![]() Postdoctoral scholar David Newman at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of California, San Francisco, told Mashable, "We tend to feel nostalgic when we're feeling lonely or things aren't going well." Newman studies nostalgia and has published several papers on the topic. It's understandable that people are attracted to memories before coronavirus, herd immunity, quarantine, and social distancing were a part of our vocabulary. I'll give users that long for the period of time when Beverly Hill Chihuahuas was popular the benefit of the doubt. god I miss back when I was little" and "i love that movie but now those dogs are probably dead." The comments on the video affirm that the video isn't satirical. The video is set to a dramatic sound not coincidentally named "Nostalgia" and flashes a handful of screenshots of chihuahuas from the movie. One reminds viewers of the Beverly Hills Chihuahuas, a trilogy of movies that came out from 2008 to 2012. Other nostalgia videos are so bizarre and oddly serious that they seem satirical. There are hundreds of these POV videos, like "coming out of the pool after a long day of swimming" and "it's a regular gym class during elementary school." All these videos are specific enough to elicit a memory, but vague enough that most people on the app can relate. Popular comments on the video read "This makes me overly sad" and "It used to feel so magical too."Ī staple of any classroom party. The video has over a million likes and has garnered nearly six million views. I'll admit when I stumbled across the video I got nostalgic and thought "those were simpler times." I wasn't alone. I'd completely forgotten about class holiday parties before seeing this TikTok which features elementary school students watching a movie, the DVD of Polar Express, and Lofthouse sugar cookies. One was set to Frank Sinatra's version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." All are set to music that's intended to make you feel sentimental. These videos are a mixture of home videos, slightly pixelated photographs and images of the types of snacks at an elementary school classroom holiday party. I've seen multiple "POV: it is the last day of school before Christmas break" videos and they are scarily accurate. These videos are typically captioned something like "unlocking memories you forgot about." It's disorienting to scroll through the app and be reminded of a forgotten childhood memory, yet one type of nostalgia TikTok trend aims to do just that. The period of time represented in these videos ranges from the early 2000s to 2016 before Trump was elected president, and even to the early days of the pandemic. The most popular nostalgia videos get millions of views and likes. Accounts like and are dedicated to making videos that aim to make viewers pine for the not so distant past. The hashtag #nostalgia has 18.9 billion views. Whether its obsession with childhood memories or Y2K fashion, the app is overrun with yearning for the past. I definitely need to do a little more research and brush up on the MLA rules but otherwise I’m starting to feel good about this paper as we go into week 8.For an app primarily used by by young people, TikTok is oddly obsessed with nostalgia. Its still something I know I’ll struggle with going forth with this paper and the writing process of this specific paper but I like the challenge of it. I know that I still have quite a lot to work on with my paper like making it more of a narrative rather than an academic essay which is what I’m used to. I’ve made some new connections for my paper that I didn’t previously have like the idea of female empowerment being a main theme of it. But Kris gave me some really helpful notes and critiques and I ended up feeling pretty good about my paper this week when I turned it in. In all honesty, I didn’t feel like the first peer review was very helpful because I had so little to work with that it was pretty obvious that everything needed to be expanded and I didn’t really have any direction for the revision process. ![]() I expanded it to 7 pages, with roughly 2200 words after I went through the revisions and critiques from the peer review and from Kris. While nothing new or major happened with my research this week, I feel pretty good about the progress I’ve made with my paper.
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