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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 8499847" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Except you're saying that 30+ years after the fact. Times were different.  Anti apartheid was a big thing here along with fears of nuclear war. If social media existed back then those topics would have been bigger than Chief Sitting Drool who probably wouldn't have trended. A particuly bad taste 80's comedy movie might have trended due to its higher profile. Don't put words in my mouth. I'm not condoning the 80's but that's what it was like eg with AIDs.  There were bigger problems back then people cared about and they got way more attention than Orcs of Thar which was a fairly typical product (cf various 80's movies for example).  Look at other pop culture stuff from the time. Very few outside the scientific community were overly concerned about global warming (although it was picking up steam). Apartheid was still a thing and that was a contemporary high profile issue.  So was the fear of nuclear war both pop culture and wider movements.  Did some people think differently absolutely but its disingenuous to claim they were representative of those times. That's all I'm claiming. Alot of things sucked a lot.</blockquote>