The Nostalgia Economy - We're Addicted! ๐
514The Nostalgia Economy - We're Addicted! ๐
The discussion of how massive and omnipresent the tactic of nostalgia in today's video games and film is a common topic. Very few would deny how potent nostalgia is and how companies will not hesitate to use it. In today's video though, I want to go beyond the usual conversation of the behavior of the studios and companies (the suppliers) and instead focus my attention on the consumers of nostalgia. Why is it so compelling to us? How has it become so pervasive in all of our media? And analyze why I believe the millenial mind (I am one myself) is espcially supseptible to the powr of nostalgia and how we can bend ourselves into logic pretzles to both justify nostalgic pandering and deny it at the same time. I also go over how I think this addiction to nostalgia has altered our current artsist practices and why everything these days seems to be a copy of a copy.
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00:00 THE HYPE!
02:11 Why do we LOVE nostalgia so much?
07:50 Where does the demand for remakes come from? Is it more than money?
13:00 The Past is Untouchable and the Review Option Selects
18:00 The Millenial Mind is Wired for Reboots
22:30 Nostalgia is our Generations Vice, and it's not going ANYWHERE.
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