Fake AI videos hark back to the '80s generation

"The 1980s are calling," a teenager with a throwback hairstyle tells viewers as Everybody Wants to Rule the World, the Tears for Fears rock anthem from that decade, plays in the background.

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The fake montage entirely generated using artificial intelligence has racked up more than 600 000 likes on Instagram and is part of an internet fad known as “AI nostalgia”, which can be confounding to those who actually lived through the decade.

Maximal Nostalgia, the Instagram account that regularly puts out such content, basks in a hugely idealised vision of the 1980s and 1990s.