@@Selkie7 bruh what? I’m talking about the music in general not the specific songs made at the time. I miss the era because I like the music genres that wete popular. New music sounds nothing like this era. The music does try to sound like this just isn’t as good. I swear people like you are always just looking for something to complain about smh
@@Selkie7”Why miss something that you can watch anytime” is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a while, watching something on a tiny screen is not the same as being in that space again, you’re not immersed into it, you’re just watching it on a screen!!!! Are you trying to say watching a TH-cam video is going to feel like you’re back in that time again, um no. I’m guessing you aren’t old enough to remember or have experienced the world before everyone had a phone glued to their hand, but it was soooo much better, I would give up all the conveniences that the iPhone/smartphones provide to have a less postured, fake, egotistical society, the difference is like night and day and seeing videos like this, that reminds me of how it used to be when people were present makes me sad, you probably have never experienced the world without being coddled and have a smartphone/iPhone holding your little baby hand! When I was in my 20s(2003-2013) the general consensus was that (as an example) you were an adult and doing something like, oh I don’t know, calling your parents for help whenever getting a dui is seen as you admitting to them and everyone that you cannot handle this situation on your own, I see the videos where it’s the first thing out of their mouths (once they realize things aren’t going their way), my friends and myself back in the day would rather die than call their parents in the middle of the night and ask for help once arrested! Pathetic! They are all so coddled, but also so dumb, they don’t know how to use critical thinking to help them make decisions and navigate through life, I’m guessing that critical thinking is a struggle for you, and every other gen alpha and gen z! Wow, dumb! It’s good to proofread your comments before posting them, it gives you a chance to not look stupid and (big and) as you read through the comment, proofreading; you can also decide if it’s relevant, is insightful in any way, or is just a decent comment/question/remark that needs to be included. 😮
It was both. Social media and smart phone able to hold social media ho hand in hand. It wasnt until the iphone people could watch youtube on their phone. That was the beginning of the end
This is also before you had to think literally 3 times before saying something as to not offend someone… I miss the wokeless days where you had to actually try to offend someone
@@quantumblurrrlooks terrible😂 Graduated 04, spent my entire summers roaming our small town skateboarding. What were we missing? E sports, social media, streamers? People under 25 can’t even make eye contact let alone hold a conversation outside of a text thread, this looks terrible because your attention span doesn’t exist and your brain doesn’t know what to do outside of looking at screens. Anyway I’m done on the toilet (where most of our screen time comes from) and plan on starting to get the pool open, enjoy van life kiddo.
@@quantumblurrr we’ll disagree there. Lucky enough to be born in the 90s and saw the golden era of before/after the tech boom. People in that generation were much more interesting and had individual character. Now everyone is just a braindead drone destroyed by IG and TikTok 😂
I would have to say probably not much better. There was a lot of stupid stuff that was way more stigmatized than it is now. We've also undergone a huge revolution in acceptance and talking openly about mental health and stuff since 2006.
Ah no, the 2000s (2000-2009) were a hellscape for body image. Like actually a very terrible time. There are things from that era to be nostalgic for fs, but 2000s beauty standards were *not* it. Social media wasn't promoting it, but literally all media told you there was one way to look, two if you were lucky
My daughter has been grounded from her for a while and before school ended she said “can I have my phone so I can get my friends number before school ends” I’m like “you do know paper exists right? Just write it down”
Statistically less than half of those people are married and a huge chunks of the married ones have been divorced. Nobody is paying attention to the fact that rates of marriage and children are falling drastically. Probably because it costs money to get married, have kids and avoid constant arguements about bills.... Social Media ruined our entire culture in under 20 years. Communities are fake now, online. Relationships are fake now, online. We are all happily driving ourselves off a cliff and nobody cares
I graduated in 2011 and these days were a legitimate better time. I know people say that all the time, but it was. Just enough tech to make life easier but not enough where it ruled our lives. It was more social media that messed things up. It's so toxic
Every generation says this about their school years. No one has experience from a time before their school year or after and can't judge fairly, in addition what students consider "good" or "best times" changes throughout the years, to give us the fact that all statements of the likes are useless...
@@spoperty4940I generally agree with the spirit of what you’re saying and to use it as guiding wisdom but practically speaking, the tech industry has been verifiably irresponsible and manipulative with their influence. This isn’t purely about different generations having an idealized memory of their youth creating bias. Even stuff like kids playing outside instead of on phones. It’s not just because of tech, it’s because it’s so unsafe for kids to roam now. Kids these days don’t even get the same options as before and for horrific reasons. I think it’s safe to start saying that it used to be better without painting it with the same brush as previous generations, but even they had a point to a certain extent. Progress upsets the apple cart BUT good stuff always gets lost along the way in the way we do it. Our economic and political systems drive growth at all costs and it’s unfair to assume that won’t translate to the everyday person losing out on critical experiences with our culture and environment because of the extreme and reckless pressures for change driven primarily by greed and power struggles. Younger generations deserve understanding for their joys but we must be responsible to raise them and do our part to hand them a better world. We can’t be responsible for that if it’s impossible for us to discern if the world is actually improved or not, ergo it’s not all about generational disconnect and differences in opinion. The kids in these clips are way less traumatized, more freely interacting socially in constructive ways, and show evidence of less stress. This objectively was better than today, and phones are both part of the solution and the problem. Both things can be true at once, which is unfortunate for today’s kids because I don’t think any sane person genuinely wants them to have it worse. I’d love to be happily surprised that things are good for them, but they have consistently told us it’s not ok. They’re not doing well. And if they are saying it’s not ok, and we’re saying it’s not ok, it’s sadly fair to say it was better for the generation in these clips.
@@TheBigBenji890 I graduated in 2012 and they definitely weren’t, people were backwards in many ways compared to today, you’re just viewing it through nostalgia colored glasses
@@RunD.Ones1s It’s an objective fact that social media and technology has progressed so much that it’s done harm to our society. People are more depressed and lack social skills now more than ever. Our attention spans are also taking a huge hit and I’d argue that because of that you don’t see nearly the amount of creativity that you did years ago before technology and social media took over. It’s also a big reason for lack of individuality. I don’t think you guys in the comment section realize what harm technology and social media has done to us especially kids. And that’s only touching surface level problems. It gets much deeper the more you learn and research
The internet was better back then, too. And it was nice being able to log into your accounts without having everything tracked through your phone number...
Unfortunately, i grew up in the middle era, i got a taste of bliss and then a punch to the face with technology. It made a big difference, especially since we were the experimental era. I feel almost, disconnected from my self when i’m on my phone now. It’s not a coincidence i’m glued to it right now. It was all apart of the plan.
Yep. Just a completely different world than what I anticipated as a tween. It’s hard to describe the shift in words. I hope we do a course correction but I’m not optimistic based on how addictive tech is designed to be now
Makes me feel like I'm from another planet tbh... The older gen stole the system and ran it into the ground, the newer gen stole the digital and ran it into subscription/pay to play
I miss the days before swiping was a thing. Even when MySpace existed, guys could simply message me. Everything still felt organic before dating apps all switched to swiping. That was the true end.
Do you really want to know the answer to that? Most if not all parents want to actually know they answer. They just want to pretend that they had nothing to do with it! I’m not saying you’re a parent.
We are in our 30s - overworked, overtaxed, broke af, and overall just want everybody to friggen chill. Also want people to put the phones down and learn how to act like normal people again. Maybe read a book for once, because...damn. No offense intended - the school system went to complete 💩 after 2007. I blame our govt, media, and school system. Not our people. They did this on purpose. Fr though..start with 1984, and take a nice long look around. No bias, just observe, and think about it. They had us read and analyze that book in 7th grade, and little did we know...we are real close to being in a very serious situation that will be near impossible to prevent or crawl our way out of. Pretty much already there, and smart phones play a huge role in it. We just want life to be like it used to be before the internet brainwashed everybody, and insanity replaced reality. 😞
@SolidNateMovies it's the truth. Anyone that was there there could tell you. People used to talk more. Yes people still read or listened to music and avoided talking, but it was nothing like it is now.
