"Take a second to absorb the present" is a wonderful send off to an enlightening mini-documentary about nostalgia as a whole. I came to watch this initially for Frutiger Aero, but came out reflecting on the last 4 decades, and seeing how society reflected trends, music and nostalgia itself. 20's or 60's has got to be my favourite part of the video by far. I'll share this around in hopes this will get more traction. Incredibly well done, Mr. McGuire.
Even if we can't go back to the past. Having the feeling of Nostalgia in general can be very heartwarming at least for me. Reminds me of a simpler time even if i can not go back it is still very much relaxing.
I think the reason Japanese imagery is so closely linked to vaporwave is that Japan was very dominant in the US imagination in the 1980's. Japan was on the technological cutting edge in videogames, computers, cars and pretty much all home electronics. The Japanese "economic miracle" was also in full swing and you can see in cyberpunk, particularly films like Bladerunner and Aliens, that there was a widespread idea that the future was going to be heavily influenced by Japanese culture. There is also city pop to consider, a lot of vaporwave samples, or is inspired by, 80's Japanese city pop. Which was itself inspired by western music. Japanese anime and advertising from the 80's also has a very striking visual style, in some cases amping up the surreal quality that we associate with western media of the time. You mention how vaporwave captures the feeling of a faded memory, I've heard people say it gives that the feeling of nostalgia for something that never was, I think the mixing and blurring of place and culture is part of that.
I think these nostalgia waves are about 30 years in the past, because when you reach 30 years old you start thinking about the past and the future as much as the present.
Since you mentioned soaking up the present at the end of the video, I wonder if part of the reason we have nostalgia for multiple past decades today is because we’ve progressed so quickly in that time that we’ve been focusing more on the future than the present day, and now that we’re in the future, we’re beginning to look back. Also, my headcanon for 29:01 is that the showrunners of this game show made a typo and put the prize as “cat” instead of “car”, and no one noticed until the cat was secured and the show was about to start.
That makes a lot of sense! Time goes by so quickly sometimes you don’t even notice all the change that’s occurring. And yes I do believe the showrunners of 20’s or 60’s might have made a misspelling when writing instructions for the prize :)
this channel's a hidden gem; glad i found it when i did lol. all the vaporwave albums you mentioned seemed interesting, i'll have to check them out this week.
I gotta say man, hearing someone else speak about how important vaporwave was to them personally is just so awesome. Vaporwave is the first genre of music I discovered (after not being allowed to listen to most music as a kid), I even did a school project video on blank banshee when I was 13- and then made my first album shortly after, now I’m 20 and graduated with a degree in audio production all because I discovered my love for making music and working with audio after listening to vaporwave.
Being in my 40's it's very interesting to see this from a different perspective. Basically, I've lived through TWO nostalgia eras. So for example, the Frutiger Aero was prevalent during my 20's so I was already an adult, so to me it's not a "present" look but the "new" look compared to the sharper 2000's look so I feel more nostalgia towards the latter. But the funniest nostalgia thing to me is Minecraft. I love the game and I've been playing it since about 2018 or 19 but I don't feel ANYTHING watching the blocky sunset listening to the otherwise awesome music.
Nostalgia is a feeling for things that we took for granted at the time thinking would always be there it's only when it's gone and enough time has passed that we look back on and miss it. The best thing to do is to live In the moment and appreciate everything we have now go for a walk on a nice day text your loved ones's do everything you can in that way you make new memories to look back on and never take anything for granted
I'm one of the few that loved Vista. I even still use Vista on my laptop and a 2007-2009 era quad core PC. I remember when I turned on my new laptop and heard that fresh welcome sound and saw the glassy looks... felt like the future going there from years of Windows 9x-XP usage. I just couldn't get enough of looking at Vista, just opening new window panels and seing the aero effects lol If anyone is interested, the supermium browser is based on chrome and fully supports modern internet on Windows XP and Vista and I think also Windows 2000. Gives a new life to those older Operating Systems.
