to get back into more active hobbies though, since I don't want work to be the only physical thing that I participate in. "We all have 2 lives, the second one doesn't begin until we realize we only have 1." Confucius
@@Night-rage I'd also add that Green Day didn't have as much going on during the era in question. Warning came out during then, but it was *incredibly* safe, even compared to Dookie
Originally I included 9/11 as one of the reasons. But when I thought about it, some Attitude content had a bit of a boom after 9/11. Jackass The Movie, Punk'd, Chappelle's Show, etc. We needed the escapism in that moment. But long term, I agree, it ended it. So my conclusion is that 9/11 had a mixed effect. I think Columbine was the biggest blow to edgy content.
In 5000 years when those kids read about the history of the former Anglo American hegemonic empire, 9/11 will be the chapter in which the teacher has to explain how that was the catalyst for the beginning of the end of everything
@@LifeofSlicey1 Tyler Durden said in Fight Club, "We're the middle children of history. We have no great war and no great depression." 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan ended the relative peace we had since the fall of the Soviet Union. Now we were in a real right, and had less reason to start fight clubs or be edgy out of boredom.
I’m so glad someone else thought about this. It’s been a conversation topic for me and my friends for years. I always described the mid 90’s-mid 00’s as when the counter culture became THE culture
a calvin pissing on the word society bumper sticker while the intro riff to Limp Bizkits "break stuff" plays in a blown out boombox plays in the background.
Geez, dude. You smashed every single nostalgia button with this one. I grew up during this exact time frame. I was a young kid riding his skateboard to his friend's house to play N64, listen to KoRn, watch Officespace, and play-wrestle like it's WWF. Then he'd come home to watch the Simpsons. It just so happens that this past month I saw both KoRn and Slipknot live and re-watched the Matrix in theaters for it's 25th anniversary. Sega Dreamcast just turned 25 in NA, too. I guess history does rhyme. Thanks for memories.
Attitude Era, South Park, Jackass, American Pie, Pop Punk, Nu Metal, Eminem, PS2, Skating culture. Very interesting times indeed when even kids shows were edgier than a lot of adult shows today.
I love how the dream path to “successful nonconformist rebellion” was to buy a skateboard, clothing, shoes, and a camera, and risk grave bodily harm and legal repercussions to hopefully get sponsored! “Yeah dude, he’s sponsored now.” “I can barely Ollie, I’ll never get sponsored at this rate” Remember “getting sponsors?”
Man what a video. Thank you for this trip down memory lane. I got a bit choked up at times reminiscing. I love the line at the end where you said, "I don't feel like nothing now is made for me" We grew up during the best times mayne
This is a very slippery slope though. While I totally agree, now that everything is made so political and deep. If you start throwing slurs around you'll probably only attract people who genuinely hate certain groups and wanna join in on the edgy party. Sadly it's just kind of impossible to walk the tightrope of raunchy and unfiltered versus blatantly offensive and malicious. If you wanna be a free spirit who knows words are only as powerful as you make them, you'll end up having to contantly explain yourself after every sentence. How you don't actually hate any groups/races, it's just low-brow humor, and at that point it isn't worth it.
this was a remarkable nostalgia trip to my childhood, and every time i found myself going "but wait he didnt talk about..." you would already be starting into it. fantastic video!
@@Takeru9292He also didn't mention attitude era internet and adobe flash. Sites like Newgrounds would routinely make headlines back then for the craziest things posted on it, along with the Internet being in its "emo & edgy" phase
The late 90’s/early 2000’s are truly the best times of my life, forever. I miss going to the video rental store Friday evening, picking out a movie and a video game for the weekend getting some pizza. It was just different then, simple and fantastic. I’m about to drop a tear I miss it so much 😢
bro i straight up raw dogged the entire video, no switching tabs, no multitasking, no checking on phone, just straight up reclined on my chair just kept watching the entire video till the end without interruption cause it was so entertaining from start to finish i didn't need anything else. Good job man.
The Urban dictionary defines 'raw dogging' as '(V.) To perform any act recklessly or without preparation...' hmmm.. you watched a UA-cam video with reckless abandon, without preparation, the entire 26 odd minutes, no stops, no snacks, just took it all in.. Wow - how many TikToks in a row? If not for the oxymoron of 'straight up reclined', you could've been my hero and a role model..just stop smoking it, it's not doing you any good and just guessing, it won't help you leave that trailer park.. bro
I always see the Simpsons mentioned as if they were the original deconstruction of the sitcom family, a lowly shoe salesman still can't catch a break. "Did ya miss me, Al?"... "With every bullet so far"
I was thinking the same thing, but I think it has to do with a matter of point-of-view. In "Married with Children", Al's character is the main catalyst of everything happening. Being as he was a 30/40 year-old man, he didn't connect with the audience in the same way as it was a little more difficult to see yourself as an old man, when you were in fact a teen. Bud and Kelly's characters were very much supporting cast, even though they did have their time in the spotlight. With "The Simpsons", there was an angsty male youth stand-in with Bart Simpson, who was the show's protagonist for arguably all of the '90s. It was easier for young men to see themselves in the character. Homer was the other protagonist, but somehow he didn't feel as old as Al Bundy, which still made him somewhat relatable. At least, that's how I felt about it. Loved both shows.
@@jumpupdown2556 As good the Sopranos is; I don’t believe it fits here with the late 90’s early 2000’s edgy punk frat boy comedy culture mentality that was present in the 2000’s. In fact I think that helped it stand out and age so well to many.
I had a pretty shitty upbringing but been born in the 90's and brought up in this era made things bearable and ive got hella nostalgia for the era. I feel sorry for kids growing up these days thatll never get to experience it!
@@LifeofSlicey1 oh definitely, don’t think it will match the insanity of this era. But i sense even in the more progressive gen z types, that they are sick of the corporate blandness. Almost every entertainment industry is in the spot WWE was in the 90s, they either gotta try going the crazy route or burn down in mediocrity.
@@petarrakoc1416 As conservatives becomes the ones that actually cancel comedy like they did with George Carlin, the youth would bouch back with culture revolution, but better than Y2K, like it's not edgy to me, it's cosplaying edgyness, real edgy is atheist anarchism
@Tacom4ster atheist anarchist are the fakest anti edge people ever, it's all spite and no real culture. Even more pathetic is that the 2000s are over, no one(not even atheist) cares about atheism anymore, that's why we're seeing the rise of lain cults and rock worship
Everyone over 34 misses those days but thankfully we can still relive those days here on the internet and its great to see how many of us older millennials crave nostalgia. For me personally my best years were from 1998-2011.
@@Takeru9292I came here to say this exact thing… lol, thank you. I used to try to pretend I wasn’t a millennial, I kind of refused to acknowledge it back when all of American society loved to talk sh*t about how entitled and lazy we all were… with our avocado toast and whatnot…but now that we’ve (mostly) all grown out of that phase where everything “we” (as a generation) did was useless and we were easy targets…I’m glad to be a millennial. & yeah, this video was like a really good dream to me.
Love your videos. The mish-mash of X-Men, Nirvana, Jerry Springer, Eminem, pro wrestling, Jackass, Adam Sandler, Grand Theft Auto III, all things I grew up with and still love. The Deadpool movies feel like they bring that spirit back a bit. Stuff now can be dark like The Batman or Grotesquerie but misses that fun, whimsical attitude the 90s had. Things are so legit frightening a CEO gets you know in NYC (and I get why) and everyone online cheers him on. For all the sanitized content now, society is actually legit grisly. Also someone else finally recognizes and appreciates Undergrads! Super underrated and wry show that reflected some of college life.
The peak of the Uncool Theater Kids Era has to be Kate McKinnon on SNL, dissing the first Todd Phillips Joker movie... by using jazz hands. Thank God for the currently-happening fall of hollywood and its stars.
What sucks is growing up in that type of society with everything being extreme and having attitude to then realizing society shifting to whatever it is now (political and divisive).
because when everything is radically "put something here" there's a "cooldown" and opposite backlash after. so there is nothing surprising that everything soft, fragile now (actually it's even more agressive)
Maybe because people started to became too xtreme for society. Don’t forget boomers wanted to censor everything that went against their Christian beliefs and values. Gen x are starting to push their parents agenda because now they’re adults and have “grown up” honestly as a millennial, some of the “xtreme” era was cringy and trailer trash. Most millennials are starting to grow up and have families, subconsciously we’re starting to/have mature and want to lead by example. We’re not living ours life based on religion (seems to scare old generation)
This was my era and I unequivocally LOVED all this shit!! But your reflections and my hindsight have summarised a big part of why I’ve always felt so marginalised as a woman, in this cultural era and beyond. Literally none of it was intended to include or uplift women: we were always the token, the butt of the joke, the object of whatever. And it’s sad to think that I’ve internalised and carried that feeling throughout so much of my adult life. Despite all this media being entertaining, rebellious and hilarious, I can’t help but retrospectively wish that I’d been included in a more positive way. Great video! 🫶
Thank you for your perspective. Looking back on it, I think there was also a more female-centric side that I didn't touch on in this video. It's kind of its own thing, but I think it was there. Stuff like Daria, Dawson's Creek, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, She's All That, Buffy, Clueless, Avril Lavigne, and Mean Girls towards the end. I hope that helps a little.
