How Nostalgia Controls Us

[@imaginebeingspencer9292]

sometimes nostalgia feels really scary and it’s really distressing

[@andrewmanthey6005]

I have the same issue with nostalgia most of the time. Its weird!

[@ashleypisarts]

@baque Exactly. I listened to the album and I honestly thought that it was average, maybe even a bit below average (obviously no hate to those who love it). It is definitely because people loved Taylor’s music back in the day and therefore love her new songs.

[@osen9881]

Why?

[@osen9881]

@@ashleypisarts Nope, I don't love it because of that

[@imaginebeingspencer9292]

@@osen9881 idk brings back bad memories maybe

[@Mariobius]

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

[@dessie1197]

Broooo so true ❤

[@Rylee_G]

thisll be top comment in 10 years

[@aviddreamerofficial4444]

Classic nostalgia bait

[@FB711_]

Yes

[@chickenfoot2423]

and how gabi 2 has nothing on the original

[@douglasdimmadome3104]

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

[@0spacesuicide]

Whos some artists in this boat?

[@tokageza2238]

@@0spacesuicide Piano Fantasia, for example, with "Song For Denise". It's an Italian act who boomed thanks to the "wide Putin walking" meme videos.

[@highway2heaven91]

Kind of makes me wonder how big songs like “Love is a Battlefield”, “Africa” and “Never Gonna Give you Up” were in their day.

[@91Fusion]

same thing happened in the 60s when the Rolling Stones arrived in America & told the press about their influences & the people who originally wrote their cover tunes. Kids who dug the Stones sought out those 50/60 year old blues dudes who had been gigging for decades to smaller audiences & gave them massive career resurgences, often the biggest successes of their gigging lives

[@broodzitspecialist]

@@0spacesuicide there is 'Surrender to Me' by FireCityFunk, a forgotten disco song from the late 70s that was discovered by the artist's son, went viral and eventually released after 40 years.

[@plateoshrimp9685]

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.

[@tbc9096]

It’s the reason I’ve got back into viewing VHS tapes. I prefer tangible, physical media.

[@grahamturner2640]

Probably explains why quite a few board games are very popular (e.g., Dungeons and Dragons) despite the rise of video games.

[@Justin-vw6sv]

Exactly, if you buy a vinyl you OWN that record. You're not renting it out from Spotify, you will always have that (unless you break it). Also, vinyl changes the way you listen to music. You aren't skipping through an album or a playlist, you are actively listening to and digesting that album, which is great! I know people who collect CDs for the same reason (also the sound quality on CDs).

[@CMStrawbridge]

​​@@tbc9096 VHS? The quality was terrible even for the time back then, lol. I do miss DVDs and DVD recorders before they cracked down for copyright law 🙄

[@alec7364]

Also a lot of music available now is the remastered versions, if you buy the vintage vinyl you'll hear the original mixes of the music. Which is kind of important to me.

[@sukidable]

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.

[@silentj624]

This is perfect! The theme from taxi makes me sick I miss my childhood so much. I was born in 1987 though? Lol

[@SpeedyBlur2000]

As an early 2000's kid that grew up with some 90's shows, I can relate.

[@xxxaragon]

also the way media can be accessed and is referenced. like, even if younger people generally still mostly listen to new and current music, apps like Spotify oder Deezer have new songs +and+ old songs just one click away. and it really just comes down to "presenting" them to a younger audience. e.g. putting 70's rock in Marvel movies. or Kate Bush and Metallica in "Stranger Things" (leading to "Running Up the Hills" becoming a bigger hit now than it was back when it was first released as a single in the 80's. wtf?!).

[@lambiepie6436]

Good point. A big part of a lot of childhoods/teen years is coming home from school and watching re runs of things like Full House. A show filmed as most of us were born lol but at the same time there wasn’t as much choice at all for us in those days. You were at the mercy of whatever was playing like 1 of 3 channels. And it was usually SpongeBob, Full House, or Code name Kids next door lol

[@davidtabaka2663]

Trans people are nostalgic in this way.

[@Heyheyhaleyd]

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.

