Nostalgia early 2000s9/2/2023 ![]() ![]() One reminds viewers of the Beverly Hills Chihuahuas, a trilogy of movies that came out from 2008 to 2012. Other nostalgia videos are so bizarre and oddly serious that they seem satirical. There are hundreds of these POV videos, like "coming out of the pool after a long day of swimming" and "it's a regular gym class during elementary school." All these videos are specific enough to elicit a memory, but vague enough that most people on the app can relate. Popular comments on the video read "This makes me overly sad" and "It used to feel so magical too." The video has over a million likes and has garnered nearly six million views. I'll admit when I stumbled across the video I got nostalgic and thought "those were simpler times." I wasn't alone. I'd completely forgotten about class holiday parties before seeing this TikTok which features elementary school students watching a movie, the DVD of Polar Express, and Lofthouse sugar cookies. ![]() One was set to Frank Sinatra's version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." All are set to music that's intended to make you feel sentimental. These videos are a mixture of home videos, slightly pixelated photographs and images of the types of snacks at an elementary school classroom holiday party. I've seen multiple "POV: it is the last day of school before Christmas break" videos and they are scarily accurate. These videos are typically captioned something like "unlocking memories you forgot about." It's disorienting to scroll through the app and be reminded of a forgotten childhood memory, yet one type of nostalgia TikTok trend aims to do just that. The period of time represented in these videos ranges from the early 2000s to 2016 before Trump was elected president, and even to the early days of the pandemic. The most popular nostalgia videos get millions of views and likes. Accounts like and are dedicated to making videos that aim to make viewers pine for the not so distant past. The hashtag #nostalgia has 18.9 billion views. Whether its obsession with childhood memories or Y2K fashion, the app is overrun with yearning for the past. For an app primarily used by by young people, TikTok is oddly obsessed with nostalgia. ![]()
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