How Nostalgia Controls Us

We’ll be looking back at this video in 10 years and telling our children how Gabi never misses

sometimes nostalgia feels really scary and it’s really distressing

I love how the Established Titles sponsor made the video nostalgic in such a short amount of time.

In addition to nostalgia, I think people like some of this stuff out of a desire for authenticity. Like, a vinyl record is nostalgic, but it’s also a physical thing you can hold in a world where music is mostly just files.

hearing seth rogen try to sing hakuna matata is like watching someone spill coffee on the mona lisa

we all know gabi made this video to show off her random paraphernalia

I think another reason we get notalgic for times we didn't experience is because we were exposed to a lot of our parents'/previous generations' nostalgia while growing up. Like all the shows on Nick at Nite and the older stuff on Cartoon Network. (I'm 31) All the stuff that catered to older people's notsalgia in our childhood. So in a way we also got notsalgia passed down to us and intermixing with our own pasts.

As an elderly Gen-X person, I've been getting a weird, but fun, new feeling when I see younger people being nostalgic for stuff that, in my mind, debuted just, like, three weeks ago. It's similar, I guess, to how my 96-year-old Sicilian father refers to the Beatles as "that modern music."

The fact that this whole video comes off as an amorphous blob of frantic begging and pop culture history is literally just the PERFECT thing.

There are also musicians from the 80s who are just making it big for the first time now. Imagine being 60 and everyone just starts liking your music from 40 years ago and you have to go on tour for the first time as a senior

As someone who started collecting retro games years ago purely for the sake of playing them, revisiting games from your childhood will wear the rose tint off your glasses REAL QUICK. Some games aged like wine and firmly deserve their nostalgia, and others deserve to collect their dust

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This line almost made me cry “Are we adverse to change? Always longing for the good old days that sometimes weren’t even that good.” This was an amazing video. It’s also something I think about a lot. My childhood wasn’t the greatest saying the least, but I always smile when I put on an episode of “Wizards of Waverly Place” or watch someone play Minecraft. I was born in 2002, but constantly feel nostalgia for different generations.

Nostalgia it's delicate but potent. Gabi once told told me that in Greek, "nostalgia" literally means, "the pain from an old wound". It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. Nostalgia isn't a spaceship. It's a time machine. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Round and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved.

Can we all just think about how the song jasmine sang in the remake about "not being quiet" was sung IN HER HEAD.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: in light of things, i've donated the money from this sponsorship to Woodland Trust, UK's largest woodland conservation charity. Established Titles is a gag/novelty gift, and does not grant you actual "legal" lord or ladyship in Scotland or any governing body. They donate part of the money to charities such as One Tree Planted, and do not plant trees IN Scotland, rather, they dedicate a plot of land to you in Scotland that is preserved under your name. 1. there's no way i caught every piece of media, and nuance that involves engaging with media that has an element of nostalgia to it, sequels, etc in this video. feel free to add below! like i totally missed stranger things that totally leans into the 80s nostalgia, and also is a fantastic show utilizing these elements! 2. i fricked up and didn't count for inflation for the star wars and lion king box office numbers. i shall do the math and add the real numbers here. 3. love your thoughtful and cool comments!!! and the silly goofy ones thank u!

in 2013 i was pretty fascinated by vaporwave as a genre and its surrounding "a e s t h e t i c." it was really interesting to see so many people nostalgic for a time that never really existed

i used that gabi code and became a "lord"... or so i thought... long story short i was eventually charged with impersonating nobility because that website is a scam. now i am facing criminal charges for fraud. my life is effectively ruined because i lost my accounting job. the worst part... my kids still call me a "lord" to try and cheer me up. i have the hardest time telling them (4 and 7 year old) what happened after our house was foreclosed on. it damn near brings me to tears every time... i literally watched this video for the 2nd time to bring back the memories from 2 months ago.

as a kid of the 90s and my HS years being 01-05, i definitely get the 90s and Y2K nostalgia bug often ngl i did love growing up in the 90s & early 00s

I am literally controlled by Maplestory. In my sad loneliness I started writing a Maplestory FANFICTION (cringe) to reminisce on those old days. And I even reached out to an old online friend I'd not spoken to in 13 years, and we're good friends again. Nostalgia is good sometimes