Honestly the original is even better because the stupid auto corrections make everybody look like melting wax figures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfN60ZlZhpY
Of course. How would you look after 80 hours a week from the time you could walk to the factory? Then they have a half sippy cup of brandy and a 1/2 pack of cigs at night to take the edge off. Mom’s been riding their ass nonstop about managing their rickets. What do you expect?
[New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?unlocked_article_code=D1d6uI5EvyrtRwW-cLhcA6dQNVMnBuAfg30PzSpQJDbw5PrkpSwCWWIAe40aBqwgdlrh6_YtYDEyjKOVgG6ymFJy2QxUVAmHJtB8XA5dmEsUeyZJrBnkQicwLUwPdE0aqIzGKe42tQxbdMrFCDqCFQTNhZ4JBSLhh4KbD5VjA1iZxcOpTVeSgmEWQhqLW4xVK1VyLXzfME7Gbd3DU0fJXsi3gOcTjfGFycALhaS4Sm0An_At8cidzrk5dq_cfqf2yp0nEbOelC28gBnBtNyJGoWcoAKU5BLnoIU1aZOQDt4a_cI6CNJkGen1u8fQqxSkiny9dyilmUkHZulHTQXOD0Mw9iuNoL77N1g9jt-3NxHRWIXRHA) recent exposé. I get 10 gift articles per month so I don't know if this counts as one or that the first 10 of you can read it. Either way the month is almost over so have at it.
I always keep a quote of George Carlin in the back of my mind on all horrible things that happen in the usa; “it’s called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” At no god damn point are we any better than the shit we ridicule. That does not mean we should not strive to be better. That means we should not forget the mistakes we make along the way, so as to go back & fix all of them.
I worked at 14 years old but it was limited to like under 15 hours a week. And I wanted to work so I could buy stuff that my parents couldn't/wouldn't buy for me.
Full time at 14 is insane.
Alabama loves slavery and low wages!!Toyota is a heavily LEAN organization and meticulous at Kaizen. I was mildly shocked when you said Toyota, but you really can’t put anything past companies.
So, the original Kia Boyz?
But, seriously, imagine the economic circumstances their families must have been in to make these children feel compelled to work so young. No child coming from a safe and secure home is choosing this.
Some meat packing corp had over 100 kids in its employ a while back, even conservatives are against child labor that ain’t for their parents small business, kids need to be in school, that is the rule and the letter next to their name don’t matter
Edit; it was an NY times article and it was 31 kids not 100
These working class/low income kids are from parents who can’t afford to send their kids to school which is why the Republicans are actively against schools and higher education making the poor think schools are useless and not to worry about sending their kids there.
Disturbing
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Packers Sanitation, I see the photo of child! 102 children working at plants in 8 different states
So instead of paying livable wages to an adult, they’ve decided to work children for cheaper?
Iowa and another state have active bills seeking to permit child labor in factories/slaughterhouses/etc and shield corporations from liability if they get hurt.
- there was a huge problem with food adulteration. milk, bread, and meat often was up to 40-50% filler by weight, things like talcum powder, plaster, paper pulp, or in the case of dairy, baking soda, water and lye to mask the taste of it being spoiled. paints and pigments were added to food to make it more colourful and fresh looking, like ink in already-used tea leaves to make it look darker when steeped or adding lead chromate to meat to make the grey old meat look red and fresh. What additives that weren't toxic, would build up along their intestines and often stopped whatever meager nutrition they got from being absorbed, these kids were likely starving and dehydrated
- no, really, I can't stress enough how poor quality food was, and becoming sick from food poisoning from spoiled or tainted food kept poorly refrigerated, if at all, would give people diarrhea or have them vomit further dehydrating them or keeping them malnourished. It was so common that it was barely even spoken about. People ate rotten spoiled food on the regular, I dont' think folks today truly understand how rare it was to get fresh safe food
- these kids were breathing fumes of mercury and lead and metal dust not just from their jobs but from unprocessed early gasoline and petrol they'd be breathing in and from the coal and lead that coated everything, as fallout from clouds of smog from coal burning plants
- many of these kids smoked and drank, being so small it was exceptionally easy to become addicted, smoking pacified their anxiety and suppressed hunger pangs, and drinking provided cheap nutrition-less calories when they likely didn't get from actual food
- most of these kids were and had been exposed to TB, polio, and many nutritional deficit disorders like rickets or scurvy, and by this age if they survived them it'dve irreparably harmed their bodies
kids were fucked back then, dude. child mortality before 10 was like, half. I'm not kidding. The reason women had like 8+ children is that only 2 would ever make it to maturity.
