NEON PALM MALL (Vaporwave Mix + Video) 

This is such a wholesome comment to me.

"Kids, go stand by the fountain again. Wave! Wave!"

“It’s for posterity!”

Yah that was my dad. I'm no better with my camera, and my smart phone taking pictures and video of my kids lol.

My dad does that too

You sir, have triggered powerful memories. ❤👍

Yes and the smell of new leather was everywhere.

@@aintplayinggames7086 It's so weird how smell can trigger nostalgia. The scent of new products in the mall is one of my strongest memories. 👍

@@aintplayinggames7086 THE MEMORIES!

@@christophermichael5764 The mall was a safe haven for me when I was poor. It was like the most beautiful neighborhood, safe, clean, cool in summer and served the best food as well as I met people from all over the world that I would have not met anywhere else.

It was, we gone backwards

In some ways, quality of life was much better back then. We have become unbalanced due to the technological freedom we are currently experiencing. Too much distraction.

@@peteallyn412 it’s our own attitudes, society has gone soft and become ultra hypocritical, technologically we have advanced but internally we have collectively regressed because too many of Generation X and Millennials have forgotten how to maintain the same mentality we generally genuinely had in the 80s 90s and early 2000s. I try to always keep that perspective and still view things view my 1999-2002 era lens.

​@@stanleylipka7657 Lil B - the Age of Information. 2011

​@@stanleylipka7657 kind of funny because that song has a type Vapor beat too

Brilliant

The mall is a microcosm of America. It was a collection of ideals, each store representing a value or interest of the people living at the time, which was the inward reflection of the entire country. Now that the internet is bigger than America, America is now the inward reflection as opposed to being the outward reflection like it was in the 80s or 90s. And so everything that does not reflect the internet is disappearing or how you've stated, separate embodiments not being able to coexist.

Absolutely brilliant.

The mall had porn stores? Spencers doesn't count.

when I see these types of videos of so many people walking enjoying life I get a feeling of love and togetherness because if it wasn't for people these places would seem bland but when you add people to it you get a sensation of something amazing happening in the air. It is like somewhere someplace there is something amazing going on , a sense of euphoria. With people love is amazing.

Even the thought makes me happy

Obvs never gonna happen because it’s not financially beneficial for anyone to make. But maybe one day you could create your own dream

@@jackbudgen8858 it can be tho, aesthetic is an important part of any public place. You dont go to hang out in a place you consider boring to watch, right? That could increase profits

If I ever get rich, imma buy a dead mall and do just that.

i will

Underrated comment.

This comment wins the internet.

Synthwave retrowave chillwave vaporwave anything with :wave: at the end

Comment - so good.

💀

As for a young adult just exiting childhood, this is very true. I don't go a day without thinking of my old life, house, school, friends, games, and overall simpler times.

I mean, this era totally sucks, so I'm cool with the experiences

💜

In 2040 you might be nostalgic for 2020, who knows

@@noradosmith the only thing 2020 is going to inspire in people is post traumatic stress.

Same

Holy shit you that's why i love the vaporwave aesthetic because it's all we took for granted fr

What is life...

Deep. And true. We didn’t see it coming, we only saw the birth of everything. And it was just beautiful.

Especially after the cold war ended. The 90s truly seem like a very optimistic time, an innovative time.

Yes. I miss that optimism more than anything else about the past. In some ways it feels like a completely different world now.

Man, you're insane

This actually gave me a ping of sadness. Before covid there was an optimism similar to before 9/11.

“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.” ― Andy Bernard

You got that right!

I’m very aware

I knew then but not as much as I know now.

So true man sooo true

Wow you just reminded my old soul of something...im 22 years old🤦🏽‍♂️always felt like i been here before. I just know the air felt different back then...my soul knows it..its so weird. All my life I felt like a old soul trapped in the 21st century...I dont want to reincarnate nomore this is my last rodeo and im living it wisley lol😅💯

exactly, slower... everyone was more present, and more human. Consciously I had forgot about all of it, deep down always feeling like somethings missing, and when I look at videos like this it all comes back to me like a ton of bricks. All the smells, the sights, the thoughts and feelings I had of wonder. That feeling that everything is alright... Goddam I miss that feeling so much. Just the feeling that everything is OK. Some people tell me it's just like it was, I just have to live in the moment. Maybe they're right. But a part of me keeps wanting to believe that we had much more back then, something much more special, that was taken away the past decade or two.

