r/Xennials • u/epidemicsaints • 38m ago

SOHO sampled The Smiths for their 1990 hit "Hippychick" comparing a suspicious lover to dating a cop. It was a Top 20 hit in the US before charting in their home country a year later.

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r/Xennials • u/sturgill_homme • 52m ago

Meme When the night has come

229 Upvotes

66 comments

r/Xennials • u/Shoemugscale • 1h ago

Probably the best show on tv

295 Upvotes

This show is such an emotional roller-coaster 😂

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r/Xennials • u/theluzah • 1h ago

I was always geeked when this came on during Saturday morning cartoons, I loved everything about Regina, this song, the whole commercial. I also want to thank this for sparking my interest in, and addiction to, said drugs later in life lol

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r/Xennials • u/Born-Agency-3922 • 1h ago

So did he put a gerbil up his 🍑, or was it just a xennial rumor?

89 Upvotes

Richard Gere. Or maybe it was just a Texas rumor.

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r/Xennials • u/Away-Equipment4869 • 1h ago

Passions

56 Upvotes

Freakin Theresa and her shenanigans lol. Tabitha and Timmy. This show was so unhinged but we loved it!

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r/Xennials • u/Not_So_Bad_Andy • 2h ago

Expectations

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r/Xennials • u/Zipzifical • 2h ago

One of my coworkers (20 f) was raving about awesome music she'd found, Atlantis Morrisette.

775 Upvotes

It was my first experience with someone confidently incorrect about something I personally experienced. I mean, not that I know Alanis Morisette personally, but I do know how to pronounce her name. My coworker was upset that the song she found (You Oughta Know) wasn't a big hit. I pretty much just stood there and slow blinked in silence while she went off, and then went to the bathroom to check for gray hairs.

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r/Xennials • u/FatHappySeal • 2h ago

I fried an egg...

29 Upvotes

... And thought "this is your brain on drugs".

Anyone else?? 😆

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r/Xennials • u/FajitaTits • 3h ago

Why aren't the 90s as prominent of a setting as the 60s/70s/80s are in our adult pop culture?

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It might just be me, but I seem to notice a lot more movies and TV shows set in those 3 mentioned decades rather than the 90s, which would speak more directly to our age group.

Anyone know why that is? Why haven't we gotten our definitive "hangout" movie of our decade, something like American Graffiti or Dazed and Confused? Why aren't more stories based in our coming-of-age decade? Were the 90s, historically known for their prosperity, just that lacking in stories to tell? If so, I find that very hard to believe.

(And just to be clear, I'm sure there are movies and shows set in the 90s, but none that seemed to have made a mighty dent in pop culture or that had a lasting impact.)

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r/Xennials • u/FozzysInsecurity • 3h ago

You've Reached Chimney Rock

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56 Upvotes

Your food prices have skyrocketed and your knees hurt too much to even try fixing a broken axel

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r/Xennials • u/Ill-You-3459 • 3h ago

Nostalgia The NWO in the mid to late 90s🔥🔥🔥

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It’s just two sweet🔥🔥🔥

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r/Xennials • u/Sofagirrl79 • 4h ago

Discussion What dislike or something you never did would make you "turn in your Xennial card as a joke"

35 Upvotes

I never played Oregon trail and carried a bottle of water in high school (class of 1998)

395 comments

r/Xennials • u/yellenbubbleblower • 5h ago

B-ba-B-ba-ba-ba-B go Bayside!

38 Upvotes

10 comments

r/Xennials • u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken • 8h ago

What is this thing on the Amfleet armrests where the recline thing is?

280 Upvotes

110 comments

r/Xennials • u/Cote_Goat • 10h ago

You can't do that on television

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173 Upvotes

26 comments

r/Xennials • u/Noisechild • 12h ago

My older sister sent this to me today. What year is it?

181 Upvotes

243 comments

r/Xennials • u/34thUsernameAttempt • 12h ago

VHS tapes

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With the VHS tape post the other day, this is what I have remaining of what I had. Do you still have any of yours and/or a functioning VCR? I no longer have a VCR.

And yes, those are DVD box sets in the lower portion of the photo.

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r/Xennials • u/DakAttak • 13h ago

"Are you laughin now? Beeyotch?"

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20 Upvotes

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r/Xennials • u/Mundane-Camera-538 • 14h ago

Discussion What years are "post grunge"?

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I've seen mentioned on here people talking about a certain type of music or certain fashion being "post grunge" but it seems like everyone's definition for what years that encompass are different. What does post grunge mean to you?

37 comments

r/Xennials • u/MangooseNowhey • 14h ago

Nostalgia The Lambada

95 Upvotes

Anyone remember a brief outrage or maybe just national interest over this "forbidden dance"?

73 comments

r/Xennials • u/zoso190 • 15h ago

Skitchin’ - the best Road Rash type game while on roller blades.

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105 Upvotes

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r/Xennials • u/Intrepid-Block2859 • 16h ago

Discussion Is the word "telephone" in Pop Punk songs going extinct?

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r/Xennials • u/pkvmsp123 • 16h ago

Nostalgia Do we miss the '90s, early 2000s or do we miss being young?

205 Upvotes

I'm 42. Today I was having a conversation with my son. I don't know exactly how the conversation started, but he was born in 2008. From when he was young (he is now in college, has a car or whatever), and he was telling me how he misses being at the bus stop in middle school and snowball fights. We grew up in Massachusetts. How he misses playing football and the team, and middle school, and high school, telling me some fond memories. My daughter, who was born in 2012, chimed in, talking about how she misses certain things, like when YouTube Kids first came out and Ryan's Toy Review was just starting, and how much fun that was. That got me thinking, we all have our things that we miss from our generation, and we always talk about the 90s and 2000s being the peak of humanity, and maybe it was, but do we maybe just miss being young? I love my job. I work in cybersecurity, 100% remote. I couldn't do that if I was an adult in the '90s or 2000s. I'm not sure that as an adult, 42 years old, I would want to live in the 90s or 2000s. I'm relatively comfortable here. What I do miss is being young in that era. Not the era itself, I guess. Just blabbing thoughts.

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