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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 5, 2018 23:23:24 GMT 10
I generally wish that I could have been born earlier than I was. Although, if there is one small positive aspect about when I was born, at least I was able to properly experience some of the Early 2000s.  I would have liked to truly experience the whole era, but i'm glad that I at least got to experience 2003 (and 2002, to some extent). Fortunately, I was old enough to have gotten into some of the kids culture at the time as well. For instance, I used to play games such as "Stuart Little 2" and "World's Scariest Police Chases" on my PS1 as a 3/4 year old. I also got a PS2 for Christmas in 2003. 1993 is good. Got to see the turn if the millennium. Being a Pokémon kid was fun. I'm okay with being a late 2000s teen since it meant I got to be a 2010s adult. I didn't like the 2000s much though except the early bit, but whatever. I would definitely not want to be born earlier and I'm unsure about being born later. Yep. I wouldn't have minded being born in 1993. It would have been really good to experience the turn of the millennium!
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Feb 5, 2018 23:34:54 GMT 10
1993 is good. Got to see the turn if the millennium. Being a Pokémon kid was fun. I'm okay with being a late 2000s teen since it meant I got to be a 2010s adult. Agree with this 💯%. I loved watching Pokémon also. While growing up and going through school in the late 90s-early 2000s, I used to rush home and watch it every afternoon without fail! Times felt so much easier back then.  I actually still own all the recordings I made on tape back then!
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Post by #Infinity on Feb 6, 2018 0:36:51 GMT 10
As far as whether or not I'm happy to have been born in 1992, no, I am absolutely not happy. I hate that not only was I alive for absolutely none of the '80s, but my memories of the '90s are almost entirely restricted to kiddie stuff, leaving me a basket case by the time I became a teenager and music started to suck particularly badly in the US.
I would have far preferred to have been born in the late '70s. It would have been great to have been a kid during the '80s and to embrace pop culture as a whole most during the '90s and early 2000s. Even now, I generally feel like a late '70s-born trapped in an early '90s-born's body.
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Post by thy9899 on Feb 6, 2018 1:00:18 GMT 10
No!!!!I don't want to be born in the last year of 90's!!!OMG I just only lived about 11 months in the 90's and I'm just an infant in the ending of the decade so I don't experience anything in the 90's
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Post by Mibblez on Feb 6, 2018 2:52:37 GMT 10
I use to not like the year I was born in but I grew out of that kinda. I want to embrace being born in 1999 more, and hopefully as the year goes by people will stop giving shit to people being born in that year. If I had to pick a year to be born in earlier I would say 1998 to 1989 would be fine. I wouldn’t wannabe younger tho, not because I feel sorry for kids nowadays though.
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Post by longaotian on Feb 6, 2018 7:26:44 GMT 10
As far as whether or not I'm happy to have been born in 1992, no, I am absolutely not happy. I hate that not only was I alive for absolutely none of the '80s, but my memories of the '90s are almost entirely restricted to kiddie stuff, leaving me a basket case by the time I became a teenager and music started to suck particularly badly in the US. I would have far preferred to have been born in the late '70s. It would have been great to have been a kid during the '80s and to embrace pop culture as a whole most during the '90s and early 2000s. Even now, I generally feel like a late '70s-born trapped in an early '90s-born's body. Why are you complaining, at least you have some memories of the 90s. People born in the later years of the decade obviously don't have a recollection of the 90s, so instead you should just be happy that you weren't born any later. For example, if I could choose I would want to be born sometime in the 70s so I'm obviously way off, but at least I can remember things from the early and maybe mid 2000s that someone born just a couple of years after me can't.
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Post by longaotian on Feb 6, 2018 7:29:47 GMT 10
1993 is good. Got to see the turn if the millennium. Being a Pokémon kid was fun. I'm okay with being a late 2000s teen since it meant I got to be a 2010s adult. Agree with this 💯%. I loved watching Pokémon also. While growing up and going through school in the late 90s-early 2000s, I used to rush home and watch it every afternoon without fail! Times felt so much easier back then. I actually still own all the recordings I made on tape back then! Tbh, 1993 is meh. I mean you experienced your childhood during a really good time but then you had to spend the first half of your teen years when I experienced my core childhood, 2006-2009 
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Post by longaotian on Feb 6, 2018 7:36:08 GMT 10
The more I think about it, being born in 2000 isn't bad at all. I was just old enough to have some actual memories from the early 2000s, and while 2008/9 were pretty bad, my core childhood in the mid/late 2000s was still good. My preteen years in the early 2010s were really fun and had good pop culture, having my teen years in the mid/late 2010s is also good because there is a ton of fun stuff today like snapchat, Netflix and these things weren't popular last decade. Also, it means that I will probably still be the right age for pop culture for at least the first half of the 20s.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 6, 2018 7:54:47 GMT 10
Agree with this 💯%. I loved watching Pokémon also. While growing up and going through school in the late 90s-early 2000s, I used to rush home and watch it every afternoon without fail! Times felt so much easier back then. I actually still own all the recordings I made on tape back then! Tbh, 1993 is meh. I mean you experienced your childhood during a really good time but then you had to spend the first half of your teen years when I experienced my core childhood, 2006-2009 was actually born in 1992. His birthday is in November, so he just missed out on being born in 1993.