It was also real life. You would call your friends or just drop by to say hello. Kids spent most of recess or breaks joking and laughing instead of on their phones. Kids today feel like zombies sometimes and I don't hold that against them, it's just sadly the reality of the modern world
Nostalgic nonsense spouted from idiots. Says all this while watching it on their smartphone. If you want to go back to a time before the HELLISH social media VIRUS took over, fucking delete your social media for a start.
I truly miss these days. Sitting outside the gas station drinking icees after skateboarding on the 130 degree black top just laughing and not thinking too much
wasnt gonna make this comment, BUT YOU SKATE AND WILL GET IT... these zoomers ask where my footage is... sorry, not all of us had hundreds if not htousands of dollars to afford one of those shoulder cannons of a camera.
I wish I could do this now, hanging out anywhere these days gets the cops called on you for loitering. Some friends and I had a pizza party and boardgame night at our neighborhood pool when a neighbor called the cops on us for ‘suspicious behavior and suspect of drug use’ because apparently it was weird to see 7 teenagers in a pool at dark. It was 8 oclock and we were playing DND. No phones in sight, just music and fun. Unfortunately kids being kids has been penalized, and parents are crazy protective now. I wouldn’t be allowed out of the house without a phone, let alone hang out with friends anywhere. Its not always just technology’s fault, sometimes its society as a whole becoming a lot less kind and a lot more paranoid.
@@beatles42ohgg94right?! We had a vhs camera and lost all of our footage in a fire. Including a video of me and my best friend James heelfliping a 9 stair back to back
I miss these days so badly. My mom and sister were still alive and life had meaning. Sometimes it’s really hard to keep going I just want to be in my moms house again
On the other hand cell phones saved countless lives with ease of communication and improved the life of billions dramatically, increased funding in digital products used by average people which increased it's fame and research leading to a multitude of benefits.
I was 16 in 2006 so probably the same age as these kids. It was great growing up in the 90s and 00s. Everything went to shit around 2010. I'm so glad I had a childhood without smart phones.
I was 12 in 2006, and you definitely are right. Yeah, I would say 2010/2011 is really the year smartphones reached critical mass. All of a sudden, everyone was just constantly on FB, MySpace, Tumblr, Twitter, Insta, Snapchat, etc...
Same age as you. Idk if you have kids but you know, it’s not impossible to share this level of connection with them. No screens for the little ones, playing outside and enjoying life. It’s not over - it’s just underground lol
Class of 08’.. Most of us had flip phones and some had BlackBerrys. Nothing close to what today was like. MySpace was cool AF looking back. Life was so new and connected but not in a imprisoning way like today
Class of 09 here. I had the “chocolate” phone at one point and then upgraded to blackberry 😅 you are right about the imprisoning part. Loved high school !
@@itisAlex_ YESSS! I still have my black Chocolate Flip lol. I can’t pull myself to toss it out. Still have old ringtones that are on it. Good times back then
@@NinjaNick636 I can’t believe it still works!! I have my blackberry but won’t turn on 😭 every time I come across it I wish for a miracle but hasn’t happened yet 🤣
@@itisAlex_graduated 09 I had the voyager with its silly touch screen and before that I had the razr one friend had the juke another had the sidekick the blackberries the envy and one of my friends had the flip t phone from iron man I forget what it’s called omg those were the days no smart phones it was such a better time
Class of 09, I didn’t get my first phone until I graduated and it was a gift lol it was the slide up one with the keyboard and I’ve never loved a phone more since
That was the most wholesome nostalgia I needed today. Anyone notice how anxiety and panic attacks skyrocketed after smartphones? I really feel for the young generations and their struggles. Life was so simple back then. Class of 2000 looked and felt the same in the vid.
All the trends of the ages like bringing back vinyl. I can’t wait for the no smartphone trend. Where kids carry clear Nokia’s that flash multi led’s and have no camera.
the youth are very vulnerable and impressionable because thats normal... but whats not normal is them being exposed to literally billions of peoples opinions, that their young minds arent ready yet to understand or process. its better to ease into that kind of thing when youre older and more mature and can make sense of everyone and their opinions and how people are in general
Class of 2000 here as well, the first thing I noticed watching the video was how happy and playful they are and second the slight embarrassment being in front of a camera for many of them. I often miss pre smartphone days
Class of early 2010s here. We didn’t actually start seeing lots of people with smart phones until like 2010-2011 we all pretty much had a cellphone of some type tho (LGflips or the keyboard phones) Around 2012 was when was trying out the new social media. The old ones being Just Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. So pretty much the average kid had a Phone for sending pics/text/calls and a iPod/MP3 player for music/games. That was how we did it. It was possible for some kids to just get lost in the tech but it was definitely more boring and inconvenient than just doing it all on one phone. So people just hung out…
@tuckerbugeater if you had any kind of intelligence you would be able to understand they didn't say it didn't exist. It's always existed and will always exist. They mean before social media you could escape it now days it's at school and online. Stfu next time
There were but so much worse now. Alot of kids do horrible crap cuz they have a phone & want CLOUT etc so it's gotten alot worse! No denying that. I feel bad for kids these days. My son is 6 & I'm terrified for him
There were. But we could fight our bullies and it not be posted to social media. Bullies dont pick on people who can slug. I have first hand experience. Granduated in 06, had OSS suspension 3x in hs for fighting bullies
I remember when I had to physically walk or ride my bike to my friends house and knock on the door to see if they could hangout haha now you just text or DM 😂
@@XxFluffyxX Same, I have so many numbers memorized still. We didn't know it, but they were the good days. I remember the worst of it, when you'd call the house phone knowing your friend is in trouble and grounded awkwardly waiting for the parent to pick it up 😂
@@eavye95 Omg yes exactly! I can't even remember my passwords anymore with autofill lmao. And I remember calling my friend and having to wait for her as she'd switch to the cordless phone, only for her sisters to pick up the phone on another line and start talking to me! She'd get so mad 😂 I really do miss those days, or even the early days when the ipods *just* came out. And I'm only 23! I'm hoping kids use their imaginations as much as we did when we were kids- they grow up so fast now!!
That’s the biggest thing. It’s hard to have a genuine conversation with ppl. They get caught off guard when you’re interested in them and conversation. Obviously not everyone’s like this but big difference I noticed in my age group 24 class of 2018.
@@NVishuddhayou might not be having genuine conversations with people because you might be boring or people aren’t interested in you. You will find friends eventually. Just don’t force people it’s a big turn off.
Class of ‘06 here 🥳 Recently came to the realization that the babies born the year we graduated in 2006, are graduating high school this year. I’m fine. 😭 What a time to be alive.
06 here as well. I knew I'd miss those days as I was living them. So many first memories created during those times. Now life is the same routine day after day.
On the older side of GenZ, kind of agree social media sucks, but the goofiness isn’t gone. I remember one time as it was raining really hard, and everyone was waiting for the bus, the fountain on our high school’s campus began to overflow, and a freshman took a running start and jumped straight in. Let me tell you I’d wanted to do that for three years before that kid was brave enough to actually do it, and I guess the rest of the student body present there felt the same way because the crowd went INSANE. Everyone was screaming and cheering, the administrators were pissed, a day later the internet exploded because the kid got suspended and the backlash was so great she ended up he let back in early, not to mention on the school’s meme account it was dominated by jokes about it for months because someone caught it on video. Truly a core memory from my teenage years
True while social media sucks for the most part it breeds a new type of fun and goofiness that older people wouldn’t understand. I guess each generation had their own distinct strengths and weaknesses.
Social media already existed then. Kids didn't have smart phones, but everyone had Myspace or Bebo. And was soon to have Facebook. There was already bullshit like online bullying. And we had cellphones they just weren't smart.
@@kindallnight1615not sure how this story portrays a new kind of goofiness no one can understand. It’s a simple story and the only thing new about it was that someone caught it on video and the school had a formal meme account.
