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Shared Cultural Memories that never happened or are exaggerated af
| cowgod | 05/23/26 |
| Frutiger Aero | 05/23/26 |
| Emilio Estevez circa 2032 | 05/23/26 |
| Minor Poasting Annoyances | 05/23/26 |
| 80+ timeouts and he's keeping up his refreshing | 05/23/26 |
| peeface | 05/23/26 |
| cowgod | 05/23/26 |
| Emilio Estevez circa 2032 | 05/23/26 |
| Dunedain cowboy | 05/23/26 |
| Emilio Estevez circa 2032 | 05/23/26 |
| Minor Poasting Annoyances | 05/23/26 |
| Minor Poasting Annoyances | 05/23/26 |
| Emilio Estevez circa 2032 | 05/23/26 |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:12 PM Author: cowgod “Skinemax” as this omnipresent teenage rite of passage. Yes, late-night softcore existed on premium cable like Cinemax, but people talk like every suburban kid was up at 1:30 AM watching wall-to-wall erotic thrillers every night. In reality most households either didn’t have premium cable, parents locked it down, or the content was mostly boring softcore nonsense with saxophone music and plots about “seductive art gallery murders.” Scrambled porn channels in the 90s. This one is half-real but inflated into folklore. People describe it like some cyberpunk forbidden technology where entire generations trained themselves to decode static with their minds. Mostly it was just a noisy distorted screen where maybe every 40 seconds you’d see half a second of a shoulder or something. The mythology became stronger than the experience. “Everybody watched Lost together every week.” Massive show, yes. But retrospective memory turns it into a universal monoculture event on the level of the moon landing. Huge portions of the public either never watched it or dropped out after Season 2 when the mystery-box fatigue set in. “Nintendo playground wars.” People remember every schoolyard as some apocalyptic ideological conflict between Nintendo and Sega kids. In reality most children just played whatever console happened to be in the house. “Everyone had quicksand anxiety in the 80s/90s.” Internet meme historians love this one. Quicksand appeared in adventure media sometimes, but people now act like children thought death by quicksand was statistically imminent. “The Bermuda Triangle.” People in the 70s and 80s talked about it like commercial aviation was moments from collapse. Turns out boats and planes disappearing over decades in a heavily traveled region is not actually paranormal. “Everyone watched music videos on MTV all day.” By the late 90s, MTV itself barely showed music videos anymore, but culturally we remember a permanent golden age of nonstop videos. “Phone booths everywhere.” Younger people imagine cities looked like a noir film full of glowing pay phones. There were plenty, sure, but not every street corner looked like The Matrix.
“You could just show up at the airport 10 minutes before your flight pre-9/11.” Exaggerated into this lost libertarian golden age where air travel was like boarding a bus. Airports were still miserable, people still missed flights, security still existed, and airlines were already treating passengers like livestock by the late 90s.
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:14 PM Author: Frutiger Aero tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896838) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:43 PM Author: Emilio Estevez circa 2032 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896882) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:20 PM Author: Minor Poasting Annoyances (No Future) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896842) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:30 PM Author: 80+ timeouts and he's keeping up his refreshing Like half of these are straight up false (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896854) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:34 PM Author: peeface (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896860) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:42 PM Author: cowgod (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896878) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:43 PM Author: Emilio Estevez circa 2032 80+ shared cultural memories tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896884) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:42 PM Author: Dunedain cowboy (πΎπ£) All real and some survived for a time, for like 5 years GoT was bigger than the Super Bowl and bigger than anything else outside POTUS campaigns, just a massive monocultural wave that came and went. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896880) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:43 PM Author: Emilio Estevez circa 2032 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896881) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:43 PM Author: Minor Poasting Annoyances (No Future) Yeah GOT was everywhere and huge and then just totally vanished from existence for five years
It's kind of back in a low key way now and I like the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms show |
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:44 PM Author: Minor Poasting Annoyances (No Future) Video store nostalgia is hilarious because at the time Blockbuster etc. was reviled for homogenizing the video rental landscape and getting rid of mom and pop video stores and so on
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Date: May 23rd, 2026 6:59 PM Author: Emilio Estevez circa 2032 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5868478&forum_id=2#49896940) |