With the end of MTV and stranger things, love for the 80s seems to be going down. In 2026, no one has love for the 70s anymore and the 80s is only a decade after. I imagine 80s nostalgia is going to stick around for a bit longer because of both the culture it established and the fact that we see it as the metric for better times in comparison to today’s standards, but the people who identify with the 80s are reaching 50, some 60. Will we ever see as much nostalgia for the 90s as much as we have seen for the 80s?
>>217065711I'll be interested to see how 90s nostalgia is handled, I don't feel like it's in full swing besides some random movies from fags like Kevin Smithit's been really funny seeing Gen-Z and Gen Alpha react to 90s movies where the entire plot revolves around the characters being mad at how safe and nice the world is, and them thinking the protagonist is a massive faggot
80s nostalgia was like 20 years ago dude. Nostaliga rides the 20 year mark, you dont remember the 60s revival in the 80s and the 70s in the 90s? The kiddies are into 2000s shit now. the 90s are like totally over.
>>217065711in the mid 90s there was 80s nights. it had a clear sound that was clearly dated but fun. its more pop and colorful than other decades. i guess 60s hippie is always in the backburner. and guys like dirty earth tones garage rocking of the 70s as a lifestyle. so its retro forever. inthe commercial world... they just had the idea that 80s toys can make franchises so they have yet to sook this dry. late 90s had all the ingredients of how i still live to this day, how i use internet, how i download information so its less exotic.
'80s nostalgia will never end, it's undefeatableIt has cemented its place as the greatest decade in human history
>>217065757its not clear cut like that. the 60s revival was super strong in the 90s with teh doors movie, retro rock of oasis/kravitz/dee lite. the rainbow festival thing. i just have seen a handful of bad art imititating shit graphics of 2000s but maybe there will be more of that idk. the idea of that aesthetic was kind of exhausted by now, contemporary artists harvesting all the aesthetic detritus of internet pop culture in their art was a thing since the early 00s ironically enough
>>217065927>, contemporary artists harvesting all the aesthetic detritus of internet pop culture in their art was a thing since the early 00s ironically enoughAI does that now.
>>217065711the new trend is 2000s nostalgia
Will there be any nostalgia for the 2020s? The only thing from this decade I can see people being nostalgic over are the kids that had a 2 year long spring break from the pandemic, and even then, it was mostly enjoyed by asocial peopleMore than ever, young are complaining how hard it is to live comfortably in today’s times. How boomers had it easy and are dismissing the plights of the younger people in every way they can. How rent and cost for shit like fast food has skyrocketed while wages stagnated. How more and more companies are putting out job applications but not hiring anyone to give themselves the outward appearance of growth. How all the degrees people were told to follow are being filled by H1B jeets and possibly made obsolete by AI. More than ever, the average person is becoming aware of how much influence Israel has over the US. If anything, this decade is marked by discontent and is possibly, hopefully, the start of change
>>217065711>>217065757This. You couldn't buy a nu-metal back in the day without it including some 1980s cover song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOGff2XDtMkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlIbq115p4shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8d-Kx4S9OEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duEzMp0ZhEAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPsFVTPm1qcetcnotice how the first two are from movie soundtracks as well.
Nostalgia rides the 20-30 years ago, so right now it's nostalgia for 1996-2006. You've got Donkey Kong getting his moment in the sun, you've got Malcolm in the Middle getting a revival, top Christmas movies included The Santa Clause and Jingle All the Way to just about Four Christmases and the Jim Carrey Grinch movie.What's waning Forrest Gump shit's fallen out of conversation altogether instead of being the head of the Oscar Bait vs Edgy Kinos debate, they still have the Shrimp Restaurant in Times Square, like so many other Times Square nostalgia restaurants that exist for people to remember. What's waxing Harry Potter people are mad for and over that shit right now, hell Bill Clinton is a filthy sex freak is back in the news
>>217066084>More than ever, young are complaining how hard it is to live comfortably in today’s times. How boomers had it easy and are dismissing the plights of the younger people in every way they can. How rent and cost for shit like fast food has skyrocketed while wages stagnated. How more and more companies are putting out job applications but not hiring anyone to give themselves the outward appearance of growth. How all the degrees people were told to follow are being filled by H1B jeets and possibly made obsolete by AI. More than ever, the average person is becoming aware of how much influence Israel has over the USI just hope 2026 will mean beginning of better timeshttps://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.reddit.com/r/decadeology/comments/1no2wmc/the_thrifty_thirties_my_predictions_for_what_the/&ved=2ahUKEwidkf3Jou2RAxWdFRAIHf83BxsQFnoECCIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0SuAHtmDJd7xwWqYv6pdGa
Late 90s is the new trend, expect Friends revival anyday soon
>>217066084In the year 2045 people will get really nostalgic over Twitch Streams and TikTok dances and will wax nostalgic about a time when Taylor Swift dominated music with soft relatable pop anthems
>>217066194They opened a Gimmick Central Perk coffee shop/gift store recently in Times Square to go along with the very popular "Friends Experience" so Friends Nostalgia is in full swing, they don't need a revival cause it's the same as Seinfeld even before the Michael Richards thing, the show was too financially successful for the actors to give a shit. The characters are completed. They did release the lost Joey episodes though.
