Top 10 Cringiest Things From The 80s

The 80s may have been the most cringeworthy decade of all time. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most embarrassing cultural trends and fads from the 1980s. Our countdown includes Betamax, New Coke, Shoulder Pads, and more! What trend from the 80s makes you cringe the most? Let us know in the comments.
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[@WatchMojo]

What trend from the 80s makes you cringe the most? Let us know in the comments! For more cringe, check out our playlist!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYrFf6ObeM-NgJY

[@drfreud65]

Yes, shoulder pads are cringey, but you missed a reason why a lot of women wore them. If you were a bit thick in the waist, they helped give the illusion of an hour glass figure.

[@seefitch4601]

Madonna

[@georgemetcalf8763]

You missed porn deciding the format war. There was a whole spiel about in Tropic Thunder.

[@susanandrews2294]

shoulder pads. I already had (and still have) a great set of shoulders, so pretty sure I am among the few who REMOVED them from any clothing that had them

[@caryheyer2465]

Whatx about zima?

[@chikish]

2021 alone has produced far more cringe than the entire 1980s lol

[@briansullivan5908]

Here here

[@jennifercole281]

I can see the list 4O years from now when they're saying that a virus outbreak had us all wearing "cringy" masks for two years.

[@leejoelbeasley5005]

yeah look our former vice president. FJB

[@skywishr1313]

tik tok

[@pistachiosandpopcorn7146]

This is true. But the 80s were weird too. Even as a kid in. the 80s..I thought life was pretty weird. But I still loved the 80s and it was my fav time.

[@JennA-uf6lo]

I don’t understand how an 80’s computer would qualify as “cringey.” It’s early tech. Tech evolves over time. That’s like saying a Model T Ford or the Wright Brothers’ plane were the “cringiest” things to come out of the 19-oughts. Unless you’re talking about someone who’s still using a TI 99/4a or the Apple Lisa as their primary home computer….

[@RomnysGonzalez]

100% with you. What are they supposed to do? They were limited by technology at the time. Is not like they choose to be "outdated". The same goes with Fax machines and BetaMax

[@wormspeaker]

In 2050 Watch Mojo will have a top 10 things cringe about the 2020s and it'll include current smartphones because they can't read your mind or something.

[@sebee13]

That point is really shit, Im with yoy

[@ArnoldLokman]

Exactly...

[@memescoffee3173]

exactly its not cringey we wouldnt have had big and highly technical pcs we have today

[@danamartinez7464]

This is how life was at that time. Being judgemental about a certain Era is the cringiest thing here

[@Normal1855]

And proves that they're closed minded.

[@freddieferrer9425]

watchmojo in YT will be the cringiest thing a few years from now

[@bobbyshaw2419]

💯

[@maddie8415]

I think you may be taking this far, far too seriously. It seems that they totally agree that this IS how life was at the time. A lot of '80s things were "over the top" and I can look back on things I did or wore and kind of laugh about it.

[@davidchosewood647]

Couldn't care less what they think. They missed out big-time. Fun and free times for the most part. They don't have a clue.

[@jeromelombardo6053]

None of this is “cringey” It was the 1980's I lived it and I loved it. MOJO get a grip and AquaNET is older than you think.

[@babymammoth34]

I always am inclined to really ask individuals and groups that have this massive delusion, that the 80's had the "monopoly" on cheesiness, who gets to decide what is cringeworthy and what isn't? I mean, For Real...

[@babymammoth34]

It is so bizarre that it continues to be the number 1 era that people "love to hate" much of the time out of the entire 20th and 21st century so far...why the 80's? I ask this completely objectively as well. There were many absurd and awful things and events in other eras that have passed.

[@OriginalGrasshopper]

None of this is “cringey”. On the contrary, those of us who were growing up in the 80’s loved most of these things!!

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

I think they don't know what cringey means

[@smexehcougah3]

You loved growing up in the 80s? What are you, conservative?

[@lucamistretta890]

@@smexehcougah3 okay now THATS cringe

[@marypernell7590]

@@smexehcougah3 wHaT aRe YoU, cOnSeRvAtIvE.? Lol get outta here with your ignorant political agenda.

[@Denis-89]

Just because you grew up with something doesn't mean it's not cringe. You are just blinded by nostalgia thinking everything was better

[@zabraknorth]

How is an older computer cringe? I think the title should just be “10 random stuff from the 80s”

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

Yeah, but then they won't meet their daily quota of certifiable clickbait!