@@Anw120 ur right the internet ruined it we were more in tune because we wasn’t constantly on our phones😂

true

I'm 85 baby...I understand u ...im with u 🇯🇲 ...one love

The malls are probably derelict relics of a time long since passed, only vague reminders of what once was. Also, to be fair, this was clearly recorded from the time when the 80's were just slowly starting to fade into the 90's, creating that unique aesthetic that so many 20-somethings and 30-somethings pine for because of the burgeoning technological revolution that we are now experiencing today.

There is not enough remaining of what our parents/grandparents lived through. What truly defined America was the 1800s-1900s.

The early 90s still had some nostalgic elements of the 80s greatness that I long for now. Miss it so much.

I don't think they really do hang out together today. Since they're always on their phones, I can't really tell.

I grew up in the 90s... Terminator II, Backstreet Boys, Doom, N-Sync, Sonic the Hedgehog, Billabong, the Titanic movie, BUM Equipment, Clinton, The Matrix, less-bricky cellphones with LCD displays (this was before the Nokia 3310), A&F, etc. Looking back at it, mall design from this era looked tacky, fake, and tried too hard to copy various styles... Large form glossy ceramic tiles everywhere, faux wood, varnished cheap plywood, multicoloured lighting, concrete & tile planter boxes, pastel colored plaster, matte-painted steel tubing, faux MediAdobeProvencCountryWhatever decor. Ageing has not made it any better. To be fair, I actually prefer today's current mall designs than in my childhood. But then again, I usually avoid suburban malls.

I want that tattooed on me!

I'm haunted by the ghost of late 20th century optimism... A song begins.

Haunted by the ghost of my stolen childhood

@@PandaPelley ......... I feel you on this

Optimism Returns once the Right is restored to order...

Thank you for sharing this memory.

Thanks for sharing..heartfelt

where I live malls are still alive

This is my memory too... I'm not crying you're crying! 😂😢

😌

Very astute. Had to restart video to see...

And then at the end of the video there’s literally like no people at the mall no more

I wrote a similar observation and didn't even see this comment until now. Glad I was not the only one to notice this.

I've actually noticed it as well. From the moment where malls were thriving, to the moment where it's become empty. A memory of what it used it to be is all that remains.

So Tru🤩🤪😜

ok boomer

It is kind of funny and sad how we don't really appreciate some things until they are gone.

​@@someweirdguy7281 I remember thinking how the 90s weren't as great, but now in now well into the 2010s and now entering the 20s, this just fills me up with bittersweet feelings of nostalgia. The aesthetics, the fashion, the general feeling of optimism throughout that decade, it kills me that I took that decade for granted and is something that we'll never get to experience again.

@@baragonkunfan94thesecondar60 hey chill out, they're Gen X.

Sad memories ❤️

Holy shit I felt that. I am this close to tearing up since I know that very feeling just too well. Dad is getting very old very fast these days. Forgetful. Irrational. Aggressive, at the worst of times. Frail like a puppet, and we're talking about a tree trunk of a man... Well, used to. I have so many memories like yours and I'm scared of what's to come. Fuck u got me actually sobbing now.

Aww man😭

A little older here, malls in the 80s and 90s were magical. And I think we all should have had a papa that bought us that cool toy, new hat or piece of cake.

I love u

where to buy your book

That’s beautiful and I wanna read it

Hey there have you had your book published

Where can I purchase your book

Ohh look! we have an intellectual here!

