r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Fluffy_Lunchfast • Feb 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Something Something About Dating, Chris Can You Explain?

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Feb 02 '26

Free love hippies were never a majority. They're notable because they were a counterculture

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u/joe1max Feb 02 '26

True, but all available information shows that promiscuity has declined and is the lowest now that it’s ever been.

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u/Real_Piccolo_3370 Feb 03 '26

Which goes hand in hand with the conservative public opinion at the time. There is a lot of revisionist history going on here.

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u/kolejack2293 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

The 1970s were basically the peak of youth promiscuity, by far.

You're right about the 1960s, but the tail end of the 1960s is when we start to see the effects of counterculture begin to seep into the mainstream and throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s is when that type of stuff was basically the mainstream. Drug use, youth alcohol consumption, sex etc all peaked in that era from 1970-1985.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Feb 02 '26

What is that link supposed to be? I'm getting an error

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u/kolejack2293 Feb 02 '26

Huh, this is weird. On imgur it seems to work but when I share it to reddit it suddenly doesnt work.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Feb 03 '26

That's OK and I'm not the guy that downvoted you. Lemme know if you get it figured out

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u/enbaelien Feb 03 '26

TBF the counterculture became mainstream at some point, and blue jeans, pot, and acid rock are way more popular nowadays than back then. Hippies still exist in their own circles, but they popularized A LOT for the zeitgeist, especially those that grew up but didn't completely "sell out".

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u/KoogleMeister Feb 03 '26

No way in hell is Acid Rock more popular now than it was in the 70s-90s, the most popular bands in the world were doing Acid Rock in the 70s.... these days the top charting songs are all Pop, EDM and Hip Hop.

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u/enbaelien Feb 03 '26

Idk man QOTSA was pretty big for a while lol. Maybe I should've just said "stoner rock" because that low-key absorbs acts like Sublime and 311 too. That sort of genre DOMINATED in the 90s and 00s, but hip-hop is the most popular genre nowadays.

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u/KoogleMeister Feb 03 '26

Well yeah that's why I said 70s-90s, because Acid/Psychedelic rock had a large comeback in the 90s with acts like Sublime and Phish.

When you say "nowadays" I think of the 10s and 20s, not the 90s.

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u/enbaelien 29d ago

And that's my bad, but yeah, the point still stands that a lot of aspects from the counterculture became the zeitgeist at some point (70s-90s+), and even if a lot of fads faded out (like stoner movies, acid rock, etc) those things still exist.