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Feb 28, 2024
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things were easier (because i was a kid) but it seemed so simple. where are all the frozen yogurt restaurants? why don’t people have cds anymore? bring back limewire and online chat blogs and weird websites and silly graphic t-shirts and chunky sneakers and twee and hipster styles. i miss collegehumor and buzzfeed. but i bring the nostalgia for myself back every day by dressing like i stepped out of a rhett and link music video and listening to modest mouse and metric and the yeah yeah yeahs. i love my digital camera and my dvds and volunteering at my university radio station.
Jan 20, 2025
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📺tablets didn't exist. cell phones existed but almost nobody had them. personally, my summers were riding my bike around town all day, reading books and watching movies, and playing with neighborhood kids. britney spears was my everything. youtube was something you looked at for fun every once in awhile in the computer room. people had computer rooms. everybody had a landline phone. some people had wall phones in their kitchens; i used to sit on the counter to talk to my friend on the phone. if you were poor, you didn't have any of the latest technology, so in many ways it was like the 90s. we had big box tvs and only watched movies on vhs until i was in middle school. the wii being released was huge. getting a wii was even huger. cartoons were better back then. spongebob was at its peak. teen girls crimped their hair and pierced their own noses. your parents would pay a teen girl to babysit you and then she would spend all day hanging out with her friends and pretending you didn't exist while talking about stuff your mom would flip if she knew you'd heard. mtv showed all kinds of awesome shows and you felt really cool if you got to see a few episodes of parental control or the osbournes or my super sweet 16 because your babysitter had it on. taylor swift was only popular with girls who liked country music. tube tops, spaghetti straps, wedge flip flops and tankinis were awesome. teen girls did not know how to do their makeup. malls were a much bigger thing and were hangout spots. cool girls got their prom dresses at the mall at deb. hot topic still looked awesome. you couldn't record tv shows and the only people who could watch stuff on demand were rich people. if you went to someone's house and they had an island in their kitchen you knew they were RICH. problem children were the exception in schools and not the rule. people weren't really happier; the recession fucked a lot of people over and started hurting poor people well before it affected middle and upper classes. teen girls did not have long fake nails, they had short nails that they painted alternating colors. getting your nails done by someone else was not nearly as common as it is today; it was really only done for special occasions like prom or a wedding. littlest pet shop pets, barbies, and polly pockets were the shit. people were really really really really really mean to anyone that wasn't skinny. proactiv was advertised literally everywhere all the time. twilight had all us fifth graders in a chokehold. emo kids got hardcore bullied. there were constant "anti-bullying" ads and videos and stuff but none of it addressed the root causes of bullying, aka racism homophobia transphobia classism etc. so none of it worked. there were hannah montana trading cards and some girls collected them. for some reason every girl had an asshole older brother. barrettes, butterfly hair clips, banana clips, and scrunchies were very much in. every kid in school watched spongebob and if you didn't you were considered the odd one out. if you went on a yearly family vacation you were considered rich.
for reference i turned 26 this year :)
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📃seeing older kids play with younger ones
sparkle toe shoes
Major Lazer’s ’Lean on’ (middle school nostalgia)
huge ginormous chocolate chip cookies
monkey bars
seeing someone reading at an empty bus stop
braces on tweens who haven’t quite grown into their teeth
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sparkle toe shoes
Major Lazer’s ’Lean on’ (middle school nostalgia)
huge ginormous chocolate chip cookies
monkey bars
seeing someone reading at an empty bus stop
braces on tweens who haven’t quite grown into their teeth
side parts
Jul 23, 2024
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⭐no pressure. scribble. swirl. stipple .. turn off the brain turn on the sgarpie™