@@courtneyr6645 I wasn’t talking about the story but just in general of how genz and alpha have their own distinct fun and goofiness at school that older generations just wouldn’t understand.
Yeah we grew up with jackass. We just needed legit camcorders to make videos. So we didn’t get to save all the hilareous shit that would go viral now. It’s just stories we retell when we’re together and die laughing
For me its the smiles. Smiling for a camera now is like coded into people and its just acting. You have your social media mode you go into. Its not just like real actual living anymore.
Soon, there is going to be the rapture. It's when there will be trumpet sounds, and after the trumpet sounds, God will lift his people from here. Also, God said people should be living by the Bible. Amen, and God bless you. ❤* John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have eternal life". ❤
Nothing but good times, I was born in the early 80's so the 90's were my best years, I think before social media and smart phones we were all just genuinely happy. Our friends and ourselves were our entertainment, music, outdoors. Good times, I miss those times so much.
But it's actually wrong to say that the 90s were your best time, your whole life should be your best time, otherwise you'll get to an age when you're just mourning what used to be. But while you're doing that, your whole life passes you by and you find yourself in a kind of gray, wasting mass. My son will be 4 this year and before him I thought for a long time that the 90s were my best time and that something so beautiful would never come back. He has proved me wrong ☺️
I was in middle school in 2006 and used to always use Opera Mini to browse the Internet on my dad's Blackberry. Around 2006-2008 I only knew a handful of kids who had a smartphone. iPhones were expensive and didn't work except on Cingular which was not in our area.
Only at 15/16 years of teaching at this point. BUT, I can tell you that attention spans were short but are now non-existent. So they don't learn and retain information as well. Kids were more respectful and actually followed instructions, now they just follow trends. Kids back in the day were more original and themselves. They weren't constantly looking around themselves and trying to be someone or something else. They had a relaxed confidence to take chances and try new things that I don't really see much anymore 😢
Teacher of 36 years here! Phones changed everything. More cheating, more bullying, more depression, more anxiety, more absences. So our school makes them lock them up from 8-3! Changed everything!! So many metrics improved, but we're still the only one of the 6 high schools to do it. It takes a visionary and strong administration willing to defy parents who freaked out! Kids now talk to each other between classes and at lunch! Awesome!
they are the investors the investors children grow up and rule the world thats why colleges are full of rich kids no mor middle class kids there will be a ruling classs and a slave working class thats how they want things
It’s interesting, I’m seeing a lot of comments from some older people talking about how much we (the younger generation) are missing out on. I can’t say my Highschool experience has been any different than the above. Kids still mess around. Yes there are those who are obsessed with social media and popularity, but that’s always been a teenage struggle pretty separate from technology. I do not feel isolated because of technology or social media. I am grateful for the connections and opportunities they give me. Socially I am not stunted, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. I’m grateful for the time I grew up in. I am thankful for that I have now.
And I'm sure the more time that passes newer technologies will become mainstream and you'll look back at your high school years and yearn for the days of past when things still seemed simple. Nostalgia has a weird way of putting everything into rose tinted glasses like that
Yeah, i'm homeschooled due to mental health reasons and i don't know what i'd do without my phone It's not real, i know, but it helps me feel some sort of connection with other people even if it's not real life
You're also a girl. Girls have it easy no matter the time in the last 60 years and are therefore less affected by these things. Like is whatever you want it to be as long as your parents didn't royally blow it.
Dude same. People in here are just nostalgic convincing themselves that things have changed more than they have or something. I have so many friends I would have never met without social media and there are so many people I would’ve lost contact with without social media.
'09 too. I remember writing down peoples phone numbers on my arm lol. Even in sharpie if I had to. Parties were fucking awesome, everyone was involved. Not everyone looking down.
Graduated in 11. It was still a lot like this, most kids families in my community couldn't afford more than a basic cell phone. Feels like I got out just in time
I went to high school 2005 to 2008 and I didn’t get a smart phone until my freshman year of college. It was such a different time man. Just tell people to meet you somewhere at 8 and spread the word and everybody showed up, you didn’t need to coordinate or anything. You’re either there or you werent
I'd wager even the few years after smart phones became ubiquitous, it was still mostly like this. I don't think we started seeing the real serious issues with kids and screens until social media algorithms learned how to facilitate doomscrolling and distill the absolute worst, most gripping factors of screen addiction.
@@selenite.-qn8cc no theyre not dude lmao. School was so different in 2006-2010 its not even funny. I graduated in 2010 and by 2009 the world had already changed from this to internet era.
Im class of 2011 and smart phones werent really a thing for us, at least where I lived. Facebook was thought to be for "old people" and we had myspace and mocospace IYKYK for social media lol.
I'm the same age. When I first joined Facebook in middle school it was ONLY open to high school and college students. You had to be verified by people in your school. I just asked some high school freshmen I knew to approve me so I could join as if I were a HS student. It wasn't until later (2007??) that non-student adults could join. Most people my parents age were just catching on to Facebook by the time I graduated in my area.
Hmmm Facebook was fairly common where I was at and I lived in a pretty rural area. And a graduating class of 52. Myspace was popular in middle school but Facebook took it over quickly. We were just getting smart phones as we graduated. A fair amount of kids had cellphones (not smartphones). I myself did have a crappy Nokia flip phone but only because track/field and other stuff.
2004 was the year I went from school. It was such a nice time... now watching this makes me wanna cry. What has this world turned into... Most people nowdays dont know who and where they are and want to be. THey are fragile and not seem to have fun anymore... jeez i wish back those times...
Humanity is more “connected” than we have ever been in history but at the same time we are so disconnected from each other. People don’t know how to interact with each other anymore. And the rise of the smartphone/social media has a huge part in that.
This is a utopian highschool experience, what I remember is just chainsmoking, alcoholic bullies, contant fear of stepping outside of some arbitrary norm, mean teachers, no help if you were struggling in any way 🤣
I wish I could go back…So many memories… So many regrets… I’d do it all again if I could. I was so depressed back then but I know things would be different if I could go back… God I miss all this 😔
As a high school teacher for 24 years, I miss these kids. Kids today just don't have the same spark. I watched this three times, but it made me so sad.
I guess that's one upside to having a computer with a camera in your pocket. You can always record the good times. But I would argue the good times that you would want to record or are there TO record are fewer and far between today than back then as well. Cause back then people actually hung out IRL and did things together IRL. Now it's just talking online/face timing/etc a lot of the time.
Well that's a huge advantage of smartphones and portable tech that these videos seem to forget about. Nowadays not only Is it really easy to take photos and videos about stuff and store them at a low-cost, but also preserve them. In 2002 you had portable cameras and such but you didn't have cloud storage. The fact is smartphones enable us to chronicle these memories in a way that was never possible. What made things terrible about the internet was not the phones themselves. It was more about the corporate consolidation of all online discourse.. Internet has been an active place for years, decades. By the time this video was made, Facebook was already out and people were already addicted to it. You just had to be a college student to use it.
@@toshiro-kanoRight well and also cloud storage and just cheap SD storage. It was not around back then. So not only was it much harder to capture these moments but to preserve them If you didn't pay to have stuff developed, or if you didn't devote a lot of time to storing up VHS isn't CDs and so on.... People end up moving and losing the stuff, or cutting it to make space for something else. But the thing that makes me sick about these videos is that they're acting like 2006 with some Utopia, even though we were actively committing a war crime in Iraq at the time.
