Nostalgia banking

A soulless cashgrab banking on the nostalgia of a franchise’s previous installments.

“Those Disney Star Wars movies are basically just nostalgia banking with no real plot.”

by Crazy Train McGraw May 27, 2023

Nostalgia

The feeling when you're sad but crying tears of joy.

The nostalgia kicked in when I reminisced about my childhood while playing Gusty Garden Galaxy.

by Sigurd Baldos November 8, 2021

Weird nostalgia

Feeling nostalgic for something strange or something that probably shouldn’t be nostalgic

Clocks give me weird nostalgia

by nyanla December 17, 2024

MTV Nostalgia

Reminiscing the old days of the MTV music channel - the songs, the vibe, the shows and general aesthetic of that time back in the day. Depending on when you grew up, you can be more fond of the 90s or 2000s era and timeline of the channel.

t.A.T.u. is awakening my MTV nostalgia, time to re-watch some music videos from back then!

by Anonymous7788 May 5, 2024

Destructive nostalgia

Excessive amount of nostalgia and grieving for the past to the point where present and the future becomes irrelevant for the person. This can be mostly caused by lack of happiness in the present and depression. The name destructive comes from the fact it causes destruction of the future due to being demotivated to do anything for it.

Patient: "The present and future has nothing for me, the brightness of my lost past is corroding my mind."
Therapist: "That sounds like destructive nostalgia."

by realsvr March 11, 2021

Virus Nostalgia

An overwhelming feeling of nostalgia caused unexpectedly that can cause you to drop whatever you were working on or thinking about, and just drown you in memories. It takes hold of your actions and thoughts, and bends you to the will of your past experiences, in a similar manner of how a virus (the disease variant) will completely overwhelm a host.

I found a cool Spotify playlist the other day full of songs from 2012 and stuff, and was listening to it while doing the dishes, when We are young came on, and I had a case of sudden virus nostalgia from my sophomore year in high school.

by TheJoeRoganExperience September 28, 2019

Blinded by Nostalgia

Blinded by nostalgia is typically a term referring to a player in a video game who knows that they enjoyed a certain newer update of a game, but act as if an older update of the game was better, because it was more "nostalgic", even though the update didn't bring really good stuff.

"Season 3 was better than Chapter 2 Season 2"
"You are blinded by nostalgia"

by poofart96 August 21, 2023