Growing up in Mexico in the 90's - POP CULTURE and SOCIETY of the time
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The 1990's for the first world was an age of unprecedented peace, with the end of the Cold War and all tensions seemingly done.
Let me take you to a trip of how the 90's were in this tequila-producing country. Expect pogs and Dragon Ball. Radical.
This video was originally posted July 7th, 2019.
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As a Mexican-American born and raised in the US this was very eye opening. It makes me realize just how different Mexican-American culture is from pure Mexican culture. Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, it's quite different a whole world apart, I'd say. I always felt terms like "Mexican American", "Italian American" "[Whatever] American" are kind of meaningless. Like... One over here in my region doesn't hear the terms "Chinese Mexican", or "Lebanese Mexican", if you were born and raised here you're simply Mexican, especially if that has been the case in your family for generations now. I think by the same logic everyone there should just be "American" rather than splinter their identity so much. I don't know, I'm no social scientist, just some guy online lmao, but it's always been something I've had in my mind as far back as the mid-late 00s when I was a high schooler.
@@kat_lynx hmm yeah I get what you mean. I do feel American more than anything but it feels like race and ethnicity are a big deal here. Everyone is quick to label themselves and others. Also the Mexican culture passed on by my grandparents is important to me so I label myself as Mexican, not for the country of Mexico but for the cultural heritage. Idk if that makes sense lol. I’ve never felt like I’m not fully American everyone I’ve met no matter the race has treated me as American. America is highly multicultural and as such many are quick to label because not every American is the same.
@@Bells32998 That is quite understandable. It really was just my opinion, but I understand this sort of heritage pride is also deeply embedded in American culture, it is part of it, right?
@@kat_lynx for me its that being mexican is an important part of my ( and others) identity and culture ( which can be very different from the standard anglo american culture ) especially for mexicans growing up near the border in arizona , new mexico or southern california and southern texas , and not only do i think our families would be very disappointed if we suddenly stopped calling ourselves mexican i would not want my kids not to consider themselves mexican
@@m.j.vazquez4720 I think since the US is prominently a migrant country (melting pot and what not) such things carry a bigger social weight there than it does here with the descendants of migrants, just going from what you and Adbeel share here.
Growing up in Mexico was nonstop: "Because you all followed the rules, studied, graduated, worked hard and paid your taxes, you must pay by getting f*cked over and over again".
Oh, sí. OH, SÍ.
El sufrimiento nunca termina. Cuando parece que algo esta saliendo bien para ti o que ya pasó lo peor, algo nuevo sucede.
Fug. :'DDD
Not nearly as bad as being stuck with a student loan forever like most Americans IMO
@@rodiaz6652 no. I'd say that's just as bad,but not worse
Sounds a lot like the U.S rn in 2023
So you were actually AHEAD of America for once.
I will always say Mexico's love of videogames, anime, and witty wordplay died on 11 April 2020.
Gus Rodriguez single-handedly shaped modern Mexican culture. He will always be missed.
Word. RIP Gus Rodríguez, the only good gaming journalist to have ever lived. And comedic genius.
Don’t say dumb stuff
Anime was extremely popular long before Gus came into picture and has never been more popular than nowadays. I love Gus and his legacy but your statement is wrong in that regard.
@@alexgarcia2k exactly. Gus gave more to comedy than anime. Gus wrote the dialogues for Eugenio Derbez shows.
I'm British. I will look up Gus Rodriguez.
No manches.
I only got to live my first 5 years of life in Mexico, and everything you’re describing is bringing back some intense nostalgia flashbacks.
I can’t believe Tazos still exist. My collection was obscene as a kid.
Bro me to only 5 yrs and I remember everything especially los caballeros del zodiaco
grew up in the 2010s, my brother and I were obsessed with angry birds and we had a collection of angry birds tazos. i didnt think they were still popular
@@mosskin2016 Angry Bird Tazos just sounds silly lol I love it
It's so close to what Brazil has experienced at the time, it feels so familiar to us down here. We had all of these cartoons and also the fact that El Chavo is bigger than Jesus here and Novelas Mexicanas are also a huge hit.
Yup! I have a BR friend and we pretty much like the same old anime series from that time, chief among them being Saint Seiya.
@@kat_lynx Yeah, Saint Seiya is like a religion here as well
I didnt grow up in mexico in the 90s but this was beautiful. I was born in 97 and my family moved to the US in 2000, but this gave me a way deeper understanding of why. They never really had any money and seeing how things never really improved for very long was very eye opening. Thanks for making this 😊
Also i think i get why my mom has such a soft spot for donkey kong now despite not ever playing video games
DKC game was pretty popular! It was at some point bundled with SNES consoles, whose popularity lasted a few years more than in the US, and the cartoon serves as the basis of various Hispanic YTPs, the most famous of them all being "Donkey prueba el nuevo modo Funky" by PariodadorAnimado lol.
Yeah, things never improve here. I think the biggest irony is my grandfather from my dad's side actually migrated from New York TO Mexico to become a surgeon during the great depression in the US, as higher education was imposible but anyone BUT the elite. It's a mirror to your parents, time is a flat circle innit?
Its so much like my childhood, but in Spanish. As a 90's kid in the US, I was still exposed to a metric ton of 80's media. Its like they made so much stuff during those 10 years, they didn't know what to do with it.
They became too iconic, they just re-aired non-stop the following decade. And why wouldn't they? Who doesn't love stuff like the original Karate Kid?
I’m glad you talked about the negatives too, I haven’t seen anyone else mention the negatives before
I learned a lot about Mexico that I never knew before (which is a lot 💀)
Thanks for making this video 😎🙏
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Man this was a blast to watch. Most of my childhood was just the N64 and playing games like Conker's Bad Fur Day, Aidyn Chronicles the First Mage, Doom 64, and a handful of others I could afford to get my hands on. I don't think I got into anime until I saw stuff like Lupin III, FMA, and Inuyasha on Toonami. Great stuff, and great video.
