Post B5i0alDMNjSibLzMn2 by burnitdown@beige.party
(DIR) More posts by burnitdown@beige.party
(DIR) Post #B5goXKHWfSSLatZbou by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-04-26T15:17:38Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
This is a poll for people over 40. At what age did you find nostalgic content most compelling and appealing?
(DIR) Post #B5goecqa2Z4DCVRzDE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-04-26T15:18:57Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
OK now a question for everyone.As you have gotten older have you found that nostalgic content has gotten more appealing? Less appealing?
(DIR) Post #B5gopixndjdhM87Sz2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-04-26T15:20:56Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
One more for everyone. When did you first experience something as being nostalgic?
(DIR) Post #B5gowsivkZYveaZrRw by adriano@lile.cl
2026-04-26T15:22:10Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird less. The whole catering to my generation (people born in the eighties or around) got old faster than I did.
(DIR) Post #B5goyK7pMDMMvZuV72 by hugoestr@functional.cafe
2026-04-26T15:22:20Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird As a teenager
(DIR) Post #B5gp3GO2gU9MmTqls0 by hazelnot@sunbeam.city
2026-04-26T15:23:21Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I'm conflicted because emotionally it tends to work for me when it pushes the right nostalgia buttons but then another part of me is like, "but wait this is just capitalism destroying culture and trying to sell you the last 4-5 decades over and over and over again isn't it"
(DIR) Post #B5gp3yMpANJtBRcQ52 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-04-26T15:23:32Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
OK last one. I realized that "nostalgia" might not be a pleasant thing for everyone. How have you experienced it?
(DIR) Post #B5gp4vHu6JRNvGlp6O by lapis@elekk.xyz
2026-04-26T15:23:37Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I'm a 90s child (in my mid-30s)let me give an example because I was thinking about it just yesterday. Parks.I have nostalgic memories of two things regarding parkssee-saws / teeter-totters that went what felt like super high when I was like in 1st grade,and parks build out of metal and wood.Like maybe it's just my town? they don't make see-saws that way anymore, it's more like a dual bouncy springed seat now. (as far as I can tell). They ALSO line their parks with a spongy material instead of woodchips (Guess which I'd prefer to land on). Also, my memories of that see-saw? It was on a concrete surface, it's not like I think I would have died, but it certainly wasn't super safe.And the wooden-parks. I will not deny from an aesthetic perspective they look nicer than the pre-fabricated plastic ones which look "All the same" to me. something something "got character" But they also require much more maintenance (if your city is willing to do it) also I've heard of assholes burning wooden parks down.Like it's one of those things where I realize a good chunk of the things I yearn for from my childhood it's definitely good are no longer a thing
(DIR) Post #B5gpEubTV3tWhDgh2u by JohnLAlford@mstdn.social
2026-04-26T15:25:26Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird As a late Boomer (before JFK assassination, but not a lot before), I find music from '60s through '80s more appealing, but other media less. Television from that era is hit-or-miss, mostly miss. Movies are tough to take.
(DIR) Post #B5gpG1I27qLFiu7dp2 by thomasjwebb@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T15:25:30Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I remember when I first started using the internet a lot, in my late teens, liking some Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past content I found (blogs, winamp skin, downloadable mp2s yes you read that right) because it made my nostalgic for my early teens. I've definitely felt nostalgia before I was 10 when finding toys from when I was younger. I've observed what might nostalgic behavior from my kids from a very early age (making the crib she used to sleep in play its melodies).
(DIR) Post #B5gpJBk9iRIT0smrrs by jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T15:26:13Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird where's "never"?I mean, I'm 60 now, and I still like what I like. New stuff, old stuff, doesn't really matter, and nostalgia doesn't play a part in it.
(DIR) Post #B5gpK194bYX2QvpzHs by Moss@beige.party
2026-04-26T15:26:20Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I feel like boomers cornered the market on nostalgia, everything in media was already saturated in nostalgia when I was young. Happy Days.
