The Pilgrimage

The Pilgrimage is a phrase used to describe the time spanning from an unknown point in the early 2000's until the mid 2010's. It is named after Scott Pilgrim from the graphic novel series that shares the same name 
== Description ==
The Pilgrimage was largely defined by retro videogames and how they were popular and hella mainstream around that time. Every other person had a T-shirt with SOME retro controller on it, Youtube channels like the Irate Gamer were gaining popularity, People in general weren't as aggressive over every little thing and The people born in the 80s had large amounts of nostalgia and the people who weren't got to appreciate that shit and had fake nostalgia and began to unironically play that game about the angel guy before the remake of it came out and made it "Anime for people who hate anime but want to be taken seriously by anime fans": The Series alongside Fire Emblem.
The Pilgrimage got retro video games so mainstream that there were not only 1, But 3 ENTIRE MOVIES ABOUT RETRO VIDEO GAMES! The movies are as follows:
# The AVGN Movie
# Wreck It Ralph
# Pixels
But then somewhat before Pixels came out-ish, The Pilgrimage kinda stopped since everyone got angry over everything and those annoying "LIBS GET OWNED CRINGE COMPILATION #666" videos were spammed in everyone's recommended videos alongside game companies ruining their new games in new never-before-seen ways that will astound and amaze you (Read: Lootboxes, Always needing to be online, Shitty patches that remove and ruin stuff because some incels complained about a 2 second kiss scene or something as trivial as that)!
Plus not to mention that the concept of "Cringe" was developing to the point where actually unironically enjoying stuff was seen as cringe, Including everything The Pilgrimage was about. Making being a "Retro gamer" cringe according to this absolute nonsense. Plus 80's nostalgia was being milked by everything under the sun so people got tired of it for a good while.
== Revival? ==
In 2016-ish, A bunch of companies made "Classic consoles" which were pretty neat and temporarily brought The Pilgrimage back. It also helped pave the way for Nostalrius to cause Vanilla WoW to happen which is also good but then incels ruined that as well with their complaining about having to socialize with other people instead of instantly hitting level 90 by grinding dungeons with a bunch of no-name might-as-well-be-npcs.
Eventually the retro console thing stopped though but who knows at this point.
== Relation to Genwunners ==
Since it made retro games popular and cool again, The first Pokemon games were also brought back into the spotlight during The Pilgrimage. A lot of people played the Gen 1 games and liked them to the point where they became Genwunners. Even those assholes who pretend to be Pokemon fans but only know about a dozen of them decided to play Gen 1 and became dedicated Genwunners due to the Pilgrimage.
== Pilgrimage Anthems ==
Gamez - Bei Maejor (Main Theme of The Pilgrimage)
Literally any parody Smosh made, But their Zelda one applies the most here.
8-Bit World - Your Favorite Martian
Beast In Love - Gods Paparazzi Ft. Millionaires
8-Bit covers of popular songs
DON'TTRUSTME - 3OH!3
Hangover - Taio Cruz (Ft. Flo Rida)
My First Kiss (WOTLK Dalaran Anthem) - 3OH!3
Replay - Iyaz
E.T. - Katy Perry
Drop The World - Lil Wayne (Ft. Eminem)
Mighty Wings and Hadoukens - Rex Viper
When Can I See You Again - Owl City
Game Over - Falling in Reverse (Would have been the main theme of the Pilgrimage if it came out sooner)
Tetris - The adventures of Duane and BrandO (Pretty much any song they made is great and could count)
Sorry For Party Rocking - LMFAO
Right Round - Flo Rida