Conkerrrrrrr, lived in the border in San Luis Az in the early 2000’s and this reminded me a lot of my childhood. The n64, the anime both in english and spanish. Miss those days
aidyn chronicles was such a bad game i loved it so much ❤
@@AngelCanseco1my best buddy at work is named Angel, and he's awesome, I'm going to believe you must be as well lol.
Yo crecí en Méxicali Baja California durante los 90's y a causa de vivir en la frontera estuve expuesto a la cultura de ambos países desde pequeño. Vivir en México durante los 90's definitivamente fué el vivir los 80's Pt. 2 😅
Sobre todo con Canal 5 dejando bien fresco en la memoria todo esos clásicos ochenteros como Chucky o Gremlins.
same for the rest of Latin America, always 10 years behind Lol but it was fine i guess, i growed up in DR Caribbean, watching reruns cartoons from 80 and 90 and playing Nintendo, super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. 😄 ahh i have no complaints, it was ok to be kid growing up back then, today not so good.
This video deserves so much more views. Absolutely superb.
Ayy, thank you! Yeah, I guess I'm not good at giving myself clout or promoting lol. I've had other video ideas on the backburner, but right now I'm focusing on a personally much more important project.
Kat Lynx good luck with your project, you have so much talent, the editing is too good. I’ll show your video to my friends, the Japanese friends will be very happy to know must of us are weebs lol can’t wait for your upcoming videos.
For real!!!
I've always wondered why there were so many weebs in Mexico. All of my homies who came from Mexico were really into anime and neogeo.
It's eye opening how similar childhoods in Mexico and southern California were.
My dad was born in Jalisco while I was born in the US. I always felt more separated from Mexican culture growing up, even if we had some of the same cultural identities mixed in. Like for birthdays he would get piñatas and would usually play Las Mañanitas por Cepillín (que descanse en paz). But my dad did show me a little of what was pure Mexican, like the music he grew up on (Los Bukis, Los Temerarios, Joan Sebastian), or the movies/tv shows he would watch (El Chavo del Ocho, Pedro Infante peliculas).
This was such a cool video to watch, saludos de California!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Did he also show you our wrestler movies? In specific the ones starring El Santo. As for music, I'd also reccomend El Tri and Johnny Laboriel, even if some of his songs are Spanish covers of English Rock and Roll songs.
My experience exactly but with my mom. I visit a lot and interact with people who grew up in Mexico all the time but it still surprises me now and again that there are things that totally catch me off guard
Our dads would get along real well. Also from Jalisco originally (Zapopan to be exact) and Los Bukis, Temerarios & Joán Sebastian are his top 3 favorite artists. He was so bummed when Joán Sebastian died lol. He didn’t get “emotional” but it’s by far the most invested I’d ever seen him for a celebrity death.
Mexican-Americans have their own unique experiences from Mexicans and vice versa. I had my childhood in Mexico in the 90's and my teenage years in the US and both experienced were very different despite some of the similarities. When I went to middle school in the US it was a culture shock and adults tried to force a friendship between me and some Chicano kids because I was Mexican and it was the most awkward thing for all of us.
I eventually made a group of friends which had a diverse group of kids and mostly because of our love of anime and video games. One person in that group was a Chicano kid who didn't speak Spanish but I didn't care that he didn't because there were tons of other stuff we had in common.
The reason anime was imported so much into Mexico during the 90's is that is was waaaaay cheaper than importing shows from the United States. Sure, many American shows were imported like Power Rangers and such. But such in the 80's you were able to catch a lot of shows like TMNT, Thundercats versus the 90's during which the cartoon blocks in both Azteca 7 and Canal 5 were flooded with The Vision of Escaflowne, Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball, Slayers, Magical Knight Rayearth, Sailor Moon and such. It is the same reason why a lot of Japanese anime are suuuuper popular on Latinamerica versus Europe and the US.
As an American Gen Z Kid, I really enjoyed this video. It was really well edited and great use of footage and historical context as to why the nation was in that state and what memories you have of that era. Cheers my brother from the Southern Border!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching!
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one personally I like how he went into detail about how Mexico was a one party state with the P.R.I Sucking the Mexican state dry.
I grew up both in the US and Mexico. I remember buying a Ruffles for 5 pesos or 7 pesos for a Pepsi. I think a Litro of Coca was like 20. For the longest time the peso maintained the same value. Because it wasn't till late middle school where i really started to see inflation happen and life get pretty dangerous. Seeing this video really made me realize what kind of world i was growing up in. The biggest change was starting to see internet in the late 2000s. This video really does deserve more vies. It can be very informative of explaining of what later lead up to the 2000s.
Thank you!
(El fin del milenio anterior fue realmente toda una montaña rusa de sucesos tanto para bien como para mal, pero veíamos con esperanza el inicio del milenio nuevo, pero apenas empezando el milenio todo parecía ya estarse yendo al demonio nuevamente. Y aquí seguimos. ;_;)
SameI grew up in south Texas and Mexico , did you ever get get those things called tasos in the bags of chips ? Those were my
Favorite
@@lonemaus562 Oh yeah we use to play with them all the time and collect them. It got to the point where we just started collecting the metal ones instead of cardboard
I was born around the same time as you but in Honduras. I would say that although I had a totally different political atmosphere than yours, the media I consumed was mostly from Mexico so my childhood resonates a lot with yours (even the tazos). I think you just missed the Yugioh era of the mid-2000s (my personal favorite). It was nice to re-live my childhood through your storytelling. Thanks!
