While I agree this seems overly bitter, the idea of such "pseudo-nostalgia" both fascinates and puzzles me. I get normal nostalgia for things from one's own youth, but not for things you never experienced. Not that this is limited to Zoomers being into (an idea) of Internet culture they never new - people too young to have experienced either the 1950s or 1960s often have wildly romantic idealized concepts of these decades for example.

> "pseudo-nostalgia" both fascinates and puzzles me.

Super hero movies have some pseodo-nostalgia fans around me.

I mean, I knew those people when they were kids. They didn't care for super heroes except for like Batman, Spiderman and Power Rangers.

Nothing else was even available for them.

But they talk about obscure characters like, Thor and the Hulk or Cpt. America as they read those as comics or something.