People watching at a mall in 1996 

I think that's just a "you" thing. lol

Just playing hide and seek anywhere😅. I was born in the 90s and we were allowed to go (with other kids) around the neighborhood, no cellphones... There were way less cars then, so we would literally walk like in the movies... In the middle of the road😅

My brother and I were too damn dumb for that. We would have gotten lost from our mother and no cell phone.

Every time my brother and I were out shopping in a retail clothing store with my mom and not my dad hahaha. We would even grab a hanger each and use it as a gun and try to find each other like it was an imaginary paintball war hahaha

Oh man those were the days. I remember the countless times when ever my mom dragged me and my brother to go shopping with her we played hide and go seek in the clothes racks and chased with each other like maniacs. Everybody’s gangster until one us accidentally ends up in the lingerie section.😅

Same it was fun back then!

I was 18 and in college back then. The mall was my usual hangout spot and I could spend hours just walking around and going to different stores. Those were the days.

Lmaooooo I was 4 years old

Same!

I was 13... good time 😊

😢

I agree, I'm binge watching these videos today.......

When i think I’m depressed I see comments like these and realize at least I’m not binge watching 90s RU-vid videos all day hoping against time and reality for some nonsense.

Yup, me too want back.

@@pickleraspa2458Are you sure? You did watch this one. 🤔😂

Agreed 😕

Think it was around the late 80s early 90s. 2,000 was the worst

We aren't even living in a civilization any longer. It's a post-civilized world.

The absolute peak being 1997-2001 (until 9/11)

​@@GoGetYourShineboxdo you think I'm funny?

We definitely do understand bro, that's why we just spent 30 minutes watching this random video

@@forhealdan And we definitely didn't say bro

@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk damn, I guess all my 90s experiences are cancelled out now. Thanks for letting me know. Very helpful comment.

@@forhealdan cool

sure dude@@forhealdan

for me too, once i joined Facebook in 2008, my mindset changed to always being engaged with something on a screen

Ok boomer

Agreed

So very true

I saw it happen. As soon as they let the weak minded rift raft get ahold of FB, it was all over.

Soriana must kept these receipt machines used in formerly Gigante stores.

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I bet it does. It’s so sad that my generation can’t experience that.

I swear I could hear the printing noise outside of work..

Not just that, but also the slow and patient typing sound of the teller since no one is is in a rush.

I’m the 90s ? Lol

Great comment . . . Loved Sbarro sphaghetti 😊

I know! I loved that too.

Really? I hear it every time I go shopping.

​@@shoutuckerdidnothingwrong No, its definitely a different sound now. They didn't use the heat paper. It was a loud ass printer.

@@hashvendetta7226 Oh, okay.

dot matrix printer

probably not, that's a dot matrix printer, the current ones use heat paper@@shoutuckerdidnothingwrong

Agree, I miss the vibe, going to record shops and book shops were one of my favourites things to do and having conversations about the last album of x band or saving money x the next tour. I was happy

I really do miss the 90's...I'm a 90's baby but seeing this brings me back. Admittedly I move hung around the malls much as a teen but I think that's when social media started and people were starting to get obsessed with their phones. I cant say much since I got stuck on my games but atleast I liked interaction with others. Everybody was obsessing about the newest iPhone. Atleast games when I was a kid you either played by yourself or you found a buddy you knew and played the game in the same room but atleast we could put the game down and go outside. I still remember using my first mp3 player at a music store that no longer exists...it turned into a sports then turned into rubble.

@@sethnaugle984 It’s nice to know that some people do feel a little of the same way that I do on these things. Lots of times I feel alone about all of this stuff. I actually am one of those people who upgrade their phone about every 12-15 months. But, for as much as I do use my phone, I’m not tied to it. For instance, I get really annoyed by people bringing their phones or tablets into restaurants and using them. My phone stays in mg car. I’m there to eat and talk with friends or family. Not take calls from other people, look stuff up online, or play games. And I usually just leave my phone in my car when I’m in the grocery store. I can go 15-20 minutes without it. But it’s a sticking point if others aren’t that way, and I ask them if they can put their phones away in those situations. Just like with buying music digitally, I was pretty on board with social media in its earlier years. But over time as people became obsessed with it, and it started to make me feel bad about myself having other’s successes in my face all the time, I used it less and less, until I finally just deleted all of my various accounts. Aside from RU-vid I suppose, if you consider that social. I honestly don’t miss any of it at all. But it does sometimes make it more difficult to communicate, when most people use that as their primary communication today.

