What is your theory for why 80s cultural artifacts have become mainstream again? 

E.g. music like ABBA, Everyone wants to rule the world, etc; entertainment like Stranger Things, Breakfast Club; fashion like the shades, etc 

Working theory: internet native youths subconsciously yearn for an analog world

The internet has transformed the cyclical nature we’d only started to recognize was playing out in culture before the internets arrival. It’s now something detached from the traditional sense of time we’d been conditioned to in the decades before.

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What I think we’re collectively sensing is the assimilation of the old ways of culture into the new virtual/internet driven engine of culture

Another lens I like to approach it through is that all of culture as a mine, and subcultures as their own veins. Daring cultural explorers or “miners” start down certain veins, a lot of these veins were started in their associated decades but so many were apt to avoid mining the same veins then for obv reasons..

Now decades later, younger cultural explorers are seeing the value still left behind in many of those veins

Though I’m still seeing ripples of trends from a decade ago resurging as expected, say tropical button down shirts or tie dye, in general we’ve been moving toward a more ambiguous and amorphous cultural blob through the internet where decade labels will start to signify much less of what they used to.