Clotso's bouts of nostalgia are always absurd. She seems to think that nostalgia is a good, even great thing, when really it is just wallowing in the past because one can't face the present or future. However a lot of people make that mistake, so I won't hold that against her.
What is absurd about her forays into nostalgia, is how "nostalgic" she is for eras she never experienced and how generic and fake her "memories" are.
Case in point, just last month, she was waxing nostalgic for the year 1994. She wanted us to know what she was like back then, and she told us she was a teenager who had the basement to herself and had Green Day and JTT posters on the wall. In other words, she is trying to paint herself as she imagines her viewers to be: a normal teenaged girl, with normal teenaged interests, in a normal suburban habitat, in that magical year of 1994. She laid it on thick,
However, a simple fact check reveals her to have been nine years old going on ten in 1994. She wasn't a "teenager", and probably wasn't all that into Green Day either. It is a fake, bogus nostalgia she pushes, with barebones generic embellishment and a hollow core.
Many times, she has rhapsodized about how great life was in the 1980's; the fashion and music were so cool, and the TV shows were the best. She was five and a half when the 1980's ended. Anything that she could remember would have to do with preschool at best, and how many preschoolers are well versed on fashion, music, and prime time television? For someone so tuned into the 1980's, her 80's cosplay video was exceptionally vapid and free of any relics or images anyone who actually lived through the 1980's would remember. Her love of the 1980's has nothing to do with experience or real nostalgia. As with anything else Chantal says, it is all a fat dumb lie.
She bought some stupid grab bag containing $30 worth of candy for $100, and claims to be nostalgic for it. Never mind that people don't get nostalgic for candy; they are nostalgic for the moment and memory. Never mind that some of those candies were not even introduced until the late 1990's, well after when she would have been the cute little girl buying a dime's worth of candies at the corner shop. None of that matters, because it is all a bogus "nostalgia" anyway.
I suspect she remembers very little of her earlier life, except certain humiliations and a lot of meals. Even if she picked a more plausible era for which she could conceivably have experienced enough to create a sense of nostalgia, say the millennium and early aughts, which correspond with her becoming a young adult, she would be generic and fake. She doesn't have the kind of experiences that create nostalgia; she has been avoiding human interaction for a very long time, plus everyone hates her anyway. Perhaps she is nostalgic for the music or TV shows, but she's never brought any from that era up. She had no prom, participated in no sports, barely worked, didn't go to parties much, didn't fall in love, didn't travel, and didn't do anything that could create a memory worth wallowing in. Her life is just a blur of meals.
So, I love it when she goes all nostalgic on us. It is her way of showing she is a normal girl at heart, since obviously she is not one now. Oh, ya, just like all of you, I loved 1994! I had a Green Day poster! I was an edgy but cool teen! See how normal I was? Just like normal people, uh...I mean just like anyone else!!
Fake nostalgia also enables her to talk about her exciting fascinating past of clubbing and casual sex, which is what she imagines young adulthood to be like for normal people. It bears no resemblance to the life she has now, because her stories are as fake as her edgy teenaged 1994, but her philosophy is that if the audience can't see it, then it isn't proven not to be true (the same way she handles eating off camera) She can't reinvent her present or create a future for herself, because she is a stinking, wheezing deathfatty. But boy, did she have a fascinating life until she got a little overweight just three years ago.
Just admit it fatso: you aren't nostalgic for candy. You intuited that you wanted to eat $100 worth of candy for whatever psychotic reason. When you have had no life, you really have nothing to be nostalgic about.
