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Everypony do the floor!

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@neo4812  
The 80’s had a dark theme throughout its animated and big screen fictional pursuits. On the flip side, it was a time of cultural whinging (much like today, in fact). The super soft butthurt was strong, but unlike today, most media outlets ignored it. The 80’s “SJW” didn’t have the power of the internet then (plus, a lot of them were conservatives back then, rather than liberals).
 
In the 90’s edgy and offensive became the cultural swing. Mainstream flow had embraced violence and controversy (and celebrated it too), despite some news media push-back. Music, in particular, of the 90’s wore controversy on its sleeve with pride.
 
But in terms of fictional media, the 90’s were in some ways softer than the 80’s, and in other ways harder. Generally, they evened out in that regard. It’s the general culture of the youth and the changes in popular musical themes that lead some to believe the 90’s were darker. Likewise, events like gang war, school shootings and domestic terrorism rose sharply in the 90’s.
 
The 00’s had an identity crisis. 9/11 changed people, and the internet gave rise to a new platform for the edgy and twisted. The early 00’s were not very different from the previous decade, however, in media it became a childish self parody of what the 90’s had created. The Simpsons began to suck hard and fast in the 00’s, for example.
 
Then we come to the 2010’s… the pendulum has swung back, and all the rebellion and edginess of the 90’s and early-mid 00’s has been countered with the same cultural care-group whingey butthurt that plagued the 80’s (albeit with new talking points and the internet behind them). Such is the nature of time period culture. it will eventually swing back into the big middle finger, and so forth.

@Glimmer74  
yeah I never read comics as a kid, didn’t have the money and I didn’t ask. I was more interested what was on tv then I was in comics. also in 91 so I might have missed all the early 90s and I saw almost all of the late 90s. I did see a bunch of reruns though of the early 90s and the 80s like ducktales a weird version of sailor moon the one with the unicorn in it. I also saw gargoyles and a good chunk of the Disney afternoon and of course I saw all of the nick shows and cartoon network shows. also I saw a really weird cartoon when I was young that scared me for life that and movie where a women getting stabbed by another women also top that with my bro dying in 95 so I might have some repressed memories

@neo4812  
Counterpoint, anything made by Rob Liefeld.

@Glimmer74  
eh the 90s was a mixed bag terminator 2 being a good example of good dark

@neo4812  
And had the best action movies.
 
@Glimmer74  
Edgy had to start somewhere.

@neo4812  
But not 90’s dark, that was kind of tacky.

@Cyborg_pony  
and dark, very dark. I miss that level of dark

The 80’s were crazy.