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Did pic related become extinct after 9/11 and what happened to the economy thereafter or was it more recent?

Video scene of pic related:

https://youtu.be/lQKdEdzHnfU

>> No.14810303

Basically what happened to "yuppies?"

>> No.14810315

yuppies were normalized enough that they are the average person. the replacement socially-acceptable "deviant" was the hipster, but now that is also becoming increasingly normalized.

also sell your ETH or lose everything

>> No.14810325

>>14810301
>>14810303
They still exist in some form. Young people living in Silicon Valley with good jobs and posting themselves doing hip things for example.

>> No.14810343

>>14810303
Yuppie was just the start of a trend of demonizing decent white behaviour. They still exist but are more hidden as many turned to different styles as being ambitious, well behaved and affluent became seen as points of embarassment.

>> No.14810367
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>>14810301
I still use that word sometimes. Like the other day when I was explaining a Dynamite Hack video to a nigger at work. Telling him how it was a bunch of yuppies on a golf course singing, NWA's "Boys In The Hood" to acoustic guitar. He lol'd. Silly white people.

>> No.14810381

>>14810301
Yuppies were mostly boomer "anti-estabishment fight the power man hippies" that turned into corporate suits some time between the late 60s and the 80s. They used to be called DINCs too - double income no children.
It wouldn't surprise me if we are on the cusp of some neo-yuppie movement as more millennials get into their 30s.

>> No.14810391

>>14810301
"got up the courage to buy SNTVT"

>> No.14810402

>>14810381
Yeah, like Mr. Dink on Doug.

>> No.14810409

>>14810315
This. Young people in the last two decades were engaged in "counterculture" and rejected the "over capitalistic" system brewing in America. The 80s marked the first time it became cool to just embrace it. Now it's just the norm to be a product and addicted to hyperconsumerism.

>> No.14810424

>>14810381


insightful thank you

>> No.14810435
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14810435

Was the dubs man a yuppie?

>> No.14810445

>>14810435
In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5YkmjalDg

>> No.14810560

Even though I was a little kid, the 80s felt like the last time Americans as a whole were proud to be American. Also divershitty and faggots weren't being shoved down our throats.

>> No.14810619

>>14810560
Political correctness came out of the 80s
Media in the 70s was raw. Campy, clean 60s shows that were shot on film were phased out almost instantaneously for gritty taped shows that did nothing but tackle issues. Watch any Norman Lear show. Pervasive agendas, never shutting up about race and social justice bullshit, using the laugh track as a form of approval on commentary.
Then, after years of raunchy raw left wing stuff where people could say nigger freely on TV, political correctness came about.
It's gotten much worse since. There's been a pretty clear trend where odd-number decades (70s, 90s, 10s) are more PC than even-number decades (80s, 00s)