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What was the shittiest year of the 1990s?

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cream stag film
  01/28/26
1990 because of the recession
turquoise stage
  01/28/26
get out of my thread you weird incel fag
cream stag film
  01/28/26
hey i might be weird but i have sex with genetic women
turquoise stage
  01/28/26
The 1997 chart-topper "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" ...
rusted brunch
  01/28/26
But 1995-1997 would be years 1, 2, and 3 from the 90s.
exhilarant forum
  01/28/26
those are all terrilbe years imo the invention of the boy ba...
rusted brunch
  01/28/26
Counterpoint: Those WERE the worst things to occur.
exhilarant forum
  01/28/26
1990 and 1991 were still part of the really shitty music per...
bright codepig gaping
  01/28/26
Very wrong and you were likely too young to get what was hap...
Snowy Flatulent Crotch Field
  01/28/26
Yes, I was there, and those are exactly some of the main rea...
bright codepig gaping
  01/28/26
1990 was a transitional year in music but still really great...
cream stag film
  01/28/26
wrong. google the albums released in 1991. it is literally t...
umber razzle school boistinker
  01/28/26
1990 is wrong because the most dynamic geopolitical and cult...
Snowy Flatulent Crotch Field
  01/28/26
Men in Black would like a word
Curious point
  01/28/26
Men in Black is gay millennial-targeted slop like Space Jam....
Snowy Flatulent Crotch Field
  01/28/26
late late 90s weren't great that's when MTV truly died may...
anal main people dopamine
  01/28/26
Null set
exhilarant forum
  01/28/26
'94, Tonya Harding, OJ, Cobain, MLB strike, weird and shitty...
Bonkers stubborn alpha
  01/28/26
FF6, DKC, Super Metroid, Sonic 3, 32X
Curious point
  01/28/26
Nobody was playing those Games in america.
heady house-broken bawdyhouse faggot firefighter
  01/28/26
Im horrible at explaining this but someone once made an epic...
Curious point
  01/28/26
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Irradiated primrose hell
  01/28/26
It was the end of the Cold War, the death of 80s excess, and...
exhilarant forum
  01/28/26
probably 1996
opaque misunderstood step-uncle's house
  01/28/26


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Date: January 28th, 2026 9:26 AM
Author: cream stag film



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Date: January 28th, 2026 9:41 AM
Author: turquoise stage

1990 because of the recession

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Date: January 28th, 2026 9:43 AM
Author: cream stag film

get out of my thread you weird incel fag

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:00 AM
Author: turquoise stage

hey i might be weird but i have sex with genetic women

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Date: January 28th, 2026 9:46 AM
Author: rusted brunch

The 1997 chart-topper "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" destroyed music forever and it's only fitting that 30 years later two goons would ruin xo by being derivative losers. One is even called MASE lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49626144)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:55 AM
Author: exhilarant forum

But 1995-1997 would be years 1, 2, and 3 from the 90s.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:00 AM
Author: rusted brunch

those are all terrilbe years imo the invention of the boy bands, mase and diddy. this is just music. seinfeld was ending. friends was taking its place in the zeitgeist which was so depressing.

the clinton stuff was exhausting. porn images took hours to download

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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:33 PM
Author: exhilarant forum

Counterpoint: Those WERE the worst things to occur.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:15 AM
Author: bright codepig gaping

1990 and 1991 were still part of the really shitty music period that went from around 1988-1991, where "80s music" was finished culturally and "90s music" hadn't gotten going yet.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:21 AM
Author: Snowy Flatulent Crotch Field

Very wrong and you were likely too young to get what was happening. Fall 91 is the grunge breakout, but even if you want to call that the cutoff of the prior period hip hop is in this weird place like MC Hammer is massive and Vanilla Ice comes out, but it’s understood in real time that these are corporate co-opts and the better shit is happening without any major label support like Ice Cube going solo. In pop you have massive generational releases like Mariah Carrey first shows up, Madonna drops Vogue and Boyz II Men basically invent the entire playbook for male pop artists in the next 15 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49626235)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:50 AM
Author: bright codepig gaping

Yes, I was there, and those are exactly some of the main reasons I didn't like the 88-91 transitional music period.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49626343)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:41 AM
Author: cream stag film

1990 was a transitional year in music but still really great

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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:52 PM
Author: umber razzle school boistinker

wrong. google the albums released in 1991. it is literally the greatest time in music.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:16 AM
Author: Snowy Flatulent Crotch Field

1990 is wrong because the most dynamic geopolitical and cultural changes are happening then ie people always want to point to 91 bc of grunge but if you expand it to 87/88 to 92 it’s a massive shift across every axis of the culture, politics, economy, intl relations etc etc. I recall there being a weird lull in the 97-98 range like handoffs had happened from cooler shit to gayer/dumber/lamer versions of the same shit and the first indications of how fucking terrible millennials’ taste was started to come through. EG LFO came along in that period and the boy bands are first starting and therefore at the lamest/most corporate/gayest. Or a band like Bush is a good example. They always kinda sucked but their second record that came out at the end of 96 was awful and you heard it on the radio all the time. TV was also in between waves as some of the core 90s stuff like Seinfeld ended but you didn’t yet have HBO at the golden age of TV level they reached by 99. Movies similarly were weirdly bad in that range after 94-96 being this huge indie breakout combined with awesome major studio movies and then 99 is obvs the goat.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49626219)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:05 AM
Author: Curious point

Men in Black would like a word

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:21 AM
Author: Snowy Flatulent Crotch Field

Men in Black is gay millennial-targeted slop like Space Jam. Independence Day shits in its mouth and then fucks it into a coma.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49626426)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:47 AM
Author: anal main people dopamine

late late 90s weren't great that's when MTV truly died

maybe saved by the Internet which was still fun and exciting and like the Wild West

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:52 AM
Author: exhilarant forum

Null set

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:03 AM
Author: Bonkers stubborn alpha

'94, Tonya Harding, OJ, Cobain, MLB strike, weird and shitty year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49626388)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:04 AM
Author: Curious point

FF6, DKC, Super Metroid, Sonic 3, 32X

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49626391)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:09 AM
Author: heady house-broken bawdyhouse faggot firefighter

Nobody was playing those Games in america.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49626405)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:03 AM
Author: Curious point

Im horrible at explaining this but someone once made an epic post about weird early 90s aesthetic with no analogue before or since

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49626389)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:09 PM
Author: Irradiated primrose hell



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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: exhilarant forum

It was the end of the Cold War, the death of 80s excess, and embrace of irony above all else. It was when the mainstream culture and zeitgeist became truly post-modern.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49627102)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:43 PM
Author: opaque misunderstood step-uncle's house

probably 1996

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