The Internet's Nostalgia Addiction 

In 2016 everybody said it was the worst year ever and now everyone online is acting like it was amazing.

I do NOT have a nostalgia addiction. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to get back to playing New Super Mario Bros Wii and Mega Man 9 while eating cosmic brownies and scooby doo fruit snacks

Guys remember the 2000s??? Guys remember the 90s??? Guys remember the 80s??? Guys remember that time passes???

The main thing about nostalgia for me is that life before is much of a thing for everyone. It is a cloth that blinds people thinking so because when we remember things we think of it as good, warm, nice. Nostalgia is like how you see a feel good story, a utopia, a land or time when there are no worries, no problems, no sadness and only the good vibes. While completely ignoring while back then there were things that we as kids and ppl encountered that are way worse than today. For me, I like the things of nostalgia. I was born in 2004, and I do enjoy past media and lifestyle. But also, I do remember I got horribly bullied back then all the way through elementary, 9-year-old me can enjoy the things back then. And 19-year-old me can also enjoy the things now. The past has its good and bad, The present has its enhancements and difficulties, The future has its Hope and Worries. This video is really well written, and I can agree with almost everything in it. Amazing work man.

“In the end, those meaningless moments meant everything to me.” - someone unknown

Great video, its interesting how media-focused nostalgia is expressed compared to nostalgia based on food/hometown

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10:41 TF2 is the greatest political issues in our current society

Tbh, these kinds of pictures (usually) don't invoke any sense of nostalgia in me. They just give me liminal space vibes and are more unsettling than relaxing to me. Maybe I'm just weird.

(Kind of unrelated to the video) I know there are a lot of people who like frutiger aero because of nostalgia, but I hold a genuine fondness of the style. It was the last iteration of optimistic futurism, which is kind of extinct now. I personally find it quite ironic that frutiger aero which is basically a style about being excited for the future is now cherished as a symbol of the past. (Much like the original Tomorrowland that stood at Disneyland.) Also that play set at 5:33 goes hard as f*ck

I was born in 2010 and I used to be invested in things like back rooms or Minecraft and some of this stuff is nostalgic for me and I do remember being outside for hours on end I was only given any device of my own 2 years ago if we don’t count school Chromebook’s and some of those streets are somewhat nostalgic as my dad who I would fist ever 2 weeks would move around a lot the thing that ticks me off is when my friends that I know haven’t done any of this stuff go I remember the good old days one of my friends keeps yapping about the good old days even though he has had a phone since he was 6 and he never really went outside

This has to be one of my favorite videos of yours so far, keep up the great work

I look at nostalgia as a small treat, like checking an old photo once in a while or look at some old video, but the "nostalgia" on internet is just in my opinion bad, because they just care about likes from your "nostalgia", ya know what I mean?

I missed how every company back then didn’t just collectively oversimplify their logo

Bro your videos are genuinely so fire.

I ain't begging but you should do a video on weird wikis including poohs adventures and spinpasta

Thanks for this video. Definitely good to see this topic addressed more. My college days were my glory days, and I still have fun memories from back then. But like every adult, a line had to get drawn. Those days are gone; all we have is now. Make the most of it!

I think this should be shown to the majority of people online

This video is beautiful.You really made me see things different with this video.

I have kinda the complete opposite of nostalgia obsession. Whenever my brother and or mom talk about the past as a better place (usually the 2000's i was born in nov 99 my brother was born Dec 03). And when I bring up the reality of it they get mad. My mom is nostalgic for specifically 07-09 ish due to it being after my chemo but before the divorce. My mom wants my dad back and those times but she ignores me coming home from school to her bloodied on the ground because my dad beat her. For example. There where good times but it upsets me my mom wants to go back in time to a relaity that never existed in her last year alive rather then get to know the current me and live the time she has left.

