The 80s nostalgia is so weird. "Remember the good old days when no one had a cellphone and at least 3 girls in your grade were 'dating' a teacher? There's no door dash, but you can get Dominos delivered! Don't worry, you have an eating disorder anyway. 🤙" www.404media.co/80s-nostalgi...
Coincidentally the president of the US is frequently stuck in the 1980s
Delivered within 30 minutes, or free! It *was* a magic time!
Everyone wants to return to the time when your parents were hiding the terrors of the world from you.
At least better than the Eastern European 90s nostalagia. "Hey, remember when German shops had signs not to steal in your language, Bulgarian mafia would beat you for opening a stall on the wrong corner and the mullets were ridiculed all over the world?" 😉
... you're kidding me. I thought that was universally seen as the Dark Times, and Eastern Europe nostalgia was for slightly earlier en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie
It really depends if your are old school vatnik, which is slowly dying out breed, or more modern edgelord ranging from new conservative alt-right to typical lolbertarians. Currently the big election promise is basically "we will bring back the 90s."
Well, most Eastern Europeans I talk to are from the Balkans/ex-Yugo and only the *real* edgelords there want the 90s back
Ah, that would indeed be a whole new level of irrational nostalgia.
Smoking everywhere Drunk driving
Who is the target audience here? People like me who were there and know it's bullshit?
The lack of a blue haze over everything and the the lack of the filth on every surface because everyone smoked everyplace.
An acquaintance of mine was a little insulted a few days ago when I mentioned that the post she loved remembering the times before tech ruined everything was AI generated.
I would like to go back to try a slice of that Members Only pizza the gang was eating in the bed of the pickup truck. Sounds exclusive
The 80s? A barely functioning cultural illiterate in the White House; hated of Russia's threat to 'The West'; religious Right on the march spouting hated of LGBTs and entertainment industry; world economy in the doldrums as we scapegoat the economic power of Asia... Nostalgia, or karmic whiplash?
Don't forget to rewind the videotape before you bring it back, or you'll get charged.
also, enjoy falling asleep every night worrying about AIDS or nuclear war!
no wait, i still do that
My late-Millennial daughter & her husband mentioned their generation’s longing for this period today. I think it’s another example of how the “Golden Age”is so often a few years before the person in question was born.
I hope not; the late 70s weren't anything to write home about.
Listening to the same Black Sabbath tape on my Walkman all day long so I didn't have to interact with people.
Solid counterargument
Notice how all the images are of conventionally attractive "high school seniors" who happen to be whiter than sour cream...
Ya gotta admit, there was no better decade for music, though. I found this British hip hop kid who watches videos of our music and reacts to them. He’s delightful! His channel is called Mollyboy TV on the YouTubes. Y’know, the tubes that make up the Internet.
Okay, agree with most of your point, but DoorDash is jacking up delivery fees. It is getting criminal how much it is. 😠