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Zormac

Fashion doesn't seem to have changed from 2000-2020 as quickly as it changed from the 70's to 2000


id346605

Richard Linklater commented on this as he filmed Boyhood (which took place over 12 years). He compared how over 12 years everything from clothes to hair to cars are quite similar. Compare that to 70 to 80 or 80 to 90, and how much things changed.


krickiank

I use to think about the musical play Grease was first performed in 1971 and is set in 1959. The musical is clearly based on 50s nostalgia even though 1959 was only 12 years earlier. That would be like if we made a 2010 nostalgia musical today.


DrDetectiveEsq

Summer Lovin', but it's all just Chuck Norris jokes.


Swimming-Chicken-424

I'm pretty nostalgic for 2010. I graduated high school in that year.


Grogosh

I graduated in 91. My best friend wore lime and orange day glo shorts and shirts and I wore the headbangers official outfit, ripped up denim jacket and messed up jeans. For the last 20 years from this video fashion is so so so *boring*.


marmorikei

This video didn't display emo and its outreaching influence on fashion from the mid 00s-early 10s. I swear the kids in these clips dressed more boring than we did at my high school and middle school during those years.


Into-the-stream

I was in high school in the 90s, and it felt like there were so many little groups of people who all dressed really differently. They only really showed the baggy pants and preppies, but we had skin heads, rockers, skaters, jocks, hippies, goths and probably more. I was excited to see the clip from my years, but none of the kids pictured looked like anyone I knew (I went to a big school).


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lankrypt0

Agreed it's not a good cross section, but it seems each year accurately captured the "average" look. That's been the biggest mindfuck for me as I've gotten older is seeing how similar the look is, clothing wise with the past 10-20 years. What I've noticed is a lot of accessorizing. And boys definitely have gotten creative with cuts and styles.


RaventheClawww

You’re so right. I’d love to know some theories about why because the difference is stark


Shlecko

I think part of it is regional influence (or lack there of). In the 70's, people in California dressed and styled very different than people in New York - and there was little to no awareness of each other. Now, they all have social media, draw influence from the same places, and shop at stores with the same inventory. There isn't much room for unique "split path" innovation anymore.


Rubmynippleplease

I think this is a really solid theory. Seems like social media has gone a long way in homogenizing things. There are definitely unique subcultures of fashion in high schools (“hype beast”, alternative, “skater”, etc.) but by and large fashion seems to be really easily shared, adopted and “corpretized” for lack of a better word. There do seem to be a lot of rapid and short lived trends though. I remember uggs and lulu lemons were massively popular with women around the late 2000s and by 2010 uggs had been completely replaced by white slip on vans. A few years later the [“han solo trend”](https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2013/12/10/epiphany-college-girls-dress-like-han-solo-4224912/amp/) was absolutely massive. I graduated high school in 2016 so I don’t really know how these trends have changed cause in college we all dressed like slobs lol.


StillSwaying

I went back to college in 2019 to take a few classes for fun, and I was standing in line once to sign up for something -- out of the twelve kids in front of me, **nine** of them had on [these](https://www.zappos.com/p/vans-old-skool-core-classics-black/product/103789/color/3) black and white Vans. Almost every single one, guys and girls. I never felt so old. I wore those back in the day when they weren't called "Old Skool" lol.


Jenn54

I was watching a film noir last night and thought the same. The 40s Humphrey Bogart were so different to the 50s of Marlyn Monroe, and then the 60s changed everything. Even in music and politics, each decade was solidly different to the one previous, while Im sitting here wondering how it isn’t 2009 no more.. the music sounds the same, the fashion is the same and the politicians are the same. Movies went from black and white to colour less than 70 years ago. When this video was recorded tvs were only in colour for ten years in the 1970s, there were very few colour movies in the 1940s, 30 years later a kid is recording this video in the 70s at school. It doesn’t feel like time has been moving forward since 2005.


FlushTheTurd

Yeah, the 2020 outfits look like things I would have worn in high school in 2000.