By any chance you still have the pictures?

facts we need to see this magical mall

I'm pretty sure the thumbnail isn't an actual photo; but that's cool you saw a place very similar looking 🎉

Lemme pay ya a visit then 😂

You're actually ahead of the world without realizing the blessing! 😅

@@ahmedhabbachi3779 Spot on! ;)

So essentially Serbia's stuck in 1991? 😂

Be grateful for that.. People are more laidback in countries like these. In modern places, they all act like robots. Cold. I miss neighborhood shops smelling like coffee and cocoa candy.. Everything changed since the simple 90s.. Living in a big city is a pain. Million faces, yet no one cares about anything..

divinityinversace life gets crazy when u. Get old

The Grand Historian oh who??

Well I have news for you bud, one mall featured during mac tonight shows cam footage of an area named metro land in a shopping centre called the metro centre, just outside of Newcastle. Even though it has long been closed down, I instantly recognized the place, not by its features, but by the way I used to dress back then (arguably could be someone else). It was the only time of my life I felt safe or happy, so I come back here daily to watch it.

I was about to berate you for thinking this was shot in the 70’s (which in my head were only 30 years ago apparently 😂). Time moves like crazy lol, we really don’t have that long here

I've seen a few comments like that.

Wishing you safe travels and sending my gratitude for what you do! My late uncle was a trucker and used to talk of how long the nights could be. May this mix offer you comfort and nostalgia along your journeys

KABLAAM?

We lived more care free.

It was fun and an experience….😮‍💨🫠

1988 here. It had its problems, but it was definitely a better time when you compare it to today, even the early 2000's was a good time.

life wasn't perfect, but *most* people got along. 80s TV shows like Wonder Years, Who's Boss, Growing Pains, Married with Children, all featured the average working family without uber tech (besides TV, VCR and Atari video). There were also shows like Dallas & Dynasty that featured over the top wealth, but had great storyline and characters.

yoooo vaporwave with art and drugs, perfect combination: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_vdrn2QxUjU.html

💯❤

me too

Very true. I'm still trying hard to appreciate the present like I enjoy nostalgic memories.

I actually appreciated it a lot. I often wish things felt remotely close to this

“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.” ― Andy Bernard

not really, I surprisingly like the stuff I get nostalgia over, which is why I get nostalgia. Or maybe it's just because those good moments were made equal with just as horrible other events as a child so I choose to be happy over what I had left idk :/

Facts been feeling the same with 80s sythwave

Yup😢

I miss that sharp smell of chlorine mixed with pennies :;(

And real plants back then instead of plastic ones. You could smell the loamy soil if it was recently watered if sitting on some nearby bench.

​@ninbendoyt3203 wow that hit me right in the nostalgia

The vaporwave make it magic

Especially since the economy sucks, and most of us can't afford to even breath the air in a mall...

Sean Medrano Check out Portage Place Winnipeg, where you can travel back to 1987 every day!

Sean Medrano same I cried when I saw this. I miss that Era.

I was born in 1999 so I was literally not even a year old then but I’m still nostalgic. Maybe because my childhood was watching animations and movies from the 90s. I was a 2000s kid.

At least you got a more constructive view of this.

I know EXACTLY how you feel this is the same for me

Stop talking shite lad.

Beautiful man.

This comes pretty close to what I feel in regards to V A P O R W A V E, but lack the words to express to others.

I mean, i just left the mall in my city and the things usually packed every time we go. Not like it was in its hayday, but still.

100% ^^^^^

honestly, everyone says the same thing whenever they grew up. it's not the time period, its being a kid and not being aware of the real world that we really miss.

@@Azmina_the_warlock Perhaps slightly, but given the constant of childhood innocence and wonder, I would far rather spend that in the 80s/90s (which thankfully I did), than nowadays. Seeing kids with their faces in phones all day, not playing outside, and being driven everywhere is terrible.

@@TheDarkInstall that's you projecting your feelings on kids, tbh.

@@Azmina_the_warlock as a gen z I cannot say the same thing

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What happened is you grew up, simple as that, you think adults in the 90s had a better time than adults in 2020? It's just the fact that you were a kid, that's why you loved those times more...

