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.
I'm 43 and it wasn't untill the 2020s until I felt "old". People saying things were 30 years old and I would think no thats from the 90s and realizing that is thirty years ago, made me feel old
The thing that got me was:
"At this moment, I am further away in time from the first episode of Animaniacs, than the first episode of Animaniacs was from the Vietnam War."
It's like those weird temporal/historical stats when you realize shit like: Custer's Last Stand and the moon landing took place in someone's life time.
There's a famous photo of a Civil War veteran posing next to a fighter jet in 1955.
Jesus, I think that might actually be a picture of the last Civil War veteran. Wasn't he a Confederate drummer boy?