>>23251001I was born in 90. Last bastion of childhood without social media and phones. First couple years on Facebook and MySpace pre-censorship were peak internet. 90s still had holdovers from yesteryear 70s/80s in restaurants, venues, theatres, etc. I miss nostalgic musty old people smell walking into grandfathers wood decorated house. Unique architecture and vibrant colors everywhere, especially in the 90s. I lived in an area where it was weird seeing a black or brown. Everyone watched them and knew that they were subhuman just on visual identification alone. Blacks and browns knew they were being watched and would be held accountable for their actions and behaved better than they do now. Then 9/11 happened. A Jewish ritual wrecking what was my childhood. The worst part is I didn’t even know what was happening at the time. I hated Muslims, still do, but got fired up enough to join army. I took the ASVAB and was days away from signing the dotted line….then one night I lurked on /pol/ for about 4 hours and my life would change forever. Suddenly the 90s didn’t seem glamorous, but more of a unknowingly trapped society. I still hate the aesthetics today, but have personally evolved much since then
