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I wonder if this is what boomers/old gen x felt like when 70's hippy fashion/culture was the fad back in the late 90's/early 2000's.
by Loughla 3y ago
I wonder if this is what boomers/old gen x felt like when 70's hippy fashion/culture was the fad back in the late 90's/early 2000's.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoTinfoil hat theory: it's actually not an accident. Every kind of cultural thing appears twice, at a fixed offset of about 3 generations. First time around it's the original that captures the hearts of a given group and gets them to spend money. The second time around, it hits the purses of those same people, this time just banking on nostalgia.
- walthamstow 3y agoI don't think it's any more complex or sinister than the fact that rehashing old content or look/vibe/sound is cheaper and easier than coming up with entirely new ideas. Just look at movies and music over the last 5-10 years, it's mostly remakes, reboots, covers, and extensions of existing 'universes'.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoYes, I'm looking at the movies and shows over the last 5-10 years, and they aren't remaking and rebooting arbitrary older works - they're rebooting the specific stuff that the current most-spending generation grew up with. I'm not saying it's sinister, but more that it's a plausible outcome of optimizing for profit.
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