i will never understand the hate that some older millennials direct towards younger adults born in the mid to late 90s. i’m a zillennial (january of ‘98) and while i haven’t lived either the FULL millennial or gen z experience, i DO know that shitting on people solely for the year they were born in is fucked up. it’s very disheartening how grown adults will gatekeep entire cultural phenomena. the commodification of media thanks to sites like buzzfeed has convinced us that we did not truly experience something unless we had physical ephemera of that era. if we didn’t have 20 beanie babies or didn’t hear bye bye bye on a hitclip or had to wait 20 minutes to use dial-up internet or used T9 on a flip phone or watched clarissa explains it all live on nickelodeon, we weren’t really #millennials. 30-year-old grown adults are saying shit like ‘oh, you like that? well guess what, i grew up with it and LIVED through it.’ on the flip side of this coin, we can and should ALSO acknowledge the existence of cringe without making people feel excluded from participating in said phenomena. if we shit on zoomers for rediscovering early 2000s fashion trends or listening to music of the late 90s, or shit on 1997 & 1998 adults for having little to no recollections of a time before 9/11, what are we doing? what does that say about our generation? what does that say about how we define ourselves?? it’s a boomer mentality that is tainting the experience for all of us, not to mention dividing us up. we can be nostalgic for a time when life was indeed simpler without being actively harsh to young people also partaking in that innocence. please be kind and let people enjoy things.
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Welcome Back, SPLAT Logo
This year Nickelodeon resurrected the SPLAT design for its logo that hadn’t been used since 2009.
This week Yahoo! Entertainment shared an interview with designer Scott Nash who created the original logo. Nash went in depth about MTV’s role in inspiring the design, its use for the Nickelodeon brand, the decision to make it orange, the influence and legacy its had with the network and what came after, etc.
The logos wiki also has an in-depth page about the history of the logo’s design.
It’s a pretty cool visual history that goes FAR back.
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Clarissa's room from Clarissa Explains It All :-)
I've been learning pixel art recently and I've been enjoying it a lot. I've been drawing almost every single day since then. I kind of lost my passion for art, and this has been so refreshing.
I felt like I didn't really know what I was doing and I was feeling stuck. I haven't been improving for years now and didn't know how to improve. Learning pixel art from the ground up made me rediscover my love for learning how to draw. Expect more pixel art in the future :-)
(20. 7. 2023.)
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I just need more DOVESSO FANFICTIONS!!
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I’m old enough to remember Clarissa Explains It All and I’m enough of a TMBG fan to remember her having a Flood poster in her room and in either the pilot or second episode saying “I love John, the one without the glasses, from They Might Be Giants” but now it’s all these years later and both the Johns have had glasses for at least 15 years. The passage of time is wild.
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Clarissa Explains it All
I wanted her room, clothes snd accessories SO bad!!! Still do!!!
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