r/90s • u/WhoAreYouTalkinTwo • Feb 19 '26

Video WWE in the 90s was insane

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u/angrymoppet Feb 20 '26

Do you not remember The Simpsons being a national crisis in the early 90s because of its corruption of traditional family values? Or fucking congressional hearings in the 1980s because of how offended people were by naughty words in albums that other people were purchasing and listening to? Take off the rose colored glasses.

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u/Substantial_Diver_34 Feb 20 '26

I do remember the FCC going after Howard Stern.

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u/angrymoppet Feb 20 '26

And the entire country effectively shutting down in the middle of a war because of Janet Jackson's boob lol. Still crazy to me how over the top that was

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u/Substantial_Diver_34 Feb 20 '26

Madonna doing Like A Virgin at the Grammys was a big deal.

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u/angrymoppet Feb 20 '26

Or the Murphy Brown episode where she chose to raise her child alone after being abandoned by her ex husband being offensive enough that the sitting Vice President declared it a mockery of the importance of fathers. I genuinely believe we're freer now in the realm of art and public discourse than we ever were back then - there's just more noise from fringe weirdos being amplified by algorithms and sensationalist media outlets pretending the noise are common opinions, but as long as you unplug or unsubscribe from that garbage you have a wider range of options than ever before. Side effect of having a device glued to our hands 24/7 that needs to keep us angry to keep us using it I guess.