New Coke was a masterclass in viral marketing. Because it didn't happen like this video says. Coke just switched the formula. Then people noticed that Coke tasted different. Finally Coke admitted to it. People freaked out! It was a massive scandal. It was also covered by every news outlet in the world. Then Coke branded the new formula as New Coke and brought back the original as Classic Coke. So Coke got all the coverage and made their customers more passionate at the same time. It is theorized they calculated it at the outset.
Indeed, I was 'scratching my head' with almost everythitng in this video, except for a few. They might be ridiculed today, but are generally missed by those who lived through that decade.
You need to be updated. Many of those things you mentioned like tab cola, lawn darts, paper fortunes, plastic cover on the couch, these were from the 60s. Please be more accurate in your descriptions
Today !! synthpop is the best of the 80s for its catchiness and innovation..it forged all 90s techno rave and industrial ! The problem then ,, is thats there was synthpop that was too cheesy ! But many people view todays the 80's is the best music in general and synthpop leads !!!!
@@dancingdingo Nah it's Bill Cosby, good ol reliable, friendly, Americas TV dad Bill Cosby. Can someone call an ambulance, I think I just poisoned myself with sarcasm.
Tab only recently stopped being made (2020) and Swatch is still being made, and still is brightly garish. Lawn Darts were banned more so because people decided to not read the enclosed directions that told players to not stand near the targets.
@@fnsmike Truth be told, Tab was "diet Coca-cola Classic" and diet Coke was actually "diet New Coke." The Tab of the 2000s tasted like Coca Cola Classic and it was a shame when they finally stopped it.
Fake fruit.... wonderful memories. Me and my sis would get the purple grapes and use the suction to put it on our skin to look like massive ticks😂. We'd always get in trouble for it. Anybody else do it?
Oh yeah, the "Be Kind, Please Rewind" stickers that was often put on the cases. Cracked me up when there were those stickers on DVDs when those were starting to be rented out.
I'm 59 in 4 weeks. And haven't solved a rubik's cube in close to 20 years I reckon. You could hand me one now and it would probably take me 5 minutes to solve it. Much much longer than my 1 minute record time in my mid teens. I liked to aim for 90 seconds clear at most when I did it for entertainment. And always considered myself good at it. Until I met a lad originally from Thailand in our town centre video game arcade. And he proceeded to solve it in under 30 seconds repeatedly. Seemingly without even looking at it all that much if I'm being honest.
Some kid read a book and then he solved Rubik's Cube behind his back. Even he was impressed. And he did it really fast too. I mean it only took him a few moves. I only saw him do it the one time. But it was still amazing. Apparently there was a trick to doing it.
I enjoyed the video, but I think the term hate is strongly exaggerated. Most people who lived through the decade think of it fondly. I'll agree that I wasn't a fan of plastic fruit or new coke. Technology may have come far since then, but it was a pinnacle of culture.
Pac-man fever an overkill??!! Hell to the No! We needed more but didn't really get it!! Thanks for including later games and merchandise that weren't from the 80's in your video. Now that's a blunder and something we hate today.
@1pcfred The 90s were similar. Big pharma was pushing painkillers and many at my high school (myself included) abused oxycontin like crazy, especially at parties. Good times
Nobody in 1986 foresaw just how fast computer graphics would improve. Namely, he was meant to represent a 2020s video game avatar. But IRL, he was an actor wearing a rubber mask and a fiberglass suit. In fact, even the BACKGROUND (at first) was hand-drawn! Not until the Amiga had come out, were they able to design a CGI background for the character! As a side note, a lot of people got that his name was the result of Edison Carter's dying memory of a road sign that read "Max. Headroom 2.3m" What almost nobody noticed, however, was that "Network 23" was generously financed by a Chinese billionaire named "Ped Xing," which can be a proper Chinese name, but (on American streets) can also be an acronym for "Pedestrian Crossing."
Ah Hell I'm a 80's kid born in 1974 so I grew up in the 80's and all that jazz. I loved EVERYTHING 80's The good the bad and the ugly and even the stinkers. I loved all the crappy bands, songs, styles and stupid shit too because I was living in it and just lived it lol. So it's all good to me. I never hated anything in the 80's. Now the 90's...Oh..Damn I could start with the hate in the 90's I tell you what....Thumbs UP for this video. A+++
You should talk about inconvenience things like no cell phones you had to remember numbers or have a pocket phone directory with you and a quarter for the pay phone. To change the TV channel you had to get up and turn a switch that turned the antenna and you hoped the weather was good for the signal to come in. When you picked up the phone the neighbors could listen in as you were on a party line (Rural areas) so to use the phone you had to ask the people that were already using it if you could please make a call and haggle with them that they'll be done in 10-15 minutes.
