Nostalgia is a heck of a drug, isn’t it? We tend to look back on the past with rose tinted glasses, remembering things as being better than they actually were. It’s because life is struggle, and when you’re in it, you tend to focus mostly on the negatives and less on the positives. But once you move on, you look back and remember things not being that bad, and actually pretty great in many places. You long to go back to them.
Hot Topic stores in malls across America cash in on this nostalgia. Those stores are known for being places where edgy goth kids can get scary leather outfits, but realistically it’s where you can find T-shirts of all your old favorite ’90s Nickelodeon shows. Because nostalgia is tied heavily to pop culture, since it helped shape us. And if you want to see items that capitalize on our nostalgic feels, wait until you get a load of these…