A Time We Never Knew

There is a beautiful and melancholic word I like called anemoia. It means nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.

This is a sentiment I often sense from my generation, Gen Z—especially in recent years. I see it in the YouTube videos of old concerts that get millions of views. I see it in our fascination with polaroids, vinyls, vintage c

Continuing the 90s nostalgia thread, Freya India writes, rather hauntingly, about Gen Z’s sense of longing for a pre-social media age they never experienced.