All through the 1990s Mr Rogers was seen by adults as a hilarious target to mock as everything corny and cringey about old school children's TV The tide didn't start turning until he died in 2003, and even then the sheer devotion to him in the late 2010s would've been weirdhttps://twitter.com/blanketboat/status/1236835096541290497 …
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It was relatively common including among people who saw themselves as left-of-center to sneer at "political correctness" and "the cult of self-esteem" and celebrate the idea of being tough and speaking your mind and so forth Everyone who was cool liked South Park
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The pendulum swung back REALLY HARD on that one and I honestly think it's striking in hindsight how predictable it would be that we'd eventually get so poisoned by irony and cruelty our whole generation would go desperately searching for an icon of earnest compassion in the past
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It's interesting to look at that slice of culture, because as a 90s kid I think every generation of adolescents is in a hurry to cast off the childish things they've outgrown but our generation had this space they thought was uniquely theirs, the Internet, and went way overboard
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Like ironically I now think the cringiest thing by far from the 90s isn't Barney and Friends but all the adults and teenagers who would not shut the fuck up about how much they hated Barney and Friends The members of alt.barney.die.die.die on Usenet somehow proud of this hobby
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