fauxstalgic

Feeling a false sense of nostalgia. When you feel nostalgic for something you never really liked.

I hated Oasis and the era during which they were popular, but listening to them makes me feel fauxstalgic.

fauxstalgic by fauxstalgic May 22, 2007

fauxstalgia 

1. A feeling of yearning for a time in the past, even though you may never have experienced that time yourself.

2. Thinking the past was better than it was, simply because your future hasn't turned out the way you wanted it to.

"Whenever I hear 'Piano Man', I get the weirdest wave of fauxstalgia..."

Looking through her highschool yearbook, Nancy suddenly became fauxstalgic.

fauxstalgia by Sameta2 August 24, 2007

fauxstalgia 

Faux nostalgia. Faking old things in an attempt to recapture the feeling of times gone past, especially of technology that has passed.

Hipstamatic pictures, just like the vinyl-static added to digital recordings, is prime fauxstalgia

fauxstalgia by scotte61 December 16, 2010

fauxstalgia 

A fake feeling of nostalgia for something old you didn't actually experience - like Instagram filters and throwback branding from before you could actually walk.

The 20-year old said the X-Pro II filter in Instagram really gave him fauxstalgia for the good old days back in the 1970's.

fauxstalgia by TheMaggiest April 16, 2015

Fauxstalgia 

Nostalgia for something that never actually happened

Fauxstalgia is sometimes used by folks who weren't born at the time to hark back about their experiences in the second world war, or used to remember a thing that didn't even happen such as the world before migration.

Karen aged 50: "Yes it reminds me how good it was in WWII when we didn't have transgendereds"

Fauxstalgia by olivemondegreen December 2, 2020