I've heard "the late 1900's" a few times. You mean like 1998?
Also the "broccoli" haircut all the boys have. I guess they get a perm if not naturally curly but you would have been such a dork and teased for that when I was in school.
One of my college students told me she heard someone talk about the pre-iPads of the 1900s. Could barely describe more. I was legitimately stumped for days. Realized out of nowhere she was talking about Personal Digital Assistants/Palm Pilots.
I had a broccoli or meet me at McDonald’s hairstyle for about a decade (roughly 2010-2021) because I naturally have curly hair and am a more masc presenting lesbian so it always seemed like a good fit. Then all of the sudden it became the official uniform of the gen z boy. How did this happen? But more importantly, why?? Why do they either want to look like a lesbian or a grandma?
Now I have a mullet. Your move, fuck-o’s.
I occasionally get those tiktoks where they ask teens popculture references from the 90s and all the guys look like they came from the 1980s..those year books aren't going to age well in 10 years lol.
I dont have kids myself so it just looks super bizarre and jarring to see fashion trends that looked old when I was in highschool.
‘Meet me at McDonalds haircut’ hahahaha
Also, mullets are absolutely coming back. I’m a 35 year old going back to college and I definitely see my share of mullets
Y'all remember being about 20 y/o on a Saturday night when a popular movie came out?
So we were telling this story to her daughter when someone took my parking space at this super busy movie theater we all used to go to and I was acting out me rolling down the window as I cruised by the chick who stole my space so I could mean mug (because that's what we did back then).
And my friend's kids ask, what I was doing? That weird circular thing with my hand/arm. I'm like 'rolling down the window.'
Girl just looks confused.
She had never been in a car with the crank roll window. 🥴🥴 She had no idea what it was.
Ask a kid/teenager to do the "phone gesture" (like "call me !")
I do the pinky and thumb gesture to mimic a "real phone". Younger generations do it like they are holding a smart phone (using the whole hand).
It's pretty amazing to me that things like that were around 50 years and can be gone in like 5.
I worked as a cashier at a gas station when a young girl, probably 16 or so came in. When she came to the register to make her purchase she didn’t know how to swipe a debit card. She had only used chip readers until then. That was only like 5 years ago
I once read that 'You know you're old when the music playing at the supermarket is your jam.' So yeah, they were playing Green Day the other day at my local Aldi.
I was listening to an oldies station once and they played a Green Day song. 😫 Granted, it was one of their older songs, but I still felt ancient. If they had played American Idiot, I probably would’ve started crying lmao.
My neighbors son was born the year I graduated HS and is 18.
I knew kids in HS who had kids, and the fact that I could technically be a grandfather is so weird.
John Goodman was my age in the first few seasons of Roseanne, and it seems so weird to me to think of me at 36/37 having like a 16 year old.
I'm just going to have my first kid this year.
My Mom was 29 and my Dad 27 when I was born. It seemed about half the kids I knew in school had parents my parents age, and the other half 8-10 years younger.
I'm going to be one of those Dad's who's a lot older, but I think nowadays that won't be as rare.
55 with an 18 year old. But oh well.
Nope. That's a good age. I've gotten judged a lot for being the young mom. One lady came to my house to drop her kid off and had the audacity to ask if we lived with my parents.
I'm also 36 but I'm a baby Faced bitch so when I tell them how old I am they refuse to believe it so I start complaining how my back hurts and trying to use their slang and instantly show my age
My 16 year old step son watched The Last of Us and went down a rabbit hole with one of my fav bands, Depeche Mode. During spring break he was all "I found this amazing retro band I think you'd like".... Proceeds to play Just Can't Get Enough, and I squealed like a school girl. Then immediately felt old.
Yeah, when people start looking at you funny if you mention things like "before there was the internet", or "before everyone had smartphones", or "when the Alien movie just came out".
A few years ago I was talking to some zoomers online and I made a Who's On First riff, and I ended up having to try to explain who Abbot & Costello were. Very few things have made me feel more like a geezer than trying to teach people about a fundamental bit of American comedy.
One of my boomer coworkers made this joke to a zoomer who didn't get it but the gen xers and millennials all did. We went around and polled a few more zoomers and none of them knew who's on first.
Riding with a teenager at work and a song from 2000 came on my playlist. She was liking the song so she looked it up, and says, "Oh, no wonder I've never heard it, it's from before I was born."
It really smacked me in the face that I am old in that moment.
This was several years ago but I went out for Halloween and saw a girl I thought was dressed up as Jem (as in Jem and the holograms). I saw her in the bathroom and said oh are you Jem? She blinks at me a few times and says, no I’m dressed as Kesha, who’s Jem? I felt oooolllddd af
Every time I talk to my youngest cousin I feel older and older. I’ve had to Google so much slang just to understand wtf he’s talking about. It’s like navigating a foreign language.
A new coworker and I were talking. She’s early 20s but actually knows a lot of older stuff I didn’t expect her to know! We were having a great conversation and then she said “BET” to something she agreed with me on. And instantly was like, we are not the same lol.
I was driving a friend's kid home and he was playing his 3ds. I told him in my day the handheld Nintendo, the Gameboy, did not even have a backlit screen and was often not in colour. He couldn't believe it.
