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💿 Spotify turning its logo into a glitter ball for its anniversary has unlocked a memory 🤣✨ I once went to a prommy/disco thing literally called The Glitter Ball… and honestly? I remember approximately 3% of it 😭 What I DO remember:✨ blurry lights✨ too much body spray in the air✨ glitter somehow ending up… Read more

There’s this weird idea that once you become an adult, you’re supposed to suddenly stop liking “kids’ stuff.” As if the moment you pay a bill, your brain automatically deletes: But honestly?A lot of us never stopped loving them. And thank GOD we didn’t. Because sometimes adulthood is exhausting, and nothing heals the soul faster… Read more

I swear it was only yesterday my brother was tiny. Like… tiny tiny.The kind of tiny where I was helping Mum change his nappy and laughing because he somehow managed to make every situation more chaotic than it needed to be. The kind of tiny where he’d follow us around, ask a million questions, and… Read more

There was a time when the music channels were basically part of our daily routine. You’d get home from school, dump your bag on the floor, turn the telly on automatically, and suddenly your entire evening soundtrack was sorted. TMF.The Box.Smash Hits TV.MTV Hits.Kerrang!VH1.4Music. And somehow they were always there. The Box especially felt magical… Read more

Things that basically raised teen girls in the 00s 💖✨ 📱 MSN Messenger drama📺 Disney Channel marathons💄 Bratz dolls and “fashion passion” energy🎵 Burned CDs with songs recorded off the radio🩷 Glitter EVERYTHING📸 Taking 47 blurry selfies on a digital camera🎀 Claire’s accessories that turned your ears green📖 Mizz magazine quizzes🎶 JLS / Girls Aloud… Read more

00s kids TV themes that should ABSOLUTELY be on Spotify because why are these cinematic masterpieces lost to time?? 😭🎵 📺 Hannah Montana – The Best of Both Worlds📺 Tracy Beaker – Someone Came Along📺 That’s So Raven theme📺 Lizzie McGuire theme📺 The Basil Brush Show theme📺 Drake & Josh theme📺 iCarly – Leave It… Read more

Before Spotify algorithms and “add to playlist,” we had: You didn’t just hear a song back then — you WORKED for it. 📻 Sitting by the radio waiting for your favourite song🎙️ The DJ talking over the intro like a personal attack⏺️ Hitting RECORD too late and missing the first line😭 Accidentally recording the traffic… Read more

“Welcome to ChatGPT.com!”✨ Powered by Next Generation AI Technology!✨ Sign our guestbook!✨ Best viewed in Netscape Navigator! Honestly the idea of 90s ChatGPT is taking me OUT 🤣 You just know:📞 it would disconnect when someone used the house phone💿 it would take 7 minutes to load one answer🌈 the logo would be aggressively rainbow-gradient🎵… Read more

If you were born in the late 80s/90s and raised in Britain, congratulations. You survived one of the weirdest, most iconic eras imaginable. 🤣 Here are the essentials: 📺 Your childhood TV schedule was basically a religionYou knew exactly what time SMTV Live, Live & Kicking or The Story of Tracy Beaker started. Missing an… Read more

We got the best of both worlds honestly. As kids in the 90s:📼 VHS tapes📺 Saturday morning TV rituals🎮 PS1 loading screens that took approximately 4 working days🖍 Gel pens, Tamagotchis, Polly Pockets, inflatable chairs📞 House phones with cords long enough to reach another postcode💿 Buying actual CDs and reading the little lyric booklets Then… Read more