Flipping through channels while staying home sick from school or bored at your grandparents' house in the 2000s, enjoying the soothing sounds and satisfying visuals of daytime TV infomercials.
Yeah because the world doesn't change and all the people do the world is always the same as it always has been Keep putting to get over this world has changed gone since
I use these videos as a way to fall asleep. They remind me of when I was 9 years old watching tv at my grandmas house. I’d always fall asleep to the commercials and it still works lol
I was in high school from 1999 to 2003 and I can say this absolutely how it was lol I seriously can't tell you how many times that stupid Magic Bullet infomercial sucked me into its full run time 🤣🤣🤣
Looking back on these fills me with a weird emotion. something like nostalgia. but Nostalgia is usually thought of as "looking back on a good time". I wouldn't describe the moments I spent watching these on TV as a good time. When I last saw these commercials back to back like this, I was a kid. and I was probably at my grandmas house. I would have been bored out of my damn mind. I usually liked to play outside or on my DS or PSP. So while I do have a nostalgia for "aahh... a simpler time"... if you asked me "Would you want to go back to that time?"... I would probably immediately say "fuck no" but I wanna think on that one for a bit. There's a few different comments saying "this is what ultimate freedom looks like" or "I wish I could go back to that simpler time" or "I used to hate watching these but here I am now..." I kinda agree and relate to those, in a way. when I was a kid, this was my low point... This old low point is now so foreign to me that it seems almost preferable to some of my mid or even high points. The worst day, at that time in my life, was the cold and rainy day that I couldn't go outside. my DS/PSP was dead, I had forgotten it at home, or I was grounded. I went to my grandma's and she had errands to run or she was doing crosswords/sudoku. Usually at my grandmas, we liked to play cards together. poker, slapjack, crazy 8, rummy, war... we played a LOT of cards. I would have been watching these during a time when she or I didn't want to play cards. maybe I was too tired or she was too tired. That was the worst day I would have. I guess the best way to describe my feelings towards these commercials is thin layer of nostalgia over a visceral feeling of boredom and an anxiety of wasted time. "I could be having actual FUN right now" "I wish there was someone I could play with" "I wish my psp would charge faster" "why'd I have to talk back to my dad, I could be playing Spiderman right now..." and it makes me think... what things in my life am I going to look back on in this way in the future? what low points in my current life are going to seem like heaven compared to the misery that awaits me later on down the line? I'm starting to get joint and back pain. I'm starting to just feel tired and grumpy for no reason. There's probably going to be a time when I look back on days like today where I'm just sad and slightly sore and locked in my apartment and I'm gonna think "wow... that was my low point? that's nothing compared to what my daily aches and pains and stresses cause me these days" not gonna lie, it makes me feel a little hopeless. but I guess that's what nostalgia is for.
have a few points, maybe they'll make you feel better, maybe they'll make you feel worse, but I'll give it a try. For one thing, our brains write and rewrite memories all the time. Over time, we slowly forget bits and pieces of our memories to make room for new ones, and then our brains unintentionally try and fill in the gaps. It's possible that you could've had worse days in your childhood than those melancholy ones that you're remembering right now, but your brain represses them. Many people look back on their childhoods through certain lenses and forget how intense certain feelings and emotions were. Heck, people even forget how challenging school was. I help tutor kids and the material is easy for me now, but I remember school feeling like any other 40 hour a week full-time job no matter what grade it was because it was appropriately challenging for my brain capacity at the time. Having a lot of trauma also helps change perspective, for better or for worse. I find that my outlook on life is much more positive now in my late 20s that I've been through some things. Toxic relationships taught me to value the good people around me. Chronic illness taught me that a pain free day is an amazing one full of endless opportunities and pleasantries. People also brush off being sleep deprived but it's more serious than people realize, it's arguably just as bad as being withheld from food and water. It's a vital human need, so it's perfectly valid to acknowledge a bad day as being tired and grumpy, because one of your basic survival needs isn't being met. And even though it might seem like your tiredness is for no apparent reason, so many factors can affect a night's sleep, even down to food and drink choices. And for my last point, there's no guarantee that you'll live long enough to make it to your 80s and 90s so you very well may be worrying about a time in your life that isn't going to even happen. I say 80s and 90s, because people like my dad's group of friends are in their 50s and 60s and still run marathons and go skiing and ocean swimming just like any other leisurely day in their lives. Again, I don't know if any of these points are relative or whether they'll help or not, but your comment definitely interested me.
I think I find this unexpectedly relatable. I feel alone in certain feelings plenty of times. I don't want to say you're alone in this one. Like I said, unexpectedly relatable, but I hadn't really thought too much on a unique feeling such as this one. I don't like feeling unique, unusual feelings, in part because I want to talk about them. But it seems no one gets it, but I can only speculate. Anyway, your comment made me think a bit. I also played outside, or on my DSi, or PSP. I also get a nostalgic type of feeling for old devices like that. I guess because when they were just produced, the world was simply different. I wasn't addicted to apps, wasting my life away browsing. I don't know what else to say. But I hope the best for you my fellow man.
I fell asleep listening to this, and it actually made me get lost back in time as i drifted to sleep. Almost like i was back in 2006 at my childhood home, laying on the couch, taking a nap after school.
The 1-800-contacts and brand power commercials both made me involuntarily gasp from the shock of the sound of these long forgotten memories being unearthed
All these could also be apart of the “staying up too late in the 2000s” compilation too. 1-800-contacts, The Jewelry Exchange, Liberty, 1-800-dentist, Video professor, Life Alert, Scooter Store, mixed with some PSAs and local ads for community colleges and car dealerships and you get the picture.
For me it would be Grandma’s house, my Pokémon blanket, and Food Network! Giada, Barefoot Contessa, until we got up to play Rummy 500, then we would turn on the Big Band channel to play music in the background.
@@michelleobamasthicccocc822 maybe they just thought their kids would see something bad on there? a lot of people make awful assumptions about kids watching TV or playing games and how they will be corrupted if they see the wrong thing, but I never understood that. my parents used to let me watch family guy, South Park, all of that good stuff, and play games like gta, and from what I've been told I was always a really polite and well behaved child. idk, maybe different people react to that's stuff a different way. doesn't mean you should shield your child from absolutely everything though.
Magic bullet infomercial was my favorite. I could watch the hour long one multiple times. Never did buy one though. Also strawberry and cream cremesavers were the best.
Ahhhhh! Brand Power ads with a Canadian accent sounds so weird and rather monotone. (I'm Australian, so the specific ads don't mean much to me, but the general vibe does). Also. The amount of medical/medication ads seems a little funny to me.
@@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer Huh? I dont understand, I'm not a "Boomer". Your not the first person I've heard make this mistake, but I always thought EVERYONE knew what a Boomer was. A "Boomer" is someone who was born within the first 2 generations after WW2 between the years 1946-1964 and would be in the 60s-80s today. I WAS BORN IN 1985, so I'm a MILLENNIAL but I have more in common when it comes to music and my attitude with Gen X then I do with millennials because I grew up in the tail end of the 1980s and early 1990s
I'm 25 and the only thing I really ever watched was cartoons. The OG teen titan, cat dog, rocket power, teletubbies or barney the dinosaur, magic school bus, hey Arnold. And ALOT of video games like runescape and world of warcraft at the time. Then I got a dreamcast ,Nintendo 64, gameboy, xbox, ps2. I remember Glover and didi kong racing VERY fondly on n64
