I have a vivid memory of a girl I knew coming to school with red white and blue clothes and wearing U.S. flag facepaint while she walked around sobbing, this was on the west coast and I'm almost positive she knew no one who was there.
I remember being on sites like Neopets, and they were full of people drawing pictures of their digital animal characters saluting the American flag while a single tear drifts down their face. It was utterly bizarre.
Neopets was a bizarre place overall back in the day. I still remember JazzInvincible being a celebrity of sorts and some guy named Matt making threads announcing his arrival getting several hundred replies.
I was alive, unemployed and 21 at the time. I remember going to a professional office-type job interview not long after and the hiring manager was talking about the dress code for casual Fridays and said no racist language/imagery, unless it's against Muslims or Arabs. guy was like 45, married, kids and dead serious.
I remember thinking, as a dumb young adult who expected real adults to still be in charge, "is that really what we're taking away from this event?"
In the before times you would only really see the US flag at post offices and schools. Maybe a flagpole in a strip mall. But only because McDonald's wanted to fly their flag and it would be weird alone.
As a zoomer I'm kinda shocked by this. Americans being weepy flagwavers who display it anywhere they can just feels in-character to me, I never would've thought it wasn't in front of people's houses and shit back then.
People would have one in their closet to put out on like veteran's day or the 4th. You'd be a little weird having it out otherwise. There'd be like one guy at the town fireworks display who had a flag shirt. Couldn't figure out if they were rah rah about the country or the picnic.
Someone who wasn't alive at the time simply will not be able to understand how totally it took over all of culture and identity.
I have a vivid memory of a girl I knew coming to school with red white and blue clothes and wearing U.S. flag facepaint while she walked around sobbing, this was on the west coast and I'm almost positive she knew no one who was there.
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Birth of the endless 24 hr news cycle baby
I remember being on sites like Neopets, and they were full of people drawing pictures of their digital animal characters saluting the American flag while a single tear drifts down their face. It was utterly bizarre.
Neopets was a bizarre place overall back in the day. I still remember JazzInvincible being a celebrity of sorts and some guy named Matt making threads announcing his arrival getting several hundred replies.
Wasn't it run by scientologists at one point before being acquired by Nickelodeon?
Apparently so, but I just looked it up because I hadn't heard about that.
I was alive, unemployed and 21 at the time. I remember going to a professional office-type job interview not long after and the hiring manager was talking about the dress code for casual Fridays and said no racist language/imagery, unless it's against Muslims or Arabs. guy was like 45, married, kids and dead serious.
I remember thinking, as a dumb young adult who expected real adults to still be in charge, "is that really what we're taking away from this event?"
it turns out, it was.
:liberalism:
rapidly folding dollar bills in front of my child like i'm in 4th grade again to recreate the experience of being 9 when 9/11 happened :pepe-silvia: :rust-darkness: :stalin-smokin: :pannekoek-point:
Can confirm, I was not alive and do not understand
In the before times you would only really see the US flag at post offices and schools. Maybe a flagpole in a strip mall. But only because McDonald's wanted to fly their flag and it would be weird alone.
As a zoomer I'm kinda shocked by this. Americans being weepy flagwavers who display it anywhere they can just feels in-character to me, I never would've thought it wasn't in front of people's houses and shit back then.
Yeah I just can't imagine Americans in the 90s not being 24/7 turbo jingos
or like 40s, 50s, 60s Red Scare era, I figured they'd have the flag everywhere
People would have one in their closet to put out on like veteran's day or the 4th. You'd be a little weird having it out otherwise. There'd be like one guy at the town fireworks display who had a flag shirt. Couldn't figure out if they were rah rah about the country or the picnic.
Sounds like how people fly their flag in most other countries... damn, we used to be (more) normal lol
Would it shock you to know that we used to be able to meet people at the gate in airports, without having to go through security?
Know about that one from movies, so no lol
Airport security changes in general I'm well aware of
lol what no
i was in the US in about 1998 and it was full of flags. the amount of flags was already ridiculous.
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I'm so sorry for you, I wouldn't recommend understanding this