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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2023-10-04 07:07 pm

[ SECRET POST #6116 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6116 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2023-10-05 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Media aimed at kids and teenagers in the 80s and 90s tended to reference older pop culture a lot. It's possible you could have watched weekday cartoons in the 90s without acquiring a passing familiarity with golden age cinema personalities and 60s and 70s pop culture phenomena, but you'd have had to make the effort not to learn (or never watched anything made by Disney or Warner Bros). And that's not even touching things like Nick at Night and the fact that shows like Gilligan's Island were still playing reruns 20 years after the show went off the air.

Most shows these days are hyper-focused on appealing to a specific demographic, and most young people aren't limited to watching whatever's on tv at a specific time. There are advantages to that, but it means you don't really have the pop-cultural crossover that used to exist, and the loss is recent enough that some of the older folks aren't really aware of it.