I grew up in the '80s and '90s. No one I knew, not even the handful of more comfortably middle class kids, lived like this or could even dream of living like this.
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It's not just the imagined affluence, it's things no kids would've had at the same time, like Pokemon and Star Wars in that last picture.
aug 31, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, that is part of it too.
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Dunno, when I was a poor kid in the 80s and 90s, everybody had an XBox (2001), a GameCube (2001), Guitar Hero (2005), and Super Mario Galaxy (2007). I don’t know who you were hanging out with…
aug 31, 2025, 4:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh yeah, that time the Reagan admin accidentally sent everyone time machines instead of rejection letters for food stamps. That was wild.
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