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The Real Reason Millennials Are Obsessed With Nostalgia

Welcome to the age of nostalgia. From live-action remakes of our favorite Disney films to Saturday morning cartoons streaming on Netflix to a renewed interest in everybody’s favorite neighbor, Mister Rogers, it seems like Millennials don’t want to grow up.

By Faith Moore2 min read
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Nostalgia — the “wistful or excessively sentimental yearning” for the past — is not unique to Millennials. But this seeming obsession with all things ’90s looks to some like a failure to launch. Are Millennials just stuck in some kind of nostalgic holding pattern? Or is there something else going on here?