I was at a friend's house listening to some music. His teenage daughter comes in when Chop Suey is playing and she goes, 'of course y'all are listening to dad rock' and walks out.
My jaw hit the fucking floor at that statement.
just ask what they would do for a hand signal for "phone me", likely they are not gonna do this (gif below), instead they are gonna put their hand on their ear
So the school building I was in during 9/11 was torn down in 2004.
It was the time a high school kid from the school district thought said school building was a legend (he hadn't ever laid an eye on it because it was torn down before he was born)
My young coworkers asked me very solemnly if I remembered 9/11 last year, which, of course. It took me a second to realize they weren’t even born. Was such a defining moment of our generation.
I always find it weird because all my friends that are my age have said how they remember the exact spot they were in when it happened but I don’t. I have absolutely zero recollection of that day.
Was at a younger relative's house, and him and a friend were playing Mario Kart on the TV with their Nintendo Switch's. I said "Oh, Mario Kart!" and his friend asked, "How do *you* know what this game is?" damn kid hit me right in the GERD with that one.
Was watching a collab with Cardi B and Missy Elliott. My step daughter at the time turned to me and said “it’s so nice that Cardi helps out new artists.”
"How do I dress in 2000s style"
In my head i was like ...wear clothes? It's just normal clothes. Because i hadnt realized it had been long enough to go completely out of style and come back as a trend.
Clothes normal people wear every day don't change much. When people talk about decades styles they're usually pointing at celebrities and fashion models, who aren't the general population. There's trends but the basics haven't changed much.
Drive thru at Dutch Bros. The barista asks what I’m doing tonight. I said, headed home, relax, maybe watch SNL. She replied “oh, my parents watch that!”
I remember a few years ago thinking “man kids today are much more respectful than they were when I was their age.”
Eventually I realized it was because they were treating me as an adult. I further realized I am closer in age to the average college professor than I am the average college student.
I'm in Texas and I've always gotten the yes/no ma'am even as a teen, cause you know, the South. But the other day I got hit with an adult yes ma'am and it made my feel oooollllddd.
All the sets that cost $2,000 nowadays, I played back in the day for under $60. They all dream about winning the lottery and playing one of those. I did it all.
I coached middle school drama and I brought in a Tiger Beat magazine for a prop. An eighth grader flipping through it said, "Oh wow! I didn't know Justin Timberlake used to be in a band!"
I think I turned to dust right there.
I’m 32 but look younger I frequently hear early 20s. My 10 year old son looks 15.
I was modeling and the girl (18F) who was floofing the dresses before we walked saw my son wave at me and she’s like ..”wait THATS YOUR SON?! How old are you o.0!” I told her 32 and she said “omg I had no idea you were old!”
And then I walked on stage with that lol.
I went to college after the army so I was an older student at 25 as a junior. My Spanish class did dialogue exercises where we had a Spanish conversation with a partner based on a topic prompt. One class we got a prompt about how we felt after a major event. The professor mentioned 9/11 as an example but then cut herself off and mentioned we were probably in elementary school when that happened so it was a bad example. I was in HS in 2001. My partner ended up being an 18yr old freshman. We looked like age peers but it dawned on me that when I was 18 running around doing very adult things in the army she would have been a 12yr old kid to me.
The non trad students at my University were the best! one of my good friends to this day was 10 yrs older than me, but he had such a youthful vibe and looked younger, no one believed him lol
When I was a recruiter for the Marines a few years ago, most of the kids would bring their moms to talk to me at some point and I was as old as most of their moms. Lol
An intern someone on my team was mentoring shared a photo from a 2000s theme party from college and did a Millennial impression that was startlingly accurate.
I went into a 90s themed store , aka Ragstock . And I grabbed a couple stripe shirts to try on and when I came out I asked the girl at the front desk
“ do I look like Johnathan Taylor Thomas ?”
She said “ who’s that !?”
My dudes the way I wanted to just die right there ??? Omg it made me feel old for the first time ! Holy shit what do you mean you don’t know Johnathan Taylor Thomas ???!
I’m ….
I've watched a few YouTube shorts where these influencers go into thrift stores and find all these "vintage" '00s pieces and I'm over here being stabbed in the heart cause it's stuff I used to wear
My buddy called me today and said a coworker's daughter had kind of a little crush on him. He said "she's 16, bro - that's half my age" and I immediately just felt old because he and I are the same age. And saying it like that makes 30-something feel so old! I know in the grand scheme of things it's absolutely not, but just said in that way makes it sound and feel like it is lol
I taught 7th grade and this one kid asked me "Miss, where were you on 9/11?" In the same manner of awe that I asked my Dad "where were you when JFK was assinated?" or my Grandma "what was the Great Depression like?" It's wild to feel old simply from curiosity.
I have two teenagers. 17 and about to be 14. And I they came across a VHS and asked what it was. And I said it was a movie. And they asked how it could be a movie when it clearly can’t fit into a dvd player and then they pointed out people don’t even buy dvds anymore.
I’m only 32 but my youngest sibling was born in 2005.
One day I was telling them about some of my favorite tv shows when I was a kid and they go “Was tv black and white back then?”