[@zabraknorth]

Yeee very true did you see their latest video title lmao

[@zabraknorth]

“Too 20 sexiest characters of all time” Big oof

[@Weasel_Meat]

Wait for it... The follow up video will be cringy things from the 2020's. Blue-Purple hair for women Apple watches Uber and Lyft 1080p TV 4G cell phone speeds

[@stevesether]

It's a lot like what George Carlin said about why there's 10 commandments. "When they were sitting around and making this s**t up, why did they pick 10? Why not 9 or 11? I'll tell you why. Because 10 sounds official! 10 Sounds important! If someone said the 11 commandments? Get the F**k out of here!" Someone 25 year old in the writing department who was never live in the 80s could only think of a couple actual cringe-worthy thing. "Uhh... yeah... my dad said some presidents told people they should Just Say Now to drugs." "OOOOoooooooo!! writet that down Jayden, that's GOOD!" The rest is just filler. I'm not sure picking something that many people actually cringed at in the 1980s is really worth pointing out as cringe worthy yet again.

[@MegCazalet]

The “geometric pattern t-shirts” segment barely showed any actual 80s geometric patterned shirts.

[@honolulublues5548]

I don't think they could find any or if they did, content was copyrighted and couldn't.

[@TheShift1313]

I had a neon yellow shirt that was i guess a belly shirt and had triangles all over. Loved that shirt!

[@mattboggs6304]

I seem to remember mostly just seeing those kind of shirts on TV, music videos, fashion editorials etc. Maybe my memory is fading after so many years, but I don't think 80's kids wore them that much.

[@jaydahome-teillarddeyry6200]

I’m so glad I grew up in the 80s…. Best childhood ever! 🥰

[@theodoreritola7641]

I did in the late 60s and 70s Fantastic times for sure

[@luizcarlosmascarenhasgarci263]

I hate the 80s 😁

[@tsar_gustav]

Riding a horse 100 years ago is also cringey because we have cars now?

[@jennifercole281]

😂

[@danman6669]

I'd say it's cringey, since in 1922, cars existed and they were beginning to become more affordable for families to buy. Anyone still riding horses would have been out of touch, I would think.

[@tsar_gustav]

@@danman6669 Read carefully please, I said, riding a horse 100 years ago and not now.

[@CAPTEINRIGGS]

@@tsar_gustav What? 1922 was 100 years ago.

[@arielperez3613]

And let me guess renting movies in the blockbusters was also cringe because now we have streaming services!?!

[@LemonChick]

Having a go at computers in the 80s is just plain weird. Of course they were slower than what we have access to today but all technology starts somewhere and their arrival was fantastic, opening up into the world of computing we see today.

[@charliejoson9145]

I've seen computers in the 80's through old commercials but I do wonder if looking at the computer screens were difficult or uncomfortable than the colorful computer screens of today.

[@josephlowes5051]

Right, let's attack the computers from the 1980s for not as advanced as the computers today. Even though the computers of today would not be around if it was not for the computers of the 1980s.

[@jennifercole281]

I agree. Today it's said your cell phone is a more powerful computer than what NASA used to put men on the moon. In the l98Os it was the idea of a desktop computer that was revolutionary because earlier computers took up a whole room and that room had to be kept quite cold for them to operate properly.

[@RetroFuseable]

They were not ludicrously slow like the vid says. They were the speed they were supposed to be with the current technology. But there were so many: Commodore (3 models), Atari (4 models), Apple (3 models), Texas Instruments, and more.

[@eduardoarmenta9232]

@@jennifercole281 The SNES (Super Nintendo) is more powerful than the computers used in the Apollo program. The modern smartphones are in an entire different level.

[@vonniedemers5683]

I feel so lucky to have lived in the 70s 80s and 90s.. We didn't have to worry that everything we did was being judged. The new generation cant get away with anything, there are cameras everywhere.. My generation did all the same dumb stuff you guys do now but no video of it! The time I got drunk and danced on the bar, no proof, first time I got high, no proof, calling a boss an asshole, no proof. Wish we could go back. What's cringy about the computers? It's technology, they used to fill a whole room, then small enough to get at home, now small enough to put in your pocket or wear on your watch... Its called progress. New coke did suck though.

[@cynthialesieur643]

Now everything has to be posted to the internet

[@antonianavarro7186]

I know right...?

[@heidiho5179]

Agree 100%. You didn’t get fired for your hijinks, either, unless you danced on the table at the company Christmas party. I feel safe to say anyone who did so would have done so in any era…and it didn’t go viral.

[@mrequi1]

My heart blades for today's generation. They will face challenges that my and previous generations have never even considered.

[@keith4826]

Word , homey…. But I never drank coke… I was part of the 80’s gym culture. Also back then if you videotaped someone doing some stupid crap…. You was probably gonna get your a$$ seriously whooped !!!

