Basic Trope: A work is set a few years into the past from its release with noticeable objects suggesting it.
- Straight: The Adventures of Alice and Bob is released in 2020. The film is set in 2008 with stuff like flip phones.
- Exaggerated: The film is set in 2018 has a lot of stuff from around that time.
- Downplayed:
- The film is set in the 1985 and doesn't look that much different from its release year.
- The film is set in the 1950s and doesn't look that much different from its release year.
- Enforced:
- The script was written in 2008 and languished in Development Hell and little to no changes were made.
- The work is Ripped From The Then-Current Headlines, and it depends on issues that have long since been resolved.
