What caused the optimism of the 90's to die out?

What caused the optimism of the 90's to die out?

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jews

niggers

Jews doing 9/11. Actually it's not really all Jews, just a bunch of old, dying families reaching out for Godhood before oblivion.

Reality

>jews
>niggers

This.

Video rental was replaced by streaming video. Blockbuster became obsolete which is not a reason to mourn its passing.

9/11 and the mainstreaming of the internet - the latter reinstilled the sense of fear and paranoia that had been lost in the decline of the Cold War, and the mainstreaming of the internet gave a voice and a platform to every moron and nutter in the world.

The 90s saw the rise of the personal computer. It transformed (slowly) the lives of the average American family, especially with the advent of the internet. The economy boomed when information transfer suddenly was cheap and instant and many companies tried to capitalize on the internet.

Unfortunately, it’s hard to make money with advertisement on the internet (even to this day)... dotcom bubble bursts and then we get 9/11. Goodbye 90s.....

9/11

are streaming services buying a special license for the movies they have that allows them to serve one movie out to unlimited people?

i feel like if a video store could essentially do that but use it to burn blurays instead it'd help some. though we still have some around here. Family Video + Little Caesars combos are still a thing in Ohio at least.

9/11
War on Terror
Patriot Act
Great Recession
Smartphones
Social Media
Virtue signaling and identity politics
Death of the working class
Rising cost of living

Pretty much neoliberalism policies implemented since Reagan

Old fag here. I lived through it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

>Fed pumped money into the economy for (((Wall Street))).
>Lots of IT vaporware.
>Dot Com bubble.
>Silicon Valley thinks they got it made - "we don't need no stinking lobbyists".
>Globalists start setting up the Clinton's for future success.
>Bill Clinton tells MS, "pretty nice monopoly you got there".
>Silicon Valley learns they are just another company that the govt can regulate.
>Dot Com bubble.
>Dot Coms realize who their masters are.
You are here.

The thing with exclusivity licenses for streaming services is that unlike a rewritable Blu-Ray, which could easily be copied at a extremely high quality relatively easily, streaming services can restrict piracy to just a few individuals willing to either do a glorified camrip or dedicated enough to find and rip the source.

Also, you're seeing the Balkanization of streaming services happening right now. Everybody has caught on to the fact that Netflix was raking in obscene amount of dough and are now taking their ball and playing on their own. This is why Netflix is desperate for a market outside the US and why you see so many Korean and Pajeet films on there outside of their original content, since the people willing to give free money to Netflix for their properties has sharply declined. The problem is going to come up where outside of the House of Mouse, no one is going to have enough actual content to keep people interested for very long and you're going to be doing the exact same thing you were with cable, buying packages you don't need just to get the one show you do, because you can't watch Kurosawa on Hulu anymore because Criterion fucked off with TCM, you can't watch gembutts legally without shelling out shekels to Amazon for the right not to pirate chinese cartoons, and now your ten year old is crying why they can't see Moana anymore on Netflix.

>and now your ten year old is crying why they can't see Moana anymore on Netflix.

It is at this point you realize that you've made an irreversible mistake in parenting. It's not pleasant but you work up the nerve to kill your 11 year old and start new. This time without deliberately exposing your offspring to jewish tricks as a substitute for actual parenting. You will mentally torture yourself for the rest of life for somehow thinking that substituting jewish mind control devices for parenting wouldn't have consequencies.

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When the first post is also the best post.

>and the mainstreaming of the internet

Ain't that the truth.

the 90s were not an optimistic time. you were not born yet. you use a gay flag. sage this shit.

9/11

Lets not let them get it, aye user?

9/11. Before that 'America is the greatest country in the world' was more than a meme. We believed it. But then we saw the heart of our country blown up in front of our faces and then a few years later everybody lost half of their savings. What's there to be optimistic about?

Trump was the last optimistic push before everybody just gives up.

Our government attacking it's own.

Michael Chertoff was the architect of the destruction of liberty.

Jewish nigger Obama had a big part to play.

>dotcom bubble bursts

>tfw my dad sold Amazon stock for a loss

>and now your ten year old is crying why they can't see Moana anymore on Netflix.

Why aren't you showing your child wholesome content like Dirty Harry or Legend of Galactic Heroes?