@@ghost_fueled_scarecrow Literally just quoting the end of the video lol

So deep 😭😭😭😩😩😩😔😔😔

@@ghost_fueled_scarecrow no, pre 9/11 world was a much simpler place. people made money, spent it on stupid stuff, but enjoyed their blissful ignorance. After 2001 Americans had to face the reality that they couldn't hide from the world's problems by running to gleaming towers of capitalism. The present may be more "real" but it's certainly not the carefree and whimsical 80s and 90s. Life was objectively better back then. Middle class had more spending power, and smartphones hadn't destroyed the world yet, people still talked to each other face to face.

*may or may not have

Fact

nothing like art museums: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_vdrn2QxUjU.html

The same will be said in 30 years about the footage we are filming nowadays.

@Anglo-Saxon In Asia not really.

@@alandashcar1453 Ty

the next genre is cyberpunk and acid techno

There's always weed too!

literally while listening i was like, why do i feel so depressed all of a sudden

It also reminds me of a mall I loved and grew up with since being a 90's kid. It was so lively and around 2005 is was dying, until it finally closed in 2016, after being a hollow shell for about 6 years. Seeing it torn down a year ago was painful. The same for the entire town becoming a ghost town. I connect with places, and the nostalgia lingers. Circuit City, Value City Dept. Store, Borders Bookstore, etc.

Fox Crimson so sad. It’s a fresh reminder my past and hopes for the future is all shattered

After the 18 minute mark, the effect proves obvious and purposeful. In a very effect and jarring way.

The memory of the past decaying in your head and you can't go back *. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .*

Wow, that sounds awesome! I wonder how we can bring it all back...?

What mall is it

TVrawks301 Uh, you could move to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Where Mall Culture is alive and very well! We even have an 80’s style Mall Downtown called Portage Place!

I love retro malls even the neons in them ｎｅｏｎｄｒｅａｍｓ

John Milner it must of been so fun and amazing, i wish i was there

Just think, in another 7 years you’ll be nostalgic for 2023 when you were nostalgic for 2016 when you were nostalgic for another time

@@bertonspat129 we truly do live in a post-modernist hellscape

Time is something else to behold

Meta-nostalgia! Thank you for naming a phenomenon I have noticed for a long time. I believe it started when I was in high school, because it was amazing that 80s music was considered "retro". 😂 Then I noticed I would attach music to the last time I heard it. Fascinating!

Antwon Jenkins yea im into that too lol ill see some old vhs movie and wonder whatever happened 2 those actors and the durextor writers etc same with these videos

when you realize someone 25 in 1990 is now 52... I DIDNT ASK FOR THIS.

i was literally just thinking the same thing

Sure wish I was back in those simpler carefree days. Back when class and glamour and kindness won out unlike now.

+Progressive59 LOL

Same brother!

Same!

I am American and when I think of quintessential America and Americans I think of the mall in the early 90s, the neon, the fashion, the people giggling, the happy-go lucky american consumerist spirit. Your comment captured that. You’re an honorary American

I could've written this, as I had the exact same experience, I'm from England, and am just a couple of years younger. Same surname and first initial too! Christ! The mallsoft subgenre has really captured my imagination lately, despite also being a huge metalhead. I have recurring dreams of my holidays to the States as a kid, as well as some underground malls/arcades in Tenerife and Australia, and the aesthetics/sounds are really tapping into the same source. It's incredibly surreal but also heartwarming and transcendental. Can't beat it.

David Brown Love this!

I'm a 41 year old American and miss the 80s and 90s so bad. Come on back when this virus bullshit is over yeah?

It Sure Is !!

Lucky :(

Yup. I'm honestly so grateful I got to live in this time. I miss it.

to me nostalgia represents pain and loss. my mind is just built different sadly

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Praying for u, ur family, and country 🙏

Goodluck brother I hope you're doing well

@Imm0rtal_ Everything will be all right, friend. The Lord protects.

Next time vote for someone more concerned about ukrainians rather than serving the WEF, world bank israel and nato

Jeez dude you might be on to something... just don't build it in California where it will be taxed to death or banned for no reason, or closed due to the purple tier because Gavin Newsome says so. But yeah... it could be like Disneyland!