I remember being neck deep in vaporwave nostalgia culture ten or so years ago. Everything about the old world, or my childhood, or some mysterious path was always better than the awful and drab early 2010s. Don't waste your time Always searching for those wasted years Face up... make your stand And realize You're living in the golden years
Wonderful video! I couldn't agree more with your theory that nostalgia is so heavily moved by rapid societal and environmental change. I remember in the heights of the pandemic, people were commenting on videos of what couldn't have been more than months ago with almost that same level of nostalgia! I deeply appreciated your ending, and I took some time to soak in my surroundings. It's so easy to look toward tomorrow and keep going or to look back at how much everything has changed, but it's so vital that we take time to stand still and be present in the moment. I petted my puppy and soaked in the lake view from my apartment, knowing that in less than a year I am likely living on a different continent, sharing a house with the love of my life. Great stuff :)
Great video and great research on fashion history, music history and even art! The game show segment was super funny and the editing was on point. This channel needs to blow up! 💪🏿
Found your Liminal Spaces video at my highest fervency for them, (currently returning right back to that state of mind,) and saw you uploaded this a few days ago. Really enjoyed it as a big, top down piece about nostalgia!
Just briiliant. Man that was the perfect way to wrap up the video. Thanks for giving me that moment to unplug and appreciate reality now. You're going to be a very popular content creator very soon.
loving this video so far! haven’t finished it yet, but we’re definitely in a 2000s revival in the 20s with revivals like spacehey being a revamped myspace and picmix being a revamped blingee
Excellent piece, your research was incredibly thorough. I've always been fascinated with nostalgia, and it's generational attraction to music, fashion, art etc. I've experienced & witnessed it happen a few times through out my lifetime, and I agree with you that now everyone can plug into their own special place in the past. Again, great work on the video.
Mr McGuire its been an absolute delight to discover your channel and your video essays i hope to continue watching your videos until i am as nostalgic about them in the future as i am of the good ol days of the past additionally i would like to point out that your outro song is furthermore a bringer of those good rings of ages past do you plan to upload your song at some point, i personally would appreciate it keep carrying on lad your videos are stellar
First of all, thanks for a brilliant video about nostalgia. I especially liked the game show part. I think people like to be shocked by things like throwing in the era of 2000 by the game-show host. The shock of that feels like spotting a Matrix-style glitch,. People really crave that now. That's what made the so-called Mandela effect and "backrooms" take off like they did. People seem to feel like this is a false reality, and look for a thread to pull to get to the "real" reality. I like the vaporwave videos I've seen on YT, but that's all I ever knew existed of it. The world has changed so much, so quickly that people didn't really get to exist in the world as it was for a normal amount of time, especially people born in the last 30 years. Even more so, perceived reality has changed within that time. As my daughter said, "It's not a fantasy about an imaginary past, it's a collective strugle to find or create artifacts from the civilization where we were born, which was destroyed when we were children". Technology is changing so quickly it feels distorted.
I would say the album is “Echo” Gems rather than “Eco”. It’s artwork clearly heavily borrowed from the Sega Megadrive game Ecco The Dolphin which is pronounced “echo”.
18:17 the “Japanese Stuff” ubiquitous in vaporwave is largely due to the lived experience of the 1980s: Japanese aesthetics, particularly in sci fi, became widespread in the west, as both a fetishized pastiche, an expression of jingoistic anxieties, and (sometimes) as genuine cultural appreciation. The early 80s marked the birth of the Cyberpunk genre, with the clustered releases of Blade Runner, Neuromancer, and perhaps most importantly for this topic, the first anime to make strong inroads into the west: Akira. It’s important to note that the aesthetics of vaporwave aren’t just “the 80s”, but “80s futurism”- it’s a nostalgic re-imagining of the future the 80s predicted. And in the 80s, Japan was on everyone’s mind. It was the height of Japan’s “economic miracle”, the time when it looked like Japan was going to outpace everyone in terms of technology and capital. This “Japan Panic” turned into a kind of fetishized techno-orientalism that persisted through to the 90s, even as the Japanese economy stagnated. But the remnants of it exist in western media to this day, fortunately now tempered by a slightly more appreciative and cosmopolitan modern worldview.