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

glad my childhood was so awful I can't view anything from it as good tbh

[@jenm1]

I think we romanticize the good vibes of others’ memories because we wanna feel connected

[@thicc_astley]

i feel like fashion has always been pretty cyclical too. i remember scrunchies becoming popular in the 2010s (esp with me as a 2001 kid) and all the 80s kids were like “hey…. What”

[@frauleinzuckerguss1906]

@@thicc_astley Fashion has just been a recycling Model for almost forever. Even in the 80s, which are the first repurposed fashion decade that I remember actively experiencing, had a lot of things restyled from earlier times. Right now it's just faster, more diverse and more visible because of the internet

[@Candyy248]

My nostalgia was never rly intense Like I can rarely feel it for gens where I was alive,sure I can remember some good days I had before and be like "ohhh that day the memories" but then I move on quickly from that and I just cannot romantize that much about it... and as for all gens where I never existed, no nostalgia at all... (like 80s and 90s) Idk how other ppl do it but I simple cant And for games if I have more fun with a newer game than an older one then I will not have any nostalgia for it, like for Pokémon, where I started playing in gen 4 but I love gen 8 way more so I cannot feel nostalgia for gen 4 anymore My mom even told me she wished she was bornt later on but she grew up in the 70s/80s but she told me it could have been worse (like being bornt before like on 50s or 60s or before that)... Now that is positive thinking v:

[@rafaelbarrosdarocha5022]

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

[@magnuskallas]

What a nice little novelty present it was back in 2022. All framed for future generations.

[@whysocurious7366]

It’s the best type of scam, though. They’re selling a fictional product that is “the joy of having the title or lord or lady”, which is always meaningless, and people are really getting the joy from that imaginary title, with just one easy payment. There are WAY worse scams, like: every religion.

[@conanedigawa9860]

@@whysocurious7366 right! Has no one told her yet? Or was this video posted prior to the scam discovery

[@RSainman]

@@whysocurious7366 I liked until your last point. F*** you.. 😂

[@whysocurious7366]

@@conanedigawa9860 I hope it’s the latter, but either way, it’s better than most businesses.

[@willhamilton297]

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.

[@emilyrln]

It's a mood and I for one am _here_ for it!

[@lalo3392]

Check out Internet Pitstop, same vibes

[@nathanespinosa9584]

@@lalo3392 you mean check out Nakey Jakey

[@willhamilton297]

@@nathanespinosa9584 OMG THATS EXACTLY IT!!!!

[@TheB0sss]

​@@nathanespinosa9584he doesn't upload much but when he does i usually fall into this binge watching state of watching his entire channel again lol. Lemmino is like that as well, different genre but still

[@anthonyfamularo8875]

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."

[@cwill2127]

Huh? If you’re gen x you’re not elderly lol. Only 65+

[@kyupiangel90]

My mom is gen x too. She always tells me about bands and artists i might like, but half of the songs i love from her time, are songs i discovered totally on my own. Yet, when i hear them, i feel like i'm in a little time capsule, one that makes me feel like i'm a "youth" in the 80's too, like a fkng delusional fantasy, i recognize how bizarre and weird it is to be reaching via music for a time i didn't even lived or experienced by myself, but it simply gives my mind the "Everything is okay, you are, still, young and hopefull" feels, y'know? I'm 24, and yes, it is merely escapism, but i still enjoy it normally with my mom too, creating new, adorable, memories with her, related to her past, and my own(my childhood or preteen years) as well. The music might be old, yes, but it is never too late to give it new life throught new memories with your loved ones. It is never too late to listen to it again, and refreshen it.

[@IrishRepublicMedia-v5u]

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.

[@itsgabibelle]

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!

[@Itspronounced_euler]

Gabi ur the best commentator on KZbin. Also I was just about to comment about inflation but ur so thorough I didn’t have to :D

[@odkres]

Yes, the inflation was a glaring omission, without this post I would've been one of the nerds to scream about it. Still, it doesn't diminish the other stuff which is, well, correct. edit: and talking about missing your gamecube, I was once like 10+ years ago walking home from a bar at night and there was a plastic bag lying in the street. I looked in and it was a Nintendo Gamecube with all the cables and probably a game or two. I picked it up and never opened the bag again, don't know why. I have a feeling it's still probably in that same bag in my dads car that hasn't been driven in ten years. Maybe I should look it up, must me a bit moldy.

[@therealteal620]

Where da numbers

[@ellealine4159]

@@annabellez8397 I'm sorry you feel that way, but you really can't demand people not to stand. A lot of people don't feel confident talking in public sitting. If Gabi likes talking while standing that's just her thing and none of your business

[@thedestroyasystem]

Hi Gabi! Wanted to let you know that Established Titles is, unfortunately, a scam. You can look more into it but the gist of it is that 1. The land purchases are not legally recognized by the country of Scotland and as such you aren’t actually purchasing anything, and 2. Even if you were, it doesn’t afford you title of Lord, Lady, or Laird under Scottish law. I’m sure you weren’t aware but I figured you should definitely be informed so you can choose what to do from here.

[@JonahWho]

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

[@TobyFloof]

Soup

[@DMO-DMO-DMO]

It's a statement on climate change

[@ariana7514]

you're so real for this

[@kriskenard]

desus & mero may not have broken up if they were hired for the job

[@COSun25]

@@kriskenard I forgot that they existed.

