#nostalgia

#nostalgia

Backstage, the "Bape" rapper spoke with VIBE about teaming up with fellow viral sensation, Druski, the hold he still has on Hip-Hop, and his newest surprise album. "That's my boy," he said with a grin about the social media comedian. "I've been rocking with Druski... he's funny as hell. When he reached out, at first, it was just one show... we rocked out in Atlanta, and it was so crazy, we knew we had to run the whole tour."

Nostalgia, that longing for what was and the happy memories we associate with it, may seem particularly keen when our daily lives - both personally and in the wider world - are less than ideal. Indeed, according to a 2025 study by CivicScience, more than 60% of Americans feel nostalgic for the past. Furthermore, the same study also found that nearly half of adults in the U.S. would spend money on something that conjures up feelings of nostalgia.

Unless you're a Maple Nut Goodie fanatic, you may not have noticed that the candy mysteriously disappeared from shelves recently, with an emphasis on the mysteriously. Even today, it's difficult to precisely pinpoint when or why these beloved candies were taken out of production. A petition published to Change.org in November of 2022 speculates that the discontinuation of the candies may have happened in April of that same year. Brach's has confirmed that the candies were discontinued indefinitely in a Facebook post in 2024.

The concert was a collective exercise in nostalgia - that powerful emotion triggered by the intersection of experience and memory. Some people think of nostalgia as a sort of bittersweet feeling, an aching reminder of what we have lost. It is joy tinged with sadness, but primarily a positive emotion that is part of the human experience. It is a feeling that sneaks up on you, and not just at massive concerts.

If you've ever melted shredded cheese directly onto tortilla chips or thrown a hot dog into a slice of bread, no toppings, congratulations - you've eaten a struggle meal. Thanks to this here economy, struggle meals are trending on Tik Tok, from people joking about going back to eating nothing but Hamburger Helper and cinnamon toast, to other creators curating grocery lists for super cheap struggle meals that'll feed an entire family.

A long time ago, in a retail store not that far away, there sat an Airfix model of the Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer. And I wanted it. Back then, I was a Star Wars devotee long before it became the global pop-culture monolith it is today. I was also a keen model maker - mostly assembling the very earliest White Dwarf and Warhammer kits. But the Airfix Star Destroyer - that was the dream kit. The Holy Grail.

A study published by JMIR Serious Games, a peer reviewed journal focused on how gaming is connected to education, health, and social change, looked into how the brain responds to both watching films produced by the Japanese animation studio and playing the open-world game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The researchers gathered 518 postgraduate students and divided them into four groups.

Once a sprawling restaurant chain in the Southern states, Quincy's Family Steakhouse is now more or less a relic of the past. Without noticing, you might think it only exists in distant memories, but that's not entirely true. There are still two Quincy's locations left, one in Monroe, North Carolina, and the other in Florence, South Carolina, where you can still step in and feel as if you are transported back in time.

When he filmed Stand by Me, the 1986 Rob Reiner adaptation of Stephen King's novella The Body, River Phoenix was only 14. In 1990, the year my middle-school friends and I watched a rented VHS copy of that movie at every sleepover, we were 13. If you'd asked us at the time, we wouldn't have been able to explain why Phoenix's character, Chris Chambers-the brave, wrong-side-of-the-tracks leader of the boy gang on a quest to see a dead body-did it for us.

The film's protagonist, Ed Saxberger ( Willem Dafoe), is a New York poet who quit writing verse decades before but still listens to the greatest hits of yesteryear. That's how he happens to put on a recording of Pound reading his Canto LXXXI: What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross/What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee/What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

"I don't want to spoil the connection I have to the place by visiting too frequently," she says. "For me, once every few years seems to be about 'right.'"

When people ask me what it's like to live as an American in the U.K., I often use the example of going to '80s night in London. One minute I'm dancing along, singing all the words to "When Doves Cry," "Thriller," or "Material Girl," and the next minute Heaven 17's " Temptation " comes on and all the British people lose their minds shouting every lyric to a song I have never heard in my life.