Thanks for the comment! The video was focused entirely on the 90s, though, 1982 served only as preamble and the year 2000 as the epilogue, so there really was no place for YGO on it.
This was a blast from the past. I certainly didn't have a lot of the context as a Mexican living abroad but I guess I spent enough time in Mexico to really get steeped in and shaped by the pop culture. Now I feel like the 80s was two decades for me
Gracias Kat Lynx. Me ayudas a redescubrir un pedazo perdido de mi mismo.
Me alegra haber visto este comentario! Hay ya varios y me es difícil seguirles la pista a todo (sobre todo porque después de cierta cantidad YT deja de notificarme), pero un placer jaja!
La verdad creo que por ese "pop culture lag", segunda mitad de los 90s bien grunge me es un tanto alien. Cuando empezó a masificarse el internet, saltamos de los coloridos 1990-1995 a "Y2K, the future is now!". La primer película de Matrix también ayudó a esa transición tan brusca, creo yo.
Bro, you got me feeling nostalgic. I was born in Hidalgo, and lived there until the year 2000, when my dad brought my family to live with him in the US. To this day i blame Cansl 5 for shaping up my interests from Anime, to fantasy, to Tokisatsu shows like Power Rangers and Kamen Rider (my brain still won't let go that the Masked Rider adaptation was never a thing haha). I appreciate your work on this video because you allowed me to gain some insight into what shaped Mexico in the 90s since i don't remember what the socioeconomics were like back then
Ah, a fellow tokusatsu enjoyer! Thank you!
I grew up in Jalisco from 88 to 96 and i wish i were a little more aware of the political climate at the time.
Now i fully understand why my mother brought us to the states as quickly as she could.
Thank you for making this video. It really opens up my eyes to my childhood.
I used to watch Nintendomania in Azteca 7 or 13 in the early '99 or 2000. I was in 8th or 9th grade. Glad to know someone is taking about tunelito cinco. My anime channel before my family got free direct tv in 2002 and started to watch toomani/adult swim anime.
I was raised in Mexico City, and another event that deeply impacted the country was the assassination of a prominent Catholic cardinal in 1993. Additionally, there were various significant moments in the history of our sports, like the unstoppable reign of Chavez in the world of boxing and the immense popularity of national football (soccer). The rise of several iconic 90’s Mexican wrestlers. The influence of both national and international music was also noteworthy. Various 90's youth subcultures. Furthermore, if my memory serves me right, the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion premiered around 98 or 99. This marked a significant turning point, demonstrating that anime was not merely cartoons for children but could address profound subjects such as mental illness, anxiety, depression, and more. Arcade video games were also a big thing during the 90’s so much more and too much to list. Cool video good job bro.
Born in the US I’d say We’re not much different. I’d even say your nostalgia was cooler than mine I didn’t get into dragon ball until 99 and never had n64. I still want to play ocarina of time. Now I can understand why as a child many of my friends came from Mexico at that time. Thank you.
Texan gringo here lol. Definitely appreciate the historical timeline to go along with the extremely relatable nostalgia. Subbed
Thank you!
As a Brit born in a previous generation ('82) I'm pleasantly surprised with the cross cultural influences, samurai pizza cats & Street fighter the animated movie left a lasting impression on me growing up. Not sure if it was more a euro syndication, but ulysses 31 still holds up as a classic animation worth checking out.
Oh man, Ulysses 31, you unlocked some burried memories there!
Me in the first half of the video: "This Is exactly why you should never take the country you live in and the political landscape for granted. Cause it could have been so much worse. Man did Mexico get hit hard in the 80s and 90s."
Me in the second half of the video: "So many memories, other shows I had no clue were popular in Mexico at the time and amazement at the exclusive stuff you guys got like Nintendo Mania. The SNES is my favorite console ever and I had no clue it was so popular in Mexico. Then again I should've known."
This is such a great video to watch. Didn't feel too long nor did it feel too short either. Just the right sweet spot. Well done.
Oh man, the 90s were chaotic here indeed. Nowadays we basically live in a generational trauma antsy on how close we constantly are to another 1994-styled economic crash.
The popularity of the SNES was a sight to behold. Boxing was also huge, and still is, but at the time both were so culturally significant, the SNES game Riddick Bowe Boxing got an official modified and translated release called Chavez, after boxer Julio Cesar Chavez. The hilarious story goes that during a promo tour for the game, Chavez himself had never played videogames and he was showcasing the game playing against Gus Rodriguez' son Javier, who was basically beating Chavez so badly they marketing people outright told Javier to let himself lose against Chavez.
Damm, this video must bring back so many memories to my dad
I hope he likes it!
06/22/2023: It became overwhelming to reply to all comments but I want to thank you all for all the support and 1.3K subs! This means a lot of me, I've been used for years now to just dwelve on my little niche spot of the internet, so this has been quite a trip. I'm scripting a little video, Mexico in the 90s Part 2 will eventually happen down the road. In the meantime, you can catch me most weekends on Twitch and on my Twitter, links added to the video's description! As well my newest upload, a little Zelda movie pitch, if you wanna hear about that schizo rambling.
06/10/2023 EDIT: Thanks for 10K Views! Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
If you saw this video and clicked on it, color me surprised, since I've been shadowbanned.
So, you're not allowed to express your disagreement on the removal on dislikes on YT's latest update video. If you do, all your comments after that get deleted between 1 to 5 minutes, although I had a 30 minute binge in a video before it got deleted again. It doesn't get sent for approval or anything, it's just PURGED, because you're not allowed to have an opinion. Dislikes aren't a form of harrassment, they're not a tool to opress, quite the opposite. Dislikes are the tool of the people. The only method to express themselves, as comments get purged, deleted and accounts such as this one shadowbanned. All I said was that this was a terrible idea, and just bring back the Star rating. Because, even if people vote either 1 or 5 stars, you'd still get a mean result of how many Stars/5. Independent thought is prohibited. Big Brother is watching.
