“Blurry photos”? Those are just photos with a shallow depth of field. That never went out of style.
Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?
yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 1 month ago
Gen Z is an interesting bunch. Opting for blurry photos and bringing back JNCO jeans.
The 90’s are back.
athairmor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Became harder to do with phones though.
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’m fuming at this too. Pictures with some amount of bokeh is the standard look unless you’re shooting landscape camera or using a telephone.
tourist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I burned a few CDs and put one of them in my car’s CD player
It worked but I got hit with “tray error” when I tried ejecting it.
It’s been stuck in there since april
crank0271@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s the authentic experience
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 month ago
The next level is getting one of those radio tuners, a discman, and explaining to your friends that you use the discman, because the car CD player is broken.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If the car has a cassette player, you can get this cassette with a 3.5 jack coming out of it, and then connect that to the discman to listen to CDs! The 90’s were fun.
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Part of the car now.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Way she goes…
tourist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“the pre-owned volvo of tourist@lemmy.word” is not as catchy as “The Ship of Theseus”
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 1 month ago
I'm a Millennial/GenZ cusper and I think its just the desire to go back to a simpler analogue lifestyle. I've also bought a few cassettes from concerts at times when I couldn't carry around a full vinyl the rest of the night
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They are just like every other generation before them. They think anything that’s 20-30 years old is ancient history and they want to ‘connect’ to a past they didn’t live through and it also makes them feel different than their parents who are all into streaming services and gave up physical media who lived through the progression of formats from analog, to digital, to non-physical.
Khrux@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
Blurry photos is fine to make an stylistic choice. The 2019 movie The Lighthouse stylistically looked like a 1920s film, before modern music intentionally used bitcrushing, it used vinyl cracks, boomer shooters made in this decade intentionally look like 1990s Doom clones.
When a medium’s shortcoming is patched by technology, it ultimately becomes an artifact of the era where it was accidental. Once a few years have passed, it becomes more synonymous with the era than the mistake.
It’s not necessarily nostalgia, Gen Alpha and the younger half of Gen Z never grew up without smartphones, so they don’t miss the era of poor film photography. Although every generation does this simulation of forgotten mistakes, it’s particularly poignant now, where the high quality, perfectly lit, professional feeling photos convey something artificial, i.e. smartphone software emulating camera hardware, faces tuned with filters or outright AI generated content. Even if it’s false imperfection, the alternative is false perfection.
Art using deliberate imperfections that were unavoidable in the past is romanticising something perceived as before commercialism, and that’s admirable.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I showed them all this stuff before and my kids thought it was lame. Their friends start to listen or wear said things and now it’s cool… Kids lol nothing changes.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
don’t worry it’s still not cool.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
I did all the trendy thing when I was a kid. Even made the mistake of wearing FUBU once as a white guy.