All That 80s Culture Back Again? There’s A Reason

“You’ve got what used to be called a 20-year nostalgia cycle that’s built into pop culture in the 20th century, in which cultural products get recycled 20 years down the line for secondary consumption. That’s driven in part by the relationship between people consuming something that means a lot to them typically in teenage years, where impressions are really vivid. Then 20 years later, you find that people consume it again as part of the life cycle of contemporary western pop culture.”