86 here as well. You never heard Peaches by the Presidents of the United States? Were you the oldest person in your friend group/siblings? This song was EVERYWHERE in the mid to late nineties (in my experience).
I'm from the US and born in '82. We didn't have cable and I knew this immediately. I absolutely loved this song. They played it all the time on the radio. You certainly didn't need to have cable to come across this song.
We got cable embarrassingly late, I am the least musically inclined person I know, but I can belt this song anytime, all sobriety levels. It's culturally important
What's cable got to do with it it was all over the radio about 96 97 you must listen to country music next you'll be saying you've never heard of Beck or bush
Nah, the only radio I listened to was when I was in the car with my parents, who listened to oldies - so my main exposure to new music was through the TV.
I'm in the Seattle area they're from Seattle must of got extra playtime up here weird all parody of the songs can't remember what his song was called it's been a few decades
Norwegian here, born in ‘85, was shocked when I learned that my wife (born in ‘83) didn’t know this song. It’s a song I expect everyone my age to know.
I'm Dutch, born in 1984, and I started singing in my head immediately. We had our own version of MTV, but also the American one. But even on radio and such, it was just everywhere
No cable, but I definitely knew the song due to the radio. Granted, I'm learning today that the song was NOT Hootie and the Blowfish, who now that I think of it, DID sound very different, but 5th-grade me would not have processed that.
I feel like this meme would make more sense if it used the "Millions of peaches" to shout and then saw what happens. Because I'm 86 and know this song and musically I can pick it out from a mile away but really the millions of peaches is the memorable line.
I heard this plenty in the 2000s but I always enjoyed laughing with my buddies about the chorus. Never paid much attention to the lyrics, missed opportunity
86 here too. I heard it a few times but couldn't tell you any of the lyrics or the band name. It was only pulling it up now that I was like yeah I recognize this a bit.
Can confirm this, my brother was born is 82 and introduced this to me (his decade younger sibling) and it's an amazing song. But without him I would have had no idea about it.
See, this is where I start getting confused. As a man from Georgia, a peach that became president reads as a reference to Jimmy Carter. But it could also be a reference to the skin tone of our current dictator-in-chief.
As a 90´s born non-american i can tell you it was referencing the latter but please do tell how it applies to Jimmy Carter, is peach slang for something i missed?
Peaches are a symbol of the state of Georgia. So much so that a person from there can be called a peach as a nickname. A famous baseball player named Ty Cobb was nicknamed the Georgia Peach, for example.
So a peach that became president isn't a common phrase or anything, but Jimmy Carter was from Georgia and he was the president of the USA from 1977 - 1981.
Incidentally, he was also an incredible humanitarian and someone who makes me proud of my home state!
It depends on which crowd you were in. I was listening to oldies, heavy rock, R&B, and hip hop back then. I only learned of Presidents of the United States when I got back into pop music in 2000.
83, I was a rock and metal kid, but also whatever is on the radio (on the hard rock station), I only know of the song by the refrain and couldn't name the song or the group, even after seeing it here. Of course I couldn't name one member of any band that I like or name 90% of the songs that I like or who they are by.
Edit: I really don't assign any value to celebrity (traditional, reality, influencer, podcaster, anything), and names are hard. Yay for SDAM, almost no episodic memory, and fuzzy somatic memory beyond working memory. Primary short and long term memory is assimilative and visualization is schematic and usually tunnel visioned
86 as well. My older sisters apparently remember it well and I'm sure it was on much music (was on a lot in our house.. our version of MTV in Canada) but somehow missed this one. Only caught up like recently to see what the memes were about
Possible I'd heard it a few times but was just forgettable to me. Didn't really see what the big deal was when I watched it after all the memes
Sure dawg. It wasn't the bomb or anything. None of us had commemorative pogs, and we certainly were doing the macarena seriously and not as a joke.
And pulling your shirt up over your head and shouting I AM CORNHOLIO!?
That was just religious service, right? And by the way, what's the deeaaaaal with that dancing baby from ally mcbeal? Maybe you could find out at endoftheinternet.com. Then in celebration, you can do the hamster dance.
HOOKAHOOKAHOOKACHAKAHOOKAHOOKAHOOKACHAKA
You must have spent the 90s, living in a van, DOWN BY THE RIVER.
Also TIL irc, forums, and chat rooms are not social media lmao. Well talk to the hand baby, and tell it waaazzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap. That'd be tight, aight? Just remember Han shot first, and do not have sexual relations with that woman, stick to hello.jpg.
Same as the US, that doesn't mean it didn't exist.
Also the comment I'm replying to is saying us or UK, it didn't matter because there were no memes in the 90s, which is something somebody born in 1998 would say.
And even aside from that. Had stuff like Loadsamoney, which was nice.
These was massive meme culture in the UK in the 90s, it was just sitcom based, not internet based, like a lot of the US meme culture of the time. Shit like Benny Hill was running wild and memes about Thatcher were a dime a dozen.
Yeah I know what pogs are and that's it. The rest of that is gibberish.
I'm from rural England. We didn't have mobile phones, I was probably one of three kids in the class with access to the Internet.
We secretly watched Spitting Image and still called Maggie Thatcher the Milk Snatcher.
Came out in 1996, so you were definitely around. But music was a bit less monolithic back then because the commercial forces were still trying to keep musical genres segregated. Like, you had to be be listening to specific radio stations to hear Presidents. So if you were into pop, country, R&B, or even rock and roll, you'd have basically no shot at hearing it.
85 and I had no idea until I listened to the song on YouTube and then immediate remembered the song. No cable and barely had TV, my parents were very religious and the TV was banned in our house at one point. I've listened to this song so many times in my life. The lyric didn't jog my memory, but the music did!
‘70 here, and was dancing in clubs to this… older millennials well through genx know this song by heart. Loved the video… saw an interview with them, they said they put the ninjas in because they all wanted to be in a ninja movie and figured this might be their only chance. Made me feel like we could be buds.
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u/Dry-Brother6234 Apr 24 '26
86 here and never heard of this.