[@robs5252]

Believe me as a child of the 80's - things are more cringe today than the entire 80's combined.

[@ErraticPT]

Short sighted and condescending to call things "cringey" just because you lack imagination or vision on how things were in the past. Just wait 30-40 years and see if people call the things you value so much today, cringey or worthless!

[@stevesether]

To be fair, "Just say no" was pretty cringe worthy in 1980, as was the weird celebrities making PSAs. But the rest of it? It's not that it's short sighted... it's just silly. I mean... fax machines and computers? Uh... we still use those. But you're right. I want someone to project 40 years into the future, and ccreate a "10 cringe worthy things in the 2020s" Number 1. Clickbait!

[@freddieferrer9425]

watchmojo in YT will surely be in the list

[@anitahanchey7714]

My thoughts exactly. How was it cringy??? It was life then. I can think of alot more cringy things Now!!!

[@jollyolly34]

MAJOR CRINGE!! The 80s were so CRINGY!

[@honolulublues5548]

​@@stevesether just as most sloganized campaign things. Build Back Better, Make America Great Again, Where's the Beef...wait, that last one was pretty good...and a commercial 🤣.

[@attreidelrom]

you do realize without the 80's computers you wouldn't have what you have today? That makes them not cringe. That is just stupid.

[@JusNoBS420]

Geometric Patterns was literally what “Saved by the Bell” was all about 😝

[@gerarduspoppel2831]

Parker Lewis can't lose?😂😂

[@thedylangirl]

@@gerarduspoppel2831 synchronize!

[@MrOmriSan]

@@thedylangirl Synchronize Swatchs!

[@marialemos1495]

I grew up in the 80's so I definitely remember these things and I don't find them cringe 🙂.

[@marcstevens8576]

I agree with you, however, those Roller-Blades were entirely useless.

[@mcentepede]

Most of the things here are not cringe at all. Who even made this list? Technology of the time period changes. So does fashion and trends. Many things people do today are really cringeworthy. Selfies with the duck lips is stoopid. In any era. Posting cringe on Tik Tok speaks for itself.

[@ashyslashy5722]

2020s so far are the cringiest decade of them all 🤷‍♂️

[@celieboo]

Fax machines still play a significant role today, especially in Healthcare.

[@jasongoldman3850]

I don't understand how fax machines are "cringey". There's still a need for them.

[@Deborahtunes]

Yup. I still use them...

[@devilchilde8957]

True,just recently had my pharmacy fax my doctor.

[@gowiththeflowbee8053]

lol i love how this list would be my *favourite* things from the 80s.

[@Marinetr]

The longer I watch this video the more I feel the insult for someone who trying to compare the 80s to the current day. Also to anyone who growing up in the 80s loved most but will not owned most of these things due to how expensive they are back in the day.

[@susanolson6963]

The 80s were great! I am 60 years old and we never had a life with all the shootings among all the other crimes we have to live thru!

[@canuck21]

What are you talking about? Most people own these things. Like our first VHS player cost about a grand, but everyone I knew had a VHS player. It was a great decade, much better than now.

[@davidmoore2308]

Imagine what 80s people would say about todays world.

[@Paradigmfusion]

I remember my mom smoking in the grocery store when I was a kid, and those little golden tin ash trays that Burger King used to have... And why the hell wasn't "Feathered Bangs" on this list???!!!

[@shunt5001]

I remember smoking in hospitals. Even doctors walking around smoking

[@brianarbenz1329]

I remember airport security people smoking in the '80s. That was when nobody took terrorism seriously in smaller cities and the security people were semi-retired security guards. Timothy McVeigh and Al-Quaida changed all that.

[@LG123ABC]

At my first real job out of college we had ashtrays all over the office that were emblazoned with our corporate logo. Even ashtrays were used to promote "the brand". And, no, I was not working in the tobacco industry.

[@jennifercole281]

I remember when they began prohibiting smoking in movie theatres in the l97Os. It looks like a foolishly dangerous (not to mention unhealthy) practice today but folk were really pissed off about it at the time. You've probably heard the expression "free speech doesn't cover yelling 'fire!' in a crowded theatre," meaning to say something that will falsely incite a panic in public. It dates back many decades to a time when smoking actually used to be the cause of a great many fires in crowded movie theatres, and US courts determined it was a criminal act to falsely yell 'fire' in a theatre and cause a panic where patrons would be injured rushing the exits.

[@ColorMeConfused29]

@@LG123ABC Remember when McDonald's had those little tin ashtrays?

