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.
The worst part about that specific feeling is how impossible it is to share with anyone.
Like, I have an extreme nostalgic love of the AMV Hell* series. I remember seeing 3 and thinking this movie length thing was the peak of humor. And then 4 dropped it felt so clean. Like the quality was so much higher and it was using new anime instead of the more historical and nostalgic ones of the prior entries. Seeing Death Note in it, a recent series, was mind blowing.
AMV Hell 4 was 17 years ago. It can almost vote. The "brand new" series in it are as old now as those ancient 80s anime from 3 were at the time.
But back to my point. Its completely impossible to get the humor of this dumb little series across to people. AMVs as a whole were a 00s phenomenon that nobody really cares about anymore, nor does seeing a shit ton of anime you've never heard of have the same gravitas. AMV Hell specifically is packed full of humor and references to the very specific time period of both American culture and American weeb culture that half the humor will miss and would require hours to explain.
So not only does it make you feel old, you can't even share it with anyone but other old people. Seriously, trying showing a YoutubePoop to anyone who wasn't there and watch the confusion.
*Everyone in my social circle can attest to the very inappropriate level of excitement I had when 8 was announced after a near fucking decade. The release of 8, after seeing 8.5 that just came out, will help me through this election nonsense.
I was once walking to a class for uni with someone and the subject of a book series came up that he loved. He hadn't heard a new one came out that week and literally 180'd to go get it instead of going to class 😂