I am curious, are the kids actually doing this? Is everything you described here literally happening? If so, is there a search term for what they’re doing? And what scene is this happening in?
Some are. I have observed n=1 teenagers saying this is a thing. It’s definitely not the majority. Of course, if avant garde movements were the majority then they wouldn’t be avant garde. All I know for certain is that there exists at least one 18-year-old who, along with some other people on the Internet and IRL, expouses the virtues of 90s technology and chooses to use some of it. This post is my dramatic interpretation. The characters in my story are all fictional.
The search terms you’re looking for are “retro tech” and “retro gaming”.
I am curious, are the kids actually doing this? Is everything you described here literally happening? If so, is there a search term for what they’re doing? And what scene is this happening in?
Some are. I have observed n=1 teenagers saying this is a thing. It’s definitely not the majority. Of course, if avant garde movements were the majority then they wouldn’t be avant garde. All I know for certain is that there exists at least one 18-year-old who, along with some other people on the Internet and IRL, expouses the virtues of 90s technology and chooses to use some of it. This post is my dramatic interpretation. The characters in my story are all fictional.
The search terms you’re looking for are “retro tech” and “retro gaming”.
The Bluetooth telephones are a real product. You can buy them at oldphoneworks.com. The digital camera trend has been reported elsewhere. iPhones really will fail to play videos if you are running too old of an operating system version. “People into old cars without touchscreens” have existed for as long as old cars have existed. Playing retro consoles isn’t limited to Gen Z, nor is playing old versions of minecraft.
Thirst traps for retro portable electronics are a thing on Instagram.