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Bubble gum cigarettes are pretty fucked up from today’s perspective, but back then we all thought it was completely normal to condition children to become smokers.
did you ever have the hollow ones that blew candy "smoke" you exhaled through them??
in australia they weren't even gum, they were like musk stick lollies
they were also literally named the f slur due to the british colloquialism for cigarettes, until they were changed to "fads"
all the weird, niche activities that were 90s-only have already been mentioned, so I'll just admit that the weirdest thing I did back in the day, I still do:
trust strangers online with the personal details of my life
why do I tell any of you what is actually going on with me? why have I trusted a few of you with my actual contact information that allows you to know who I am irl?
idfk. the promise of the internet, I guess: that you can find friends far away from your location that can deeply relate to the things that you're going through.
that makes the risk worth it.
we grew up being into Invader Zim, Charlie the Unicorn, YouTube Poop, Gmod machinima... we have zero room to judge "weird" roflmao
edit: also Newgrounds animations, e.g. Homestar Runner
charlie bit my finger 🙃
Mr T Ate My Balls
Buy the wcw and wwf ppvs when they went to tape because we couldn't afford the ppv's.
Well, that was until we got the black box for the tv.
Also just taoe trading in general, i must've been scammed like a dozen times as a teenager because i just trusted the people that it actually was an FMW best of compilation and not just a garbage copy on a blank tape.
God I made so much money as a kid from selling tapes
I was the only kid in town with a dual-head VCR and my grandpa had a ton of blank tapes from his job. I'd copy movies and sell them for like $3. I bought a Dreamcast with that money.
My partner has a gen Z brother. Recently her insta and tiktok handles were blasted on a throwaway tiktok account along with her brother's. She didn't even know until the person contacted her directly, saying her brother was a predator etc..
My partner, having dealt with predatory behaviour herself; obviously wanted to hear her out.
Anyway the issue was he'd apparently hypnotised her over discord chat (not voice/video) into calling herself a different name and buying heels instead of vans. That was the most coherent version of events we could get, as she just kept reiterating that he "stole her mind". She lives in the USA around 2,500m away from where we are, and they've never met in person.
Ultimately it was left advising the poor girl to speak to a professional, as it seemed like she was having a bit of a breakdown, as well as advising her to speak to authorities if she felt predatory behaviour had been committed, rather than attempting to doxx his unknowing family members online.
Honestly it's the most 'much ado about nothing' situation I've heard in a long time; and brought back not so fond memories of being an emotionally unstable teenager myself.
Hang in there gen Z. Brain juice levels out soon, and you'll be picking up old people hobbies like fishing or pottery instead of feeling everything at once in no time.
There used to be a single HUGE gummy candy you could sometimes buy at places. Sometimes it would be shaped like a foot or skull. If you forgot a package of gummy bears or gummy worms on the dashboard in the sun, you'd get pretty much the same thing.
Sleepovers where you'd rent a video game that wouldn't have any instruction manual and both "the internet" and "gamefaqs.com" weren't really a thing yet. Spend all weekend not getting more than a level or two into a game.
Flintstones branded "Push Pops" in Orange Sherbert flavor.
Choco-Tacos...
Micro-machines, Monsters in My Pocket, Beanie Babies, Slap Bracelets... seemed like there was a whole-ass cottage industry making novelty #2 pencils. In my 30's I found a box with a sizable collection from middle/high school.
flintstones pushpops and chocotacos were fucking delicious
Micro-machines, Monsters in My Pocket, Beanie Babies, Slap Bracelets...
and polly pocket and tamagotchi!
Newgrounds. Stickdeath. Rejected. Flash games. Waiting 4 minutes to download a single jpeg.
a truck literally used to drive around the streets slowly and sell crates of soft drink (soda) to you.
remembered more:
We used to snort Pixie Stix, which were just straws filled with sour, flavored sugar. Really surprised we didn't fuck up our sinuses doing that or causing nosebleeds.
