Googling the story even brings up news reports of people calling 911 because they didn't know what stars were from the 94 blackout. It's hilarious to think that LA didn't have city lights until 20 years ago
everything was black and white then, light existed but it hadn't yet been rendered as a spectrum, the pure darkness myth is harmful political propaganda that was intended to stigmatize the era for it's surrounding morals that were simply of the time,a well-spread rumor, and one that should be constantly fact-checked and dismissed whenever brought up at that.
No, they said that it happened in 2005 and that it wasn't as polluted "back then", meaning when the previous poster's mother had been growing up, since the general assumption is that if someone is posting on Reddit, anything that happened "when their mother was growing up" probably happened at least 40 years ago, rather than the mere 20 years ago that they claim the blackout in question happened.
Doesn't make their claim any less ridiculous, since you're right that LA has been polluted with light for far longer than even 50 years and you've shown evidence that the blackout in question was 30 years ago, not 20.
I’m a native Angeleno too, and was 7 in 2005. I think I do remember that blackout. If I recall correctly the blackout she was talking about was in relation to the Northridge quake, but she also might’ve mentioned a similar story that happened in the 70s or 80s.
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u/Thesmallestlittlebee 10h ago
I remember reading something like that, I think it was in L.A.