Why does this generation HATE nostalgia?

This is something that’s been really grinding my gears for a while, and I’m wanting to know the reason behind it.
 
It all started about a year ago: I was browsing the YouTuber WarCorpse666’s channel and came across a video where he reacted to the official trailer for the It reboot. After watching it, I scrolled down to the comments section and found that a majority of the top comments all had negative responses such as “You’re too attached to Nostalgia!” or “You whiners need to take the Nostalgia Goggles off!” Needless to say, I was shocked by all the hateful words.
 
This wasn’t the only time I encountered this either. A few days ago, I watched a video by another user who was expaining in detail about why he’s not too excited about the recently-announced Thundercats reboot, Thundercats Roar. And again, when I scrolled down to the comments section, I found the exact same anti-nostalgia hate speech that was in the comments of WarCorpse’s video; one user (who I assume is an SJW) even had the gaul to drop a few F-Bombs in her comment and called the creator of the video (Along with fans of the old Thundercats) retarded!
 
Sigh…why does this generation hate Nostalgia so much? I mean, what gets them so triggered about hearing a person express their opinion on a reboot of their favorite childhood movie/TV show that they don’t have any interest in watching like these neigh-sayers do?

Somehow, I doubt anyone who follows a Youtuber named “WarCorpse666” would be an accurate, complete representation of an entire generation.

I don’t think they necessarily hate nostalgia. It’s just that if something happens to be old and they don’t like it, the “nostalgia goggles” argument becomes the go-to lazy criticism.

Well, I’m sure “Warcorpse666” Had content at one point, but he only has one video put up now. And there’s alot of people that do not like him now for putting down an Autistic dude and wanting to break his “broken Brain” or some shit. I guess he had good points for the most part. Let me try to access the situation best I can with what I’m given here. Because…. oh shit one second… He now has multiple channels. One’s name I find funny lol. “lord of patriarchy.” Well either way, without links to the sorces you mentioned there’s not much we can do besides speculation.
 
Also This warcorpse guy has a problem with 9/11 jokes…. wat. XD So, let me begin by analyzing todays generation which I assume was the context of what you said.
 
1.) Old media vs New media
 
These two things have trouble seeing eye to eye. And it seems alot of millenials seem to think that we are hating on these things because they are “new” or, “Built to appeal only to the new age.” Now, there is nothing wrong with nostalgia I’d say. In fact it’s probably what’s going to sell these things like hotcakes. What the new age seems to think is that “criticizing new media for not being true to the old media” is not a valid argument. Which, spoilers, it is. Because long time fans are wanting to come back to see their characters built with at LEAST some semblance of what they originally were. As you know the whole basis of the new thundercats seems to take away alot of what the old thundercats where, and to make it worse, it’s probably going in the way of teen titans go considering the same studio that made TTG is also making the new thundercats roar series. So…. rip.
 
However considering how much money CN makes off of TTG it’s only assumed this is what new media want, so that’s what they will stick with. Alot of critiques I’ve seen so far is the artstyle is something alot of people take issue with. And I can’t blame them. They are all…. well, gender neutered as I’ll call it. They seem to not want masculine features like the old counterpart. Or… share anything like the old counterpart. So, as old Teen Titans had a good story and villains with great action sequences, old thundercats had alot of those too. But the people who are in it for the old media, the new thundercats is not going to have any of it. It’s just going to be another Cal Arts styled goofy ended mishap of, “What wacky and crazy things can we fit in here?! LOLOLOLOLOLOL” It will not adhere to any of the old story elements or anything, it will be just like TTG, mark me words mate. And just to clairify, it’s not just the redesigns that are the issue when it comes to thunder cats, it’s the fact it will carry nothing much over from the old Thundercats to this new one besides the brand name basically. Polygon(God help today’s gaming and media journalism) Also missed these points as well. They assume this is the ONLY argument we are making, BUT IT’S NOT. It’s more than just the cal arts art style, It’s only one part of it. As far as cartoons go, there’s not much to sink our teeth into anymore. And by the looks of it, it will probably stay that way. Here’s a link to this appalling Article.
 
As for the Movie IT… I had no problems with to be honest. I don’t like how some scenes where changed but they did somewhat stay true to the source material in my opinion. But before the movie came out, it was understandable why anyone would be worried. Stephen King has wrote some legendary stuff.
 
But again, the main point I want to make is that most of the new media don’t think we should judge reboots based upon the old media. And that simply is not true.
 
Also I want to uh…. Bring up the part where you said “Hate speech” And “Had the GAUL to use fuck bombs.” Little melodramatic don’t you think? It’s a youtube comments section for fucks sake lol.

@DragonBoi471  
@Solar Knight Sunny
 
Besides, A gaul would probably throw axes instead of bombs. bombs are for anarchists.
 

@Mildgyth  
Made my day.
 

