Retro Reunions Are Taking Over Social Media - And It's Marvelous

I know it's not #tbt, but Missing-These-Shows-Mondays should be a new thing, right?  Over the past few weeks, some of our favorite TV shows and movies from the last two decades have decided to reunite and share their old ways via social media.  From 7th Heaven to the Mighty Ducks, or the Little Rascals to Friends, people all over social media are dying of happiness to see some of their favorite characters come back together for a reenactment or even just dinner.

While these beloved actors are most likely posting just for fun and to show that they do have friends, it is a fantastic marketing trick.  Some of these posts are in celebration of 20th anniversaries, (can we please get a re-release of D2: The Mighty Ducks) or just for old times sake, (7th Heaven should definitely come back and start a 27th Heaven series) but either way, it causes a riot.  All over social media, people are chatting about possible reunions or just reminiscing about how great that show or movie was.  It's great buzz for those old hits to finally come back into the mainstream.  I saw some throwback about Hilary Duff a few days ago, and it got me watching all of her old music videos with no shame whatsoever.  Just one little photo on Twitter or Instagram can cause a chain of thousands of other related searches and then more shares for these retro hits, which is always a bonus for their PR people.

Our generation loves a good throwback, that's why social media has created #tbt and even #fbf.  Social media is a great way to show our activities and whatnot, but it's a perfect place to reminisce and to connect with like-minded lovers of those 90's classics.  These old classics do these reunions solely for social media and for us users to share like crazy.  I love following these actors and seeing how they connect with the audience, like me, the crazy obsessed Friends fan, after all these years.  They give us the glimmers of hope that there will be some reunion, or if not at least a Buzzfeed or two that we can watch to fill our quota of walking down memory lane.  Social media does focus on the future, but sometimes looking at the past is just as much fun.