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.
What makes me feel old is that I remember the national controversy The Simpsons caused when it was first released. Americans were genuinely outraged that Bart said "sucks" and was rude to his parents. It's my yardstick for how degenerate society has grown.
I remember one of my aunts forbidden my cousins from watching Cow and Chicken because they said the word "stupid" in it.
Though in retrospect that's like not even top 20 of the wierd degenerate shit in that show, so maybe she was right.
Looking back on that era of cartoons, there was a lot of stuff in them that children shouldn't have been exposed to. Rocko's Modern Life is a prime example.
George H.W Bush said
Strange thinking about the Simpsons being edgy in any capacity in 2024.