The ’90s called, they want their phones back.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454

• Gen Z’s nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.

• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.

• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z’s love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.

  • octobob@lemmy.ml
    34·
    10 months ago

    This seems like a dumb tiktok trend or some shit. It’s hard to get by in this world without a cellphone

    But I just wish anyone would still want to talk on the phone. I love chatting with friends for an hour or so on the phone but everyone hates it now. Quick random texts just feel so much less personal. Ah well

    • Uranium3006@kbin.social
      29·
      10 months ago

      This seems like a dumb tiktok trend or some shit.

      a lot of these articles are trash for this reason. most of it shouldn’t be posted tbh

      • admiralteal@kbin.social
        16·
        10 months ago

        There’s just zero merit to these “people on the internet are saying X” stories.

        Nothing of value to sourcing a few retweets, ticktock duets, instagram stories, or whatever the fuck TMTMTM version of it you get.

        Actual street interviews with random schlubs are far, far more informative than this crap. The internet is huge and you can find literally any opinions on it. Sourcing these anecdotes is absolutely the trashiest tier of journalism and anyone writing one of these stories should think hard about an immediate career change.

        Run a fucking poll if you want to write a story about public opinion.

        The world will be a better place the day after every serious news media organization leaves twitter and tells all their journalists they cannot use it as anything other than an original source to what a specific public figure has to say.

        • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
          8·
          10 months ago

          The world will be a better place the day after every serious news media organization leaves twitter and tells all their journalists they cannot use it as anything other than an original source to what a specific public figure has to say.

          YES!!!

    • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
      10·
      10 months ago

      It doesn’t say anything about getting rid of their cell phone for one. The article says quite the opposite actually.

      While Gen Zers definitely don’t need a landline — still relying on their cellphones for virtually everything — it’s the aesthetic of “2000s nostalgia” that makes the relic so attractive to them.

    • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      I still want to talk on the phone and I probably wouldn’t if it was like corded landline days when you were constrained to wherever the cord would reach. Cordless was freeing, and I’ll never go back!

      • YuzuDrink@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        I look back fondly on the moments of “where is the phone?!” Because someone took it to their room to have a private conversation but then left it there on accident.

        Still happens I guess, but where everyone has their own phone (not one shared for the whole family) it’s less frantic and thus less hilarious to me.

        • ares35@kbin.social
          4·
          10 months ago

          we still play that game. at least once every week or two, i’m calling a ‘lost’ phone from another or using the handset locator on a cordless system.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I swear, these article-writers just hear about a few quirky teenagers and immediately label it a viral trend that will sweep the entire world…