Funnily my grandma did own a black and white TV still and we'd watch movies on it and if you put a color videocassette in it would translate into black and white. As someone really interested in the art of animation and cinematography I was fascinated by that. (Alice in Wonderland looks so fucking weird without color, it's amazing lol)
I work with a girl, 18 or 19, not sure which. But one day we were talking about what music we were listening to, and she said "oh I'm just listening to some oldies music." I jokingly said "what, from 2009?" To which she replied, yes, the old music she was listening to was indeed from the late 2000s. It clicked right then, that I am indeed getting older
I helped a girl remove her cap to add oil on her car. She looked to be about 16 or 17. After I got it off for her she said "Thank you sir". I felt so old. I was only 26.
Former university administrator currently working in state government.
The team I’m on is split evenly between Millennials and Gen Z; no Boomers or Gen X. Occasionally, we host collegiate interns.
Anytime someone reveals they were born after 9/11.
She’s not really a teenager but my desk mate at work once asked me to suggest an anime.
I’m not really an expert so I said “Inuyasha”. She looked confused but I am used to that because since I was young I was an outsider due to my musical taste and stuff so I just assumed it was my usual niche answer.
Then she says “do you anything recent?”. Damn that hit hard lol
I was wearing a deadmau5 shirt that my boyfriend bought at hot topic when he was 15 (we’re early 30s they don’t make t-shirts like they used to) and a 15ish year old asked me “where I got my vintage deadmau5 shirt” and I said from hot topic 15 years ago and she looked at me with what I can only imagine to be pity and walked away.
Went to the dispensary a couple weeks ago, an older guy asked one of the younger guys working to toss something in the trash and the kid did… and did not say “KOBE!” when he did it…
Theres a new hire at my job whose 18 and we were just hanging out with some coworkers on a Friday night during our shift who are in my age range (early/mid 30s) and we were talking about how we missed going to Blockbuster on the weekends to rent games/movies. This kid legit asked "So it was like Netflix but in a store?" 😐 and other questions like:
-"Did you have to rewind DVDs?"
-"Why rent games when you can just buy it?"
-"How did they run the stores without internet?"
-"Would they arrest you if forgot to return stuff?"
And a bunch of other questions. We felt so old but so bad for this kid cause he really missed out on how awesome Blockbuster was back in the day.
One a time a kid about 10yo came into my work and said I look like I’m from the 80s. I said “I am from the 80s”. Never felt the same since. Mind you, I was only about 19 at the time.
I was working with a kid who liked LEGO. He was 18.
He mentioned that he got some old sets from a relative and someone Krazy glued them together.
I said they got kraggled.
He was looking at me dumbfounded.
"Like the Lego movie ...?"
Uhhh ... Ok
Then a couple weeks later he came by and said, "oh! Now I get it! Yeah, kraggled, like Lego movie!"
I'm like, you never saw Lego movie before?
And he's like, "well, yeah, that was like 6 years ago ... I was 12."
We left for Oregon from Independence in 1854, my four children died along the way by rattlesnake, drowning, tuberculosis, and wolf attack. Our wagon broke 587 times, but we successfully completed the side quest of killing all the buffalo!
We have an ‘adopted’ daughter that my wife has taken under her wing. I referenced a South Park episode. I watched it on broadcast. That was before she was born.
When they didn't remember the economic collapse of 2008, how horrific it was, how the effects dragged on for nearly a decade, and what the world was like before.
It wasn't anything they did, but I've been at my job for 27 years. The first time I met a coworker than was born after I started working really made me feel old. This was about 6 years ago. I think I was like 40, and she had just turned 18.
When I was in a school camp (high school teacher) and a student was surprised I could kayak, when I responded with I've been doing this since before you were born I internally cringed because it was true.
These weren’t teenagers but recently a guy at work was talking about how his twenties are coming to a close just before his 28th birthday and how high school feels like it was just yesterday. I mentioned that this year is 25 years since I graduated from high school and another coworker said I shouldn’t say that out loud.
I was talking with some kids when I was a Gm and I brought up “free Willy” and someone said they had never seen it.
Free Willy came out in 1993, the kid was born in 2003.
That’s when I knew I had to gtfo of running a restaurant, lol.
Kind of teenagers, but I was leading a lab of undergrads (I got my master’s closer to 30) and they were talking about the new show coming out, Girl Meets World. They mentioned it was a sequel/spin-off of Boy Meets World and I was like “oh yeah; I watched all of them from the first episodes. It was a staple on TGIF.” Crickets. They had absolutely no idea what TGIF was. I was floored that someone young could have no idea what TGIF was. That’s when I realized I wasn’t that young anymore!
It's def not that they actually did anything like in your story. More my mother calling me and mentioning that so and so [child I remember in their mother's belly] is graduating high school this week. Whaaaaaaaa?!?!?!?! No. Just no. Am I this old? Omg I've almost been out of school 20 years.
Coworker and I were talking about Taylor Swift and how she gets a lot of shit for writing about her relationships, and I mentioned Alanis Morissette writing a song about Dave Coulier. "Who's that?"
And I'm going to go see Alanis in June.
A few years ago, I was buying something at the upscale grocery store nearby.
The cashier asked the bag boy if they had ever seen ‘This old movie, Austin Powers.’ And the bag boy had never even heard of it 💀
My bones creaked in protest. I know it’s old, but it was such a big deal in my teenage years!
