Timehop

PASD sounds like a profoundly toxic form of nostalgia.

It's like looking at your Timehop or your photo memories on your phone.

But instead of just missing a vacation to the beach, you're mourning the fundamental concept of running water.

You are mourning a world where your neighbors didn't actively want to eat you.

And that particular quote that you mentioned was one...

I was really interested in researching, uh, memory apps, uh, things like Timehop, uh, the Apple Memories app, Google Photos has one and everything, and kind of what these do.

'Cause they began...

Like, the Google Photos one, that's where they've actually discussed, you know, why they did it, because they found people were saving photos, but they weren't looking at their photos anymore.

And they thought, "Well, we need to get people to look at their photos again." And so they came up with this idea.

And Timehop works in a similar way where it just kind of gives you all the images that you captured in, on that day, like on, you know, uh, on, on this given day, you know, October 1st, going back, you know, years and years and years.

Apple does a little bit of algorithmic curation, uh, usually, and it'll be like people and places or something like that, um, or like finds all the pictures of you with a friend.

What I was getting at with that part that you quoted is that's not how our actual memory works.

It's a [laughs] constant process all the time.

Uh, and just like going back, like... 'Cause like when Facebook memories, like, were first a thing, or like when Timehop was a thing-

Oh, God

... like, I would just see, like, the craziest shit.

... focus on your technique.

I mean, like, I have seen some pictures of my work that have come up in Timehop on Facebook-

[laughs]

... like seven years ago.

I didn't even care.

I, it's funny, I, I, um, I was going through my Timehop yesterday and, um, one of the things that popped up was, um, [laughs] uh, I forget, it was like a few years ago and it was like, I forget the player.

It might've been Aaron Judge or somebody else was like, "They have struck out 167 times so far this baseball season.

Tony Gwynn struck out 167 times in the '90s." I'm like, "There's why I don't like baseball as much anymore." [laughs]

And, you know, there, there are like tech solutions that come up.

Like I think most of the photo apps now, and there's Timehop and everything, they have this like memories feature where it resurfaces stuff.

But that's not how our memories work really.

Timehop for me is a ton of screenshots of things that I saw online that I thought were kind of funny that I sent to a group text.

And it's like I open the app and I scroll through and it's like I don't know.

You know, for every one meaningful photo, I'm just reminded of all these kind of pointless digital files I took that aren't serving any purpose.

I did the same thing.

Did you? I don't know if you all have this app called TimeHop, but I personally love it because...

It'll scan all of my social media profiles.

It'll scan my photos on my phone.

And that's kind of where the idea gets saved.

Right.

And so yesterday, I just opened TimeHop.

I was scrolling through, got back 10 years.