I've been waiting for this

I was born in 2006 and sometimes see people younger than me (usually 2008-2010) also start to romanticize the later 2000's and early 2010's. It could be because we become conscious of our surroundings, realizing the world is complex place, so we desperately try to cling back to when we were innocent/pure. It's akin to the modern day fear of "FOMO" which has started to take a toll on all us through these troubled times.

Inside Job has an episode that does great at showing the 2 sides of nostalgia. In “The Brettfast Club” protagonist Reagan wants nothing to do with, and dismisses co-worker Brett’s feelings towards his nostalgia for the 80s. However Brent’s obsession with the 80s is very unhealthy, so much so that he makes Reagan and the other employees pretend to be a sitcom-esque family from the time. However, we soon learn that Brett came from an abusive and neglectful home, and that he uses nostalgia for certain aspects of the 80s as a coping mechanism. Reagan understands why Brett is so into things from the 80s, and becomes more sympathetic to him, and Brett learns to find the balance of reminiscing over the past whilst not being stuck in it. I come from a good home, but definitely related to Brett in using things from a certain generation as a coping mechanism. I was in a pretty bad spot in my tween years, and fixating on 90s-early 2000s nostalgia, and while it wasn’t super extreme, I did develop this mentality of everything from the Mid 90s-early 2000s being better than the present. My fascination with the time period remains, but nowhere near the same level. Additionally, it’s purely the aesthetics and entertainment of those times I’m into

Ngl politicians use nostalgia bait as well. They make people want "what we had before [insert party] came in and twisted it up" instead of pushing some new ideas that could actually be beneficial to modern society.

6:00-7:10 OH MY GOD thank you for covering one of my biggest issues with this stuff! I've slowly grown a bit tired of the type of "nostalgia" stuff that the internet tries to feed me due to it being overwhelmingly Amerocentric. I'm Finnish myself, and although we're sometimes referred to as "the most American country in Europe" it still does not mean that everything from the USA automatically carries (or carried) over to here. Obviously this does not just mean the architecture and "generic suburban homes" not existing here, but the film/TV/gaming cultural touchstones as well. Also, this ties to another thing that I feel like is not given enough attention, namely that the non-American world of yesteryear generally wasn't very wealthy, i.e. less income to spend on whatever imported entertainment and related devices there were available. My mother, born 1968, owned *one* compact cassette album (Creatures of the Night by Kiss if you're curious) in her youth, and no one in her circle of friends had a microcomputer or a gaming console.

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Banger video, I'm also getting a bit tired of all the nostalgiawank. I was born in '96, the 2000's were nothing special. If anything, I was thinking about how gamer kids these days have it WAY better because I lost so many PS2 games to disc scratching and now everything is digital lol. But I agree wholeheartedly, in the present day we can literally take everything good from the past and leave the bad stuff behind.

Amazing video

We are all Nostalgia Junkies

thanks jax

I have a nostalgia addiction because every day on this planet feels like a fight against complete bullsh😂t.

I think everyone enjoys nostalgia. Right now people that dominate media are born in the 90's and 00's, so that's the years we are seeing most nostalgia videos from.

Honestly, I only like Frutiger Aero because it's pleasing to look at, not really for nostalgic purposes

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jax 3d animation is so nice man

Jax over here making motion picture classic on the low

7:59 WHYS THIS ACCURATE RAHHHHH 💀💀💀💀

good video. to me, no time period is better than the other. sure, you may enjoy the style of an earlier time period, but it wasn’t a better time to live. whenever i listen to a song from the 80s-2000s there will always be someone in the comment section going "oh nothing like this exists now" and it's so annoying.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought about this. I keep seeing these on my FYP at first I liked it because it was interesting but now it's getting really annoying. So I lost interest and I still don't get why people like these until now. Thank you for explaining

Finally someone speaks up about this shit!

Babe wake up, Jax dropped

There are great things in the modern day too, yknow.