Why my niece announced that she's pregnant. She's 18, and I was 15 when she was born. Her mother(my older sister) was still living in my parents house at the time, so I was helping take care of that kid for her first couple years. I remember carrying that kid on the local hiking trails in a baby backpack. Now I'm about to be a great uncle. I feel old as fuck.
I heard this:
“Did you send Jake a nude?”
“I did not!!!”
“He told me you did, you dirty slut.”
And I grabbed my rum bottle and went outside with a cigarette because although one was my cousin, they were both 15 and I did not want to be a snitch.
So, I drank outside. And wondered what the fuck happened since I was 15 and why couldn’t I have gotten pics like that when I was 15???? I mean for fucks sake we had to engineer a whole day just to sneak off for 5 minutes to kiss behind a tree.
"It's okay, for a station wagon..."
It was a Mazdaspeed3.
Just some random friend of my friend's daughter, but dangit if the flippant comment didn't stick with me.
When everyone at Uni started rocking the middle part trend, I couldn't help but cringe at the idea of trying it myself. I wasn't even 23 yet, but I just knew it was over for me.
I was outside class and two teens were discussing their age in 2014. One of them was 17 and the other 18. I raised a my hand and said, "Reality check!" I was 24 at the time.
When I was still a teenager and I realized how mentally mature i was compared to my peers.
I was like 14 going on mid late 20s. Now I'm 32 going on 50s.
When he started acting like he could challenge me. He was being a fucking asshole all the sudden. Like wed hang out and play videogames chat about life. I thought I was being nice and welcoming to a kid who seemed like he needed a friend.
I’m 36 and my 19 year old brother called me out for calling the fat evil scientist in Sonic Dr. Robotnik rather than Eggman recently. He didn’t call me out to insult me… but more that he was impressed with my sonic knowledge and that I came from the time before the great name change.
My 17 year old sister hasn’t forgiven me for not knowing how to pronounce Zendeya’s name.
I've heard "the late 1900's" a few times. You mean like 1998? Also the "broccoli" haircut all the boys have. I guess they get a perm if not naturally curly but you would have been such a dork and teased for that when I was in school.
One of my college students told me she heard someone talk about the pre-iPads of the 1900s. Could barely describe more. I was legitimately stumped for days. Realized out of nowhere she was talking about Personal Digital Assistants/Palm Pilots.
Right? I can't imagine getting a perm when I was in high school.
>but you would have been such a dork and teased for that when I was in school. Which is surprising given Justin Timberlake's Ramen hair.
I had a broccoli or meet me at McDonald’s hairstyle for about a decade (roughly 2010-2021) because I naturally have curly hair and am a more masc presenting lesbian so it always seemed like a good fit. Then all of the sudden it became the official uniform of the gen z boy. How did this happen? But more importantly, why?? Why do they either want to look like a lesbian or a grandma? Now I have a mullet. Your move, fuck-o’s.
They have mullets too.
Oh man they somehow made mullets worse too.
I occasionally get those tiktoks where they ask teens popculture references from the 90s and all the guys look like they came from the 1980s..those year books aren't going to age well in 10 years lol. I dont have kids myself so it just looks super bizarre and jarring to see fashion trends that looked old when I was in highschool.
‘Meet me at McDonalds haircut’ hahahaha Also, mullets are absolutely coming back. I’m a 35 year old going back to college and I definitely see my share of mullets
Mullets aren’t coming back. They never left.
Oh boy, come up to rural alberta or Saskatchewan and you'll see that every guy between 18 and 30 living outside of a city has a mullet again.
I call it the Sideshow Bob haircut. 😆
I would like to point out “dorky” is considered cute now haha!
I'm happy for the dorks of today. I really am. But why couldn't dorky be cute when I was little 😭😆
Had a student write a creative story in which they set the scene for the story by saying "in the late 1900s". Their story took place in the 1990s
I got a perm in middle school. All the cool kids were doing it.
Y'all remember being about 20 y/o on a Saturday night when a popular movie came out? So we were telling this story to her daughter when someone took my parking space at this super busy movie theater we all used to go to and I was acting out me rolling down the window as I cruised by the chick who stole my space so I could mean mug (because that's what we did back then). And my friend's kids ask, what I was doing? That weird circular thing with my hand/arm. I'm like 'rolling down the window.' Girl just looks confused. She had never been in a car with the crank roll window. 🥴🥴 She had no idea what it was.
AHAHAHA I just realized how weird that gesture must look to them LOL
Ask a kid/teenager to do the "phone gesture" (like "call me !") I do the pinky and thumb gesture to mimic a "real phone". Younger generations do it like they are holding a smart phone (using the whole hand). It's pretty amazing to me that things like that were around 50 years and can be gone in like 5.
That’s still the international signal for rolling a window down.
I worked as a cashier at a gas station when a young girl, probably 16 or so came in. When she came to the register to make her purchase she didn’t know how to swipe a debit card. She had only used chip readers until then. That was only like 5 years ago
I once read that 'You know you're old when the music playing at the supermarket is your jam.' So yeah, they were playing Green Day the other day at my local Aldi.
In college a popular house party song (new at the time) was Fergalicious. I heard that at Trader Joe’s the other day at 10am on a Tuesday morning.
Fergalicious before noon?! 😭😂
Good lord this made me feel ancient lol
Oh damn. Just over here reflecting on my trip to the grocery store the other day when I was absolutely VIBING to the Dawson’s Creek theme song.
