withdrawals from the 80s cocaine benders
But it was 90s grunge, punks, freaks aesthetic. Detached, nihilistic. Kinda like how the 2000s emo aesthetic would be hurting inside, emotional, and the 2010s/2020 aesthetic is outrage or hyperbolic emotive..... "I'M LITERALLY DYING" "SCREAMING RN" (as you're sitting emotionless behind a phone). The aesthetic in the 90s was to be nihilistic, detached, who cares, which comes across as 'bored.' As
Yaboosh mentioned, the latchkey generation... Both parents at work, so you let yourself into the house (common today, but less common then in the suburbs... seen as a generational change, the First Lady wore a powersuit, not a dress and was testifying about the importance of universal healthcare), cable TV was in a lot of homes so you vegged out watching top 10 MTV, listening to the radio, sitting around, existing in places. That ended up getting carried into movies like Mallrats, shows like Bevis and Butthead.
I can say now as a child of 80s/90s I'm never bored. I feel lucky to have been a kid without some set schedule of activities every day. Like, I didn't have ... yknow baseball practice at 830am, soccer at 11am, playdate at 2pm, dinner at X's house at 4pm, repeat, on the weekends duriing the summer we did *nothing* So, I did the normal chores, and then made fun with kids around the neighborhood basically every day from 9am to 6pm or so. I'm thankful for that now. My brother in law was born in... 1999 I think and my in-laws talk about his schedule back as a kid, like, travel hockey getting up at 530 and travelling to Albany for a hockey tournament starting at 930 through to 430 or something... and then baseball, soccer, etc. And my wife similar with dance, gymnastics, softball, etc. I played YMCA basketball from like age 7 to 13 or so, and I loved that, but I'm glad it was just one activity... One game on Saturdays for like 2mos a year.