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Post by #Infinity on Feb 6, 2018 7:55:53 GMT 10
As far as whether or not I'm happy to have been born in 1992, no, I am absolutely not happy. I hate that not only was I alive for absolutely none of the '80s, but my memories of the '90s are almost entirely restricted to kiddie stuff, leaving me a basket case by the time I became a teenager and music started to suck particularly badly in the US. I would have far preferred to have been born in the late '70s. It would have been great to have been a kid during the '80s and to embrace pop culture as a whole most during the '90s and early 2000s. Even now, I generally feel like a late '70s-born trapped in an early '90s-born's body. Why are you complaining, at least you have some memories of the 90s. People born in the later years of the decade obviously don't have a recollection of the 90s, so instead you should just be happy that you weren't born any later. For example, if I could choose I would want to be born sometime in the 70s so I'm obviously way off, but at least I can remember things from the early and maybe mid 2000s that someone born just a couple of years after me can't. Why am I complaining??? Just because there are other years even less favourable for me to have been born in doesn’t mean I don’t feel unsatisfied with being born in 1992. I was only ever a little kid in the ‘90s, so I got to experience almost none of the decade’s true culture while it was brand new. Aside from a few Disney movies and a bit of Nintendo, my memories of the ‘90s are almost entirely comprised of little kiddie things. Like SharksFan99, I feel woefully misplaced in my own generation, even if it’s better than growing up in, say, the ‘40s or ‘50s. I’ll be honest, the late ‘90s and early 2000s were a great time to be a kid. The problem, however, is that the subsequent stretch of time was not so great for me to be a teen and young adult. Today, I’m stuck in a dark age for music, a golden age for television (which I don’t usually like committing to much), an absurdly pessimistic social climate, a lousy fashion scene, and a world in which social media being a requirement to do almost any basic tasks, regardless of the needless anxiety they may provoke. I may be able to find my own happiness much better than I could before, but that doesn’t mean I feel like I’m necessarily from the right era. There’s a reason I listen primarily to retro music, wear Y2K era-ish clothing, buy most od my music, and generally abstain from social media.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 6, 2018 8:16:21 GMT 10
Why are you complaining, at least you have some memories of the 90s. People born in the later years of the decade obviously don't have a recollection of the 90s, so instead you should just be happy that you weren't born any later. For example, if I could choose I would want to be born sometime in the 70s so I'm obviously way off, but at least I can remember things from the early and maybe mid 2000s that someone born just a couple of years after me can't. Why am I complaining??? Just because there are other years even less favourable for me to have been born in doesn’t mean I don’t feel unsatisfied with being born in 1992. I was only ever a little kid in the ‘90s, so I got to experience almost none of the decade’s true culture while it was brand new. Aside from a few Disney movies and a bit of Nintendo, my memories of the ‘90s are almost entirely comprised of little kiddie things. Like SharksFan99 , I feel woefully misplaced in my own generation, even if it’s better than growing up in, say, the ‘40s or ‘50s. But you would have been able to experience the music of the Late '90s? You were 7 years old in 1999. I know that it varies from person to person, but I started to become aware of chart music in Late 2002, just before I turned 4. By the time I was 7 years old, I was well aware of the current chart music of the time and the most popular songs. Even though you were in your childhood during the '90s, you would have been old enough to be truly aware of the music at that time, especially during the Late '90s.