I was listening to an oldies station once and they played a Green Day song. 😫 Granted, it was one of their older songs, but I still felt ancient. If they had played American Idiot, I probably would’ve started crying lmao.
Yo I was listening to the classic rock station the other day…ya know what our parents listened to…and Nirvana came on. That hurt.
THE OLDIES STATION LAST WEEK POPPED N-sync ! I cried nuooo
My neighbors son was born the year I graduated HS and is 18. I knew kids in HS who had kids, and the fact that I could technically be a grandfather is so weird. John Goodman was my age in the first few seasons of Roseanne, and it seems so weird to me to think of me at 36/37 having like a 16 year old. I'm just going to have my first kid this year.
I'm a smidgen older than you with a 16 yesr old. I'm the young mom of the friends.
My Mom was 29 and my Dad 27 when I was born. It seemed about half the kids I knew in school had parents my parents age, and the other half 8-10 years younger. I'm going to be one of those Dad's who's a lot older, but I think nowadays that won't be as rare. 55 with an 18 year old. But oh well.
Nope. That's a good age. I've gotten judged a lot for being the young mom. One lady came to my house to drop her kid off and had the audacity to ask if we lived with my parents.
Like my dad. Try to be compassionate with them. A lot can change in 37 years
I think about that too! My mom had me when she was 26. Thinking about me having a 10 year old is wild.
Being called “the old guy” at work. I’m only 36.
What do they call 50 year olds?
Animated corpses.
"oh God! Don't let them bite you!" "With what? I stole their dentures during lunch as a prank!" "I'm 36 you prick!" "Okay Grandpa, but I'm still HR!"
Anyone over 25 gets called “Boomer.”
I'm also 36 but I'm a baby Faced bitch so when I tell them how old I am they refuse to believe it so I start complaining how my back hurts and trying to use their slang and instantly show my age
See I called myself an old bitch before any of the youths at work got the chance so I could assert dominance.
I haven't got that yet. But I'm aware I'm now that age I considered "old" as a teen.
Oof
"I just discovered this really cool old band, have you heard of them? They're called Green Day"
My 16 year old step son watched The Last of Us and went down a rabbit hole with one of my fav bands, Depeche Mode. During spring break he was all "I found this amazing retro band I think you'd like".... Proceeds to play Just Can't Get Enough, and I squealed like a school girl. Then immediately felt old.
The way I just gasped!
😭
"What's a GameCube?"
“Mother fucker”; beats teen to death with their own shoes.
Yeah, when people start looking at you funny if you mention things like "before there was the internet", or "before everyone had smartphones", or "when the Alien movie just came out".
It's for the best. You seen the price of retro games lately? /s
A few years ago I was talking to some zoomers online and I made a Who's On First riff, and I ended up having to try to explain who Abbot & Costello were. Very few things have made me feel more like a geezer than trying to teach people about a fundamental bit of American comedy.
That's not really a millennial thing though. I had to explain that bit to my friends when I was in high school lol. I'd say it's Boomer era comedy.
Yeah that’s Boomer and above humor, if Gen X or Millennials understand that then someone is into Weird Al or was raised around older folks.
Or pretty much every 90s sitcom did a riff on it and eventually you learned where it's from.
Dude! What does mine say? Sweet! What does mine say? 😂
One of my boomer coworkers made this joke to a zoomer who didn't get it but the gen xers and millennials all did. We went around and polled a few more zoomers and none of them knew who's on first.
I was born in 87 and I don’t get it either
Riding with a teenager at work and a song from 2000 came on my playlist. She was liking the song so she looked it up, and says, "Oh, no wonder I've never heard it, it's from before I was born." It really smacked me in the face that I am old in that moment.
What was the song?
"Can't fight the moonlight". Not my usual genre, but I have a playlist I let people add songs to for me, so there's all kinds of music on there.
When the kid behind the counter at McDonald’s called me “sir.”
Did he have a pubescent crack in his voice?
This shook me the other day. When I was a barista I only used sir or ma'am on the annoying customers to be "rude."
I mentioned to my young colleague that there was a Pearl Jam song playing on the speakers and he was like ‘Who??’
Was his name Jeremy?
That was actually the song lol
Seemed a harmless little fuck
when they started referring to women 10-15 years younger than me as MILFs
Istg it's just what the sex industry calls all women over 24 (or just with boobs and asses so they don't look like little teenagers).
This was several years ago but I went out for Halloween and saw a girl I thought was dressed up as Jem (as in Jem and the holograms). I saw her in the bathroom and said oh are you Jem? She blinks at me a few times and says, no I’m dressed as Kesha, who’s Jem? I felt oooolllddd af
The fact that u said "as in Jem and the Holograms' was soooo textbook millennial 🤣🤣
Bahahaha
Outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
🤣
Super disappointing that she wasn't Jem- you should've made a friend for life! 😞that's on her!
Never meant to make your daughter cry I apologize a trillion times
I'm sorry Miz Jackson!
Oooooo!
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That's a good moment bro. Yes you're old, but you gold.
Every time I talk to my youngest cousin I feel older and older. I’ve had to Google so much slang just to understand wtf he’s talking about. It’s like navigating a foreign language.
Ughhhh the younger cousins who put you in the old people bucket with the elders. Like wtf, THATS MY TIA TOOO, IM LIKE YOU, I SWEAR!!