>>217066084>it was mostly enjoyed by asocial peopleAlmost half of all asocial people were, and still are, panic posting on the internet about how first the virus and then later the vaccine existed only to kill them personally as well as the rest of the planet. 5 years later, it's still two more weeks until everyone drops dead.And then almost an entire other half now used the lockdown as an excuse to justify why they were and still are friendless loner virgins who never had a girlfriend. Some went even as far as to claim that they were super popular Epic Chads leading up to the lockdown but then they somehow last all of their friends and social skills during lockdown and were never able to recover. They always made a big show of being all OH NO DAMNIT, STUPID LOCKDOWN, I CAN'T GO PARTY WITH 100 OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS LIKE I DO EVERY WEEKEND, NOW I HAVE TO POST VIDEO GAME MEMES ON 4CHANand then there's maybe 1-5% of asocial people like myself who genuinely enjoyed the lockdown and wished it lasted longer.
80s nostalgia started in 2002 and hasn't stopped. It's not going anywhere.>>21706575590s nostalgia started in 2011, ans while not as pronounced as 80s nostalgia, is still hanging on.
>>217066084there's been a concerted effort by basically everyone to try and forget that 2020-2021 ever happened, no one wants to relive it and absolutely no one other than broke basement dwellers are nostalgic for itI doubt we see any COVID-related media for 10-15 years and it'll only come about once people who were too young to really remember it become adults
>>217066609so are you a conspiracy loner, or a "I was a normie chad before covid" loner?maybe both?and really it's not that people are making active efforts to forget covid and the lockdown, it's that nothing really happened.People had to go without night clubs and restaurant buffets for a little while and had to wear a mask and wipe their hands before going grocery shopping, and then things went back to normal.There was like BLM vs white power riots and protests, but that sort of shit happens all the time. Jan 6 happened but it had practically nothing to do with covid. It also turned out to be a big fat boring nothing burger.Also I guess there were no school shootings during that time since kids were on Zoom calls.
>>217065895all I recognize here is ET and Super girl, what's all that other trash?
>>217067373Lol, lmao
>>217067373What I recognizeSecond row from topKnight Rider (David Hasselhoff holding a science laser gun with some broad)Never End Story (boy riding a fuzzy muppet dragon)Third row from bottomMr T from the TV series The A Team (Black man with a mohawk)Last rowThe Dungeons & Dragons cartoon seriesThe very first Terminator movieThere's also non-movie stuff like a music album, a bike and a drink, and an arcade cabinet.Also that's probably a james bond movie up top.
>>217067373Go find out you little shit
>>21706571180's nostalgia has overstayed its welcome for so long because old people stopped retiring and no new blood gets in because if the low level job doesnt get outsourced to some Indian, they're only gonna hire someone who has years of experience which means more old people.80's was the big nostalgic generation 20 years ago when I was a teen in the 2000s. In twent fucking twenty five it STILL hasn't moved on. A few exceptions for 90s shit slip through, but they're rare exceptions. This is because 80s kids were the last generation who didn't have their futures utterly raped by boomers.
>>217067535That's not Knight Rider it's VAlso the Scharzenegger shot is Red Heat not Terminator
>>217067601Oh no! Do I get a passing grade anyways or do I need to retake my 1980s nostalgia test?
>>217065895born in 73. the 80s was shit except for select movies and games
>>217065711No. Because it was never nostalgia. The 80s just became culture. The 80s nostalgia wave should have ended a decade ago but they didn't. The 90s nostalgia wave began a decade ago and is still going. But the 80s persists in culture anyway. Because it's not just 40-50 year olds who enjoy it, younger generations embraced it as well.
>>217067981The only people I know from the '80s who didn't love it are women with no personality and paupers
>>217067664You pass if you can tell me TV show this game is based on
>>217068226Rocky?
>>217068174>>t. hikikomori chud
I feel that the surge of internet usage in the mid 2010s is one of the root causes for most of the loss of mainstream culture we see today. Now everyone is tapped into the web at all times thanks to their phones. Celebrities aren’t made on the silver screen, they’re made through social media and live streams. Social media is too diffused into microcosms for shit like E! or the Soup to ever work in today’s world. Even people have taken notice that memes are dying because everything is becoming decentralized
>>217065711Can we just go back to the 60s and 70s nostalgiaThe music and drugs from that era were the best. Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Queen. Modern era sucks donkey dick. I'm sick of nigger rap and fent zombies
>>217068688bot posthi gpt
>>217065711There is always 90s to milk
>>217065711Good. its been over 20 years on nonstop 80's nostalgia and it got old about a decade ago
>>217068782I’m sorry for the way I type. Do you want me to use ebonics next time so your niggerbrain can process it easier?