Thanks for giving me this idea. I'm gonna build a business around this and become a billionaire.. MUHHHAAHAHHHHH JK

I'd never leave

@@RoRo-hw3um you really should tho

Count me in!

You just described the premise of future funk.

Yesterday? Yesterday you said you’d call Sears...

Brett Shipes I’ll call today.

1910-60s technically and I say 60s because the internet was the last major profound pioneering revolutionary technology. Most of the technology we have today from Jet technology to phones to Internet are just much much more efficient versions of previously develop technology, And unique reiterations thereof

Youre high

Wait fo real? Does it resemble this today?

@@habs4life41 it does

deziboy5606 they should bring all the neon back for the 2020’s.

I miss it :(

I swear to god, if I ever become like dumbass rich, I'm going to open up a shopping center that has that aesthetic, and every shop that wants to open in it needs to comply to the look.

Beautifully stated

Yeah.

Woah.. couldn't have said it any better myself 🗿

my thoughts exactly, Crusty. 👍🏻

Divinely said

yeah probably people born in 2010+ reminiscing in 2030 。

I find it hard to believe anyone would be nostalgic over this decade but I think the kids nowadays would find it nostalgic in the future。

Hell yeah, especially at the arcade.

I was an arcade junkie when I was a kid. I made my parents drive me to arcades everywhere up to two hours away. But yeah I hung out in malls a lot, mostly because, as you mention, it was cool and that's just what there was to do in a suburb. I miss it a lot. I never thought about it at the time, but I was a kid in the late 90s early 90s and being 32 now, it's weird to think back then I was just "existing" and soaking up all this shit. I didn't have a care in the world. All I wanted was to go to the mall and buy something.

It was still cool in S.E.Asia

Preston Garvey it's still a thing in the middle east like Dubai and Saudi Arabia.

80's were the height of the arcade in my opinion. They had some more advanced games in the 90's like Tekken and so on, but I felt like the 80's was when it was the hottest scene. That was back when there were punks all over the streets with mohawks and everything. The Goths never achieved their level.

I didn't know about this until I read your comment. A lot of fond memories at this mall. ☹️💔

Yes I grew up going there as well, it's crazy.

omg same, ive been going to that mall since i was 6, when i heard it was gonna be demolished i was so heart broken :(

That was my childhood mall! I was born in '81 and spent a lot of my formative years inside that mall. RIP.

I moved back home to be closer to my parents. I go to the mall from my childhood and slowly walk it's perimeter. It's nearly empty, but walking through lets me relive some of the best times of my life. This vid cuts deep!

It's been a glorious movie, our time here on earth. For the time that I've been alive, it took me a ridiculous percentage of my life to fathom that there were other cultures and cool happenings way before my time, and each generation borrowed from the next until it all amalgated into what we have today. Thus generation can only imitate, it doesn't create. It's like watching from a large cruise ship, we are sailing away never to return. This is our last glimpse of a nostalgia that was some people's utopia. I honestly don't see the need for pining, but perhaps it's the interaction they crave. We don't get close enough to speak to each other anymore and everyone is so corny. Goodbye, Friends. Maybe we can return in 1000 years and appreciate our lives better.

my fav telepath song. like floating into ghostly memories and the emptiness of the mall goes so well with how much the song echoes

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@@dwaynegayle1931 🤗

I'm just a little older and I know exactly what you mean. The impact of phones can't be underestimated. Social media has people more inside their homes, interacting remotely, than getting out in the public square. I attribute that to a lot of the angst, anxiety etc. that seems so prevalent these days. People used to be a lot more laid back, affectionate, creative. When I was coming up, everyone used to always say they wanted to go back to the 60s and 70s, even the 50s ... I never agreed, I was into tech and wanted to see the future. Now that the veil has been pulled aside, I want to go back, way back. The 21st century has been a massive scam perpetrated upon us thoroughly.