My mom used to get onto me for not recording things or taking pictures when I was younger - even when I went to a convention with friends, she basically tasked me with taking photos since I notoriously don't. And out of the two of us, she's way better at texting, calling, using social media, etc. I get in trouble for accidental ghosting, especially since I live away from home now
Im grateful to social media as it's allowed me to speak with my classmates and friends far easier than in person. Im horrible at speaking and look angry when im tired tbh
It LOOKED the same for the most part. Really the only thing that's changed since then and now is the smartphone and electric vehicles. Sure, some other stuff has changed, but those are the most noticable
Also class of 06 and I agree, things felt very different back then. The culture has changed drastically. One thing I hear people repeat over and over again under these videos is that happiness ended as smartphones and social media took over. I don’t actually think that’s the case completely. People are definitely feeling overwhelmed and lost probably due to the constant bombardment with almost real time news from around the world and our privacies are eroding because we know everyone has a high quality camera and microphone in their pocket. Just as people became depressed and overwhelmed during the Industrial revolution and the age of modernity more generally due to the jarring changes taking place, it’s going to take some time to catch up. How we fix some of these issues and regulate how these things affect our lives, specifically for young people will hopefully bring the future generations of young people some comfort so that they too can enjoy their youth the way we were able to. Just my two cents.
The moment when they were in the gymnasium lmao, today whenever we're forced to go watch smth in my hs like 90% look at their phone instead of talking to other people
It’s crazy look at these highschoolers. They look like adults now if you go to a high school all the kids look like middle schoolers. What are they putting in our food?
I hate people who blame the youth for how they are today. It's the older generation that put this technology in their hands. It's their fault these kids turned out the way they did.
The worst part of smartphones is the expectation that you’re always available.
Same with cell phones and pagers
You’re not tho. It’s perfectly fine to not answer every text right away.
That's a "them" problem lol
That's not even close to the worst part.
Yeah. For sure
It actually hurts watching these
Ug, same. Life actually used to be fun.
Agreed
Mourning a lost world.
@@kooweirdkid even more when u couldnt experience this times like me
@@maloryj7165bro I miss it so bad!! Getting home from school hoping on gears of war one on the original 360
This era of music was too good.
I miss it.
Yeah but 2007 was not the year of smartphones. That would be more or less mass adopted in 2010 at earliest in schools.
Why miss something you can play on YT anytime!?
People seriously get carried away with the nostalgia sometimes
@@Selkie7 bruh what? I’m talking about the music in general not the specific songs made at the time. I miss the era because I like the music genres that wete popular. New music sounds nothing like this era. The music does try to sound like this just isn’t as good.
I swear people like you are always just looking for something to complain about smh
🎶 We're burning down the highway skyline🎶
@@Selkie7”Why miss something that you can watch anytime” is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a while, watching something on a tiny screen is not the same as being in that space again, you’re not immersed into it, you’re just watching it on a screen!!!! Are you trying to say watching a TH-cam video is going to feel like you’re back in that time again, um no. I’m guessing you aren’t old enough to remember or have experienced the world before everyone had a phone glued to their hand, but it was soooo much better, I would give up all the conveniences that the iPhone/smartphones provide to have a less postured, fake, egotistical society, the difference is like night and day and seeing videos like this, that reminds me of how it used to be when people were present makes me sad, you probably have never experienced the world without being coddled and have a smartphone/iPhone holding your little baby hand! When I was in my 20s(2003-2013) the general consensus was that (as an example) you were an adult and doing something like, oh I don’t know, calling your parents for help whenever getting a dui is seen as you admitting to them and everyone that you cannot handle this situation on your own, I see the videos where it’s the first thing out of their mouths (once they realize things aren’t going their way), my friends and myself back in the day would rather die than call their parents in the middle of the night and ask for help once arrested! Pathetic! They are all so coddled, but also so dumb, they don’t know how to use critical thinking to help them make decisions and navigate through life, I’m guessing that critical thinking is a struggle for you, and every other gen alpha and gen z! Wow, dumb! It’s good to proofread your comments before posting them, it gives you a chance to not look stupid and (big and) as you read through the comment, proofreading; you can also decide if it’s relevant, is insightful in any way, or is just a decent comment/question/remark that needs to be included. 😮
Cell phones aren't what made things worse, it was social media.
Well, having social media available in your pocket is worse
Ok , but why ? Could you explain
It was both. Social media and smart phone able to hold social media ho hand in hand.
It wasnt until the iphone people could watch youtube on their phone. That was the beginning of the end
underrated comment ,, btw world was good until social media became overrated.
And I think more precisely videos on social media
Its physically painful not just knowing what weve lost, but having been there for it.
And watching it fade away so fast in front of our eyes.
Perfectly said
This is also before you had to think literally 3 times before saying something as to not offend someone… I miss the wokeless days where you had to actually try to offend someone
@@BreadGood_21 The key to getting that back is not thinking three times and just saying the first thing. Let's take it back.
mentally********
Life before smartphones was gold
No it wasn't lol. This looks terrible. Grass is always greener on the other side
I think it was better without 👍
@@quantumblurrrlooks terrible😂
Graduated 04, spent my entire summers roaming our small town skateboarding.
What were we missing? E sports, social media, streamers? People under 25 can’t even make eye contact let alone hold a conversation outside of a text thread, this looks terrible because your attention span doesn’t exist and your brain doesn’t know what to do outside of looking at screens.
Anyway I’m done on the toilet (where most of our screen time comes from) and plan on starting to get the pool open, enjoy van life kiddo.
@@quantumblurrr we’ll disagree there. Lucky enough to be born in the 90s and saw the golden era of before/after the tech boom. People in that generation were much more interesting and had individual character. Now everyone is just a braindead drone destroyed by IG and TikTok 😂
@@quantumblurrr nope the early 2000s was the best time. We had a fair amount of tech but no social media/internet slavery like there was post 2010~.
Pretty soon "class of 2026, life before AI took over" 😂
Lol, great point
Everyone looking at their phones lol
You're not kidding. That or life before everyone has a Neuralink in their head.
What would you see, everyone hunched over on their phone?
Rip Gen Z lmao
The smiles look genuine and real. Seeing kids now they all glued to screens and look depressed.
I can’t imagine how much better general self esteem was before social media.
I would have to say probably not much better. There was a lot of stupid stuff that was way more stigmatized than it is now. We've also undergone a huge revolution in acceptance and talking openly about mental health and stuff since 2006.
It's good now lol
@@melissajackson4001that and much more. We've learned and accepted so much.
What nah man it was harder to find ya people but you had experience once you did with dealing society
Ah no, the 2000s (2000-2009) were a hellscape for body image. Like actually a very terrible time. There are things from that era to be nostalgic for fs, but 2000s beauty standards were *not* it. Social media wasn't promoting it, but literally all media told you there was one way to look, two if you were lucky
Who else remembers those days when we had to write down phones numbers and put them on the fridge and use those super long curly wired phones to call
My daughter has been grounded from her for a while and before school ended she said “can I have my phone so I can get my friends number before school ends” I’m like “you do know paper exists right? Just write it down”
I MISS THAT SO MUCH!!! Ughhh 😢
"Super long curly wired phone" lmao that right there screams you weren't old enough to properly remember landlines.
@@conqueefador5136?? What
@conqueefador5136 maybe they described it cause most people past that era seeing OPs comment probably don’t even know what landlines are lmao.
It’s nice to see old clips as part of their core memories. Most of these teens are mothers/wives and fathers/husbands now.
I’m only 31 and I don’t have kids but I do have a few friends that are married and have kids
Statistically less than half of those people are married and a huge chunks of the married ones have been divorced.
Nobody is paying attention to the fact that rates of marriage and children are falling drastically. Probably because it costs money to get married, have kids and avoid constant arguements about bills....
Social Media ruined our entire culture in under 20 years. Communities are fake now, online. Relationships are fake now, online. We are all happily driving ourselves off a cliff and nobody cares
It wasn’t that long ago. I’m only in my 20’s
Class of 2010, married and mother of one now :)
I graduated high school a good decade after this video (2016) and I'm already a wife and mother myself. :')
I graduated in 2011 and these days were a legitimate better time. I know people say that all the time, but it was. Just enough tech to make life easier but not enough where it ruled our lives. It was more social media that messed things up. It's so toxic
Nice I was also class of 2011. We really were in that sweet spot of new and old
Every generation says this about their school years. No one has experience from a time before their school year or after and can't judge fairly, in addition what students consider "good" or "best times" changes throughout the years, to give us the fact that all statements of the likes are useless...
