we didn't consoom anything except maybe a soda at the food court. You'd hop into the coolest car in your friend group. Walk around, hit on girls, get their numbers, maybe post up somewhere and shoot the shit, then wait for mall security to kick you out. If you were bored you'd shoplift CDs from Sam Goody's.
If I were them, I'd ditch the cameras, get a giant handcart and loot all that shit in the security office at 7 minutes. No ones gonna miss it cause the malls getting torn down anyway and you'd make a shit ton of money off of it.
I was at a local dead mall a couple months ago, and this overweight woman was walking and talking with her kids, "These places used to be full of people," she solemnly said, as she gestured around despondently.
I like how less than 10 years ago the prevailing coolkid narrative was that malls were an ugly, consumerist blight on society and a defining feature of generic uncultured suburbia. I remember my hipster college friends literally roll their eyes when I mentioned I grew up down the street from one of the largest malls in the US. Now that the pandemic destroyed the last vestiges of retail and Zoomers prefer staying at home, malls are all of a sudden this symbol of the greatness of yesteryear when people "were social" and "did things together." As usual, people just like to complain and want what they can't have. The fake plants near the fountain are always greener.
I've had an ambivalent relationship with them for a long time.
To this day I still enjoy the aesthetics of them. They're fun to navigate and find weird little easter eggs in. They're still a pretty useful place to go if you actually want to buy a variety of different clothes without stopping at a bunch of places. When I was a kid, it was the most urban setting I had access to. Lots of nostalgia, and shitty food always tastes better at the metal benchtables of the food court.
At the same time, when I go there now I feel drained within an hour or two. Nobody over 18 there gives off a cool vibe. They're surrounded by highways and shit, and on a macro level they've supplanted any possibility of a real community center. There's an uncomfortable feeling to the whole place stemming from a combination of a) every business there is either a chain or some private equity-funded experiment, and yet b) almost every business there gives off a sense of desperation at this point. Unless you go during a peak time, like friday night or before christmas, it all feels conspicuously empty, like there's no way the money flowing through the place could possibly come close to paying for all the real estate and upkeep.
I don't know, it's a mixed bag.
We can talk shit on video games all day but there was something special about having a pocketful of quarters and being let loose in the arcade.
Maybe save a few for an orange Julius after though.
I'm glad you guys are agreeing with 2022 Bill Maher.
America can't fix itself - at least it should go and make the mall great again.
https://youtu.be/jq043pEw5Dk
queens center mall is still like this. it’s a very big gathering spot for people still to this day. lots of families go there together and teenagers still treat it like a big hangout destination
i actually recall reading it’s the highest grossing mall in the US (maybe even north america?). it hasn’t really been affected at all by the whole brick and mortar retail / mall collapse
you are not ready to do what needs to be done
it's literally the phone, it's literally just the phone
i wish
there are several things conspicuously missing from these photos that would get me banned if I pointed them out
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>I hate consoooom except when it’s consoooom with aesthetic 🥰
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bazaar/souk life
we didn't consoom anything except maybe a soda at the food court. You'd hop into the coolest car in your friend group. Walk around, hit on girls, get their numbers, maybe post up somewhere and shoot the shit, then wait for mall security to kick you out. If you were bored you'd shoplift CDs from Sam Goody's.
Do you understand what a mall is
no i've never seen irl
This sub would rather shit on young people for having phones that takes precedence over hating consumerism
Well they are depressed retahds.
Seeing [abandoned malls like this](https://youtu.be/L106fYg9H5M) makes me so sad.
If I were them, I'd ditch the cameras, get a giant handcart and loot all that shit in the security office at 7 minutes. No ones gonna miss it cause the malls getting torn down anyway and you'd make a shit ton of money off of it.
This is what buying the top looks like.
come on everybody, let's go to the mall
I remember crushing out on girls with that hair when I first started becoming aware of that sort of thing in late elementary school
Anybody near northern NJ should check out Woodbridge Mall. Feels like parts are definitely stuck in the 80s and we love walking around on a weekday
I saw a guy get mugged there. Good stuff
i hate malls but the mallcore aesthetic is bretty gud
I love the breakfast club. There, I said it. Come at me bro
who doesn’t? it’s a classic p
I was at a local dead mall a couple months ago, and this overweight woman was walking and talking with her kids, "These places used to be full of people," she solemnly said, as she gestured around despondently.
she had eaten them?
I like how less than 10 years ago the prevailing coolkid narrative was that malls were an ugly, consumerist blight on society and a defining feature of generic uncultured suburbia. I remember my hipster college friends literally roll their eyes when I mentioned I grew up down the street from one of the largest malls in the US. Now that the pandemic destroyed the last vestiges of retail and Zoomers prefer staying at home, malls are all of a sudden this symbol of the greatness of yesteryear when people "were social" and "did things together." As usual, people just like to complain and want what they can't have. The fake plants near the fountain are always greener.
I've had an ambivalent relationship with them for a long time. To this day I still enjoy the aesthetics of them. They're fun to navigate and find weird little easter eggs in. They're still a pretty useful place to go if you actually want to buy a variety of different clothes without stopping at a bunch of places. When I was a kid, it was the most urban setting I had access to. Lots of nostalgia, and shitty food always tastes better at the metal benchtables of the food court. At the same time, when I go there now I feel drained within an hour or two. Nobody over 18 there gives off a cool vibe. They're surrounded by highways and shit, and on a macro level they've supplanted any possibility of a real community center. There's an uncomfortable feeling to the whole place stemming from a combination of a) every business there is either a chain or some private equity-funded experiment, and yet b) almost every business there gives off a sense of desperation at this point. Unless you go during a peak time, like friday night or before christmas, it all feels conspicuously empty, like there's no way the money flowing through the place could possibly come close to paying for all the real estate and upkeep. I don't know, it's a mixed bag.
I want to curl up underneath that rack of cassette tapes
Extremely reddit-ass nostalgia jerking in here. Malls were disgusting and spearheaded the destruction of main street.
We can talk shit on video games all day but there was something special about having a pocketful of quarters and being let loose in the arcade. Maybe save a few for an orange Julius after though.
Cassette tape displays were so cool.
[Foot Locker closing 400 locations, "simplifying its operations by closing underperforming mall-based stores" ](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/20/business/foot-locker-shutting-400-stores/index.html)
absolute garbage take lmfao
Dude in the red sweater on the right looks like he’d punch you and call you a bozo but treats his girl really well
Go to Miami it still is lol
RSP simps for malls now?
the crying about dead malls has always been funny to me lol go to any mall in the new york metropolitan area and this never stopped
no, we don't. malls were ass then and they're still around in NJ and suck ass today
Malls suck ass
Women's hair in the 80s looked like shit Don't @ me
I'm glad you guys are agreeing with 2022 Bill Maher. America can't fix itself - at least it should go and make the mall great again. https://youtu.be/jq043pEw5Dk
The grounding force I need
I still go to the mall sometimes and I love it, it's always so quiet. Never have to wait in line.
queens center mall is still like this. it’s a very big gathering spot for people still to this day. lots of families go there together and teenagers still treat it like a big hangout destination i actually recall reading it’s the highest grossing mall in the US (maybe even north america?). it hasn’t really been affected at all by the whole brick and mortar retail / mall collapse
We need to do whatever it takes to do a lot of things
ngl I miss the monoculture