[@rosky_m]

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

[@highway2heaven91]

It’s a good way to attract other random people (multipotentiaries) for sure.

[@BlazerSmith]

I have fallen down a rabbit hole and can't stop watching your videos. What have you done to me? Why am I so addicted to your videos? It may be because I don't expect someone so young to have such complex ideas about things. Thanks for making videos.

[@Yorale]

0:11 caught me off guard ngl

[@polaroidleftist]

A polaroid enthusiast here. I wasn’t alive when those cameras were a thing. So in my case it’s not about nostalgia but maybe a bit of anemoia. However, the most fascinating thing for me is the limitations of the medium and what I can do to achieve the best result possible. It’s a certain aesthetic that speaks to me more than the endless possibilities of the digital realm.

[@ecogreen123]

sometimes limitations can lead to greater creativity, tho if you were to work with cameras even a bit older then polaroid there may be too many limitations lmao. (edit: i forgot to mention i appreciate the enthusiasm, especially the medium, it's really cool to see what polaroid can do, even to todays standards.)

[@AaronGobbyYouTube]

Gabi this editing is fricken SUPERB 🙌🏼 I bow to thee

[@nathanespinosa9584]

Compare it to Nakey Jakey 👀

[@lavennia]

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

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

I wouldn’t say writing fanfiction is cringe. Does it make you happy? Yes? Who cares? Keep doing it! Keep writing if it’s enjoyable!

[@rustyrobots426]

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

[@pumpnix]

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

[@jay_key_lee]

There's a playlist on Spotify that does a great job replicating the feeling of anemoia by someone named Atali. The playlist is just called "anemoia" and I think it's definitely worth a listen if you're interested in the concept

[@crazyowlgirlcncowner]

I'm trying to find it (haven't even watched the video so IDK why I'm looking for it lol) but I can't find it at all

[@KakkaRotSRL]

I only found Gabi's channel like a week ago, and the youtube algorithm has been shoving her in my face nonstop. I think this is a great choice on the algorithm's part and I am 100% here for it.

[@mmw4990]

Me too

[@nathanespinosa9584]

I recommend checking out Nakey Jakey of you like this style

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

The idea of nostalgia really intrigues me, especially since I come from a position where I really shouldn't be nostalgic for my childhood at all since I endured physical and emotional childhood abuse and neglect long enough to develop anxiety and PTSD. I still watch my favorite cartoons and listen to the same music as I did back then nowadays as an adult because it allows me to relive my childhood in a controlled environment, without having to re-experience the abuse. I only do this on certain occasions, however, because I know that in general, corporations will exploit that part of myself for profit. Honestly the only reboot that I've watched that actually felt like a genuine passion project was the 2020 reboot of Animaniacs.

[@ContinuedOak]

Nostalgia is something high with trauma, especially childhood trauma.

[@jenm1]

I assume you’re going back to the escapes, the things that reinforced safety and took you away from stress. I have the same experience

[@Candyy248]

I also had my bad things on childhood and like I can watch sometimes stuff I watched in the past but not very often and most of the time I prefer something new Is like yeah, I experienc nostalgia too but I managed to control myself (mostly)

[@seththebeth]

The Red dead example makes sense, but I think it’s even funnier that Red dead redemption was technically also a sequel to a game called Red Dead Revolver on the PS2 and Xbox original.

[@NewAzn]

I will never understand why I woke up at 3am during the pandemic and searched for “80s Japanese pop music” but I’ve never looked back

[@napalm4724]

That horse tried to kill me so many times it was out to get me.

[@original_shmirko_account]

😂

[@pAWNproductionsDE]

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

[@isaiahmcclure8894]

Agree to Disagree

[@f.e.dassociated9137]

@@isaiahmcclure8894I know this is an old video but why do you disagree? I use to play a lot of Nintendo DS games that I found incredibly fun back when I was younger but now that I play them they are awful and very boring, but I still cherish the physical copies of my DS games because I’ve spent hundreds of hours and years of my life on those games

[@isaiahmcclure8894]

@@f.e.dassociated9137 See, but thats your subjective opinion. Because when I play games from my childhood, (90's-2000's) of course graphically speaking but dont hold up, but they aren't unplayable. I can play through Zelda Ocarina of Time hundreds of times without getting bored. I've been playing Pokemon Crystal and Pokemon Yellow both all week recently. I get absorbed haha

[@sirenier]

@@isaiahmcclure8894 the point of the message was some games such as pokemon and zelda age great and are still great games, but a lot of games aren't as fun as we remember them to be

[@isaiahmcclure8894]

@@sirenier I also comprehend basic English, but all I am trying to say is speak for yourselves. I play my “old games” more than I play my PS5 or switch. Games today are all the same game just with different costumes and maps. There is no creativity in video games anymore.

