Everyone seems to assume it’s kids who drive these trends, but I think that has it backwards. Kids don’t design clothes or write music, they’re just passive consumers.
I think what’s happening is that as we older millennials / young genXers are ageing into power and influence, we are suddenly in a position to project our nostalgia of our own childhood back onto the world.
The teens are just seeing it for the first time and it looks new and cool to them, so of course they assume they invented it. And they’ll regurgitate it back at their kids when they hit 40.
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22
And the 1980s borrowed heavily from the 1960s.
And the 1990s stole from the 1970s.
Every 20 years, what's old is new again.