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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

fapstalgia 

The nostalgic feeling one gets when finding old pornography.
Found this old dirty magazine from when I was 16, I was overcome with fapstalgia, it was like jerking off in a time machine.
fapstalgia by CockslapMcCool April 14, 2014

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

Falsalgia 

False Nostalgia. A weird sense of nostalgia for a past event or time that you never personally experienced. Otherwise known as Empathetic Confusion.
"Man, Heartbeats by the Knife fills me with Falsalgia."
Falsalgia by Jenka January 20, 2013

Flamstalgia

When someone hates a new or old installment of a series. Even if the newer/older version is superior in every way, one who has Flamstalgia will find something to complain about, and say how it doesn't compare to the version they played and loved originally.
Veteran Player: I am tired of this Modern Warfare 3 nonsense, COD 4 was the shit man.
New Player: No man Modern Warfare 3 is the king of COD, it doesn't suck. I tried COD 4, it is terrible.
Non Player: They are both very similar and you guys just have Flamstalgia.
Flamstalgia by Frenes August 3, 2012