Very Mexico in the 90's, truthfully, considering all the supression of opinion back then. As of this post, this video has: 61 likes, 1 dislikes.
If you can, please get a browser add-on to still be able to see dislikes.
Im a little bit older than you (84 kid) but your video described my childhood pretty much (minus the part of getting a SNES or a Nintendo 64). Im also from the northern part of Mexico and seing the differences between Mexican and American culture made a lasting impact in my life that lasts until this day. Good video.
¡Gracias!
One Thing I realized about growing before the internet is that pretty much every kid I knew watched the same shows, played the same games and had similar hobbies, so kids from the 90s share a lot of references that newer generations do not, as they pretty much can find a vast array of interests online.
Everything back then seemed second hand and cheap but I thought of it like the best, coolest media ever
I've never considered this, you're absolutely right. No wonder Gen Z seem just so divided and jaded among their own peers sometimes...
Plus it was like, a journey of discovery figuring it all out, with limited help from the internet. Figuring out just how anime works, which things are tropes and which are specific trademarked characters, what we were missing, what led to what.. when Pokémon came out, it was this total mystery unless you had found a player's guide or something. By Gen 2 you could just.. look up a list of all the new pokémon online, and the mystery aspect was diminished.
@@KairuHakubi yeah, to beat a game you had to either get good, or find a guide or ask your friends how you could finish the game, I remember so many PS1 games that I could beat thanks to my buddies, nowadays you just find everything in the internet with no effort, it's less rewarding
A lot of this carried over into the 2000s. I was born in the US, but my family moved to Mexico in 2002. We lived in a small town, and the local arcade was still super popular (especially the NeoGeo games like Metal Slug and King of Fighters). And Dragon Ball Z would have a rerun basically every year on Canal#5. We moved back in 2007 though
aahhh this is the kind of educational stuff we need more and more of, especially as the old internet and popculture get erased. I have always noticed latin dudes have the best taste and art styles, and was told it's because they grew up on way more anime than we did (and saucier ones). Really sad to hear censorship eventually bit you guys too.
As I told another user, I blame Ghost Sweeper Mikami for many things wrong with me, haha.
El video es de hace 3 años y a penas me lo mostro youtube, que coraje no haberlo visto antes! Pero que bueno que ya esta agarrando las vistas que ese merece! :)
¡Gracias! Sí, así de cruel es el algoritmo, de verdad extraño mucho el sistema antiguo pre-Google que usaba RUclips, en el que te recomendaba videos que estaban siendo vistos en el momento, con Tags similares a lo que vez y lo de pestaña Trending era genuinamente lo que estaba siendo más visto.
Thank you for the video. I grew up in the 90s-00s in the US. I always wanted to know how my cousins lived in the 90s.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think every country deserves a video like this. It's so easy to judge cultural change based on its source, rather than its spread, but in reality the most interesting progress is seen in places that are caught between something old and something new.
Like how in the 90's, videogames were huge in the USA and Japan, but Europe was mostly dominated by PC's, or how Brazil and Latin America have the "Bomba Patch" for Pro Evolution Soccer because of how inaccessible the gaming market is for companies and consumers due to economic reasons.
This video reminds me of all the times I would watch Canal 5 reruns of Pokemon, Simpsons, DBZ, Thundercats, and now Spongebob and Malcolm in the Middle while staying over at my grandparents' rancho during summers as a kid. Great video about adding historical context to such a turbulent time.
Very eye-opening as someone who grew up during the early 2000s era of electronics to later coming of age during the fully digital switch/streaming era in the late 00s/2010s.
Yo voy a poner mi comentario en español para que resalte de los demás! 😂
¡Buenísimo el vídeo! Gracias por el resúmen de México en los 90. Siendo de la región (República Dominicana), conocemos mucho de México por telenovelas y acceso a canales de noticias de allá, pero no sabía que la cosa andaba TAN mal. Aún esperando la segunda parte de este retrospectivo 👍🏾
The RUclips algorithm has brought me here. This was a fantastic video and quite nostalgic (even though I grew up in the early 2000s). I can't believe the level of quality too, honestly very underrated video and channel. I know that this might be quite late now, but I hope you continue to grow to be successful in whatever endeavor you pursue!
P.S. No puedo creer que el peso solía tener un valor de 5 por 1 dólar, y ahora es 20... como los tiempos cambian...
La inflación económica apesta. ;_; Muchas gracias por tu comentario \o/ La verdad .después de que mis primeros videos no tuvieran ninguna vista a que de repente este explotara, me hace pensar que cuando mi temporada de trabajo alta pase voy a desempolvar un guion que ya tenía preparado... (bueno tengo como dos, pero a lo dicho, me gano el "meh, nadie lo va a ver").
@Kat Lynx Nada mas sigue las metas que tu puedas y toma las decisiones que sientas que te hagan feliz. La vida esta llena de sorpresas y se ve que tienes talento!
@@Namregneg De verdad, gracias!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I didn’t know a lot about the hardships Mexico faced and it gives me so much context as to why my mom emigrated to the US at a young age with her family. I hope you’re doing well!! Saludos de los Estados Unidos!!
This was actually a very interesting video Lynx. Looking back at some of these cartoons as well definitely made me feel nostalgic too. Some of the cartoons I definitely remember growing up in the 90s (at least for me in Canada): Gargoyles, Redwall, Power Rangers, a good chunk of stuff from Disney Afternoon (Darkwing Duck, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Lion King TV show, etc.), anime wasn't as big for me growing up in the 90s and it didn't impact me a lot until later in life.