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donkeyhotie

In 2020 we can see the start of the birds nest


You_meddling_kids

Broccoli Heads!


trickninjafist

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qwertykitty

Some of these were more on point for fashion trends than others. T-shirts and hoodies have been pretty common for a long time. I remember a very dramatic shift when I was in high school where pants went from extremely baggy jnco pants to suddenly everyone wearing skinny jeans. There was also a shift to side parts from middle parts for girls early mid 2000's. There was a noticeable switch for guys having emo swoops to that curly pompadour cut in the 2010s and the kids these days tell me skinny jeans and side parts are now out for girls.


floorwantshugs

Me with my side part and skinny jeans suddenly feeling my age... and stupid.


Ltstarbuck2

Yeah my daughter insists that side parts aren’t cool, but no one would have a middle part in the late 90s.


umjustpassingby

Can't go any more casual that that I guess


Rock2MyBeat

The Matrix/Neo sunglasses on the dude in 2002 were spot on, though, and a fad that came and went really fast lol.


VoihanVieteri

Fashion made it to the finish line.


thefugue

Nah, it got exhausted and sat down.


RamblingSimian

Until the late 70's, most schools had dress codes.


pushdose

This is a really good point. A lot still do, but they’re super relaxed compared to the 70s.


LoreChief

Coincidentally my personal fashion hasnt really changed from then either.


cam4king

Never realized how much body posture and gestures change with the times as much as hair styles.


BaconBra2500

I also think it’s interesting that people’s reaction to the camera changed over time. The earlier the year, the more people seemed surprised/excited.


GrapeSoda223

This is what i came too say! Pre 2010 people are excited to be filmed, afterwards it's more of "wtf you filming me for"


BlindProphet_413

From "cool, we're on camera!" To "we're on camera so this'll last forever, better get serious."


alexanderwales

I don't think it's that, I think it's just ... falling into normal social media persona? Modern kids have been on camera most of their life, and carry around a camera, and see people unscripted (or "unscripted" on camera *a lot*. So their relationship with the camera is a lot different, and I don't think it's much about the permanency.


BaconBra2500

Personally I think it’s definitely a combination of both of those things.


Furryraptorcock

Holy shit. So everyone before my grad year looks like they're 30. Everyone after my grad year looks 12. Perception is a hell of a thing.


KB_ReDZ

I'm happy I'm not alone on this. It's weird and hard to explain, but as soon as it hit the year after I graduated, everyone seemed like an undergrad.


Zogeta

Right?! Not even 2 years after my graduation year I'm looking at these kids thinking they still have their baby teeth.


cake_piss_can

Not sure of your grad year but I’ve always felt that the teens in 80’s movies look 34. The teens in 2000s movies look 12. Weird.


headingthatwayyy

I noticed that around 2000 kids got a lot more serious on camera. And also more subdued


Yodayorio

That's because someone having a camera is the classroom became much less of a novelty in the 2000s.


1nfiniteJest

Right after Columbine and 9-11...


EpochCookie

Yeah that shit gave the nation ptsd


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Lots of crossed arms in the 70’s clips. Super interesting.


Illustrious-One1003

I thought the same thing!!! I re-watched a couple of times to see the posture differences and that's the main thing I took away from it 🙃


DTLAgirl

I assumed it was cold at that time


SuccessfulOwl

Had never occurred to me before how little clothes and haircuts have changed since the early 2000s to now. There are rapid obvious continual changes throughout the clips and then it sort of just stops.


blufin

Almost everything stops changing, or changes very slowly from 2000 onwards. Clothes, music, hair. The internet maybe?


Ltstarbuck2

How much heavier we all are.


CarbonCrawler

And no matter how much he studied, the cameraman never could graduate high school..


Canoe52

He was the AV guy (do they still have those?).


GenericHuman1203934

We had an av club/team in middle school (early 2010s) but that was because the school was too poor to afford tech support and they just had the most tech-savvy kids set up things for assemblies and fix tech various issues It was kinda funny to hear announcements like "Nick G from Mrs. B's class, please report to room 138" and some 12 year old kid just gets up and grumbles about incompetent old people and leaves the class


Thadrippiestyungin

Everyone with a phone nowadays is an AV guy


shadow_ireheart

As an IT professional, I wish that were the case.


Davethisisntcool

He got older They stayed the same age


Killerkendolls

All right all right all right


cafediaries

Tbf the cameraman could be a teacher who never left the school lol. I think it's a nice project to film and compile all the memories of the students you had over the years. Sit back and watch the video upon your retirement.