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Post by prodanny288 on Feb 6, 2018 8:39:23 GMT 10
I won’t complain about my date of birth because I cannot control it. It’s not like I could tell my parents “hey, have unprotected sex on this day so I can be born on this exact date and get the best culture out of this decade.” Sorry, it doesn’t work like that.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 6, 2018 8:48:19 GMT 10
I’ll be honest, the late ‘90s and early 2000s were a great time to be a kid. The problem, however, is that the subsequent stretch of time was not so great for me to be a teen and young adult. Today, I’m stuck in a dark age for music, a golden age for television (which I don’t usually like committing to much), an absurdly pessimistic social climate, a lousy fashion scene, and a world in which social media being a requirement to do almost any basic tasks, regardless of the needless anxiety they may provoke. I may be able to find my own happiness much better than I could before, but that doesn’t mean I feel like I’m necessarily from the right era. There’s a reason I listen primarily to retro music, wear Y2K era-ish clothing, buy most od my music, and generally abstain from social media. I can understand your dissatisfaction with the current times, because I feel much the same way. However, if there is a major positive aspect about when you were born, at least you were able to truly experience a cultural era you are very fond of. You experienced your entire core childhood during the Late '90s/Early 2000s, a time when pop culture offered real substance and was innovative. It's not just the pop culture side of things either. You were also able to experience the turn of the millennium, an event which will not occur again for hundreds of years. Being born in 1992 would be much better than being born in 1999. For instance, I was only 9.5 months old at the turn of the millennium and I just managed to catch the tail-end of the Early 2000s. I was too young to truly experience 2000-2002. My core childhood was during a time when crappy songs such as "My Humps", "Chamillionaire", "Soulja Boy" and "Drop It Like It's Hot" were popular. You never hear of anyone wishing that they could experience or re-live their childhood during the Mid 2000s. I also experienced the core of my adolescence during the Mid 2010s, which makes it worse, considering that I hate the current pop culture like you do.
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Post by longaotian on Feb 6, 2018 8:49:58 GMT 10
Tbh, 1993 is meh. I mean you experienced your childhood during a really good time but then you had to spend the first half of your teen years when I experienced my core childhood, 2006-2009 was actually born in 1992. His birthday is in November, so he just missed out on being born in 1993. I knew that haha
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Post by #Infinity on Feb 6, 2018 10:01:40 GMT 10
Why am I complaining??? Just because there are other years even less favourable for me to have been born in doesn’t mean I don’t feel unsatisfied with being born in 1992. I was only ever a little kid in the ‘90s, so I got to experience almost none of the decade’s true culture while it was brand new. Aside from a few Disney movies and a bit of Nintendo, my memories of the ‘90s are almost entirely comprised of little kiddie things. Like SharksFan99 , I feel woefully misplaced in my own generation, even if it’s better than growing up in, say, the ‘40s or ‘50s. But you would have been able to experience the music of the Late '90s? You were 7 years old in 1999. I know that it varies from person to person, but I started to become aware of chart music in Late 2002, just before I turned 4. By the time I was 7 years old, I was well aware of the current chart music of the time and the most popular songs. Even though you were in your childhood during the '90s, you would have been old enough to be truly aware of the music at that time, especially during the Late '90s. Well, exactly, I was only 7 years old. Almost everything that I listened to in my mom's minivan was kid's music like Red Grammer. I didn't start getting truly exposed to proper pop music until the early 2000s, when Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys were huge, we had the soundtracks for Shrek and The Parent Trap '98, and my mom bought Now 8. Prior to 2000/2001-ish, there were maybe only a few pop songs that I distinctly remember or recognized years later when I heard them again. Most of what my mom listened to aside from our Red Grammer tapes was adult contemporary music that was completely transparent to me at the time. These here are like the only pop songs I genuinely remember hearing back in the '90s: * Spice Girls - Wannabe * R. Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly * Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams - I Finally Found Someone * Take That - Back for Good * Blues Traveler - Run-Around (specifically because of that harmonica solo) * Sixpence None the Richer - There She Goes * Natalie Imbruglia - Torn * Madonna - Ray of Light * Martina McBride - Valentine * Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery * The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) * C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) Even though I had heard these songs, the first was the only one for which I knew both the artist and the song title. I just wasn't in the loop yet to know otherwise. I had absolutely no knowledge of songs like "The Boy Is Mine," "I'll Be Missing You," "Believe," "No Scrubs," "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," "One Week," "Genie in a Bottle," or so on back when they were brand new, even though their chart success implies I should've heard them plenty. 7 years old was just too young for me to be truly, fully exposed to the world of music, especially since I had no older siblings.
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I would have liked to truly experience the whole era, but i'm glad that I at least got to experience 2003 (and 2002, to some extent). 
