Documentaries on various niche internet subjects. I was also one of the "Horror Stories Animated" guys, and I at one point animated my own original series! Check out my stuff :)
luv ur channel, I start to watch this when i just got in my university.Ur video, stories just like those personal local artist mentioned in this video.
The times the of 50s' '60 70s 80s, 90s, and early 2000s were better in my opinion because of the people yes the people. See people use to be cool and chill with most people use to be able to live with each other with out being constantly being at each other necks for stuff like who is more of a victim of white privilege and male privilege is females or literally any race under son because for some reason adults some how believe these crazy things not only that but they can not even put their differences a side and that is not cool or chill. heck it would seem to then most people want to be left alone. the perversive type people just want to not chill and put there differences a side something that was done back then. I think lift is to blame stoking the flames between people because to them white man are the devil for some reason.
Such a good video about nostalgia! Thanks for that, dude. Nostalgia is a big topic since some time for me (idk how long, but too long) and I am aware that it took over my daily life. Such a shame! We have so much beauty around us and in our mind is just scene after scene playing all over again from years ago. It made me really sad, to know that I and a lot of people spend our time in the past and trying to numb ourselves with tiktok and instagram and those old videos to escape the reality. And yes, the crisis around us (socially, climate, etc) and the technology it´s just too much for us. We are after all humans, right? We can do it no matter what. Those memories can live in our hearts while we are in the reality (sounds cheesy but it´s true). Consent love and hugs to you all
Definitely, this video took me so long because I didn’t know if I wanted to make such a bummer of a video. real content creators will always persevere though !
This has to be the dumbest theory ever. The internet is far from dead, it has over millions of active users and the websites that are constantly on and filled with people
I wonder why the dog on the original photo was making that face. It looks like its surprised or its literally possessed. The red eyes make the original photo a tiny bit creepy itself. Probably just the camera lenses though
Also to add to the people saying that workers are more rude. They thing is when you're like five or seven you don't really think about what they have to put up with for eight hours or so. Not being paid more than minimum, rude costumers (sometimes its the same costumers).
My own theory of why nostalgia is so potent these days is, a certain amount of nostalgia is unavoidable. Hundreds of years ago, we would be nostalgic towards traditionalism, which is relatively healthier than what we have today: nostalgia for trends and currents caused by constantly changing public opinion. My guess is that nostalgia formed some sort of glue for tradition and culture. Unfortunately a lot of us have latched on to IPs, marketing, and things our capitalistic lifestyle told us were important but have died out. Capitalism feeds on this, and props up zombies of nostalgia with old IPs that just won't die, and even worse, doomer-style nostalgia where you sit in a miasma, trying to find the most nostalgia-inducing vapor-laced videos or music to binge with stylishly depressive art or music created from old cartoons and commercials. Nostalgia itself has become a commodity. People walking in dead malls, etc. Part of this is also Gen Z feeding into this as well. I think a lot of them really feel like they are born in a 'graveyard' of media and are just riffing on these old IPs. Unfortunately, I think it creates a weird symbiosis between the old generations reminiscing and the newer ones creating 'dead art'. One side is stuck in nostalgia, while the other keeps resurrecting it out of morbid curiosity.
Also the fact that we can feel nostalgic for things on the internet that happened a year ago is a really bad sign. I really don't think it's healthy for us to generate nostalgia at the pace we are currently doing, because everything online moves so quickly and things such as websites or online events are so ephemeral they are lost and die almost as soon as they are created.
@@AffyisAffy 100% this. Gen Z feeding into the whole thing is really interesting. The “graveyard” metaphor perfectly represents why we’re so interested in dead aesthetics and liminal spaces. The feeling of “what once was” is a huge part of gen Z’s persona. Really interesting insight
I think this fear response when manmade places without any people is caused by evolution. Imagine an early human coming across a completely empty settlement. Something must have happened here, something dangerous that made people disappear from this place. If our early human feels threatened and leaves immediately, they are more likely to survive. Hence the inherited fear of empty human environments.
In my opinion, one big aspect of toxicity of nostalgia, is that many people (especially older), remember things wrong. A lot of it had to do with the fact that as kids and teens (epseically pre-2000s), we were oblivious to the world around us (today thats not so much the deal due to social media). An example is a much older (white) friend of mine complains about how BLM is causing hatred towards the police and that such issues never existed before... forgetting completely about the LA riots of the 90s and the Detriot and Watts Riots of the 60s.
I understand where you're coming from but it's... Pretty undeniable that as a general rule, life is worse now for most people (at least in America) than it would have been back in the 80s. I'm 24 and I have a lot of nostalgia for the early 2010s, but I recognize that even then, life wasn't as good for me as it was for the people that came before me. Nobody is saying that life was ever perfect, but it absolutely used to be better. Boiling down the belief that life as a whole used to be better to just "nostalgia" or "declinism" is extremely unhelpful. Because yes, mental health in America IS declining, and that alone ought to say something about our quality of life.
Nice video Adrian! I’ve been a huge fan of your video essays. Just look at my comment history. I have an idea for you: maybe you could do a video on the “ulterior motives” lost media song. (P.S: please make the zombie pixel animation video public!)
Aw thanks! You’ve always been super supportive and I really appreciate that. I love ulterior motives. Might check it out and make a lostwave type of video. If you really want, I’ll make the playlist public so that you can watch the IIAA series.
Everyone needs to watch the Rocko’s Modern Life special. It’s a great message about being in the now and appreciating the past and present at the same time.
If we use that b-roll footage and add a news headline that's similar to big news events in the 00s like store layoffs or shopping after 9/11 then you strip of that "cozy/comfort" feeling and are forced to remember why the past isn't as good as it really seemed. Thank you for making this video as I was personally getting more and more irritated by the "past good present bad" sentiment I'm seeing everywhere.
You also need to keep in mind that not everyone has a good childhood and that there are some who actually do enjoy their current life as opposed to how they once lived. But I'm guessing that it's mainly people who live in much worser environments. My parents are one example as they didn't come from good backgrounds. They say that the best thing to happen in their lives was meeting each other and having me and my sister. Becoming and being parents I think was when things got better for them and I am forever grateful knowing that I am the reason why my folks are still around today. The reason why I must keep going instead of ending it all. 🙂🥲😭
The youtube videos that scared me as a kid were salad fingers episode 4 cage uploaded 2008 by david firth happy tree friends episode 16 boo do you think you are uploaded 2007 by mondo media i show red mist to a 10 year old uploaded 2013 by captain d picos school all medals walkthrought uploaded 2009 by lamar537ng suicide mouse uploaded 2009 by suicide mouse avi undertale omega flowey boss fight uploaded 2015 by galaxia shadow full earthbound giygas battle 2016 uploaded by ness cartoon networks courage the cowardly dog king rameses curse uploaded 2017 by courage the cowardly dog