Technology can deprive you of many things in life, but it can also preserve or restore them. A technology exists for people to capture a complete view of our world. Picture frame wise, we've gone from aspect ratio of 4:3, to 16:9, 2.35:1, and now, VR 360 in stereo. With the recent tech, the hope is for people to learn the ways to preserve and reconstruct the old world in digital form, so they may be visited digitally. Sure, it's fake, but it's better than sitting down doing nothing, moping around about we can't save-- time.

43, same.

I'm of a similar gen-x age... and while I was never too much into the "mall culture" and don't necessarily get overly nostalgic over footage like this, I will agree that social media was a mistake and it will take another generation or two to figure out if it's worth the risks. We're only at the start of Twitter witch hunting. At least another full generation of young people are going to have every single mistake or dumb thing they've said thrown back in their face down the road when they've pissed off the wrong person who decides to go digging...

I'm an older milennial from Jersey as well. I spent every weekend as a teenager in the early 2000s wandering the mall. Society was just coming out of the 90s so it looked just like this video. Neon lights and pastels everywhere. My friends and I still walk the mall sometimes and reminisce but the 90s aesthetic is long gone. There are still a LOT of teenagers that hang out at the malls by me. It's weird to think they'll reminisce over the 2010s.

I wanna see you play sax on live television again

this was a simpler time before the horrors of 9/11 and other terroism stuff and it just seemed so much more peaceful and relaxed. sigh.....if only we could go back.

@@BubbleArcadia Trust in Jesus

@@BubbleArcadia I mean no offense, but honestly i don't think 911 has much to do with this, i'm from Croatia and the 911 didn't have any impact on us. I understand the 911 had an impact on USA and it caused a political ripple effect, but for us that wasn't it. The whole world changed mostly between 2010-2015. I mean we had good early 2000's, even after the 90's war in Croatia which caused 20.000 casualties in a small country of 4 million people. Comparing to 3.000 casualties in 911 in a big country of 300 million people, for Croatia it was a much bigger catastrophe. But the country still came back strong and times were still generally happy in the early 2000's. The world was colorful for most people. I'm born in 1996 and i got to experience a lot of things from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's, from movies, shows, cartoons, music, toys and items etc.. Early 2000's still produced great entertainment and art, quality products and materials, there was common sense and optimism. But something happened around 2012 i would say, and i'm not saying this because of the Mayan prophecies and the movie 2012, i just really think something around that time changed to a lot worse for the whole world. A mentality shift were stupidity is common, but common sense is not. People became so egoistic and superficial, everyone has a weird and twisted logic.. Most products are made low quality and half-baked, everyone is rushing to get as much money as soon as possible because they fear the future, art is not art anymore, movies and music degraded, videogames are downright disrespectful to their players, celebrities are crap and not real role models.. The politicians became even more corrupted but they're not even hiding it anymore, they're pissing at us and not even calling it a rain. They aren't even trying to act like politicians anymore, they became a joke, they're like drunken old people arguing at the bus station over 2 bucks. It's like everyone is on some kind of drugs, i cannot understand what's going on..

Jess Carlson we lived through very similar times.. Definitely know what you mean.

Did you grow up in malls

What was the difference?

Jess Carlson yeah I was at a mall a couple days ago and a fight broke out right in front of me. Almost got caught in it. Time to leave!!

@Mustache Man Bad I agree man :(

I'd be one of them, 53 yrs old. For me it was in the mall in the 80s as a teen, then in the mall in the 90s as an employee. Then I finally went to college.

Turning 38 this year. i too take that memory lane trip sometimes but i try not to get stuck there too long reminiscing because its just too sad bro lol

Who'd ever have thought I'd miss this kind of thing. Damn I feel ancient right now.

I never liked the mall, but often had nowhere else to go in my teens. I couldn’t wait until I was 21 so I could drink instead. I’m 43 now. The mall was a waste of time and I’m glad they’re dying. I hate this video, though I love the music haha

@@835FPV why did you hate the mall bro, do you still drink today?

You have no idea how much I wish things could go back to how they were.

