I showed 80s commercials to people born after the year 2000

[skykiii]

Little bit of Christmas cheer for old fucks like myself.

So I finally got a Discord watch party going and I showed my friends an old TV recording of A Garfield Christmas. Now, I'm the resident old fuck of this group, most everyone else is past Y2K (if you're curious, we met because we were all people who used to like Slenderman stuff).

So, their first big surprise was that A Garfield Christmas was a genuinely emotional special--they all kinda went in thinking "it's Garfield," ya know... and then came the scene where the grandma is talking about her dead husband and several people had to leave the room to dry their eyes.

And the same tape also had THIS commercial:

Once again... shock that they were tearing up over a McDonalds commercial of all things.

That said I also heard one of them mention that they were a little confused, asking "what does this have to do with McDonalds?"

Most of the other commercials were more what they expected--just kinda silly, with bad kid actors doing silly things and sometimes a person in a goofy suit.

That said, one of them had a very astute observation:

He said, "I actually like these commercials more than the ones today. A lot of commercials today feel cynical, but with these I get a feeling of sincerity."

..... If anything, it just goes to show that the idea that young people can't appreciate the old days... is a myth. Show them the right things and they can indeed appreciate it.

It's a double-great feeling making you realize Doublemint is the one for you.

 

[Beautiful Border]

You're onto something there, ads definitely used to be more interesting. I don't think I've ever seen any ads as interesting as these made recently:

 

[The Last Stand]

Back when American TV was wholesome. I guess it's telling now that commercials and media today only exist to SELL you stuff.

 

[skykiii]

Back when American TV was wholesome. I guess it's telling now that commercials and media today only exist to SELL you stuff.

I always found it weird this was a common criticism of the eighties and yet, the people who will hold the past accountable for it seem to never mind that its far worse today.

 

[mlanguishi]

Back when American TV was wholesome. I guess it's telling now that commercials and media today only exist to SELL you stuff.

They were still only trying to sell you stuff, it's just that the audience was different then. People still felt things. Now it's just white women with nigger guys and fags and has been since the mid 2000's. I still think 9/11 broke the American publics' mind in general, but these kind of things were starting a bit in the mid 90s as well. 'Captain Planet' and so on and some race swapping going on.

Now, you look at Youtube and what kids are watching, things like Sesame Street actually discussing the death of Mr Hooper would be considered a form of traumatic child abuse. Then the same ones that think that, think that not having gay pedo porn in school libraries is 'book banning'. I hope the Overton window and pendulum are going to swing back, and hard.

Imagine this on a children program today. Youtube won't even allow comments on it.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

Back when American TV was wholesome. I guess it's telling now that commercials and media today only exist to SELL you stuff.

And ironically, they seem to suck at it now that it's purely about pushing the product. Good advertising should be memorable and associate the product with some emotion. I can think of many commercials from childhood in the 90s that I remember more or less fondly, but hardly a single one since some time in the 2000s, except ones for a depression, diabetes, or AIDS drug I'll never use (and I only remember because they remind me of the influence these companies have over the media).

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

You'll also notice how people were far more "normal" looking back then, by being conventionally attractive and definitely not fat. I saw a movie in the theater recently, and the film had about 30 minutes of previews and commercials before it started. About 90% of the people in the commercials were fat, ugly, mystery meat mutts, and dangerhairs. Remember that funny Amazon Prime Day meme a few years back with that freakishly hideous fat black woman looking down a cardboard box? Well, that was the new normal in the commercials I saw at the theater recently...

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Now make them watch Threads and Plague Dogs.

 

[Product Placement]

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

If I had to hazard a guess, the issues with modern commercials are that, unless the commercial is done to push ESG bribe, there is no originality, it's the same mass produced commercials that were found empirically to sell the most product. Have some meaningless song and dance, or empty message in the hope it will be a meme.

 

[dvnc]

This is why there are YT channels dedicated to nothing but 80's and 80's advertising that have tons of followers. It was just a better time.

 

[GilaCutter]

He said, "I actually like these commercials more than the ones today. A lot of commercials today feel cynical, but with these I get a feeling of sincerity."

I think it might actually be the opposite.

Modern commercials are basically just "here's our shit, go buy it" (unless they're pushing some ESG shit ofc) which makes them rather boring but are more sincere in the sense that they just want you to buy shit, but the old ones like that McD commercial just disguise the same message by trying to make it into something more than it is, like comparing your mass-produced coffee brand to some kind of an artistan work when it's ultimately just mass-produced coffee.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Quiero volver

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

Scan the comments on retro commercial videos and you'll see plenty of zoomies wishing they could have lived in the '80s and '90s when everything had soul. I'm not sure what to make of it as I am just a humble schizo, but it gives me a tiny bit of hope that humanity will eventually break out of the globohomo prison corporations are trying to build up around us.

 

[skykiii]

Now, you look at Youtube and what kids are watching, things like Sesame Street actually discussing the death of Mr Hooper would be considered a form of traumatic child abuse.

And what further proves this point is, ironically, a McDonalds commercial.

Recently McDonalds in Japan has been making these animated commercials that are just... sweet shorts about people bonding while eating McDonalds.

And every single one of them got backlash from Twitter tards who found something offensive about them.

I can only imagine what "Hardnose Mrs. Hatcher" would've gotten from kids today.

 

[skykiii]

Now make them watch Threads and Plague Dogs.

I myself have never seen either of those movies, in fact I've never heard of "Threads."

Watership Down (by the same guy as Plague Dogs) is on my hit list for them though.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

If I had to hazard a guess, the issues with modern commercials are that, unless the commercial is done to push ESG bribe, there is no originality, it's the same mass produced commercials that were found empirically to sell the most product. Have some meaningless song and dance, or empty message in the hope it will be a meme.

I guess that Chevrolet ad was thankfully, an exception to the rules.

 

[Mac Monster]

Honestly I'd say that 2000s commercials still had some charm to them. It's really once you get into the 2010s that you start to see all the ESG shit.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I myself have never seen either of those movies, in fact I've never heard of "Threads."

Watership Down (by the same guy as Plague Dogs) is on my hit list for them though.

Threads is great. Sorta like The Day After but without all the cheery optimistic happy stuff

 

[Uranus Pink]

Scan the comments on retro commercial videos and you'll see plenty of zoomies wishing they could have lived in the '80s and '90s when everything had soul.

And a sense of humor

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I'm not sure what to make of it as I am just a humble schizo, but it gives me a tiny bit of hope that humanity will eventually break out of the globohomo prison corporations are trying to build up around us.

The globohomo corporations in of and by themselves are never really a problem the "people" can't solve one way or another fed post way. It is them with the backing of national governments and their law enforcement and military apparatuses is where the problem lies.