(DIR) Post #B5gpaIn0lv0bmzHd7g by RogerBW@discordian.social
2026-04-26T15:29:19Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I experience nostalgia primarily as a marketing technique: you remember this thing, we're doing a thing that's a bit like it only much worse, give us money.
(DIR) Post #B5gpdzbE3ueJQkWx2u by promovicz@chaos.social
2026-04-26T15:29:55Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird All three. I get nostalgic, but I nudge my feelings back to "here and now". Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and people work/cope very differently?
(DIR) Post #B5gpeq3N2W3m766A8O by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-04-26T15:30:12Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@Moss That was so exhausting. And my memories of boomers getting all sappy and obsessed with 50s crap really put me off ever doing anything similar since it always seemed so sad to me. But IDK if you show me an MTV bumper animation I still might like it.
(DIR) Post #B5gpjmPc0NfeGgrFHk by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T15:30:57Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird FWIW there is a different kind of nostalgia, not related to age, when you migrate out of your country and culture.
(DIR) Post #B5gplIDTF9oPCFtsPY by foolishowl@social.coop
2026-04-26T15:31:18Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird When I was younger, nostalgia occurred "organically". As I've gotten older, it's more and more often obvious manipulation.
(DIR) Post #B5gpomc4gXpuL74ZkW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-04-26T15:31:58Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@keefeglise I'm just talking about the feeling where a smell or seeing something kind of warps you back in time. That realization that the past is gone. The sadness and sense of relief that comes with knowing that time is gone forever. It will never be just like that ever again.
(DIR) Post #B5gpsAqB43taLfHnt2 by CStamp@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T15:32:35Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird It can be all of those things.
(DIR) Post #B5gpxPlT0MEk5Aa8AK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-04-26T15:33:34Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@CStamp That's why I made it a multi poll.But I'm still grouchy about having so few poll options by default on here. It's horrible.
(DIR) Post #B5gq3FUe6dsLxpUoCm by snork303@toot.community
2026-04-26T15:34:35Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebirdI have never found nostalgia appealing. Of course, I often wish people whom I have lost were back in my life, but material objects or pining for the way we used to do things isn't part of the way I'm built.These are the good old days.
(DIR) Post #B5gq9p22t3QNvHFjGq by keithpjolley@discuss.systems
2026-04-26T15:35:45Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird i answered "see results" because there was no "never" option.
(DIR) Post #B5gqAzH6I2FRyoqljU by snork303@toot.community
2026-04-26T15:36:00Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebirdI have never found nostalgia appealing. Of course, I often wish people whom I have lost were back in my life, but material objects or pining for the way we used to do things isn't part of the way I'm built.These are the good old days.
(DIR) Post #B5gqKX0wDX4lE7qDjM by Kierkegaanks@beige.party
2026-04-26T15:37:37Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird i’m not super nostalgic. More i want to run away from here
(DIR) Post #B5gqOirM7Ntl7hMEtM by benroyce@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T15:38:27Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird nothing quite like driving my teenaged daughter somewhere and listening to the radio, a song comes on, and she flawlessly belts out all the lyrics to Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants To The Rule The World"that happened last weekthat's a fucking trip man
(DIR) Post #B5gqVEA4eRKJwSDNWC by Moss@beige.party
2026-04-26T15:39:37Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird sure looking back there were neat bits to appreciate as charming. But like I have nostalgic feelings about the original Battlestar Galactica, and then I remember the Christmas special where the Cylons came to earth and fought 1950s nostalgia DJ Wolfman Jack and *lost*, and we just can’t have nice things.
(DIR) Post #B5gqW8S5Mf0aWX4YMq by burnoutqueen@todon.nl
2026-04-26T15:39:45Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I don't have much nostalgia these days. My past was awful
(DIR) Post #B5gqWwcQqSzg76IWR6 by grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange
2026-04-26T15:39:46Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird i would say I'm my 30s (in large party because i was immersed in the career hustle) i didn't spend much time discovering new things. Now in my 40s i take the time to explore more.