[@emmasanders1309]

Gabi don’t work with established titles anymore, their whole business is a scam, there’s a whole video by Scott Shafer going into full detail

[@MoragLadair0]

this video came out before that one bbg

[@Floridamermaid]

@@MoragLadair0 she should update the desc bbg

[@MoragLadair0]

@@Floridamermaid oh yea that's fair, i was using bbg in an endearing way not a condescending one, sorry it came off wrong

[@ILoveEnormousMen]

@@Floridamermaid I dont think she can. Because they make you sign a contract

[@CesarEfrainMaldonado]

Let Gabbi grab that bag and don't ever buy from any sponsors of anyone.

[@JaydenLand]

I like how you are genuinely one of the best commentary KZbinrs I've ever seen. Most of your peers can't even speak on a subject for more than a few, let alone make it entertaining. Yet, you make me want to watch every second of a 12+ minutes video, of you just talking your shit. On top of that, I'm amazed by how funny you actually are. So many creators, these days, rely on regurgitating memes and/or funny editing. You are one of the very few that can just be funny. Whether you wrote it in your script, or not. I appreciate and admire that so much. Keep doing what you do, cuz it's only a matter of time until you become a YT millionaire.

[@iAmNovaFilms]

I know a lot of people have vinyls just for the look, But I genuinely enjoy buying the format that the music I listen to (old) was originally released on, and something about physically owning my favorite albums (old) is very special to me

[@taiyaki4141]

there’s also a point to be made that mulan didn’t cash in on nostalgia because the plot, clothing, and even the characters were so incredibly different than the original

[@pumkin610]

It was probably capitalizing on how movies try to badassify everything into a john wick

[@thewooddove2]

That Nintendo DS sound really brought something out of me.

[@amee7908]

As someone who loves synthwave as a genre, it's fascinating that the aesthetic is based on the "retro" past yet futuristic and idyllic aka not real. Similar to the example of citypop, people are nostalgic for a time that didn't exist. Like neon pools and hotels, ancient sculptures mixed in with brick pcs

[@m777howitzer4]

A time that never was, or that has yet to be?

[@wetpaint2875]

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.

[@Sophbloxe]

I feel bad for you, hopefully everything is fine for you

[@candylide]

Holy shit, I hope everything gets better Why are you the one being sued and not them? You shouldn't be at fault if you were scammed and didn't know you were commiting a crime

[@KC-bi9jw]

@@candylide ....its obviously a joke.....

[@candylide]

@@KC-bi9jw I really don't know

[@chadmaple2411]

​@candylide breh it is. That's not how you get arrested for Fruad. Like even just logically think about it if say 1 million Americans buy established titles, are a million people getting arrested for fraud?

[@highway2heaven91]

Watching this as someone who has a bunch of 80s/90s songs in their Spotify playlists (Only got to live in one of those decades) I agree. I also find it quite sad that even though Nintendo still makes tons of good recent games, they’re always seen as the “old school” gaming company.

[@clairehansen5575]

Shoutout Pratt (so sorry Katie). Also a point on nostalgia - Kodak is often credited for "creating" this in America (obviously up or debate) with the introduction of the Kodak Brownie camera. It was one of the first cameras that was commercially available for a mass audience. This changed the game because it was an equivalent to point and shoots for todays standards so you didn't have to have any photography training to create family memories. Not to mention $$ to go to a studio to have a family photo taken

[@carlalussini]

Ahh, yes, uniting the nostalgic feeling one gets from looking at old photos (when back then most photos were of important family times rather than a daily occurrence) and calling those "a Kodak moment" was a brilliantly evil marketing decision the company made.

[@clairehansen5575]

@@carlalussini exactly!! and quickly became a sort of standard for the "American Family"

[@sincerelyrex]

i can speak to all of these except the music sector tbh, i love physical music more than anything i’ve got cds i can play in my car and vinyls i can play in my room while i’m chilling or going to sleep i see a lot of value in physical music now more than ever. it’s sweet to decorate your room with them too! it’s rare that vinyls today are made with nostalgia in mind, it’s those sorts of etsy-buying pinterest-browsing people instead that perpetuates the bad taste that is put in peoples’ mouth about collecting vinyl! it’s actually a cool thing that i don’t mind more people getting into. artists get money directly too, instead of a fraction through streaming services.

[@bitterkitty]

agreed! it also bums me out that all the new artists who put out vinyls are just putting out digital recordings slapped onto a vinyl. like, there's 0 difference between playing it from an aux chord vs a vinyl. analog recording + analog playback = a concert in your room, and it's amazing.