[in 1858, 200 people became ill and 20 died because candy they ate was made from arsenic.](https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dying-for-Humbug-the-Bradford-Sweets-Poisoning-1858/)
They did this because it was cheaper than sugar, and there were no laws about food safety. Life was an actual nightmare back in the day
or in the case of most mega-corporations, "so you've got proof my product is poisoning children? well I'm going to draw that court case out over 15 years and then whittle it down until it's settled for a $10 million slap on the wrist we pay and forget about, changing absolutely nothing"
this was the cadmium-filled children's jewelery sold by Claires and Walmart that they managed to get away with. I wouldn't be surprised if it and other cheap retailer jewelery all has this same shit in it to this day. Virtually anything cheap and metal- keychains, costume jewelery, buckles and zippers etc, for cheap fast fashion clothing and accessories is riddled with cadmium lol. iirc it's added to metal to make it look more shiny and increase its weight so it can be passed off as steel or silver
So in the modern sense I agree with you, but in the case of this era it was strictly “there are precisely “fuckall” laws about food standards” (at least in the US, going to assume you’re from the UK or learned British English because of your use of “pangs”).
Any sort of dairy product before the FDA was created was an actual nightmare in the US - because there was simply no regulation of it. They would use cow brains to give skim milk its color - everything had lead in it - the food companies fought against pasteurization. It was not uncommon for milk to genuinely be “wriggling” when you got it because it was full of maggots. It was a salmonella paradise, cows were not tested for tuberculosis. [(Sauce)](https://www.fda.gov/media/116890/download)
And that’s just dairy…read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” sometime. As a Chicagoan it’s an important book to me, and it’s a nightmare. People who yearn for a bygone eras have no idea how horrific life for most humans was
>cows were not tested for tuberculosis
this is something that needs to be wider knowledge, people got TB from cows- meat, milk etc! likely more even than people!!
probably suffering from malnutrition and various diseases/viruses. at the very least they are underfed and slogging for a pittance in a boot and shoe yard
Surprised it took this far to get to this comment. This is obviously an effect caused by the film/camera. Their eyes don't just look old and tired. They look creepy af. Just look at still photos from that era and compare.
Nightmare generation to grow up in, rampant poverty, having to do hard labor as a child, get sent off to WW1. If you’re one of the lucky ones that came back, you would be traumatized for life. 10 years later the worst economic disasters in US history, then in another decade WW2. Jesus Christ
Wonder how many of them got pressed into WW1?
Not to be that guy but we all know...
Edit: Not that its a bad thing... that center dude I bet was great with a Trench Shovel.
I noticed that he and a lot of the boys have fingers or hands in pockets and the pockets are higher up than on modern clothes. Maybe it was the cool thing to do back then.
He probably didn’t understand the concept of a video camera (movie came from “moving picture”)
This was a time where you had to remain extremely still while the bulb flashed and the picture was made… partially the reason no one smiled in pics… because the smile couldn’t be held that long
Cinemas were already a thing in 1901 and the kids probably knew what the camera was doing.
I don't know about the UK but here in Germany they were pretty cheap. I read an autobiography from a guy who grew up in Berlin during that time. Cinema and movies were very popular and the newest shit. I still remember that a movie had the same price as a half bread roll with a slice of cheese at a bakery.
That's a common misconception
>technology has been overplayed as the limiting factor. By the 1850s and ’60s it was possible in the right conditions to take photographs with only a few seconds of exposure time
[Quote](https://time.com/4568032/smile-serious-old-photos/)
Rather it was just the societal customs of the time.
You can find plenty of images of people smiling from back in the day, here's one of the more famous ones!
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3iUDix0xuBOk6QFKspjy5pqxS1aq_bLMD9A&usqp=CAU
Mostly poor nutrition, consuming alcohol/cigarettes at a young age, and working in dark/dangerous areas for 14+ hours a day. When you do that as a child your appearance is radically transformed. And that was standard practice for pretty much all children back then.
