[HN Gopher] Yes, I Got That Reference. But Who Cares?
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       Yes, I Got That Reference. But Who Cares?
        
       Author : ssklash
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2022-06-02 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ggm wrote:
       | Because the money is in the older audience with nostalgia
        
       | al_borland wrote:
       | I get why they do it. It's an easy way to make something new seem
       | familiar... and people like the familiar.
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       | When I think about it, I can't help but think of it like memories
       | with long time friends. When you're young you don't have any
       | shared memories with people, so you spend all your time making
       | memories. As you get older you start spending less time making
       | memories and more time talking about those old memories you made
       | long ago.
       | 
       | When a movie or TV show is nothing but old references, it is like
       | that old chat at the bar between really old friends who have run
       | out of things to talk about. "Remember when...", "Yep." "Oh...".
       | 
       | I hope as I grow older I can keep making an effort to make new
       | memories and I hope this phase in media doesn't last too long so
       | we can have a higher percentage of new stories instead of new
       | stories that just remind us of older ones. The younger crowd may
       | know something is a reference, but have no connection to the
       | source material. At some point it becomes as abstract has the
       | save icon for people who have never seen a floppy disk.
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       | I am now become aware that this view might just be due to my age.
       | This same thing likely happened with every generation, but you
       | only realize it when you're old enough to actually get the
       | references. After all, every creative work is influenced by what
       | that came before it. Some influences are just a little more
       | obvious than others.
        
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       | mc4ndr3 wrote:
       | People don't make jokes anymore. They make references. "That
       | reminds me of..." Yeah, yeah very cool, you're using metaphorical
       | reasoning like an early ape.
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       | "It's like when..." Probably not, but the comfort one derives
       | from a pretense of continuous thought must keep the blood
       | pressure down.
        
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