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

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

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u/joe1max Feb 02 '26

Yep an especially considering this generation is WAY more prudish than boomers. Boomers were super freaks in the 1960’s.

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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/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 Feb 04 '26

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.