Neon>>>*

28:50 #alldatneon

Well written.

I can agree. I was born in the late 90s but on of the malls here has this cool upside-down 3d mural of the city in the food court and the tables are the clouds. They also used to have this cool motherboard design around the food court but that got painted over. I totally agree about the whole mall being bland but the food court still pops

@@Zoey587 What mall?

You Are Not Alone.

Everything changed with Smartphones People got lazy and preferred to socialize from home You know, in a way is cool Is like when you get something good, you lose something important at the same time I'm sure current times will be nostalgic in the future I remember the golden era of RU-vid as nostalgic already, or the RU-vidr era, before 2017 YT politics, before Clickbait, was an awesome time!!! People sharing what they like to do, what they see outside, 80s and 90s yes, were cool to gather, but gotta admit every decade has something good on it's own I grew with Techno and Trance music, hated these events as Tomorrowland, EDC, Ultra And with the pandemic, I already feel nostalgic about them

The lesson is simple Enjoy every era, because it always ends and something different replace it, but also learn to like this different new era when it comes or will be nostalgic when it ends

Rest assured that time doesn't actually exist! It's only people who have changed their beliefs and desires. 1. Encourage people to spend less time and money on video games and invest in funding a video game arcade in the mall. Maybe two of them. 2. Find an Orange Julius and let them know it's time. 3. Leave your damn phone at home. 4. Rollerblades.. You figure the rest out. 5. Don't leave the mall until you can get a pet goldfish. When these things take place, the dried soils of shopping malls will be quenched and spring fourth shopping oasis bliss once more🍕🌴🛹

@@liliannakifflin6343 totally agree

Hell, that's powerful. Reading this as the mix comes to a close has got my eyes welled up.

Beautiful - the memories are real.

this is so sad but true :(

Eloquently put

Thank you, that is so well written....but you didnt mention the real killer of the malls, the internet.

Oh, but it does. It must.

@@redpaul6144 you're right. life is powerful

Me too, but I keep seeing one mall in particular.

my dreams are like that 3 minute gta vice city speedrun

I see one mall in particular as well

I exactly know what you mean

This is so deep when you think about it

💀

Malls are still a thing and very little changed since then lmao

@@matheuscruz8574 VERY LITTLE?! Malls used to be day long trips! Malls are VERY much dying out, I recommend reading up on it because it’s actually very interesting and kind of sad.

@@rex4796 Maybe where you live, but in my country they're still as popular and crowded as they were back then

Shho13 Except Portage Place Winnipeg!

If only social media, mass online shopping and iPhones weren’t invented to replace people’s friendly relationships, these kind of times will last forever

those times were special but i don't think there has ever been a period where people were truly happy

Deep

This comment gave me chills whoa

So a coma that's fallout with a dash of 70s

Write a book

Well said

fuck covid, vaporwave will cure it all

@@seiyogaming5110 fuck yeah...

same here. I look at the present and I feel terrible for all the shit we've wasted since that time.

I agree, everything seemed so lively and so many things were happening nothing like now..I really wish I could go back

I would trade the entire MCU to be able to go back and buy all the awesome 90s X-men comics again. My friends and I would head down to the comic shop and buy, read, trade, repeat. God damn it was magnificent.

Was it Your Move?

@@SPLIFFRADIOyep

When people recorded what's in front of them, without sticking their faces into the camera like a selfie

Those camera’s were massive!!

Actually, some stores did get pissed off if you recorded them back then. I had a friend who liked recording mundane life things and he told me that video/vhs stores and electronics shop's would often freek out if they saw him filling anything with his camcorder.

Some of these are recent though and no one seems to be stopping them.

I've never heard of this before wtf.

KieroTakoBell fast forward to now, and everyone and their grandmother will be looking for the videos that you took of that day to see. You're one of a few nationwide

KieroTakoBell tbh, people still react the same way on camera.

People still act the same haha upload your footage and make a VP playlist

Hahaha my dad was the same way! Always had his camcorder recording every moment of every trip and event