Erin re-tweets this guy’s stuff a lot. Actually, let me compare dates. Did this guy post this before or after Erin’s incredibly pointless Woolworth tweet?
https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2022/08/erin-getting-nostalgic-about-woolworths.html
Erin was about two weeks before. But let’s see if this guy posted anything about Woolworth on his Twitter before then.
Oh fuck. He literally has like 100 tweets and re-tweets a day. I’m not going through this shit.
But some background. This guy used to have a blog called X-Entertainment. I’d read it. It was all about that delicious nostalgia. “Here’s some children’s shit that we had in the 1980s”.
Then he changed the name of the blog to Dinosaur Dracula. I kind of lost interest around this point. This was…fuck…I don’t know. Fifteen years ago? Longer?
He also has a Youtube channel. He’s had it for ten years but I’ve only recently found it. He seems to only post around Halloween.
And like most guys who are into Halloween, this guy is gay. REALLY gay. You can’t really tell in the blog. He doesn’t write gay. However that might look. But in the videos…no. There’s no question. This guy is packing all the fudge he can handle.
1:45 – So he’s reading this advertisement and then after he’s done talking, it lingers on him for a few more seconds. Get used to this. He does this every fucking time. “Oh, look at how cute I am.” No. With respect, I’m not interested. Can you just tighten the editing up a little? This is annoying.
2:00 – “Ninjas were super popular in the 1980”.
I’m not sure if ninjas were any more or less popular in the 1980s than in any other decade but who cares?
4:15 – He’s talking about these Sir Laugh A Lot toys that laugh when you hit them. He says that they were all over the place but nobody talks about them any more.
I’ve never seen one in my life. Maybe it’s before my time. But I think according to this guy’s blog, this guy is younger than me. Maybe he just hasn’t updated his blog because this guy doesn’t look to be in his 30s to me.
The video goes on for another five minutes or so.
But at some point, he was talking about horror video tapes that were popular at the time, especially around Halloween.
Yeah. Video cassettes. They were popular.
I remember going to my neighbour’s house around Halloween and his mother came home with Ghost Story. She thought that it was the Mickey Mouse cartoon. But no. It was the 1981 horror film.
She was right. There is some Mickey Mouse thing called Ghost Story or something. Isn’t there? I’m not seeing anything with a DuckDuckGo search. Maybe I’m thinking of Mickey’s Christmas Carol with Scrooge and all of the ghosts.
Anyway, this wasn’t it. This was a horror film that featured male frontal nudity. No thanks. I checked out early on when that naked guy fell out of a window.
Oh, I should have mentioned that even when this guy’s mother knew that she got a horror film, she still let us watch it. We were…I don’t know…ten years old? Something like that.
How to (further) pad this out? Halloween…candy…I like candy.
I never really went all out for Halloween in terms of trick or treating. I usually just went with my family. As I got a bit older, my sister was forced to take me and she hated it. She was a bit older than me.
Then it started to get embarrassing because you think that you should be trick or treating with your friends instead. You’re too mature to trick or treat with your family but not mature enough to stop trick or treating all together. But I didn’t have many friends.
One year, I went with those feral neighbour kids and their mother. That was…something, at least.
Then in the eighth grade, I went with my friend. But we didn’t take it seriously. Well, I didn’t. So we didn’t get much candy. He was annoyed by that. He was kind of a fat kid. He liked candy.
Actually, I guess that I could have gone with a different neighbour kid. Or my friend who lived about a 15 minute walk from me. But I just didn’t. They went with their families instead, I guess. As I did.
But yeah, eighth grade was the last time I went.
Then in high school, you think there’s going to be crazy Halloween parties with beer and shit but no. Well, maybe there were but I wasn’t going to any.