[@NightmareLyra]

I do think it is possible to enjoy old things without it being just because of nostalgia, for example I have a bunch of vinyls but I also do have a vinyl player, and I think its a fun way to support artists I enjoy while also having a physical version of the album that can't be taken off streaming any minute. I just make sure to only get stuff I actually want instead of buying any random thing I remember from my childhood

[@ralcolfwolfcoon8207]

Yes! Thank you!

[@Kpengie]

15:00 I have the Zelda one of this (was given to me as a gift actually) and it plays 4 games actually. Zelda 1, Zelda 2, Link’s Awakening (original GB version), and a Game and Watch minigame are all playable. That being said, yeah, all of those games are easily accessible elsewhere. It’s a neat little keepsake to display in my room though.

[@KaiMoya420]

I always tell people you would not last five minutes without your phone. You do not want to go back.

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

I remember trying to navigate with an open map book across my steering wheel while I drove. It was actually dangerous and I do not miss it at all 😅

[@joshuamoore8560]

Sometimes it takes someone almost 20 years my junior to point out my follies. I used to chase nostalgia like an addict; as I got older and had some health scares and the trials of middle age began to wear my down, I hunted and scoured every resource at my disposal, desperate to tap back into the presh mems of my youth. But I eventually I learned that chasing memories is like what addicts refer to as "chasing the dragon." It's an itch that simply can't be scratched and for me specifically, for 3 main reasons: 1.) memories are IN THE PAST, 2.) memories are imperfect and 3.) the things I'm nostalgic for are usually things I relied upon as a child to escape stressful situations. And I had a LOT to escape from: my dad's alcoholism, my parents' divorce, the fact that I was autistic at a time when this was not quite understood and I was therefore endlessly bullied at school. Let's face it: my childhood SUCKED HARDCORE and to have multi-billion dollar media empires dig up the relics of my past, thrust them in my face and say "see THIS? You can be young again... for a price," is disgusting to me.

[@biggestastiest]

i never got to experience a normal youth on account of my autism and a severely traumatic childhood, and now being an adult i kinda feel blessed that nostalgia bait doesn't work on me

[@jarfo9663]

A question popped into my head when she showed the box office for the movies and series, mainly how we didn't know if the numbers were adjusted to inflation or not, in that case the original starwars trilogy made 6.9 billion ($1.6b in 1978 adjusted to inflation)

[@StarshipVGer]

I was thinking the same thing. Whether things were adjusted for inflation.

[@thedestroyasystem]

She answers it in the pinned comment, she didn’t adjust for inflation but will be adding the accurate numbers in said comment.

[@Vanadium]

@@thedestroyasystem still wrong, why? because more people on this planet now and many more have now acces to this tech. How fucking expensive was VHS first. You now can just stream that on your 50 USD phone..,. Another example for Star Wars as an example ist that SciFi was freaking brand new. Most people didnt know anything about that concept. Looking at RDR 1 and 2 for an example, there where lot more Playstation 4sold then PS 3. How much more popular is gaming now then back then?

[@ratmankey]

@@Vanadium I don't really understand what you're trying to say but no, sci-fi wasn't new at all. Not by a long shot. Star Wars was just the first sci-fi thing to be mainstream successful on that scale.

[@Vanadium]

@@ratmankey the concept of Sci Fi on screen was relatively new and had their brake trough with that. Books are a different story. I don understand what you can’t understand. There where way less people that could access media. It’s that simple, those numbers are globally. How much more people watching movies to day then back then?

[@allikazaam]

NOOO NOT THE ESTABLISHED TITLES SPONSOR

[@evergreen1326]

Did she ever made an apology?

[@r.a.fgattaiguy845]

@@evergreen1326 don´t you start

[@evergreen1326]

@@r.a.fgattaiguy845 so, no?

[@r.a.fgattaiguy845]

@@evergreen1326 you don´t get to demand stuff like that

[@evergreen1326]

@@r.a.fgattaiguy845 tell me you're an American without telling me you're an American. You always have to apologise for spreading misinformation or scams if you're a public person. People believe you. But it's not smth an invidualistic American would understand i guess

[@wrathoftheflyingspaghettim850]

This is the 2nd time I've heard about some psychological comfort in already knowing what happens when rewatching something and the first time it was even described as problematic but I've never not understood something harder. I rewatch things because I know it's a guaranteed good thing I can watch right now, knowing what happens isn't a comfort to me i would actually prefer not to know.