If you wanna see some really interesting car styling with callbacks to the 1920s. Check out the 1961 Imperial. It was one of Chrysler Corporation’s last finned car. But its designer, Virgil Exner wanted the car to mimic the opulence of the 20s and 30s with headlights separate from the body much like a Model A. The grill was squared of, designed to resemble that of a 20s sedan. It also (in a way) was a callback to the cars of the late 50s, the outlandish styling of 1957-‘59 with massive fins and a huge swept body. It was the last of these cars. Most manufacturers like Ford and Chevy had moved to more tame squared off designs.
Interesting! I hadn’t considered car designs when making this video, but I just looked up the 61 imperial, and maybe I should have! I wonder what other car designs were influenced by nostalgia.
@@farrellmcguire now that you mention it. There was another car designed and built by Chrysler in 1955, it was called the “Plainsman” and it was a callback the Wild West, the times of covered wagons and Western expansion but paired with forward thinking “Space Age” automotive design, in fact many of the design motifs on the Plainsman would be included on Plymouth wagons for 1956 and 1957. Homes of the 1950s especially in the early 50s were built to in a cottage style similar to the times of early settlers (albeit with modern amenities like television). Another thing too, there really seemed to be a lot of rose colored nostalgia for the 1860s and the time on President Lincoln’s term as president in the 1960s also being that the 100th anniversary of the start of the Civil War fell on 1961. I think there seems to be a lot of nostalgia for the space age modernist design of the 1950 and early 60s. Furniture especially, with tapered legs, dark finished wood, long wide dressers. I’ve seen refrigerators also trying to emulate the look of General Electric or Nash Kelvinator refrigerators of the 1950s, with the chrome scrip. This is truly an interesting topic that I could talk about for hours 😂.
All around excellent video and your last chapter is definitely a well-put together way of putting all the points together (specifically the technological changes you mention in industrial revolution compared to prior centuries). I'm really curious how in the near future the impact of technological change will have in nostalgia, as in my view consumer-facing tech (tvs, computers, phones) have stagnated simply due to these being mature technologies (these are also the ones where changes are most noticeable to everyone and easily visualized for their respective dates like CRT monitors). IE compare a desktop pc from 2015 being usable today vs a 2007 desktop being unusable in 2015. Same with smartphones where there's little meaningful differences between 3 year old phones to today (whilst the difference from 2011 to 2013 phones was more drastic). In my personal view I don't see any more innovation for new consumer tech as the new "emerging" tech (drones, smartglasses, VR) have all been overhyped/fizzled; for instance there was a overblown news-story back in 2013 (10 years ago already) of amazon drone vehicles and that's still not mainstream (yes largely due to regulations and not tech itself, but point still stands its not mainsteam). Another tech that was overhyped in early 2010s was 3D printers (was going to be "game-changing shake up to manufacturing"). While all these technologies have had innovations and adoptions in industries I don't see much consumer interest/use within near future. VR already went through multiple hype cycles even as far back as 1990s for instance.Technological changes obviously isn't the sole driving force behind nostalgia but would be interesting to look at how highlights of changes are minimized through the years. I await the days when smartphone reviews are thought as little more useful than refrigerator or laundry machine reviews and people in general are less perceptive/caring about the differences into what will now be glorified appliances. This is just consumer-tech though there's plenty in innovation in advanced fields but as mentioned that's just harder to visualize/notice. Another thing I would be interested in would be the greater ability to easily document memories and how it should reduce false memories/mandela effects (perception being a key factor in nostalgia) when everything is supposed to be saved (whereas in past you couldn't count on mundane things being documented and people remembering it differently when there's no authoritative source/archive). Double-edged sword though as while you have greater amount of information being generated from larger amount of users (vs past where ie only newspapers documented this stuff) yet more vulnerable to being deleted due to these same users and sites. To top it off with being even harder to save them all vs a smaller amount of information in past years; but that's just life always fleeting.