I don't feel that much nostalgia addiction from the pictures, especially which was not a part of my childhood, but there is one thing which is a bit concerning. When i was in primary and early secondary school (2012-2017 kinda) i used to have a good push-button phone (i don't really remember the model) and not allowed to have anything better than it because i didn't behave well and so on and i REALLY hated this thing, cuz it was obv so old fashioned and made me be completely lost in that day's teenage culture. But now, when I'm fully grown adult i think that i kinda miss push-button phones and especially java games on it, i sometimes even think to spend some money on one lol And i definitely don't think that i would ever develop such feelings without Internet and it's eternal nostalgia now

good video

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i remember the good days of the hadrian eon 😓😓😓😪😪 kids these days will never appreciate the boiling hot asteroids falling down near our places. ohhhh the good old days

Very relatable

in my personal experience, i engage with nostalgia because i can't remember my childhood. i grew up severely abused by my parents and because of that, i have massive gaps in my memories. i miss the times before the symptoms of PTSD set it. i feel like that's the case for a lot of the original nostalgia-core stuff, especially traumacore. traumacore was a way for people to express their trauma, especially victims of CSA. but during 2020, suddenly there was a massive influx of the mainstream mixing with the alternative. traumaless people couldn't understand the roots and utility of traumacore as a coping mechanism and were like "oh this is just 'emo' hello kitty." i'm not gatekeeping here, but the effects of mainstream and alt melding into each other during 2020 make for quite some food for thought.

It was much better then. I’m only 22 and I don’t think now (2024) will be nostalgic to me when I’m in my 60s. Only things from when I was 14 and younger.

Personally nostalgia is the worst thing Like, i can't go a month without remembering how i was (year ago, two years ago, depends) and wanting to go back IT'S SO ANNOYING Nostalgia can be good, for me it never is, maybe i'm just weird

see i didn’t have a good childhood so i barley feel nostalgic 🗿

I dislike the past, present, and future. Time is a cage, A cage I wish were possible to escape. Yet I too feel nostalgia even for things I have not truly experienced.

Another banger 🤑🤑

I KNOW I DID NOT JUST SEE DAVID BASZUCKI AT 3:14☠️ (nice video btw)

what do you use to make the beggings of your videos i have been wondering this for a while

5:21 “STOP TOUCHING 🥷 WITH YOUR HANDS” 💀

It was Bad to release this Video at The Same Time where TADC Ep2 releases Why? BAD? Cuz of The VIEWS But Nice Video!

how did you guys watch the video, there is still a timer for me

Watch rvb is it something similar but except for nostalgia it was a dead person

i miss the mesozoic era 🥺🥺🥺🥺

I get nostalgic for the 1940s 💀💀💀

0:20 no I do not, trust me I don't want to go to that place at all

7:03 haha you said nerbaska

You should play gta sanandreas it's great!

Ye I thank about how dumb it is lol, but also saying like everything was better before, like people, philosopher, writers litterally said that for thousand of years with the first ever book ? Adventure ? Idk how its called in english, à story written in sumeria that was talking about the anciens times before bread existed ☠️ and some anciens greek dude also talked about how young people are euh idk how to say that in english like said bad things about young people

I was born in 2011 and I like Roblox, and sometimes old roblox (the era of 2006 - 2012) because of the simplicity of it and little to no toxic players and online daters back then.

Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism. Jaques Derrida - Specters of Marx Michel Foucault - Heterotopias There you go

3:22 DESTROY MAN

the only problem is that people are too busy sticking with old stuff rather than creating new cool stuff.

why do i not see any hunter gatherer nostalgia addicts

ummm... dont look at me

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I was pissed when iOS 7 made my iPhone look minimalistic

i edge to you

@JaxYTB While I still enjoy your videos, I feel your cursing censorship is inconsistent.

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Bro its 12 am what are you on?

the only faux nostalgia i enjoy are the ones that are used to build up elements of horror

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erm what the sigma

The internet used to be my escape, but now I turn to nostalgia as the internet becomes a hyper-capitalist hellscape.

Politics has gone too far

While I do enjoy the stuff of the 2000’s and the decades before it, we need to make some room for the modern media in our lives in order for us to really function.