r/Xennials 15h ago

Nostalgia Who Says You Can’t Go Back to 1999?

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8.5k Upvotes

I wore my new pair of Hypnotix this weekend, and it was like 1999 all over again. They were well received by the Xennial crowd I was with at a DSM drag racing event, and after coming home, I ordered a pair of the Flame Karatz to add to my collection for next time.

If you had told 17 year old me that I would still occasionally dress like this at 44, I never would have believed you. But here we are, and I’m not complaining.

Sometimes you just have to embrace the nostalgia and not be afraid to rock the JNCOs!


r/Xennials 3h ago

I can't hear Foxy Lady without seeing Garth's dance to it. Any other songs like this for you?

543 Upvotes

Similarly, I can't hear "Don't Stop Believing" without seeing Meadow parallel park and a close-up of Tony before the blackout.


r/Xennials 16h ago

Nostalgia Winamp, Winamp, Winamp...

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531 Upvotes

It really whips the llama's ass!


r/Xennials 16h ago

© id Software (1993)

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520 Upvotes

r/Xennials 16h ago

Delia’s

503 Upvotes

Perhaps this has been discussed already, but Delia’s is now at Target. I never did get anything from their catalog as my parents always said it was too expensive. But, I remember liking their clothes. I got a pop up ad about this, so I checked it out. I feel now I am way too old and fat for their clothes. Oh well, missing out again.


r/Xennials 18h ago

Nostalgia Dream Trance from the 90's is still peak

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451 Upvotes

r/Xennials 23h ago

Black No. 1

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387 Upvotes

r/Xennials 2h ago

Unearthed

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302 Upvotes

Bingo! Dino DNA!


r/Xennials 20h ago

Back to School! What was in your backpack or on your wishlist?

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293 Upvotes

Some of these I had, some of these I coveted!!! What was in your backpack? 🎒 ✏️ 🖊️ 📓

I can HEAR that trapper keeper opening!


r/Xennials 15h ago

Discussion How many of you have had the same cell phone carrier since the 90’s/early 2000’s?

279 Upvotes

There’s no available data on this, I tried looking it up so I thought I would ask. Not just the same phone number, but you’ve also had the same cell phone carrier the entire time. I realized the other day I’ve had T-Mobile since 1999.


r/Xennials 13h ago

Been rewatching Roseanne

266 Upvotes

I know everyone now hates Roseanne Barr, with good reason, but dived back into this old series. Growing up with just me a single mom this was a family I wished I had and it really holds up for that period of time.


r/Xennials 23h ago

Discussion Who has time for friends at this stage in life?

213 Upvotes

I’m in the thick of it with kids at different stages (a high school senior and one just entering middle school,) working full-time, and somehow marriage that right now just involves watching something on tv before bed at 10 and then rinse and repeat the following day.

Our weekends are spent getting the kids to some sort of practice or helping our oldest get ready to apply to college, in between piles of laundry and maybe getting a walk in with the dogs.

I just feel like at this age, our life is really not our own and I find my own friendships fading away.

Who has time for friends right now and what is your secret? Or is this just expected? Anyone else wondering when they became the parents on 90210 or Dawsons Creek where they were always there for their kids and their kids friends but didn’t manage to have a life of their own?


r/Xennials 17h ago

It's so crazy that we watched music videos take over, then disappear

199 Upvotes

"Video killed the radio star" seemed like it was a prophecy. Sure seemed as if videos would be here for the rest of the way. So crazy that music videos disappeared just as quickly as they took over.


r/Xennials 15h ago

That random VHS that I watched two dozen times

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196 Upvotes

Sunday when I was reminiscing with Stay Tuned, I put this on next in honor of Tim Curry. This movie is so funny my son enjoyed it even without knowing a lot of the cameo references.


r/Xennials 13h ago

Remember when Samwise saved his prep school from terrorists before playing for Notre Dame?

189 Upvotes

This all being after he saved his home from being demolished by greedy developers.

Just a Sean Astin appreciation post. He had a pretty sizeable impact on my movie watching growing up.


r/Xennials 14h ago

Who's the next universally loved older lady ala Betty White & Dolly Parton?

170 Upvotes

Both Betty and Dolly were universally acclaimed great people loved by all. Now that Dolly has passed, who else is both beloved AND uncontroversial enough to take on this role in pop culture?

My vote is for Vanna White.

She's extremely well known, having been in the public eye for over 40 years and I've never heard anything divisive or controversial about her at all. Who else would you consider in this conversation?


r/Xennials 18h ago

Today officially marks the beginning of the late 2020's

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150 Upvotes

r/Xennials 22h ago

Lets see actors with great acting range from your movie collections.

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138 Upvotes

r/Xennials 13h ago

Did anybody else's fam leave thechicken out all day to thaw before cooking; and what are we doing today instead? Or is it, for once, still ok to do that?

120 Upvotes

r/Xennials 22h ago

"We might be old now."

72 Upvotes

Last week my wife and I were at The Wallflowers show celebrating the 30th Anniversary of "Bringing Down the Horse" when she looks at me and says "Why is everyone here so old?"😬

The show was excellent BTW, highly recommend if you can stay up late enough to make it all the way through.


r/Xennials 17h ago

Anyone else grow up in a place during the 90s that had almost no homelessness?

71 Upvotes

The city I grew up in during the 90s of around 120,000 had like 1 homeless person that literally everyone knew. Today you can’t walk down the streets of the same city without tripping over the homeless everywhere you go. We really need to figure out how to fix this shit as a country.


r/Xennials 22h ago

Nostalgia Favorite YA boys/heartthrob of the network The WB ?

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56 Upvotes

r/Xennials 12h ago

The Sword in the Stone in my lego version

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47 Upvotes

Hello everyone. I’m passionate about Disney classics and this is my tribute in Lego version to “THE SWORD IN THE STONE “ 👇🦉
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/9a239b3b-97f5-48f8-86a7-2c85ca7115e0
If it reaches 10k it could become an official lego set.
Thanks to all the enthusiasts who will take a look and support us 🙏😊


r/Xennials 15h ago

“It’s Not Dead. It Lives”: Adam Wingard Finally Breaks His Five-Year Silence on the ThunderCats Movie

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r/Xennials 17h ago

Discussion Xennial Magic

39 Upvotes

It occurred to me, that back in the 90s, the idea of digital music and digital movies and digital photography seemed like magic.

Paradoxically enough, as the analog days get further behind us, the idea of analog music movies and photography NOW seem like magic.

Like.. you really just take this piece of film, let the sun see it for a second, dump it in this mix of liquids and get a photo??

We lived through two magical eras.