you know, i think a lot of the 80s nostalgia in the current crowd isn't even that we/they grew up on 80s culture. it's that when they grew up, the older kids they/we thought were so cool had grown up on 80s culture. so it's retained this air of received coolness

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@shoofle this makes a lot of sense. i was alive during the 80s but was too young and sheltered to really engage and i think the stylistic nostalgia it invokes in me very much hits the big-kid-coolness-i-don't-quite-understand buttons from young childhood

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