@@ecogreco It's not like bullying doesn't exist these days. In fact it's much worse thanks to social media and how little empathy people have nowadays.
i love that you made this video and put everything in it that needed to be in. from malcolm in the middle, to american pie; tom green, jackass, south park.. the only thing truly missing was jay and silent bob
As for your parting thought about today’s entertainment sucking: I think the root problem is that modern shows/movies need to appeal to everyone. They’ve gotten so expensive to make that they need to appeal to every demographic possible-and not just in the United States. They’ve got to get past censors in China, too. The result is bland, made by committee, and designed to offend nobody. There are movies that manage to be decent despite this, e.g. the Mission Impossible series comes to mind. Meanwhile, I think the “edge” that big-budget studios have lost is now found on UA-cam. Whatever strikes your fancy, no matter how small the niche, there’s a dozen channels dedicated to it. UA-cam is currently speed-running all the successes-and mistakes-that TV has made over the last 100-ish years, trying to figure out how to make things work. On UA-cam we have videos with obnoxious corporate sponsorships, like TV used to have in the 1950’s. But we also have passion projects that the creator puts out there just for the love of the content, e.g. your videos. Anyway, I loved this one! I largely missed this era of TV because I simply didn’t have one from 1989 to 2000. This was a fascinating view of shows I heard about but never actually saw.
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you! I agree. Disney/Marvel perfected the formula of appealing to everyone, but people are catching on. If they make it too obvious, people will jump ship. Like the Rings of Power failing. But if they crap on their audience too much, like Joker 2, it also spells disaster.
I think the only thing this video is missing is one more explanation for why this style ended: it wasn't funny anymore. After half a decade of the same jokes, what starts as "edgy" just becomes stale and a bit depressing. I grew up during this time and by 2007, almost *anything* even remotely deep or intellectual felt like fresh air.
I think that's why shows like The Office and Parks & Recreation were so well received. Not saying that they were "deep" but they showed a comedy style that didn't come off as edgy but still could make you laugh.
That's completely on you. The attitude era had great films, music, and shows that were far more intellectual than anything out there today. That you failed to find it is on you.
Perhaps not that things weren't funny any more, but tastes change. People mature. Priorities shift as we get older. We gain knowledge and wisdom. Nothing wrong with that, that's life. The memories (good and bad) will always be there.
Married with Children to me, was like a reactionary response to all of the Reagan-era family sitcoms (like The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Growing Pains, etc.) that were around at the time. Married with Children placed itself as being something akin to a dark, deconstructive satire to those types of shows.
Born in 1990. So happy I got to experience all of this in real time. Renting American Pie and Euro Trip from BlockBuster. Playing “Rollin” a billion times. Endless hours around a tv set with my friends playing Vice City. All the crazy stuff on MTV. What a time to be alive.
Born in the mid 80's, i lived this era as teen, ok it was in Switzerland, but had Mtv, Wwe somtimes, and all the music, movies, and games from this period. i remember when i saw that a Tony Hawk game was about to be released. the 2 first games of the series, are still absolute classics. I also remember whet the South Park movie was in theaters, my friends and had seen it at least 5 times on the big screen... i could go on and on, but yeah it was a great time to live. Thank you for the time capsule!
having been 16 in '99 , it was such a free & open time, its crazy how things have changed! from growing up in germany: id say the biggest was, that "we" grew up just on the dawn of electronic entertainment.... we had no smartphones until we were like 15 or something & the internet came a handfull years after the "smart" sms&co capable mobile phones. being free of technology growing up was GREAT & as old as it sounds, but "kids these days" dont know how *FREE* it is to spent your childhood/teenage years without 24/7 connectivity! its sooooo liberating to go outside & literally "be gone"!
Another outstanding video brother, you are becoming one of my favorite UA-camrs man. I completely agree with you, the late 90s to mid 2000s was a great and exciting time to be a teen or young adult. None of today's "entertainment" or culture is for guys like us that's why keeping it old school is the best and only option. 🤘🏽🥃
Before the violent video games boom, Sonic The Hedgehog was the first or one of the first edgy video games. He was fast, he was cool and he smirked - Sega's antithesis of the wholesome Mario from Nintendo. Nickelodeon was also another thing that represented the edgy 90s decade. Cartoons like Ren & Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life pushed the envelope. And speaking of cartoons pushing the envelope, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series and X-Men (1992) all did that as well. I think the earliest edgy kids cartoon was probably Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 80s. There's definitely traits of things that would be commonplace in the 90s. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, despite its corniness, was a phenomenon. A live-action superhero show with martial arts fighting scenes, a Saved By The Bell inspired cast and setting, and giant robots fighting giant monsters really helped it stand out from all the cartoons at the time. Parents complained about this show almost as much as they complained about Mortal Kombat and Beavis And Butt-Head.
Great video. The 90s was an amazing time to be a kid. The Wayans brothers started the "spoof" fad with Im gonna git you sucka and dont be a menace before Austin Powers
We grew up on edgy humor, shock TV, extreme sports, and video games that pushed every limit. Yet somehow, we’re now known as the Harry Potter-obsessed, Disney-loving, PC fanbase of The Office. How did millennials, the rebels, become so…safe?
Because that era and group was Generation X, not Millenials. Gen X were late teens and 20s during that time, us Millenials were children or barely teenagers at its peak and end. They grew up and were adults through the era's rise and fall, we were still growing up and had many more formative years of entertainment before we even became adults. Think about it, they were literally called Generation *X* they were categorized as the rebelous, cynical, slacker generation. They were the embodiment of attitude era, consider the people who were at the center of it. They were the 20 and 30 year olds disaffected with society. Millenials were just childish awestruck observers of it.
@@Mr_Jumblestrue true but generation x still is involved in the culture to this day. Kendrick Lamar and j cole are both 80s babies and they didn’t start getting notarized until the early 2010s. I guess they were late to the party. Cole and Kendrick might not be the best examples since they aren’t really edgy but ushered in a new era of counter culture in their own way. Both very talented.
@Mr_Jumbles i dunno if that's entirely true. Films like "The Hangover" came out in 2009, at our adulthood/ late teen point of our lives and was still continuing the same style of humor. It had 3 sequels that did the same.
I always thought the nineties were the edgy decade, but despite living through it - I never realised until recently that the real bad boy was the 2000s
The beginning of the 90s was kind of terrible. It's best exemplified by the awful pop music, especially the club music and New Jack swing and anything Paula Abdul recorded.
I was a teen in the 00s, and even though I was never really into pop culture as it unfolded, I got into older pop culture when I was in my mid 20s. But one thing I definitely agree on is that today, everything just kind of sucks. It's too clean, sleek, and sterile. Nothing is made just for fun any more, just to maximize profit, and minimize quality. Even going to McDonald's is depressing...I mean, subscription fees to turn on simple car features like heated seats, Every soda just making new flavors in sugar free versions, Every year apple releases the same phone with an incremented number, Every TV series of your favorite franchise turns into a moral lecture of how bad you are as a person.... it's rough man.
I think the only things I can stand about modern times are boomer shooter like dusk, Warhammer40k Boltgun, and ion fury because they focus on gameplay and have as little plots as possible since they are trying to recapture the same thing as classic fps games like doom, duke nukem 3d, blood, shadow warrior, quake and turok. I have basically started to give up on most modern entertainment because I got do sick of the hamfisted messaging and moral lectures.
@@kayd9405 What you say is completely true. If you can't have sugar, they are certainly the bee's knees. However; personally I hate the after taste of artificial sweeteners, and I know others that do to. My point is not that it's bad that sugar free drinks exists. But rather that every time they release a new flavor, it's only sugar free. Not only that, but they are actively ruining the ordinary versions of sodas by lowering the amount of sugar, and substituting artificial sweeteners. There are no longer any Pepsi, or Fanta that I can enjoy where I live, because there is now Aspartame in both the classic versions, and the "Zero" versions.
This video essay was absolutely amazing and really brought me back. I remember a lot of this stuff. I know you put in a lot of effort with this so I just want to sincerely thank you for making this. This was genuinely really nice to watch.
So glad I was born in 91, I got to experience all of this first hand. The Tom Green Show helped mold my teenage personality, along with Jacka$$ and Viva La Bam. Lots of streaking took place up into my early 20s. Talking chasing strangers in public streaking and playing beer pong at party's nude. Frank the tank
Just wanted to say thank you for making this video. My cousin passed away at 14 in 2001 from complications due to CF and he was my best friend. He was the epitome of this era with bleach blonde hair and a crass but still refined sense of humor. He was the older brother I never had and I can say he would have loved this reflective time capsule. Not a day goes by that I don't miss him and seeing this brings me back to the days sitting on the couch after school watching TRL with him.
As a 90's kid who's been skateboarding for over 20 years straight, you hit the nail on the head with this entire video!! Bravo! I got the impression that you skated at some point with some of the clips featured in here, but if not I'm even more impressed by this!! lol
Put on your earplugs. That's the number one thing I regret in my life. I now have tinnitus; which means there's a perpetual ringing in my ears 24/7 and there's not much I can do about it. Yes, it's too loud. No, you're not too old. Put on your damned ear plugs.
I've never felt so old as I did the day I saw Tom Araya from Slayer being interviewed by these two little girls and he asks them to speak up because he's hard of hearing.
