Both modernity and modernity crises, such as the prevalence of consumerism, loss of value rationality, and the continuous growth of individual senselessness, must be confronted. Youth subjects are freely nostalgic in virtual spaces such as one of Douban groups named “Pretending to live in 1980—2000”, but are such behaviors and values essentially a resistance to modernity? This research uses participatory observations and virtual ethnography methods to go deep into the online field. After an in-depth investigation of individual speech and the community as a whole, it points out that youth subjects show anti-modernity characteristics such as avoidance of time-space compression and resistance to instrumental rationality. Their behaviors tend to be a kind of instinctive defense rather than intentional resistance. They flee from reality but in fact are deeply trapped in reality, which makes the crisis of modernity ubiquitous. The powerless behavior of young people can be understood, but the value orientation of blindly substituting “nostalgia” for “newness” should be guarded against.