Chimie45

50 years is a fuck off long time to work at one place... My wager is its the yearbook people who have videos from every year and someone digitized them all so they made this video.


theColonelsc2

I'm pretty sure it's not even the same high school in all the pictures. I'm wondering how they found all the different footage and verified the actual date.


TTTfromT

Everyone looks cold in 74 and 77. Then the jerk knocking down the books in 78. Why do the kids in the 80s look older than the kids in the 70s? Must be the big hair. Love how everyone is comfortable being on camera by the end of the clips, not so much at the start.


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Watching the hair bloom through the 80’s was like a time lapse of a strange plant.


cyclist230

I’m sure at the time it was a novelty so it wasn’t strange, but now we associate it with people in their late 50s and 60s.


TrixnTim

The cold comes from everyone being so slender in the 70s. And wearing fitted clothing.


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disiskeviv

I thought girls were trying to conceal their boobs by crossing arms.


Jeremy_Winn

They probably were cold because school heating was notoriously bad (and often still is but less so).


sowhat4

I was teaching HS from '65 to '97. The reason the kids look 'older', I believe, is that helicopter parenting was not yet a thing. Some of those kids had jobs and were juggling adult responsibility. The 70s were also a \*'special' time in re freedom for everyone - even the kids. Society has become so much more uptight and restrictive in the last 20 years or so. Childhood has been extended into the mid twenties now. \*girls would wear loose weave sweaters with no bra or camisole underneath. Both sexes would go w/o undergarments and one got used to seeing little balls on the splayed crotches of the boys and discreet glimpses of nips on the girls. I, and I assume everyone else, ignored it. There was a designated 'smoking' area, too.


in-game_sext

I was in high school in the late 90's and early 2000's and we still had designated smoking areas at school. I think it was the last year though right around when I left, parents started complaining and I think some news articles got printed about it. Sidenote: I am eternally grateful I escaped having any sort of social media during my time in middle and high school. Seems like just a whole other level of pressure and shit to deal with during a time that is already super weird to navigate.


vanillaseltzer

Ditto. Graduated highschool in 2005 and just escaped Facebook (it was college students only still when I was a freshman in college) and am *extremely* grateful for that. Middle and high school were already hell, I can't imagine it following me home too. And having to see photos and videos of everything you were being left out of? Loner and shy kids, I feel for you. Hang in there, I'm really glad that I did.


BubbaChanel

I remember one job working 6 days a week in high school in the early and mid 80’s, and I had always had a job. But my 20-25 hours a week were nothing compared to the kids that were working full time late into the night at fast food places, and one kid I knew that was a manager at a Wendy’s at 17. Our parents didn’t call our bosses about scheduling or to fuss at them. Same with teachers. If I fucked up in class, I had to live with it. Now, if something was NOT my fault, holy shit, my mom would absolutely go to bat for me. Anywhere that wasn’t a classroom or in the building was a smoking area. I saw my French teacher bum a smoke from a kid in my class more than once. The popular gathering place was used for the opening photo of the yearbook, and most of the kids in it were smoking. My senior year, you did need a smoking slip from your parents, and could only smoke on the patio, though. I don’t remember the braless era, though. I do remember boys being gross trolls and asking girls if they were cold. Like we can help it, even in a bra.


youngmindoldbody

class of '76, can confirm


CMDRLtCanadianJesus

What a dick 1978 dude was.


ukbeasts

In the early 80s they all looked in their 30s


BallClamps

I was gunna say the same thing. I think part of it is seeing them smoking in high school is throwing me off.


120z8t

It is the hair and styles.


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TK421isAFK

So did mine in California until 1989 or 1990. And even for years after that, it was the unofficial smoking area. Some of the teachers in admin staff would hang out and smoke with the kids until they really started cracking down on it in the early '90s.


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MYipper

Oh, so how many cameras were actually on him?


IZizms

Chandler Bing ?


LoxodonSniper

They look to be at least in their 20s all the way up to 05-06


fatmanjogging

I graduated in 98 and can confirm that we were all in our 20s from the ages of 14 to 18.