@Solar Knight Sunny  

 
Funny you should mention that, because there was one comment on WarCorpse’s video that I actually agreed with:
 
It basically said that turning one the female characters in the It reboot into a generic goth girl is ridiculous and out-of-place, since the original novel took place in the 80’s (And correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Goth fashion existed in the 80’s…but then again I was born in `94.).

@DragonBoi471
 
I can see that being out of place if that’s true. But actually, it did exist in the 80’s. Take a look at this article here.
 
“The Goth subculture of the 1980s drew inspiration from a variety of sources.”
 
It did actually exist during that time period. Infact the 90’s further along helped develop the subculture which is probably why that person thought it existed in the 90’s rather than the 80’s.

@DragonBoi471  
I guess it’s due to the whole stigma of people whining about “the good old days” and “everything back then was better than today”, which to a lot of kids and the newer generation is pretty annoying and tiresome.

Actually the old days were old even in my younger years. ;-)
 
And I don’t think that nostalgia is hated or belongs to any certain generation. Or let it my explain in this way: With the next add-on of World of Warcraft there will be a whole generation of players literally never heard of a game called Warcraft. Or Warcraft II. Even Warcraft III is nothing more as a precious memory from the past. Can I blame them? Nope.
 
Well, once I have met this nice old farmer from the Middle West on a vacation. He sat next to me, so we talked. He told me about his farm, his children, his grandchildren… o O (stomach growling) That he fought in WW2 and how he has freed us from Hitler. o O (Uh-huh) And we Germans are all so nice! o O (Riiiiight) And his golden generation… Okay, aehm, excuse me, sir, but I need to go to the buffet o O (and will never come back to the table).
 
What I want to say is: anyone has a personal point of view. Precious memories someone values. Just because people don’t stick to your own esteem doesn’t mean that nostalgia is on the edge. Just my humble opinion. :-)

I don’t think this is a problem limited to the generation that’s young now. There have always been young people who have hated anything and everything that they considered “old”. “Old” sometimes even includes “from last year”, but something from an earlier decade has always been considered “old” by the young ones.
 
Sure, there are people from, like, 16 to 22 who are interested in “old” stuff, but always at the risk of being ridiculed by the rest of their generation. According to my own experiences, most teens and young twens don’t even want to know anything about stuff they consider “old”, not even that it exists. I mean, look around in this very fandom. Many Bronies who like electronic music seem to believe that it was invented by Skrillex, Deadmau5 and/or Tiësto. And in my youth in the early 1990s (the early 1990s already), many of my schoolmates didn’t want to touch anything from the 1980s or earlier with a 10-foot pole.
 
I believe this has to do with coming-of-age. Once you turn your back on kids’ stuff, once you start being interested in media “for grown-ups” (e.g. from children’s songs to what’s on FM radio), you tend to go for the newest and hottest shit. For one, you always want to be on the bleeding edge, preferably before everyone else, because you’ve yet to shake off the competitiveness that’s typical for children. Besides, anything that was around when you were still only interested in media for kids is old and busted for you. Last but not least, you can impossibly like what your parents like (or worse yet, what your grandparents like).
 
Maybe the reason why all this was fairly easy for me to notice is because it didn’t apply to me. I disliked most of whatever music was currently hot when I was eleven already. That was in 1987, and I still remember how I couldn’t stand hearing “Bad” by Michael Jackson anymore, partly because it was on top of each and every FM hit rotation. Same in 1991 with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana (and I must admit that I still haven’t forgiven grunge for ruining pretty much all rock music since the early 1990s).
 
That said, in the early to mid-90s, my classmates were rather tolerant towards music from the 1980s and even older. Musical party staples included 1970s rock. And — for obvious reasons — you could blow up every party by playing Frank Sinatra, namely “Love And Marriage” (although people would stop singing after one minute because they only knew the first minute, heh, but they did sing along).
 
Oh, and Goth was around in the 1980s already. I mean, the Sisters Of Mercy and The Cure needed to have a target audience, right?

@Pulse Wave  
Did you seriously try to revive a month-old “discussion” to feed this guy

Simple…  
That’s because the new generations didn’t had the good stuff we had…

@DragonBoi471  
Considering how loud, intrusive and crazy desperate for attention they can be, I can see the special members of the current generation being that angry and petty about people taking about nostalgia, because that’s a topic where they can’t butt in to make it all about themselves, so they just hiss and hate the older people who dared to have a good time without them being part of it.
 
If they weren’t part of it and they cannot butt in to make it’s discussion all about themselves, then nobody is allowed to talk about nostalgia because they said so.

Nostalgia is a word that has been misunderstood for so long. It actually is supposed to be a sad feeling that one wants to avoid.

@QueenChrysalisIsBestVillain
 
Are you sure about That?
 
Even one of the synonyms is “Reminiscence” Lol. Which is, “The enjoyable recollection of past events.”. It can be interpreted as sad subjectively but in definition, it is happy thoughts.

@Solar Knight Sunny  
I’m just repeating what my English teacher taught me

@QueenChrysalisIsBestVillain
 
And that’s why we take that old nostalgic stuff…to watch or play again…My Queen