@@spoperty4940I generally agree with the spirit of what you’re saying and to use it as guiding wisdom but practically speaking, the tech industry has been verifiably irresponsible and manipulative with their influence. This isn’t purely about different generations having an idealized memory of their youth creating bias. Even stuff like kids playing outside instead of on phones. It’s not just because of tech, it’s because it’s so unsafe for kids to roam now. Kids these days don’t even get the same options as before and for horrific reasons. I think it’s safe to start saying that it used to be better without painting it with the same brush as previous generations, but even they had a point to a certain extent. Progress upsets the apple cart BUT good stuff always gets lost along the way in the way we do it. Our economic and political systems drive growth at all costs and it’s unfair to assume that won’t translate to the everyday person losing out on critical experiences with our culture and environment because of the extreme and reckless pressures for change driven primarily by greed and power struggles. Younger generations deserve understanding for their joys but we must be responsible to raise them and do our part to hand them a better world. We can’t be responsible for that if it’s impossible for us to discern if the world is actually improved or not, ergo it’s not all about generational disconnect and differences in opinion. The kids in these clips are way less traumatized, more freely interacting socially in constructive ways, and show evidence of less stress. This objectively was better than today, and phones are both part of the solution and the problem. Both things can be true at once, which is unfortunate for today’s kids because I don’t think any sane person genuinely wants them to have it worse. I’d love to be happily surprised that things are good for them, but they have consistently told us it’s not ok. They’re not doing well. And if they are saying it’s not ok, and we’re saying it’s not ok, it’s sadly fair to say it was better for the generation in these clips.
@@TheBigBenji890 I graduated in 2012 and they definitely weren’t, people were backwards in many ways compared to today, you’re just viewing it through nostalgia colored glasses
@@RunD.Ones1s It’s an objective fact that social media and technology has progressed so much that it’s done harm to our society. People are more depressed and lack social skills now more than ever. Our attention spans are also taking a huge hit and I’d argue that because of that you don’t see nearly the amount of creativity that you did years ago before technology and social media took over. It’s also a big reason for lack of individuality. I don’t think you guys in the comment section realize what harm technology and social media has done to us especially kids. And that’s only touching surface level problems. It gets much deeper the more you learn and research
The answer to your painful feelings of nostalgia is to be the person who embodies the qualities you yearn for.
No, the answer is copious amounts of drugs.
@@Robin-yn2sy That too.
That was actually pretty profound
What happens when you’re the only person who does and the rest continue as they were? That just seems lonely
@@Robin-yn2sy 😂😂😂😂
Grateful everyday to have grown up before smartphones. It really was a blessing.
The internet was better back then, too. And it was nice being able to log into your accounts without having everything tracked through your phone number...
Same here!
And did you ever evolve beyond then?
@@pinkymii072 what an idiotic question… Gen z? The biggest sign of our collective degradation is YOUR generation. lol talking about “evolve” 🤣
Unfortunately, i grew up in the middle era, i got a taste of bliss and then a punch to the face with technology. It made a big difference, especially since we were the experimental era. I feel almost, disconnected from my self when i’m on my phone now. It’s not a coincidence i’m glued to it right now. It was all apart of the plan.
I feel that too :(
Yep. Just a completely different world than what I anticipated as a tween. It’s hard to describe the shift in words. I hope we do a course correction but I’m not optimistic based on how addictive tech is designed to be now
Same
Same here
Same. 😂
My heart hurts so much... 1991 here and I remember these years so vividly.. it was another world..
Yup. Wasn't it nice. We thought it was tough, but we didn't know what was coming.
Yup. Coming off of a 1980's high, then the Soviet Union collapsed and the West just threw a giant party for ten years. So many fun memories.
Makes me feel like I'm from another planet tbh...
The older gen stole the system and ran it into the ground, the newer gen stole the digital and ran it into subscription/pay to play
1990 here.
Well said. @@TheMalibuman79
I swear everyone had a different kind of glow before smartphones
all we had was eachother
@@morningbear3794 Please, we had GameBoys, XBox and SMS, and it was fine.
I miss the days before swiping was a thing.
Even when MySpace existed, guys could simply message me. Everything still felt organic before dating apps all switched to swiping.
That was the true end.
I was only 9 during this time but wish social media never became a thing. Yes the glow was different because everything is so artificial nowadays…
Yeah I know what you mean
Kids today will never know how good it was growing up pre 2000.
We didn't know at the time. We were all in a rush to grow up and get out of school.
Pre 2010 according to the vid
This is like 2006-2008 around the time I was in high school
As a '00 graduate, I completely concur wholeheartedly.
This is not that different than school now lmao
I swear that smartphones and social media ruined today's youth.
And adults. We've forgotten how to be human to each other, and now we can't even tell who online is human and who's AI. It's fucking scary bro.
It's fucked us all, kids and adults even business. Unfortunately we're locked in the cage that's a screen.
Agreed.
RUINED EVERYONE. We were NOT ready for it...
No. The parents did.
The energy, it is immense, i can feel it through the screen. This was very real at one point , What happened 😔
it's still there in millions of young people around the world. don't pay attention to these stupid social media narratives
You grew up 😂 sucks doesn't it?
@@kulafachi9571 yes😔, it really does Sir kulafachi
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Do you really want to know the answer to that? Most if not all parents want to actually know they answer. They just want to pretend that they had nothing to do with it! I’m not saying you’re a parent.
It makes me happy knowing SOMEONE was recording these good times.
I wonder where these people are now
I would often buy disposable cameras and take random pictures at parties or outings. I never realized how nostalgic they could be.
We are all in our 30s now and it's kinda wild to think that. 😢
Well the guys, probably died somewhere in Afghanistan or Iraq. That's where I went.
Strung out
We are in our 30s - overworked, overtaxed, broke af, and overall just want everybody to friggen chill. Also want people to put the phones down and learn how to act like normal people again. Maybe read a book for once, because...damn. No offense intended - the school system went to complete 💩 after 2007. I blame our govt, media, and school system. Not our people. They did this on purpose.
Fr though..start with 1984, and take a nice long look around. No bias, just observe, and think about it. They had us read and analyze that book in 7th grade, and little did we know...we are real close to being in a very serious situation that will be near impossible to prevent or crawl our way out of. Pretty much already there, and smart phones play a huge role in it. We just want life to be like it used to be before the internet brainwashed everybody, and insanity replaced reality. 😞
This made me want to CRY. It's SO nostalgic!! I miss these days soooo much!!
i might rock a flip phone and buy an old ipod after this 😂
nvm i still got my ipod nano from 2004
Those were all real genuine smiles.. something I don’t see as often these days
Sounds like you need to interact with people more
I graduated just a couple years ago and let me tell you, kids still act the same and smile like this, even though smartphones exist.
can actually see that people were more social and happier back then. shame.
It's a snippet dude ha
@SolidNateMovies it's the truth. Anyone that was there there could tell you. People used to talk more. Yes people still read or listened to music and avoided talking, but it was nothing like it is now.
It was also real life. You would call your friends or just drop by to say hello. Kids spent most of recess or breaks joking and laughing instead of on their phones. Kids today feel like zombies sometimes and I don't hold that against them, it's just sadly the reality of the modern world
Nostalgic nonsense spouted from idiots. Says all this while watching it on their smartphone. If you want to go back to a time before the HELLISH social media VIRUS took over, fucking delete your social media for a start.
no, it actually sucked a lot lol. I read my diary and I really had a horrible time.
I truly miss these days. Sitting outside the gas station drinking icees after skateboarding on the 130 degree black top just laughing and not thinking too much
wasnt gonna make this comment, BUT YOU SKATE AND WILL GET IT...
these zoomers ask where my footage is...
sorry, not all of us had hundreds if not htousands of dollars to afford one of those shoulder cannons of a camera.