(DIR) Post #B5gqwloVdowO8BGH2G by australopithecus@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T15:44:36Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird A few complicating factors:Depression set in (as typical) in my 30s, so selecting "20s" mostly reflects the overall intensity of affect in general at that age. ADD-related novelty-seeking is strong with me, so nostalgia isn't a powerful motivator in any case. English is inadequate for discussing nostalgia deeply, as it doesn't even have the vocabulary to distinguish between 懐かしい and 切ない
(DIR) Post #B5gr8FbLERSvhWZoMS by serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-04-26T15:46:40Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird my take on nostalgia is, something that was great to experience is gone and there is no appropriate continuation or (re)new(ed) thing that can replace it in one's life - something that "continues the spirit" ...... the reasons why such a break happens can be manifold.
(DIR) Post #B5grFwLCj0yyHbh9vs by msbellows@c.im
2026-04-26T15:47:56Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @Moss The audience for That '70s Show definitely was not people who grew up in the '70s. I'm guessing the Boomers aren't who were watching Happy Days, either.
(DIR) Post #B5grMDpScNK0G5qJbE by pawpower@beige.party
2026-04-26T15:49:12Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I've been thinking about this and it seems to me that the amount of nostalgia one experiences as pleasant is equal to the amount of ones privilege.
(DIR) Post #B5grNxn3DlZ95tXuq0 by pdcawley@mendeddrum.org
2026-04-26T15:49:28Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird it’s lways been the least compelling or appealing content? Not quite sure how to answer the poll.
(DIR) Post #B5grlXsxBayxhZYH0y by 3janeTA@beige.party
2026-04-26T15:53:46Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I’ve been actively opposed to nostalgia since my 20s
(DIR) Post #B5grmJ13xGOZsKhugC by jayalane@mastodon.online
2026-04-26T15:53:50Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird less nostalgic for my own life but show me some art work a kid of mine made when they were little and I can’t keep my equanimity. And I do have the weird experience of hearing music that I desperately wanted to understand as a teenager to fit in, and now it is playing in the grocery store as a sort of modern Muzak; like hey they are playing the Dark Side of the Moon in the utterly conventional shopping thing. Not exactly nostalgia but something to do with time.
(DIR) Post #B5gsOonUF4RZRkin3Y by haljor@sfba.social
2026-04-26T16:00:50Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I'm not sure how to answer this because I (late 50s) grew up on old cartoons and reruns (e.g. Bugs Bunny, Gilligan's Island) and learned to read with old comic books (e.g. Jimmy Olsen, Archie digest reprints).Nearly everything I spent time with was from an era before I was born, so "nostalgia" (in the simple "from the past" sense) has always been a big part of my experience. I still prefer older material to new, so the transition to "my personal past" is kind of a blur.
(DIR) Post #B5gtqTNpYFyv5yTILg by marjolica@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-26T16:17:03Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I'm 75 and I still don't find nostalgic content in the least compelling.
(DIR) Post #B5gtzJd1Bpk5RlnA6S by marjolica@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-26T16:18:32Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird not applicable, still don't at 75.
(DIR) Post #B5guIPT1hnGJ3eDtuS by floatybirb@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T16:22:05Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird From the replies, when different people hear "nostalgia", different definitions pop up in our heads.Some people think "Oh like 50s/60s/70s/80s/90s/00s movies/music/games/tv/books or homages to those things in later works!"Other people think "Oh like a deeply personal sense of retrospective longing or awareness that relates to people and places that I've been!"With these polls, were you going for "media nostalgia", "personal nostalgia", or both?
(DIR) Post #B5gvFQ7EwAws9fAfRo by ricosuave@mastodon.online
2026-04-26T16:32:47Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I can appreciate the polls, but does this one lack the choice of "I'm over 40 but don't really get nostalgic very much"? I'm more of a "make the future better" than a "it used to be so much better because ...".