That being said though the historical aspect of the video was definitely interesting too and definitely appreciate the insight you put into this.
\o/ thank you! I certainly also grew with US cartoons, but the sudden influx of Japanese media was a massive shake up to the status quo of animated media here. We had stuff prior to the 90's like Mazinger Z, but just out of the blue we got a whole lot more.
@@kat_lynx honestly I wish Mexican cartoons were more common there’s so much creative potential for your beautiful country
I used to spend weeks to months every other summer visiting family in Mexico (Durango mostly, sometimes Michoacan) and everything you said matches what I saw and heard 90s Mexico. The shit was rough for Mexico (still is), but all the kids there really appreciated what they had. Viva.
As a Mexican born in 1990, your video brought back a lot of memories from my childhood.
Que buen video amigo. No se como llegue aquí, pero lo vi completo y sentí nostalgia. Saludos desde Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Yo soy de Irapuato, Guanajuato. Siempre me preguntó que tipo de personas encuentran tiempo de hacer videos como estos. Saludos
Saludos! La verdad es que lo hice cuando la vida era más tranquila y en uno de esos momentos de inspiración, he querido hacer más videos pero el tiempo o no me da para grabar todo el guion, o ya lo grabe y odio como suena (a pesar de que estoy leyendo algo que escribir, siempre sucede que se me lengua la traba), y ya ni hablemos de encontrar tiempo para editar. A duras penas ando acabando de editar un video de cuando jugue el Resident Evil 4 original del 2005 en mi canal de Twitch hace ya case 2 años.
Espero que hayas disfrutado la nostalgia!
Jajaja hola! Yo acabo de llegar aqui tambien y soy de irapuato jajaja. Aprovechando, como te fuiste a Canada? Yo estoy considerando muy seriamente mudarme
I’m wasn’t alive in the 1990’s and I’m an American but the algorithm showed me this video and I can’t wait to see what is In store
I'm French and I live in CDMX since 2021 so it was very informative to watch this video I know more about this great country now.
What the hell man this is amazing!!! I was born and raised in Mexico city brother and its such a treat to watch content relevant to my early years.
Good work dude! Will keep an eye on your channel for sure.
Thank you!
Me encanto, la verdad es que yo de pequeña no me di cuenta de nada, pero hasta despues voy entendiendo mejor todo lo que ha pasado.
Excelente video y edición, dejando un comentario para mostrar mi agradecimiento y por el algoritmo.
Muchas gracias! \o/
My parents Childhood was also the 1990s they emigrated outside of Mexico around 2004 as late teens. Soon later I was born in the United States.
They don’t tell me much about the pop culture of their time however much of what you mentioned carried over to my early childhood. It’s So Refreshing to Envision how my parents grew up during their youth.
Much of the things they wanted for instance a Nintendo. they couldn’t afford however they have told me if one of kids at their local town manage to get one they would instantly become the popular kid around the whole town.
It’s nice to hear your experience as I am reminded that my parents were once young. And much of their interests carried over towards my early childhood.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and for a stroll down memory lane I was amazed how many times I said me too dude! Now I wanna have a beer with a new Mexican friend and talk about our shared nostalgia
Especially now that's summer, a cold beer while discussing nostalgia sounds really nice.
I got recommended this and this was a great video about Mexican pop culture. I hope you make more videos like this if you want to.
thank you!
I grew up in Nebraska in the 90s. While there were some major differences, several similarities were uncanny. I grew up in another country than you, but somehow you did a great job at describing my childhood as well, from reruns of Thundercats to the releases of the Ps1 and N64.
Gotta say, thanks for the travel through time. I am 40 and I also grew during that times of turmoil growing in Mexico City. Cheers!
Amazing how we saw the exactly same animations and the exactly same political/economical situation here in Brazil, saludos hermano, viva México, viva Brasil.
Latambros Unite!
@@kat_lynx Viva la pátria grande, muerte al imperialismo.
Que buen video mi amigo!! La muerte de Colosio siempre me marco, yo solo queria ver caricaturas pero todos, absolutamente todos los canales estaban pasando la noticia de au muerte
Fue un evento muy, muy significativo. Su asesinato, creo yo, fue de las primeras veces que el populo Mexicano se detuvo un momento y se preguntó a sí mismo "¿Qué hubiera pasado si no hubiese sucedido eso?" y "¿Por qué pasó? ¿Qué temían?"
Thank you for sharing this! It's cool to me how we share so many similarities in tastes growing up yet being so far apart (granted, Chicago isn't all that far from northern Mexico. Good 24 hour drive.) Always dig a fresh perspective, only thing I was hoping to hear was that you were a wrestling fan like me too lol
This is so cool to see i bounced around alot but lived most my life in us. Love seeing videos like this
I really really appreciate the perspective you. And hey another ghost hunter Mikami fan.. and animation fan. I am from American I look forward to your future videos too! Have a good day.
Thank you! I estimate around fall a new proper video and not just small filler will be available, summer is my job's most busy period. Plus also doing commissions lol
Thanks for the nostalgia run! Reminded me of my first time going to Mexico and being in love with all of the pop culture as a kid. I remember telling my friends about Dragon ball GT before it even came out in the states and how Mexico had the better cartoons.
De repente el algoritmo anda poniendo muchos videos mexico centricos en ingles. Aprovecha la ola.
Ando aprovechando el influjo de subs nuevo posteando en Comunidad, jaja, quiziera editar un video nuevo pero ando con comisiones encima, y pues, chamba es chamba, jaja.
Bro good memories ❤
I was broke but very happy, all my sisters were alive, my mom had little money but we still ate good
Honestly, as long as there was food in the table, you can get by just fine.
As I alluded in my video at the end, while currently it's nowhere near as bad as December 1994, it's still pretty bad but we can get by as long as there's food in the table.