This. The 90s were the hangover from the actually optimistic 80s. There's a reason 90s music was dark, grungy, and written by men who died young. If they felt optimistic, it's because you were a child, and children are optimistic by nature.

George W Bush and the media's coverage of him.

There are some striking similarities between Bush and Trump in the way the media reported on them both. But back then I think the average person still trusted the media, whereas now only brainlets believe American newspapers.

Terrible, illogical, corrupt laws that favored the few instead of the employee. Capitalism did work, until the jewish Talmud satan worshipping masons climbed their way to the top using various subversion tactics to redirect profit to their families banks rather than injecting it back into the economy.

Boomers fucked us, so that they could live a life of lavish ignorance.

Wow and yes. Nice snek, btw.

That's a good point. The way the media treated Bush instilled a lot of fear and doubt in people. Didn't help that the president before that was impeached.

yep

9/11 did it and other factors made sure it didn't come back.

Most of 90s we were not in large wars, a few terrorist attacks like Oklahoma City happened and attempted WTC bombing (but that failed).

2000 and 2001 are mostly the same up until 9/11.

9/11 between the amount of people affected and targets were tremendous impact.

News coverage went 24/7 for days. The ticker of stories at the bottom, which wasn't on most news channels at the time, came and never left during 9/11 coverage.

Coverage of the anthrax attacks, lead up to war in Afghanistan, eventually Iraq war means the anxiety goes away. Between actual wars and the "war on terror" that's everywhere and never ends.

Meanwhile the internet grows like crazy, they have programs like Carnivore but the scale and scope of internet usage leads to the rise of mass surveillance. 9/11 provides the pretext to authorize massive phone and internet surveillance collecting more data on more people.

In the meantime the internet provides a way for crazies to encourage other crazies and radicalize them, teach them how to attack other people (like the Inspire magazine from Al Qaeda teaching the boston marathon bombers). the general public gets platforms like forums and social media where they can retreat into their own corners. Eventually the people who control these platforms realize they can censor and manipulate content to drive public opinion and what people see, encourage the divisiveness so people engage with the services more and more and they make more money.

Among all the things to sour the mood house values go to shit, tons of people lose their jobs, global recession in 2008. wages have stagnated while prices have gone up especially on staples thanks to growth in developing countries.

Increasingly advanced automation (software and hardware) drives down the value or need for a lot of jobs to exist.

It will get worse if only for the last point because more and more people will be displaced from the workforce.

I feel like Blu-ray killed the physical movie market.

At one point there was FOUR film formats (VHS, DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray). VHS dying was an easy one. But Sony treated Blu-ray as if it was an ultra premium thing to have. The players were expensive, the PS3 was $600. The jump from vhs was easy, not nearly as many went from DVD to Blu-ray. If Sony made it cheap, it might have killed streaming because everyone would've been used to the higher quality.

>optimism
>ME generation

yeah, so self-absorbed materialism isn't working out for you after all?

In Europe it was the deliberate destruction of the entire middle class and americanization of education.
>nobody goes into trades anymore
>sold out our small businesses like bakers, butchers, corner shops etc for large mega companies and industrial mass production
>crippled our entire production of goods (manufacturing, coal, steal, chemical...) and R&D in the name of "environmental protection", now we buy the shit that is even dirtier in production from china but hey look at our air quality
>every fucking retard goes to the Gymnasium, 12-13 years of school just to study useless shit like Congolese throat singing for 8 years and enter the workforce at 26+ as burger flipper or barista.
>flooding our countries with eastern european trash, the balkan shit and finally niggers and sand people and giving all those leeches handouts because why not.

9/11

Blu-Ray didn't kill the physical media format for virtue of what it was, the growth of the internet was going to kill it anyways. the pricing of blu-ray definitely didn't help.

