Anon watches an old concert video

True, when I see a modern concert recording, all I see are sad and sobbing people, hating that they are at a concert
- Can confirm. Everyone hate to be in front of Tailor Swift. They all yell at her at one point.
  
  and when she comes out they all scream in pure terror. It must be horrible
- Do you see people behind smartphones they're holding??
  
  The phone thing is so ridiculous. Stay at home and watch someone else's video at that point. The compulsion to document everything that happens to yourself is something I just don't get.
  
  What smartphones are you seeing exactly? This looks like a Limp Bizkit set with some professional photographers right up the front. Nobody had smartphones at the time and even if you pulled one out there you’d have lost it in the pit.

Man I miss when concerts and events weren't just for rich kids and people with disposable incomes. I remember going to see Metallica, $40 mid tier tickets. I saw AC DC for about the same. Rob zombie with Ozzy Osbourne. I even saw a WrestleMania for like $80 and that was a lot then for great seats.
Now concert tickets for Metallica are running $400-500 mid tier each. Even smaller bands and events are more than what a premium event used to cost. The development League hockey games cost more than the NHL games used to. Working class people have been priced out.
- One of my family members paid something like 60 € to see Michael Jackson in the 90s. I still remember how back then, I thought "what an outrageous price tag."
- I paid $25 to listen to Power Trip inside of someone's house.
  It was one of the best and insane concerts I ever went to.
  Metallica? I dunno, man. Maybe? Thing is, they, like Pink Floyd, have bucket-list status.
  If you're gonna see them before you die, you're gonna pay for it. They know they're established, influential, and huge, and they can basically charge whatever they want.
  Still, tho. I'd rather pay $30 to go see The Melvins and get my face melted off by Buzz and his two drummers.
- I get 15-20 dollar tickets to concerts by bands I love fairly often, personally. It definitely depends a bit what kind of music you're in to, and probably what part of the country you live in, but cheap concerts are still out there.
  
  Did you notice they mentioned pretty huge bands that bring in tens of thousands of people? Yeah, these groups don't do shows where the tickets are 15-20$, but what's fucked up is that they did back in the 90s when they pulled in even bigger crowds. So what has changed for their tickets to be 10x (or more) as expensive as 30 years ago? Ticketmaster.
  
  15-20$ in my area might get you symphony type concerts, but not one of their good ones. I could also pay the cover at a bar that has a live band. The smallest venues near me are still 50+ per ticket.
- Now concert tickets for Metallica are running $400-500 mid tier each.
  😲
  And here I thought 80 EUR for GNR was too much.
  
  Let's be real, GNR aren't really in their prime....
- Pro Tip: A vacation + going to a concert there may be cheaper depending on the band.
- I saw AC/DC twice for about 60 bucks each and though it was craaaazy expensive, because most shows i went to were like 5-10 bucks. I'm not even a big AC fan, i just thought back then that it's probably the last opportunity to see them. They played with the offspring which i'm also not crazy about, but now that would ve an insane lineup for that kind of money.
  Only like 10 or 15 years later there was a similar opportunity with iron maiden i think. I asked a friend to get tickets, but then it was already that if you didn't buy them the millisecond they went on sale, they were bought up by bots.
- Just basic supply/demand... plus a little bit of elasticity and profit max.
  
  Or Ticketmaster monopoly.
  
  I think revenues also shifted from selling music to using cheap music to sell concerts.
- In my area at least, affordable concert tickets are still a thing. I see something like $30-60 for most acts, provided they're not mega-popular like Metallica or Taylor Swift. If we look at inflation vs, say, 1995, we should expect things to cost about twice as much, and that seems to pretty much right (e.g. a $20 ticket in 1995 would be a little over $40 today). I went to a Dashboard Confessional concert in the early 2000s, and I think it was something like $40, so today I'd expect that to be $80. I see Dropkick Murphy's tickets (I think similar popularity?) for something like $60-70, which is about right. And before you get into income discussions, wages have been beating inflation (this graph is from COVID, longer term has a similar trend), with the main exception being the year and a half or so of massive inflation.
  So I don't think tickets have necessarily gotten more expensive relative to inflation, they've always been kind of expensive. What does seem to have changed is the price ceiling for events seem to have gone up substantially. I don't think I had ever seen single-ticket prices go as high as current Taylor Swift tickets go for, so it seems people are more willing to pay a premium than they were before.
- I paid $3.50 to see a band a few months. Granted, I got a discount but the tickets were about $25 regular.
- I pretty much only go see local bands play now. Like fuck am I paying 200 bucks to see a live concert.

People weren't happy in the 90s they were angry and the music reflected that
- Rebellious, anti-materialist, anti-machine
  But I wouldn’t say we were unhappy on a personal level
  
  Exactly. I'm quite happy, and I also like rebellious, anti-machine music. I still listen to Rage Against the Machine, and I'm in a pretty stable life situation, not a minority, etc. I just really don't like people who abuse authority, and I don't see that changing regardless of how happy I am.
- now they're nostalgic about unhappiness 😂😡
- Well I got up feeling soo down..
  