I wish I could do this now, hanging out anywhere these days gets the cops called on you for loitering. Some friends and I had a pizza party and boardgame night at our neighborhood pool when a neighbor called the cops on us for ‘suspicious behavior and suspect of drug use’ because apparently it was weird to see 7 teenagers in a pool at dark. It was 8 oclock and we were playing DND. No phones in sight, just music and fun. Unfortunately kids being kids has been penalized, and parents are crazy protective now. I wouldn’t be allowed out of the house without a phone, let alone hang out with friends anywhere. Its not always just technology’s fault, sometimes its society as a whole becoming a lot less kind and a lot more paranoid.
“Not thinking too much” hits
@@beatles42ohgg94right?! We had a vhs camera and lost all of our footage in a fire. Including a video of me and my best friend James heelfliping a 9 stair back to back
@@beatles42ohgg94my bmx crew took photos and made a website back in like 02 to try to get sponsored haha
Class of 2007 here and I miss this so much 😢
We are getting old so fast 😢
Same 😭
@@MarcusAurelius12 right!? It's making my head spin
@@SoftLightASMR you know what's crazy..... I graduated in 2007. I have friends who graduated that same year and their kids are now in college
Me too! Best days of my life!
I miss these days so badly. My mom and sister were still alive and life had meaning. Sometimes it’s really hard to keep going I just want to be in my moms house again
🫂
I'm so sorry 😞❤
Hang in there.
Much love to you bro. 💛
💙💙💙😭😭😭
People were so happy and even made eye contact with ease. Not a single person disconnected because of a smartphone.
On the other hand cell phones saved countless lives with ease of communication and improved the life of billions dramatically, increased funding in digital products used by average people which increased it's fame and research leading to a multitude of benefits.
we always joked about going back to another era even in our day but it feels like everyone misses the 80's through '00s pretty bad.
I was 16 in 2006 so probably the same age as these kids. It was great growing up in the 90s and 00s. Everything went to shit around 2010. I'm so glad I had a childhood without smart phones.
I was 12 in 2006, and you definitely are right. Yeah, I would say 2010/2011 is really the year smartphones reached critical mass. All of a sudden, everyone was just constantly on FB, MySpace, Tumblr, Twitter, Insta, Snapchat, etc...
As a zoomer (born 2004), I will absolutely not give my future children smartphones before they're 15 or 16.
On point 👏🏻
Same age as you. Idk if you have kids but you know, it’s not impossible to share this level of connection with them. No screens for the little ones, playing outside and enjoying life. It’s not over - it’s just underground lol
I was born in 2006
Class of 08’.. Most of us had flip phones and some had BlackBerrys. Nothing close to what today was like. MySpace was cool AF looking back. Life was so new and connected but not in a imprisoning way like today
Class of 09 here. I had the “chocolate” phone at one point and then upgraded to blackberry 😅 you are right about the imprisoning part. Loved high school !
@@itisAlex_ YESSS! I still have my black Chocolate Flip lol. I can’t pull myself to toss it out. Still have old ringtones that are on it. Good times back then
@@NinjaNick636 I can’t believe it still works!! I have my blackberry but won’t turn on 😭 every time I come across it I wish for a miracle but hasn’t happened yet 🤣
@@itisAlex_graduated 09 I had the voyager with its silly touch screen and before that I had the razr one friend had the juke another had the sidekick the blackberries the envy and one of my friends had the flip t phone from iron man I forget what it’s called omg those were the days no smart phones it was such a better time
Class of 09, I didn’t get my first phone until I graduated and it was a gift lol it was the slide up one with the keyboard and I’ve never loved a phone more since
Graduated from HS in 2008 I remember these days like yesterday
I'm a fellow 08 grad. I fucking would go back in a heartbeat.
Graduated in 2009. Back when we weren't so divided...
That was the most wholesome nostalgia I needed today. Anyone notice how anxiety and panic attacks skyrocketed after smartphones?
I really feel for the young generations and their struggles. Life was so simple back then. Class of 2000 looked and felt the same in the vid.
All the trends of the ages like bringing back vinyl. I can’t wait for the no smartphone trend. Where kids carry clear Nokia’s that flash multi led’s and have no camera.
the youth are very vulnerable and impressionable because thats normal... but whats not normal is them being exposed to literally billions of peoples opinions, that their young minds arent ready yet to understand or process. its better to ease into that kind of thing when youre older and more mature and can make sense of everyone and their opinions and how people are in general
Class of 2000 here as well, the first thing I noticed watching the video was how happy and playful they are and second the slight embarrassment being in front of a camera for many of them. I often miss pre smartphone days
Class of early 2010s here. We didn’t actually start seeing lots of people with smart phones until like 2010-2011 we all pretty much had a cellphone of some type tho (LGflips or the keyboard phones) Around 2012 was when was trying out the new social media. The old ones being Just Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.
So pretty much the average kid had a Phone for sending pics/text/calls and a iPod/MP3 player for music/games. That was how we did it. It was possible for some kids to just get lost in the tech but it was definitely more boring and inconvenient than just doing it all on one phone. So people just hung out…
our parents are right. It is the smartphones.
"Ah.. the good ol' days.."
- Jimmy, born 2013
This makes me feel fucking old.
That's right, people. We were so freaking happy back them, and to top it off, the music was amazing!❤ 90'S BABY
Who else ghetto rigged there hoodie so you could secretly run headphones through your hoodie to the sleeve to listen to music in class
me
I had cut a small hole on the inside on the middle pouch of my hoodie to run the headphones through to my ipod
I got hoodies with real puffy hoods and ran it up through the pocket, also usually kept really long hair specifically for headphone hiding
what in the five minute craft …
Mp3s onto the ipod nano and shuffle. Times were great. School bus rides were pretty wild too. Miss them crazy bastards!
Doc Brown: "We have to go back!"
This gave me extreme anxiety missing my past knowing I’m in my 30s now I was in high school in 2003-2008
Took you 5 years?
I was there. Finished up school in 03. There were no smartphones. It was glorious.
I'm class of '04, and I hate videos like this cause I refuse to believe that I'm nostalgic-compilation old
everyone's looking so unique, being present and beautiful
I didn't get a cellphone until I was 20 and Im thankful for that!
21, and I got it so I can call my fiancée
@@NihilSineDeo09so cute
I got my first cell at 21 but I didnt get my first smart phone until I turned 40
@@bonbonvegabonok grandad
I was 23!
I’m so glad I got to spend my high school days without the technology we have now! It made our lives so much more enjoyable and memorable!
Same bro. Gives me chills to think back to it. ❤
Graduated in 2005. I must be awful having everything mistake recorded forever and shared around and such. I can't imagine how awful bullying must be.
yeah there were no bullies back then lol
@tuckerbugeater if you had any kind of intelligence you would be able to understand they didn't say it didn't exist. It's always existed and will always exist. They mean before social media you could escape it now days it's at school and online. Stfu next time
There were but so much worse now. Alot of kids do horrible crap cuz they have a phone & want CLOUT etc so it's gotten alot worse! No denying that. I feel bad for kids these days. My son is 6 & I'm terrified for him
There were. But we could fight our bullies and it not be posted to social media.
Bullies dont pick on people who can slug. I have first hand experience. Granduated in 06, had OSS suspension 3x in hs for fighting bullies
I graduated in 2010 and didn't see a smart phone until 2011. We didn't have them in highschool because no one could afford them. It was great
when kids actually had character
I remember when I had to physically walk or ride my bike to my friends house and knock on the door to see if they could hangout haha now you just text or DM 😂
I still have my best friend's house phone memorised- along with my mom's work phone. It's so crazy how we don't have to remember anything anymore 😂
@@XxFluffyxX Same, I have so many numbers memorized still. We didn't know it, but they were the good days. I remember the worst of it, when you'd call the house phone knowing your friend is in trouble and grounded awkwardly waiting for the parent to pick it up 😂
@@eavye95 Omg yes exactly! I can't even remember my passwords anymore with autofill lmao. And I remember calling my friend and having to wait for her as she'd switch to the cordless phone, only for her sisters to pick up the phone on another line and start talking to me! She'd get so mad 😂 I really do miss those days, or even the early days when the ipods *just* came out. And I'm only 23! I'm hoping kids use their imaginations as much as we did when we were kids- they grow up so fast now!!
