The unthinkable is happening, we are now becoming the grown ups. I realize that when it comes to the '80s I'm more Goonies then Breakfast Club, but when you realize that you can cleary remember the stuff that happened 20 years ago, the world is just never the same again. But these days the requirements for being a Youth have been expanded on somewhat and it seems you have to have at the very least been born under the Reagan Presidency to qualify as a real "youth".whatever youth means ofcourse. MTV came out when I was 5 or 6 and I'm not sure if I even remember that. Infact I don't even think my own solid memories go beyond the very early '80s. You know, traditional Baby Boomer stuff like that. That sucks! It seemed like for the longest time the only requirements for being a kid or a Youth was that you weren't alive for, or at least can't remember things like the Vietnam War, the Beatles, the Moon Landing, Nixon/Watergate, the Bicennetinal, Disco, etc, etc. I mean in just 3 years I will be at that age where I can no longer be trusted anymore. I know I'm far from being old of course, but still the harsh realities of getting older have been on my mind the past couple of years. I was born in 1975, so I'm 27 years old and while I know I'm by no means an "old guy", I have been feeling kinda bad lately. But in the end WE know that most of them had their origins in the '80s.Īs someone who spent most of the '80s on a playground and being a literal "child", sometimes I feel bad when I realize that the requirements for being part of the Youth Culture have changed slightly and I don't really fit into them anymore. '80s toons have indeed become generational. Even He-Man got a new cartoon for the 2000s. It also forced me to come to terms with the nasty fact that our generation doesn't "own" the Transformer franchise or any of these '80s characters, as they are constantly updated and reinvented. But reading that also made me deal with the unpleasant fact that not everything I grew up with will be loved by the next generation. He wouldn't even have his little Beast Wars if it wasn't for the Generation 1 cartoon. What that punk wrote was pure sacrilege against Transfomers and the '80s. Star getting Beast Wars they are so much better. Here was the description that was written in by some bratty kid,-"Forget the old 1980s Transformers. Beast Wars was a sequel to the original '80s Transformers cartoon and was popular in the mid-late '90s. I was looking to download some G1 Transformers cartoons off of Kazaa when I came across a few episodes of Beast Wars. (except for the crude pop on Mtv today) I can't believe that some of my peers have no idea on who Deborah Gibson, REM, or even The Clash are!!!! (I also like new wave, rock.any generation (execpt 'new metal'), and pop. (about school,goals,pop culture, etc.) Well, she told me that she grew up in the 80s and was into New Editon, The Cure, Def Leppard, and Debbie (now "Deborah".in which I told her and,NO OFFENSE, she probably felt a bit left off) Gibson.I thought it was great. Fortunately,A subsitute teacher said I have great taste in music while we were in a conversation. Also.Some of my peers believe that a lot of meterial from several rappers, Limp Bizcuit (re did George Michael's Faith), Alien Ant Farm (re did M.J.'s Smooth Criminal) and.even B.S.'s wretched cover of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock N' Roll" are original!!! Geez! And I'm only 18 years old. While at the Wherehouse, I mentioned several cartoons & shows(that I grew up with He Man, Heathcliff,Smurfs,Pee Wee Herman,etc.) to some younger kids and they looked at me like I was from Mars. Realizing that later in this new '00 decade I will turn 30 and a 10 high school year reunion isn't that far away has me &%^*#$%% bricks too. This was the first time I ever felt seriously old, I've been feeling bad ever since. There I was buying a Superman DVD pack, 25 years old and this 17 or 18 year old kid treated me like a 50 year old man buy a Beatles CD. I was only born in '83" This 17 or 18 year old then gave me the bag in a disgusted way. The only Superman I know is that Lois & Clark series. The guy put his little scanning gizmo down on the counter hard, looked up to the ceiling and rolled his eyes, then continued to scan with a laugh and said, "Uhhhh, well Superman is a bit before my time, it was some kind of '80s thing. So I said, "Yeah dude, they're really cool especially the first one, got a directors commentary and everything, you should check it out". Still I erroneously figured he was my age or at least around my age, 20 or above. When the kid at the counter saw what I was buying he said "Suuuuperman" in a saracatic way. Being 25, I grew up with the Christopher Reeve movies, and I used to work at this Best Buy only about 4 years earlier when I was 21, which to me wasn't that long ago. Early this year in 2001, I bought the Superman DVD pack.
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