Note that in English, the word "is" is used to refer to the present tense. Past tense is referred to using "was", instead.

Mm, the old stuff before the kerfuffle about gypsies and their weirdness about WW2 (where suddenly the supernaturals are Off the Hook, except for maybe the Beast of War itself) would all make the cockles of a gen-z rise simply because they're pretty much built on regional folklore and cultural stereotype. Putting any kind of positive or negative spin on any of it went really no further than gameplay purposes, and that would depend entirely on the group and whatever kind of story they're telling (not to mention which game specifically they're into.)

If anything, I'd say the most relevant thing out of the oWoD at the moment would be the Defiler Wyrm Ascendant with the goddamn Weaver flexing her muscles right behind it.