32.5 percent of users are between the ages of 10 to 19 and 29.5 percent of users are between the ages of 20-29. Older people have a longer, more diverse stretch of memories to feel nostalgic for.Īccording to Comscore, as of September, 60 percent of TikTok users are Zoomers. Since majority of TikTok users are young they are nostalgic for the same period of time, childhood. For anyone over the age of 25 a lot of the cultural references made in nostalgia videos like the online game Poptropica probably won’t connect. Some videos will only resonate with people of a certain age on TikTok. "There are certain types of nostalgic feelings that can have this sort of comforting feel and make you feel more connected to people," explained Newman. Looking back on shared memories can build a sense of community, added Newman. "I would imagine that people have been feeling more nostalgic because we are living through this difficult time and people want to remember the good times when things were not this way," continued Newman. 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.
#2000S NOSTALGIA MOVIE#
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. For an app primarily used by by young people, TikTok is oddly obsessed with nostalgia.
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