I grew up during that era. I miss the time between 1995-2011, It was as awesome. Going to the movies, growing up on 80 action movies, Stallone, Schwarzenegger etc. Listening to Eminem and everything on MTV, watching videos on MTV, Beavis and Butt-Head, the Simpsons, playing PS1 and PS2, growing up on MGS1, MGS2, Crash Bandicoot Tomb Raider, Doom, GTA3, Vice City, etc... Watching Jackass, Viva La Bam, Blackadder, Bottom, Mr. Bean, 80 Cartoons, like He-Man, She-Ra, Voltron, Conan. Using Win XP as my main OS for some time, I remember all of this to various extent. Going out was awesome then too, no obnoxious smartphones, or Facebook, people were normal. And Today, EVERYTHING is empty for me, because everything is sanitized. I can always enjoy the nostalgia, though. Excellent documentary, I subscribed!
I'd say 95-01/02 and 05/06-2011 were very distinct and different eras with a few years cross over depending on what specifically.. this video is talking about the latter period for sure. Columbine in April 1999 then 9/11 actively started sustained backlash against the cultural media and norms this video talks about starting the decline and the immediately proceeding tech changes like social media (FB and MySpace came out and were popular in 2004), digital camera use (I used only film in HS in the early 00s and didn't have a digital camera until college in 2005 and we still printed out our pics but no longer we're limited to 24 shots that you didn't know if they even turned out until weeks later and having spent money and smart phone access (I'm HoH and had a Sidekick big in the Desf community, in 04 and by 09 had a Blackberry which compared to my first Nokia brick I paid for when I started working FT as a teen around 2002 it was definitely a BFF haha) and just a shift from text to image and then video based internet use and engagement, changed broader interactions and thus culture and values at the youth level if that makes sense. 2006 or 2007 was the end of any of the stuff discussed being cool and/pr popular.
I miss these days when we knew how to rebel properly and had fun doing it. Nowadays, everything is so heavily censored and homogenised, with UA-cam full of video essays about why everything is problematic and why we aren't allowed to like anything anymore without risking being labelled a Nazi or whatever. The people who are "rebelling" against it are only doing so by being horribly bigoted, racist, homophobic, etc and punching down/attacking minority groups to be edgy, which is just wrong. There are certain attitudes that I am glad we left behind, yes, but back then nobody was personally attacking each other for the sake of fighting the system. You could have actual conversations and respectfully disagree without everything becoming a screaming match involving character assassination and accusations.
I think you’re wrong. It was our generations that became the people opposing us back then. At some point we let the weak get too loud because deep down we were all losers and overall didn’t want people to hurt but we gave so much ground that we gave up reality at the expense of quality of life. Now we have to pretend a man is a woman and possibly let a pedophile next to our daughters at their most vulnerable?? Nah. F that. All this censorship and sounding just like every big corp? Nah. Standing up for people being able to be gay used to be a necessity, now we are bullied by that community and have to plaster rainbows on everything for a whole chunk of the year so that people can helicopter their dicks at parades with children at them. None of it makes sense. Kids these days see that, now we are the soulless parents, and they are rebelling rightfully
Born in 1990...this is a video that covered a topic I didn't know that I wanted and can relate to intimately well. Thanks for this and looking forward to more projects like it.
This is why I have subbed to many yt channels which still produce content resembling that era: snowboarding, surfing, parkour etc.. I dont even have a tv, its just depressing
99-01 were my favorite years of life (I was 12-14 years old). During this time period, I discovered anime (via Pokemon and Toonami), JRPGs (ala Pokémon and Final Fantasy VII), wrestling (Raw is War and Smackdown!), comedy films (Austin Powers and Waterboy), pop punk, the internet (downloading songs from Napster, and finding cheat codes for video games), renting video games and movies for Friday night sleepovers (Smash Bros., Mario Parties, and Mario Tennis all night long), playing manhunt into the wee hours of the morning, collecting/trading Pokemon cards, getting up and watching Saturday morning cartoons, and most importantly, meeting my best friends (who I’ve stayed friends with this entire time).
The pendulum is shifting back right now. I expect a boom of anti-politically correct and anti-establishment wave really soon. The pressure has been building for almost a decade.
I was a teen in the late 90’s and this video is spot on. So much stuff on tv was violent, gross , dangerous and funny as hell. I would have mentioned Carmageddon as an influential game, played it for days back then. And the ending is right: I feel like out generation grew up with so much extreme tv and music that most media that comes out just feels… meh…
Great video. I binged Tom Green just recently and still find the humor just as funny as I did when I was 13 years old. So I don't think it's just about getting older that makes things less enjoyable today.
broooo thank u sm for this video, just the other day, i was talking with my cousins about this era and how much we miss it. this is literally a perfect video and will become a comfort one 💗
As someone born in the late 80s (87) I remember my high school days of kids talking about: Jackass, The Matrix, raunchy comedies, south park, and the trailer park boys. I always referred to my generation as the 'punk' era long hair baggy everything and everyone wearing skateboard shoes but the attitude era fits much better. Surprised you didn't mention this was when the Internet exploded and websites like newgrounds and joe cartoon making their own raunchy attitude era media.
Being a 90s/2000s kid was spiritual redemption for the abuse and stolen youth of the kids, almost a century before in the early 1900s 90s/2000s Kids When we were kings and queens. Doesn’t even seem like it happened
I can't explain and express how much I've absolutely loved watching this video. It's been an amazing stroll down memory lane. At the time of this comment I'm 41yrs old and would really love to be able to relive a great many experiences/memories of my life that occurred during this period in time.
@@dubuyajay9964 The worlds always been 'woke'. Fred Durst was always willing to be as homoerotic as possible, Green Day was always talking about politics, it's always been like that. Its not bad because its 'woke' its bad because people aren't willing to make a stance.
Honestly glad i missed out I mean yeah stuff like music would be amazing to experience but the attitude toward basically everything that makes my identity was mocked to hell and back. I deal with enough shit at it is if not more then I would if i was born in 92 so.
I'm glad American Pie is being given it's flowers here. A lot of people are way too fixated on how "disgusting" it is or how "horribly aged" it has become that they overlook the positives the film has like messages about friendships, family, and love
American Pie did not represent authentic American teenage experiences but rather that of the Jewish producers and their stereotypes of typical suburban Americans
@@trentbateman But the truth is any red-blooded straight guy in high school had dirty, nasty thoughts regarding a chick they found hot in their school...
@@mrconfusion87 yes, but if you want a better version of a comedy dramatizing the lives of high school boys go watch the Inbetweeners. Free on Tubi and from the UK. Far more relatable than American pie and absolutely hilarious to this day z
watching this made me so happy. i was born in ‘03 to two young parents so i grew up with comedy central and mtv. i have such fond memories of watching jackass with my dad and watching him play mortal kombat on our ps2. thank u for making this vid 🙏🙂↔️ pop culture n media was truly in its prime during the early 2000’s
dude, you did a great job describing that era! we had great movies and great music! I grew up in brazil but had access to so much of this through the internet and cable tv.
Culture is like a pendulum, eventually when things get too PC, it will swing back into being edgy...at least that's what I'm hoping because modern media hasn't been entertaining since late 2015
Yep. The change in 2015 was Trump entering the presidential race and the media smears but they overplayed their hand and people are recognizing the mainstream lies, just look at Swet Baby Inc amd the woke game/movie flops. It will take a few years for new material to not have that at all but there is hope.
@@isaacgriffin5690 anyone who says don’t vote in 2024 should never be taken seriously people like you think putting a single gay character in a game automatically ruins the game 😂
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU It doesn't ruin it because we've had plenty of gay characters in a lot of media before, but these days, it does set off red flags that they care more about more "representing" than "entertaining"
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU Because modern writers assume that just by putting a female lead character, or a gay character or a character of color, or the trifecta of a female gay character of color, it will be enough to make up for a lazy or boring story because "they look like you...they like what you like...isn't that enough for you?"
Im not sure if this is true for everyone but youre hitting the nail on the head for my influences growing up in that era. Its like you distilled my experience
12:40 Oh my God Undergrads! Not often I run into anyone else who remembers it; I still rewatch it from time to time. Looking forward to the movie which may finally hopefully happen? As someone who was an impressionable teenager during that era, this video has been such a relateable nostalgia trip for me. Thank you for encapsulating the attitudes of this era so well!
Thank you for lighting up my nostalgia endorphins. What an era to grow up. I know every generation says that but come on, the 90s and 00s were amazing.
I think just reading the phrase, “Thank you for lighting up my nostalgia endorphins” …made something sparkly happen in my own brain. Thanks for that. ✨🧠✨
Even Crash Bandicoot was hittin em with the “suck it” crotch chop. What a time it was to be alive.
Waluigi was doing it too!
@@Pemexdoom WAOWH!!
I still remember his little victory dance in Crash Team Racing haha
Also kevin Nash 😂
Just the style and simplicity of the area was so cool, don't get me started on AOL and how much fun it was being on the computer
This video is insanely perfect. From nirvana, to simpsons, to South Park, to WWE, thank you for acknowledging the pillars of perfection that was the late 90s
Nirvana wasn’t in this era lol
@@MadPaperMarioYeh I think Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and Blink 182 are better examples.
@cccaaaa-el5qf I don't know much about them tbh. I think they were pretty much just an American thing. Certainly not as big as those other bands across the world.
Cobain ended his life in 1993, bro
@ you’re dumb
I miss 2000s media so much,I still collect CDs to feel some kind of connection to it
Best Era for gaming too about 2001 or so to 2012 roughly.
Let me tell you about a little thing called Napster.
@@mattmartin64931996-2014
Me too and dvds! Also old video game stuff like ps2 and sega.