Cable was a thing in the 80s where I lived. Cable was around before MTV started and MTV launched in 1981. I can remember watching it go live. It totally ruined the party we were having because we all just sat there like zombies watching it. We were pretty rowdy before it started too.
@@1952jodianne with a tall enough antenna you can get a signal anywhere. But in some remote locations you would need a very tall antenna indeed. Still, it is amazing what height does for signal gain.
@@1pcfred True enough, but unfortunately when your town is at the bottom of a valley surrounded by tall hills, you need a really tall antenna, taller than what is normally permitted for a private citizen (FAA rules, etc.), hence, our little town had cable as early as 1960.
That's not how it happened. Coke changed their recipe and didn't tell anyone. But people could taste the difference so finally Coke admitted to it and then they branded it as New Coke. So there was a component to it beyond the taste. No one liked the deception. They also brought back Coke as classic Coke. People say today it was all an elaborate viral marketing scheme. Because while it was going on it was the biggest news in the world. You couldn't buy advertising like they got.
Mum ran the corner shop that had a video rental section, so I never paid to rent a video. Even though I was a teen and into my 20's during the heyday of videos. She would just grab a handful of videos that weren't out for rent as she closed up shop every night. And take them back with her in the morning to open up.
I was there and definitely hated mullets, New Coke, Max Headroom, Tab, swatches, Alf, sofa covers (these were more 70s), hair bands, fake fruit, and late fees. But I liked shoulder pads, leg warmers, pac man (but Ms Pac-Man was better and I played it for decades.), Sinth-pop, and paper fortune tellers. I don’t remember “Pac-Man fever”, everyone had the directions to solve rubix cube. I don’t remember pogo ball.
My wife, girlfriend at the time, took a 10 day vacation/road trip. I cannot remember where it was on that trip, but we stopped for food and I asked if they had Dr. Pepper. The waitress said "We have Tab. It's the same thing." I said "No. It isn't."
I will admit that there was a period of time I was rocking a mullet. Hey, it was kinda practical during the summer. The shorter hair on the front and top kept my head cool, and the longer "ape drape" in the back kept my neck from getting sunburned!
What I hated most about the 1980's. Having to get up and walk all the way across the living room floor, in my bare feet, in -45° weather, with 6' snow drifts, uphill both ways.
I have had my first Rubik's cube in late 1982, and ended up completing the whole puzzle on a typical 1983 saturday night. It's the best puzzle I ever had, with hours spend to try doing, and when I knew how to solve it, it was to solve it in the shortest possible time. In 1984, my parents bought me the Rubik's Revenge (4 x 4 x 4) that I also ended up being able to solve in many months of fun and challenge. Today, in 2024, I still know how to solve both puzzles, but maybe a bit slower than during the fantastic 80s...
I like 80s hair bands" music, for the most part, as well. But I really do miss the elastic cloth hair sweat bands. Everyone wore them in the 80s - Springsteen, Lover Boy, Sheena Easton, etc. They're very practical.
For me the Pogo ball will always be remembered in our family. My younger brother had it for a while but it didn't pick up cult status in our family until the start of Star Trek the next generation. Show is starting and they're going past a different planets and past Jupiter and Saturn and there's this little voice in the back of the room from my baby brother. "Mattie has a pogo ball" . You mistaken the planet for the Pogo ball it was so sweet and is a fond memory today
1971 GenX here, didnt hate any of it... still love "hair" metal. In fact, it WAS the music that defined the 80's along with hip hop. Lawn Darts was fun! Used to play them over the house. One team in front yard and one in back yard. But, we were tough and unsupervised in the 80's... by the way the "fortune tellers" are still poping up in my middle school classroom today! I just laugh.
Shoulder pads made me look like I played quarterback, at 5’2”, 100 lbs. Leg warmers didn’t stay up, so I dubbed them elephant ankles. PAC Man came in handy when teaching greater than, less than to first graders. Simple, the >,< always opened his mouth to eat the greater serving. Tab tasted nasty. Swatch watches were for middle school kids.
Nothing mentioned here was hated. Almost all this is just plain made up nonsense! Tab cola was around in 1963! I used leg warmers frequently in the winter until the 90s until I moved to Florida where they werent needed. This video is trash...
I'm not afraid to admit that I ACTUALLY liked New Coke during the time. I bought a bunch of it! I didn't mind Classic but New Coke was pretty good too.
You also forgot BIG HAIRDO and hairspray! Girls would spend hours and hours on end to make their bangs big and high, as well as their mane fluffy and biggy! 🙂
When the teacher would call on me in class I would pull up my "Paper Fortune Teller", do a quick finger dance for a couple of seconds, peer inside and then give the correct answer. They hated that.