(DIR) Post #B5gvIXyQB9ALOUXMdU by electropict@mastodon.scot
2026-04-26T16:33:22Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird Interesting questions.As a working definition, nostalgia is a sort of pain felt for something gone or changed (perhaps due to change in self rather than the object of experience). So all nostalgia is mildly unpleasant but that may be overcome by happy memories.I don't think I experience nostalgia for 'content' then, because it's all still available. But people and places, yes....
(DIR) Post #B5gvNrAWEtKSNHjAfY by ShiitakeToast@beige.party
2026-04-26T16:34:14Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I didn’t really miss the 80s and 90s until the 2010s
(DIR) Post #B5gvX97EsixEducgWe by obscurestar@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T16:35:59Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird How about 'over 40 but never' I've never understood the appeal. I was there. I know what it was like. It wasn't magically better, I was just more ignorant.
(DIR) Post #B5gwfyWDkazcKx58aW by opny721@mastodon.uno
2026-04-26T16:48:43Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird "since I noticed the pattern, I started ignoring it"
(DIR) Post #B5gyXYKzPJv8jGwLyK by LPerry2@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T17:09:41Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @Moss So odd. I'm a boomer. I have zero nostalgia for the '50s. Some nostalgia for '60s music but nothing else for that era. Zero for any era after that. I listen to my contemporaries go on about TV shows from 1957 and I'm baffled.
(DIR) Post #B5gzOFXi16Hzmn18s4 by mkb@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T17:19:13Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @Moss Somewhere in the 10-12yo range, I’d made fun of my dad for getting worked up about an album of 1950s music. “Mark my words,” he said, “one day you’re doing to do the same thing over a Kiss album.”A little over a decade later, I stumbled onto Kiss Double Platinum, lost my mind, then realized I owed Dad a phone call.
(DIR) Post #B5h0JOzXYgjxb6Htdw by MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
2026-04-26T17:29:31Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I don't really feel nostalgia so wasn't sure how to answer. Sure, silly things from childhood like Oregon Trail make me laugh, and I love how it gets that response out of everyone my age. But there is nothing in my early life I want so badly that I'd go back. Not if it meant giving up all the knowledge and inner security I have now.These are my watch words:
(DIR) Post #B5h26nDqMFbctK5pjM by babelcarp@social.tchncs.de
2026-04-26T17:49:27Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird At this point I don’t think nostalgia will ever kick in.
(DIR) Post #B5h2bRhIRA716sUBQO by EverydayMoggie@sfba.social
2026-04-26T17:55:13Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Unless I completely misunderstand what you mean by nostalgia, I don't experience that. I remember the past, I have some fond memories, but mostly what I think about it is more along the lines of how glad I am that we don't have to live like that any longer.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B5h4i5vBzu6dVbHee8 by Barbramon1@mas.to
2026-04-26T18:18:50Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird It may be pleasant or sad, or both at the same time. Bittersweet is an apt term.
(DIR) Post #B5h4lGNJaV3qnZwsgy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-04-26T18:19:20Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Barbramon1 It's OK to miss something but still never ever want to go back.
(DIR) Post #B5h5CJVo25IULXoqFk by cpm@spore.social
2026-04-26T18:24:12Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebirdoption 5:'nostalgia' can be a trap
(DIR) Post #B5h5R3BX1CA83LMYXw by Barbramon1@mas.to
2026-04-26T18:26:55Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird Most of the nostalgia I experience has to do with people I loved. I am old, so perhaps that has something to do with it. I have lost a lot of family and contemporaries. I would love, if it were possible, to sit under the old grape arbor wirh grandma again, or stroll through a beautiful spring landscape in New England with my daughter one more time. Happy memories, good times that are gone forever.
(DIR) Post #B5h5wy2PgrkvM9JiaW by Layan2002@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T18:32:41Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @keefeglise 👍
(DIR) Post #B5hAeokfycIf79BYem by saxicola@toot.community
2026-04-26T19:25:28Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I'm over 65 and I don't understand the question. But...My answer might be "I hate nostalgia content". Fuck that I want the new stuff.If I interpret the question in a way that makes sense to an old git like me.
