This is a poll for people over 40.
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One more for everyone. When did you first experience something as being nostalgic?
I'm 70 and I still rail against nostalgia and the supposed "good old days" which never existed
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OK now a question for everyone.
As you have gotten older have you found that nostalgic content has gotten more appealing? Less appealing?
@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. -
One more for everyone. When did you first experience something as being nostalgic?
@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).
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@futurebird less. The whole catering to my generation (people born in the eighties or around) got old faster than I did.
@adriano @futurebird I think that's probably because of GTA Vice City coming out less than 20 years after the year it's set in, kinda singlehandedly kickstarting the 80s nostalgia cycle 10-20 years ahead of schedule
Most "80s" tropes seem to originate or have been popularized by that game, since it itself is a mishmash of whatever was on TV 40 years ago, filtered through the recollection of a bunch of Scottish people writing a satire
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OK now a question for everyone.
As you have gotten older have you found that nostalgic content has gotten more appealing? Less appealing?
@futurebird nostalgia definitely ain't what it used to be
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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 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.
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One more for everyone. When did you first experience something as being nostalgic?
@futurebird I feel like boomers cornered the market on nostalgia, everything in media was already saturated in nostalgia when I was young. Happy Days.
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@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).
@futurebird I think people do misuse/overuse the term "nostalgia" though. Liking something that I liked before isn't necessarily nostalgia. I like when new indie games are like old JRPGs because I like that style. I liked taquitos the first time I had them and I still like them.
To me nostalgia is a bittersweet feeling that's hard to describe. Not something I want to experience on a regular basis. In some ways, keeping parts of the past I liked with me to the future keeps it at bay.
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OK last one. I realized that "nostalgia" might not be a pleasant thing for everyone. How have you experienced it?
It's complex — the very definition of bittersweet.
Right now, my youngest kid is finishing her first year of college and will be back here soon for what's probably her last few months as, really, part of our household. So, I'm full of these feelings.
What's more, I can see them in her, and that's its own complexity. When's she's come home for breaks and long weekends, I can see she feels a little of the sadness of it. That cliché — _you can't go home again_ — has a lot of truth.
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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 wish there was “all of the above.” I’ve found bostalgia both compelling and repellent at all ages.
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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 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.
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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 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?
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@futurebird I feel like boomers cornered the market on nostalgia, everything in media was already saturated in nostalgia when I was young. Happy Days.
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.
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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 FWIW there is a different kind of nostalgia, not related to age, when you migrate out of your country and culture.
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OK now a question for everyone.
As you have gotten older have you found that nostalgic content has gotten more appealing? Less appealing?
@futurebird When I was younger, nostalgia occurred "organically". As I've gotten older, it's more and more often obvious manipulation.
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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 had that at 40. 72 now.
In my ´20 's ( 1970' s) , being away from Holland living in the UK, I found out those ¨Roaring 60' s & 70's " had a dark side too. Holland/ Amsterdam was on the same Pop-page with US/Canada at hat time: Hippy. Coming back several I knew from highschool had taken overdose and died. I drew a line with The Band's ¨Last Waltz¨.
Many Pop-Idols on that farewell concert. Started to go back much further after that: Classic West & East. Still there, no nostalgia. -
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.
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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 It can be all of those 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'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.