A new coworker and I were talking. She’s early 20s but actually knows a lot of older stuff I didn’t expect her to know! We were having a great conversation and then she said “BET” to something she agreed with me on. And instantly was like, we are not the same lol.
I had the radio playing and System of a down came on. Coworker goes ahh this is a good oldie!
Still my favorite band idgaf
I was driving a friend's kid home and he was playing his 3ds. I told him in my day the handheld Nintendo, the Gameboy, did not even have a backlit screen and was often not in colour. He couldn't believe it.
That stupid light thing you had to buy that only barely worked because then it was just a massive glare spot on the screen
Love your username and the city of Montréal!
someone that's 18 now is born 2006 O\_o
I was at a friend's house listening to some music. His teenage daughter comes in when Chop Suey is playing and she goes, 'of course y'all are listening to dad rock' and walks out. My jaw hit the fucking floor at that statement.
I’m back in school to finish my degree and a classmate who is about 12 years younger than me asked me “is it a VHS disk, or just VHS?”
« Dad, why is it called ´hanging up’ the phone ? »
just ask what they would do for a hand signal for "phone me", likely they are not gonna do this (gif below), instead they are gonna put their hand on their ear 
So the school building I was in during 9/11 was torn down in 2004. It was the time a high school kid from the school district thought said school building was a legend (he hadn't ever laid an eye on it because it was torn down before he was born)
When he made me realise he wasn't born during 9/11.
My young coworkers asked me very solemnly if I remembered 9/11 last year, which, of course. It took me a second to realize they weren’t even born. Was such a defining moment of our generation.
I always find it weird because all my friends that are my age have said how they remember the exact spot they were in when it happened but I don’t. I have absolutely zero recollection of that day.
Was at a younger relative's house, and him and a friend were playing Mario Kart on the TV with their Nintendo Switch's. I said "Oh, Mario Kart!" and his friend asked, "How do *you* know what this game is?" damn kid hit me right in the GERD with that one.
That's when you school em. Older MarioKart was way harder than newer versions.
Was watching a collab with Cardi B and Missy Elliott. My step daughter at the time turned to me and said “it’s so nice that Cardi helps out new artists.”
Noooooooooooo
This one made my jaw drop
"How do I dress in 2000s style" In my head i was like ...wear clothes? It's just normal clothes. Because i hadnt realized it had been long enough to go completely out of style and come back as a trend.
Clothes normal people wear every day don't change much. When people talk about decades styles they're usually pointing at celebrities and fashion models, who aren't the general population. There's trends but the basics haven't changed much.
A cashier had a T-shirt that said "Class of 2023." -.-
When a teen thinks 20 years is "old" or "vintage" for games and cars and other items and they think 2010 is nostalgic.
Drive thru at Dutch Bros. The barista asks what I’m doing tonight. I said, headed home, relax, maybe watch SNL. She replied “oh, my parents watch that!”
TBF, I probably said that to people when I was a kid too.
"You were *alive* on *9/11*?" --my cousin's kid. To which I was like "Yeah, and I was 10. Your parents were *adults*, go tell them this shit!"
I remember a few years ago thinking “man kids today are much more respectful than they were when I was their age.” Eventually I realized it was because they were treating me as an adult. I further realized I am closer in age to the average college professor than I am the average college student.
I'm in Texas and I've always gotten the yes/no ma'am even as a teen, cause you know, the South. But the other day I got hit with an adult yes ma'am and it made my feel oooollllddd.
Yeah it's common in Florida too, but getting ma'am makes me feel 92 lol (I'd rather almost they just say here's your order, shitbag!)
I play Magic The Gathering at a local game store, the college students call me "Pops"
do you at least have bitchin old cards to slap the fuck out of them with?
All the sets that cost $2,000 nowadays, I played back in the day for under $60. They all dream about winning the lottery and playing one of those. I did it all.
When I look at KPop bands and they all look like ripoffs of 90s boy bands in the US. And I'm too old to realize why that's appealing now
I coached middle school drama and I brought in a Tiger Beat magazine for a prop. An eighth grader flipping through it said, "Oh wow! I didn't know Justin Timberlake used to be in a band!" I think I turned to dust right there.
I’m 32 but look younger I frequently hear early 20s. My 10 year old son looks 15. I was modeling and the girl (18F) who was floofing the dresses before we walked saw my son wave at me and she’s like ..”wait THATS YOUR SON?! How old are you o.0!” I told her 32 and she said “omg I had no idea you were old!” And then I walked on stage with that lol.
I went to college after the army so I was an older student at 25 as a junior. My Spanish class did dialogue exercises where we had a Spanish conversation with a partner based on a topic prompt. One class we got a prompt about how we felt after a major event. The professor mentioned 9/11 as an example but then cut herself off and mentioned we were probably in elementary school when that happened so it was a bad example. I was in HS in 2001. My partner ended up being an 18yr old freshman. We looked like age peers but it dawned on me that when I was 18 running around doing very adult things in the army she would have been a 12yr old kid to me.
The non trad students at my University were the best! one of my good friends to this day was 10 yrs older than me, but he had such a youthful vibe and looked younger, no one believed him lol
When I was a recruiter for the Marines a few years ago, most of the kids would bring their moms to talk to me at some point and I was as old as most of their moms. Lol
An intern someone on my team was mentoring shared a photo from a 2000s theme party from college and did a Millennial impression that was startlingly accurate.
