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dongiovannitriumphant · 2 years ago

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thinking abt how nostalgia is a completely normal futile thing to be caught up in, but whats strange for our age group right now is that internet nostalgia in specific is a. often extremely individualized due to the fragmented nature of the internet when we were growing up and b. impossible to be revisited as it has all mostly faded away. It leaves sort of a strange empty feeling. I can walk past my old school library and see kids enjoying it now, or watch a film i loved as a kid, but i can never again surf through the top 40 list of horsegirl webpages and see a new generation carefully put together their emo pixel wolves on a grotty proboards forum you know?

#the over-active spleen #web archive doesnt even work bc the css used at the time has not been preserved so the menus are just #gone #i cant even see my own posts or work or whatever from that time #eta: it's also even more futile when it's not english speaking websites #im thinking a lot lately how caught up people get in lost media from their childhood #stuff they remember seeing growing up but cant find again #and the strange sort of energy that has and what it's directed towards #eg. mostly stuff american kids would have been exposed to specifically and that wasnt targeted towards girls #no one gives a shit if it doesnt fulfill those two criteria because of the above ->#that it's all driven by the need to revisit something you cant

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