VHS to DVD was easy because the quality and the ease of pause rewind was just so much better and improving the video/audio quality.

the jump to blu-ray was less noticeable, and many stores (at release) priced blurays at batshit prices. blurays around 2008 at stores were often $40-$50. but most people were not THAT fussy on quality. if they wanted to see a movie badly enough they could see them at a theater on a 4K projector for $10, or a cheaper DVD offered most of the quality, or they could watch a lower quality copy online for free.

internet connections got faster, piracy got better (as well as streaming sites growing, both illegal and legal). netflix offered HD streaming for $8 a month at that time and the library was great (studio content has been pared back since and prices have gone up).

also shit got thinner, blu rays didn't fit inside ultrabooks or tablets or smartphones but streaming sites worked with them fine.

bluray has course corrected somewhat, most people don't care to own a player, but the players can be obtained cheaply, and when the blu rays go on sale they're dirt cheap. I can get a blu ray of a movie that's 6 months old (or older) often for $5 or less, cheaper when they go on sale. and online sites will offer streaming of HD quality movies (rental or ownerships, offers vary) from time to time for a single dollar. the value prop and convenience are just really good compared to streaming from some site that has technically achieved 1080P in pixel count and totally slaughtered the bitrate (and therefore picture quality) to get there.

in order?

>9/11
>music degeneracy
>strong rise in the expectancy to go to uni
>price in uni attendance doubling
>industries not being able to hire graduates
>Jobs at the NHS, Dentistry, through to solicitors and even working class jobs at the royal mail, fast food etc visibly taken over by shitskins
>you finally get a job that pays enough to move out of your parents house, majority of landlords, renting houses to you at extortionate prices are shitskins

welcome to birmingham

Blu-Ray failed because it didn't have porn.
Same thing with Laserdisc.

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Blu-Ray had porn
wired.com/2007/05/first_bluray_po/

In fact, the industry had essentially picked Blu-Ray as the dominant format by the start of 2008, which was the beginning of the end for HD-DVD
jeffreydonenfeld.com/blog/2008/01/the-war-is-over-blu-ray-wins/

between the fact that blu-rays didn't work in tons of existing devices, the growth of streaming porn online, the expense of blu-ray media, and the fact that having HD picture quality for porn did not do favors for a lot of porn stars, it wasn't as big of a deal.

the trafficking of billions of invaders into our homes and transfer of our wealth to the invaders aka globalism

being systemically replaced by pakis, poos, chongs, abus in our homes, neighborhoods, jobs, and lives

gloablism = ethnic cleansing on a global scale

Bump

fuck off merikans

What optimism?

youtube.com/watch?v=1esxCDdAX5k

Jews and niggers taking over white countries. That's it. That's what ruined everything.

We need to kill them all.

You were born during them, and as word of your shitty personality got out the world became grim

It surprises me how many 'red pilled' parents let their children watch hours of Disney channel and Nickelodeon every day. My nephew knows the only tv he's going to watch when he comes over is the Dove channel so he prefers to run around the field on a quadbike instead.

9/11

t. obviously, OP.

Potatohitler is right

9/11, bush and Obama

Yes and no. The mid to late 80s were optimistic and peaked with the fall of the Iron Curtain. After that, we were a nation that lost its purpose so we kind of drifted around looking for a new one, which we found on 9/11. The 90s weren't bad but we did have an identity crisis, which really fucked up Generation X as they came of age.

I had a social studies teacher in elementary school who would start class with, "BOYS AND GIRLS, YOU ARE LIVING IN THE TIMES. THE GOLDEN TIMES OF AMERICA."
That was from 99-01. He never said it again post 9/11. Makes me sad to think about

>jews and niggers didn't exist prior to the year 2000

Death of Kurt Cobain affected the 90's vibe a lot.

1918.

When Reagan sold our factories out in the 80's it was all over, the soyboys started running things.

I actually live near the last blockbuster in the continental US. The inside is exactly the way you remember it, the old crt tvs are still playing the same trailers they were ten years ago and they have the exact same movies and the smell is exactly the same. It gets quite a bit of business surprisingly but I'm pretty sure its gonna shut down soon.

Clinton's phony middle class tax cut raised our taxes.

He LIED.

reagan was following Rockefeller's Command. this was happening in the 60s. Rockefeller was the defacto dictator of USA for more than 100 years.

Standard Oil (along with Bush mafia among others) not only created modern globalism, eugenics/nazis, the declining white births, the rise of Islam and China, mass migrations.... it also dismantled comfy cities and replaced them with suburban clusterfucks all to suite their Global Oil Empire

All went to shit after 9/11. ALL OF IT !!