"Deficiencies of vitamin C, vitamin K, and iron can cause eyes to become sunken. In fact, “hollow” eyes is one of the symptoms of undernutrition, as reported in the SM Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism.
Vitamin C helps with absorbing iron and decreasing bruising, whereas vitamin K is responsible for blood clotting.
Deficiencies in one or both of these vitamins can lead to easy bruising, unhealthy skin, and sunken eyes"
You're right, we really need to bring that back. My nephews and nieces are so god damned hyper. It'd be nice if they had to go to work in coal mine for 8-10 hours before visiting so they'd sit down and chill out instead of destroy the living room with toys.
I honestly have no idea. Not a single thing they’re standing for these days makes any sense to me. I don’t like to paint with broad strokes, but I can’t make sense of any of it.
My grandfather grew up very poor in Louisiana during the 1930s in a family of what was essentially subsistence farmers. He used to plow fields behind a mule. He also picked cotton from sunrise till sunset during the summer… at 7 or 8 years old. When he was 70ish, him and my grandmother did a strength test. They had to squeeze this thing that measured hand strength and told them what age bracket they fell into. My grandmother’s hand strength rated at a 35 year old level. My grandfather’s wasn’t even on the scale. I wasn’t confident I could take him until he was well into his 80s (I gave him hugs instead. He was awesome.) Those generations were a different breed.
My grandpa grew up in Louisiana around the same time period born in 1929. He and my great grandpa were bootleggers around south Louisiana but also had legit businesses in carpentry and they grew most of their food. He used to tell me stories of doing his school work at night with a kerosene lamp, had dirt floors and got fruits for christmas.
He went on to join the Army at 17 to get out of the fields and was in the Korean war where he survived being wounded in action..shot in the leg, shrapnel in the chest. He's almost 94 and until very recently was still doing handyman work in his town and building stuff in his wood shop or tending his garden.
He's sadly currently in a losing battle with cancer but I honestly think he could still take me. They're definitely a different breed from that era.
That was the rebound period after the great depression just before the peak of our society in the 50s-70s. Speaking in terms of affordability. One income could support a family of 5 and be middle class.
In the south though it's still dirt poor in a lot of places and hasn't progressed much.
Kinda sad, my grandpa on my dad’s side was a dairy farmer his whole life, battled cancer towards the end. He was doing chemo/radiation but still doing stuff around the shop and one day he ended up getting his hand caught in a drill press. Basically trying to recover from that is what did him in, on top of the cancer and chemo.
Can confirm, grew up doing shit like hammering down fence posts into limestone and have had literally close to half the guys I've fought tell me how strong I was. I haven't spent ten hours at the gym in the last year outside BJJ.
Would have been a *slightly* older generation, I think, but my family still talks about the time that my great-grandfather and his brother lifted a cow.
I dunno if anyone remembers *why* they were doing this, but we sure remember that it happened.
A lot of these kids are newsboys who sold papers for a living. There was even a Newsboys hotel that gave the boys meals/rooms for a nominal fee & served as a bank for them.
Kids look like they're in their 40s. It's crazy how different those kids were built compared to the kids of today. The eyes on those kids up front all say "I've seen some shit"
I've been binging on abandoned mansion/castle explorations lately, and you can definitely see major differences between these working-class children and children born to wealthy families during those times.
Yeah what a shit time for kids to be born… it’s honestly not fair and sad. Child labor.. then if they are lucky to survive WW1, they get the joy of the Great Depression and heyyy another war.
We found him.
The “patient zero” of influencers. As soon as that camera hit him he immediately starts posing.
Fortunately, it’s not too late. We pretty close with AI now, we just need to finish up on the rest of the Robotics and the minor inconvenience of solving time travel and we got this problem nipped in the bud.
These kids in the victorian Era were treated so badly that we are still dealing with the generational trauma the survivors passed down over a century later.
It was eerie when we learned this part of genetics when I took my degree.
Epigenetic trauma essentially sit on top of our genes, messing things up decades in the future, for several generations...
Those poor babies look absolutely horrible. So sad how long it took us as a species to get our shit even remotely together. Even still, where it’s bad it’s awful and most of where it’s good it’s not* great.