[@heidiho5179]

I spend much of the 90s in the hospital, due to smoking in public places. And, I’m sure, smoking everywhere during my childhood (1980s). They probably still had a smoking lounge. I’m so glad people figured out smoke is airborne, meaning you can’t contain it, indoors! In the 2000s, my COPD was rediagnosed as asthma. It was a direct result of the smoking ban. I know because it happened as soon as there weren’t a**holes smoking all around me. Fun fact: Saying “A-holes” made you sound cool in the ‘80s, not like a choir boy.

[@ryaneugenepeck]

Most of these things were a product of their time and it is weird when people judge decisions of the past with today's standards of tech, style, and safety. Also, the "geometric pattern shirts" you said were popular despite not having any visual evidence of was called Memphis Style.

[@scottedwards8220]

they barely showed half the things they talked about.

[@MegCazalet]

Yes thank you for pointing out they showed basically no authentic shirts like they described.

[@conniethesconnie]

@@scottedwards8220 Couldn't they find a clip from Full House, Saved by The Bell or The Fresh Prince?

[@MrEiniweini]

I still remember the tin foil "M" stamped ashtrays from McDonalds. They were right there next to the straw and napkin dispensers. I have a comic collection worth near nothing but if I had one of those tinfoil ashtrays I could sell it for thousands.

[@melodie-allynbenezra8956]

You are dumping on 1980s PCs, because... They were new, and not as technologically advanced as the PCs we have today? That's not cringy. That is the START of the innovation trend. You are too young to appreciate how cool they were back then.

[@ellenwuzhere]

Nobody looked like a dork in a Swatch Watch. I wish I still had mine.

[@heidiho5179]

Me too! I got the fishie swatch.

[@RomnysGonzalez]

Outdated computers is a really unfair pick there. Like what are they supposed to do?. The computer were limited by technology at the time. The rest of the list are people doing questionable choices. The same goes with BetaMax and Fax

[@cubah1]

It’s a product of their time which by today’s standard is cringe. I think that is what it means. Judging 80: work 2022 goggles

[@heidiho5179]

Right? They weren’t outdated then!

[@honolulublues5548]

And the fax machine was still happening into the 2000's even with email finally taking over.

[@gibixhegu1612]

This list definitely belongs on a future "lists that haven't aged well" list.

[@mlggamer5296]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@will4127]

That would imply the list was ever good at any point in time.

[@LG123ABC]

Well, it started out as crap so it doesn't really have far to go.

[@dickfacy6229]

@@will4127 shots fired

[@MIIIVideo]

No this was a failed list before being uploaded

[@billobryan8173]

I miss everything about renting movies. I can even fondly remember the smell that every movie rental store seemed to have

[@intensivecarebear792]

Born in late 70s. Was a kid thru the 80s. People smoked but they were always courteous where we went. There was freedom for people to do what they wanted. It was just a part of the time. From a health prospective I'm happy it's gone but people seemed happier in the 80s. More freedom and more privacy. Happy I knew what that was

[@heidiho5179]

They were not courteous to me, as a COPD patient.

[@gilbertacosta7434]

Swatches were, and still are cool as like most 80's pop culture, are back for sale with their rad designs. Yes I know, rad may or may not be a "cringe " word to anyone born after 2000. 😎🤙

[@RUSH2112RUSH]

I was born late 1963 and find the word 'rad' to be very cringy.

[@cassandratm5952]

I as someone living in Switzerland agrees with your opinion and great taste

[@xbrandon2252]

@@RUSH2112RUSH Rad isn't cringe

[@johnsmiley5387]

They're come making a huge comeback they were on a bunch of people's Christmas lists this last year

[@stevencahn4019]

Like, totally dude! I'm surprised that they didn't say Izod shirts or parachute pants were "cringe".

[@jeshkam]

Fun fact: That guy on the thumbnail image beside the Coke can is David Thornton, Cyndi Lauper's husband and the image itself comes from the season 1 Miami Vice episode "Rites of Passage".

[@mickeyrube6623]

The actual title should be: "Top 10 things from the 80's that we aren't into anymore, because things change."

[@jeanieolahful]

Oh yeah, we smoked EVERYWHERE! In the office, on planes, in the hospital after having a baby! I shake my head thinking about it now. I quit 25 years ago, and I’m grateful for the changes.

[@shunt5001]

I absolutely miss rental movies and games

[@greenrobot5]

if it wasn't for digital, I wouldn't have seen as many movies as I have, and remember going to the store and they ran out of the movie you wanted

[@briansullivan5908]

I still have my last Blockbuster card

[@canuck21]

@@greenrobot5 There are inconvenience, but the experience of going a Blockbuster was fun and exciting each time.

