My tiktok feed as of late has been speedpaints with nightcore in the background and comic dubs. I feel like I’ve fallen back into cringe fandom culture of when I was little. Honestly, it’s a fantastic feeling. School has been a little stressful, less this class and more the normal academic classes, so having something to wind down and feel like I’m seven again is so awesome!!
I’ve found that the cause of this is a newer show on Netflix called Haunted Hotel, and for an adult animated series on Netflix, it’s not that bad!! Some of the voice actors of note are Jimmi Simpson, Skyler Gisondo, and Will Forte all in the main cast!! If you don’t recognize those names, Simpson was in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Solar Opposites, and Westworld; Gisondo was in the most recent Superman, My Name is Earl, The Righteous Gemstones, Vacation, and Santa Clarita Diet; Forte was in The Last Man on Earth, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (1 and 2), Good Boys, Sweet Tooth, Gravity Falls, and a ton of other things. If you don’t recognize any of them then I highly recommend checking literally any of those things out. I’d go into the guest stars and the rest of the main cast but I need to zip my lips on that front.
I think the reason I was so easily dragged into staying to watch the whole show was because of the family aspect. They actually like each other for the most part; you don’t really see that as often in shows that let families not hate each other (cough cough family guy cough cough rick and morty(danny I don’t want to hear it)). Don’t want to dog on every show, so I would like to say that I love Bob’s Burgers and it’s another show that I recommend.
Along with 2016 fandom habits coming back, I’m also seeing a lot of people missing cosplaying and fandom culture of 2020 which I find VERY interesting. It’s only taken 5 years for people to start romanticizing it, but I get it. Simpler memories in a time like this is something nice to lean on.
I’m gonna guess that the thing bringing people back to 2020 is the announcement that Danganronpa 2 is having some kind of remake? Not sure, I wasn’t big into it when I was younger. However, all the cosplays I’m seeing being super colorful and overly decorated just scratches that nostalgic part of my brain along with the maximalist part. I know I dress pretty plain like all of the time, but if I had less shame and didn’t have sensory issues there would definitely be signs (one million beaded bracelets).
This post started out me talking about how much I miss being in fourth grade and being cringe with no worries, but just went off the rails. I’m not mad about it though, covered a lot that hasn’t really gotten the space to talk about on its own!! Haunted Hotel is goated Will Forte you are such a beautiful man please please last man on earth come back pleaseeeeee.
Lol i only watched Danganronpa like last November because i wanted to know what everyone was always talking about…i had a concussion most of 2016 i think so i didn’t experience any of the fandoms and now I’ve been behind forever since…(I’ve never left my Minecraft phase </3)
I definitely have noticed this recently and it’s not specific to one fandom either which is quite interesting.
Low key, its super nostalgic. I find myself looking back to a lot of old fandoms I was hooked on for months. TMNT 2012 was one for me, partly because I grew up with it and another was it was the first edition of TMNT i’ve ever seen.
Yeahh I totally see the old fandoms coming back. Recently I’ve found myself interested in all the old “cringy” stuff I used to love.