Yeah I definitely did come across examples of 60s nostalgia in the 90s, the stand out in my mind was the In Bloom music video by Nirvana that was modelled after the Beatles Ed Sullivan appearance. And lots of 60s nostalgia in the 80s!
31:08 where did you get this photograph? It looks very odd. What kind of camera was it taken with that made it look that way, like it has more contrast than normal? Or is it just a normal picture and I'm losing it?
The original image is called "Machine Room in Richard Hartmann’s Chemnitz Factory", from 1868. However it looks like it has some sort of AI drawing filter over it, which makes it look odd to me as well. The original drawing doesn't have this characteristic.
I'm nostalgic of the 90s Internet, with basic websites made with frontpage and html. Wild banners and a link page that would send you further and further down to some rabbit holes.
Vaporwave my beloved... I still hold the genre and aesthetic dear to my heart, although to me it's more about the experimental and weird than purely nostalgic and dream-like. It's weird, but, despite growing up in 00s and having witnessed Fruitiger Aero myself for many years... I have no nostalgia for it. More than that - it disgusts me. I never liked it, always felt wrong to me, somehow. On the contrary, I adore Metro and all the flat, slick and mainly utilitarian styles, dunno how to explain it.
The changes capitalism bring to our world are unnaturally fast. I think people who revive decades old aesthetics are like "hey, we didn't even get to absorb all this beauty before it passed, let us take our time!" For example VHS became dated in just a few years, no wonder people are like "Hold on, I wanna use this thing, I didn't even get to properly experience it"
for sure one of the most criminally underrated channels on this site, keep up the good work man
Yeah I just happened to click on one of his videos, and now I'm on another one and it's pretty sweet, subscribed
While I agree, he's also only been on the platform for a year. Hopefully in another year he'll surpass 100k
"Take a second to absorb the present" is a wonderful send off to an enlightening mini-documentary about nostalgia as a whole. I came to watch this initially for Frutiger Aero, but came out reflecting on the last 4 decades, and seeing how society reflected trends, music and nostalgia itself. 20's or 60's has got to be my favourite part of the video by far. I'll share this around in hopes this will get more traction. Incredibly well done, Mr. McGuire.
Thank you so much! Happy you enjoyed it!
Even if we can't go back to the past. Having the feeling of Nostalgia in general can be very heartwarming at least for me. Reminds me of a simpler time even if i can not go back it is still very much relaxing.
I think the reason Japanese imagery is so closely linked to vaporwave is that Japan was very dominant in the US imagination in the 1980's.
Japan was on the technological cutting edge in videogames, computers, cars and pretty much all home electronics. The Japanese "economic miracle" was also in full swing and you can see in cyberpunk, particularly films like Bladerunner and Aliens, that there was a widespread idea that the future was going to be heavily influenced by Japanese culture.
There is also city pop to consider, a lot of vaporwave samples, or is inspired by, 80's Japanese city pop. Which was itself inspired by western music.
Japanese anime and advertising from the 80's also has a very striking visual style, in some cases amping up the surreal quality that we associate with western media of the time.
You mention how vaporwave captures the feeling of a faded memory, I've heard people say it gives that the feeling of nostalgia for something that never was, I think the mixing and blurring of place and culture is part of that.
The only thing that REALLY sets 2020s internet culture apart from other eras of the internet is the emphasis on nostalgia.
Yo, you make excellent, fascinating videos.
Happy you think so! :D
I think these nostalgia waves are about 30 years in the past, because when you reach 30 years old you start thinking about the past and the future as much as the present.
Since you mentioned soaking up the present at the end of the video, I wonder if part of the reason we have nostalgia for multiple past decades today is because we’ve progressed so quickly in that time that we’ve been focusing more on the future than the present day, and now that we’re in the future, we’re beginning to look back.