I loved 80s fashion. It was the height of "peacock fashion". Peacocks attract mates by having the largest and most colorful tail. The 80s were like that. The bigger your hair and brighter your clothes, the better. I loved every minute of the 80s
@@1pcfred My mother put me in plaid bell bottoms, and I hated em, my brown corduroy pants with the whoosh, whoosh, whoosh sounds every step where my second hate! I wish I still had my Heehaw donkey face overalls, though, for nostalgic purposes, and maybe they'd be worth something, I don't know!?
Um ya people didn't hate the fashion of the 80's, it was current fashion of the time after all. It looks dumb now to people who didn't live it and lack historical perspective. Nobody ever hated Pac Man. In fact it was so popular they made the Pac Mac fever album which I bought as a teen. Nobody hated the rubik's cube or Max Headroom or Alf. Plastic sofa covers were from the 60's-70's, not the 80's. Everyone loved lawn darts also from the 60's. Synth pop was great, it was actually called New Wave, an offshoot of punk. Fake fruit is from the 60's or earlier. Other then all that you're spot on. You probably should refrain from making videos about things from before you were born and you didn't live through, you don't do your homework on the subject.
Why do you call Tab Cola “Tab soda”? That wasn’t its brand name. I liked the synth pop in general. Pac-Man was the only video game I ever liked and I bought “Pac-man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia.
Maybe it was because I was little, but I actually liked the pac-man cartoon, but hated the video game. I couldn't have cared less about the flavor of Coke, I don't remember pogo balls at all, and only my grandparents had fake fruit and plastic covered furniture. Otherwise, I agree. I think the 80s were way over the top with trends and if your parents couldn't afford for you to wear three or more swatch watches, Reeboks or some other overpriced sneakers, you could really have a tough time with other kids, it was ridiculous.
I'll give you late fees. If it was too much I would just keep the movie. Max Headroom is another annoying )Bleep) worse off that they made him look like Dolph Ludgren for no reason at all. Hair Metal rulez and don't you forget it. They were real bands playing real music. If you know what I mean. Now days the music charts belong to same stall of names and bands...dishing out the same song over ,and over.
Obviously they weren’t even a wet spot so would they know. I wasn’t into pac-man or leg warmers but if it wasn’t for those things we wouldn’t have what we have today. I’ve learned a long time ago not to hate.
I’m definitely not a dumb person, in fact: in my 20’s several IQ tests showed an above average performance. BUT !!!! I absolutely CANNOT solve a Rubic’s Cube…! I just don’t see the solution or how to get anywhere beyond swapping 2 or 3 of the tiles to another color…. Same goes for those flat, square plastic things that has space for 16 tiny tiles inside it, yet has 1 empty spots, so you can move the 15 other small squares in order to remake the picture that is printed on it and was all mixed up when you got the toy in your hands (just realized how awful it is to explain this thing, since I haven’t got a clue what it’s called… 😉) Either way: Those things were NOT for me, never been able to solve them and DEFINITELY never had the patience for them anyway…..!! LOL !!!! On the other hand: I BELONG TO THE ‘ALF’ FANS FOREVER!!!
New Coke sucked, it ruined 1985 for me.....but it was the best marketing gimmick ever....change the formula, get free publicity, have Pepsi create adds marketing to old coke lovers, then bring back the old formula as Classic Coke, which the competition just advertised for you for free.... Coke executives deny this was a plan, they say "were weren't THAT smart.....but we also weren't that stupid!" ...always have a plan B.
I liked the mullet, and I had one in the 90’s back when I was in high school then, and I liked Alf, and I did try a can of that new coke then:(if you’re curious it tasted like Pepsi)💁🏻♂🤔💯.
You clearly have no clue what you’re talking about if you’re hating on Alf and Pacman. Nobody was annoyed by them then and most people still love them now! Hair metal and synth pop were great too, and way better than the garbage music of today. I agree on everything else though.
Yeah, no. New Coke was awesome. Tab was awesome. Swatches were awesome. Pac-Man fever was awesome. Alf was awesome. And so on. Worst damn video ever made.
The only video game I remember being a phenomenon was Space Invaders. I walked into an arcade at the height of the invasion and it was just whumph WHUMPH! It was absolutely insane. All the machines synched up. Over half the machines in the arcade were Space Invaders and they were all being played at once. The aliens almost won.
My God, the "financial penalties" for returning a movie were maybe a buck. It wasn't like a hotel resort fee. And after a while they started giving you a ridiculously long amount of time--a week even. If you can't get your caca together in a week you deserve to be dinged a buck. I guess libraries terrified you too...
NO! The Coke-a-cola corp. did this as a ploy to start the dust up... so, as what we saw was the old coke come back too out sell Pepsi 2 to 1... sound like an idea any money man would come up with.
