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80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed | AI makes it easier than ever to slip into the comforting glow of nostalgia.
AI makes it easier than ever to slip into the comforting glow of nostalgia.
@nostalgia_vsh♬ snowfall - Øneheart & reidenshi In a typical ‘80s slop video, a teenager from the era tells the viewer that there’s no Instagram 40 years ago and everyone played outside until the street lights came on. So when we see an AI generated woman in stonewashed denim with hair by Aqua Net White tell us how good things were 40 years ago, we remember the political figures from the Reagan-era calling for a return to the 1950s. Over in the Discord communities where people talk about what types of AI slop works on social media, “nostalgia” is treated as a popular, moneymaking niche like any other.
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