I'm 32 btw, and I don't consider myself "old" like millennials often exaggerate....32 is still young, but time creeps along for all people and there is one thing that when I see it, it makes me have sort of an odd dread feeling.
People will post memes of like "this show is now X amount of years old...feel old yet?"
And that stuff never does. But the one thing that makes me go "that can't be right....that must be a glitch...it can't be that old" is those rare times I come across a Youtube video that was uploaded near the beginning, like a video from 2007 or something and the video will say "uploaded 15 years ago, or 16 years ago"
That one hits me in the gut every time. I remember in middle school Youtube being a new thing and it doesn't feel like the type of thing that is half my lifetime ago..It feels such a modern, part of this crap society that when I stumble across videos that were 16 years ago....I don't know...it gives me a similar feeling like when you watch a black mirror episode...there's something dystopian feeling about it.
Understandable but a difficult metric to use at times because some older YT vids just don't exist anymore. I've had bookmarks for years just stop working one day because of some reason and then needed to go find a re-up of it to use so while the content still exists the originals are now long gone.
This still exists, though.
I wasnt referring to specific videos that I know, but just the rare times you can find some old video whether youve seen it before or not and realize a youtube video can be that old. It doesnt feel like a youtube video should be able to be older than 9 years or something in my mind.