The 90s were an innocent time where the idea of a guy removing a rib in order to suck himself off was the most outrageous thing we could imagine.

Not to mention all the shit that wasn't being captured on any kind of recording at the time.

The rose tint feels so fuckin good tho, right?

I mean as bad as those things were, none of those things come close to recent events. Look at your examples and compare them to "worldwide virus kills millions and the entire planet goes into quarantine for a couple years" or "president of the United States fails to get reelected so he foments a literal coup on the US government and his rioting mob breaks into the capitol building trying to stop the transfer of power. And then 4 years later that criminal gets elected to be president again".

Why does EVERYONE forget about the oklahoma city bombings???

🎵We didn't start the fire 🎵

Eastern Europe collapsing in the power vacuum left by the fall of the USSR, multiple civil wars, horrendous war crimes including genocide. NATO having to go in.

Maybe OP should have used the word ridiculous instead of outrageous. Removing ribs for such a thing is ridiculous IMO.

Rawanda, South African Apartheid. Those two alone...

What's the mecca thing? I don't remember that one

Not to mention the granddaddy of link pranks, Goatse. This excerpt from Wikipedia gives a nice little window info how the web operated back then:

The goatse.cx image has been used by website authors to discourage other sites from hot-linking to them. By replacing the hot-linked image with an embarrassing image when hot-linking has been discovered, an unsubtle message is sent to the offending website's operators, visible to all who view the web page in question. In 2007, Wired.com hot-linked to another site in an article about the "sexiest geeks of 2007"; the site subsequently swapped the hot-linked image with one from goatse.cx.

Man, I miss the early Internet.

In Tombstone, when Wyatt threatens to turn that dude's head into a canoe? I saw that exact pic on rotten.com. Looked like: U

I remember before it was called rotten.com, it was originally called thecreepingeyemorgue.com. That doesn't exactly roll off the tongue very well though..

yeah I remember that in 2000 or so. Was scarred for some time. Would not recommend

I was usually pretty good about avoiding those things, but that fucking sloth guy still haunts my nightmares.

Also ogrish.com at the peak of journalist decapitation videos.

But did you go to a suicide forest as part of a YouTube video? And then have to fake cry an apology?

What is outrageous about a dead body?

Maybe OP was simply a child then? Children arent usually exposed to / aware of the total shitstorm that is politics.

Hmmm...I seem to remember the Republicans in Congress actually having a spine with Nixon. Though I do agree things weren't roses back then. The cost of living was easier, but we paid for a lot of things we don't now. $12 for one CD vs $10 a month for Spotify. But I would say the late 90s/ pre 9/11 was pretty nice for the US. Not the case for the rest of the world admittedly. But we definitely have nothing on how bad the 20s, 30s and 40s were.

In roman times they used to chain link slaves together by the necks and ankles. Then they'd scoop out the eyes of everyone who isn't the first in the chain.

Today, we not only don't have slaves (well, except for prison, but thats another conversation) but the idea of scooping out anothers eyes is horrific sounding, rather than just the norm.

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy did they have to teach us that “never again” and “lest we forget” are but rhetorical kindnesses and also poisonous lies??!

Are you confusing outrage with political violence?

This was what I thought the OP was talking about at first. It took me a minute to remember that urban legend from the 90s.

Richard Gere, and it was a gerbil.

Lemmiwinks?!

It was Richard Gere, and it was a Gerbil, not a hamster.

Or the woman singer who drank so much of her male SO’s cum that she had to have her stomach pumped

Viral word of mouth rumors were wild back then

70s elementary school: Rod Stewart having 10 gallons of sperm pumped out of his stomach.

Forgot to add the SA image was cached in my browser. So when my roommate asked me about it I brought it back up and, of course it looked fine to me! No dicks to be seen.

For most of the 1990s the internet wasn't much of a factor in pop culture or daily life. Email was something of a newfangled gimmick in the movie You've Got Mail.

Not really. They just didn't have the same level of internet connectivity that we have now.

So they didn't have as much information and couldn't talk to each other the way people can now.

I remember seeing an Ozzy interview about what happened.

In short, he didn't eat it, but he did bite its head off. Why? Because he thought it'd look cool after someone had thown what Ozzy assumed was a toy bat. "Because who the fuck brings a live bat to a concert and throws it on stage?"

Also, he wasn't hospitalized. He just went and got a tetanus shot or something like that to be safe.

Omg that was one time!

Or when Ozzy wouldn't go on stage without a brandy glass full of M&Ms?

Apparently Marilyn Manson playing Paul was just one of the first internet rumours and isn't true, which in itself is a pretty facinating piece of history.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-true-story-behind--wonder-years--star-and-crazy-marilyn-manson-rumor--video--164331931.html

Lol goatse