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Very true. I guess when something is a big part of your childhood, it lives on in your mind, but you tend to forgot that might not be the case for newer generations.
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I mean, that's always been true...there has been no point in human history where 50%+ of 14-19 year-olds on the planet knew who the Spice Girls were. >

But america is the world!!!  Right?  Right.... >

The spice girls are British. >

what?! They speak english, obviously they‘re american!!! >

America invented girls! >

Girls invented spice >

Spice must flow >

My dessert, my Arrakis, my Dune! >

I don't like sand >

No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing. >

We live in a world where no teenager know who Urgrak, inventor of mammoth poke stick, is >

Nobody remembers Thag anymore but we still fear the Thagomizer. >

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consider that:


even today's celebrities aren't well known to those not frequently browsing the internet


search algorithm isolating content you "don't frequently see" 


developing countries, some don't have soc-med access >

You did not have to be on the internet to be known in the 90s. Spice Girls sold more than 100 million records, they were quite famous and not just in Northern Europe or the US. I was in elementary school in Turkey around that time and every girl wanted to be like one of the Spice Girls. >

Well yeah, obviously, that’s just how things work. They exist for a while then gradually get less and less relevant. That’s how it works with everything and it’s going to happen to probably all of our favourite artists and song writers.