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A new style of meme has cropped up on our side of YouTube known as “Little Dark Age.” The gist of it is that there is a series of videos which play the catchy end of the song “Little Dark Age” by MGMT in the background as typical images of modern degeneracy are flashed on the screen. Midway through the video, which is usually a couple of minutes long, the song picks up, and nostalgic images of past Western glory replace the modern images.
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I feel I can probably speak for the macabre and more grim branch of the right. There is a certain comfort in looking at the past, to the better days. It serves as a reminder that it was real, it was magnificent, once upon a time. These type of memes, images, videos, articles, they serve as a connection to our collective past. You’re right that looking forward and building again is crucial, however it seems now most people do not even realize what they had and lost. Perhaps that’s the purpose.
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