  We got down with the sickness.

The hits from Limp Biscuit stopped coming and the world fell into an ethical depression.
- They must have gotten upset about people always spelling their name wrong

The skinny people at the concert from 25 years ago are now are now 45+ years old.
That’s what happened.
- Hey! I'm only 44!
  
  Well I can't just call you 'man'?
- I want at that concert but I was doing a lot more acid, mdma and dancing all weekend.
  Not so much these days!
  Obligatory...

Sample bias. The unhealthy and depressed people were less likely to be out being active and having fun.

This is fred durst at Woodstock 99. Decidedly everyone there was not happy, and after this set everyone was less happy . Has to do with 90s generation being not happy generally.
There were def fatties back then too. But time has progressed and things have only got worse.
This green text is false

Lol i was fat as fuck 25 years ago
- And I had horrific, untreated anxiety and depression. Fun!
- Anecdotal

Everyone got fat and unhappy? I dunno
- Sounds like they aged up.
  
  Age, lack of exercise, stress… I can go on

The fact OP is calling these people "skinny" is terrifying
- Normal size is now skinny.

It's normalized in the US to be fat. All the people around are fat too, so they are rarely shaming. You'll fit right in.
If you're the only fat one in the group (like when you go to most of Asia) they usually make sure you know - repeatedly - that you're the fat one. It's a pretty big incentive to not be that one.
If everyone else is fat too, then why bother (aside from the million health and happiness reasons)
- Could also be the enshittification of our food and culture including:
  Demonization of "fat" in foods leading to "fat free" foods being considered healthy when fats are actually good and necessary in the diet which leads to over consumption. (Don't get me started on the sugar and corn lobby)
  Hyper processed food removing micronutrients necessary for our brains to tell us we're full.
  Hyper processed foods being cheaper than whole foods
  Hyper processed foods being super addictive and unwilling at the same time.
  Food deserts making fast food and convenience store food the only easily accessible food in many areas.
  The lack of knowledge/skills with respect to home cooking and the deemphasis of "home economics" type knowledge in general...
  The lack of free time required to both cook and pass on those skills
  The growing understanding of how perfluorinated materials (PFA, PFOA, PTFE) fuck with our body chemistry including contributing to obesity. Don't get me started on how much companies like DuPont hid and lied about that stuff (and still are).
  Sedentary lifestyle...
  There's more but I hope you get the point
  Basically what I'm saying is people were fat before "fat shaming" was looked down upon and late stage capitalism is frequently pulling the levers behind the curtain in many areas including this. You're also talking about "fixing" the outcome instead of preventing the cause which is several orders of magnitude more difficult. The US has abundant wealth but that hasnt specifically translated to better health outcomes. And do you really think middle schoolers have evolved to the point where they don't bully fat kids? There are very few obese people (both children and adults) out there who don't feel shitty about how they look regardless of who tells them they should feel that way.
  The point of trying to inhibit fat shaming and bullying of all kinds is so people don't become reclusive and anti-social, pick up bad habits (such as drug addiction and eating disorders), kill themselves, decide to kill others in mass shootings and the like. Also, just don't be a cunt and make fun of people.
  
  Demonization of “fat” in foods
  Yeah, this is the worst. When someone asks for dieting advice, I recommend high fat and high fiber, because both will help you feel fuller on the same amount of calories.
  Hyper processed foods being cheaper than whole foods
  I don't think that's actually true. It does seem to be true for restaurants and packaged foods, but cooking is almost always cheaper than buying the equivalent product in a highly processed form. The problem is that people seem to want easy, fast solutions, and buying something is easier than cooking.
  Which gets into...
  Sedentary lifestyle…
  This is the real killer. We seem to put way too much emphasis on sedentary activities and time saving instead of doing the things that our bodies were designed for. We drive to work to sit on a chair, and then we eat already prepared food in front of a TV or desk to play games or watch something. There's almost no walking anymore, much less running.
  Consider replacing sedentary activities with enjoyable, active ones, such as:
  cycling instead of driving to do errands - maybe work is too far, but most live within a couple miles of a grocery store, library, or some other destination
  instead of watching TV, consider listening to an audiobook while walking/jogging/working out
  consider a standing desk for work/play; at the very least, get one that's configurable so you can alternate
- Ah, so fat shaming was the positive force for good all along
  
  RIP r/fatpeoplehate
  Their vitriol was legitimately the motivation I needed to get off my arse and lose ~90lbs and get fit.
- I beat my primary fat shamer so badly I caused a TBI. Spent a week in jail and some time out of school. Upon my return, no one had a negative thing to say about me, let alone my weight. Since I was no longer stressed worrying about bullies, I started doing more activities, making friends, etc. lost a bunch of weight. No diet change.
  Beat the fuck out of bullies.
  
  Congratulations, and I appreciate the fairytale style moral of the story.
  