>>21706589590% of this shit sucks. wow! never ending story, the worst james bond movie ever, krull and a forgotten supergirl movie. take me back!
>>217068753fuck hippies. that ideology eventually led to everything thats bad in the america today
>>217068753sorry but i listen to 90s rock/metal and 60/70s rock only once in a blue moon when i need a break
Anons who lived through the 90s, were they as magical as I imagine it to be?You started off with the fall of the berlin just months ago. The world wide web took off and as limited as it was, it still was very promising. You guys started off with colorful 16-bit games and eventually experienced the jump to 3D gaming. There were talks of going back to the moon. CGI started to advance and shit like Jurassic Park and Toy Story showed the world the new capabilities Hollywood had. You had the comfiest rap and shit was still affordable back then. Then there was the fact that the next millennium was looming over you the whole time and it probably reeked with optimism for what the future holds
>>21706958290s was a really good decade to be a kid in. most of the best cartoons and video games of all time came out in those 10 years
Nostalgia is the only bankable thing anymore because the era of pop culture being innovative has completely died out at least a decade ago.The days of creating a new character or IP is gone. You don't get popular characters like Bart Simpson, Buzzlightyear or the Minions anymore because its easier to just milk an existing franchise to death and move to another one. That's basically what the movie and TV industry is nowadays. Look at Disney live action remakes and all the TV reboots happening now
>>217069744Disney buying everything about a decade ago is also the reason. when one giant company owns the majority of media getting produced its no wonder its just endless sequels and remakes forever
>>217069107Yeah, I suppose you're right, but still, the music was really good
We're skipping right over 90s nostalgia because 90s kids are currently in the middle of an ongoing existential crisis where everything they were promised in their youth was either ripped from under them or not real in the first place and they don't know how to cope.
>>21706990190s nostalgia was everywhere in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Stranger Things is what led people to switch to 80s nostalgia
>>217069582Yes. I turned 15 in 1990. Through high school, serving in the army, and going to college in that decade, all I did was>crush ass despite being a 7 at best>party all the time>go to fucking insane concerts: saw Nirvana in 1990 when they were a four-piece; saw Lollapalooza 1 and 2; was in London for college and went to Reading Weekend, etc.>go clubbing at Gatecrasher and all these hole in the wall places>travel Europe and it was nothing but white people>frequently road-tripped America to check out all the local music scenes in Austin, Chapel Hill, Athens, etc.>go to movie houses in the big cities which were cheap, never crowded, and were always showing wild stuff not on video>enjoy college towns and their bookstores and cafesI could go on for hours, man. It was awesome. I knew the 00s would suck somehow, and I wasn't wrong. The last 25 years have been fucking garbage. Maybe it's just loss of youth and rose-colored lenses, but it seems like kids growing up after I did got robbed.
>>217070006>Maybe it's just loss of youth and rose-colored lensesIt’s the jews, 9/11, and boomer vampirism
>>217065711Yes, they milked it to death. I'll always enjoy 80's media and the good parts of the retro-revival stuff (some synthwave etc), but they've really made it into some kind of bloated overdone thing. I don't think 90's-and-onwards nostalgia will take off in the same way though. There's no memetic 'thing' about the 90's or any 00's like there was about the 80's.
>>217069582Honestly, yes. Since I'm a nerd who loves games and movies, the 90's to early 00's were fucking amazing. Things just became better and better year by year (until all progress stopped forever and things started to decrease in quality, which is still ongoing).
>>217066443Came here to post this. 90s nostalgia seems to wax and wane every few years now, while 80s nostalgia has been going strong for 2 decades.
>>21706983660's and 70's music is pretty great. but I dont think that was worth all the other shit from those decades
>>217069901Thank you boomers
>>217065711I think it's more a case of the current generation being nostalgic for the era when they were a kid. Actual 80s movies were very nostalgic for the 1950s and a lot would have flashbacks about how whatever present event actually started in the 50s. But at the same time, it does seem like the 90s never had the nostalgia appeal of the 80s. I really felt like the 80s fetish peaked with the whole new retro wave music stuff and has fizzled out since then. Stuff Stranger Things started when the fad was still more popular.
>>217071473>Stuff like Stranger Things
>>217065711Fucking 80s, man, best shit ever. Bet your ass, man.Guns N' Roses fucking rules. Crüe. Def Lep.Then that Cobain pussy had to come around and ruin it all. Like there's something wrong with wanting to have a good time.I'll tell you something. I hated the fucking 90s.90s fucking sucked.
>>217065711SAAR
>>217069582Yes. You might have had a cellphone but it didn't have the internet so when you hung out with people everyone wasn't starring at their phone.
