She and a few online friends from the early 2010s made a TikTok video transforming into the Tumblrized version of their younger selves - pigtail buns, chokers, e-girl hearts, knee socks, and chunky platforms, clutching a copy of Lorde’s Pure Heroine. “The ideal was pastel grunge, the 1975, Arctic Monkeys, American Apparel, black-and-white stripes, and jelly shoes, like you were living in an episode of Skins,” she jokes of the aesthetic she obsessed over at the time. The girls❤️ #workdistractions #fyp #foryou #tumblr #egirl #friends #girls #2014 #indie #xyzbca #indiegirl #styleinspo #aesthetic #articmonkeys #fy ♬ 2014 tingz - doofenshmirtz48 Back then, her all-girls Catholic school had 15 people in each grade, so her real social life was on Tumblr and Instagram, in the fandom communities for alt-pop artists like Troye Sivan, Marina and the Diamonds, and Lana Del it’s 2014 ft. It reminds you of another time in your life when online was the only place that really mattered.įor 18-year-old student Anna Tulenko, that time was 2013. Your whole life is online now - classes, grocery shopping, friend dates, actual dates. Not by choice, but because your university closed down the dorms. POV: It’s 2020, and you’re in your childhood bedroom as an adult. got so complicated that it ruins some of the fun.” “What people are craving is the period when they had fewer worries, more innocent fun, and greater emotional support during difficult times,” Batcho says.
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(The second most nostalgic demographic is the elderly, but it’s less likely that the years between 20 are “the good old days” they’re thinking of.)Īs one might assume, when we’re nostalgic for the past, it isn’t really our old Tumblrs or the movie Megamind that we’re really longing for, but the feelings associated with them. Young people in their late teens and early 20s are already the age group most predisposed to feelings of nostalgia, Batcho explains, because it’s the time in our lives when the trappings of childhood are being left behind for good. “We really do yearn to, if nothing else, be able to visit that past.” “Life as we knew it a month ago might never return in the same form,” she says. Major life changes, even positive ones - career switch-ups, marriage, moving - always coincide with feelings of wistfulness, a return to a time when things felt simpler and less scary. Now, when a pandemic orders us to stand still at the exact same time, the only way through is back.įor Krystine Batcho, a professor of psychology who studies nostalgia at Le Moyne College, none of this is a surprise. In 2018, teens made memes about being nostalgic for 2015, in part because anything before President Trump felt like some long-forgotten past.
In 2017, millennials flocked to emo-themed concerts to relive the melancholy soundtracks of their youth. Like junk food, video games, and at-home hair dye, nostalgia is a popular pastime even in normal circumstances, but particularly so in an era where the present feels inescapable. “There was no news about it, no piece of art that was going viral.” When Kerans took a deep dive into what else was trending, she noticed a pattern: Everyone who remembers the internet in the early 2010s was rediscovering their fantasy favorites, like Twilight and Divergent. She noticed something strange was going on when Megamind, an animated movie from 2010, was the most popular film on the platform the week of March 16. “We’re seeing posts literally float to the surface from 10 years ago,” says Cortney Kerans, the head of communications at Tumblr. “If you were on Tumblr in 2013-2014 you should qualify for a senior discount,” reads one self-deprecating video from the genre, as though the era were several generations ago and not less than a decade. Others are digging back into their angst-ridden social media posts from their adolescent and teen years. Girls are recreating outfits inspired by hyper-stylized image macros of flower crowns and band T-shirts they loved in middle school.
“Bop or flop?” posits a TikTok trend asking users to rate “coming-of-age indie pop bangers” from those years.
Reliving a very specific subculture from the period that roughly spans from 2009 to 2014 - the era of indie pop, ironically oversize eyeglasses, and late-wave finger mustaches - is what countless millennials and Gen Z kids are doing right now, online and in their bedrooms. But wouldn’t it be fun to pretend it was? This is, statistically, probably not what you were doing in 2013. Bing! Your friend just texted you a hilarious Harlem Shake Vine. You’re listening to a Purity Ring song on your iPhone 4S, wearing an American Apparel tennis skirt while reblogging a Tumblr post shipping Santana and Brittany from Glee.
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