  That's not something to be proud of.
- It's a public heath crisis that's being completely ignored.
  We have an abundance of energy dense processed foods that we use inactive transport to purchase in bulk that we then overconsume and waste vast amounts while plenty of people go hungry in a daily basis.
  The result is that we have health systems at breaking point (especially socialised healthcare systems outside the US) with an increasing dependence on pharmaceutical or surgical solutions to deal with the symptoms but never the root cause.
- Let's also just ignore all the food and economic reasons why it's so much easier to eat better and stay skinnier in other countries and just blame the people
- Idk, I grew up fat in the US and everyone around me made damn sure I never forgot it.
  Fat people don't tend to be any kinder to other fat people, in my experience.
- In my area specifically only 32% of the population isn't considered overweight or obese. It's very depressing.
  
  That's all of US. Overweight or obese is nearing 70%.
- Yup, I'm all for pushing against "body shaming," but that doesn't mean we have to just be okay with so many of our friends living unhealthy lifestyles. Encourage those you care for to live a healthier life.
- It's so bad. You can be bang on mid BMI and people will tell you you need to eat more because you are too skinny.
  People have no idea what is underweight, skinny, overweight. I would go as far as most people will think low end obese is healthy.

I visited the US in 1999.
After I left, everything turned to shit.
- Thanks to you. You shouldn't have left.
- Fuck you, get back over here. How dare you steal our happiness.
- The peak of our civilization.
  ^{According to Mr. Smith.}
  
  It really seems like it was.
- So its all YOUR fault! GETTIM

Note the lack of drinking water and sanitary facilities with the crowd that size and become a wizard that predicts the future now past.

When I went to my first Riot Fest I looked around and was like, "Damn, did they shut down the punk rock retirement home?"
Then I realized I had just turned 31 and couldn't trust myself any more.

High fructose corn syrup

We could be living in utopia, but those damn youths had to go and break stuff
- I don't blame them for breaking stuff. They just had one of those days.
  
  Dude, everything was fucked. Everybody sucked. 😝
- You can't blame the youths, all of their actions were completed only to increase Their chances of procreating.
- da yutes?
- Nobody ever gave me something to break, that's my problem.

what I'm hearing, here, is that society peaked at the end of the 1990s.
- ... the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is, of course, what this is all about.
- I would say the big turning point would be around 2001.
  
  Feel like there's a reason for that, almost like I'm forgetting something...
  
  Two big turning points
  
  So y2k actually was a problem. It wasn't the date crisis, but it does seem to be digital (i.e. SM seems to normalize larger body sizes).
- Isn't that a major plot point of Matrix?
  
  Minor.
  Just that that was the time was where society peaked.
- At a Limp Bizkit concert, possibly

Now now, let's not jump to conclusions. Anon might have a brain injury.

Y'all are fat as fuck. Period. But I think I know why... bear with me.
I've spent decades watching Americans get fatter and fatter and fatter. I've seen people tonight that were unthinkable in the 70s and 80s. From talking to friends and neighbors over the years I've gathered this, "Yeah. I'm/he/she/ is a little pudgy, but at least I'm not as fat as him/her!"
You see people worse off than you and breathe a sigh of relief. Well... I look at gravestones and think, "At least I'm not that bad off!"
Keep telling my how bad your joints hurt when you hit 30.
- Know someone who cut out fast food for a month and lost 10 pounds like the flip of a switch.
  Everyone is overweight. I get called a twig for being 150 5'9 when in reality it's normal or even a tad too much.
  
  They aren't concerned you've lost too much weight, they are worried about their own self image and what it means that you can actually maintain a healthy weight.

High Frutose Corn Syrup

It's dem danged smart phones
- Yeah but it is, though. Plus the psychological pressure from social media/ FOMO, plus enshittification everywhere, plus the constant undercurrent of wages and job opportunities eroding away from us due to inflation and upper-class greed.
  People were happy when mobile phones entered the scene and became affordable. It didn't take long for employers to use them for asking tasks of us during off-time for profit maximization, though. Not to mention the constant feeling of being spied on and experiencing the gathered data being used for being bombarded with creepily targetted ads.
  I'm sorry for today's youth, growing up thinking this is all perfectly normal and nothing can be done about it.

Should watch the Woodstock 99 doc, lol. Really missing out.

i could tell it was more from Early to Risa as soon as i opened it
this dude has been flooding rightlean garbage memes from some half asleep Canadian server
- If all they ever do is steal random 4chan posts, you're probably not going to see much else
- This is a well-established and active server, and I don't have any political agenda. If I did, my personal politics are very left, so that wouldn't be where I'd start.
  Chill and enjoy the greentexts or filter the community if you're not enjoying them.
  
  there you are
  do you think we can't smell you?
  you reek
- I thought I was the only one that noticed this. Dude is clearly posting based on a theme here.

The fat girls were on the ground being raped :(
Don't romanticize the 90s.
- I was there Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago…