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An entire generation of dumbs are getting themselves worked up into a fascist frenzy over inaccurate nostalgia videos they know are complete false and it is terrifying hot profoundly strong these feelings are for them despite being very aware it's fake and bullshit.

Remember Saturday morning cartoons? THAT’S WHY WE’RE MAD THAT PEOPLE ARE NAMED MOHAMMED! frothingfash

That Walmart looks like any modern day Walmart if you take away the video’s piss filter. Incredible how these losers are now doing early 2000s nostalgia.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    51·
    20 days ago

    “Remember when there was literally nothing to do except watch reruns of cartoons and you were being dragged around a store for like 3 contiguous hours several times a week so you’d just like wander off and stare at some aquariums or look at 50 TVs all playing the same commercial but slightly desynced and with different video settings and the highlight of your week was getting a crumb of a tasty treat and getting to play the demo of an N64 game on a broken controller? Don’t you just want to RETVRN to the mindshattering, soulcrushing boredom of late 90s/early 2000s suburbia where the literal only source of joy you had was imagining yourself maybe consuming tasty treats at a corporate big box store?”

    Also I don’t think I ever saw a walmart with lobsters, and also lobster tanks don’t look like that. Proper grocery stores would have a tank with a few (I assume some still do, but I haven’t noticed them for a while), but I can’t recall walmarts ever doing it.

    • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      29·
      20 days ago

      But the ability to call everything and everyone gay and to make fun of trans people without liberals getting upset with me, widespread Islamophobia, and an entertainment industry that hasn’t gone woke yet and caters primarily to me makes it worth it though. so-true

    • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      20 days ago

      I mean I liked playing MK3 or donkey Kong at Walmart and making temporary best friends with rando kids that I’d never see again. Human moments of real value can happen anywhere, even a soul-crushing big box store.

  • hotcouchguy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    40·
    20 days ago

    This is obviously nonsense, but it makes sense on an emotional level. People know their parents raised them with a higher standard of living than they can/could provide their kids. When they were kids they had a house in the suburbs, occasional vacations, they ate steak once a week, or whatever, all on one and a half incomes. And their grandparents were even wealthier, they bought a house for $35 on the GI Bill, bought a new car every other year, and raised 5 kids on one income as a highschool dropout. Now they deliver door dash, their wife works in a call center, and if they do have a kid he just sits at home with depression and asks for robux and you can’t even afford that and is this all your fault? where did things go wrong? didn’t Walmart used to have $3 lobsters, did I imagine that? I just want N64 and cartoons and fruit loops, goddamn even cereal is expensive now, oh look another nostalgia video in my feed.

    It’s like living in a haze of real grievances that you don’t understand and can’t articulate, so they just get displaced into anything that comes along.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    38·
    20 days ago

    Urrrraaaaagh the fucking fish department at Walmart was an abomination! They were somehow less knowledgeable and more poorly organized than the big box pet store fish departments! They stopped selling those “cute” goldfish because it was cruel to sell people a 5 gallon fish tank to house something that needs more like 40+ gallons!

  • Caitycat [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    20 days ago

    Being nostalgic for 2002 Walmart has to be one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen. This must be how Millennials feel about people who are obsessed with 90s shit.

    • adultswim_antifa [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      20 days ago

      Not even close. This is baffling. I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed going to Walmart in my life. Besides not really being much different now than it was in 2002, Walmart already had a well established reputation for killing local economies and malls, like how we think of Amazon now. Malls had like 10 small to medium sized restaurants in them instead of just a Subway.

      • RoabeArt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        19 days ago

        It’s like the people who get nostalgic over 90s/early 2000s McDonald’s and bemoan about how soul crushing it is to work there now and how unhealthy the food has become.

        McDonald’s has always been known for being soul-crushing and unhealthy, you rose tinted glasses wearing mfers! This isn’t something that started after 2010. Even as a kid growing up in the 90s (showing my age here), McDonald’s was seen by most as being a terrible place to work for and that the food will clog up your arteries.

        I think most peoples’ nostalgia is exaggerated or flat out wrong, and I think it’s going to get worse with these AI generated videos.

  • mayakovsky [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    20 days ago

    Nostalgia is a disease and is inherently reactionary. It’s no surprise he goes on this fucking brain dead poetic sojourn to then immediately fear monger about Muslims.

  • Ishmael [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    20 days ago

    There were no lobster tanks in Walmart. However, I do have sort of pathetic reminiscences of going to Walmart at like 3AM as a teen because there was literally nothing else open or availabe to me and my friends at that hour. Just us, the insomniac second-shifters, and the meth-heads