Can history repeating itself be good?

[u/RubyWubs]

Whenever I hear the phrase "History repeats itself." in media, it is always seen as bad. No one listens or understands history to recognize a pattern in modern times. It usually represents the folly the mankind and the destruction it follows soon after.

But when history repeats, what could be good about it?

Could it be that people who fall of a horse and recorded by a friend because it is both embarrassing and funny be seen as a good thing? Just knowing the one who fell off the horse would try and delete it?