Also, my headcanon for 29:01 is that the showrunners of this game show made a typo and put the prize as “cat” instead of “car”, and no one noticed until the cat was secured and the show was about to start.
That makes a lot of sense! Time goes by so quickly sometimes you don’t even notice all the change that’s occurring. And yes I do believe the showrunners of 20’s or 60’s might have made a misspelling when writing instructions for the prize :)
Nostalgia used to be better back in my day
this channel's a hidden gem; glad i found it when i did lol. all the vaporwave albums you mentioned seemed interesting, i'll have to check them out this week.
I gotta say man, hearing someone else speak about how important vaporwave was to them personally is just so awesome. Vaporwave is the first genre of music I discovered (after not being allowed to listen to most music as a kid), I even did a school project video on blank banshee when I was 13- and then made my first album shortly after, now I’m 20 and graduated with a degree in audio production all because I discovered my love for making music and working with audio after listening to vaporwave.
Being in my 40's it's very interesting to see this from a different perspective. Basically, I've lived through TWO nostalgia eras. So for example, the Frutiger Aero was prevalent during my 20's so I was already an adult, so to me it's not a "present" look but the "new" look compared to the sharper 2000's look so I feel more nostalgia towards the latter.
But the funniest nostalgia thing to me is Minecraft. I love the game and I've been playing it since about 2018 or 19 but I don't feel ANYTHING watching the blocky sunset listening to the otherwise awesome music.
Nostalgia is a feeling for things that we took for granted at the time thinking would always be there it's only when it's gone and enough time has passed that we look back on and miss it. The best thing to do is to live In the moment and appreciate everything we have now go for a walk on a nice day text your loved ones's do everything you can in that way you make new memories to look back on and never take anything for granted
I'm one of the few that loved Vista. I even still use Vista on my laptop and a 2007-2009 era quad core PC.
I remember when I turned on my new laptop and heard that fresh welcome sound and saw the glassy looks... felt like the future going there from years of Windows 9x-XP usage. I just couldn't get enough of looking at Vista, just opening new window panels and seing the aero effects lol
If anyone is interested, the supermium browser is based on chrome and fully supports modern internet on Windows XP and Vista and I think also Windows 2000. Gives a new life to those older Operating Systems.
I remember being neck deep in vaporwave nostalgia culture ten or so years ago. Everything about the old world, or my childhood, or some mysterious path was always better than the awful and drab early 2010s.
Don't waste your time
Always searching for those wasted years
Face up... make your stand
And realize
You're living in the golden years
so cool that you mentioned Bones in the music section, the guy her works with, CatSoup, is my brother in law! 😁
Awesome! I’m definitely a fan of CatSoup as well!
Only 800 views? It's some 50k+ subs channel type of content. You deserve much more
new favorite channel. please keep going. don't lose momentum. this is the content we need. in fact, we need it to be longer. much. longer.
Wonderful video! I couldn't agree more with your theory that nostalgia is so heavily moved by rapid societal and environmental change. I remember in the heights of the pandemic, people were commenting on videos of what couldn't have been more than months ago with almost that same level of nostalgia! I deeply appreciated your ending, and I took some time to soak in my surroundings. It's so easy to look toward tomorrow and keep going or to look back at how much everything has changed, but it's so vital that we take time to stand still and be present in the moment. I petted my puppy and soaked in the lake view from my apartment, knowing that in less than a year I am likely living on a different continent, sharing a house with the love of my life. Great stuff :)
Great video and great research on fashion history, music history and even art! The game show segment was super funny and the editing was on point. This channel needs to blow up! 💪🏿
Thanks for the support! :D
Found your Liminal Spaces video at my highest fervency for them, (currently returning right back to that state of mind,) and saw you uploaded this a few days ago. Really enjoyed it as a big, top down piece about nostalgia!
