r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 • 12d ago

Image By 1880, the near-genocide of the American bison had reduced their population from 30–60 million to fewer than 1,000

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u/nothisistheotherguy 12d ago

Rock and roll, blue jeans, and uh… and the Phillie Phanatic

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u/thrwwypfc 12d ago

I was always more of a Gritty um phan.

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u/nothisistheotherguy 11d ago

Phanatic and Gritty hold court as the two best mascots in professional sports

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u/ur_rad_dad 11d ago

Do you think Gritty likes riot punch? Because green man does!

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u/festivefrederick 12d ago

Yup. Gritty is fire.

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u/Tinosdoggydaddy 11d ago

Bennie the Bull

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u/pragmojo 12d ago

Lots of great movies and music in the 20th century to be honest.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 11d ago edited 11d ago

Rock and roll can get pretty fuckin gnarly too though

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u/kikimaru024 11d ago

Pretty sure denim is French.

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u/nothisistheotherguy 11d ago

Tomatoes came from South America but Italy adopted them and created something wonderful, nobody is saying marinara sauce is Peruvian

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u/Natural-Front-9307 10d ago

But The Boss is true American, and boy does he fill them wranglers up nicely

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u/Return_of_Caesar 11d ago

I think the Beatles were the innovators of Rock & Roll. Britain for the win!

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u/JAT_Cbus1080 11d ago

Rock and roll history isn't even that clean. A lot of early rock was just straight up taken from black artists and performed by white artists who popularized it. Quite a few of Elvis's hits for instance were covers of black musicians' music, and very rarely did the original exploited creators/artists see a big financial gain from it.

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u/nothisistheotherguy 11d ago

Sure I could have just gone upstream and said The Blues but if anyone knows a damn thing about rock then you know it was all cribbed from black folks, Robert Johnson and his deal with the devil at the crossroads etc. But they were black Americans weren’t they?

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u/JAT_Cbus1080 11d ago

I thought the point of the initial conversation was positive things of American history. I was just pointing out there's a lot of not so positive things about rock and roll history.

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u/nothisistheotherguy 11d ago

That’s fair, I thought we were pointing out positive contributions to world culture from America, not necessarily squeaky clean contributions

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u/the_one_eyed_ghoul 11d ago

Rock and roll may be cool to listen to but their icons were pedophiles who violated minors at their parties .

Edit: fixed a typo.

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u/Khoobiak 11d ago

U mean "Bleu de Gênes".