Reminds me of when people couldn't adapt to the blip in avengers: endgame, and captain america was counseling a few people about the massive change lol

I also remember the change of tone to tv commercials around the 2000s era. The many colorfully cheesy, happier jingles of the ads became silent, monotone, post modernistic and filled with pharma.

I was 17

I was 11 or 12 depending on when this video was made.

I’d say Christmas 1996… I was 15… take me back 😢😢

I'd say the last 10 years is where the sharp decline started. Specifically when social media became the default medium everyone had to use.

@@MeadeSkeltonMusicme too!

100%. Thinner, but also just healthier, and better. I noticed within 1 minute. I don't think it's all "our" fault. More processed food uses more corn syrup, seed oils, and GMO ingredients now vs them. There was likely less microplastics everywhere, and people got more ☀️ sun.....

Also, people are stressed to the max now, don’t sleep enough or as well and work too much.

@@mrjon75 It's absolutely your fault if you're obese. Everything you listed is an excuse.

@@Incomudro1963 Mudro, you seem hurt. Shook. Obsessed.

No purple hair, tattoos, piercings or people obsessed with phone.

Still like that in some places, you just have to get away from large democratic cities.

It was so casual

@@dapper892 Or visit developing countries like India.

I do too. It seems like everywhere you turn now there's someone that's hateful or uncontrollable with anger.

People are friendlier now. I remember you'd look at someone back in the 80s/90s and you might get 'what are you looking at?' or "take a picture it will last longer!'

Watching these videos is hard cause I want to go back so bad.

PSTA me too😭 it's so depressing.

Hearing those receipts print out instantly made a lot of memories come flooding back

Those camcorders were rare and cost big money back then!

I wonder if it was part of mall promotion/PR.

They probably just got a new camera and was looking to put it to use and then got bored with it soon after

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Well said.

I see people from all over the world under one flag together

what's sad about it? i was a child during this time & had a great time at 3 y/o in '96 but i think it's time to move on

The internet and phone tech had not taken over yet 😢

The internet was around, yes but the difference is the internet was like the wild west back then. No censorship and it wasnt as regulated as it is today. I miss those days being a kid going on blogs and random websites to play games on. Hell even in the early to mid 2000’s it was still good. Everything changed around 2010 it seems.

Most of us didn't think about terrorism war and economic and societal collapse. All things that are very possible in America in 2023.

I was on Compuserve in those days and it was really expensive

The internet was a thing on one computer in the local library and the word was common but no one knew what it really was or did

Yess

Maybe we would have been friends. I was 5

Cameras were still a fun novelty at that time. If someone was filming you at a public place it meant you might be on local TV in the near future, so smile and look your best! I love seeing people waving

It was so different. Way friendlier. Way more family oriented, and way easier times. Girls were less promiscuous and dressed more conservative. All the TV shows and movies were about family and friends. It’s basically the direct opposite of what is being promoted and shown today. 80s and 90s was the best era and you will not convince me otherwise.

@@The_Primary_Axiom Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. I wish those values were prevalent today.

capitalism didnt start selling christmas things until mid-late november. Now its here in october. Not that special if you see it more often.

Holy shit, that means you're 67 now

@@wileecoyote5749 nice math

@@wileecoyote5749 42 who

I was 14 years old too in 1996. I remember hanging with friends at the mall because we all loved buying comic books and pogs during weekends and hangout and skateboard before the sun went down and if you weren’t home before 6pm, are parents would get mad lol

Yes, much more present and less anxious too.

Your literally on social media right now commenting on a RU-vid video but saying u wish it was never invented😂 yet you use it

@@itsmartv0309 I think there’s a big difference between social media and RU-vid, RU-vid was invented as a video search engine. The social media I’m referring to is where you have to add photos and videos of your own life and add friends. Hilarious, right? You’re so smart!!!!! You really got me!

