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loracarol
Since: Sep, 2009
14th Jan, 2011 07:06:05 PM
Is Nostalgia Filter related at all?
Edited by loracarol
TheOwlet
Since: Dec, 1969
15th Jan, 2011 08:49:24 AM
Nostalgia Filter seems quite similar, but instead of simply veiwing things from your youth or childhood in a better light than those of today, it's the affects of what happens when you actually watch/listen/play with them again.
Chabal2
Since: Jan, 2010
I have a feeling this has to be an already existing trope. It just has to. Too many people have experinced this for it to not be. But I searched, and nothing came up. Honestly.
When you rewatch something from your childhood, the you remember in a positive light, and it suddenly dawns on you how aweful/stupid/weird/surreal/unitentionally funny it is. You suddenly begining cringing at the songs you loved, or realize how much this should have teriffied you as a kid but didn't. The reaction is usually upset or shock, and possbily a refusal to watch anything else in case the same thing happens because you'd rather have your untarnished memories.
Come on, that's got to exist. Right?