The 90s were an innocent time, where the idea of a guy removing a rib in order to suck himself off was the most outrageous thing we could imagine.

[beacon@fedia.io]

I mean as bad as those things were, none of those things come close to recent events. Look at your examples and compare them to "worldwide virus kills millions and the entire planet goes into quarantine for a couple years" or "president of the United States fails to get reelected so he foments a literal coup on the US government and his rioting mob breaks into the capitol building trying to stop the transfer of power. And then 4 years later that criminal gets elected to be president again".

[ivanafterall@lemmy.world]

Not just any guy, but Marilyn Manson, who used to play Paul on The Wonder Years. I'm not sure what was more shocking, learning about this, or learning of Mark Paul Gosselaar's fatal motorcycle crash. Taken from us far too soon.

[honeymustardgas@lemmy.world]

Yes, better synonym. Bizarre and ridiculous, and also untrue lol.

[thassodar@lemm.ee]

Damn I'd be turning 3 in 17 days after that, no wonder I never heard of it

[thassodar@lemm.ee]

Lemmiwinks?!

[solomon42069@lemmy.world]

Entirely possible, but I didn't want to assume! My dad didn't know the Village People were gay and he was a grown adult with kids when people broke the news to him...

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

Not ozzy. Van Halen.

That way they knew all the prep work was properly done by the crew: unsorted M&Ms = short on time, and it's possible something more important was missed.

[rhynoplaz@lemmy.world]

It was Richard Gere, and it was a Gerbil, not a hamster.

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

I remember seeing an Ozzy interview about what happened.

In short, he didn't eat it, but he did bite its head off. Why? Because he thought it'd look cool after someone had thown what Ozzy assumed was a toy bat. "Because who the fuck brings a luve bat to a concert and throws it on stage?"

Also, he wasn't hospitalized. He just went and got a tetanus shot or something like that to be safe.

[cowfodder@lemmy.world]

Richard Gere, and it was a gerbil.

[aggravationstation@feddit.uk]

So it was actually Van Halen and you're right, it was so they could quickly be sure that the venue actually read their contract which contained instructions on how to assemble the moving platforms they used for one of their tours. But there was a parody of that story in Wayne's World 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7kg5ZzDZo

[pieisawesome@lemmy.world]

It was Van Halen

[albbi@lemmy.ca]

Apparently Marilyn Manson playing Paul was just one of the first internet rumours and isn't true, which in itself is a pretty facinating piece of history.

The True Story Behind 'Wonder Years' Star and Crazy Marilyn Manson Rumor [Video]

Josh Saviano, who played Paul Pfeiffer, once considered getting onstage with the shock rocker.

Yahoo Entertainment (www.yahoo.com)

[whatsay@slrpnk.net]

In the 90s, I remember going to rotten.com and seeing dead bodies. Kids these days don't know about the wild west world web.

[cowfodder@lemmy.world]

I'm sad that none of the other responses seem to have gotten the Wayne's World 2 reference.

[over_clox@lemmy.world]

I remember before it was called rotten.com, it was originally called thecreepingeyemorgue.com. That doesn't exactly roll off the tongue very well though..

[tramort@programming.dev]

It's quaint, right?

[aggravationstation@feddit.uk]

So am I. We'll have to beat them to death with their own shoes...

[evilfonzy@lemmy.world]

We'll just have to beat them to deaf wif their own shoes.

[eabod25@lemm.ee]

I mean this in the best possible way regardless of my harsh tone, and it's going to seem very agressive (be warned)

but are you fucking stupid. We aren't fucking talking about a god damn comparison to what the fuck is happening today or 25 years ago. We are talking about the bullshit that happened 26 or more years ago. Jesus christ, are atrocities just a pissing contest anymore? You want to play the game of what generation had it the worse? My bet is the motherfuckers that had sit and watch 5 million people die because they were just people doing their own shit.

You see in situations like this, your opinion about what generation had it worse is completely GOD DAMN irrelevant. Atrocities occur in every fucking decade, and you have presented me with more proof of that. But your view is "we got it worse". Fuck that and fuck you.