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.
seriously? i thought it was just me having that problem
It's fairly widespread but there is not an even split as to how it is experienced.
Those who do notice report that it feels a bit weird (an understatement, frankly), like time became disjunct in roughly around 2020, and those who don't notice seemingly completely accept the lack of novel social input since (and probably weren't paying very much attention to time in any meaningful sense prior to The Event anyway).
There is a fierce rigidity in those who don't notice relative to their nonacceptance that anything seems off, a complete rejection of any event unfoldment which had altered the social machine known as 'the public.' Furthermore, metaphorically, the wheat and the chaff are now subliminally (and openly) arguing with each other about who is actually the wheat in this scenario, which is why each group perceives the other to be acting a bit 'off.'
I've seen some on the left call for reeducation camps and some on the right calling for asylums to be reopened, and neither is a great sign of the times to come if we can't have honest conversations about what actually happened and what that happening has done to the public's psyche.
That's my sibling. They were not impacted by COVID overreaction because they didn't have kids, careers, mortgages, a business to run (all of which I did). So I became super frustrated with the times and they were like wHaT ArE yOu TaLkiNg AbOuT?! When your daily routine consists of day drinking and video games and you have zero responsibility because of nepotism, yeah, nothing seemed to change much.