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Just motion interrupted and meaning imposed.
Step 4 — Projection as a Cultural Habit
Psychologists call this projection bias—the tendency to interpret ambiguous information through personal expectation or desire.
In this case, the audience brought:
Nostalgia
Sexualization
A hunger for novelty
And placed all of it onto a person who hadn’t changed—only the lens had.
Step 5 — Why Nostalgia Is Especially Vulnerable
Nostalgia creates fragile idols.
When someone is remembered as pure, any deviation—real or imagined—feels like betrayal.
But purity is not a real state.