Nostalgia for Memes I Never Had

Babe, please, see a psychiatrist. It’s just a memes! AMOGUS NUGGET CONVERTIBLE there is something mesmerizing about it warm analogue colors fill my blood cold from ordinary memes nostalgia for the past that i never had it can’t be explained in words to contemplate

A crying black-and-white anime-style woman gives way to a dark, red-lit room where someone stares at a glitchy CRT television displaying an “AMOGUS NUGGET CONVERTIBLE.” The increasingly distorted retro image inspires exaggerated, poetic nostalgia for a past the viewer never experienced, making the joke about treating absurd internet memes as profound art. The music and synthetic speech heighten the melodramatic, hypnotic atmosphere, turning a silly meme into an existential experience.

Babe please, see a psychiatrist. It's just a means.

• @jeppa420 / 18207 2021-06-11