Nostalgia is one of the internet’s favorite pastimes.

The New York Times recently reported on a new trend built around that feeling: social media accounts posting AI-generated scenes that look as though they were plucked straight from the ’80s or ’90s.

“POV: Its summer in 2000… and life felt different,” one such post is captioned. A young woman looks into the camera: “Long days at the water park, no phones, just fun that never seemed to end.” Next, a teenager holds a marshmallow over a campfire. “No group chats, no DMs, just stories around the fire until morning,” he says.

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Idyllic. Of course, none of those people or scenes are real. But that hasn’t stopped viewers from aching for a past that feels

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