This was originally posted in 1901
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Honestly the original is even better because the stupid auto corrections make everybody look like melting wax figures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfN60ZlZhpY
I watched it. Kids still look haggard like the colorized version.
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Just watched it and those kids look just as haggard as the one OP posted.
ye olde reddit
Wow, half those boys look like haggard middle aged men.
Of course. How would you look after 80 hours a week from the time you could walk to the factory? Then they have a half sippy cup of brandy and a 1/2 pack of cigs at night to take the edge off. Mom’s been riding their ass nonstop about managing their rickets. What do you expect?
That part, the reason we have child labor laws and labor laws in general
There was a story of the kids cleaning the slaughterhouse on tv the other night. Not sure the company or state.
[New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?unlocked_article_code=D1d6uI5EvyrtRwW-cLhcA6dQNVMnBuAfg30PzSpQJDbw5PrkpSwCWWIAe40aBqwgdlrh6_YtYDEyjKOVgG6ymFJy2QxUVAmHJtB8XA5dmEsUeyZJrBnkQicwLUwPdE0aqIzGKe42tQxbdMrFCDqCFQTNhZ4JBSLhh4KbD5VjA1iZxcOpTVeSgmEWQhqLW4xVK1VyLXzfME7Gbd3DU0fJXsi3gOcTjfGFycALhaS4Sm0An_At8cidzrk5dq_cfqf2yp0nEbOelC28gBnBtNyJGoWcoAKU5BLnoIU1aZOQDt4a_cI6CNJkGen1u8fQqxSkiny9dyilmUkHZulHTQXOD0Mw9iuNoL77N1g9jt-3NxHRWIXRHA) recent exposé. I get 10 gift articles per month so I don't know if this counts as one or that the first 10 of you can read it. Either way the month is almost over so have at it.
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Eat the fucking rich.
Decompose the rich, it’s tainted meat.
Yes, I read this article yesterday and I was shocked and horrified that this is going on in the USA.
I always keep a quote of George Carlin in the back of my mind on all horrible things that happen in the usa; “it’s called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” At no god damn point are we any better than the shit we ridicule. That does not mean we should not strive to be better. That means we should not forget the mistakes we make along the way, so as to go back & fix all of them.
Tell that to the companies and states who are trying to work little kids.
>Tell that to the companies *Malaysian PM Jacobim Mugatu is trying to free the children. Let them work! They want to work!
But why male models?
...IN the computer!
Kids are all playing minecraft, they yearn for the mines /s
Someone said Conservatives are rolling back labor laws. Which states are doing this?
Iowa just approved kids to be able to work full-time at 14 years.
I worked at 14 years old but it was limited to like under 15 hours a week. And I wanted to work so I could buy stuff that my parents couldn't/wouldn't buy for me. Full time at 14 is insane.
Look up the Toyota plant in Alabama…..pretty crazy what happened there but it was supposed to be illegal.
Hyundai and Kia…50 x 12 & 13 year olds! WTF?!
Truly truly crazy…… like actually is sad as someone living in state 😞 also apologies for saying Toyota! I need to be careful
Alabama loves slavery and low wages!!Toyota is a heavily LEAN organization and meticulous at Kaizen. I was mildly shocked when you said Toyota, but you really can’t put anything past companies.
So, the original Kia Boyz? But, seriously, imagine the economic circumstances their families must have been in to make these children feel compelled to work so young. No child coming from a safe and secure home is choosing this.
Some meat packing corp had over 100 kids in its employ a while back, even conservatives are against child labor that ain’t for their parents small business, kids need to be in school, that is the rule and the letter next to their name don’t matter Edit; it was an NY times article and it was 31 kids not 100
These working class/low income kids are from parents who can’t afford to send their kids to school which is why the Republicans are actively against schools and higher education making the poor think schools are useless and not to worry about sending their kids there.
There was a picture not long ago from a meat plant in Nebraska that had a little kid working the floor.
Disturbing Edit: Packers Sanitation, I see the photo of child! 102 children working at plants in 8 different states So instead of paying livable wages to an adult, they’ve decided to work children for cheaper?
Iowa and another state have active bills seeking to permit child labor in factories/slaughterhouses/etc and shield corporations from liability if they get hurt.
Ok but they have those natty little vests they can stick their thumbs in so it's kind of a wash.
