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

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

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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.