I remember people selling cases of original Coke for astronomical prices before they reintroduced it as Classic Coke. But yeah it was probably planned.
I was listening to a lot of what you were saying but when you got a metal I'm sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about where was country singers unless you know what you're talking about be quiet
Things that were also hated in the 80s that nobody is willing to point out…Rap “ music” , the oprah show, Cosby show, a different world, Yo MTV raps, Democrats, BET
@@mississippihiker545 Reggae's always good, from the 50s to the present, & I remember Ska being really popular, locally (Ohio Valley), in the late 80s-early90s.
Aside from Reagan, AIDS, the Moral Majority (which, as the saying went, was neither), and Iran/Contra, I'll take the weighty eighties over any part of the 21st century so far any day.
Seriously, you're shitting on ALF, Max Headroom, PacMan, and other beloved X'er memories? You must be a millennial.
I didn't care for the whinny, wimpy father on Alf.
@@Bluerose888Whiny, wimpy Willie.
I'm surprised they left out Spuds MacKenzie.
I'm Gen X and I'd happilly shit on Alf seven days a week and twice on Sunday.
Being GenX, many of these things were not "hated". If you weren't there to experience these things you could never understand. 🤣😂
Truth
Completely agree,
Everything's good except that nasty new Coke!
I’m an 80s child. And I never understood nor liked the mullet 😂
@@gbear2253 I had a short phase around 86. It didn't last long though. :P
New Coke: a masterclass in the adage that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Same thing I told them in Columbia
New Coke was a masterclass in viral marketing. Because it didn't happen like this video says. Coke just switched the formula. Then people noticed that Coke tasted different. Finally Coke admitted to it. People freaked out! It was a massive scandal. It was also covered by every news outlet in the world. Then Coke branded the new formula as New Coke and brought back the original as Classic Coke. So Coke got all the coverage and made their customers more passionate at the same time. It is theorized they calculated it at the outset.
I truly hate it that tastes
Starts out with the words "you definitely hated", then repeatedly shows things and says, "though some people loved this..."
Indeed, I was 'scratching my head' with almost everythitng in this video, except for a few. They might be ridiculed today, but are generally missed by those who lived through that decade.
Some of these things started in the 1960s and 1970s, Tab soda came out in 1963 and plastic sofa covers were around in the 70s
I wish Coke would bring back Tab, not so sickeningly sweet as Diet Coke, & much better as a mixer.
We were making fortune tellers in the sixties. You just discovered them late.
There are only 2 things on this list i truly hated:
1. New coke
2. Plastic sofa covers.
Everything else was quirkiness that made the 80s great
You need to be updated. Many of those things you mentioned like tab cola, lawn darts, paper fortunes, plastic cover on the couch, these were from the 60s. Please be more accurate in your descriptions
Plus they don't even call Tab Cola by its brand name, they just call it "Tab soda."
Today !! synthpop is the best of the 80s for its catchiness and innovation..it forged all 90s techno rave and industrial ! The problem then ,, is thats there was synthpop that was too cheesy ! But many people view todays the 80's is the best music in general and synthpop leads !!!!
I hated synth pop until 1991, then I learned to appreciate it, I was metal and punk all the way in the 80's
"Hey this Coke tastes funny" "uuummmmm it's new Coke - Bill Cosby"
Sure it isn't spiked?!?!🤔
@@dancingdingo Nah it's Bill Cosby, good ol reliable, friendly, Americas TV dad Bill Cosby.
Can someone call an ambulance, I think I just poisoned myself with sarcasm.
Tab only recently stopped being made (2020) and Swatch is still being made, and still is brightly garish. Lawn Darts were banned more so because people decided to not read the enclosed directions that told players to not stand near the targets.
Tab's new formula was great. I was buying it until it finally disappeared.
Paper fortune tellers were from the 70s.
Also, I don't even recall them being particularly disliked from my own schooldays. (I left school in 1979. So before the 80's indeed.)
So were Lawn Darts
Tab started in the 1960s ended in the 1980s because of Diet Coke
And Diet Coke is just Tab with a different sweetener than Saccharine. Technically I'm drinking a Tab right now.
So we know tab wasn’t around in the 50s according to back to the future . I can’t give you a tab unless you order something
@@fnsmike Tad & Diet Coke do not taste very similar, & Tab actually was on the shelves at Kroger & Walmart well into the 2000s.
Correction: Tab.
@@fnsmike Truth be told, Tab was "diet Coca-cola Classic" and diet Coke was actually "diet New Coke." The Tab of the 2000s tasted like Coca Cola Classic and it was a shame when they finally stopped it.
Fake fruit.... wonderful memories. Me and my sis would get the purple grapes and use the suction to put it on our skin to look like massive ticks😂. We'd always get in trouble for it. Anybody else do it?