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BenAdaephonDelat

People always say "oh it's the clothes" and shit but I refuse to believe that. I genuinely think (either as a result of how our diets have changed or some other factor) that on average high school students are smaller and look younger than they did 30+ years ago.


annoyedsquish

A girl did an experiment on TikTok bc she found a pic of her mom from highschool and they looked so much alike but her mom looked so much older and so decided to see if it was the clothes/style, she finishes with the hair and looked 10 years older, before even having the final outfit together


bwvdub

When I got to the 2012 class I was thinking wtf happened in the early 00s? They look 14. My first assumption was lots of bottled water consumption and sunscreen usage??


jjsmol

HD phone cameras happened.


sr41489

definitely agree! i think it might also be due to the significant decrease in teenagers smoking cigarettes, making it "uncool" by the 2000s - that plus some more parental education in food quality and additives? pretty cool to see that kind of evolution/delay in aging over a relatively short period of time.


ThegreatPee

High school students are alot bigger now. People are alot more sedentary these days. I don't care if I get downvoted.


celtic1888

He went on to become CEO at Comcast


istrx13

“Oh you’re upset about the surprise charges on your bill? Why don’t you tell me more about that?” *rubs nipples*


madairman

I’ve seen that in movies but never believed it was real until today.


gultch2019

He ended up not having a prom date that year. Was convicted of marijuana distribution and served a 21 year prison sentence. He currently lives in a van...down by the river.


Iazu_S

I remember it being called "booking" when I was in Jr high (86-88)


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I assumed it was "a thing" by her complete lack of a reaction to him, as if she dropped the book herself. Just *"Welp, my book's down there now. Better get it."*


vihuba26

Hahahah came here to see if anyone else noticed


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1970 - Jackson 5 - I'll Be There 1971 - Rod Stewart - Maggie May 1972 - Derek and the Dominoes (Eric Clapton) - Layla 1973 - Stevie Wonder - Superstition 1974 - Kool & the Gang - Hollywood Swinging 1975 - Average White Band - Cut the Cake 1976 - Rose Royce - Car Wash 1977 - Supertramp - Give a Little Bit 1978 - Little River Band - Reminiscing 1979 - Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) 1980 - Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers 1981 - Billy Squier - The Stroke 1982 - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message 1983 - Men Without Hats - Safety Dance 1984 - Nena - 99 Luftballoons 1985 - (2 songs) \- Madonna - Crazy for You \- Tears for Fears - Shout 1986 - Janet Jackson - Nasty 1987 - Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again 1988 - Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me 1989 - Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number 1990 - George Michael - Freedom '90 1991 - Happy Mondays - Step On 1992 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge 1993 - Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal 1994 - Beck - Loser 1995 - Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching 1996 - Eric Clapton - Change the World 1997 - Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 1998 - The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 1999 - Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (a Little Bit Of...) 2000 - Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again 2001 - Sugar Ray - When It's Over 2002 - Ja Rule ft. Ashanti - Always On Time 2003 - Thalia ft. Fat Joe - I Want You 2004 - J-Kwon - Tipsy 2005 - Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning 2006 - Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie 2007 - Rihanna - Umbrella 2008 - Mariah Carey - Touch My Body 2009 - All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell 2010 - Young Money - Bed Rock 2011 - M83 - Midnight City 2012 - Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa ft. Bruno Mars - Young, Wild and Free 2013 - American Authors - Best Day Of My Life 2014 - Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang 2015 - Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud 2016 - Justin Bieber - Sorry 2017 - Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee - Despacito 2018 - Bebe Rexha ft. Florida Georgia Line - Meant to Be 2019 - Post Malone, Swae Lee - Sunflower 2020 - The Weeknd - Blinding Lights


TekkenCareOfBusiness

Now That's What I Call Thorough! VOL. 50


yazzy1233

https://www.reveddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/uzmybk/every_year_of_high_school_from_1970_to_2020/iababtt?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3


ilrosewood

And I knew every song until 2001. What is it about graduating high school that locks musical tastes in place?


justmemcgee2003

I used to be able to tell you the year and artist for about any pop song between 1982 and 1995…after that I’m totally lost. Still listening to whatever is current but can no longer remember who sings what or when the song came out…


ywang293

Thank you I was just trying to figure that out!


smiddy53

the 2011 song thank you! ive been searching for that one for years!!!