Such an incredible era when deeper connections were made with friends and family
No that's a fantasy
@@tulip811 sorry you feel that way
It will never be the same. People are more socially awkward than ever. Social media turned out to feed into our worst traits.
That’s the biggest thing. It’s hard to have a genuine conversation with ppl. They get caught off guard when you’re interested in them and conversation. Obviously not everyone’s like this but big difference I noticed in my age group 24 class of 2018.
💯
@@NVishuddhayou might not be having genuine conversations with people because you might be boring or people aren’t interested in you. You will find friends eventually. Just don’t force people it’s a big turn off.
I graduated in 2006, couldn’t have asked for a better era to be in high school
Same
Class of ‘06 here 🥳 Recently came to the realization that the babies born the year we graduated in 2006, are graduating high school this year.
I’m fine. 😭
What a time to be alive.
I taught this school year till I had my baby. She's graduating this year. It's hard to know how to feel.
Nah that’s crazy how i’m one of those babies😭😭
@@xantalk6498 😭 Congrats on graduation 🎉
35/36 crew 🎉🎉🎉
@@CarlSab9088 Really pushing that 37 soon 😅
I remember living this! Graduated high school in 2006. Never thought I'd actually miss those days.
05’
Still alive…. Was our senior motto…. 😂🤣😂
06 here as well. I knew I'd miss those days as I was living them. So many first memories created during those times. Now life is the same routine day after day.
Class of 06.. we ain't that old yet are we?? 😢
@@JohnDoe-kh6mtanother 06' here. I didn't think so... but yeah. 😔
I graduated in 03. My son was born exactly a year later. Those times were simple and the best.
On the older side of GenZ, kind of agree social media sucks, but the goofiness isn’t gone. I remember one time as it was raining really hard, and everyone was waiting for the bus, the fountain on our high school’s campus began to overflow, and a freshman took a running start and jumped straight in. Let me tell you I’d wanted to do that for three years before that kid was brave enough to actually do it, and I guess the rest of the student body present there felt the same way because the crowd went INSANE. Everyone was screaming and cheering, the administrators were pissed, a day later the internet exploded because the kid got suspended and the backlash was so great she ended up he let back in early, not to mention on the school’s meme account it was dominated by jokes about it for months because someone caught it on video. Truly a core memory from my teenage years
True while social media sucks for the most part it breeds a new type of fun and goofiness that older people wouldn’t understand. I guess each generation had their own distinct strengths and weaknesses.
Social media already existed then. Kids didn't have smart phones, but everyone had Myspace or Bebo. And was soon to have Facebook. There was already bullshit like online bullying. And we had cellphones they just weren't smart.
@@kindallnight1615not sure how this story portrays a new kind of goofiness no one can understand. It’s a simple story and the only thing new about it was that someone caught it on video and the school had a formal meme account.
@@courtneyr6645 I wasn’t talking about the story but just in general of how genz and alpha have their own distinct fun and goofiness at school that older generations just wouldn’t understand.
Yeah we grew up with jackass. We just needed legit camcorders to make videos. So we didn’t get to save all the hilareous shit that would go viral now. It’s just stories we retell when we’re together and die laughing
For me its the smiles. Smiling for a camera now is like coded into people and its just acting. You have your social media mode you go into. Its not just like real actual living anymore.
Class of ‘04
Man, I miss High School.
Class of '06 miss the good Ole days
Soon, there is going to be the rapture. It's when there will be trumpet sounds, and after the trumpet sounds, God will lift his people from here. Also, God said people should be living by the Bible. Amen, and God bless you.
❤* John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have eternal life". ❤
I'm class of 16
I was born in 04 and I wish I could've experienced this
Class of 06 such great times. I'm so glad I graduated before cell phones where popularized.
Nothing but good times, I was born in the early 80's so the 90's were my best years, I think before social media and smart phones we were all just genuinely happy. Our friends and ourselves were our entertainment, music, outdoors. Good times, I miss those times so much.
But it's actually wrong to say that the 90s were your best time, your whole life should be your best time, otherwise you'll get to an age when you're just mourning what used to be. But while you're doing that, your whole life passes you by and you find yourself in a kind of gray, wasting mass.
My son will be 4 this year and before him I thought for a long time that the 90s were my best time and that something so beautiful would never come back. He has proved me wrong ☺️
Thank God we now have smartphones so people can talk about how nice it was when there weren’t any smartphones.
Smartphones have helped shed light on things that weren’t reported on in the past or covered up, social media isn’t all bad.
Yep, that was me being bullied in the corner.
Ppl looked so normal and happy.
I graduated 2008, no one had an iPhone. Everyone had the Razr, Tmobile sidekick, or Blackberry.
I forgot about Razr 😅
I was in middle school in 2006 and used to always use Opera Mini to browse the Internet on my dad's Blackberry. Around 2006-2008 I only knew a handful of kids who had a smartphone. iPhones were expensive and didn't work except on Cingular which was not in our area.
That's how I remember 2008 too, I was 14 at the time.
1st year in the military was 2008, got my first cell phone which was a Razr.
Don’t forget Nokia with the Polly tones😂😂😂😂😂
This is rough. Miss the old days. When people got out and did things and interacted with each other for fun.
Would love to hear from a long time teacher about how this have changed in high schools from then until now.
Only at 15/16 years of teaching at this point.
BUT, I can tell you that attention spans were short but are now non-existent. So they don't learn and retain information as well.
Kids were more respectful and actually followed instructions, now they just follow trends.
Kids back in the day were more original and themselves. They weren't constantly looking around themselves and trying to be someone or something else.
They had a relaxed confidence to take chances and try new things that I don't really see much anymore 😢
Teacher of 36 years here! Phones changed everything. More cheating, more bullying, more depression, more anxiety, more absences. So our school makes them lock them up from 8-3! Changed everything!! So many metrics improved, but we're still the only one of the 6 high schools to do it. It takes a visionary and strong administration willing to defy parents who freaked out! Kids now talk to each other between classes and at lunch! Awesome!
@@MarsSwim86that’s awesome
the way people pose and vogue in front of cameras now would've been unthinkable and uncool back then. we've all got wannabe celebrity brain rot
they are the investors the investors children grow up and rule the world thats why colleges are full of rich kids no mor middle class kids there will be a ruling classs and a slave working class thats how they want things
Unfiltered shots as well.
That's basically a thing of the past now
Social media has ruined individuality. As crazy as it sounds, we may find ourselves in a similar time one of these years.
So glad there are so many videos to remember the essence of this time. I love these genuine positive emotions shared naturally
It’s interesting, I’m seeing a lot of comments from some older people talking about how much we (the younger generation) are missing out on.
I can’t say my Highschool experience has been any different than the above. Kids still mess around. Yes there are those who are obsessed with social media and popularity, but that’s always been a teenage struggle pretty separate from technology.
I do not feel isolated because of technology or social media. I am grateful for the connections and opportunities they give me. Socially I am not stunted, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. I’m grateful for the time I grew up in. I am thankful for that I have now.
And I'm sure the more time that passes newer technologies will become mainstream and you'll look back at your high school years and yearn for the days of past when things still seemed simple. Nostalgia has a weird way of putting everything into rose tinted glasses like that
Yeah, i'm homeschooled due to mental health reasons and i don't know what i'd do without my phone
It's not real, i know, but it helps me feel some sort of connection with other people even if it's not real life
Just you wait.
You're also a girl. Girls have it easy no matter the time in the last 60 years and are therefore less affected by these things. Like is whatever you want it to be as long as your parents didn't royally blow it.
Dude same. People in here are just nostalgic convincing themselves that things have changed more than they have or something. I have so many friends I would have never met without social media and there are so many people I would’ve lost contact with without social media.
I went to go see Super Bad wit friends at the movies around this time.