@@itsmartv0309😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 oeo😂o😂o😂o😂o😂i😂u😂u😂😂🫃😂😂😂😂😂😂

​@@itsmartv0309I abuse substances too but I know they aren't good for me and I'd be better off without them

Yep. Jobs, gates, Zuckerberg and the rest ruined society. They traded the natural human experience for BILLIONS in personal net worth.

Yeah, now if you people-watch, people think you're some kind of pervert or weirdo. Everyone is supposed to be dutifully glued to a screen.

​@@markwaldron8954I notice that, if you look around too much, people start looking at you suspiciously 😂

@@markwaldron8954 Yup.

@@ILoveTheAllCreator because they hate freedom. Conformist attitudes of the 21st century. I literally once just glanced at this guy and he literally had to open his mouth and say "who you looking at". Growing up in Florida, it used to be very normal to people watch because it was the thing in the 90s to be appealing, crowd comforting and social. Now people are antisocial and have terrible attitudes. 2023 just sucks.

Yeah nothing is more naturally human than walking around a massive store to buy useless junk. Gimme a break

You can hear all the background chatter. You don’t hear that too much there days, unless in a crowded restaurant. You would hear that everywhere back then, but then everyone got a smart phone, and got dumb.

They had mobile phones and social media during this era along with pagers. It was the late 1990s, not the 1970s.

No one looking down on their phones

@@queenmoreau2098 they weren't smart phones though dummy

100%

I was 17. And fucking miserable. I do not miss the superficiality and shallowness of that era, not a bit.

18

@@Shorty_Lickens you sound quite content with the state your current life situation. 👀

@@Smiles4UFL Weird. Because nothing I said would indicate that at all. You must not be very intuitive.

Yes, I remember that too.

I'm still happy when Christmas comes and I know a lot of people who are

Late 90s early 00’s, we would routinely go up there, just to hang out.

Everything and everyone was so inviting as well

Yeah, the economy hadn't gotten worse, and you didn't have high inflation and declining wages. People could afford to shop back then. You also didn't have a bunch of politically correct leftist types going around harassing your for saying Merry Christmas or wanting to sing a Christmas carol or put up a Christmas tree.

everyone watched the same idiot box channels and believed what the news told them.

@@lolwtnick4362 And people don't today? lol

How original different eras

Quite a few people gravitated so strongly to the Internet because the functions of society were a failure. The same is still true. The cart didn't come before the horse

@@lolwtnick4362 Everyone still does that today. Except some replace TV news with internet news.

I like the sound....

Agreed

It took me back to that year that I was working at Liz Claiborne😢I miss those day❤

I still hear it sometimes

Same only difference is I didn't join the Navy.

Only thing is if you still have to have a “career” you are not “wealthy”, I think generally wealthy is considered 35 million up

So true, better dressed and not everyone was obese.

Definitely

Yes because crocs hadn't been invented yet.

They looked a lot older too due to how they dresses haha. But considering America's obesity epidemic is getting worse it's not surprising that in the past they were thinner.

@@brittneyluna9545now everyone has ozempic 😂

I was born in 1986. :-)

I was 10 in 96 as well I sure miss those days!

People were more active back then!

Same age, as well. Spot on.

Yeah Malls were special as a kid in the 90's. Sure, it was still "consumerism" obviously. But as a 11 year old in 96' I wasn't thinking about that, everything was just decked out- and the ARCADES! the Arcades was where the magic was really at for me.