2:19 Shoulder pads only work for Romulan officers.
Plus there was a fee if you didn’t rewind the video tapes?
Oh yeah, the "Be Kind, Please Rewind" stickers that was often put on the cases. Cracked me up when there were those stickers on DVDs when those were starting to be rented out.
Actually, the New Coke misfiring strategy worked well. It seemed like a blunder, but the reversal increased the revenue tenfold.
I'm 59 in 4 weeks. And haven't solved a rubik's cube in close to 20 years I reckon. You could hand me one now and it would probably take me 5 minutes to solve it. Much much longer than my 1 minute record time in my mid teens. I liked to aim for 90 seconds clear at most when I did it for entertainment. And always considered myself good at it. Until I met a lad originally from Thailand in our town centre video game arcade. And he proceeded to solve it in under 30 seconds repeatedly. Seemingly without even looking at it all that much if I'm being honest.
Some kid read a book and then he solved Rubik's Cube behind his back. Even he was impressed. And he did it really fast too. I mean it only took him a few moves. I only saw him do it the one time. But it was still amazing. Apparently there was a trick to doing it.
These things are hated, or rather, ridiculed, by people who weren't around in the 1980s. From a Gen Xer.
A generation that rides around on a "One Wheel", is complaining about the "Pogo Ball". Typical Gen X.
I enjoyed the video, but I think the term hate is strongly exaggerated. Most people who lived through the decade think of it fondly. I'll agree that I wasn't a fan of plastic fruit or new coke. Technology may have come far since then, but it was a pinnacle of culture.
I still find quite a few folks wearing mullets, generally those born in the 70s & later. Not for me, I'm a boomer.
I loved my leg warmers, Tab, Alf, hair metal bands, lawn darts and the paper fortunes
Pac-man fever an overkill??!!
Hell to the No! We needed more but didn't really get it!!
Thanks for including later games and merchandise that weren't from the 80's in your video. Now that's a blunder and something we hate today.
None of this was hated in the eighties. I know this for a fact and I’m just 40. Very misleading title.
I actually liked the New Coke. Me and Refrigerator Perry.
All these horrible things helped make the 80's the awesome decade that it was!
For me it was the drugs. We were fond of saying we had better stuff than the hippies did and we probably did.
@1pcfred The 90s were similar. Big pharma was pushing painkillers and many at my high school (myself included) abused oxycontin like crazy, especially at parties. Good times
@@Styxswimmer we bought our drugs on the street.
They tried to make Max Headroom into a sitcom. Same with the cavemen of the Geico commercials. But neither one was a success as tv shows.
It was really an hour-long sci-fi show with Max's typical sense of humor.......................not really a sitcom.
Nobody in 1986 foresaw just how fast computer graphics would improve. Namely, he was meant to represent a 2020s video game avatar.
But IRL, he was an actor wearing a rubber mask and a fiberglass suit.
In fact, even the BACKGROUND (at first) was hand-drawn! Not until the Amiga had come out, were they able to design a CGI background for the character!
As a side note, a lot of people got that his name was the result of Edison Carter's dying memory of a road sign that read "Max. Headroom 2.3m"
What almost nobody noticed, however, was that "Network 23" was generously financed by a Chinese billionaire named "Ped Xing," which can be a proper Chinese name, but (on American streets) can also be an acronym for "Pedestrian Crossing."
@@grantorino2325 Interesting....................thanks for the info!
Ah Hell I'm a 80's kid born in 1974 so I grew up in the 80's and all that jazz. I loved EVERYTHING 80's The good the bad and the ugly and even the stinkers. I loved all the crappy bands, songs, styles and stupid shit too because I was living in it and just lived it lol. So it's all good to me. I never hated anything in the 80's. Now the 90's...Oh..Damn I could start with the hate in the 90's I tell you what....Thumbs UP for this video. A+++
You should talk about inconvenience things like no cell phones you had to remember numbers or have a pocket phone directory with you and a quarter for the pay phone. To change the TV channel you had to get up and turn a switch that turned the antenna and you hoped the weather was good for the signal to come in. When you picked up the phone the neighbors could listen in as you were on a party line (Rural areas) so to use the phone you had to ask the people that were already using it if you could please make a call and haggle with them that they'll be done in 10-15 minutes.
Cable was a thing in the 80s where I lived. Cable was around before MTV started and MTV launched in 1981. I can remember watching it go live. It totally ruined the party we were having because we all just sat there like zombies watching it. We were pretty rowdy before it started too.
@@1pcfred We have had cable in my hometown since 1960 or so. There was no TV reception without it.
@@1952jodianne with a tall enough antenna you can get a signal anywhere. But in some remote locations you would need a very tall antenna indeed. Still, it is amazing what height does for signal gain.