[@bladethrower9000]

"Did that make you feel something?" Yes, I feel rage that 0:16 didn't play the high pitched note at the end :'D

[@DiamondRoller37]

Okay, but 80’s music (Western and Japanese alike) are just *good.* I don’t really feel nostalgic from it (born in ‘06) but I honestly love the whole vibe of it. Sometimes I feel nostalgic thinking what my life would’ve been like if I grew up when my parents did (which I also know is most definitely wildly inaccurate), but whenever I’m listening to 80’s music it’s more about the good jams than it is about feeling that feeling, y’know?

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

cuz those generations already sorted out all the good stuff for us lol

[@ShellShock794]

Yeah, 80s music sounds really good until Pacman Fever comes on

[@therussianwanderer4851]

That makes two of us 😊

[@hannahswedberg1390]

Yes, thank you for not hating on the Breath of the Wild soundtrack!! I wrote a paper on Zelda music for my senior thesis and found one of the coolest things in the BOTW soundtrack. The melody in the Temple of Time is actually a carbon copy of the original music from Ocarina of Time, but it's been so jazzed up and broken down to fit the state of the BOTW world that it's almost entire unrecognizable! So they didn't actually discard all the OG music, you just really have to listen for it.

[@rai1578]

Chiptune music is also definitely a good example. Back in the day, that's the technology you had to work with if you were making a game and wanted it to have music. Now, we don't have the same limitations but that classic chiptune style is still very popular in games.

[@microdavid7098]

chiptunes are popular because they are convinient, they have a very simple waveform and are very easy to get access to. Some gamedev software like pico 8 or tic80 come with a chiptune music editor in it. And it's funny because those game tools are made for nostalgia (as if you're programming in the 80s or 90s with a microcomputer)

[@ugh712]

i often get those painful feelings of nostalgia and fall victim to yearning for the "good old days" and then i have to take a step back and remember that my childhood was horrific and traumatic. i think those things that make me so nostalgic and emotional must have such a hold on me bc the media and toys etc that i grew up with were what i took comfort in back then. so they must evoke some sort of feeling of safety that tricks me into believing the past was better.

[@mustolinii8574]

6:34 - actually with inflation, the original cinderella would have made a closer amount to $2.7 Billion in 1950 as apposed to beauty and the beast from the modern era

[@timhough]

Yeah, I just look a look, and all the originals except for The Lion King, Aladdin, and Dumbo made more than than the remakes when you adjust for inflation. (sorry I know this a year old video...)

[@aye8136]

I’ve been getting a lot better at not being caught up in nostalgia, I used to always think about the past and not move forward but I’ve completely changed that by just thinking about how much there is to do in life and how there’s no point getting stuck in the past and moving forward and wasting away, don’t think too much on the past, always move forward

[@Candyy248]

Yeah, my mom told me that once v:

[@aye8136]

@@Candyy248Wise words from her

[@ralcolfwolfcoon8207]

Just because it's old doesn't mean it's "nostalgia talking." What if it's still good or shit like that?

[@lilGreenYoshi]

I think revisiting things from the past that were good every once in a while isn't a bad thing. the problem arises when it's ALL you think about and you cannot move on from it. diversifying my life has been my motto recently. have a melting pot of things like reliving past experiences while also creating newer and fresh experiences

[@mflynnp]

Your sense of humor really gets to shine in the presentation and editing of these more video essay-type videos

[@dathotbox]

Nostalgia is so wild to me, always think about and it for sure controls me at times haha. My whole adult life has pretty much just been acquiring what I always wanted as a kid 😂

[@Candyy248]

For me I managed to control it most of the time (with very little exceptions) And well, as for buying stuff that I wanted as a kid I honestly barely do that, I cannot complain about the stuff I got back then v:

[@rainbow_reptile4720]

the shot of 2 gabis speaking simultaneously fucked with my sensory issues so much that I literally started to cry and itch all over

[@pang404]

Even after all these years, the sounds, "Segaaaa" and "Get over here" still gets me.

[@SlowV6Mustang]

I remember having this very fond memory of a car ride in my mom’s red ford expedition when I was 4 years old. Everything seemed brighter and better than it does now. This was in 2008 when my parents were enduring one of the most hardest economical times in their lives…

[@7DayCraft]

this is a gem that deserves millions of views. every time u referenced maplestory i wanted to cry how did u perfectly encapsulate those feelings 😭

[@berlin7607]

the best part about this is that she said "we eat it up like mac and cheeeesee" i'm making mac and cheese as we speak

[@callerunknown]

Tysm for the captions!

[@pelago_]

This is only the second video of yours that I’ve seen, but I’m really impressed at the structure and flow of the content. Great work!

[@Brina21232]

I have to say, I really appreciate you constantly mentioning MapleStory lol. As someone who spent a ton of time playing MapleStory as a kid, it always makes me happy hearing other people talk about it since none of my friends (current or past) have played it. It makes me feel less alone lol.

