In the latest local installment of ‘mankind’s descent into monoculture,’ Instagram and Facebook feeds across Argentina have been inundated with the latest social media trend: what you’d have looked like in the 80s, according to AI. 

Of course, scores of the people that participated in this trend actually did know what they looked like in the 80s, but that didn’t stop them from wasting precious natural resources — and brain cells — in pursuit of a fleeting sense of belonging anyway.

If you ask me, the irony of using the same technology that threatens to destroy us to tap into the well of nostalgia for a time when said technology didn’t exist shouldn’t be lost on anyone. Using AI to remind ourselves how happy and carefree we were without it? The call is coming from inside the house, everyone! 

Before we return to that, let’s get real for a second. What’s up with Argentina and the 80s? Some of my earliest impressions upon my arrival in 2007 revolved around the collective love for unironic mullets, rollerblading, and a food pyramid with diet soda and........

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