... The problem is even food is getting quite expensive by the quick... Man, when will we catch a break, huh?
Vato! Te acabo de descubrir con este video! Espero encontrar más videos tan chicos como este en tu canal!
Creciendo el El Paso pero visitando a los primos en Juarez cada fin de semana, me trajiste muchos recuerdos! 😄✌️
Cuando mi temporada de trabajo esté más relajada por el otoño, creo que haré una segunda parte, hay muchas cosas de esta década en la cultura popular Mexa que omití por enfocarme en lo que me llamaba la atención cuando niño. Saludos.
I was born in California, but my mother, after my dad passed away, decided to bring this to Juarez, Mexico, I lived there in the early 90s, probably all the way till 2003 or soo... On and off, because I had to return to school, eventually we moved to segundo barrio.. At the time, it was one of the most dangerous places to live in el Paso, regardless, I love the times, living there and going to juarez I made amazing friends there. I remember us playing Nintendo Super Nintendo going up to the swaps. Soccer in the streets, buying chips, sodas, everything was amazing, such beautiful times also, I remember a lot watching some of my first anime on channel the Aztec 🥂 Also remember when they were killing, all the females that was a horrible time as well, but you know what, regardless of everything that I went through I wouldn't change anything,
Man, that story sure hits. Yeah, Segundo Barrio... and in spite of the horrible parts of history, we sure look at our youth fondly, don't we? Man, I remember 10 pesos was enough to buy chips, a soda and you still had change. 10 pesos made a kid feel powerful back then. Now 10 pesos gets you nothing.
And yeah, Azteca 7, that channel I used to watch Magic Knight Rayearth and Sailor Moon lol.
Also, I see you're a man of culture as well, with your username coming from Casshern's antagonist.
Oh, God, yeah, and I didn't even say everything,If I did I could probably write a book!!! Oh, yes, I made amazing friends, we used to go to the arcades, wake up the people that were the owners of the papeleria 🤭 And would play for hours and hours king of fighters, toki 🔥🔥🔥 So many different arcade games, as well as anime to this day I'm in love with Los caballeros del zodiaco..ranma....Hugo el Rey del judo, slam dunk.. 🔥🔥🔥 So many, like I said, I can keep going, I have not gone back in a good 20 something years, but my memories, I will always cherish and love all the amazing things in Juarez!!! Los puestos de comida! El Centro.. I'm telling you how can probably go all night, and yes, I can see you're a man of culture as well, for actually knowing where this name comes from, believe me, not a lot of people know🎉🎉🎉🎉
Man, just about everything you jusr said is a nostalgic trip. I can almost SMELL the miscelania where I bought tamarind candy, and then watch some Slam Dunk and Mikami on TV.
@@kat_lynx also, I wanted to say a little bit of feedback regarding your channel? Keep up the amazing work man, you have the possibility of having a really, really really popular channel, I know I saw that you've been busy and everything, but in my opinion, if I can give it don't let it die, try your best to come up with content like this, do your research like you did with this one and I can only imagine sky's the limit my man 🥂 Cheers mi hermano
Thanks! Yeah it became disheartening after a while, until now the algorithm actually decided to share stuff alongside the past 4 years being especially rough in my private life. But there's also like my own inner conflict, I don't want to become a slave to the larger RUclips game uploading weekly as the channel's content would run thinner, I'm currently an art student and want to make that my focus during my free-time and be more known for that as I get a better feeling for digital artwork, as I'm better with graphite and charcoals, rather than just be known as a video-making guy and get stuck with it. Surely, though, if I get smart at it, I can juggle both.
Man, I just realized, I sounded just like Ralph Bighead from Rocko's Modern Life with this statement, didn't I? The episode where he wants to get out of making The Fatheads cartoons and do sculpting.
Shit bro your channel deserves more followers and viewers WTF man! Glad I came acrossed it!
Thanks, honestly your nice comment makes me think I should stop slacking and finish the fourth video. It was halfway through but, between a lot of real life stuff and being rather disheartened by this one's performance, I put it on the backburner.
You know what? Maybe I'll do that, I'll work on it this weekend, even the thumbnail I did a while back.
I grew up in Mexico I was born in the states and spent half of my childhood in Mexico I never watched Anime during my childhood but I was a massive fan of Lucha Libre and cartoons I didn’t grew up with a dad do to him working hard in the states and trying to make it and thx to him I never worried about poverty I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth and now I’m living in the states and haven’t returned to Mexico for about a decade hopefully Mexico becomes stable so I can one day return and build or buy my childhood mansion
I did not expect to get an entire political and economic history lesson but that made it so much better. Great video!! 😎👍
Thank you!
Great video! I remember talking to my cousins from Mexico about anime. I was so jealous of them because they had so many more shows and they were uncensored.
dios que buenísimo el video, se nota demasiado que el periodo es tal como lo que dijiste al principio: consumismo sin dinero para consumir
en general para américa latina los 90s fueron demasiado caóticos, conflictos sociales infinitos y una economía que no paraba de decrecer; el único país que sé que se pudo salvar de esto, de una manera u otra, fue Chile
siempre me es interesante oír las experiencias de gente de X época acerca de cómo se sentía y se pasaba todo, así que de verdad gracias por presentarlas inclusive con tremenda edición
Muchísimas gracias por comentar! No sabes cuanto aprecio tu comentario. En efecto, ese es otro lazo que para bien o para mal todos los latinoamericanos tenemos, eventos económicamente caóticos siempre suceden en una franja de tiempo general como en este caso fueron los 90's. Al menos, esa es mi perspectiva, como una especie de efecto domino latino.
