Video Format: Short
This is the filtered video lane for this format inside Smells Like Gen X — a cleaner way to browse the archive by how the nostalgia gets delivered.
Use this page when you want a specific presentation style instead of bouncing through every type of Gen X chaos at once.
Short Video Lanes
Use these routes when you want to narrow this format by decade or by topic.
Warm analog damage
Filter this format through the 70s if you want the earlier, stranger, softer-lit version of the same Gen X brain rot.
The flagship overkill era
Use the 80s route when you want the loudest, strongest, most chemically imbalanced version of this format.
The cooler hangover
Use the 90s route when you want the glossier, more cynical version of this same delivery style.
Songs, charts, and radio damage
Open the music lane when you want this format aimed straight at songs, countdowns, radio trauma, and chart rot.
Multiplex and VHS brain rot
Open the movie lane when you want this format filtered through box office damage, VHS immortals, and blockbuster excess.
Attitude, jokes, and daily damage
Open the Gen X Life lane when you want this format pointed at survival humor, adult disappointment, and your generation’s favorite emotional defects.
Short Videos
Everything currently tagged into the Short video archive.
The Top 5 Songs THIS WEEK In 1987!
These are the top 5 songs for the week ending June 27th in 1987! How many of these…
The Top 5 Songs Today Jan 29th In 1984
🎧 On this day — January 29, 1984: the charts were stacked. Here are the Top 5 Songs…
Happy Gen X Dad
When you're kid chooses Gen X over Gen A, it makes you happy (but still sarcastic) Gen X…
The Top 5 Songs From Jan 23rd 1983!
Relive January 23rd, 1983 🔥 Here are the Top 5 songs that were owning the charts: 1. “Down…
DON’T MISS THE REWIND
Short is only one delivery system.
Go broader with all videos, jump by decade or topic, or head back to YouTube for the full mess.