Yeah, when I looked up 90s slang, I saw that to be the case after I made this post.
I grew up in the midwest and even by midwest standards I had a more traditional childhood, so most of what I watched and heard was from the 80s and earlier despite being raised in the 90s.
I tend to forget that the 90s I experienced was not the 90s a lot of America experienced, that I had more of an 80s childhood in a way.
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I haven't, but it's something I thought about this past year and am deciding to start incorporating that word and others.
It's just a way to express that you like something or think something's cool.
"This song is groovy"
Someone hands you a soda "groovy my dude". It's just like saying "sick" or "sweet"
If you've ever seen evil dead 2 or Army of Darkness, see how Ash (Bruce Campbell) uses it.
Depending on the circumstances, you can't avoid speaking to some people.
I would say the difference though was people didn't think acting like a ghetto thug was cool until the 90s and 2000s.
I still can't wrap my head around why white people think that black culture is cool.
It's what a middle schooler would say is cool. Brag about yourself, talk like a moron, freak out and try to act tough at any perceived slight, think ignorance is a virtue. It really blows my mind when I see people trying to emulate ghetto stuff and not knowing what cool really looks like. It's like people have a retarded child's idea of what cool is. It's something that truly baffles me.
White people liked things in black culture in the past, like Jazz or the black owned clubs. But it didn't seem like white people were ashamed to be white or wanted to become black. It was like in the 1970s how everyone got into Kung Fu really hardcore. But there was no sense that they wanted to become Chinese. It was just a cool thing that they wanted to do.
How cringy would it be if all the white people in the 70s who were into the kung fu craze started unironically bowing all the time and talking in Engrish, etc.
That's what we have now, more or less.