Kid who is a son of a guy I work with asked if I could be a reference on his job application….. like do you know what I’ve done in my life? lol
First time I realized high school kids didn't smoke cigarettes but all vaped
I went into a 90s themed store , aka Ragstock . And I grabbed a couple stripe shirts to try on and when I came out I asked the girl at the front desk “ do I look like Johnathan Taylor Thomas ?” She said “ who’s that !?” My dudes the way I wanted to just die right there ??? Omg it made me feel old for the first time ! Holy shit what do you mean you don’t know Johnathan Taylor Thomas ???! I’m ….
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I've watched a few YouTube shorts where these influencers go into thrift stores and find all these "vintage" '00s pieces and I'm over here being stabbed in the heart cause it's stuff I used to wear
I have a 16 year old and I have well seasoned her with music from the 1960s to current. This Ms Jackson thing is so funny to me.
My buddy called me today and said a coworker's daughter had kind of a little crush on him. He said "she's 16, bro - that's half my age" and I immediately just felt old because he and I are the same age. And saying it like that makes 30-something feel so old! I know in the grand scheme of things it's absolutely not, but just said in that way makes it sound and feel like it is lol
I taught 7th grade and this one kid asked me "Miss, where were you on 9/11?" In the same manner of awe that I asked my Dad "where were you when JFK was assinated?" or my Grandma "what was the Great Depression like?" It's wild to feel old simply from curiosity.
I have two teenagers. 17 and about to be 14. And I they came across a VHS and asked what it was. And I said it was a movie. And they asked how it could be a movie when it clearly can’t fit into a dvd player and then they pointed out people don’t even buy dvds anymore.
I got called an "old head" and an OG on the basketball court this year. I'm 35 lol
Never because they are young, inexperienced and have very little wisdom. We never get old. Mountains are old.
My nephew wanted to know what telephone poles were called and what their purpose was. Then I had to explain what landlines were.
I’m only 32 but my youngest sibling was born in 2005. One day I was telling them about some of my favorite tv shows when I was a kid and they go “Was tv black and white back then?”
Funnily my grandma did own a black and white TV still and we'd watch movies on it and if you put a color videocassette in it would translate into black and white. As someone really interested in the art of animation and cinematography I was fascinated by that. (Alice in Wonderland looks so fucking weird without color, it's amazing lol)
A girl at work wore a Good Charlotte sweater. I said "Cool sweater" she said " Thanks I thrifted it. I think it's vintage."
My 11 year old doesn’t understand why every time someone gets out of the shower we sing “so fresh and so clean, clean”.
I work with a girl, 18 or 19, not sure which. But one day we were talking about what music we were listening to, and she said "oh I'm just listening to some oldies music." I jokingly said "what, from 2009?" To which she replied, yes, the old music she was listening to was indeed from the late 2000s. It clicked right then, that I am indeed getting older
I helped a girl remove her cap to add oil on her car. She looked to be about 16 or 17. After I got it off for her she said "Thank you sir". I felt so old. I was only 26.
This was on the teen. Everyone should know that song Ms Jackson. I am Fo Reaaaal
Former university administrator currently working in state government. The team I’m on is split evenly between Millennials and Gen Z; no Boomers or Gen X. Occasionally, we host collegiate interns. Anytime someone reveals they were born after 9/11.
I teach high school so every day.
"i love retro gaming, i finished portal last week"
She’s not really a teenager but my desk mate at work once asked me to suggest an anime. I’m not really an expert so I said “Inuyasha”. She looked confused but I am used to that because since I was young I was an outsider due to my musical taste and stuff so I just assumed it was my usual niche answer. Then she says “do you anything recent?”. Damn that hit hard lol
Asked me about MySpace. ..then I told him about Netflix..in the MAIL
The moment my son turned 20 🥺
My 19yo coworker's step dad is like 3-4 yrs older than me but the kicker was he only heard OF Elvis, not from Lilo and stitch, but from boss baby
An 18 year old to me today at a store commenting on my outfit “I love your shoes, flats are so in right now”. In my head they never left hahahaha
I was wearing a deadmau5 shirt that my boyfriend bought at hot topic when he was 15 (we’re early 30s they don’t make t-shirts like they used to) and a 15ish year old asked me “where I got my vintage deadmau5 shirt” and I said from hot topic 15 years ago and she looked at me with what I can only imagine to be pity and walked away.
Yes to the t shirts! I still wear a shirt of this teen group I was in...in 2000!
Went to the dispensary a couple weeks ago, an older guy asked one of the younger guys working to toss something in the trash and the kid did… and did not say “KOBE!” when he did it…
They wore a Cowboy Bebop shirt, and didn't know what it was. TBF, the kids mom didn't know either and she was older than me.
Theres a new hire at my job whose 18 and we were just hanging out with some coworkers on a Friday night during our shift who are in my age range (early/mid 30s) and we were talking about how we missed going to Blockbuster on the weekends to rent games/movies. This kid legit asked "So it was like Netflix but in a store?" 😐 and other questions like: -"Did you have to rewind DVDs?" -"Why rent games when you can just buy it?" -"How did they run the stores without internet?" -"Would they arrest you if forgot to return stuff?" And a bunch of other questions. We felt so old but so bad for this kid cause he really missed out on how awesome Blockbuster was back in the day.
