Aside from that, the process will probably just be: - Trend inspires camera apps that recreate the effect - One app takes off - NYTimes publishes a trend pie

Aside from that, the process will probably just be: - Trend inspires camera apps that recreate the effect - One app takes off - NYTimes publishes a trend piece on the app that takes off - Olds start using this app unironically - It falls out of fashion - Everyone forgets it ever happened, again Which seems likely considering this part of the story: > But the comments by despairing millennials and people with more modern tastes were overwhelmed by those where users had tagged their friends and asked how to upload photos from their digital camera to their smartphone. Eliminate the hassle and kids will do it more, then it'll go mainstream, then kids get sick of it, dump it, come up with another clunky old/dumb/cool, unhad-nostalgia revival (plush animals with audio recorders! portable TVs! leisure suits! uncut cocaine!), and repeat the cycle. Every NYT trend piece reports it breathlessly, like this one is the one that's gonna stick.