No one walking around with weird piercings, pink, blue, green, purple, or rainbow colored hair either. Women didn't have tattoos unless they were punk or emo and men with beards weren't much of a thing back then either. Sigh. I miss these times. I miss when people dressed better and didn't dress like someone who just came out of the mental hospital. EDIT: I love reading all the butt hurt comments that I'm getting lately. The fact that you are offended/upset by my post, tells me I'm absolutely 💯% correct. A little history lesson for you young turks who think regular people of the 80s & 90s look like the people of today, rainbow hair was never a thing with normal people in the 90s. If you grew up in the 90s, you would know this is a fact. Any of you who tell me otherwise, you're obviously not from the millennial generation. I grew up all through the 90s and never saw a single normal person who looked like my description above. Yes, people colored their hair back in the 90s but the normies never colored their hair like the punk/emo people did. Back in those days, punk/emo people were seen as mentally unstable/depressed people. Normies only colored their hair with natural colors (and that was usually only with older women/men who were going gray) and younger people (usually kids and teens, never adults) bleached their hair as far as coloring goes but they never colored their hair with wild, unnatural colors. These days, you see old ladies with unnatural hair colors. If you can tell me where there are normies or old ladies in any of these kinds of videos (not movies) with wild hair colors like humans today, I'll gladly hear you out but I highly doubt you'll be able to find a single one! Even if us normies did color our hair like they did today, we wouldn't be caught dead doing it. We would have gotten our asses whooped or laughed at by bullies. How privileged you babies are that you can look like a clown every damn day. I know it's hard for you to believe that no normie colored their hair wild hair colors back then but that is a fact. As I stated in my original post above, that was only a punk/emo thing. Hilarious that you're so upset over my opinion and keep trying to tell me that my eyes have lied. Keep it up, clowns! You're doing an amazing job of showing how embarrassing you are and how out of touch you really are with history.

@@TokyoACR didn’t realize self-expression was a bad thing?

@mychaelabeauregard8389 you call that self expression? More like attention seeking imo. There's healthier ways to self express than putting chemicals on your body.

@@TokyoACR dying your hair, whatever colour you want IS a form of self expression. you want attention seeking?, how about worrying about who’s been plaguing our TVs for the past 15 to 16 years , instead of getting upset over some dumb hair dye, tats, or piercings . Please 🙄

@@mychaelabeauregard8389 Cry about it. Oh wait, you already are. 😂

Same here

gen x had a good time

Same! We were lucky!

I was born in 81. I feel very blessed but I have thought about how great it must have been to experience things from the 70s. I’d say that being born in mid 70s would have given someone a really amazing experience for their childhood, teen years and young adult years.

@@VideoJAO you're a millennial, this is a conversation for GenX, kiddo.

It feels like the 1960s did in the 1990s.😢

Well there were less avenues to credit fraud, but it definitely existed. Keep in mind that this footage is most likely the raw b-roll captured for use in something such as a news segment on TV. By the time it made it to whatever it was used for it would have been edited and those numbers would have likely been blurred out (if the shot was even used at all).

Lol I know just zooming on in to someone’s whole card in 1996 😂

They were

People knew that they were male and female.

And the women didn't have tattoo's all over their arms.

And there was virtually no obesity or even overweight.

People these days have lost their minds.

Now, all we have in malls these days is shootings.

My teen goes to the mall every weekend with friends to hang out. Our mall has a daily senior walking club. & we regularly go to the movies as a family, even have memberships for monthly passes. Not saying malls, movies + socialization hasn't died in many ways, but these things are still available in many areas if you get off your phone + actually seek them.

brutal, my town might be closing my local mall soon

Todays malls not so cute?

@@alyssapage1585 life was totally not better in the 90s, other than the lack of smartphones and social media

Back when only the drug dealers had cell phone

remember ted kaczynski? he warned of the coming tech revolution and how destructive it would be, they then framed him, locked him up and killed him

ok maybe so but lets not blame social media and phones for peoples state.. in the end we choose ourselves to use them.

@@danielabatabogdanov8586nah. Social media is designed to be addicting to generate revenue. Remember if it’s free, you’re the product. Also good luck doing most errands without a smartphone or wifi connection in 2024. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.

No one screaming "You can't record me!" or attacking the cameraman. Just more respectful people in general.

Yess! This is exactly what I feel every time I watch a video from the 90s. It's like it's in another dimension even though we've lived it.

Same

Same thing I was thinking when I was watching this.

Macy’s replaced their CRTs with LCDs and their Model 4s with 4610 thermals in the early 2000s. That should be the next Macy’s video.

It's funny because I don't remember the last time I had to sign when paying with my card, I think it's definitely a think of the past now...