@@1pcfred True enough, but unfortunately when your town is at the bottom of a valley surrounded by tall hills, you need a really tall antenna, taller than what is normally permitted for a private citizen (FAA rules, etc.), hence, our little town had cable as early as 1960.
Also who remembers the fruits refrigerater magnets lol
That's not how it happened. Coke changed their recipe and didn't tell anyone. But people could taste the difference so finally Coke admitted to it and then they branded it as New Coke. So there was a component to it beyond the taste. No one liked the deception. They also brought back Coke as classic Coke. People say today it was all an elaborate viral marketing scheme. Because while it was going on it was the biggest news in the world. You couldn't buy advertising like they got.
Mum ran the corner shop that had a video rental section, so I never paid to rent a video. Even though I was a teen and into my 20's during the heyday of videos. She would just grab a handful of videos that weren't out for rent as she closed up shop every night. And take them back with her in the morning to open up.
I was there and definitely hated mullets, New Coke, Max Headroom, Tab, swatches, Alf, sofa covers (these were more 70s), hair bands, fake fruit, and late fees.
But I liked shoulder pads, leg warmers, pac man (but Ms Pac-Man was better and I played it for decades.), Sinth-pop, and paper fortune tellers. I don’t remember “Pac-Man fever”, everyone had the directions to solve rubix cube.
I don’t remember pogo ball.
My wife, girlfriend at the time, took a 10 day vacation/road trip. I cannot remember where it was on that trip, but we stopped for food and I asked if they had Dr. Pepper. The waitress said "We have Tab. It's the same thing." I said "No. It isn't."
Are you SURE that she didn't say "Mr. Pibb"?
@@grantorino2325 They might have. That was 24 years ago. Probable Mandela effect here.
My mullet was god-like.
One of the girls in my office had her hair cut in a mullet. I thought if looked great.
I will admit that there was a period of time I was rocking a mullet. Hey, it was kinda practical during the summer. The shorter hair on the front and top kept my head cool, and the longer "ape drape" in the back kept my neck from getting sunburned!
Mine still is bro !!
What I hated most about the 1980's. Having to get up and walk all the way across the living room floor, in my bare feet, in -45° weather, with 6' snow drifts, uphill both ways.
The Cabbage Patch dolls were a thing in the 80s I think.
I hated cabbage patch dolls. Hated them. Ggggrrrrrrr.
I have had my first Rubik's cube in late 1982, and ended up completing the whole puzzle on a typical 1983 saturday night. It's the best puzzle I ever had, with hours spend to try doing, and when I knew how to solve it, it was to solve it in the shortest possible time. In 1984, my parents bought me the Rubik's Revenge (4 x 4 x 4) that I also ended up being able to solve in many months of fun and challenge. Today, in 2024, I still know how to solve both puzzles, but maybe a bit slower than during the fantastic 80s...
I absolutely loved hair bands in the 80’s. I still listen to it
I like 80s hair bands" music, for the most part, as well. But I really do miss the elastic cloth hair sweat bands. Everyone wore them in the 80s - Springsteen, Lover Boy, Sheena Easton, etc. They're very practical.
For me the Pogo ball will always be remembered in our family. My younger brother had it for a while but it didn't pick up cult status in our family until the start of Star Trek the next generation.
Show is starting and they're going past a different planets and past Jupiter and Saturn and there's this little voice in the back of the room from my baby brother. "Mattie has a pogo ball" . You mistaken the planet for the Pogo ball it was so sweet and is a fond memory today
Tab was around from the late 1960s
It was the 2nd nationwide diet cola, after Diet-Rite.
Some of my favorite things as a kid are in this video. Where did you get the idea that people hated Alf, PacMan, lawn darts, and pogo balls? Crazy.
The absolute WORST thing about the 80’s is that people were smoking EVERYWHERE.
1971 GenX here, didnt hate any of it... still love "hair" metal. In fact, it WAS the music that defined the 80's along with hip hop. Lawn Darts was fun! Used to play them over the house. One team in front yard and one in back yard. But, we were tough and unsupervised in the 80's... by the way the "fortune tellers" are still poping up in my middle school classroom today! I just laugh.
I do miss the 80,s
I disagree on Hair Metal Bands being hated, great music with great times... great memories.
Shoulder pads made me look like I played quarterback, at 5’2”, 100 lbs. Leg warmers didn’t stay up, so I dubbed them elephant ankles. PAC Man came in handy when teaching greater than, less than to first graders. Simple, the >,< always opened his mouth to eat the greater serving. Tab tasted nasty. Swatch watches were for middle school kids.
Tab was much better early on, when it was still made with saccharin, rather than aspartame. Fresca was much better then, too.
Very few of these were actually hated in the 80’s.
