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Take the internet's ongoing obsession with Disney princesses. No matter how many times an artist re-imagines Snow White as a size 14 (because that's what a real woman looks like, OK?), or a writer pens an essay on how ahead of the feminist curve Pocahontas was, there's no escaping the fact that we're still using the cartoon characters from our childhoods to express ourselves. It's just that this time around we're trying to make vaguely political points about body image rather than donning a polyester dress from the Disney Store and pretending that we're a princess. And the Disney obsession isn't going to be eased with the current onslaught of live-action remakes destined for our screens over the next few years.Of course, the crippling state of nostalgia that we find ourselves in today is not new, nor is it confined to popular culture. Take the much maligned cereal cafe on London's Brick Lane, which consistently has lines snaking round the corner with people desperate for a bowl of Lucky Charms and one more taste of a Saturday morning being nine-years-old again. And let's not forget those office workers who swapped the break room for a ball pond, taking to Twitter to share a photo of their japes with perhaps the bleakest caption ever written: "The past is the future."Follow Olivia Marks on Twitter.TRENDING ON VICE SPORTS: Fight Night in West Texas