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Missing the forest for the trees imo
Younger people are increasingly looking to past decades for cultural inspiration. From fashion to music mediums like vinyls and cassettes. I think it's because they're by far the most hopeless generation so far, and they can't really envision any happy future or really, any future at all with global warming, decreasing living standards, technological control, etc
So they look back at the good old days before any of this was a concern to Westerners. Even their online aesthetics only come as far as the early early internet days before everything was so hypercommodified by companies and it was mostly just people fucking around making things they enjoyed with no profit incentive in mind
Fashion and music have been looking backwards since the 90's, in the US at least.