Inicialmente hice este video en ingles porque tengo muchos amigos foráneos que hasta el día de hoy conservo (bendito internet) y queria compartir con ellos y el mundo entero de una forma más grande y llamativa como fue todo ese periodo. Ya me veo en 2030 haciendo uno de "México en los 2010's y 2020's". No sabia cuanta razón tenia en el momento que escribí la línea "nos avecinamos a otra época extraña y turbulenta de economía rota y de locura de la cultura popular, con una venganza".
Thank you for making this! I was born in 1996, so I can't really remember a lot of the stuff mentioned in the video but I could still relate to a lot of stuff like watching those cartoons. I still remember when Vicente Fox was elected, I was a very young girl back then but I remember my mom was SO happy about it. Also, I always found it strange that here in México japanese things like videogames and cartoons are much more accepted by the general population vs in the USA, maybe this is why lol
Thank you so much for watching! Mexico can easily adapt to imported culture media, methinks, and so does basically all of LatAm. On the European side of things, I remember in 1999 discovering the animated Astérix and Obélix animated movies and enjoying them thoroughly.
Watching Nintendomania intro and the ocarina of time picolo ad was heart wrenching becuase made me realize how far those times feel now
This channel is mad underrated!
Thanks, haha!
Those video edits were fire 🤣
The music folded me lol I love it. Thank you for this perspective on the 90s culture in your country. As an American who grew up in the 90s, I really enjoy these insights into t
Rraised in mexico in the 90s....what a nostalgic trip maneee
Aunque nací en el 97 todos mis primos eran bien de esa época, así que realmente crecí con absolutamente todo lo que mencionaste. Qué recuerdos ir a sus casas a ver Los Caballeros del Zodiaco, jugar Majora's con ellos, que me espantaran con Cañitas y todo lo demás.
Gracias por desbloquearme tantos recuerdos, bro. Un abrazo
Que cabron como muchos de nosotros crecimos asi, alchile que fortuna tener primos mayores en esas epocas, tambien soy 97 pero me identifique chingos con todo lo que vi en el video y lo que comentas, nacer sin mucha lana es crecer una generacion atras en todo jajajajajaj pero se disfruta igual, buena nostalgia 🥹
En Mexico siempre se importaron animes, pregúntale a tus papás, ni cuenta se dan que heidi, meteoro, o astro boy son anime y bien que cantan los openings. No se que tanta influencia la situación económica haya tenido en la explosión de importaciones pero también va de la mano con el crecimiento de la industria en Japón, y el crecimiento de la televisión en Mexico.
Buen video, conocí la experiencia de un niño cómodamente clase mediero! Yo no tuve cable hasta mediados de los 2000s y el canal 5 no se veía en mi pueblo si no tenías antena en el techo. Igual me encantaba ver anime en casa de los primos más acomodados desde que tengo memoria, pero no recuerdo detalles de comerciales y eso. Lo que sí, veía el noticiero con Jacobo Zabludovsky, entonces recuerdo el clima político a detalle. También el ver a mis primos jugar OoT fue muy impactante!
Midwest in the US wasn't too much different in what we were exposed to in the 90s based upon my own experiences.
Interesting to see what media that was universally known/spread and lots of distinct experiences that many of us can relate to in different ways across the world.
I grew up on the south side of Tucson, AZ, right on the border with the Pascua Yaqui res, and could see the San Xavier mission from my front yard. All my friends were either from Mexico, or their parents were, and we'd take trips down to Nogales to cross over the border and spend the weekend down there. I was just the weird white boy who would come over and play NES at their house, so I was a stranger in a strange land, haha. But it was formative for me living in those two worlds.
This video was definitely a blast from the past and it really does a great job of capturing the feeling of the times for us kids growing up in the 90s. We definitely didn't understand the social, political,and economic WTF that was going on, but we felt it. And this escape into pop culture really is just... it's like another universe.
A really unique time to be alive for sure. This video captures something I'm glad won't be lost, but if you didn't live through it, it's hard to even comprehend if someone was born in the late 00s or 10s. It's another universe now. The shit economic downturn is the same, thanks to a lot of the same policies and people, but the internet and media and technology is unrecognizable.
Today's world would surely be completely unrecognizable and alien to our child selves, if they could see it just like that, rather than live through the slow transition towards it.
I'm sure if 5 year old me saw our current year though, he'd be disappointed it's 23 years after 2000 and there's still no flying cars, ahaha.
It does suck how for some stuff, "you had to be there" is largely unavoidable, as time goes on, generations go, nobody will be able to appreciate stuff the same way we did, because they weren't there.
@@kat_lynx What disappoints 8-9 year old me is that the stupid border still exists not as a meeting place for friends, but a militarized testament of fear and separation. 90s me genuinely believed things would improve, and Mexico and the US would come closer together and recognize we are the same humans separated only by language and history. We're stronger as allies, friends, and family. What we share is far more valuable than where we differ.
Like you said, Fox is controversial today, but in those years it genuinely looked like we were going to pull out of the worst of it and things were only going to get better from here on. It wasn't him or the politics, it was just people freely exchanging across that damn border. If we could just freely travel across the border both ways, and work, study, live, and explore -- all this fear, resentment, distrust, and misunderstanding would disappear. And both countries could benefit, instead of the abusive relationship that currently exists.
Este video es un momento Latinoamérica de principio a fin.
Se acabó el video, y el momento Latinoamérica no termina. :'^)
I went back and from the usa and Mexico.
I first played the n64 in a Mexican video game cafe in Guadalajara. Paid $10 pesos per hour. Challeged random people on smash brothers.
Interesting! In the city I live in, I once went to a bar a couple years back with my friends and they had an N64 plugged in and were doing free Smash combats with the guys running the bar. It was fun.
The Nostalgia! It's incredible how most of us had this kind of childhood. The anime was no joke. I remember always going to my cousins house and seeing them watching DragonBall Z and Reruns of Sailor Moon.