[@mroggie8334]

Christmas is just a few weeks away! Whoever wrote the title for this episode should ask their loved one for a dictionary for a present so they can look up what "cringiest" and "cringey" mean - these were mostly just trends and fads from the 80s and not really cringey...

[@TrustOlivia1]

The 80’s was the absolutely best time to be a kid 💜💜💜 I’m still trying to find the “cringe” 🧐

[@cottonhungaryshark7926]

Agree, I couldn't find the cringe in the 80s. Unlike today, we can find cringe on internet where people do stupid pranks

[@McRemmyBaby]

Look in the mirror

[@sarahreyes6840]

None of these things are cringe-worthy. It's simply the tech, fashion, and culture of the 80's. Like others have commented, those of that grew up in the 80's loved this stuff! Happy memories.

[@StylishCasuall]

Nothing about the 80's make me cringe .. much better days

[@greenrobot5]

how about mullets?

[@santiagopeck]

Why are fax and computers cringy? Yes both are really outdated but that does not make them be cringy at all.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

I think they don't know what cringy means

[@TheNickArcade]

Outdated computers? C'mon. That's not cringe, it's the times changing.

[@bretthibbs6083]

the 80's decade was far from being cringy it was the best decade ever. And like a lot of people that grew up in the 80's none of this stuff was cringy at all.

[@theodoreritola7641]

The 70s Say hold our beers

[@KountryBoy03]

You should have talked about how people literally used so much hairspray in the 80s that it was destroying the ozone

[@maevependragon]

Lol "Rave" and "Aqua Net"..

[@ColorMeConfused29]

True. So many stories about "Acid Rain" during the Reagan era.

[@vitornuevo]

oh the 80s, everything was new and colorful, Express Yourself was the rule!

[@christophermerlot3366]

I still have memories of my Commodore 64. Yes I was a teenager in the 1980s.

[@dgwaters]

Me too! I still got my C64, AND it still works!

[@honolulublues5548]

@@dgwaters I have mine as well, plus I have a 128D. I was saddened when Commodore went under.

[@dgwaters]

@@honolulublues5548 There was talk a while back about bringing back the Commodore 64.

[@samthecarguy1143]

A few months ago I stumbled upon a restaurant that still has a smoking section. The waitress asked us “smoking or non snoking” and I looked at her and said, “I haven’t heard anyone ask that since 1998” it definitely caught me off guard

[@alilately1013]

HA! I hated shoulder pads!! I'd always cut them out of my clothes. I was a tall kid so they made me feel like Frankenstein. Also, the fax machine -- people still ask me to fax stuff today bc it's their only method of receipt. I guess that's "roughing it" in the digital age.

[@dickfacy6229]

Only things I consider cringe mentioned here are shoulder pads and hugs Flava clocks - that crap was always cringe.

[@myaddictivelife7821]

I have broad shoulders and they made me feel as if I was a football player. I cut them out and stuffed them in my bra that’s where I needed extra padding

[@conniethesconnie]

I might add keytars as 80's cringe. I would say those huge letter tees like the "Frankie Says Relax" are more reminiscent of the clothes our parents don't want us to know they once wore.

[@cc1k435]

Apparently it's often more secure than email for medical offices and such, believe it or not. 🤷‍♀️

[@jtmoore662]

I still have my swatch "the time machine" from 1986. Still have the original case and instructions manual with a $35 price tag on it. It sits in my nightstand to this day

[@ColorMeConfused29]

Did you have a watch guard for it? I never hear anyone mention those. I think Swatch came out with them first. Of course, I had a knock off and a watch guard on it, trying to look cool.

[@wackyruss]

I definitely remember when I was a kid people smoking on the airplane. Also, the hostess would always ask “smoking or nonsmoking” when seating us a restaurant! My mom wore shoulder pads to work! I remember all this 80’s stuff vividly!!!

[@paulj6756]

"Synchronize Swatches"--Parker Lewis Can't Lose (although that show debuted in 1990).

[@johnnysbodybag]

Swatch Watches still Rule.

[@kenterminateddq5311]

8:19 Rakim is one of the few dudes who can look awesome while wearing acid-washed jeans. One of the best rappers of all time. :)

[@Majesticon]

Right? Super weird choice for that entry

[@lindseylovesblog]

Thanks for uploading love your channel love always lindsey 💞💞💞💞💞.

[@rrsaga]

The development of the computers of the 80s helped us expand to the internet of the 90s so no.. it’s not cringy

[@swolpertinger5004]

FAX machines are still relevant. Not everything can be done by email.

[@leejoelbeasley5005]

for what??? we have e-mail now

[@swolpertinger5004]

@@leejoelbeasley5005 Email does NOT work for many things that are government or medical related. Among other things. Like say if you need to submit extra information that they request for DSHS or Medicare/Medicaid or something like that. You can't email it. You have to either fax or snailmail it or take it in directly.