(DIR) Post #B5hMj68WTwHfdk9BI0 by femme_mal@mstdn.social
2026-04-26T21:40:40Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I'm 65 -- I don't experience nostalgia though I still like stuff I liked over time.I still like Blondie and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, but I also like Babymetal and Blackpink. I don't wish to return to the old, I simply acquire more that I enjoy.
(DIR) Post #B5hN09Fq8tBiEWhRwW by nrmacdonald@mastodon.social
2026-04-26T21:43:41Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I'm >70 year.Nostalgia is not a word I like so much as it has a sense of longing for the past with no respect for the dread of past traumatic events.I have both in tonnes. I just have memories some dusted with nostalgia.
(DIR) Post #B5hND2ySnsdOWIirvU by femme_mal@mstdn.social
2026-04-26T21:46:07Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I think nostalgia can be neutral. Or perhaps I think that what I wish to experience from past is something that never should have been lost to begin with.Fresh air; seasonal changes which aren't extremely volatile; climate as it was a lifetime or two ago rather than what we experience now; ecosystems filled with diverse lifeforms which have become scarce or extinct -- all of this is what I want but I don't think of this as nostalgia but a combination of loss, anger, and desire.
(DIR) Post #B5hNI5FxkI172vJFWC by roknrol@beige.party
2026-04-26T21:47:01Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird In my 50's.The past was awful. Yes, even more awful than now.I 'miss' some things from my past, but in no way would I like to return to any era. Alot of my toys growing up, for example...and it would cost me a fortune to get it all back, which I wouldn't do anyway because I've grown and changed.Nostalgia in common society seems to conflate 'less responsibility' with 'the good old days', but I don't see it. If what you miss is being twelve, you don't miss the era.
(DIR) Post #B5hNRWgR8rn4iRC9VA by olena@mementomori.social
2026-04-26T21:48:41Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird there’s no option in the poll for ‘I don’t’. I’m over 40, and I have never ever felt nostalgic. Not about childhood, not about the time when I was young. I may sometimes remember some things I experienced back then and feel a short frustration about not being able to repeat them (like a taste of an apple variety that doesn’t exist anymore), but it’s not nostalgia.
(DIR) Post #B5hNsFrNnc6gME3n72 by DeanFarrell@mstdn.plus
2026-04-26T21:53:33Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I try to avoid romanticized notions of the past; but as a 60-year-old, I simply can't relate to much of today's popular culture. For example, I haven't followed top forty music (or whatever it's called now) since 1985.
(DIR) Post #B5hPAkrzLP9jhPjFTs by Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
2026-04-26T22:08:06Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird sounds like the Portuguese word "saudade", which is specifically a more melancholy/introspective form of nostalgia (as opposed to like, "ooh pogs I remember those! anyway" forms of nostalgia)
(DIR) Post #B5hS2qs7RcDvrOiGhM by h2onolan@infosec.exchange
2026-04-26T22:40:17Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird i found nostalgic content immediately annoying. Over 40.
(DIR) Post #B5hVz0AFLxrfL2byzo by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2026-04-26T23:24:25Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird As long as I can remember, I had an interest in times gone by, before I was born. Childhood interest in dinosaurs and paleontology gave way to devouring books on history and archaeology by my tweens. I wouldn't actually want to live in earlier times, but fantasizing about time travel was an entertaining diversion.
(DIR) Post #B5hX7jaQSTIOU3aJ5k by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2026-04-26T23:37:12Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird On contemplation, I voted for my 40s, because of disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the Federal Flood in New Orleans. Afterwards, "pre-K" (pre Katrina) times, despite being aware of the problems, seemed a golden era, a lost magical OZ.
(DIR) Post #B5i0XLyrkBUnTIaJP6 by flyingsquirrel@mastodon.social
2026-04-27T05:06:40Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I think I'd probably be hopelessly and perpetually nostalgic if nostalgia wasn't being so cynically and artlessly deployed repeatedly over the last decade or two.