You CAN’T love the mullet 😂
Nothing mentioned here was hated. Almost all this is just plain made up nonsense! Tab cola was around in 1963! I used leg warmers frequently in the winter until the 90s until I moved to Florida where they werent needed. This video is trash...
I'm not afraid to admit that I ACTUALLY liked New Coke during the time. I bought a bunch of it! I didn't mind Classic but New Coke was pretty good too.
You also forgot BIG HAIRDO and hairspray! Girls would spend hours and hours on end to make their bangs big and high, as well as their mane fluffy and biggy! 🙂
Paper fortune tellers?? I think paper poppers would have them beat since disruption was their whole point of existence. Lol
Not gonna lie. I LOVE most of these
1:36 We should have all known that if Bill Cosby said it was good, we weren't to trust it...
When the teacher would call on me in class I would pull up my "Paper Fortune Teller", do a quick finger dance for a couple of seconds, peer inside and then give the correct answer.
They hated that.
People keep saying that clothing in the 80's was bad but what about the 70's fashion I mean come on
What have you got against miniskirts?
I loved 80s fashion. It was the height of "peacock fashion". Peacocks attract mates by having the largest and most colorful tail. The 80s were like that. The bigger your hair and brighter your clothes, the better. I loved every minute of the 80s
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Miniskirts was the 60's, the 70's was short shorts (which were ok!😚) with knee socks, leisure suits, and hideous bell bottoms!
@@ct3po776 bell bottoms never bothered me. They're better than skinny jeans.
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My mother put me in plaid bell bottoms, and I hated em, my brown corduroy pants with the whoosh, whoosh, whoosh sounds every step where my second hate!
I wish I still had my Heehaw donkey face overalls, though, for nostalgic purposes, and maybe they'd be worth something, I don't know!?
Um ya people didn't hate the fashion of the 80's, it was current fashion of the time after all. It looks dumb now to people who didn't live it and lack historical perspective. Nobody ever hated Pac Man. In fact it was so popular they made the Pac Mac fever album which I bought as a teen. Nobody hated the rubik's cube or Max Headroom or Alf. Plastic sofa covers were from the 60's-70's, not the 80's. Everyone loved lawn darts also from the 60's. Synth pop was great, it was actually called New Wave, an offshoot of punk. Fake fruit is from the 60's or earlier. Other then all that you're spot on. You probably should refrain from making videos about things from before you were born and you didn't live through, you don't do your homework on the subject.
Why do you call Tab Cola “Tab soda”? That wasn’t its brand name. I liked the synth pop in general. Pac-Man was the only video game I ever liked and I bought “Pac-man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia.
Definitely hated the shoulder pads and leg warmers 👎🏽
Lawn darts you weren't supposed to try to catch them in your mouth
You shouldn't try to catch horseshoes in your mouth, either, & horseshoes is still a very popular competitive sport.
As a Gen-Xer, I don’t hate very many of these things! Things now are devoid of style and personality. Everything is as bland as dust.
The mullet has made a comeback.
I just saw a guy the other day rocking a mullet. Yeah, I am seeing those coming back.
....................unfortunately.
I loved my Swatch Watch!! It went perfectly with my Bugle Boy slacks! I wish I still had it....
You should change the name of the video to.
Things from the 80’s I don’t understand.
A late return fees for vhs in the Uk was £11.99 and £12.99 if the tape returns damaged .
Tabletop PacMan games that had cigarette burns on them, (because smoking indoors was still a thing)
Like Eds said on IT Chapter 2, you should cut that mullet it's been like 30 years man.
Maybe it was because I was little, but I actually liked the pac-man cartoon, but hated the video game. I couldn't have cared less about the flavor of Coke, I don't remember pogo balls at all, and only my grandparents had fake fruit and plastic covered furniture. Otherwise, I agree. I think the 80s were way over the top with trends and if your parents couldn't afford for you to wear three or more swatch watches, Reeboks or some other overpriced sneakers, you could really have a tough time with other kids, it was ridiculous.
Tab cola was introduced in 1963. It had very little to do with the 80s.
Problem with "sugar free" is that it still uses artificial sweeteners._
Fortune tellers and leg warmers were the best. At least if you were a little kid in the 80$. 😂😂
I have noticed lately that leg warmers seem to be making a comeback amongst girls in their early 20s, my 22-year-old daughter included.
Don’t be silly. ALF was awesome
I'll give you late fees. If it was too much I would just keep the movie. Max Headroom is another annoying )Bleep) worse off that they made him look like Dolph Ludgren for no reason at all. Hair Metal rulez and don't you forget it. They were real bands playing real music. If you know what I mean. Now days the music charts belong to same stall of names and bands...dishing out the same song over ,and over.
Obviously they weren’t even a wet spot so would they know. I wasn’t into pac-man or leg warmers but if it wasn’t for those things we wouldn’t have what we have today. I’ve learned a long time ago not to hate.