@@mattmartin6493 1996 to 2013(max to 2018)
I was born in 2002, with an older brother from '96. everything he grew up with, I grew up with. I worshipped him, and he showed me all the raunchy attitude, definitely not appropriate for kids stuff. we watched Adam Sandler movies together and played mortal kombat on PS2. we liked the same animes, listened to the same 2000s rock music, we did everything together. he is single handedly responsible for at least half of my cultural background, and most of my interests to this day. we still play every new MMO game, even if we live hundreds of miles apart. man, this was not my gen, but it was SO my gen. my bro didn't hesitate on showing me everything he liked, even if I was a girl, even if I was too young. he's a great brother.
You’re so lucky! As an only child I’d never really wished I had a sibling, but when people ask me hypothetically if I did, what would I want? And I always say an older brother that could’ve shown me stuff and watched out for me. Kind of like how you describe your older brother.
I didn't expect to get the warm fuzzies on a video about abrasive 90s-00s culture, but as a 96 big brother to a 02 little sister, this made me think of all the cool stuff I showed (and still show) my sister growing up.
1996 kid here. Awesome.
Holy shit bro..I can relate 💪🏽
What an awesome story ❤
this makes me wanna cry. I remember watching all the shows, movies, songs, video games you talk about in this video. Those were the days man. late 90s early 2000s i will love forever.
The late 2000s was good, too. Things really started to change and feel different in the 2010s when everything in society suddenly became highly political.
@@robertpalermo7750 Im not sure about the late 2000s, this is ofcourse personal to me. My memory won't allow me to enjoy the time after 2005 as much, maybe because thats my last year at high school or whatever, but the 2000s man, american pie, scary movie, gta san andreas, south park, that was the time of my life lol
@@Legacyofmine I started my freshman year of high school in 2007.With movies like Superbad and Jennifer's body, the late 90's/Early 2000's culture was dying of, but didn't start to officially end till I would say about 2011 or 2012 when I was in college.
@@mankuro but thats your opinion, you started freshman in 2007, which is grade 7? Sorry im from uk lol but like I said and even in the video, he mentions how the attitude era ended by 2007, along with Chris Benoit of wwe. In my opinion someone who was a 12-13 when south park, jackass were popular on tv truly embodied the attitude era with all due respect, thats not to take away from your experiences man.
@@Legacyofmine I was in HS when the first Jackass movie came out! 🤣🤣🤣
Watch this reminds me how sanitized everything is two few decades later. It is like it was a different country.
The attitude era felt like paradise compared to this sanitized joke of a culture that we have nowadays... It does feel like a complete different country that has abandoned everything that I love it about it, honestly I think I rather have a repeat of the moral majority of the 80s instead of the insufferable hyper sensitive psychopaths Progressives that we have nowadays
Sanitized? Lmao have you been on the internet lately? Or out in public? The world is far from “sanitized”
@@TylerRamos-h2o The real world is as unsanitized as its ever been in a long time, but the media is what's sanitized, so it's kinda like we flipped the 90s/00s, back then media was edgy but the world felt more innocent now its the opposite
Considering how much of the population alive back then who are no longer here, and how many now where either not born or small babies - it is.
Because everyone is too damn sensitive nowadays. I’m sure we all know those kinda people if it isn’t you, yourself lol
I used to call this the "X-TREME Era" because that was the most common appellation onto everything. There was the X-Games (short for X-TREME games) the XFL (the X-TREME Football League), the X-Treme X-Men, the Extreme Ghostbusters, and even Xtreme Pringles. Everything was purposefully misspelled and edgy (see stuff like Mortal Kombat), and while this started earlier in the 90's by the late early 00's it was a trend at its peak.
Don't forget "Xplay" on tech tv. And DOA Xtreme beach volleyball.
Makes me think of the guys from Harold and Kumar
“EXTREME CHEDDAR!”
High school for me was fall of 96 through spring of 00. I feel like this era pretty neatly fits into that box. I don't know if it was inherent in me or marketing or just being caught up in the times but the idea of EXTREME really took me. I didn't want anything bland. I didn't want just a taste of something. My soda had to have maximum caffeine and red dye number 72s. My music had to come with maximum advisory. My wrestlers had to have maximum muscles in places I didn't have places. And as that era ended and I grew older it took a very long time to minimize the maximums in my life. Tough lessons had to be taught more times than should be necessary but thankfully today, as a wise middle aged man, I can see what I couldn't then. Even if I still find myself occasionally buying a sour patch kid energy drink.
Generation X and the X-men where at their peak of popularity and coolness, compared with todays most popular superheroes, in the 90s considered the lamest of all superheroes: Avengers
The x had to go. So stupid even back then.
Being born in the early 90s,this late 90s and early 2000s era was my pre-teen childhood. Growing up back then was awesome,wish I could experience it again.
I was born in the year 2000 so I missed being a 90s baby by a year but this video is like compilation of a bunch of the entertainment and artists that I loved when I was growing up. The main thing they all have in common besides being “edgy” is it’s just good quality entertainment and it was an awesome era for sure.
93 here. Nostalgic AF
91 here, glad I experienced almost the whole of the 90s and the early mid 2000s, id do anything to be back in that era lol this era we are all in is depressing tf
I was born in 88, I feel lucky to have had such great role models in my teen years like D-X and CKY
@@ZP1993 1987 here and I'm blessed to have grown up during the 90s and early 2000s. So many memories and nostalgia. Oh how much I miss 90s and early 2000s, it pains me that much.
For me 3 things killed this era:
- The 9/11 tragedy, blinded any sense of dark and edgy humor.
- 2004 Nipplegate at the superbowl, essentially forced the media to tone down everything.
-2008 crisis, lead many grownups of the Attitude era, to drastically change the way they lived in order to survive.
The social media becoming mainstream in 2013, put the final nail in the edgy coffin.
Social media made it come back around. These apps are the darkest public platforms to have ever existed. Genuinely, you can see and read essentially anything.
Limp Bizkit starts to feel like forced market tested edginess for young teens after a short scroll through Twitter right now.
@@lox7923there is no comparing modern social media to the Wild West of the internet in the late 90s through the late 00s. Maybe if you go on the dark web, but everything gets censored/canceled in a heartbeat on anything remotely mainstream nowadays
@@lox7923 they came back… so the people who are against it. That’s what the current “culture war” became reality in the 10’s: Anti-Attitude vs Pro-Attitude. It’s not surprise that nostalgia over the “good years” they had in the 90s-00s have lead many into thinking over those “conspiracies”.
yes , absolutely this. you nailed it with your list and it was a surprise when he didn’t touch on at least one of them.
Agreed.
Also, I'd consider Owen Hart's death in 1999 making the then "WWF" tone back a lot of their more "extreme" content, and then the whole Chris Benoit situation made the at that point and now "WWE" tone back even more. I was never a big wrestling fan, but I had a lot of friends growing up who were, and most of them quit watching after they said that it got neutered (phrasing it that way due to censorship). Moreover, and far more relevant to the decline of the "extreme" era was after the Benoit situation, CTE became focused on way more, not just in wrestling, but in ALL sports, which isn't exactly a bad thing.
I'd also add Dale Earnhardt's death in 2001 that lead to significant safety regulations, and far less risky behavior from other NASCAR drivers.
Another thing that just crossed my mind is how a lot of action movies started incorporating more comedy and drama. Take Rush Hour for example. Yeah it had some good action, but not nearly as much as other Jackie Chan movies (definitely not knocking him for it; getting old is real and it sucks). Another point that can be made regarding films is the advancements in CGI, which lead to less risky stunt requirements. Again, I wouldn't necessarily say any of these changes were a bad thing, but they definitely influenced the zeitgeist.
The last thing that I can think of for now is the ubiquity of the internet, and eventual smart phones becoming not just available but practically necessary. This, and online gaming lead to a generation of people who were less daring and active than the ones that came before them, who did things just because they had nothing else to do.
I will say that for this last point, I'm projecting my own experiences, observations, self reflection, and introspection when it comes to this one in particular. From my experience growing up (born in 1991), as a kid to around 15 or so, I was almost always either outside riding bikes, walking in woods, shooting hoops etc. or I'd be reading books, playing guitar, or socializing "irl." Basically, I just experienced life without following some "influencer" nonsense. (I still don't follow them or anyone *now* for that matter.) I didn't do things because I saw it on the internet, I did them out of spontaneity/impulse, because I wanted to, or because of good old classic peer pressure, and some clout. But my point is that I did things. But once the internet became better (after dial up haha), I got into online gaming, UA-cam, social media, and reading articles. Basically, I became more sedentary and less active - habits that I'm still dealing with to this day as you can probably tell by this extremely long comment. My apologies, but you have to admit I circled that around quite smoothly. I didn't even intend to do that, so I suppose that also attests to the amount of time that I've put into this confounded time vampire that I can't kick completely because I'm addicted.
I have been trying to get back into more active hobbies though, since I don't want work to be the only physical thing that I participate in.
"We all have 2 lives, the second one doesn't begin until we realize we only have 1."
Confucius
Lol dude skipped Green Day and Offspring and went directly to Blink 182
Green Day are bootlicking corporate ass kissing establishment humping fakes.
The exact opposite of Punk.
Wouldn't call Green Day attitude, they are pretty milquetoast / family friendly
He should of said Sum-41 or Alien Ant Farm
@@Night-rage I'd also add that Green Day didn't have as much going on during the era in question. Warning came out during then, but it was *incredibly* safe, even compared to Dookie
One of green days most popular songs is about jakin off@@Night-rage
9/11 is easily the biggest event that triggered the end of the 90s and this type of content.
