Sorry bud, but I think you just used to be more innocent.
Just look at the celebrities and culture of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s… Even the whole outrage culture pushed by conservative media like Fox News also goes that far back!
The fashion of the day changes but humanity itself… not so much!
In roman times they used to chain link slaves together by the necks and ankles. Then they’d scoop out the eyes of everyone who isn’t the first in the chain.
Today, we not only don’t have slaves (well, except for prison, but thats another conversation) but the idea of scooping out anothers eyes is horrific sounding, rather than just the norm.
You should hear what cartels do to people.
Hmmm…I seem to remember the Republicans in Congress actually having a spine with Nixon. Though I do agree things weren’t roses back then. The cost of living was easier, but we paid for a lot of things we don’t now. $12 for one CD vs $10 a month for Spotify. But I would say the late 90s/ pre 9/11 was pretty nice for the US. Not the case for the rest of the world admittedly. But we definitely have nothing on how bad the 20s, 30s and 40s were.
There were multiple genocides going on too buddy
This was a rumor created and disseminated by children. I think that context is pretty important when you’re using it to gauge naivety.
I suspect people living in Sarajevo in the 90’s resent that opinion.
Are you confusing outrage with political violence?
Are you not outraged at genocide?
At this point there is only so much outrage a person can have before it all feels the same.
There was also the rumor of the actor who put the hamster up their bum.
It was all innocent stupidity and none of it was malicious though.
It was Richard Gere, and it was a Gerbil, not a hamster.
Richard Gere, and it was a gerbil.
Armageddon!
Or the woman singer who drank so much of her male SO’s cum that she had to have her stomach pumped
Viral word of mouth rumors were wild back then
LOL, just commented it was 10G out of Rod Stewart in my childhood.
70s elementary school: Rod Stewart having 10 gallons of sperm pumped out of his stomach.
A group of friends and I had a little website we used as a precusor to modern day social media. I made a comment on a post on there where I linked to an image on SA. Little did I know that Lowtax didn’t use goatse. No he used a very high resolution close-up image of the head of a penis with a drop of pre-finishing liquid oozing out.
So I post this comment from my desk and go back to work. About 30-minutes later, my roommate, who sat a few cubicles down from me says my name. Not like normal, his voice broke as he was saying it. I’m like, “what?” He says, “what did you post to the site?” I told him and he says that is not at all what he’s seeing. I go over there and holy shit all 1600x1200 pixels of his 21” CRT is filled with this engorged dickhead!
We reached out to the site admin and told him what happened. He deleted the image ref and I posted a comment explaining what happened.
Another time, at my same cubicle desktop, I updated my Linux workstation and went to lunch. When I get back, my screensaver is just a whole bunch of very explicit porn images. Apparently Jamie Zawenski(sp?), the maintainer of xscreensaver, thought it would be a good idea to introduces a new screensaver that went out and eandomly pulled images from anywhere on the web. So that was fun.
Forgot to add the SA image was cached in my browser. So when my roommate asked me about it I brought it back up and, of course it looked fine to me! No dicks to be seen.
Sorry if I’m stupid for asking this but what are you referring to when you say SA?
Something Awful, it was a link aggregator and comment site like Reddit before Reddit was a thing.
I didn’t use it much but I did like that they had voting on posts in multiple dimensions (like funny, insightful, etc).
Not just any guy, but Marilyn Manson, who used to play Paul on The Wonder Years. I’m not sure what was more shocking, learning about this, or learning of Mark Paul Gosselaar’s fatal motorcycle crash. Taken from us far too soon.