Just briiliant. Man that was the perfect way to wrap up the video. Thanks for giving me that moment to unplug and appreciate reality now. You're going to be a very popular content creator very soon.
I'm glad the algorithm brought me to these videos. They need more engagement to bump them up.
loving this video so far! haven’t finished it yet, but we’re definitely in a 2000s revival in the 20s with revivals like spacehey being a revamped myspace and picmix being a revamped blingee
The section on vaporwave was so fun, your passion for the subject really came through!
This video only having 6000 views is criminal! You some of the best content on this platform and this video is a perfect example.
I feel like I’ve discovered a gem by finding your channel. YES! More of that! Keep it all coming!!!
Wait am I reading that right? Does that say 409 views? How are there so few? This is such high quality content.
Watched all your vids back to back. Very good, please make more.
Somebody gotta share this dude's vids on forums n shit so he can blow up
Man, what a video! We always look into the past, without knowing that we are looking into the future, in a curious way.
Excellent piece, your research was incredibly thorough. I've always been fascinated with nostalgia, and it's generational attraction to music, fashion, art etc. I've experienced & witnessed it happen a few times through out my lifetime, and I agree with you that now everyone can plug into their own special place in the past. Again, great work on the video.
Man, I really didn't know I needed a video covering the subject of nostalgia in this way.
absolutely phenomenal video as usual 🔥💯🔥🔥💯 i was thinking about the disintegration loops when you somehow read my mind and said it yourself
Mr McGuire its been an absolute delight to discover your channel and your video essays i hope to continue watching your videos until i am as nostalgic about them in the future as i am of the good ol days of the past additionally i would like to point out that your outro song is furthermore a bringer of those good rings of ages past do you plan to upload your song at some point, i personally would appreciate it
keep carrying on lad your videos are stellar
Im so happy i found your channel. Its so nice to watch. Keep it up my man. Its nice to find some chill youtubers like you
Just discovered you, top 3 youtube creator in my opinion. Keep up the amazing work!
this was amazing. very inspiring
Nice video, nostalgia is tricky and like you said, fluid.
First of all, thanks for a brilliant video about nostalgia. I especially liked the game show part. I think people like to be shocked by things like throwing in the era of 2000 by the game-show host. The shock of that feels like spotting a Matrix-style glitch,. People really crave that now. That's what made the so-called Mandela effect and "backrooms" take off like they did. People seem to feel like this is a false reality, and look for a thread to pull to get to the "real" reality. I like the vaporwave videos I've seen on YT, but that's all I ever knew existed of it. The world has changed so much, so quickly that people didn't really get to exist in the world as it was for a normal amount of time, especially people born in the last 30 years. Even more so, perceived reality has changed within that time. As my daughter said, "It's not a fantasy about an imaginary past, it's a collective strugle to find or create artifacts from the civilization where we were born, which was destroyed when we were children". Technology is changing so quickly it feels distorted.
I would say the album is “Echo” Gems rather than “Eco”. It’s artwork clearly heavily borrowed from the Sega Megadrive game Ecco The Dolphin which is pronounced “echo”.
18:17 the “Japanese Stuff” ubiquitous in vaporwave is largely due to the lived experience of the 1980s: Japanese aesthetics, particularly in sci fi, became widespread in the west, as both a fetishized pastiche, an expression of jingoistic anxieties, and (sometimes) as genuine cultural appreciation. The early 80s marked the birth of the Cyberpunk genre, with the clustered releases of Blade Runner, Neuromancer, and perhaps most importantly for this topic, the first anime to make strong inroads into the west: Akira.
It’s important to note that the aesthetics of vaporwave aren’t just “the 80s”, but “80s futurism”- it’s a nostalgic re-imagining of the future the 80s predicted. And in the 80s, Japan was on everyone’s mind. It was the height of Japan’s “economic miracle”, the time when it looked like Japan was going to outpace everyone in terms of technology and capital. This “Japan Panic” turned into a kind of fetishized techno-orientalism that persisted through to the 90s, even as the Japanese economy stagnated. But the remnants of it exist in western media to this day, fortunately now tempered by a slightly more appreciative and cosmopolitan modern worldview.