[@a2pha]

5:00 Betamax was actually technically superior to VHS in many ways. It was the incredibly ludicrous and aggressive marketing of VHS that beat them and encouraged them to NOT compete and make a product that could record longer videos - like VHS.

[@honolulublues5548]

More companies made VHS, so more companies had a stake in VHS success. It's the same reason why PCs dominated the workplace and still do.

[@johnny-becker]

For 40 years, Coca-Cola added "Classic" to it's name for this very reason... so people know that it was the classic formula and not the new one. Only last year, 2020, did they finally remove it. I guess they figured that New Coke has finally been forgotten. Spoken by a former Coca-Cola employee.

[@jennifercole281]

I had a cousin who sang in a Coca-Cola ad campaign, she always had free Cokes. 😋

[@RUSH2112RUSH]

For those that are interested the lady wearing the acid washed jacket at 08:15 is Samantha Fox, a very famous page 3 (topless) model who featured heavily in various British tabloid newspapers from the 80s.

[@jennifercole281]

She also had a short-lived career as a pop singer.

[@ilovenoodles7483]

@@jennifercole281 - that's how I've known her but I never knew she was a topless model.

[@jennifercole281]

@@ilovenoodles7483 I never knew about or saw the topless pics of Samantha Fox at the time either. It was in the l98Os they made Miss America, Vanessa Williams, give back her crown when it was discovered she had posed for nude photos. In the US we have these silly, hypocritical hang ups about such things. I shouldn't be at all surprised if the record company put some money into making Fox's pics disappear (as it is evidently a closely guarded secret that famous women have breasts, too...😄).

[@esiedler1]

Lol the word 80s and Cringe really don’t go together

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

I think they don't know what cringe actually means

[@smexehcougah3]

The 80s were when the Baby Boomers were taking hold of the corporate world and creating the run-away-capitalism we see today. The entire decade was cringe. I should know, I'm an 80s baby.

[@chesspunk489]

@@smexehcougah3 I am an 80's baby and I think the 80's and 90's was a hell of a lot better than anything after the year 2000.

[@ArnoldLokman]

@@smexehcougah3 Actually you have to be a 60s baby to really know what 80s were really like.

[@HarryWessex]

The 80s was kinda camp though

[@THANATOS-PRIME]

I’m amazed they didn’t mention the shirts from #10 look like the shirt Rocko wears in Rocko’s Modern Life

[@Traumaqueenamy]

I remember as a kid going to restaurants with my mom and being asked whether we wanted to sit in the smoking or nonsmoking section.

[@nascarandbowlingfan3888]

I remember that too i hated it but now I wish there was smoking and non smoking sections still

[@honolulublues5548]

I remember that as well. But, what I really remember when I got married before the full smoking ban, the host would ask us smoking or non-smoking and we would say "first available" if there was a wait to get a table.

[@lacountess]

I don't care about the other stuff but smoking on the plane was not just cringe, it was a nightmare. I remember as a kid, every time we flew on a plane I became short of breath towards the end of the flight when the smoke made it to the non-smoking section and began choking the entire cabin. That, combined with the cabin pressure that made my ears hurt, was the most horrible experience.

[@bigdaddigaming]

As a 55 yo I remember all this crap, well except betamax witch was actually better than VHS but due to marketing VHS sold more making them the go to version

[@jennifercole281]

Thank you! I remember Beta tapes having considerably better picture & sound, and they were only half the size of VHS which saved a lot of shelf space. BetaMax went away due to very shady business dealings that undercut their access to the so-called free market. In a fair competition it would have been the inferior VHS that appeared in its rightful place on this cringe list. ✌

[@bigdaddigaming]

@@jennifercole281 absolutely, it was far superior, sad that it was pushed out of the market Not that it matters that much with streaming and digital services

[@Seiferboi]

I feel personally attacked! I wear patterned shirts all the time lol! Men's clothes today are too boring for my tastes. My wardrobe is filled with things from the 60s-early 2000s, though neon green is my signature color. If I have to buy the boring stuff, I only wear it at home. Out in public? I'm a kaleidoscope of color! Acid wash denim are my fave, so of course I wear those as well. I forgot about Swatches, so I think I'm gonna see if I can buy any from eBay. I don't care if they work, I just want all the color! 😁 BTW, my dream living room has turquoise walls, shaggy purple carpet and neon green couch and chairs! Yeah, I don't do neutrals!

[@briansullivan5908]

Sounds cool

[@jennifercole281]

👍🏽You sound like a very sharp dressed individual! Right on.

