[ SECRET POST #5370 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5370 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

in classic GenX fashion I'm skeptical of anyone younger than me claiming to be nostalgic for the 80s. or, well, I guess there's a few years of wiggle room there, so anyone under 40. I've been leaning hard into nostalgia due to the pandemic dragging my midlife crisis out into an entire decade of self-loathing and there's definitely good things, the music and movies yes, but I think there's something about what people think is an 80s aesthetic that actually never was. it was never wall-to-wall synthwave and Miami Vice neon and trapper keepers, that was merely a subset of various subgenres around 85 and whole segments of culture were nothing like that.

okay except the trapper keepers. those were universal.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this, hard.

I was born in the 80's (I'm 35), but I'm a 90's kid, because I don't remember the 80's at all. I don't know how somebody can get nostalgic for something they didn't live through..?

The music, sure. There're kids these days who listen to their parents music, and their parents are my age, so they could have memories attached to that stuff, same with films, but the fashion and actual era? No. They're not nostalgic for the 90s, they're nostalgic for their childhoods and music and movies bleed over eras.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

high five! my roommate is your age and we do have a lot of overlap in our tastes but also a lot of times when we go "nah I don't remember that," either she was too young or I was too old. I feel you on that.

It's fun! but there's a point where I'm wondering how much is just glomming onto what other people say was popular in the 80s without actually remembering it in any sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps they've heard 80s music and liked it more than the music from the 90s- as well as the films, TV shows, and fashions.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Yeah, I was born in '84, so obviously I have very minimal memories of the '80s as a whole, but I'm fond of a lot of the music from that decade because I remember hearing it a lot when I was little, either when my parents were watching MTV or on the radio or cassette tapes or whatever.

I grant that a lot of '80s music is cheesy as hell and dated, but eh, lucky for me I have a healthy threshold for cheesy music, so...:D.

[(Anonymous)]

As a 37 year old, my early memories are of the 80s but I came up in the 90s. I feel like the 80s aesthetic is very appealing and pseudo nostalgic but I have a very proprietary feeling about gen z appropriating 90s shit, like "Get your own stuff. Leave this alone. You don't even understand it."

[tabaqui]

I had a Trapper Keeper in 6th grade! It had daisies and a bunny on it. Trapper Keepers definitely pre-date the 80's.

[(Anonymous)]

I’m younger than 40 and had several much older siblings so the 80s lasted a long time in my house. I have a lot of nostalgia for the music and the movies.