Yep definitely did
America and definitely media took a conservative turn after that I agree
Originally I included 9/11 as one of the reasons. But when I thought about it, some Attitude content had a bit of a boom after 9/11. Jackass The Movie, Punk'd, Chappelle's Show, etc. We needed the escapism in that moment. But long term, I agree, it ended it. So my conclusion is that 9/11 had a mixed effect. I think Columbine was the biggest blow to edgy content.
In 5000 years when those kids read about the history of the former Anglo American hegemonic empire,
9/11 will be the chapter in which the teacher has to explain how that was the catalyst for the beginning of the end of everything
@@LifeofSlicey1 Tyler Durden said in Fight Club, "We're the middle children of history. We have no great war and no great depression." 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan ended the relative peace we had since the fall of the Soviet Union. Now we were in a real right, and had less reason to start fight clubs or be edgy out of boredom.
I’m so glad someone else thought about this. It’s been a conversation topic for me and my friends for years. I always described the mid 90’s-mid 00’s as when the counter culture became THE culture
We've become our parents; in the 80s growing up, my mom would tell me how awesome the 60s were. Now we're telling our kids how awesome the 90s were.
Now I realise it’s because the following decades were so awful
@@itmatterednotFunny you say that, because my parents said the same about the 90s.
You're becoming old. Just accept it.
@@jamess359 you’re probably right!
Nah. The 90s were better for young people. The rest past decades were absolutely dead. No videogames, no start of internet
@@jamess359 the 80's were clearly the best.. that's why it keeps getting regurgitated in media so much
Back then, everything was raunchy, and everybody got along. Now, everything is sanitized, and nobody gets along.
Yeah porn hub is so sanitised 😅
Nu Metal and Pop Punk.. both of which I still listen to today!
kinda a shame he didnt mention LinkinPark!
it’s over bro
Right there's something about post grunge
a calvin pissing on the word society bumper sticker while the intro riff to Limp Bizkits "break stuff" plays in a blown out boombox plays in the background.
@@BIacklce o captain my captain
coming from a dented up faded paint toyota corolla with no hubcaps and no exhaust pipe.
@@MrWolfSnack I was thinking more in a wood paneled basement that smells like wet carpet
Geez, dude. You smashed every single nostalgia button with this one. I grew up during this exact time frame. I was a young kid riding his skateboard to his friend's house to play N64, listen to KoRn, watch Officespace, and play-wrestle like it's WWF. Then he'd come home to watch the Simpsons. It just so happens that this past month I saw both KoRn and Slipknot live and re-watched the Matrix in theaters for it's 25th anniversary. Sega Dreamcast just turned 25 in NA, too. I guess history does rhyme. Thanks for memories.
The Dreamcast was the Attitude Era console. Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi represent the spirit of that time so well.
@@LifeofSlicey1 Jet Set Radio is my absolute favorite on that console.
Slipknot and Korn was pretty much the only thing he missed. I was waiting the whole video for them to be mentioned but oh well still was a great video
Except he forgot about Howard Stern & the radio “shock jock”
N64 sucks
Attitude Era, South Park, Jackass, American Pie, Pop Punk, Nu Metal, Eminem, PS2, Skating culture. Very interesting times indeed when even kids shows were edgier than a lot of adult shows today.
Let’s bring it back 🎸
@@Merlodica I already brought it back
Star wars
I love how the dream path to “successful nonconformist rebellion” was to buy a skateboard, clothing, shoes, and a camera, and risk grave bodily harm and legal repercussions to hopefully get sponsored!
“Yeah dude, he’s sponsored now.”
“I can barely Ollie, I’ll never get sponsored at this rate”
Remember “getting sponsors?”
Man what a video. Thank you for this trip down memory lane. I got a bit choked up at times reminiscing. I love the line at the end where you said, "I don't feel like nothing now is made for me" We grew up during the best times mayne
The Attitude Era seriously needs to come back, you can't even drop F bombs in some comment without having your account suspended.
Well let's start by being willing to be un-PC and not afraid to be edgy! The more of us act like that, the better
@@veefd5558 I agree, we should bolder than ever!
Fuck😂
😂😂😂 true facts man. It’s ridiculous we need that no fucks to give era back again
This is a very slippery slope though. While I totally agree, now that everything is made so political and deep. If you start throwing slurs around you'll probably only attract people who genuinely hate certain groups and wanna join in on the edgy party. Sadly it's just kind of impossible to walk the tightrope of raunchy and unfiltered versus blatantly offensive and malicious. If you wanna be a free spirit who knows words are only as powerful as you make them, you'll end up having to contantly explain yourself after every sentence. How you don't actually hate any groups/races, it's just low-brow humor, and at that point it isn't worth it.
this was a remarkable nostalgia trip to my childhood, and every time i found myself going "but wait he didnt talk about..." you would already be starting into it. fantastic video!
He barely mentioned the psone console and what an impact it had in the history of video games.
@@Takeru9292He also didn't mention attitude era internet and adobe flash. Sites like Newgrounds would routinely make headlines back then for the craziest things posted on it, along with the Internet being in its "emo & edgy" phase
The late 90’s/early 2000’s are truly the best times of my life, forever. I miss going to the video rental store Friday evening, picking out a movie and a video game for the weekend getting some pizza. It was just different then, simple and fantastic. I’m about to drop a tear I miss it so much 😢
It's like home, I miss it dearly
Same. Making this was fun, but I also felt sad about the fact we'll never have anything like this again.
@@LifeofSlicey1Never say Never
nostalgia sells but nobody’s going to buy it unless its good or convincing enough
bro i straight up raw dogged the entire video, no switching tabs, no multitasking, no checking on phone, just straight up reclined on my chair just kept watching the entire video till the end without interruption cause it was so entertaining from start to finish i didn't need anything else. Good job man.
The Urban dictionary defines 'raw dogging' as '(V.) To perform any act recklessly or without preparation...' hmmm.. you watched a UA-cam video with reckless abandon, without preparation, the entire 26 odd minutes, no stops, no snacks, just took it all in.. Wow - how many TikToks in a row? If not for the oxymoron of 'straight up reclined', you could've been my hero and a role model..just stop smoking it, it's not doing you any good and just guessing, it won't help you leave that trailer park.. bro
@@bluesirva3574holy shit up til the last sentence I was certain you were being ironic and it was actually kind of funny
You raw dogged it. Cool bro 😂😂😂
I miss being a kid sometimes especially when I see the old stuff and realize it’s been 20 years
I always see the Simpsons mentioned as if they were the original deconstruction of the sitcom family, a lowly shoe salesman still can't catch a break. "Did ya miss me, Al?"... "With every bullet so far"
I was thinking the same thing, but I think it has to do with a matter of point-of-view. In "Married with Children", Al's character is the main catalyst of everything happening. Being as he was a 30/40 year-old man, he didn't connect with the audience in the same way as it was a little more difficult to see yourself as an old man, when you were in fact a teen. Bud and Kelly's characters were very much supporting cast, even though they did have their time in the spotlight.
With "The Simpsons", there was an angsty male youth stand-in with Bart Simpson, who was the show's protagonist for arguably all of the '90s. It was easier for young men to see themselves in the character. Homer was the other protagonist, but somehow he didn't feel as old as Al Bundy, which still made him somewhat relatable. At least, that's how I felt about it. Loved both shows.
The Fox network in general was a big influence on this time.
@@ianstratton Facts. Comedy Central and MTV played their parts, but Fox was far and away one of the biggest drivers of that time.
Married with Children is my favorite sitcoms of all time
They all owe something to the old Norman Lear sitcoms which were edgy and proactive but made it ok by having a heartwarming lesson at the end.
Kids today really don’t know how awesome it was to be a kid from 97-07
Yeah man 😢
Pepperridge farm remembers
Early 90s was even better.
We don't want to be millennials
@@wisteriiiiaa the who gen z style and music says otherwise
Don't forget that HBO was in it's golden age at this point.
The Sopranos was arguably the biggest omission here.
@@thejimfeudshow even HBO standup specials were better back then wtf happened?
@@jumpupdown2556 he never had the makings of a varsity athlete
@@jennetics00Netflix stole HBO’s thunder for stand up specials.
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As good the Sopranos is; I don’t believe it fits here with the late 90’s early 2000’s edgy punk frat boy comedy culture mentality that was present in the 2000’s. In fact I think that helped it stand out and age so well to many.
Born in 1989, this video is spot on and need to be showed to everyone
Same here. What a fun time to come of age.
I had a pretty shitty upbringing but been born in the 90's and brought up in this era made things bearable and ive got hella nostalgia for the era. I feel sorry for kids growing up these days thatll never get to experience it!
We didn’t know how good we had it. Everything is cyclical tho, i’m sure something similar will eventually return.
I hope so! I think the prevalence of smartphones and social media will make it tough for a new attitude era to go as far as this one did though.
I hope
@@LifeofSlicey1 oh definitely, don’t think it will match the insanity of this era. But i sense even in the more progressive gen z types, that they are sick of the corporate blandness.
Almost every entertainment industry is in the spot WWE was in the 90s, they either gotta try going the crazy route or burn down in mediocrity.
