Revisiting Nostalgia In Real Life is never the same

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Revisiting Nostalgia In Real Life is never the same Sept 21, 2020 5:52:30 GMT 10

Post by John Titor on Sept 21, 2020 5:52:30 GMT 10

This is kind of like a rant/Ted talks, but nostalgia is something that is in our minds, the yearning for how things used to be. If
only X_______ and X____________ was back man that would be awesome, that would be a whole nother level. I will give you
a few examples of what I mean with this. Revisiting nostalgia is never the same when you go back for a moment.

Blockbuster Video-

So a year or 2 ago I went to the last Blockbuster in bend Oregon, I was amazed and was surreal that I was walking in a Blockbuster for the first time in years, but...... after 20 min the nostalgia wore off and realized it was kind of a pain looking for Dvd's in the aisle, It kind out grew it's reunion super fast and I got tired of it, what made matters worse is near my old stomping grounds there was ANOTHER video rental store called Family Video that acted and looked identical to Blockbuster, and yes I did go inside and the nostalgia wore off once again.

MTV TRL -

I went to a MTV TRL taping when MTV brought the show back in 2017, I was beyond stoked, it was TRL ! Total Request Live ! Nope...... the nostalgia wore off stupid quick, we were watching videos that could have been clicked if we went on youtube, sitting there for 2 hours waiting for a countdown (at that time MTV brought back the countdown) but none of it was exclusive, all of it was on youtube On Demand at any time, to make matters worse the set looked even worse then old stage, it looked like cheap cardboard tbh.
As you can see MTV canceled TRL shortly after again lol

Circuit City -

So a year ago for halloween the old Circuit City came back and opened has a spooky store with costumes, I walked in side and it looked exactly the same, same shelves, same TVS actually and everything, after 5 min
it out wore it's welcome and I got bored.

Michael Jordan playing on the Wizards -

in the early 2000s MJ himself returned to the NBA to the Wizards of course..... I attended a game in 2003 and MJ sucked, he could not even move(granted he was older at that time) but it left a really bad taste in my mouth... it was never the same as the bulls Jordan we all know and love. When everyone was leaving for the parking spots I could overhear people saying their image of MJ is ruined,and wow not what I expected.

So what I am trying to say is when revisiting old places/environments/stores they usually aren't able to keep up with the image we had in our mind way back when. They tend to fade off very quickly nostalgia wise.

Special shoutout to slashpop kev2000sfan

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Revisiting Nostalgia In Real Life is never the same Sept 21, 2020 7:28:34 GMT 10

Post by daywatch on Sept 21, 2020 7:28:34 GMT 10

You're right, hence the pointless reboots and revivals of the 2010s.

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Revisiting Nostalgia In Real Life is never the same Sept 21, 2020 7:48:24 GMT 10

Post by John Titor on Sept 21, 2020 7:48:24 GMT 10

Sept 21, 2020 7:28:34 GMT 10 daywatch said:

You're right, hence the pointless reboots and revivals of the 2010s.

the only one that got it right was Fuller House

TRL - Failure
Girl Meets World -failure
Ravens Home - Failure
Lion King - Failure
Murphy Brown - failure

With the exception of maybe Lion King these are all shows that were part of a zeightgiest and can not be duplicated in a different era

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Revisiting Nostalgia In Real Life is never the same Sept 21, 2020 10:37:34 GMT 10

Post by kev2000sfan on Sept 21, 2020 10:37:34 GMT 10

All of the things you listed is the wrong way to go about it. Nostalgia is a feel good method that shouldn't be used just in any case. When I get into the phase, last decade music videos, video games and cartoons/anime is all I really need. More specifically, the music solidifies the culture and atmosphere of when in its own.

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Revisiting Nostalgia In Real Life is never the same Sept 21, 2020 10:43:47 GMT 10

Post by John Titor on Sept 21, 2020 10:43:47 GMT 10

Sept 21, 2020 10:37:34 GMT 10 kev2000sfan said:

All of the things you listed is the wrong way to go about it. Nostalgia is a feel good method that shouldn't be used just in any case. When I get into the phase, last decade music videos, video games and cartoons/anime is all I really need. More specifically, the music solidifies the culture and atmosphere of when in its own.

I think it's a little bit different if you are in that atmosphere again like I was in a real life Blockbuster in 2018, it kind chips away at it if it makes sense.
But then again as you said the atmosphere was a thing of its time. It is not going to translate the same energy as it did in the 2000s

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Revisiting Nostalgia In Real Life is never the same Sept 21, 2020 11:24:08 GMT 10

Post by kev2000sfan on Sept 21, 2020 11:24:08 GMT 10

Sept 21, 2020 10:43:47 GMT 10 John Titor said:

Sept 21, 2020 10:37:34 GMT 10 kev2000sfan said:

All of the things you listed is the wrong way to go about it. Nostalgia is a feel good method that shouldn't be used just in any case. When I get into the phase, last decade music videos, video games and cartoons/anime is all I really need. More specifically, the music solidifies the culture and atmosphere of when in its own.

I think it's a little bit different if you are in that atmosphere again like I was in a real life Blockbuster in 2018, it kind chips away at it if it makes sense.
But then again as you said the atmosphere was a thing of its time. It is not going to translate the same energy as it did in the 2000s

I think we're just using different perspectives. Haha I forgot to mention movies. You have four methods of healthy nostalgia. You can't hunt for it, bruh. That's abusing it.

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Revisiting Nostalgia In Real Life is never the same Sept 22, 2020 1:52:59 GMT 10

Post by slashpop on Sept 22, 2020 1:52:59 GMT 10

I think certain things don't age well and you can't really force it. Other times it depends what it means to you.

I think it has to do with the appeal of something being very tied down to an era and being a product of technology or a fad that simply lost its meaning and doesn't stand the test of time.

Then again I think it depends on what it means to you.

These are things that haven't aged well for a lot of people:

90s

Pogs
Tucked in shirts
Long flannel
Bowl cut
Seinfield and Fraser
Early 3d games from 1992-1995

00s

European beach techno music
Bleached flares
Shaggy emo hair
Mp3 players and ipods
Retro sunglasses

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