A popular trend over the last few years has a simple premise but usually a great payoff: ask people of one generation about the trends and popular items of a previous generation. Usually these end with the older generation feeling so, so ancient and wondering how the youths have been led so astray while the younger generation wonders why the older generation didn’t have reliable internet and made stuffed animals talk with terrifying voices (looking at you, Furby).
Virginia basketball had some fun with this, asking their highly-rated incoming class about the 90s in a social media video. Ryan Dunn, Leon Bond, Isaac Traudt, and Isaac McKneely — all born in the early 2000s — sat down to field some questions on the decade that preceded their arrival into the world.
They’re shown pictures of popular, trendy items like Beanie Babies or Tamagotchis, people like Lindsay Lohan and Steve Urkel and album covers like Backstreet Boys’ Millennium. That sound you hear is 90’s kids yelling “OH NO I FEEL SO OLDDDD.”
🤔 How well do the new guys know the 90s?
🔶⚔️🔷#GoHoos pic.twitter.com/jZlT0Si4BU
— Virginia Men's Basketball (@UVAMensHoops) July 14, 2022
Bond dominates, even if he said he knew what VHS tapes were thanks to the hit Netflix show Stranger Things. All the guys knew slap bracelets and most recognized the red carpet coupling of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. No one knew Tamagotchis (finger clocks!) or Lindsay Lohan circa Parent Trap era (Miranda Tisdale?!) or the AOL logo (I mean, why would they), but overall the guys did a great job and seemingly had fun.
Now if you excuse me, I’m going to reminisce about dial up internet and watching TRL after school on MTV.
