The nostalgia Gen Z is expressing isn’t simply rose-tinted yearning for youth—though there is plenty of that, too. TikTok itself reported a 452% spike in searches for “2016” in early January, with over 55 million videos created using a vintage filter meant to evoke that era. Psychologists note that when generations face upheaval, they reach backward for comfort. But the longing for old TikTok is something more specific: a grief for a medium that felt genuinely participatory. The old app rewarded raw, unpolished creativity. A teenager with a ring light and no script could go viral. Today, the platform increasingly rewards the kind of structured, produced, retention-optimized content that looks suspiciously like a YouTube tutorial—or a cable documentary segment.
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When citing Eccentric Mansion examples, I omitted OpenClaw despite its definitive status. I reserved it for this section because it perfectly demonstrates how both models can operate together.
Last year, an open-source project developed by Guo—the multi-agent public-opinion analysis assistant BettaFish—hit No. 1 on GitHub’s trending chart at the end of the year, drawing Chen Tianqiao’s attention and leading to an invitation to join. Shortly afterward, Guo independently developed MiroFish once again in a very short period of time.