They still exist printer and keyboard and they still do them in some shops there’s little receipts sometime you can barely make out what’s on the receipt lol

@@ryujigoda3445 All the major stores replaced their Model 4s to reduce noise pollution. They had to do that. They’ve been long discontinued since 2005. The Suremarks remained in production for a long time and changed shape a little over the years.

its happening in the UK too i was in a shop called Home Bargains a bit like dollar Tree and a woman in front of me at the check out was wearing pj s .

@@Goldi3loxrox oh nooooo! Not the UK! 🙈😳😫🙀

The women changed. Men didn't. Though today, I feel like more and more guys are becoming either more Feminine or more immature

@@Novaximus yes very true

What's wrong with people wearing clothing that they feel comfortable in? It's not a damn job interview lmao why should I care about dressing up for random strangers?

Wow, the way describe it really captures that feeling! And yes I remember those feelings very well.

Amazing description... I was THERE!!! I can smell my Mom's homemade soup cooking, and the windows all fogged up and the snow blowing outside.. wow that's an amazing feeling. Thank you for reminding me 😊

there were outbursts then just as there are now.. go in any store, and you’re more than likely to find mostly decent people going about their lives. we only think all those public freakouts are common cos we have more access to them now, on RU-vid or Reddit or TikTok.. there will always be people like that!

It’s because you were younger than and you had the Patience? now you’re old and everything irritates you. You act like children and people were Saints back then.

Alot of that is antagonized now because people pull out their phones & record. That didn't happen back then & yes, in my experience, people were much nicer & shopping was calmer back then, even at Christmas time. Even Black Friday wasn't as demanding as it is nowadays.

Have you seen the movie Jingle All The Way? It came out precisely in 1996 and describes this behavior 😂😂😂

Yeah….. what happened to people?

You would've been all about those jnco jeans like half the teens back then. Specifically 96

Same here. Mall is dead & when I do go just to try & get out the house, I have to look over my shoulder & make sure people don’t start shooting which has become very commonplace here in Charlotte, NC. We even have poor police dogs on patrol inside.

All the malls near me have closed down due to shoplifting and crime. Ugh

In hindsight, technology really has changed the world.

it only comes alive when i come around

So true!! great comment!

It was certainly a great time to live. Thankful for the memories. Prayers and Blessings.........

ok so you are 43 years old. good to know

​@@Alex_Gordonso you're a kid. Good to know

Ditto,,,,and was 16 too

Wonderful. Thanks for sharing your memories.

Honestly, I see my local mall pretty crowded when I go and visit. That said, it tends to be a lot harder for kids to go out nowadays with the way that public infrastructure is designed. A lot of teens dread driving on high traffic roads, and part-time jobs do not give them much disposable income either.

Cause lot of people do their online shopping now. But yeah I noticed that too last time I went to a mall it still during the pandemic era of course. But after that the mall was still dead and not many people walking around. Plus it’s really expensive these days to shop at the mall lol

Eh people are still going to the malls and going outside. You just have to live and appreciate the now.

Yes I agree. Being in a dead empty mall is so eerie and depressing, and sadly many malls today are just that: Desolate, lifeless, sad.

I’m so sorry you werent able to live during these times. The sun shined differently back then. After 9/11 nothing seemed to be the same again and I was born in 1987.

With the sound of Model 3/4 impact printers, that wouldn’t be soothing.

yeah , and i can’t even watch it … too slow 😞. and i’m 58 !!

Everyone's calm because prices were lower and not price gouged. Shopping is not fun anymore.

@flowerempress4632 Finally an intelligent comment. People need to understand that the current economic situation has created the tension and anxiety most people feel in public. In 1996 people could afford a house or apartment weren't overworked and has way less stress levels. Now people can't. The lack of affordability and stability in western countries is one of the main reasons why people have changed.

@@JesusChrist2000BCBut our President says that his plan is working and we are in an economic boom. Can't you feel it?

Me too

Is still some what is

It is do you ever go outside?

@@rollitupmars Yes lol it’s not same though 😅

@@rollitupmars in what sense are you saying it's still the same? You mean we still use your left and right feet to walk? You mean people still breathe oxygen to stay alive?

The influencers were large media companies who decided who got to be seen/heard.