@@petarrakoc1416 As conservatives becomes the ones that actually cancel comedy like they did with George Carlin, the youth would bouch back with culture revolution, but better than Y2K, like it's not edgy to me, it's cosplaying edgyness, real edgy is atheist anarchism
@Tacom4ster atheist anarchist are the fakest anti edge people ever, it's all spite and no real culture. Even more pathetic is that the 2000s are over, no one(not even atheist) cares about atheism anymore, that's why we're seeing the rise of lain cults and rock worship
Everyone over 34 misses those days but thankfully we can still relive those days here on the internet and its great to see how many of us older millennials crave nostalgia. For me personally my best years were from 1998-2011.
Us 1980s babies ftw! 😎🤘🍻
I'm 32, was born in 1992. I'm a millennial too!
91/92 born felt that era too
Yep, i am 35 in 3 days and I sure do miss it.
@@Takeru9292I came here to say this exact thing…
lol, thank you.
I used to try to pretend I wasn’t a millennial, I kind of refused to acknowledge it back when all of American society loved to talk sh*t about how entitled and lazy we all were… with our avocado toast and whatnot…but now that we’ve (mostly) all grown out of that phase where everything “we” (as a generation) did was useless and we were easy targets…I’m glad to be a millennial.
& yeah, this video was like a really good dream to me.
Man this is great! I’ve never seen someone address the Y2K era from this point of view. Thumbs up me!
Love your videos. The mish-mash of X-Men, Nirvana, Jerry Springer, Eminem, pro wrestling, Jackass, Adam Sandler, Grand Theft Auto III, all things I grew up with and still love.
The Deadpool movies feel like they bring that spirit back a bit. Stuff now can be dark like The Batman or Grotesquerie but misses that fun, whimsical attitude the 90s had. Things are so legit frightening a CEO gets you know in NYC (and I get why) and everyone online cheers him on. For all the sanitized content now, society is actually legit grisly.
Also someone else finally recognizes and appreciates Undergrads! Super underrated and wry show that reflected some of college life.
We didn’t know how good we had it.
The uncool theater kids took over in the late 2000s and sanitized almost everything
It was avenue Q being cool
Yep, this started in the tech boom/grunge era, and led to their domination in the facebook era.
@@fu102 they didn't dominate anything except getting Biden elected - the actual most racist living politician in America
The peak of the Uncool Theater Kids Era has to be Kate McKinnon on SNL, dissing the first Todd Phillips Joker movie... by using jazz hands. Thank God for the currently-happening fall of hollywood and its stars.
@thefallenfaith1986 yup. We are currently at the very beginning of the end of the uncool theater kids era before our bleary eyes.
What sucks is growing up in that type of society with everything being extreme and having attitude to then realizing society shifting to whatever it is now (political and divisive).
because when everything is radically "put something here" there's a "cooldown" and opposite backlash after. so there is nothing surprising that everything soft, fragile now (actually it's even more agressive)
This ^^
I think we will see a similar renaissance of this once people finally get sick of the wokeness and having to walk on egg shells everywhere
The rulers of this world does NOT want people united and with attitude again.
Like it wasn’t before
This era was like alternate timeline where we don't have censorship and never afraid to offensive.
Compare to now that we lived in society.
Maybe because people started to became too xtreme for society. Don’t forget boomers wanted to censor everything that went against their Christian beliefs and values. Gen x are starting to push their parents agenda because now they’re adults and have “grown up” honestly as a millennial, some of the “xtreme” era was cringy and trailer trash. Most millennials are starting to grow up and have families, subconsciously we’re starting to/have mature and want to lead by example. We’re not living ours life based on religion (seems to scare old generation)
It can’t be an alternate timeline if it happened
Look up the 9/11 ClearChannel memorandum…
The basement-dwelling weeb is mad he can't say the n word.
What
Fantastic video man. Never seen someone put the feeling of late 90s/early 00’s so well together.
This was my era and I unequivocally LOVED all this shit!! But your reflections and my hindsight have summarised a big part of why I’ve always felt so marginalised as a woman, in this cultural era and beyond. Literally none of it was intended to include or uplift women: we were always the token, the butt of the joke, the object of whatever. And it’s sad to think that I’ve internalised and carried that feeling throughout so much of my adult life. Despite all this media being entertaining, rebellious and hilarious, I can’t help but retrospectively wish that I’d been included in a more positive way. Great video! 🫶
Thank you for your perspective. Looking back on it, I think there was also a more female-centric side that I didn't touch on in this video. It's kind of its own thing, but I think it was there. Stuff like Daria, Dawson's Creek, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, She's All That, Buffy, Clueless, Avril Lavigne, and Mean Girls towards the end. I hope that helps a little.
Being 41, this era was some of the best times ever
I'm 40, and I will say it was one of the worst times for me. I was bullied because during that time the media and society itself encouraged bullying.
Yup, bullying was extremely "romanticized" in late 80's and 90's TV/movies.
@@ecogreco It's not like bullying doesn't exist these days. In fact it's much worse thanks to social media and how little empathy people have nowadays.
*Do you hate younger people?*
@@Knight_647 not at all, these times are fun too, just not the same
i love that you made this video and put everything in it that needed to be in. from malcolm in the middle, to american pie; tom green, jackass, south park.. the only thing truly missing was jay and silent bob
Clerks was briefly shows as a representation of all of Kevin Smith's shared universe.
@@lunaitc shoot I’m dumb, missed that. Thanks!
As for your parting thought about today’s entertainment sucking: I think the root problem is that modern shows/movies need to appeal to everyone. They’ve gotten so expensive to make that they need to appeal to every demographic possible-and not just in the United States. They’ve got to get past censors in China, too. The result is bland, made by committee, and designed to offend nobody. There are movies that manage to be decent despite this, e.g. the Mission Impossible series comes to mind.
Meanwhile, I think the “edge” that big-budget studios have lost is now found on UA-cam. Whatever strikes your fancy, no matter how small the niche, there’s a dozen channels dedicated to it. UA-cam is currently speed-running all the successes-and mistakes-that TV has made over the last 100-ish years, trying to figure out how to make things work. On UA-cam we have videos with obnoxious corporate sponsorships, like TV used to have in the 1950’s. But we also have passion projects that the creator puts out there just for the love of the content, e.g. your videos.
Anyway, I loved this one! I largely missed this era of TV because I simply didn’t have one from 1989 to 2000. This was a fascinating view of shows I heard about but never actually saw.
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you! I agree. Disney/Marvel perfected the formula of appealing to everyone, but people are catching on. If they make it too obvious, people will jump ship. Like the Rings of Power failing. But if they crap on their audience too much, like Joker 2, it also spells disaster.
I think the only thing this video is missing is one more explanation for why this style ended: it wasn't funny anymore.
After half a decade of the same jokes, what starts as "edgy" just becomes stale and a bit depressing. I grew up during this time and by 2007, almost *anything* even remotely deep or intellectual felt like fresh air.
I think that's why shows like The Office and Parks & Recreation were so well received. Not saying that they were "deep" but they showed a comedy style that didn't come off as edgy but still could make you laugh.
That's completely on you. The attitude era had great films, music, and shows that were far more intellectual than anything out there today. That you failed to find it is on you.
@josephfigueroa3527 I think there is room for both.
@@KaiDecadence I agree.
Perhaps not that things weren't funny any more, but tastes change. People mature. Priorities shift as we get older. We gain knowledge and wisdom. Nothing wrong with that, that's life.
The memories (good and bad) will always be there.
Though it started in 1987, I feel like Married with Children should be part of this conversation too. It paved the way for shows like The Simpsons
Married with Children to me, was like a reactionary response to all of the Reagan-era family sitcoms (like The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Growing Pains, etc.) that were around at the time. Married with Children placed itself as being something akin to a dark, deconstructive satire to those types of shows.
You nailed it! I fully agree!
And with drama you had X-Files which also redefined what tv could be.
Fox really tried to stand out
more accurately the flintstones paved the way for the simpsons
As I’m watching this, MWC was the first thing that came to mind that started it all, as well as GNR, thrash metal and gangster rap.
Born in 1990. So happy I got to experience all of this in real time. Renting American Pie and Euro Trip from BlockBuster. Playing “Rollin” a billion times. Endless hours around a tv set with my friends playing Vice City. All the crazy stuff on MTV. What a time to be alive.
Born in 91, and also lived in AZ while I did all that too! lol
Hell yeah dude. Was born in 90 myself! So many amazing memories.
Born in the mid 80's, i lived this era as teen, ok it was in Switzerland, but had Mtv, Wwe somtimes, and all the music, movies, and games from this period. i remember when i saw that a Tony Hawk game was about to be released. the 2 first games of the series, are still absolute classics. I also remember whet the South Park movie was in theaters, my friends and had seen it at least 5 times on the big screen... i could go on and on, but yeah it was a great time to live. Thank you for the time capsule!
Born 94' and turning 30 soon, thanks for that wonderful gift of a recap of my childhood/youth
30 is still young
having been 16 in '99 , it was such a free & open time, its crazy how things have changed!
from growing up in germany: id say the biggest was, that "we" grew up just on the dawn of electronic entertainment.... we had no smartphones until we were like 15 or something & the internet came a handfull years after the "smart" sms&co capable mobile phones. being free of technology growing up was GREAT & as old as it sounds, but "kids these days" dont know how *FREE* it is to spent your childhood/teenage years without 24/7 connectivity! its sooooo liberating to go outside & literally "be gone"!
Man I miss when things were fun...