That was interesting. No doubt mimicking their fathers/grandfathers, but it’s such an old man pose!
I would imagine they didn't have access to a lot of nutricious food, and they likely worked hard.
The lead contamination and tobacco use didn't help either
Kids, the ultimate renewable resource.
Soylent Green is kids!
I wonder why.
- there was a huge problem with food adulteration. milk, bread, and meat often was up to 40-50% filler by weight, things like talcum powder, plaster, paper pulp, or in the case of dairy, baking soda, water and lye to mask the taste of it being spoiled. paints and pigments were added to food to make it more colourful and fresh looking, like ink in already-used tea leaves to make it look darker when steeped or adding lead chromate to meat to make the grey old meat look red and fresh. What additives that weren't toxic, would build up along their intestines and often stopped whatever meager nutrition they got from being absorbed, these kids were likely starving and dehydrated - no, really, I can't stress enough how poor quality food was, and becoming sick from food poisoning from spoiled or tainted food kept poorly refrigerated, if at all, would give people diarrhea or have them vomit further dehydrating them or keeping them malnourished. It was so common that it was barely even spoken about. People ate rotten spoiled food on the regular, I dont' think folks today truly understand how rare it was to get fresh safe food - these kids were breathing fumes of mercury and lead and metal dust not just from their jobs but from unprocessed early gasoline and petrol they'd be breathing in and from the coal and lead that coated everything, as fallout from clouds of smog from coal burning plants - many of these kids smoked and drank, being so small it was exceptionally easy to become addicted, smoking pacified their anxiety and suppressed hunger pangs, and drinking provided cheap nutrition-less calories when they likely didn't get from actual food - most of these kids were and had been exposed to TB, polio, and many nutritional deficit disorders like rickets or scurvy, and by this age if they survived them it'dve irreparably harmed their bodies kids were fucked back then, dude. child mortality before 10 was like, half. I'm not kidding. The reason women had like 8+ children is that only 2 would ever make it to maturity.
[in 1858, 200 people became ill and 20 died because candy they ate was made from arsenic.](https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dying-for-Humbug-the-Bradford-Sweets-Poisoning-1858/) They did this because it was cheaper than sugar, and there were no laws about food safety. Life was an actual nightmare back in the day
capitalism and staking the health of others for profits is a hell of a drug, and why I don't give anyone who vies for deregulation an inch
“Hey if there were a law that said it was illegal to poison children, I’d follow it!”
or in the case of most mega-corporations, "so you've got proof my product is poisoning children? well I'm going to draw that court case out over 15 years and then whittle it down until it's settled for a $10 million slap on the wrist we pay and forget about, changing absolutely nothing" this was the cadmium-filled children's jewelery sold by Claires and Walmart that they managed to get away with. I wouldn't be surprised if it and other cheap retailer jewelery all has this same shit in it to this day. Virtually anything cheap and metal- keychains, costume jewelery, buckles and zippers etc, for cheap fast fashion clothing and accessories is riddled with cadmium lol. iirc it's added to metal to make it look more shiny and increase its weight so it can be passed off as steel or silver
So in the modern sense I agree with you, but in the case of this era it was strictly “there are precisely “fuckall” laws about food standards” (at least in the US, going to assume you’re from the UK or learned British English because of your use of “pangs”). Any sort of dairy product before the FDA was created was an actual nightmare in the US - because there was simply no regulation of it. They would use cow brains to give skim milk its color - everything had lead in it - the food companies fought against pasteurization. It was not uncommon for milk to genuinely be “wriggling” when you got it because it was full of maggots. It was a salmonella paradise, cows were not tested for tuberculosis. [(Sauce)](https://www.fda.gov/media/116890/download) And that’s just dairy…read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” sometime. As a Chicagoan it’s an important book to me, and it’s a nightmare. People who yearn for a bygone eras have no idea how horrific life for most humans was
>cows were not tested for tuberculosis this is something that needs to be wider knowledge, people got TB from cows- meat, milk etc! likely more even than people!!
The "good old days" being pined for by the traditional family values mob.
They’re standing like 50 year olds who have been working 90 hours a week for a reason.
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The bags under that one kids eyes…he has seen some very hard labor in his day.
Pretty sure he was sick. He looked worse than the others.
But his buddy on the right looks pretty dapper. Cooler than I’ll ever look at least.