Thanks for the memories!😊👍
Yes, life was significantly happier without smartphones and social media.
Beautiful and cool people having fun, something i miss today
Graduated in 09, school was still stupid like this. Ahh teenage times.
Yeah it really wasn’t until 2012 that things went sideways. I truly believe the world actually ended and we’re on an alternate timeline.
'09 too. I remember writing down peoples phone numbers on my arm lol. Even in sharpie if I had to. Parties were fucking awesome, everyone was involved. Not everyone looking down.
Graduated in 11. It was still a lot like this, most kids families in my community couldn't afford more than a basic cell phone. Feels like I got out just in time
Class of 08 here
I was in Afghanistan in 09 my first deployment.
High school Class of 05!! Those were the days!
We ruled our high school .... 1985! Friday night high school dance Saturday night field party romance....when we were young
I went to high school 2005 to 2008 and I didn’t get a smart phone until my freshman year of college. It was such a different time man. Just tell people to meet you somewhere at 8 and spread the word and everybody showed up, you didn’t need to coordinate or anything. You’re either there or you werent
All people looked so much more self-confident
I’m so glad I got to experience high school when almost no one had cell phones and I was practically gone by the time social media came around ♥️
That just hit me in the gut like a freight train. The song didn’t help at all. That one always gets me
I feel blessed to have grown up in those times. I really feel for kids these days…
I'd wager even the few years after smart phones became ubiquitous, it was still mostly like this. I don't think we started seeing the real serious issues with kids and screens until social media algorithms learned how to facilitate doomscrolling and distill the absolute worst, most gripping factors of screen addiction.
@@selenite.-qn8cc no theyre not dude lmao. School was so different in 2006-2010 its not even funny. I graduated in 2010 and by 2009 the world had already changed from this to internet era.
@@selenite.-qn8cc calm down bro 😂
@@selenite.-qn8cc someone get this child an iPad to calm them down please
In high school rn and kinda wish was in hs back then
When life was actually fun
What a time to be alive! When people really connected!
Im class of 2011 and smart phones werent really a thing for us, at least where I lived. Facebook was thought to be for "old people" and we had myspace and mocospace IYKYK for social media lol.
I'm the same age. When I first joined Facebook in middle school it was ONLY open to high school and college students. You had to be verified by people in your school. I just asked some high school freshmen I knew to approve me so I could join as if I were a HS student. It wasn't until later (2007??) that non-student adults could join. Most people my parents age were just catching on to Facebook by the time I graduated in my area.
Hmmm Facebook was fairly common where I was at and I lived in a pretty rural area. And a graduating class of 52. Myspace was popular in middle school but Facebook took it over quickly. We were just getting smart phones as we graduated. A fair amount of kids had cellphones (not smartphones). I myself did have a crappy Nokia flip phone but only because track/field and other stuff.
Same here brother.
Class of 2012 here. I definitely agree ❤
Class of 2012 and same!! I got my first iPhone in the summer before college, but in my high school only the really rich kids had smart phones
When it was odd, rare, slightly awkward, and a funny moment when you were on camera.
Such a perfect summary.
2004 was the year I went from school. It was such a nice time... now watching this makes me wanna cry. What has this world turned into... Most people nowdays dont know who and where they are and want to be. THey are fragile and not seem to have fun anymore... jeez i wish back those times...
You went to school for one year?
@@imnotsqiddy so funny, you Indeed not long enough...
Simpler and good times. Really miss the days.
Humanity is more “connected” than we have ever been in history but at the same time we are so disconnected from each other. People don’t know how to interact with each other anymore. And the rise of the smartphone/social media has a huge part in that.
This is a utopian highschool experience, what I remember is just chainsmoking, alcoholic bullies, contant fear of stepping outside of some arbitrary norm, mean teachers, no help if you were struggling in any way 🤣
I wish I could go back…So many memories… So many regrets… I’d do it all again if I could. I was so depressed back then but I know things would be different if I could go back… God I miss all this 😔
As a high school teacher for 24 years, I miss these kids. Kids today just don't have the same spark. I watched this three times, but it made me so sad.
Class of 06 here. I miss those times!
Class of 2002 and I must say: I kind of envy the younger generation since I have hardly any photos and videos of that era, especially from school.
I guess that's one upside to having a computer with a camera in your pocket. You can always record the good times. But I would argue the good times that you would want to record or are there TO record are fewer and far between today than back then as well. Cause back then people actually hung out IRL and did things together IRL. Now it's just talking online/face timing/etc a lot of the time.
This. Makes sense
Well that's a huge advantage of smartphones and portable tech that these videos seem to forget about. Nowadays not only Is it really easy to take photos and videos about stuff and store them at a low-cost, but also preserve them.
In 2002 you had portable cameras and such but you didn't have cloud storage. The fact is smartphones enable us to chronicle these memories in a way that was never possible.
What made things terrible about the internet was not the phones themselves. It was more about the corporate consolidation of all online discourse..
Internet has been an active place for years, decades. By the time this video was made, Facebook was already out and people were already addicted to it. You just had to be a college student to use it.
@@toshiro-kanoRight well and also cloud storage and just cheap SD storage. It was not around back then. So not only was it much harder to capture these moments but to preserve them
If you didn't pay to have stuff developed, or if you didn't devote a lot of time to storing up VHS isn't CDs and so on.... People end up moving and losing the stuff, or cutting it to make space for something else.
But the thing that makes me sick about these videos is that they're acting like 2006 with some Utopia, even though we were actively committing a war crime in Iraq at the time.
My mom used to get onto me for not recording things or taking pictures when I was younger - even when I went to a convention with friends, she basically tasked me with taking photos since I notoriously don't.
And out of the two of us, she's way better at texting, calling, using social media, etc. I get in trouble for accidental ghosting, especially since I live away from home now
I graduated 2012 & this basically looks the same as my school lol
So grateful for memories like this
Im grateful to social media as it's allowed me to speak with my classmates and friends far easier than in person. Im horrible at speaking and look angry when im tired tbh
32 yr old here. High school wasn't as carefree as you think it was back then. Be nostalgic for something you never experienced though.
42... yes it was ...
It kind of was though
It was for me. People have different experiences within their own generation too
36 year old here.... yes it was. Very carefree and wild.
33 I went to a really rough school but me and my friends had a good time
Class of 06, how the world looked so different then...
It LOOKED the same for the most part. Really the only thing that's changed since then and now is the smartphone and electric vehicles. Sure, some other stuff has changed, but those are the most noticable
@@mr.grumps3544 the whole culture changed... social media and influencers changed how everyone thinks about life
Also class of 06 and I agree, things felt very different back then. The culture has changed drastically.
One thing I hear people repeat over and over again under these videos is that happiness ended as smartphones and social media took over. I don’t actually think that’s the case completely.
People are definitely feeling overwhelmed and lost probably due to the constant bombardment with almost real time news from around the world and our privacies are eroding because we know everyone has a high quality camera and microphone in their pocket.
Just as people became depressed and overwhelmed during the Industrial revolution and the age of modernity more generally due to the jarring changes taking place, it’s going to take some time to catch up.
How we fix some of these issues and regulate how these things affect our lives, specifically for young people will hopefully bring the future generations of young people some comfort so that they too can enjoy their youth the way we were able to. Just my two cents.
I'm just glad to be on the generation that got to experience both worlds. No other generation will be able to say the same.
Not a single smart phone in sight....oh right
The moment when they were in the gymnasium lmao, today whenever we're forced to go watch smth in my hs like 90% look at their phone instead of talking to other people
It’s crazy look at these highschoolers. They look like adults now if you go to a high school all the kids look like middle schoolers. What are they putting in our food?
It’s what they are putting on it……
hey genius, thats a university lmao
I hate people who blame the youth for how they are today. It's the older generation that put this technology in their hands. It's their fault these kids turned out the way they did.
Typical zoomer mentality. Everything is everyone else's fault and never your own. Take some accountability for your awful generation.
I love that now Im able to look at my phone to avoid socialising without it looking weird.