Another outstanding video brother, you are becoming one of my favorite UA-camrs man. I completely agree with you, the late 90s to mid 2000s was a great and exciting time to be a teen or young adult. None of today's "entertainment" or culture is for guys like us that's why keeping it old school is the best and only option. 🤘🏽🥃
I appreciate that man. That's why I keep it old school.
Before the violent video games boom, Sonic The Hedgehog was the first or one of the first edgy video games. He was fast, he was cool and he smirked - Sega's antithesis of the wholesome Mario from Nintendo.
Nickelodeon was also another thing that represented the edgy 90s decade. Cartoons like Ren & Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life pushed the envelope. And speaking of cartoons pushing the envelope, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series and X-Men (1992) all did that as well.
I think the earliest edgy kids cartoon was probably Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 80s. There's definitely traits of things that would be commonplace in the 90s.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, despite its corniness, was a phenomenon. A live-action superhero show with martial arts fighting scenes, a Saved By The Bell inspired cast and setting, and giant robots fighting giant monsters really helped it stand out from all the cartoons at the time. Parents complained about this show almost as much as they complained about Mortal Kombat and Beavis And Butt-Head.
This was really well done. Great upload sir
Great video. The 90s was an amazing time to be a kid. The Wayans brothers started the "spoof" fad with Im gonna git you sucka and dont be a menace before Austin Powers
We grew up on edgy humor, shock TV, extreme sports, and video games that pushed every limit. Yet somehow, we’re now known as the Harry Potter-obsessed, Disney-loving, PC fanbase of The Office. How did millennials, the rebels, become so…safe?
Because that era and group was Generation X, not Millenials.
Gen X were late teens and 20s during that time, us Millenials were children or barely teenagers at its peak and end.
They grew up and were adults through the era's rise and fall, we were still growing up and had many more formative years of entertainment before we even became adults.
Think about it, they were literally called Generation *X* they were categorized as the rebelous, cynical, slacker generation.
They were the embodiment of attitude era, consider the people who were at the center of it. They were the 20 and 30 year olds disaffected with society.
Millenials were just childish awestruck observers of it.
@@Mr_Jumblestrue true but generation x still is involved in the culture to this day. Kendrick Lamar and j cole are both 80s babies and they didn’t start getting notarized until the early 2010s. I guess they were late to the party. Cole and Kendrick might not be the best examples since they aren’t really edgy but ushered in a new era of counter culture in their own way. Both very talented.
It’s a Psy-Op.
They FEAR us.
@@Mr_JumblesI remember GenX bragging about how FAKE Wrestling was while watching music videos from the 80’s on a dying MTV.
Fuck GenX!!!
@Mr_Jumbles i dunno if that's entirely true. Films like "The Hangover" came out in 2009, at our adulthood/ late teen point of our lives and was still continuing the same style of humor. It had 3 sequels that did the same.
I always thought the nineties were the edgy decade, but despite living through it - I never realised until recently that the real bad boy was the 2000s
Yeah the comedy films were definitely more edgy in the 2000s than comedies in the 90s
@@FreshyMandela Horror movies got super bloody as well
@@MoltenPlastic yep oddly the 80s and 2000s Horror movies were way more bloody than the 90s Horror movies
The 90s walked so the 00s could drunkenly stumble.
The beginning of the 90s was kind of terrible. It's best exemplified by the awful pop music, especially the club music and New Jack swing and anything Paula Abdul recorded.
I was a teen in the 00s, and even though I was never really into pop culture as it unfolded, I got into older pop culture when I was in my mid 20s. But one thing I definitely agree on is that today, everything just kind of sucks. It's too clean, sleek, and sterile. Nothing is made just for fun any more, just to maximize profit, and minimize quality. Even going to McDonald's is depressing...I mean, subscription fees to turn on simple car features like heated seats, Every soda just making new flavors in sugar free versions, Every year apple releases the same phone with an incremented number, Every TV series of your favorite franchise turns into a moral lecture of how bad you are as a person.... it's rough man.
I think the only things I can stand about modern times are boomer shooter like dusk, Warhammer40k Boltgun, and ion fury because they focus on gameplay and have as little plots as possible since they are trying to recapture the same thing as classic fps games like doom, duke nukem 3d, blood, shadow warrior, quake and turok. I have basically started to give up on most modern entertainment because I got do sick of the hamfisted messaging and moral lectures.
What's wrong with sugar free? Lol I prefer them personally plus it can be good for people with certain medical needs who can't have actual sugar
@@kayd9405 What you say is completely true. If you can't have sugar, they are certainly the bee's knees. However; personally I hate the after taste of artificial sweeteners, and I know others that do to.
My point is not that it's bad that sugar free drinks exists. But rather that every time they release a new flavor, it's only sugar free. Not only that, but they are actively ruining the ordinary versions of sodas by lowering the amount of sugar, and substituting artificial sweeteners. There are no longer any Pepsi, or Fanta that I can enjoy where I live, because there is now Aspartame in both the classic versions, and the "Zero" versions.
@@kayd9405 I can't have sugar free stuff. Gives me headaches.
@@soulextracterless sugar is good though.
I hope the 2030s return back to this attitude, I think we’re all getting sick of this PC culture that’s plagued the mid 2010-2020s
Around the time Gen Alpha become the new target audience of youth culture!
Insane doc. Great video!
This video essay was absolutely amazing and really brought me back. I remember a lot of this stuff. I know you put in a lot of effort with this so I just want to sincerely thank you for making this. This was genuinely really nice to watch.
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
So glad I was born in 91, I got to experience all of this first hand. The Tom Green Show helped mold my teenage personality, along with Jacka$$ and Viva La Bam. Lots of streaking took place up into my early 20s. Talking chasing strangers in public streaking and playing beer pong at party's nude. Frank the tank
Ironic how in this era, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the most sincere filmmaking masterpiece of all, was filmed and released.
Until Peter Jackson did it, people said LOTR "could NOT be done on film"!
Matrix trilogy, Harry Potter, Spiderman trilogy, Shrek and unironically the Fast and the Furious.
i wish you had touched on the attitude era being reflected in streetwear and high fashion, i feel like that really does define a lot of the era aswell
Just wanted to say thank you for making this video. My cousin passed away at 14 in 2001 from complications due to CF and he was my best friend. He was the epitome of this era with bleach blonde hair and a crass but still refined sense of humor. He was the older brother I never had and I can say he would have loved this reflective time capsule. Not a day goes by that I don't miss him and seeing this brings me back to the days sitting on the couch after school watching TRL with him.
As a 90's kid who's been skateboarding for over 20 years straight, you hit the nail on the head with this entire video!! Bravo! I got the impression that you skated at some point with some of the clips featured in here, but if not I'm even more impressed by this!! lol
RIP to the hearing of all metalheads, which at this rate, is catching up to them.
Put on your earplugs. That's the number one thing I regret in my life. I now have tinnitus; which means there's a perpetual ringing in my ears 24/7 and there's not much I can do about it. Yes, it's too loud. No, you're not too old. Put on your damned ear plugs.
100, and getting jobs around loud engines later on just compounds it😅@@SuperSpacebum
WHAT!?!?!?
Haha, but yeah, as I sit writing this comment, tinnitus ringing away in my early 30's. This is absolutely correct lol
I've never felt so old as I did the day I saw Tom Araya from Slayer being interviewed by these two little girls and he asks them to speak up because he's hard of hearing.
What?
The American Pie trilogy actually has a lot of heart that a lot of people overlook about growing up, brotherhood, family
Because Superbad came out and did all of that way better haha
@@josh043p6 Superbad was a more concise version of that! I was in college when it hit the big screen...
It was degenerate and mocking of goy culture
when a gen z makes a book report on your childhood from only 20 years ago lol
Calling Steve-O a "chill stoner dude" is so funny 😂 THAT MF WAS SKIING
I grew up during that era. I miss the time between 1995-2011, It was as awesome. Going to the movies, growing up on 80 action movies, Stallone, Schwarzenegger etc. Listening to Eminem and everything on MTV, watching videos on MTV, Beavis and Butt-Head, the Simpsons, playing PS1 and PS2, growing up on MGS1, MGS2, Crash Bandicoot Tomb Raider, Doom, GTA3, Vice City, etc... Watching Jackass, Viva La Bam, Blackadder, Bottom, Mr. Bean, 80 Cartoons, like He-Man, She-Ra, Voltron, Conan. Using Win XP as my main OS for some time, I remember all of this to various extent. Going out was awesome then too, no obnoxious smartphones, or Facebook, people were normal. And Today, EVERYTHING is empty for me, because everything is sanitized. I can always enjoy the nostalgia, though. Excellent documentary, I subscribed!
I'd say 95-01/02 and 05/06-2011 were very distinct and different eras with a few years cross over depending on what specifically.. this video is talking about the latter period for sure. Columbine in April 1999 then 9/11 actively started sustained backlash against the cultural media and norms this video talks about starting the decline and the immediately proceeding tech changes like social media (FB and MySpace came out and were popular in 2004), digital camera use (I used only film in HS in the early 00s and didn't have a digital camera until college in 2005 and we still printed out our pics but no longer we're limited to 24 shots that you didn't know if they even turned out until weeks later and having spent money and smart phone access (I'm HoH and had a Sidekick big in the Desf community, in 04 and by 09 had a Blackberry which compared to my first Nokia brick I paid for when I started working FT as a teen around 2002 it was definitely a BFF haha) and just a shift from text to image and then video based internet use and engagement, changed broader interactions and thus culture and values at the youth level if that makes sense. 2006 or 2007 was the end of any of the stuff discussed being cool and/pr popular.
