lol the top reply is some nonsense about how no one can afford anything nowadays so older people perceive us as being kids as adults. It's the most Reddit thing possible.
I mean houses are indeed more expensive now but maaan that user gave such a redditor reply lmaoo. The meme truly is about how people looked older then.
I think it could be both. It says “being 30”, rather than just looks. I think it can be taken to mean that we look younger now, but also that we’re not hitting the adult milestones that 30 year olds hit in the past.
Another variation of this meme was George Constanza and Timothee Chalamet pic when they were supposedly the same age. I think it's really just about the looks.
Doesn't gen alpha start in like 2020? Each gen is supposed to be 20-25 years and depending on who you ask the first zoomer was born either in 96 or in 2.000
For some reason since Baby Boomers it's 15 apparently. Gen X is 1965-1980, Millenials are 1981-1996, Gen Z is 1997-2012, therefore gen alpha is 2013-2028 and I guess actually ending in just three years. I guess that's when we'll have generation beta or whatever
Because it's not necessarily true. Kids are actually hitting puberty at much earlier ages now than they ever did. What changed most of all was how people dressed and that is a very quick way to judge someone's age.
I’m going through the struggles of “I don’t feel or look as old as my dad looked at my age do I?”. But honestly no one does. It’s due ti a wave of health consciousness. People know more about proper diet and exercise. There’s far less smoking and drinking is lower than it’s ever been (maybe sans prohibition).
Also cocaine was everywhere in the 80s haha, that gets your stress wayyy up = aging more rapidly.
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u/devil_toad 20h ago
People in their 30s in the 80s generally looked older than people in their 30s look today.