This is a poll for people over 40.
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OK last one. I realized that "nostalgia" might not be a pleasant thing for everyone. How have you experienced it?
@futurebird I'm interpreting 'nostalgia' as personal memories of one's past (as opposed to watching something like the 90's Gargoyles television series again in my forties)
That can be very bittersweet for me. Remembering old friends I'll never see again (because they are different people now) or places I'll never go back to (because they don't exist anymore) I cherish the memories and even the pain of missing them because that makes the experience even more meaningful.
Ay me. Parting is such sweet sorrow.
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@futurebird It can be all of those things.
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.
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@futurebird FWIW there is a different kind of nostalgia, not related to age, when you migrate out of your country and culture.
@blogdiva @futurebird saudade, or in my case, nostalgia for what my country could have been, when seen from very far.
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This is a poll for people over 40. At what age did you find nostalgic content most compelling and appealing?
@futurebird
I 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. -
@futurebird less. The whole catering to my generation (people born in the eighties or around) got old faster than I did.
@adriano @futurebird didn't it just?
We were reaching that age where we wanted to start sharing things from our childhood with our kids and there were so many reboots of 80s and 90s TV shows and it was awesome until actually they were all just... bad.* I went from excited to avoidant in a very short time.
* Notable exception here for Danger Mouse, the new version of which was every bit as good as the original -
This is a poll for people over 40. At what age did you find nostalgic content most compelling and appealing?
@futurebird i answered "see results" because there was no "never" option.
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This is a poll for people over 40. At what age did you find nostalgic content most compelling and appealing?
@futurebird
I 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.
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This is a poll for people over 40. At what age did you find nostalgic content most compelling and appealing?
@futurebird i’m not super nostalgic. More i want to run away from here
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OK last one. I realized that "nostalgia" might not be a pleasant thing for everyone. How have you experienced it?
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 week
that's a fucking trip man
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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.
@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.
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OK last one. I realized that "nostalgia" might not be a pleasant thing for everyone. How have you experienced it?
@futurebird I don't have much nostalgia these days. My past was awful
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This is a poll for people over 40. At what age did you find nostalgic content most compelling and appealing?
@futurebird i would say in 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.
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@futurebird i would say in 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.
@futurebird and by nostalgic content i refer to actual content from primarily my middle school and high school days. Not like, newly developed content meant to make me think about that time
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This is a poll for people over 40. At what age did you find nostalgic content most compelling and appealing?
@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 -
OK last one. I realized that "nostalgia" might not be a pleasant thing for everyone. How have you experienced it?
@futurebird i always feel nostalgia to be bittersweet!
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OK last one. I realized that "nostalgia" might not be a pleasant thing for everyone. How have you experienced it?
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.
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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.
@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.
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OK last one. I realized that "nostalgia" might not be a pleasant thing for everyone. How have you experienced it?
@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.
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This is a poll for people over 40. At what age did you find nostalgic content most compelling and appealing?
@futurebird it’s always been the least compelling or appealing content? Not quite sure how to answer the poll.
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@futurebird it’s always been the least compelling or appealing content? Not quite sure how to answer the poll.
@pdcawley @futurebird yeah have to throw my ballot this way as well.
I enjoy old stuff mixed in with new stuff, and I do occasionally partake in a light dose of nostalgia, but I always had a low threshold. Two episodes of "Stranger Things" and I was done with the "nerdy kids in the 80s doing stuff I did as a nerdy kid in the 80s except with supernatural horror instead of domestic trauma."
