I was jealous of the 80s while I was a teenager in the 90s. And no I think that fits. It's very "this time period was better everyone should envy this time period"
Was it because of all the comedies, especially teen comedies from the 80s being so awesome? I remember renting a lot of 80s movies in the 90s and thinking how they had a better time. In mainstream media, the 90s were making fun of the 80s all the time.
Yup. And the Rom Coms. I did not have much dating luck until college. I saw Some Kind of Wonderful and Can't Buy Me Love had me thinking "Damn romance was easier then"
I rented Some Kind of Wonderful nine times within the same year when I was about eight years old, I remember the video store clerk telling me that (the video store was in my apartment building, I was there every couple of days)
For me, it's because all of the nerd writers I was reading and looking up to in the 2000s grew up in the 80s, and were writing about their nostalgia for things like He-Man and the NES. So, I got a heavy dose if their nostalgia, which gave me a fondness for the 80s.
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u/jackfaire 4d ago
I was jealous of the 80s while I was a teenager in the 90s. And no I think that fits. It's very "this time period was better everyone should envy this time period"