Literally the only time I ever use reddit is if it is a google result(stopped after 3rd party ban).
axemurber
joined 1 year ago
Someone called it wistful when I looked it up and I like the word (read it here: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/50144/is-there-a-term-that-defines-nostalgia-for-something-youve-never-experienced#50147 ) it's nostalgia without needing to have lived it. So nostalgia is wistful but wistful also covers things you haven't lived.
It gets into the meme rotation because it gets reposted somewhere and got a lot of views, then it gets reposted a lot by human and bot alike. One big post can cause this to happen.