14:44 happy new year
Really enjoyed this.
If you wanna see some really interesting car styling with callbacks to the 1920s. Check out the 1961 Imperial. It was one of Chrysler Corporation’s last finned car. But its designer, Virgil Exner wanted the car to mimic the opulence of the 20s and 30s with headlights separate from the body much like a Model A. The grill was squared of, designed to resemble that of a 20s sedan. It also (in a way) was a callback to the cars of the late 50s, the outlandish styling of 1957-‘59 with massive fins and a huge swept body. It was the last of these cars. Most manufacturers like Ford and Chevy had moved to more tame squared off designs.
Interesting! I hadn’t considered car designs when making this video, but I just looked up the 61 imperial, and maybe I should have! I wonder what other car designs were influenced by nostalgia.
@@farrellmcguire now that you mention it. There was another car designed and built by Chrysler in 1955, it was called the “Plainsman” and it was a callback the Wild West, the times of covered wagons and Western expansion but paired with forward thinking “Space Age” automotive design, in fact many of the design motifs on the Plainsman would be included on Plymouth wagons for 1956 and 1957.
Homes of the 1950s especially in the early 50s were built to in a cottage style similar to the times of early settlers (albeit with modern amenities like television).
Another thing too, there really seemed to be a lot of rose colored nostalgia for the 1860s and the time on President Lincoln’s term as president in the 1960s also being that the 100th anniversary of the start of the Civil War fell on 1961.
I think there seems to be a lot of nostalgia for the space age modernist design of the 1950 and early 60s. Furniture especially, with tapered legs, dark finished wood, long wide dressers. I’ve seen refrigerators also trying to emulate the look of General Electric or Nash Kelvinator refrigerators of the 1950s, with the chrome scrip. This is truly an interesting topic that I could talk about for hours 😂.
I've been fascinated by this topic recently and have been wanting to watch a video like this covering it. Thanks so much! Love your channel.
Thanks for the support!
The videos on this channel give me peace 😊.
what do you mean this only has 820 views??? instantly subscribed!!
The pattern in the "game show" is that the 60s dresses have shorter skirts than the 20s dresses.
Also, that's an awesome cat!
All around excellent video and your last chapter is definitely a well-put together way of putting all the points together (specifically the technological changes you mention in industrial revolution compared to prior centuries).
I'm really curious how in the near future the impact of technological change will have in nostalgia, as in my view consumer-facing tech (tvs, computers, phones) have stagnated simply due to these being mature technologies (these are also the ones where changes are most noticeable to everyone and easily visualized for their respective dates like CRT monitors). IE compare a desktop pc from 2015 being usable today vs a 2007 desktop being unusable in 2015. Same with smartphones where there's little meaningful differences between 3 year old phones to today (whilst the difference from 2011 to 2013 phones was more drastic). In my personal view I don't see any more innovation for new consumer tech as the new "emerging" tech (drones, smartglasses, VR) have all been overhyped/fizzled; for instance there was a overblown news-story back in 2013 (10 years ago already) of amazon drone vehicles and that's still not mainstream (yes largely due to regulations and not tech itself, but point still stands its not mainsteam). Another tech that was overhyped in early 2010s was 3D printers (was going to be "game-changing shake up to manufacturing"). While all these technologies have had innovations and adoptions in industries I don't see much consumer interest/use within near future. VR already went through multiple hype cycles even as far back as 1990s for instance.Technological changes obviously isn't the sole driving force behind nostalgia but would be interesting to look at how highlights of changes are minimized through the years. I await the days when smartphone reviews are thought as little more useful than refrigerator or laundry machine reviews and people in general are less perceptive/caring about the differences into what will now be glorified appliances. This is just consumer-tech though there's plenty in innovation in advanced fields but as mentioned that's just harder to visualize/notice.