[@susanolson6963]

What a guy! What you said is so great! You are appreciates! 😀

[@Snacky_Cakes]

That's awesome! Always stay true to yourself and never change for anyone 👍

[@scott2455ify]

Get a pair of neon parachute pants (ie MC Hammer pants) - That stuff was the $hit!

[@wednesday8397]

Thank you!!! I'm 49 so this stuff was totally my life in middle school and high school. My yearbooks talk about my big hair

[@novalove4790]

Totally expected a different list... This stuff isn't cringe. I'd gladly go back to the 80's, 90's

[@Styxswimmer]

My 15 year old son despises modernity. He said he envies me for growing up in the 80s and 90s. I told him if I had a time machine and took the family back to the 80s, NONE of us would want to come back to 2023. The 80s were magical. While it's true that each decade has its own feel, the 80s were different and unique (in the best way). There was never a decade like the 80s before and there never will be again

[@sarahdeland414]

I get that most guys can’t pull off the Sonny Crockett suits, but you have to admit, they looked good on Don Johnson. Of course, he’d look good in anything 😎🔥

[@jrebecca0195]

As a teen during the 80's, I couldn't stand it when clothes came with shoulder pads! I usually cut them out and threw them away.

[@JennA-uf6lo]

Same!

[@jrebecca0195]

@@thenagain12I'm broad shouldered, too. 😕

[@CJIrishLez]

I remembered all of this specially the smoking section one. I remember going to places to eat and having to eat in smoking sometimes because of my father. Also remember being on a flight that allowed smoking. I remember when it slowly started going away my dad was sooo not happy. He was very addicted to smoking. Crazy to think how that was a total norm.

[@irocker350]

Even though I smoke I still always went to the non smoking side at restaurants, I could go without a smoke for a couple hours or more

[@axelwulf6220]

Yup, I remember the days when restaurants had Smoking and Non-Smoking sections Smokers weren't as universally hated then as they are today

[@dinomonzon7493]

It may not have been a perfect decade, but, all things considered, the 1980s were a far better era than today.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Yup.....the boomers weren't in power enough to destroy things yet.

[@LG123ABC]

@@SoManyRandomRamblings I don't think you know what "boomers" are. The boomers entered their 40s in the 80s and were definitely taking over.

[@arielperez3613]

The 70s 80s 90s and even early 2000s were iconic

[@mlggamer5296]

I wouldn't say indoor smoking was cringey I'd say it was hella dangerous and I'm glad they don't have it anymore

[@derekcolvin9944]

Miss the days of drinking new Coke while typing out code on my TRS-80, Listening to Public Enemy while checking the time on my Swatch Watch.

[@johnyates6792]

I wish I had a time machine to return to the 80s the best time to live was the 80s

[@theodoreritola7641]

The 70s were fantastic as well

[@z0m813]

Nothing is cringe from the 80's God I miss them lol

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Horrible way of thinking

[@RDJ134]

Well in one point it's still the 80's Crisis with an invisible enemy. Shitty music. Clothing that looks like it's been teared apart. Social problems and poverty on the rise. At least we dont have to get our porno analog from stores or friends/older brothers/cousins anymore, thats a win win ;)

[@marthacrust334]

Thing is people born after this won't know what it's like and will think it cringe because of that. It's the same old thing when future generations will make fun of them.

[@DTD110865]

@@RDJ134 "Invisible. Enemy" my ass!

[@LG123ABC]

It was wonderful. Lord Reagan was in charge and snowflakes hadn't been born yet.

[@erinsaylors4665]

I miss the 90's, I wanna go back, best years to be alive before 2000

[@thewenik6876]

So many good and bad products from the 1980’s. Thanks.

[@jennifercole281]

Actually AquaNet speaks more of the l96Os, you couldn't really achieve the l98Os look with it very effectively. In the 8Os we used much stiffer hair lacquers like "Va-Voom!" which could make your hair stand straight up very easily with just a couple of sprays.

[@kevinclapson]

I feel like the person who put this video up meant to put "in hindsight" in the title and totally forgot. Those computers weren't dated at the time, they were literal cutting edge so that point makes even less sense than most of the rest of these. Scape-goating "just say no" as being out of touch with how complicated an issue that addiction is is completely burying the lede. You can't get addicted to something you do not try, and the point was to keep people away from trying.