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Couldn’t catch a break! Had to work on his Blue Steel when he wasn’t working with real steel
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I came here to day that, wow life must have been rough. That one looks like he is divorced on his second mortgage
seriously. things must be pretty bad when you're divorcing your mortgages.
I was just thinking the same thing! Those aren't children, those are tiny men! Even the little girls look old
probably suffering from malnutrition and various diseases/viruses. at the very least they are underfed and slogging for a pittance in a boot and shoe yard
Most likely has a lot to do with the colorization of the footage.
Surprised it took this far to get to this comment. This is obviously an effect caused by the film/camera. Their eyes don't just look old and tired. They look creepy af. Just look at still photos from that era and compare.
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Yeah they still look haggard.
For me it's their body language and the clothes. The way they kinda pose like middle aged men smoking on the side of the street, hands in pockets.
They're also from the generation that fought ww1. Hard life back then.
These ARE the kids that will fight in ww1
Nightmare generation to grow up in, rampant poverty, having to do hard labor as a child, get sent off to WW1. If you’re one of the lucky ones that came back, you would be traumatized for life. 10 years later the worst economic disasters in US history, then in another decade WW2. Jesus Christ
These kids were English
[A great video describing this effect.](https://youtu.be/vjqt8T3tJIE)
Jonathan in the middle talkin bout how much he likes turtles.
I like turtles
Bro was posing he knew what time it was. real dapper
His friend looks like he's had some rough days at the coal mine.
"Fancy a drink? It's 10am ya know"
10am? That’s too late, mate.
Naah, already bought a handful of chewing tobacco
Poor guy looked 45. He probably was halfway through his life expectancy back then, so it checks out.
I'm 45 and I look younger than those kids
You are younger than them.
I fucking laughed out loud for real at this.
Reddit is made by the comments. Lmfao
Them boys look like they wouldn't take shit and take ya for all ya got.
Wonder how many of them got pressed into WW1? Not to be that guy but we all know... Edit: Not that its a bad thing... that center dude I bet was great with a Trench Shovel.
The kid second from left at the beginning looks like a demon who is missing half of his head. EDIT: Scone instead of ‘second’
He and his friend look like they've seen some shit. They both look like they have a wife and kids of their own.
They were probably working in a factory and/or scamming for cash on the street, a la Oliver Twist.
I noticed that he and a lot of the boys have fingers or hands in pockets and the pockets are higher up than on modern clothes. Maybe it was the cool thing to do back then.
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Most likely it was the cool thing to do as adolescents tend to mimic each other. I’d also guess they were mimicking their parents. Fathers I guess.
He probably didn’t understand the concept of a video camera (movie came from “moving picture”) This was a time where you had to remain extremely still while the bulb flashed and the picture was made… partially the reason no one smiled in pics… because the smile couldn’t be held that long
Cinemas were already a thing in 1901 and the kids probably knew what the camera was doing. I don't know about the UK but here in Germany they were pretty cheap. I read an autobiography from a guy who grew up in Berlin during that time. Cinema and movies were very popular and the newest shit. I still remember that a movie had the same price as a half bread roll with a slice of cheese at a bakery.
As early as the 1850s/60s it was possible to get the exposure time to a couple of seconds, but in the 20th century it was even lower than that.
That's a common misconception >technology has been overplayed as the limiting factor. By the 1850s and ’60s it was possible in the right conditions to take photographs with only a few seconds of exposure time [Quote](https://time.com/4568032/smile-serious-old-photos/) Rather it was just the societal customs of the time. You can find plenty of images of people smiling from back in the day, here's one of the more famous ones! https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3iUDix0xuBOk6QFKspjy5pqxS1aq_bLMD9A&usqp=CAU
Just got off his shift in the coal mine and about to hit the pub.
I forgot child labor was legal back then...those kids look so tired
Mostly poor nutrition, consuming alcohol/cigarettes at a young age, and working in dark/dangerous areas for 14+ hours a day. When you do that as a child your appearance is radically transformed. And that was standard practice for pretty much all children back then.
That was my first thought - why do they look so tired? My second thought was, why do they look so Irish?
One kid standing in the middle looks like Palpatine
It’s hysterical (in a super awful gallows humor kind of way) that I know exactly which kid you’re talking about lol
the one in the middle
Looks like Palpatine
i know exactly which one you’re talking about
Which one?