(DIR) Post #B5i0alDMNjSibLzMn2 by burnitdown@beige.party
2026-04-27T05:07:20Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird i said "in my 20s" but i was going to 80s night at Barrymore's Music Hall in my late teens. i wasn't at all interested in alcohol but to avoid getting carded anyway, i'd sneak in before anything started, while they were playing X-Files on the big screen. sadly, that place hasn't hosted a concert or anything at all in more than ten years. it was such a good space for shows but the owner was a real dickhead who would regularly get into childish disputes with other night club owners. it was originally the Empire Theatre, a big house movie theatre, in the 1920s.
(DIR) Post #B5i0qa5TWJ32iyqQCG by burnitdown@beige.party
2026-04-27T05:10:15Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird i was a child in the 80s and something about 80s music and movies really left a mark on me.
(DIR) Post #B5i1GPqIEUmgTo3uwi by burnitdown@beige.party
2026-04-27T05:14:55Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird movies like The Crow and Donny Darko put the sadness in me. i can't listen to Joy Division without crying. especially Transmission, and Dead Souls.
(DIR) Post #B5i1p7AtdALqibFFC4 by burnitdown@beige.party
2026-04-27T05:21:12Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird @keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk youtube kills me sometimes. there is a video of a show that took place in 1996, at a long-gone place called The Pit that was the diviest of punk dive bars, where all-ages shows regularly happened. i was there as often as possible. i don't think i'm in the video but it's a real trip seeing Bertha Does Moosejaw playing on that stage again, and all of the people i knew back then.
(DIR) Post #B5i2EZIwBMP5CV8woC by RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo
2026-04-27T05:25:46Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird Probably like 10, but i have also slowly come to realize that nostalgia is a ruse over the years.
(DIR) Post #B5iCIQSY0bTYT67HHM by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2026-04-27T07:18:24Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird This is all just a setup for a "nostalgia isn't what it used to be" punchline, right?
(DIR) Post #B5iSEs6srS1kKjJJrc by tommoree@mastodon.social
2026-04-27T10:17:10Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird On balance, I like a good yearn. This tune made me aware of the power of nostalgia when I was in my teens. I’d dismissed uk nostalgia as hankering after war and empire days that never existed, or weren’t good for most people. I loved the song even though it sounded nothing like the other stuff I was listening to, and I realised I was as susceptible to the feeling as anyone else.https://youtu.be/EOAZqrfcNOk?si=B_ft9bO92HODJ_Cc
(DIR) Post #B5iXxFylycuusIV5hQ by thecrushedviolet@mstdn.games
2026-04-27T11:21:12Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird I don't feel the 80s 'nostalgia' has gone away for one single second of my adult life and I'm very tired of it.I do have nostalgia for the 90s, I guess. But all of that music and TV has always been available to me, too.
(DIR) Post #B5iaJNJZaHFpu8u7KC by cwdolunt@dice.camp
2026-04-27T11:47:37Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird Keep moving forward or die. Good, bad, indifferent, it doesn’t matter, just keep on keeping on. Of course, that’s just how I stay sane.
(DIR) Post #B5icuntluOmwyYoLCq by deborahh@cosocial.ca
2026-04-27T12:16:45Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird *marketed* nostalgia can be icky 😖
(DIR) Post #B5kLtbAyPp06K6cGy8 by KanaMauna@sauropods.win
2026-04-28T08:15:33Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird N/A - nostalgia is for people who want to experience a sanitized version of the past perpetually. I like a lot of old stuff, particularly music, but I have no interest in new stuff that is cynically disguised as old. Blind worship of nostalgia is completely ruining new movies.Also, MAGA is just politicalized nostalgia.
(DIR) Post #B5n37Ky49tBgSCIQrI by grendel84@tiny.tilde.website
2026-04-29T15:29:12Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebirdIt might be wise to account for the average age distribution of fedi users and weight the values accordingly