No BLM ✊🏾 no illegals….. 😢

@@minipandora22 racist

@@angelinaduganNy I absolutely said nothing racist , SHAME on you.

@@angelinaduganNy saying no BLM isn’t racist!! BLM is a terrorist organization that caused millions of dollars in damage.

The blk couple even smiled at him. Such a sweet moment ❤

@trang why not "some people actually smiled"....?

@@missladyanonymity OMG. There is always one in every comment section 😂😂 Go away!

I think it's cuz home videos used to stay at home. Occasionally it would be some filmmaker or something. Now if you're being filmed you can believe it's going up on tik tok

Is it bad to stare into their phones, minding their own business? Or it much better if we all just casually talked about our days? Honest question 🤔 I did grow up before smartphones were invented

​@@amuroray9115 yes it is. It shows how dependant and impatient we have become

there were just as many people during that time who looked the exact opposite

Life wasn't as tragic then. The economy was good..... Terrorism was almost unheard of in the USA, and people ate a bit healthier then.

LOL, how exactly does *everyone* look all those ways you describe?

@@mizztery2994 because I was around at that time and I'm still alive today and based off both of my observations people believe it or not we're a lot happier back in the day even when I went to grade school I didn't see kids taking psychotropic medication or even heard of that, I didn't even see or even know what a homeless person was because there weren't any.. The world was a lot different back in those days

@@ATLKing404 Well, if that was the case based off of my observation, I was around during that particular time I've never seen that many people hang out, for example, at the pharmacy in or near department stores.. Go to a pharmacy today and you got lines and lines of people so what did I miss?.. I also never saw homeless persons back in those days either and I live in a large city so again, what did I miss??..

Happy early birthday 🎂

Same here. At least we got to spend the best years of our lives in that world. Compared to today 😢

@@fcseven F YEAH THANK GOD

wow you're old

i’m reading this currently at 20 years old. makes me sad how fast time goes by

I hope that the anti-culture or whatever of my generation will just be to like... go out and touch grass lol. I'm seriously hoping that there's a rebellion against this culture of constant connection and shallowness and staleness of everything and people start to care about having a community of people who you are PHYSICALLY with... not just like "ooh I have internet friends!" cause I'VE HAD THAT. And it is SO not the same as having a real life diverse group that you can talk and hang out with. I watched a video essay recently about the death of mono-culture (the opposite of subculture) and it talked about the lack of understanding of people being allowed to share different opinions but still be friends, or the agree-to-disagree mindset. So often I notice people completely cutting off others who don't share every same opinion as them, even if they could get along and hang out prior to discovering their difference. Friends are allowed to have differences! And if you can't talk about issues where you have differing opinions without getting into nasty arguments then like...don't talk about them. You don't have to lose friends over differing perspectives or viewpoints. If you can't be friends with people who aren't exactly like you, then you need to learn to be more open and accept that society is filled with a diverse cast of people and that's what makes it truly beautiful! Without difference, everything is boring. Sorry for the 2nd essay lol but thanks for reading if you have. Reply if you agree or disagree, just wanna hear what anyone who's read this far has to say :)

Thank you. I was born in 89 worked as a cashier at Target when I was 18 and it is interesting and very refreshing to get a seemingly unbiased perspective on the general public at least. It is very frustrating that people seem so distant and consumed with external technology. When I was a cashier back then it was 2007/08 so pre smart phone era, I remember having mostly good /interactions/experiences with people back then. I think partly because of less distractions to consume people’s minds. So sorrowful that people treat you with such disrespect, in essence though I don’t believe it to be their fault in general just a casualty of the obsession for everything social that has been unfortunately seemingly crammed into propaganda and culture as a whole. I totally see more of some people’s disregard of respect for others in just everyday life. All in all, I keep telling myself it pays to be optimistic but truth is, at least for me the future is scary and bleak. Exciting to think we might be at the precipice of something big tho 😩🙄…

Racial hate was not as wide spread or as dangerous as some would love us to believe.

@@Krix6426 I was around then. I don't know. I think it's always been present for whatever odd reason humans do that for. But it tends to spike and then settle down.

No soulless cell phone stores. No pajamas.