Mullets in Germany were called Vokuhila (VOrne KUrz HInten LAng, that means "front short back long")
Mall hair, heavy designer cologne, big doorknocker earrings...
We called it big hair.
13:58 -- Oh this must've been Beyonce's favorite toy when she was a girl! She liked it because it had a ring on it!
You do know legwarmers came back for almost all of the 2000s?????
People still use leg warmers.
How is Max Headroom hard to follow when it is full of lore about the character and plus he has a cult following of fans .
I’m definitely not a dumb person, in fact: in my 20’s several IQ tests showed an above average performance.
BUT !!!!
I absolutely CANNOT solve a Rubic’s Cube…!
I just don’t see the solution or how to get anywhere beyond swapping 2 or 3 of the tiles to another color….
Same goes for those flat, square plastic things that has space for 16 tiny tiles inside it, yet has 1 empty spots, so you can move the 15 other small squares in order to remake the picture that is printed on it and was all mixed up when you got the toy in your hands (just realized how awful it is to explain this thing, since I haven’t got a clue what it’s called… 😉)
Either way: Those things were NOT for me, never been able to solve them and DEFINITELY never had the patience for them anyway…..!! LOL !!!!
On the other hand: I BELONG TO THE ‘ALF’ FANS FOREVER!!!
If you don't like Alf, you probably don't like life.
Yeah that Max Headroom 💩 should top the list! 🤬🤓😎✌🏼
The Red M&M War!!!😀😀😀
New Coke sucked, it ruined 1985 for me.....but it was the best marketing gimmick ever....change the formula, get free publicity, have Pepsi create adds marketing to old coke lovers, then bring back the old formula as Classic Coke, which the competition just advertised for you for free.... Coke executives deny this was a plan, they say "were weren't THAT smart.....but we also weren't that stupid!" ...always have a plan B.
I liked the mullet, and I had one in the 90’s back when I was in high school then, and I liked Alf, and I did try a can of that new coke then:(if you’re curious it tasted like Pepsi)💁🏻♂🤔💯.
We made Paper Fortune in the 60s.
My wife did in the late 50s-early 60s. We just used the "eight ball".
You clearly have no clue what you’re talking about if you’re hating on Alf and Pacman. Nobody was annoyed by them then and most people still love them now! Hair metal and synth pop were great too, and way better than the garbage music of today. I agree on everything else though.
I hated the cabbage patch and garbage kids
Some pretty girls in this video!
The Mullet lol...
Yeah, no. New Coke was awesome. Tab was awesome. Swatches were awesome. Pac-Man fever was awesome. Alf was awesome. And so on. Worst damn video ever made.
The only video game I remember being a phenomenon was Space Invaders. I walked into an arcade at the height of the invasion and it was just whumph WHUMPH! It was absolutely insane. All the machines synched up. Over half the machines in the arcade were Space Invaders and they were all being played at once. The aliens almost won.
My God, the "financial penalties" for returning a movie were maybe a buck. It wasn't like a hotel resort fee. And after a while they started giving you a ridiculously long amount of time--a week even. If you can't get your caca together in a week you deserve to be dinged a buck.
I guess libraries terrified you too...
NO! The Coke-a-cola corp. did this as a ploy to start the dust up... so, as what we saw was the old coke come back too out sell Pepsi 2 to 1... sound like an idea any money man would come up with.
I remember people selling cases of original Coke for astronomical prices before they reintroduced it as Classic Coke. But yeah it was probably planned.
thows video store late fee make me happy that all video store are out of business ,
I was listening to a lot of what you were saying but when you got a metal I'm sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about where was country singers unless you know what you're talking about be quiet
Things that were also hated in the 80s that nobody is willing to point out…Rap “ music” , the oprah show, Cosby show, a different world, Yo MTV raps, Democrats, BET
I see what you are doing that's a personal thing but you forget KKK
The music has been downhill ever since.
@@rasterman2792 forgot to include Reggae….hope you don’t feel left out
Fortunately, MTV did give us the "Headbangers' Ball". The Cosby Show wasn't bad, just not realistic. And, best of all, eight years of "Newhart".
@@mississippihiker545 Reggae's always good, from the 50s to the present, & I remember Ska being really popular, locally (Ohio Valley), in the late 80s-early90s.
Aside from Reagan, AIDS, the Moral Majority (which, as the saying went, was neither), and Iran/Contra, I'll take the weighty eighties over any part of the 21st century so far any day.
Reagan, &, to an extent, the Moral Majority, were 2 of the best things about the 80s.
Hated the Reagan Administration
Loved the Reagan Administration, resulted in lower taxes, more jobs, less inflation, & ended the Cold War.