#Moral Panics

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Video thumbnail — Mortal Kombat 2 - The Fatalities (Arcade - 1993)
Video Games 1992–1997

Mortal Kombat Finishers

"FINISH HIM!" — and now you had about three seconds to nail a memorized joystick incantation, at exactly the right distance, for exactly your character. Land it and the whole arcade turned to watch. Fatality. Or, if you were feeling truly disrespectful: Friendship.

A man photographed from behind in New York in 2009, his grey trousers and studded belt sagging below red boxer shorts
Fashion 1990s–2000s peak

Sagging pants

Jeans worn low enough to show the boxers, the hip-hop look that parents, principals and eventually city councils spent two decades trying to legislate away. Everyone had a theory about where it came from; nobody could prove one.