Also, the Tazos! Always readily available in your Sabritas lol.
I'm really sad just last year instead of giving actual tazos, Sabritas was giving kids codes for NFTs calling them NFTazos. The cryptogrifting is real.
@@kat_lynx I never knew that! Why Sabritas? 😵💫
I appreciate the insight. It was obviously WAY different than it was for gringos like me! Thanks for the video.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching!
I was born in 1981, so I got the chance to experience to live my childhood in the late 80's and early 90's and my teenage years in late 90's just before using Internet. Very good and informative video.
It's interesting to see how your story in northern mexico echos in southern texas. Since I got a lot of bootlegs from flea markets, I saw a lot of animes before they ever made it to the US in spanish. Same thing with clothes and toys and other pop culture in the 90s.
My family is El Salvadoran and I have fond memories of spending time both in the US and El Salvador, this makes me so nostalgic especially seeing how much anime and old school video games I was exposed to in ES compared to the US. it was extremely interesting to hear the history of events that were happening in Mexico in the 90’s too! Love it! Please keep it up! If you decide to do one of these but in the 2000’s that would be so rad!!
Thank you! The 00s are something I've considered, but looking at the feedback I might end up making a second part to this once my workload (and commissions) is lower during Fall.
As a Mexican American, watching this is very interesting. This era that you lived through is after my parent's time, but before mine. It's interesting seeing how some of this stuff was explained by my parents, but also how the rest is foriegn to them. I also read your comment on your thought's on "Mexican American". At least with my experience, for some people in the US, you are simple considered American, but others still view you as a "lesser American" or a "cultural anomally". It depends on the people living in the area.
A better way of phrasing that last bit would be:
To a Mexican, I'm clearly more American. But to an American, I'm more Mexican. That's probably why so many people identify as Mexican American because we're stuck in this middle ground of not being completely one or the other.
2023 y a RUclips se le antojó recomendarme el video. Qué nostalgia he sentido al verlo. Los desastres naturales, lo desastres políticos, las devaluaciones, la era de oro del anime en México, los tazos, Club Nintendo, Los Simpsons, esa época que viví no la cambiaría por nada. ¡Gracias por el excelente trabajo que realizaste!
This was incredibly engaging. Your chronological and thorough explanations of the events leading up to the 90s and during them really helped inform the reality that others like you and your family were living through. You left no stone unturned (to my uneducated perspective) and I was able to follow along through it all. My excelente, el video fue agradable
Gracias, muchas gracias!
I'm sure there's details I might've missed, but I did my best to investigate the whole economic backstory that set the domino effect towards December 1994. I think it's important to remember it wasn't just "a bad decision" from then-president Ernesto Zedillo or the just the actions of his predecesor, Carlos Salina, that it always went further back.
Excellent video and 100% relatable as a Mexican born in Mexico City in 1990. Although I'm always aiming at the future, once in a while it's great to relive the old days, it's as if I were watching an old photo album with amazing memories.
Gracias por tu comentario! Sí, me alegra ver a muchos de nuestros compatriotas disfrutar el video y dar ley y legalidad de que fue así.
Sé que omití muchas cosas, algunas porque se me durmieron (OV7) pero otras porque no supe si debía (Paco Stanley... ya vez, el incidente que tuvo el podcast Leyendas Legendarias cuando cubrieron ese incidente).
You should make more videos like this hermano.
This is very intriguing.
Why did RUclips wait almost 4 years to start sharing this video with so many people
The algorithim is a cruel mistress.
Inga's cabron, me hiciste llorar de la nostalgia. Bien hecho, excelente video!
I know I am late to the party, but this was definitely informative AND entertaining. I am from the US, and probably a very similar age, and your video hit so many nostalgic points for me but within an entirely new (and again, educational) context.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the video!
Good news everyone, this video was recommended for me by the almighty algorithm.
I really appreciate the subtitles!
Thanks for watching! Yeah, especially a few years back my accent was rather tough, I hadn't practiced spoken English for years by then. Now I do during weekends on Twitch lol
@@kat_lynx english isn't my first english either, so don't worry about your accent.
Keep up the good work and greetings from Austria. 👍
Great video, it definitely deserves to be seen more, love your work!
Thank you! I think this was the most serious effort I've put on a video so far, as the topic was something that is so personal.
I love so much Gus Rodríguez, thx for put him no this!
I would love you see you make another video expanding on this as this one was insightful and really interesting.
Really nice video. This deserves more views.
Thank you very much! The sudden influx of comments, views and subs are actually a motivator lmao once I'm done with all the work I got over me this summer, I'll dig out another script and work in a separate video I had planned.
You pretty much covered it all of it man. I eventually moved to the USA around 13 years of age so my adolescence is mostly American but I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything.
this was incredibly fascinating; I knew nothing about Mexico's economic and political struggles and you presented them with such great wit! It was also really cool to see how anime on public television was how it got big there; I just knew y'all loved Dragon Ball and Saint Seiya but didn't know why haha. Awesome video!!
OMG, Your latin accent while you are speaking english makes me feel so comfortable, yo vivo en la frontera del pais y veo tanto contenido en ingles como en español asi que es muy raro para mi encontrar canales como este, donde el que habla ingles es un mexicano de nacimiento, I LOVED YOUR VIDEO MAN YOU HAVE A LOT OF POTENTIAL!!!
Ahaha, thanks! Yeah, when I made this video I think my accent and enunciation was a tad too rough though.
@@kat_lynx Jjajajajs don't worry don't worry
This was a super awesome and informative video! I really liked the historical landscape that you laid out for us who may not be aware of what had been going on. I was born in 1991, and was trying to follow my timeline and interests along with you over the years.
Great video!