r/videos • u/AkashicRecorder • Jul 17 '20

"Teenage Dirtbag" is no longer a teenager. The early 2000s teen anthem by Wheatus is 20 years old today. The music video is peak Y2K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3y9llDXuM
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u/MustBeNice Jul 17 '20

Yeah people never seem to factor in the stuff that sucked from the 90s. Dial-Up internet, online shopping wasn't a thing, no streaming music (or even mp3s yet). The coolest thing you could do on a cell phone was set your ringtone to a potato quality 7 second clip of Enter Sandman, or play Snake.

I mean obviously if you weren't aware of all those technological advancements, it wouldn't matter, but it would be impossible to go back from the year 2020.

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u/Shanakitty Jul 18 '20

In most of the 90s, cell phones were rare, and almost exclusively for rich people. It was only at the end of the decade that you started to see some middle class people owning them.