@@Krix6426 Racial hate was wide spread at the time. You just didn't here about it as social media was at its infancy in 1996​

No purple hair, no BLM shirts, no gender neutral bathroom stalls, and people of varying races and religious backgrounds weren’t being told one group is oppressing another and that another group should view themselves as victims.

Damn baby how were you 16 way back then and you still be lookin' so good? A/S/L?

Perfect way to explain, gave me an ache too ❤ miss the good ol days.

I was 12. Are you married now?

I was 16, too. Such a special time.

You can thank our useless politicians for changing that. All they're good for is creating division which they then promise to fix in exchange for votes. Only instead of fixing it, they make it worse, dividing everyone up into little boxes and playing us all against one another. The current things we're going through as a country are not normal, and it will end badly if we don't come together as one people.

That's exactly how I remember it too as a child of the 80's and I say this as a minority. It wasn't until 2008 when race, sexual orientation, and religion started becoming major points of division. It was obvious how media, politicians, and academics all pushed for this change that brought division and backwards logic to the forefront of society. What's the most weird thing to me though is how people can't see it. It's as though many people can't see how cleverly the masses are manipulated. Interesting times we live in.

@@__-pr1of yep, I remember it like that too.

Notice that the styles haven't changed all that much. This was 27 years ago. And 27 years before that was 1969. But the styles are pretty close to today’s; Think about how different styles were between 1969 and 1996.

Looks can be deceiving

None of us did. I was 28 years old.

There were no Karens like there are today.

Dang I was 21. 😂

I was ten that was the year I discovered Playstation. Going to the pool winning free sodas. The sodas used to have Sunkist where you win a free soda like what seemed like every other time. The bottle cap would say you are a winner and you go turn that in. That was the last time I remember Penny candy as well. Me and my sister used to actually walk to the convenience store where my moms cousin worked and I would spend the quarters the man who I collected golf balls for paid me. And things like pogo sticks and skip its were so fun. Going to the movies was magic. I remember mortal kombat and some others. I'll stop there before I write too much

There actually seemed like there were more then...it just that Karen's were ubiquitous and not a scattered annoyance like now

20 seconds in, short shirts and a skimpy tank top.

@@Mike.T. Thank you for that necessary fact check, overall every one was dressed better.

Some women dress like skanks at Walmart and Wegmans and it makes me disgusted and not turned on

People didnt look obese either, since there was no amazon at the time everybody had to walk around malls to get their shit to bring home (and yes i noticed an obese person in one part of the video but that wasnt the majority)

@@Mike.T. While that is fairly provocative, such a majority of girls on a night out or even at daytime this century are quite literally dressed like prostitutes.

Especially after 9/11 😞

@@Tha90sKid You got that right.

It started way before the 90s. The 90s were dark and ugly. Idk what everyone’s talking about here. Getting their years mixed up!

@@LastSaturday09what about the 80s?

@@aziza000 80s were upbeat and awesome!

@@NES-sh6dq Guilty, but these were better days.

American consumerism… all totally normal according to you. All we did is simply return to the normal, actual state of the world.

@@NES-sh6dq This from the keyboard warrior with NES in his name. I guess you're a boomer wanna-be 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Of course, Florida.

@@NES-sh6dq Sad that normal for you are mall and school shootings. We had to adjust to this crap, being that our times of normal and safety were not compromised by any thugs or gangs. "Ok boomer." We were very Ok with what we had then, millie. 🤡

In 1996 there were cell phones used by regular folks, and more commonly people, including teenagers, carried annoying pagers, so you are about a decade too late actually. It was more of an 80s and earlier thing if you want to make a point about electronic devices.

​​@@oldtwinsna8347most teenagers didn't walk around with a cellphone or pager lol even in the mid 90's. The only internet access we had was on one family computer. Just not being plugged into the Internet all day long makes a big difference in how we act, in my opinion.

It's a great escape for people, that little screen. We are all more closed off than we ever have been.