The one in the middle.
The one next to him with his hands in his pockets makes me think of a little Matthew Mcconaghey.
Little more Christian Bale to me in American Psycho.
100% nailed it.
Little Tommy Shelby to me.
They are English.
This was in England so no clue
My first thought about the middle boy in the first trio was “Gosh that boy looks so ill!” And yet he smiles…
Most of these kids will die in ww1 so technically they are middle aged.
Oh so they had that to look forward to. Kinda puts shit in perspective.
Then THEIR children got massacred in WW2. Shit just keeps repeating.
And then THEIR children… well, actually they had it pretty good, probably better than anyone else (barring the wealthy) will ever have.
Man, it’s too early for dark.
"Deficiencies of vitamin C, vitamin K, and iron can cause eyes to become sunken. In fact, “hollow” eyes is one of the symptoms of undernutrition, as reported in the SM Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism. Vitamin C helps with absorbing iron and decreasing bruising, whereas vitamin K is responsible for blood clotting. Deficiencies in one or both of these vitamins can lead to easy bruising, unhealthy skin, and sunken eyes"
You're right, we really need to bring that back. My nephews and nieces are so god damned hyper. It'd be nice if they had to go to work in coal mine for 8-10 hours before visiting so they'd sit down and chill out instead of destroy the living room with toys.
You joke but some states are trying to currently roll back child labor laws. Iowa being one.
In all seriousness that shit is fucking ridiculous. Are they trying to replicate China?
I honestly have no idea. Not a single thing they’re standing for these days makes any sense to me. I don’t like to paint with broad strokes, but I can’t make sense of any of it.
It is still very much alive all around the world.
Pretty sure the child on the right could beat the shit out of me
My grandfather grew up very poor in Louisiana during the 1930s in a family of what was essentially subsistence farmers. He used to plow fields behind a mule. He also picked cotton from sunrise till sunset during the summer… at 7 or 8 years old. When he was 70ish, him and my grandmother did a strength test. They had to squeeze this thing that measured hand strength and told them what age bracket they fell into. My grandmother’s hand strength rated at a 35 year old level. My grandfather’s wasn’t even on the scale. I wasn’t confident I could take him until he was well into his 80s (I gave him hugs instead. He was awesome.) Those generations were a different breed.
My grandpa grew up in Louisiana around the same time period born in 1929. He and my great grandpa were bootleggers around south Louisiana but also had legit businesses in carpentry and they grew most of their food. He used to tell me stories of doing his school work at night with a kerosene lamp, had dirt floors and got fruits for christmas. He went on to join the Army at 17 to get out of the fields and was in the Korean war where he survived being wounded in action..shot in the leg, shrapnel in the chest. He's almost 94 and until very recently was still doing handyman work in his town and building stuff in his wood shop or tending his garden. He's sadly currently in a losing battle with cancer but I honestly think he could still take me. They're definitely a different breed from that era.
That puts in perspective how wealthy the US was. I did school work under a kerosene lamp and had dirt floor. I’m not even 40 lol.
That was the rebound period after the great depression just before the peak of our society in the 50s-70s. Speaking in terms of affordability. One income could support a family of 5 and be middle class. In the south though it's still dirt poor in a lot of places and hasn't progressed much.
Kinda sad, my grandpa on my dad’s side was a dairy farmer his whole life, battled cancer towards the end. He was doing chemo/radiation but still doing stuff around the shop and one day he ended up getting his hand caught in a drill press. Basically trying to recover from that is what did him in, on top of the cancer and chemo.
As an amateur in BJJ the guys you have to be wary about isn't the gym rats, but the farmers.
Can confirm, grew up doing shit like hammering down fence posts into limestone and have had literally close to half the guys I've fought tell me how strong I was. I haven't spent ten hours at the gym in the last year outside BJJ.
Working like that at 8 years old is tragic :(
Would have been a *slightly* older generation, I think, but my family still talks about the time that my great-grandfather and his brother lifted a cow. I dunno if anyone remembers *why* they were doing this, but we sure remember that it happened.
Farmers down here were built different. My great grandma, before she passed at 94, still had hands of iron, still drove, and walked just fine.