[@MalzArt_Stinks]

I had no idea green screen Gabi could be this powerful

[@cassidymathews4198]

I love this. I love Gabi in front of a green screen. I love Gabi. She is so knowledgeable and entertaining to learn things.

[@plaidpvcpipe3792]

2:46 Now I'm getting nostalgia for when I read the Great Gatsby for the first time. Fuck that book is good. Jay Gatsby was all caught up in his nostalgia, the fool.

[@darthdonkulous1810]

You know, I'm very glad I clicked on the first video of yours I saw yesterday. You really are a very entertaining and talented lass. Happily subscribed! Keep up the great work, Gabi.

[@tombles]

also, of course the main reason why taylor’s re-recording her first 6 albums is because she wants to get the rights to her music back and own her music, but also, as an added benefit, she’s been going HARD on the nostalgia related to those albums (so far fearless and red) so that’s another thing lol

[@VictoriaLyman]

I'm so glad you touched briefly on the "nostalgia for a time you didn't experience" because when I discovered that whole community of 80s gen Z lovers I was so confused. I will admit I do love 80s music and some of the fashion/aesthetic but making it your whole personality seems insane to me when you don't even know what the 80s were like, you just watched stranger things lol

[@highway2heaven91]

Imagine how insane it looks when there are people who base their personality around earlier decades. (Such as the 50s, 60s or even 1800s)

[@Candyy248]

Honestly as a gen z myself I am SOOO glad I was never bornt in the 20th century, just looking how videogames were back then and how there was no internet and phones never made me nostalgic at all and also that you did not rly have a lot of alternatives to entertain myself I just cannot be nostalgic about the 80s, like never never Even when youtube recomends some song from the 80s Looks like I am the rare exception of never being nostalgic about an era I never existed v:

[@biggestastiest]

usually when people have decorations/clothes/music from the 80s/90s it's an aesthetic choice, not a personality switch. coming from a token gen z-er

[@VictoriaLyman]

@@biggestastiest I genuinely don't know any of these people personally but from the stuff I've seen on TikTok it seems to have taken over their whole life, an obsession of sorts. I get having an aesthetic or a fashion style you are interested in but the stuff I've seen on socials take it far beyond that. many of them wishing they lived in the 80s.

[@LeoMidori]

@@Candyy248 At least you're honest! The thing is that our attention spans were very different in those times, you had to have patience with technology and entertainment or appreciate things for what they were. You also have to keep in mind that, at the time, the things that were coming out were things at their peak for the moment, even if there was also plenty of crap. I remember my pre internet childhood to be pretty okay (we didn't get a PC in my house until 2001) but we found plenty of ways to entertain ourselves without cellular and a constant internet connection.

[@srcreo]

become uncontrollable, nostalgia will never get me

[@catblue4690]

Thanks Katie, we really appreciate it.

[@alexharbin4124]

aw i remember established titles. makes me feel nostalgic for that square foot of land i pretended to own.

[@vawqer1744]

I feel like this was one of your more chaotic videos, and I'm definitely here for it! Also, I love your blue eyeshadow 🤩 One recent datapoint your Disney remakes commentary missed was Pinocchio, which got terrible reviews and was a direct Disney+ release. Unfortunately, that means monetary success can't really be tracked publicly :(

[@spookey2004]

I def reccomend checking out the album Geogaddi by Boards Of Canada if you haven’t heard it, it’s a really cool exploration of nostalgia. It has no lyrics but it gets it’s message across by just using these otherwise warm and comforting nostalgic synths and samples and creates a super uncomfortable and ominous atmosphere, it’s a really cool album!

[@CamdenBloke]

I've been listening to Boards of Canada ...... since the 90s! 🤪🤪🤪

[@spookey2004]

@@CamdenBloke niceeeeee

[@BuckTurgidson-nw7yk]

@@CamdenBloke Same here, I've got most of their stuff on vinyl

[@fenfennel]

i’ve seen people mention vinyl as something that people collect due to nostalgia but i never got it. i got into collecting a few years ago cuz i like having a big physical disk with artwork and inserts

[@TttTtt-zo7kt]

"Did that make you feel something?" Yes, that Windows 95 screen made me feel sick.

[@murrethmedia]

“Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy 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. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It let’s us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.”