Another thing I would be interested in would be the greater ability to easily document memories and how it should reduce false memories/mandela effects (perception being a key factor in nostalgia) when everything is supposed to be saved (whereas in past you couldn't count on mundane things being documented and people remembering it differently when there's no authoritative source/archive). Double-edged sword though as while you have greater amount of information being generated from larger amount of users (vs past where ie only newspapers documented this stuff) yet more vulnerable to being deleted due to these same users and sites. To top it off with being even harder to save them all vs a smaller amount of information in past years; but that's just life always fleeting.
so well done
This is gold, such a good video 👏👏👏👏
80s-90s had a lot of nostalgia for the 60s
Yeah I definitely did come across examples of 60s nostalgia in the 90s, the stand out in my mind was the In Bloom music video by Nirvana that was modelled after the Beatles Ed Sullivan appearance. And lots of 60s nostalgia in the 80s!
31:08 where did you get this photograph? It looks very odd. What kind of camera was it taken with that made it look that way, like it has more contrast than normal? Or is it just a normal picture and I'm losing it?
I’m pretty sure that’s a drawing! I found it on google images
@@farrellmcguire It'd probably be best to find a source before you use an image in a video, just to ensure it's something you have the rights to use.
It’s public domain! It’s a drawing from 1868 by an unknown artist.
@@farrellmcguire Nice.
The original image is called "Machine Room in Richard Hartmann’s Chemnitz Factory", from 1868. However it looks like it has some sort of AI drawing filter over it, which makes it look odd to me as well. The original drawing doesn't have this characteristic.
Dude! You should totally do some more history-type videos! Your voice and presentation totally gives off that vibe.
Thank you! This one was a lot of fun to do, I’ll definitely consider more history stuff in the future
The outro music made me nostalgic for old Captain Disillusion videos.
21:24 the clips here look like it’s from a video game my uncle has
Great video man, instant sub :)
16:50 I also graduated 2015
Awesome video
I'm nostalgic of the 90s Internet, with basic websites made with frontpage and html.
Wild banners and a link page that would send you further and further down to some rabbit holes.
This is like university course level stuff 👏🏻👏🏻
How does this only have 800 views
I don't have nostalgia but I'll listen.
Keep making videos and people will watch them
Me after binge watching all kf your other videos: Why it gotta be *3am* at a a Denny's?
Guy does anyone know the name of the music the starts at 14:40?
4:40 for sure missed an opportunity to put the text in rainbow
Good topic for a video. Very niche. Hope algo blesses it.
Are you a Canuck? Love your vids btw
I am, and thank you!
Was trying to figure out who he looks like, and i feel like he's Mike from That Chapter's long lost American brother
2:40 true horror story
Nice video. Just a quick note; Joan Baez's surname is pronounced "BYE-ez"
I got every single question on "20's or 60's" incorrect. By logic, I think that means I won.
Vaporwave my beloved... I still hold the genre and aesthetic dear to my heart, although to me it's more about the experimental and weird than purely nostalgic and dream-like.
It's weird, but, despite growing up in 00s and having witnessed Fruitiger Aero myself for many years... I have no nostalgia for it. More than that - it disgusts me. I never liked it, always felt wrong to me, somehow. On the contrary, I adore Metro and all the flat, slick and mainly utilitarian styles, dunno how to explain it.
you forgot to mention the medieval revival in the 60s and how the 40s influenced the 80s!
Yoo new vid
The changes capitalism bring to our world are unnaturally fast. I think people who revive decades old aesthetics are like "hey, we didn't even get to absorb all this beauty before it passed, let us take our time!" For example VHS became dated in just a few years, no wonder people are like "Hold on, I wanna use this thing, I didn't even get to properly experience it"
Westerners are nice,
because we can go back to the pre-war period when we do this kind of analysis.
“Joan Bays”
Windows Vista was to Windows XP what Windows millennium was to Windows 98.