I miss these days when we knew how to rebel properly and had fun doing it. Nowadays, everything is so heavily censored and homogenised, with UA-cam full of video essays about why everything is problematic and why we aren't allowed to like anything anymore without risking being labelled a Nazi or whatever. The people who are "rebelling" against it are only doing so by being horribly bigoted, racist, homophobic, etc and punching down/attacking minority groups to be edgy, which is just wrong. There are certain attitudes that I am glad we left behind, yes, but back then nobody was personally attacking each other for the sake of fighting the system. You could have actual conversations and respectfully disagree without everything becoming a screaming match involving character assassination and accusations.
Many of the icons of this Attitude era, ended up being accused, arrested, or even dead.
Good recent example is Vince fall from grace with the WWE.
I think you’re wrong. It was our generations that became the people opposing us back then. At some point we let the weak get too loud because deep down we were all losers and overall didn’t want people to hurt but we gave so much ground that we gave up reality at the expense of quality of life. Now we have to pretend a man is a woman and possibly let a pedophile next to our daughters at their most vulnerable?? Nah. F that. All this censorship and sounding just like every big corp? Nah. Standing up for people being able to be gay used to be a necessity, now we are bullied by that community and have to plaster rainbows on everything for a whole chunk of the year so that people can helicopter their dicks at parades with children at them. None of it makes sense. Kids these days see that, now we are the soulless parents, and they are rebelling rightfully
Tony Hawk's pro skater, Blink 182, Jackass, Limp Bizkit. I basically got a nostalgia kick, googled that sentence, and it led me here. lol
Born in 1990...this is a video that covered a topic I didn't know that I wanted and can relate to intimately well. Thanks for this and looking forward to more projects like it.
This is why I have subbed to many yt channels which still produce content resembling that era: snowboarding, surfing, parkour etc.. I dont even have a tv, its just depressing
99-01 were my favorite years of life (I was 12-14 years old). During this time period, I discovered anime (via Pokemon and Toonami), JRPGs (ala Pokémon and Final Fantasy VII), wrestling (Raw is War and Smackdown!), comedy films (Austin Powers and Waterboy), pop punk, the internet (downloading songs from Napster, and finding cheat codes for video games), renting video games and movies for Friday night sleepovers (Smash Bros., Mario Parties, and Mario Tennis all night long), playing manhunt into the wee hours of the morning, collecting/trading Pokemon cards, getting up and watching Saturday morning cartoons, and most importantly, meeting my best friends (who I’ve stayed friends with this entire time).
Great video, it’s all cyclical this current era is about to end. Who knows we might get another attitude era or something similar.
Maybe when the Attitude Era Kids are in power, that is when that comes back with a vengeance! 🤣🤣🤣
The pendulum is shifting back right now. I expect a boom of anti-politically correct and anti-establishment wave really soon. The pressure has been building for almost a decade.
When it happens, I'll be ready.
This was my childhood. I was 8 years old watching 1998 King of The Ring. Attitude Era Kids, we were a different breed of child 🫡
I loved the chaos of the attitude era while I was living in it as a high schooler.
..this is so well done fantastic upload ..was there from the start ..from wwe to cky to need for speed underground ..those were the days 😢
I was a teen in the late 90’s and this video is spot on. So much stuff on tv was violent, gross , dangerous and funny as hell. I would have mentioned Carmageddon as an influential game, played it for days back then. And the ending is right: I feel like out generation grew up with so much extreme tv and music that most media that comes out just feels… meh…
My favorite childhood video game was Rampage World Tour! 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrconfusion87 I'd like to mention Redneck Rampage too
Man that era is just so good. So nostalgic. Life was just fun. Entertainment was irreverent and actually entertaining. Take me back.
Yep
Great video. I binged Tom Green just recently and still find the humor just as funny as I did when I was 13 years old. So I don't think it's just about getting older that makes things less enjoyable today.
You might enjoy binging Kenny vs. Spenny.
I loved his prank calls
He literally influenced modern internet humour
@@IbnRushd-mv3fp Alongside anime (where plenty of dearly-beloved memes came up from)...
broooo thank u sm for this video, just the other day, i was talking with my cousins about this era and how much we miss it. this is literally a perfect video and will become a comfort one 💗
The memories are flooding in !!!!!
THANK YOU 🖤
As someone born in the late 80s (87) I remember my high school days of kids talking about: Jackass, The Matrix, raunchy comedies, south park, and the trailer park boys. I always referred to my generation as the 'punk' era long hair baggy everything and everyone wearing skateboard shoes but the attitude era fits much better. Surprised you didn't mention this was when the Internet exploded and websites like newgrounds and joe cartoon making their own raunchy attitude era media.
STICK DEATH! 🤣🤣🤣
Being a 90s/2000s kid was spiritual redemption for the abuse and stolen youth of the kids, almost a century before in the early 1900s
90s/2000s Kids When we were kings and queens.
Doesn’t even seem like it happened
Born in 94 - the era I grew up in was freaking great! No pressure and absolute fun!
I can't explain and express how much I've absolutely loved watching this video. It's been an amazing stroll down memory lane. At the time of this comment I'm 41yrs old and would really love to be able to relive a great many experiences/memories of my life that occurred during this period in time.
Absolutely perfect. Insanely close to my complete set of feelings of nostalgia in one video. Thanks for that.
Now its extremely sanitized & corporate with "safe-edgy" stuff here & there, this is a sadly gonna be remembered as the gen z era of things, lame af.
The age of woke 💩.
@@dubuyajay9964 everything I didn’t like is woke
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU
“chuds” living In you’re head rent free?
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU
True that
@@dubuyajay9964 The worlds always been 'woke'. Fred Durst was always willing to be as homoerotic as possible, Green Day was always talking about politics, it's always been like that. Its not bad because its 'woke' its bad because people aren't willing to make a stance.
i’m jealous how gritty the kids of that era had it as someone born in 04 i could never experience this era
It wasn't all wine and roses.
Honestly glad i missed out I mean yeah stuff like music would be amazing to experience but the attitude toward basically everything that makes my identity was mocked to hell and back. I deal with enough shit at it is if not more then I would if i was born in 92 so.
Sorry ya missed it homie! Wit any luck we all will experience tha same shizz once again!
@@billhacks Compared to today that shizz was exactly that kid!
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU You was never truly livin then kid. Developing tough skin was tha goal back then!
I'm glad American Pie is being given it's flowers here. A lot of people are way too fixated on how "disgusting" it is or how "horribly aged" it has become that they overlook the positives the film has like messages about friendships, family, and love
American Pie did not represent authentic American teenage experiences but rather that of the Jewish producers and their stereotypes of typical suburban Americans
@@trentbateman But the truth is any red-blooded straight guy in high school had dirty, nasty thoughts regarding a chick they found hot in their school...
@@mrconfusion87 yes, but if you want a better version of a comedy dramatizing the lives of high school boys go watch the Inbetweeners. Free on Tubi and from the UK. Far more relatable than American pie and absolutely hilarious to this day z
@@trentbatemanblaming Jewish people. classic
watching this made me so happy. i was born in ‘03 to two young parents so i grew up with comedy central and mtv. i have such fond memories of watching jackass with my dad and watching him play mortal kombat on our ps2. thank u for making this vid 🙏🙂↔️ pop culture n media was truly in its prime during the early 2000’s
dude, you did a great job describing that era! we had great movies and great music! I grew up in brazil but had access to so much of this through the internet and cable tv.
Culture is like a pendulum, eventually when things get too PC, it will swing back into being edgy...at least that's what I'm hoping because modern media hasn't been entertaining since late 2015
Yep. The change in 2015 was Trump entering the presidential race and the media smears but they overplayed their hand and people are recognizing the mainstream lies, just look at Swet Baby Inc amd the woke game/movie flops. It will take a few years for new material to not have that at all but there is hope.
@@isaacgriffin5690 anyone who says don’t vote in 2024 should never be taken seriously people like you think putting a single gay character in a game automatically ruins the game 😂
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU It doesn't ruin it because we've had plenty of gay characters in a lot of media before, but these days, it does set off red flags that they care more about more "representing" than "entertaining"
@@nanjobissness4360 how
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU Because modern writers assume that just by putting a female lead character, or a gay character or a character of color, or the trifecta of a female gay character of color, it will be enough to make up for a lazy or boring story because "they look like you...they like what you like...isn't that enough for you?"
"thank you so much for saying what needs to be said" -it's still real to me guy
Society peaked here
That’s just a lie lol
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU it objectively did
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU your a fan of gerorge carlin how are you not ok with edgy shit
@@Johnmrobinson-vb5vd I’m sorry you’re just wrong
@@Johnmrobinson-vb5vd because he punched up not down he didn’t mock minorities.
Im not sure if this is true for everyone but youre hitting the nail on the head for my influences growing up in that era. Its like you distilled my experience
12:40 Oh my God Undergrads! Not often I run into anyone else who remembers it; I still rewatch it from time to time. Looking forward to the movie which may finally hopefully happen?
As someone who was an impressionable teenager during that era, this video has been such a relateable nostalgia trip for me. Thank you for encapsulating the attitudes of this era so well!
Thank you for lighting up my nostalgia endorphins. What an era to grow up. I know every generation says that but come on, the 90s and 00s were amazing.
I think just reading the phrase, “Thank you for lighting up my nostalgia endorphins”
…made something sparkly happen in my own brain.
Thanks for that.
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