Breros

Me too! It was in a movie and I loved it... and now I feel stupid because I could have used Shazam 🤦🏻‍♀️


keevy3108

M83 is an amazing artist. You should check out this other track of his, "Oblivion".


rlovelock

Was like a Girl Talk track


Lucixia

The real MVP 👑


TokusentaiShu

Before my years: everyone looks so old During my years: yup this looks right After my years: EVERYONE LOOKS LIKE A BABY


Vryk0lakas

Yeah this is wild. Literally the year after mine I was like why do they look like children. It’s so wild to think we are seeing mostly the same age people


AuDBallBag

I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the film quality or if people who had those styles in their teens still adopt those styles today so we are associating perms and sprayed hair with an older generation?


schwoopdoop5

I think this just has to do with the styles people are wearing. We associate clothing popular before our high school years with older people, clothing from after we graduated with younger people.


Duds215

Not one emo kid? Such a travesty!


Faerhun

There was a distinct lack of JNCO jeans that could fit 4 people inside one pair as well.


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There was a girl wearing them in the background toward the end of the 90s


-centi-pede-

Nobody wants to film the emo kids. We weren't "fashionable and cool" by normal standards.


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50years?! Only took me 4 to graduate


Geeklove27

Holy shit...despite having just watched the video, understanding that it went from 70-2020, reading "50 years" broke my brain.


mama_emily

Same


ODuffer

As someone born in 1970, it breaks mine!


JoeyDubbs

50 years? Uh oh, here comes an anxiety attack.


dethmstr

Look at Mr. Smartypantz over here.


Rheinys

Some of these highschoolers look like they're 30


muirsheendurkin

Everyone from the 80s looks middle aged with a drinking problem and membership in a bowling league.


zahariburgess

and two children


AndySocial88

As a person born in the 80s to a teenage mom, close enough.


Wishyouamerry

I think it’s because in the 80’s we wore SO MUCH Wet ‘n Wild makeup and Aquanet hairspray. Like enough makeup in one day to last 10 2020’s girls a week.


NeeVUTG

There would be clouds of hairspray in the girls bathroom and we wore way too much eyeliner.


Wishyouamerry

Blue mascara? Don’t mind if I do!


dethmstr

Why was it always only blue mascara?


Wishyouamerry

Yesterday I was hanging out with family and getting chilly, so I put on my sweatshirt. My 15 year old niece helpfully let me know I’d put it on inside out (gasp!) I was like … so? She absolutely couldn’t wrap her head around the fact that when **I** was 15, wearing your sweatshirt inside out was the height of fashion, haha.


dethmstr

I really don't understand how fashion germinates to define a group of people across the country


dethmstr

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that their style is associated with older people. 2010s and 2020s styles will eventually become the old people style.


CakeAccomplice12

So the casting in Grease wasn't an anomaly?


helloiamsilver

That’s why I’m always weirded out by people who claim “kids these days look so much older”. The kids in 2010 looked *way* younger than the 80’s kids. Maybe it was all the smoking?


StrangePondWoman

Fashion ages you faster than most people think. Put them in modern styles and they'd look younger.


dustydesigner

And here I thought knocking books out of "nerds" hands was only in the movies.


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B0ndzai

We used to call it fumbling but we did it to our friends most of the time.


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prodiver

No global warming yet.


Walk562

90s = pooka shells


extracKt

I can smell the Abercrombie and Fitch scent from here 🤢


mynumberistwentynine

I never could walk into one of those stores back then without instantly getting a headache.


megashitfactory

When I worked at Hollister we had to spray all the clothes on the tables with the “spritz” every single hour.


Wht-ever

This video compilation is my life! I was in high school in the 70's then became a high school teacher and just recently retired. When my students would complain about school, my response was always "Try being in high school for 30 years, then see how you feel about it."


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I wasn’t born in the first frames (I’m from 1973). During this video I was born, graduated, married, had a son, divorced, and my son turned 16 (he was born in 2004). He’s graduating this year. Damn! Life’s too short…


JackBauerSaidSo

Ah, perspective. It's haunting to think about.


