The way things never were : internetfuneral

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 34 points 4 weeks ago

I had to explain the concept of Vaporwave to my father, a musician who was active throughout the '80's. I told him it's zeitgeist for an era that never actually happened. So I think this hits the nail on the head.

There are similar, albeit less ᴀ ᴇ s ᴛ ʜ ᴇ ᴛ ɪ ᴄ, notions for other decades as well.

Everyone thinks the 1950's were a nonstop sock hop and an episode of Leave it to Beaver.

Everything thinks the entirety of the 1960's was Woodstock.

Everything in the 1970's was brown and orange, or wood grain, and had a ridiculous mustache on it.

...But then, everything that everyone knows happened didn't actually happen in the decade everyone thinks it did anyway.

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

80s/90s according to tv: You live in a large house with a huge bedroom and own everything anyone at the time would have wanted.

80s/90s reality: You more than likely owned almost nothing. Except for the lucky few, you were most likely broke and everyone you knew were broke too. You did happen to own a piece of shit VCR.

[+] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

2001-2008 there was still hope... but yeah once they bailed out the parasite class, then successfully suppressed public lashing out in NYC. It was a wrap for the pedon class but even then most were in denial until COVID hit.

THEN THEY AGAIN BAILED OUT THE PARASITE CLASS

I think we are finally hitting the critical mass of population who got woke on the class war issue.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

2001-2008 there was still hope

Yep. The college education I got in the early 00's now costs 4x as much.

Young people now are screwed. I am glad I never procreated.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Everything thing comes back to 9-11

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Expectation: Full House

Reality: Gummo

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The 90's for me.

Had a hard-working dad who was on a roof every day and owned his own company. (Which the '08 crash pretty much destroyed.)

I had everything I needed, a lot of what I wanted, and my life as a kid was a good one. The major upside, looking back, was that I had a future to look forward to, and that's something most young people now don't have.

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’d love a pre Big Bang universe

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

it's the same, but Michael Jackson moonwalks forward

[–] kabi@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

crazy

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This is MAGA.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'd think the wording should be more like

'... back to the way they never got the chance to be'

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 4 weeks ago

I love this vibe.

[+] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world -14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this c/fascistaeathetics now

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Not sure where that's coming from, I'm an anti fascist and interpreted this as more about how nostalgia twists our memory

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

My first thought had been along the same lines. I thought of the word anemoia from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:

anemoia - n. nostalgia for a time you've never known

youtube.com/watch?v=wH6ZClRjl14

Imagine stepping through the frame into a sepia-tinted haze, where you could sit on the side of the road and watch the locals passing by. Who lived and died before any of us arrived here, who sleep in some of the same houses we do, who look up at the same moon, who breathe the same air, feel the same blood in their veins - and live in a completely different world.

Vaporwave is inherently about a time that never existed, as it's a re-interpretation of very specific parts of a time period into an aesthetic. A nostalgia for dial-up modems, corporate ad jingles, and hold music all rolled up in that one pattern every paper cup had in the 90s with classical era statues, southern California palm trees in the sunset, and dolphins. A tourist's view of the nascent internet and the corporate tech world of the time.

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