[@clegs8356]

GABIIII!!! the pacing and energy of this was so fun!!! and the content itself was quite well done and engaging!!! i very much enjoyed myself thanks legend have an awesome day :)))

[@Toxic.Mangaka]

Not me being 25 and still thinking skinny jeans were in style only for Gabi to tell me they’re not lmaooo

[@mh2120]

Skinny jeans will never die, rock out in 'em to your heart's content

[@Ghost-vd2ow]

It’s kinda crazy that in ten years or so there will be nostalgia for games like genshin impact or apps like tiktok

[@panamathrill4425]

Thanks for breaking this down, I love your insight and smarts, gives me hope for the future, cause rehashing everything over and over for $$$$ is depressing

[@PeriluneStar]

My brother actually bought both of the game and watch thingies- he bought them because he doesn't have a phone and likes retro video games, and likes bringing it with him to places

[@maxwelpet]

Watching this drunk has made me realize how quick the comedy of these videos are. I have had to rewind multiple times because my wasted ass cant even keep of with the jokes being spat out by this legend. Love these vids!!

[@RaeCrazyGaming]

I love how gabi's content has developed. I love all her old stuff but her new stuff is great too. Keep it up bestie! P.S. we all agree her eyeshadow slaps right?

[@wipeout7745]

I’m honestly just a big fan of Gabi’s vocals on Plastic Love.

“Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy 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." Don Draper, in "Mad Men", a very nostalgic series (even tough I was borne many many years after the time it depics".

[@Mr._Mints]

15:55 It gave a range because only two modern Game & Watch consoles have been released: Super Mario in 2020, and Legend of Zelda in 2021.

[@jeanette2475]

Editing was so great in this! Loving the green screen

[@adrianolson7455]

Thought it was a great vid and I hope to see more like it from you Gabi!! 🥰 I would like to say tho, I t would’ve been helpful to make it clearer that nostalgia is why the market exists, and sacristy is why it’s so expensive. :) love you Gabi keep up the good content 🤗

[@elm1897]

1) Love the shirt 2) Nostalgia has everything to do with the desire to return to easier days where your only worries were tomorrow's prealgebra test and who you were going to ask to homecoming. Shit, my wife played Falling in Reverse today and it took me back to sophomore year of high school. I was finally experiencing emotions and perspectives I hadn't felt in YEARS. You best believe I'd pay a few dollars here and there to feel like a kid again, when the world was still so far in front of me. I'm sure most of us miss the times when our friends all lived within a five mile radius and microtransactions weren't a thing, when Game Crazy was still alive and everyone your age was discovering Dr. Who! Keep posting awesome vids 🤙

[@longbottomleaf6918]

I watch this video periodically to feel nostalgic.

[@someguy2690]

Gabi, you've become one of my absolute favorite youtubers right. Keep up the good work. Coming from a millennial who one rented Pokémon Stadium, omported alll 151 pokemon to it, and forgot to export it back to my pokemon yellow... 😭

[@AshenDemon]

Damn established titles sponsored a lot of people before they were exposed.

[@brandonvasquez1862]

As a DJ I've had many extended conversations with people I'm close to artistically about nostalgia and what can we do as DJs to be smart about our choices. In a lot of dance music since probably around 2014 or so, we've seen a lot of revival of 90s genres and a return to form with 90s sounds updated for the modern era. For myself, I wonder why this works because a lot of the tracks I spin that are from the 90s or follow that sound pallete but updated for the modern age work really well with a lot of people as compared to some of the more modern sounds. I've concluded it's in the simplicity of the production and the overall focus on groove and vibe rather than just gimmicks. That being said, we still have to produce/play tracks in order to push the genre forward and not just strictly stay in the past for pasts sake, but also my job is to find those tracks from a past time that were overlooked, or not seen as well by a modern audience, or a sound that only really stuck to that time and how to showcase that back to a modern audience. I run a really fine line here and I loved this video and that's how I personally have to deal with nostalgia

[@gamingKIDZ25]

Can’t help but fall in love with Gabi everytime I see a video of hers

[@AllisonBriarstar]

Vinyl's legit sound so much better than streaming from like, Spotify or something. It sounds like the artist is playing the music in the room with you, I recommend giving it a shot.

[@sunscapeband]

Crazy. Companies can run nostalgia into the ground until everyone ready for something new, create something new, people love it, years down the line rinse and repeat. You could say Palworld did a combination of both too, capitalizing on the nostalgia, while also making something new and better than any Pokémon game in the past 10 years.

[@lilybells]

This is a really good video, it absolutley cracked me up!!!😆 Your channel deserves so much more love ♥

[@luciuslouis6457]

The editing on this video is top tier

[@toganium4175]

I watched Lion King 2019 in theaters. I am part of the problem.

[@pumkin610]

It's me Hi

[@mariocontreras6855]

Im the problem, it’s me

[@xragdoll5662]

At tea time, everyone agrees

[@caprituna]

OK THIS AD WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY WHOLESOME I LOVE WHAT THEY'RE DOING JUST FOR THE MEME

[@_Raven_Dia]

I can't explain it, but this is my favorite video on the whole of KZbin.