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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Analogue Revival: Why Old Media Is Thriving in the AI Era

When algorithms overwhelm, tangible becomes precious.

์•„๋‚ ๋กœ๊ทธ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋ถ€ํ™œ: AI ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ์™œ ์˜› ๋งค์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์‚ด์•„๋‚˜๋Š”๊ฐ€
์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์ด ์ง€๋ฐฐํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก, ์†์— ์žกํžˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋” ๊ท€ํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

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๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Once dismissed as obsolete, vinyl records, film cameras, and print magazines are experiencing a renaissance. Vinyl sales in America have reached levels not seen since the late 1980s, while film photography demand has doubled in five years. Besides nostalgia, a powerful driver is pushback against AI and algorithm-driven content, as people crave intentionality and authenticity.

ํ•œ๋•Œ ๋„ํƒœ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์กŒ๋˜ ๋น„๋‹ ๋ ˆ์ฝ”๋“œ, ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ, ์ธ์‡„ ๋งค๊ฑฐ์ง„์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ถ€ํ™œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋น„๋‹ ํŒ๋งค๋Š” 1980๋…„๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ˆ˜์š”๋Š” 5๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…ธ์Šคํƒค์ง€์–ด๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, AI์™€ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ์‹ฌ์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ ํƒ๊ณผ ์ง„์ •์„ฑ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Analogue fidelity (์•„๋‚ ๋กœ๊ทธ ์ถฉ์‹ค์„ฑ)
    The distinct aesthetic and tactile experience offered by non-digital formats.
    โ†’ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๋งค์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์  ๊ฒฝํ—˜.

  • Slow media (์Šฌ๋กœ์šฐ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด)
    A media consumption style that values depth, intentionality, and engagement over speed.
    โ†’ ์†๋„๋ณด๋‹ค ๊นŠ์ด์™€ ๋ชฐ์ž…, ์˜๋„๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์†Œ๋น„ ๋ฐฉ์‹.

  • Platform fatigue (ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ํ”ผ๋กœ)
    The burnout from algorithmic feeds, infinite scrolls, and recommendation overload.
    โ†’ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ํ”ผ๋“œ, ๋ฌดํ•œ ์Šคํฌ๋กค, ์ถ”์ฒœ ๊ณผ์ž‰์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํ”ผ๋กœ๊ฐ.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

The vinyl renaissance isnโ€™t a one-off: cassette sales surged over 200% in the U.K. last quarter. Film photography shops like Bellows Film Lab in Chicago report booming demand despite rising film prices. And print media is also staging a comebackโ€”Life, Playboy, NME, Onion, Saveur and others have returned with physical editions after digital-only runs.

๋น„๋‹์˜ ๋ถ€ํ™œ์€ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ํ˜„์ƒ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ์˜๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์นด์„ธํŠธ ํ…Œ์ดํ”„ ํŒ๋งค๊ฐ€ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 200% ์ด์ƒ ๊ธ‰์ฆํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋น„์‹ผ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ์˜ Bellows Film Lab ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณณ์€ ํ˜ธํ™ฉ์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์ฃ . ์ธ์‡„ ๋งค์ฒด ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ธฐ์ง€๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ผœ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”Life, Playboy, NME, Onion, Saveur ๋“ฑ์ด ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ „์šฉ ์ดํ›„ ์ข…์ด ๋งค์ฒด๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Artists and consumers alike emphasize the human touch. Like the Slow Food backlash against fast food, analogue media is seen as a โ€œmaking something with intentionโ€โ€”flipping through an LP sleeve, winding a cassette, shooting on 35mm, or holding a printed magazine feels mindful in a plugged-in world.

์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€์™€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ชจ๋‘ โ€˜์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์†์˜ ๊ฐ์„ฑโ€™์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ์Šฌ๋กœ์šฐํ‘ธ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ํŒจ์ŠคํŠธํ‘ธ๋“œ์— ๋งž์„  ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์•„๋‚ ๋กœ๊ทธ ๋งค์ฒด๋Š” โ€œ์˜๋„๋ฅผ ๋‹ด์•„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์‹๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”LP ์ปค๋ฒ„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ธฐ, ์นด์„ธํŠธ ๊ฐ์•„ ๋„ฃ๊ธฐ, 35mm ์ดฌ์˜, ์ธ์‡„ ๋งค๊ฑฐ์ง„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ธฐโ€” ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”์œ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์„ธ์ƒ์— '์˜์‹์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜'์„ ์„ ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ Ghost artists (์œ ๋ น ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ)
โ€œAI-generated tracks by ghost artists are flooding playlists with soulless songs.โ€
โ†’ ์œ ๋ น ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ AI๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ์Œ์›์ด ์˜ํ˜ผ ์—†๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ Rage against the algorithm (์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ„๋…ธ)
โ€œPeople are embracing vinyl as a form of rage against the algorithm.โ€
โ†’ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋น„๋‹์„ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ Human touch premium (์ธ๊ฐ„ ์† ํ„ฐ์น˜ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„)
โ€œIn a world of intelligent robots, the human touch is a premium.โ€
โ†’ ์ง€๋Šฅํ˜• ๋กœ๋ด‡์ด ๋„˜์ณ๋‚˜๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ, ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์†ํ„ฐ์น˜๋Š” ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„์ด๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ Intentional media (์˜๋„ํ•œ ๋งค์ฒด)
โ€œChoosing a film camera is a choice for intentional media.โ€
โ†’ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ โ€˜์˜๋„์  ๋งค์ฒดโ€™๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
Platforms like Spotify face increasing criticism over ghost artists and algorithmic blandness. The Economist and Pitchfork spotlight the vinyl revival as a rebellion against streaming homogenization. Film labs and indie cinemas show steady growth despite pandemic-era setbacks.
์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด ๊ฐ™์€ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์€ ์œ ๋ น ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์˜ ๋ฌด๋ฏธ๊ฑด์กฐํ•จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ ์  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋น„ํŒ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ํ”ผ์น˜ํฌํฌ๋Š” ๋น„๋‹์˜ ๋ถ€ํ™œ์„ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์˜ ํš์ผํ™”์— ๋งž์„œ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ž€์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜ ํƒ€๊ฒฉ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•„๋ฆ„ ํ˜„์ƒ์†Œ์™€ ์ธ๋”” ์˜ํ™”๊ด€์€ ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

In an AI-first world, analogue feels like rebellionโ€”because it is.

AI ์šฐ์„ ์˜ ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ, ์•„๋‚ ๋กœ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜ํ•ญ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ .

๐Ÿ“… 2024โ€“2025 โ€“ Vinyl sales in the U.S. match 1980s levels; cassettes surge +200% in UK
๐Ÿ“… 2024โ€“2025 โ€“ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋น„๋‹ ํŒ๋งค, 1980๋…„๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋„๋‹ฌ; ์˜๊ตญ ์นด์„ธํŠธ ํŒ๋งค 200% ๊ธ‰์ฆ

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "The Rise of Analogue in the Age of AI" (The Economist, 2025)

  • "Cassette Comeback in the UK" (BBC, 2025)

  • "Film Demand Doubles, Despite Price Hikes" (Kodak Exec Interview, 2024)

  • "Print Magazines Make a Resurgence" (BBC, 2024)

  • "Rage Against the Algorithm: Vinyl's Cultural Pushback" (Pitchfork, 2025)

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