One user writes, "can’t tell if i’m feeling nostalgia or ptsd," and another comments, "chloe ting, tiger king, whipped coffe, baking bread." But the resounding sentiment that Koh seems to be capturing? As one commenter puts it, "pls why does this make me wanna cry." Just take a look at the comments on Koh's TikToks. It can be affirming to look back on the things that happened during our lives and how they’ve shaped who we are now. Songs like Curtis Roach and Tyga's "Bored in the House," Chip Tha Ripper's "Interior Crocodile Alligator," and Tiagz's "Heart Went Oops" will most likely transport you to a surreal period of time synonymous with uncertainty, whipped coffee, the word "unprecedented," and the first season of Tiger King. If you were on TikTok in early 2020, then chances are Koh's series will make you, well, feel something. Juslin and Daniel Västfjäll titled "Emotional responses to music: The need to consider underlying mechanisms." In it, she says, "They argue that hearing just a snippet of music can take us right back to a place we were before or can remind us of a place or a time where we were before." "One of the big mechanisms by which we have an emotional response to music is memory," Garrido explains to Mashable, citing a 2008 research study (Opens in a new tab) from Patrik N. According to Sandra Garrido, a music and mental health researcher at Western Sydney University, music and sounds are some of the biggest triggers of nostalgia. "What is most interesting is how there seems to be almost a collective consciousness triggered by these sounds," Koh tells Mashable over email.Īnd there's a neurological reason for that. You may think that these TikTok earworms from 2020 - you know, the ones that overran your For You Page for months on end - wouldn't hold up now, but they're actually eliciting rich emotional responses from users like Koh.
(Opens in a new tab) "These 'early-pandemic aesthetic' creators have built an online community tied together by a yearning for a time when the world seemed united in facing an uncertain future," writes Morgan Ome. In September, The Atlantic (Opens in a new tab) reported on the subculture of creators on TikTok and YouTube who feel nostalgic for peak pandemic content. And he's not the only creator who has been revisiting the early days of the pandemic.
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