[@irick3000]

Ok, faulting computers back in the 80s because they became obsolete, is like complaining all early movies are cringe because they're silent. Swatches are awesome dont know why you have problems with that. Ever heard of pocket watches? Last i checked they had chains, some people long before the 80s wore clocks as necklaces. Just smaller. The dont do drugs commercials may have been lame but i feel had an impact on my life as i never did drugs. Thanks Mr. T

[@leviathan3k2000]

Should be called top 10 reasons we wish we could go back to the 80s

[@FlukeTog]

I’d trade 80’s cringe for 2022 cringe all day. None of that cringed me. :)

[@dazzaMusic]

If anyone wants to know what new Coke tasted like, try a Pepsi.

[@MoonlightXYZ]

Pepsi is better than coke --------------------------------------- Change My Mind

[@harryeasterbrook4593]

As far as I’m concerned, the cringiest thing from the 80s was Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

nah that guy was funny as hell and was the sexiest guy of the 80s

[@Akira625]

Computers don't belong on the list, that's just how they were in the 80's. Getting a computer in those days was also a luxury, many models could cost as much as a car.

[@jeffbengert2863]

I agree with you on the BIG hair. Also, so many films and videos seemed to have this "blur" or "hazy" look to them; unclear, if that makes any sense. I am a fan of the 70's, but I distinctly remember that in the early 1980s we began to first see GREED AND MONEY become the main qualifier for saying one had a successful life. And that has just got worse.

[@irocker350]

By 1989 I was 32 years old and it seemed like youngster's hair styles was getting kinda weird, I remember gassing up my car and saw this kid (about 13 or so) in the car on the other side of my pump and one side of his head was shaved. my first thought was... "Poor kid must be going through chemotherapy". but then I thought, hm, if it was chemo, he would've lost his hair all over, not just on one side of his head. LOL

[@DominickRuocco]

Thank you WatchMojo for continuing to post 80's videos. The nostalgia I get from watching them is so satisfying.

[@timrhodes640]

Nothing is, unless you're overly sensitive. 80s will always be the last great decade

[@hikari8858]

You're absolutely right. Thing started to go downhill in the 90s, and really took a dive in the 2000s.

[@steved7872]

I was born in 1972 and if I could relive the years 1982 to 1990 on a continuous loop, I would ( except for 30 days in 88')lol

[@pandora4037]

They still had smoking areas at restaurants in the early 2000s. Now that I don't smoke I can appreciate that places don't allow smoking in buildings.

[@stephaniewheeler3331]

Rave #4 was my jam...Aqua Net smelled like old ladies to me 😀

[@ColorMeConfused29]

The rich girls in my school used Salon Selectives hairspray. Best smelling hairspray EVER.

[@stephaniewheeler3331]

@@ColorMeConfused29 OMG I remember Salon Selectives!!! lolololol

[@MiguelLopez-is9te]

'80s computers are cringe? Without them, we wouldn't have what we have now.

[@dickfacy6229]

Cringe of today: lazy, no self-control, gluttons who still smoke cigarettes. Absolutely no excuse for that.

[@paulmatthews6154]

"Clocks on chains" was more in the 90s. Proof is from that guy who promoted it on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. That show made its debut in 93.

[@RDJ134]

Millenial channel gives comment on a decade of there parents of grandparents...... You realise in 30/40 years from now there will be channels bashing you decade and laughin on your then antic smarphone, ripped jeans and other things?? I love WatcMojo but for me as a 80's kid this is a dislike.

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

Oh, how we love the ‘80s.

[@chasehedges6775]

As a 2001 kid, I wish I could travel back in to the 80s to see what they were like.

[@smexehcougah3]

@@chasehedges6775 As someone who grew up in the 80s, trust me, you don't want that.

[@chasehedges6775]

@@smexehcougah3 why

[@smexehcougah3]

@@chasehedges6775 I don't wanna talk about it.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@smexehcougah3 so you gone tell someone they wont enjoy it but not going to explain why

[@jons.6216]

I would have thought mullets would have been number one! Hahaha! Great list, though!

[@TheLanceFrazier]

You forgot leg warmers, Teddy Ruxpin, and crimping irons.

[@paul8926]

I’m sorry, but I loved the 80s…so choice !

[@jenniferk9242]

When I had my first child in the hospital, you could smoke in your room. Didn't matter if the baby was there, even in your arms. 13 months later, same hospital, and there was a corner smoking lounge for new mothers and their visitors. The outer walls didn't actually have walls, it was open space lol. Don't know how long that lasted, but 10 years later, no smoking allowed past the parking lot.

[@jennifercole281]

My doctor's office is on a large university hospital campus, which covers several square blocks in which you aren't allowed to smoke even outdoors on the sidewalk waiting for a cab. When my little brother was born in the l97Os there were cigarette machines in the hospital waiting areas.

[@TheAlphaEntity]

I don’t think the team at WatchMojo understands what cringe means