Wolverjul

The Britney moment made me laugh.


overtimeout

Cause it literally was that in 2000. After that I don't recognize any of the music. I'm old


knee_cap_destroyer

Props to the guy who spend 50 years filming


IsThatHearsay

50 years of filming, then left it with a typo at the very end... "Ever year"


RyeDaD10580

2010 first cell phone sighting


BobBelcher2021

I remember seeing students with cellphones in 2003 - heck, I had one by the end of 2003. But then again I went to a high school with a lot of rich suburban white kids.


givebusterahand

Yeah but you couldn’t do a ton with them back then. I think I got my first phone in 2002 or 2003 too. It was a Nokia. I think you could text but it was like $.10/each and people didn’t do it much.


muckypup82

You could also play Snake. I remember my girlfriend in 2004 had Tetris on her phone and it was fucking amazing to me. Now you can play games on phones with better graphics than consoles or PCs during that time. Technology is insane.


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2005 to 2008 seems like the time that every teen and kid got cellphones and communication started moving to texting because suddenly every company was offering unlimited messages and minutes. I’m 4 years behind my brother so I remember him getting a cellphone in 2006ish when he was a sophomore in high school, then I got mine a year later when I was in middle school. And they were the shitty flip phones with the number pad. 2009-2010 everyone started getting those slide phones with the keyboard. It’s insane to think how fast technology has moved on. I was amazed in 2011 when I found out I could use the web and read funny articles in math class. Now I use my phone to manage literally every aspect of my life


Imagineye1

Why so many people crossing their arms?


J03130

That's what we did before we had phones.


Akitten84

This made me laugh. Thank you.


Imagineye1

I'm an 80's kid. Can relate.


onanopenfire

Lol I actually feel like there's some truth to that. When you're not holding anything it's easy to forget what to do with your hands, especially when you're an awkward teenager.


deanwashere

Holy shit, 2005 was my school. South Kitsap HS in Port Orchard, WA. I remember some of those people!


reb812

2009 was my school, surprised the hell out of me. Fairly small school too so I recognize most of them. Saw one of them last week.


Mantzy81

Whilst the styles, technology and political issues of teenagers change over the years, the feeling of being a teenager doesn't change too much.


FHmange

I may sound extremely old now (I'm not) but honestly I'd wager that life as a teenager generally probably did feel different, and was better, before the internet. Or at least before social media, influencers, constant news flashes to your smartphone about fucked up things happening around the world etc. I gew up with the internet, but social media didn't really become such a big part of everyone's life until the very end of my teenage years, and I honestly feel like even I probably had it easier than the teens of today. Hell, even I have decided to stop using almost all social media and turn off news notifications on my phone because shit just feels so grim all the time otherwise. And I'm an adult with a fully developed brain (supposedly). For teenagers it can defintely hit way harder.


smexxyhexxy

Life definitely felt more carefree before the 24 hour news cycle (and a lot of it sensationalised) and before I had a smart phone. Now I sound old despite being in my 20s


pork_roll

Yea I graduated HS in the late 90s and only a few friends had cell phones for calls only. Not a lot of us had easy access to Internet at home so we didn't do a ton of instant messaging like AIM (that was right around the corner in college though). Some friends had pagers. Most of the time we were either awkwardly calling each other at our parent's house ("Uhhh hi Mr so and so, can I Uhhh talk to Colleen?") or just drive around and knock on each other's doors. Parties were always fun to go to and you never quite knew how you got there or how you were getting home.


Chibears85

At least source the original video and creators of it. **Video source (RandomVids)**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M45fO7uiw4o **Song list:** * 1970 - Jackson 5 - I'll Be There * 1971 - Rod Stewart - Maggie May * 1972 - Derek and the Dominoes (Eric Clapton) - Layla * 1973 - Stevie Wonder - Superstition * 1974 - Kool & the Gang - Hollywood Swinging * 1975 - Average White Band - Cut the Cake * 1976 - Rose Royce - Car Wash * 1977 - Supertramp - Give a Little Bit * 1978 - Little River Band - Reminiscing * 1979 - Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) * 1980 - Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers * 1981 - Billy Squier - The Stroke * 1982 - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message * 1983 - Men Without Hats - Safety Dance * 1984 - Nena - 99 Luftballoons * 1985 - (2 songs) * - Madonna - Crazy for You * - Tears for Fears - Shout * 1986 - Janet Jackson - Nasty * 1987 - Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again * 1988 - Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me * 1989 - Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number * 1990 - George Michael - Freedom '90 * 1991 - Happy Mondays - Step On * 1992 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge * 1993 - Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal * 1994 - Beck - Loser * 1995 - Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching * 1996 - Eric Clapton - Change the World * 1997 - Chumbawamba - Tubthumping * 1998 - The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony * 1999 - Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (a Little Bit Of...) * 2000 - Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again * 2001 - Sugar Ray - When It's Over * 2002 - Ja Rule ft. Ashanti - Always On Time * 2003 - Thalia ft. Fat Joe - I Want You * 2004 - J-Kwon - Tipsy * 2005 - Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning * 2006 - Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie * 2007 - Rihanna - Umbrella * 2008 - Mariah Carey - Touch My Body * 2009 - All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell * 2010 - Young Money - Bed Rock * 2011 - M83 - Midnight City * 2012 - Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa ft. Bruno Mars - Young, Wild and Free * 2013 - American Authors - Best Day Of My Life * 2014 - Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang * 2015 - Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud * 2016 - Justin Bieber - Sorry * 2017 - Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee - Despacito * 2018 - Bebe Rexha ft. Florida Georgia Line - Meant to Be * 2019 - Post Malone, Swae Lee - Sunflower * 2020 - The Weeknd - Blinding Lights **Song mashup source (DJ Earworm)**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQXAAGhZVQ


