AI Teens Stare Deeply, Miss ’80s Like Your Dad at BBQ

AI Teens Stare Deeply, Miss ’80s Like Your Dad at BBQ
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KEY POINTS

  • •In 2025, generative AI videos began featuring digitally created teens nostalgically praising the '80s and '90s.
  • •The AI-crafted clips boast era-accurate hairstyles and backgrounds of sunlit cul-de-sacs filled with vintage cars.
  • •Background tracks include 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' and music inspired by the 'Donkey Kong Country' soundtrack.
  • •These videos blend retro culture and AI technology in a surreal homage that’s oddly like flaunting high school glory days.

In 2025, generative AI videos have started producing suspiciously fresh-faced teens who smize harder than a Top Gun pilot reminiscing about the ’80s and ’90s. These pixelated Mary-Sue kids sport perfect period hairstyles while lounging in sun-drenched cul-de-sacs decorated with vintage cars that scream mid-life crisis nostalgia. Soundtracked by bangers like 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' and glitchy instrumentals channeling Donkey Kong Country, these surreal clips are basically bragging about peaking in the era your parents used to use dial-up internet. The whole vibe is like if a casserole of high school glory, retro aesthetics, and AI dreams was microwaved… then promptly forgotten.

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Source: Theverge | Published: 11/21/2025 | Author: Charles Pulliam-Moore