So many people on this sub are going to comment "this attitude was never popular". Well maybe you don't realize what this sub was initially meant to mock! I remember being a regular on this sub 10 years ago and remember this shit VIVIDLY.

Look at these comments. Nobody is going “YES! Raise that kid right!” “Faith in humanity restored!” “He was born in the wrong generation!” “Finally, a young person with GOOD taste!” "Not all heros wear capes!"!!

But back then, this attitude (old music is better than today's pop, music sucks now) was celebrated!

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, somebody might genuinely have written “Your son is an old soul! So nice to see a young person appreciating REAL music instead of the garbage his generation listens to!” and it would have been completely unironic.

The 2000s and early 2010s were like a golden age for hating modern music and preferring music of the past. Anyone who says "people still feel that way" doesn't realize how much more vocal people used to be about it.

What changed?

ok urkel

We need a dedicated parody account that only makes dark versions of those TikTok nostalgia reels.

You know the ones. Soft music, grainy home photos, captions like “POV: you’re a 2000s kid and summer felt infinite.” Everything is golden hour and friendship bracelets and the implied promise that the past was gentle.

Now invert it.

First format: the honest awful childhood reel. Same editing style, same emotional music, but the footage is the actual texture of the era for a lot of people. Cigarette smoke in the car, screaming through the wall, the specific smell of a house that was always slightly angry. Captions still written in that dreamy nostalgia font: “POV: it’s 2003 and you’re praying the fight downstairs ends before it gets to your door.” The contrast would be devastating and extremely funny.

Second format: the bait-and-switch creepypasta reel. It starts completely normal. Same warm filters, same “remember when” text, same comforting energy. You’re halfway through feeling soft about the past… and then the video keeps going. The smile in the old camcorder footage lasts a second too long. A familiar hallway is suddenly wrong. The music doesn’t change, which makes it worse. By the end you’re watching something that feels like an analog horror short that accidentally got uploaded to the nostalgia side of the app.

Somebody do this. The algorithm is already begging for it.

The context of this was a post that was mocking an article that was railing against adult children living at home (on fuckalegriaart).

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s troubling that western culture has been so heavily individualized, but so many people think past family dynamics were all rosy and wholesome, ignoring the many actual issues such as the fact that (mainly in collectivistic cultures) that you were expected to defer to anyone older than you, no matter what, and that women were not given a choice when it came to child raising.

Can't believe I used to watch this slop in the first place. I feel like I was being brainwashed into thinking Disney movies suck because of "wokeness" when I'm still allowed to watch and enjoy them myself. Alright, the company might suck but they can still do good or decent movies when they want too ignoring their dumb live action remakes.

I know I didn't since I was a little kid at that time.