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.
Covid and the following permacrisis broke the perception of time and reality. Months feel like weeks, weeks feel like days, it's a blur now. And it's not just getting old, young people are noticing it too.
I swear just the other day it was early 2020 and I was out dining with a large group of friends, most of whom turned into rabid commies during Covid so we don't talk much anymore. Five years used to be a long time.
You hit the nail on the head for me and my close relatives. We've all noted how time feels faster now since 2020, and that dude in the video you linked expressed a lot of me and my family's own sentiments, as well as many of the comments. I think back on the last several years, and remember stuff from 2018 like they occurred, quite literally, just yesterday.
Pretty wild stuff, hearing so many people noticing the same thing.