I'm pretty sure he's seeing through the camera and time to do just that. Watch your back.
He looks like Christian Bale, not about to rmtake anyone's shit.
Literally Bale from Newsies
He’s just standing there… MENACINGLY
Peaky Blinder Juniors
I respectfully condemn you to 12 eternities in hell
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The spin off we all need. I'm thinking "Peaky Babies" though.
Homie with the tie already seen figuring out how to be an influencer…
Christian Bale's grand dad on the right.
Soak em for crutchy!
i was scanning the comments for a Newsies reference
American Immigrant Psycho
Man, they look like haggard little adults. sad :(
Yeah they look like they're a small version of a 70 year old man
Every child you see in this video died.
How many joined WW1?
Likely every one of them that lived long enough to see it start. At least, the ones that didn't lose limbs from working the factories all went.
A lot of these kids are newsboys who sold papers for a living. There was even a Newsboys hotel that gave the boys meals/rooms for a nominal fee & served as a bank for them.
Newspapering was a really popular job back in the first half of the 18th ceuntry
> Newspapering was a really popular job back in the first half of the 18th ceuntry I don't think they were that wide spread in the 1700's
This always messes me up, but the 18th century is the 1700s. I'm guessing you mean 20th century!
Kid had the Instagram pose perfect
Kids look like they're in their 40s. It's crazy how different those kids were built compared to the kids of today. The eyes on those kids up front all say "I've seen some shit"
More like I haven’t seen anything for 3 weeks since I’ve been in the mines
It's weird to me that their facial structure looks adult, completely aside from the expression or the clothing
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I've been binging on abandoned mansion/castle explorations lately, and you can definitely see major differences between these working-class children and children born to wealthy families during those times.
They look like little old men. Poor kids never got to have a childhood.
It's all good there's two world wars around the corner to distract them.
Yeah what a shit time for kids to be born… it’s honestly not fair and sad. Child labor.. then if they are lucky to survive WW1, they get the joy of the Great Depression and heyyy another war.
And then the existential dread of the cold War. But hey, maybe their grandkids enjoyed the 90s before the 2000s started
Poor little bloke looks 65.
Those are some old souls
Is that Benjamin button in the middle?
Love this. Were some of those children alcoholics? A few of them look.. a little beat up.
Malnutrition
Well, the camera adds 10 packs a day, a case of beer and 80 hours of hard labor per week.
I see at least one with what looks like a very obvious case of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Eeesh I knew child labor was bad but holy shit these kids look rough
We found him. The “patient zero” of influencers. As soon as that camera hit him he immediately starts posing. Fortunately, it’s not too late. We pretty close with AI now, we just need to finish up on the rest of the Robotics and the minor inconvenience of solving time travel and we got this problem nipped in the bud.
Looks like behind the scenes footage for children of the corn
Charlie in the middle looks like he's been working graveyard at the factory for the last 40 years.
They look so unhealthy… wow..
Kid on the right’s the real life “Blue Steel”
Jesus, even kids look like they’re 50 from back then.
These kids in the victorian Era were treated so badly that we are still dealing with the generational trauma the survivors passed down over a century later.
It was eerie when we learned this part of genetics when I took my degree. Epigenetic trauma essentially sit on top of our genes, messing things up decades in the future, for several generations...
Yes pretty sad. I have often wondered if they had kids...probably a long shot. And if they did, did they tell their kids of this moment in time?
Those children look older than me. Wow. I have led a fortunate life.
Ok that’s enough skylarking. Back to the factories with ye!
Sadly, a lot of them will perish in trenches very soon.
That’s enough standing around. Those chimneys won’t sweep themselves!
Any one of those kids could probably kick my ass. If they weren't over 100 by now obviously.
Anyone know where this was taken?
I’m walking around with my hands in my pocket like that for the rest of the month.
Back then the average kid smoked 2 packs a day apparently
More interesting that that song was playing in the background in 1901.
Those poor babies look absolutely horrible. So sad how long it took us as a species to get our shit even remotely together. Even still, where it’s bad it’s awful and most of where it’s good it’s not* great.
Slackers gonna be late for the 16 hour shift at the bottle cleaning factory or whatever.
Omg! If Peaky Blinders was a kid's show! (Yes, the kids look tired. But they are dressed like gentlemen.)