Among the creators bringing this vision of the 1980s to life is Tavaius Dawson, a 26-year-old entrepreneur behind the account who was born nowhere near the time in question.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople who were born in an era of smartphones and social media kind of wish they\u2019d lived in a time when they didn\u2019t have to worry about this stuff,\u201d Dawson told AFP.<\/p>\n
\u2018Rose-coloured glasses\u2019<\/p>\n
An expert eye familiar with the era could sniff out some of the anachronisms and subtle absurdities common to AI. Bike lanes in New York City back then?<\/p>\n
But the decade has proven to have a particularly powerful allure in the AI nostalgia trend that is appreciated by young people born long after the period.<\/p>\n
Maximal Nostalgia and other channels like it, such as Purest Nostalgia or utopic.dreamer, depict peaceful suburbs or city streets, reminiscent of feel-good movies from that period.<\/p>\n
Signs of the rising economic inequality, the Aids epidemic and crack cocaine addiction of the 1980s are absent.<\/p>\n
Styles captured in the faux videos instead pay tribute to the big hair, bright clothing, and padded shoulders for which the decade is known.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have people look at the 1950s or 1960s through rose-coloured glasses, forgetting a lot of tumultuous things that were happening at those times,\u201d North Carolina State University psychology professor Anna Behler said of collective nostalgia.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, we\u2019re seeing the same thing with the \u201980s.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dawson was adamant that his videos aren\u2019t meant to be seen as history but simply a way to make people happy.<\/p>\n
Harmless intentions aside, AI video quality is so realistic that it could \u201cblur the line\u201d between authentic scenes from the past and fiction, Behler noted with concern.<\/p>\n
While AI is a futuristic technology, it draws from the past for nostalgic visions that bring comfort in a lonely age.<\/p>\n
\u201cNostalgia isn\u2019t a gimmick; it\u2019s emotional survival,\u201d said Simon Parmeggiani, creator of the Neptunian Glitter Ball channel that mixes a touch of fantasy with its look back at the 1980s.<\/p>\n
Alicia West Fancher, a cosmetics industry sales director, remembers living through the 1980s and found herself deeply moved by the videos.<\/p>\n
\u201cI teared up,\u201d Fancher told AFP. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely not a fantasised version; that\u2019s how it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dawson is now ready to trade up from AI to making live-action content set in this idealised version of the 1980s or 1990s.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing we\u2019re certain of is that nostalgia doesn\u2019t fade,\u201d Dawson said.<\/p>\n
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