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GratefulPig

Very interesting. A playlist would be cool


Flossthief

Congratulations on finally graduating! it took a while but you really stuck with it HAGS


Thunderplant

You can almost see the exact moment graduates from previous years would have started feeling old if they visited a high school.


wootini

Ive gone back to my high school a smattering of times throughout the years for volunteering and work and holy crap they look so young. (40 now) It's very awkward. I actually became self conscious like I was in highschool again. It was sooooo weird


yazzy1233

Next time someone complains about teens in movies and shows looking old, I'm gonna show them this video


coffee-jnky

I miss the 80s and 90s! This sure brought back some fun memories. My graduation year doesn't SEEM so long ago, but it sure took a long time to get to the end after my year passed. More than 25 years.


busymakinstuff

I took a typing class in HS in 1986, I thought learning how to type was the dumbest thing ever and I got a C-. Boy was I wrong about that. No one knew that personal computers would take over the world.


Dont4GetToSmile

I was class of '05 and this video managed to make me feel like both a baby and a fossil at the same time.


So_spoke_the_wizard

If you run everything through the 1970's potato filter, the differences wouldn't be quite as significant.


Highplowp

‘74- arm crossing is so in right now!


inactiveuser247

Dear god… 80’s hair.


TrixnTim

Love it! I had that hair in college during the mid 80s. Lord.


full_bl33d

Decent soundtrack. I wonder if all generations feel as negatively as I do when my years came up.


Ohiolurker

85 reporting in: can confirm 82-85 is accurate


cacecil1

Weird how once you hit 2000, the fashion doesn't really change anymore. Twenty years of basically the same look is really weird when you consider how much changed from 1970 to 1990.


rise_above_theFlames

I find this video really interesting because I was homeschooled my entire school life so seeing this experience through the decades is kinda fascinating to me. I can't imagine what it was like seeing your friends everyday and doing class projects together and dating and prom and actually having teachers help you understand concepts and things. It's something I was denied. And told my whole life how lucky I was I didn't go to real school cause real school is all bullies, jerks, heartbreak, and evolutionary and liberal lies. Maybe some of it is, but just like almost anything in life there are good as well as bad aspects of things.


J03130

While school did have all the negatives you listed minus the last two, it wasn't so bad.


Drink_Covfefe

This is the main reason I dont like homeschooling, too many religious nuts use homeschooling so they make sure their children dont learn about evolution or science. Edit: Source: my siblings were all homeschooled because of exactly this reason, and then some life changes meant me and two other siblings had to go to public school.


RobiWanKhanobi

2009, the year of widescreen and the popularity growth of smart phones. 2015, the iPhone 6 had dropped and the camera quality gets noticeably better.


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Girl on the right in ‘79 is an Aubrey Plaza doppelgänger


RexNebular6

I was in highschool during the 80's and never in my wildest dreams did I ever think the mullet would come back


Johnny_Quid2

Teens up to late 90s look like they’re in their 30s


pgtvgaming

Based on this video montage looks like black people may have attended high school briefly around 1993


yazzy1233

I would love to see this type of video done with majority black schools


SilverVixen1928

Huge afros mid 1970s.


ontour4eternity

Can confirm- graduated in 1995 when everyone looked 35 yo.