@@oldtwinsna8347 There’s a huge difference between cell phones just used to make phone calls and the phones we have today that are basically TVs and social media updates constantly

@@directorbeau Your wrong. A lot of teenagers had pagers and cell phones at the time in the mid and late 90s. The thing was cell phones at the time were for calls only and pagers were when you were needed/and to call back a number sent to you. You only had a set amount of minutes/hours a month of call time in your cell plan so people were sparing on there phone when they used it; hence why you never really saw people on there phone allot in that time period

Well, it’s September 16 now, happy birthday whenever your day is this month 👍🏾

@@jackstar6018 thank you! 😊

​@@jackstar6018That was so sweet of you. Strangers being kind to strangers, 🥰 I love to see it

It was amazing!! I was 10 and loved spending Christmas money at the mall!!

I was born August.

Goodbye middle class, thanks Obummer.

⁠Every president since Reagan has contributed to the ongoing effort to destroy the American middle class. Every single one. @@Rschr101

@@Rschr101the elite control both political parties.

Even sadder is that we didn't *realize* that was an era in twilight.

Pre-"vanity-sizing"...

When "fat shaming" motivated people to get healthy.

@@bassage13 You have it backwards. The push to end fat shaming isn’t causing people to get fat. So many people are now fat that we’re naturally moving away from fat shaming.

No GMOs

@@Rschr101 There was GMO's in the 90s, its been around since the 80s in United States.

While most malls have disappeared, there are still some that are as busy as ever.

@@bassage13 King of Prussia is, but it’s not the same as the normal sized malls like there used to be

The social contract wasn't breaking yet

right? I need a pair of those jeans, can't find that quality anymore, haha

Wow that is just crazy the 90s and the new 50s and 60s!!! Time flies

@@PraveenSrJ01 yes, my friend, you are right.

@@robloxvids2233 in 2050 the 2020s will be ancient in a bad way due to Covid-19 pandemic 😷 which we will probably look back on with horror

Scary to think in 30 years kids will think 2024 was wholesome. 😟

@@michellelawson6584 that though made my stomach drop!

😂

Yea Dollar General has really gone downhill since the 30's

@@ss_whole 😂😂😂 1 register open and the whole warehouse worth of carts and pallets in front of the items for sale. They were eager to please because the product didn't sell itself yet. We're so programmed now they're like "Here come get this shi 🙄" Us: 📱🏃🏿‍♂️🚶🚶🏿‍♀️🤼

@@ss_wholehaha

Now they have to ask the customers what their "preferred pronouns" are.

I think if I got that level of treatment in a modern store, I would feel weird. I stayed at a somewhat fancy hotel in DC once where they had a bus boy, doorman, etc. Everyone always call me Mr.[Last Name] wore neat suits, and all I could think was 'this is way to fancy for me, I'm just a regular guy, you don't need to try so hard'

and id imagine every other generation said "this time its different" too, lol.

@@cameron8529 Yes, but they actually said it to another person IRL, not make a tiktok about it. That was my point son.

Man you’re old

@@MakelBelieveYou will be too and have kids saying the same. Shocked?

​@@MakelBelieveI'd rather be old, and live like this....

@@whispersmusic6173 🥺 I know

I was 3-13 in the 90s. It was fine.

I was a young teenager in 1996 and it was great times

​@@PraveenSrJ01indeed

I was 21 in the Marines at the time. Truly miss this period

Not for me, it was a horrible period of time. Ridiculously expensive things everywhere compared to today. Cell phones were also fairly common in the later turn of the 90s. Those Nokia chimes in particular.

@@oldtwinsna8347 I had my first cell phone in '95, senior year. The phones were fairly cheap, but the plans were not. I think prices are certainly higher today though for a lot of things. I bought my first car in '96, a 1995 Nissan Maxima for $14k. Brand new, fully loaded it was $22k. A Maxima today is pushing $46k! TVs were definitely more expensive than today. I paid about $500 for a 32" back then, and that was considered big. It certainly was heavy. I don't buy Nikes anymore, but back then $140 was about tops you were going to pay, today it's what $240? My Ralph Lauren pima polos cost $45 then. I paid $105 for one this year! One thing that's really interesting to me is the price of video games. In '85-89, Nintendo then Sega Genesis, those games were $50-70 then. That's still the price today which is kinda amazing. Even my Sega CD in '91 was $300. I guess you're right in some regards.