I don't know if it's because I'm constantly comparing current times to living in the Upside Down or what, but there's just something about Stranger Things Season 5 that feels... symbolic. Bigger than the show itself. And the behind-the-scenes teaser trailer that just dropped hits on that feeling in a way that'll honestly make you super sentimental. "There's something magical about childhood," Matt Duffer says at the start of the featurette, as clips from early seasons of the show play.

While stores touting trendy clothing, knick-knacks of every imaginable variety, and video games are all very well, there is nothing quite like the epicenter of the mall: The humble food court. One mall food court chain we wish would come back got its start in the early 1920s and grew to become synonymous with mall culture in its heyday before sadly vanishing.

Released on Steam, Switch, and Playdate (the small yellow handheld famous for its crank controls), it strains the fundamental definition of a video game. Instead, it's more of a simulation of TV channel-surfing in the late '80s or early '90s, a kind of interaction younger generations actually have no experience with. It's a game whose target audience would seem to be very few people at all. And yet, because I enjoy exceptionally weird experiences, it delivers.

Wanna explore tons of chain restaurant dupes from the comfort of your own kitchen? Download the free Tasty app to explore our library of 7,500+ recipes. Last week, I asked Tasty readers about the extinct restaurant chains they still think about today. Dozens of people shared stories about the spots they miss the most, and let's just say: Now I have second-hand nostalgia.

The Paint Mirror brings this well-known (to a certain generation) interface to life as a functional wall piece, blending vintage digital charm with modern interior design. Handcrafted by Etsy seller RaffySculptures, the mirror features bold, pixel‑style borders in vivid color blocks that echo the classic MS Paint palette . Available in three sizes (30 × 40 cm, 60 × 90 cm, and 80 × 120 cm) it fits a range of spaces, from compact home offices to larger living‑room walls.

Envisioning how British culture might react to its own demise, director Danny Boyle introduces a world shaped by nostalgia, opening with a quasi-medieval village interspersed with patriotic clips from Laurence Olivier's 1940s adaptation of Henry V. Quarantined by a kind of turbo-charged, involuntary Brexit, the survivors in 28 Years Later aren't just nostalgic for the Before Times - they're modeling their lives on the distant past. With its historical reference points and deceptively picturesque rural setting, the film disrupts our expectations for a legacy sequel, often feeling closer to The Wicker Man than the urban survival horror of the original 28 Days Later.

Chocolate will always be a top-tier dessert ingredient. We've been adding this universally-loved creation to sweet treats for over 300 years, and it's clear to see why. Chocolate brings richness, sweetness, and indulgence. Put simply, it makes everything better. So it's no wonder that there are a seemingly endless array of chocolate-based desserts made in all corners of the world.

You know that warm comfort from grandma-style cooking - where the biscuits are fluffy, the fried chicken's crisp and golden, and your sweet tea arrives in a Mason jar? That's the charm of a place called PoFolks, a Southern‑style chain of family restaurants founded in Anderson, South Carolina. The year was 1975, and the PoFolks clan expanded to about 170 locations in less than a decade, spreading the love with down-home country fare like chicken‑and‑dumplings, fried catfish, turnip greens, kuntry-fried steaks, and cornbread.

Arriving in time for peak candy season at Halloween, the new Tootsie Pop ad follows the exact same storyline as the original, with a child asking Mr. Owl how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop, only for the owl to scoff the whole thing after just three licks. Over five decades later, will we ever know the answer?

I was born in the wrong century or so my mother says, while I protest from my writing bureau, wax seal in hand, ready to dispatch an Austen-style letter to a friend. But as I put out the candle flame with my antique snuffer, I wonder if she might be right. For me, the past has always felt like home I grew up on a literary diet of classic fiction, seasoned with a love of my Regency hero, Jane Austen.