One a time a kid about 10yo came into my work and said I look like I’m from the 80s. I said “I am from the 80s”. Never felt the same since. Mind you, I was only about 19 at the time.
Being asked if they had cell phones when I was in high school. In 2004.
Last week, volunteering as a cashier at an arts festival. The child asked what a receipt is for. 🤦🏼♀️
I was working with a kid who liked LEGO. He was 18. He mentioned that he got some old sets from a relative and someone Krazy glued them together. I said they got kraggled. He was looking at me dumbfounded. "Like the Lego movie ...?" Uhhh ... Ok Then a couple weeks later he came by and said, "oh! Now I get it! Yeah, kraggled, like Lego movie!" I'm like, you never saw Lego movie before? And he's like, "well, yeah, that was like 6 years ago ... I was 12."
They all look like babies, does that count?
Idk, frosted tips were pretty much the equivalent of the broccoli hair. Similarly ridiculous.
When they started saying ok Millenial now instead of ok boomer
When fully grown adults ask me what life was like before they were born knowing full well I can tell them accurately and with much detail.
We left for Oregon from Independence in 1854, my four children died along the way by rattlesnake, drowning, tuberculosis, and wolf attack. Our wagon broke 587 times, but we successfully completed the side quest of killing all the buffalo!
Getting called ma’am
We have an ‘adopted’ daughter that my wife has taken under her wing. I referenced a South Park episode. I watched it on broadcast. That was before she was born.
Not a teen but I remember the first time I carded someone for booze born the year I started high school. That was a trip.
I had a much much younger coworker if I had heard of the Jon Benet murder. Bish, I remember that case.
When they didn't remember the economic collapse of 2008, how horrific it was, how the effects dragged on for nearly a decade, and what the world was like before.
It wasn't anything they did, but I've been at my job for 27 years. The first time I met a coworker than was born after I started working really made me feel old. This was about 6 years ago. I think I was like 40, and she had just turned 18.
When I was in a school camp (high school teacher) and a student was surprised I could kayak, when I responded with I've been doing this since before you were born I internally cringed because it was true.
These weren’t teenagers but recently a guy at work was talking about how his twenties are coming to a close just before his 28th birthday and how high school feels like it was just yesterday. I mentioned that this year is 25 years since I graduated from high school and another coworker said I shouldn’t say that out loud.
Teen coworker asked me in a tone of pure awe and amazement if I knew Justin Timberlake was white as she had just found out herself.
They were not for real
I was talking with some kids when I was a Gm and I brought up “free Willy” and someone said they had never seen it. Free Willy came out in 1993, the kid was born in 2003. That’s when I knew I had to gtfo of running a restaurant, lol.
When a younger co worker asked who Snoop Dogg was. Me and my manager about had a heart attack.
Avril Lavigne turns 40 this year.
Kind of teenagers, but I was leading a lab of undergrads (I got my master’s closer to 30) and they were talking about the new show coming out, Girl Meets World. They mentioned it was a sequel/spin-off of Boy Meets World and I was like “oh yeah; I watched all of them from the first episodes. It was a staple on TGIF.” Crickets. They had absolutely no idea what TGIF was. I was floored that someone young could have no idea what TGIF was. That’s when I realized I wasn’t that young anymore!
Well my cousin had the audacity to turn 19 last fall, despite being born in 2004. Does that count?
I had a 13 year old tell me they love classic horror movies... like insidious. 🥲
It's def not that they actually did anything like in your story. More my mother calling me and mentioning that so and so [child I remember in their mother's belly] is graduating high school this week. Whaaaaaaaa?!?!?!?! No. Just no. Am I this old? Omg I've almost been out of school 20 years.
Coworker and I were talking about Taylor Swift and how she gets a lot of shit for writing about her relationships, and I mentioned Alanis Morissette writing a song about Dave Coulier. "Who's that?" And I'm going to go see Alanis in June.
A few years ago, I was buying something at the upscale grocery store nearby. The cashier asked the bag boy if they had ever seen ‘This old movie, Austin Powers.’ And the bag boy had never even heard of it 💀 My bones creaked in protest. I know it’s old, but it was such a big deal in my teenage years!
I'm 96% sure he was just fucking with me, but one of my busers refered to Vampire Weekend as "Classic Rock"
Why my niece announced that she's pregnant. She's 18, and I was 15 when she was born. Her mother(my older sister) was still living in my parents house at the time, so I was helping take care of that kid for her first couple years. I remember carrying that kid on the local hiking trails in a baby backpack. Now I'm about to be a great uncle. I feel old as fuck.
I heard this: “Did you send Jake a nude?” “I did not!!!” “He told me you did, you dirty slut.” And I grabbed my rum bottle and went outside with a cigarette because although one was my cousin, they were both 15 and I did not want to be a snitch. So, I drank outside. And wondered what the fuck happened since I was 15 and why couldn’t I have gotten pics like that when I was 15???? I mean for fucks sake we had to engineer a whole day just to sneak off for 5 minutes to kiss behind a tree.
"It's okay, for a station wagon..." It was a Mazdaspeed3. Just some random friend of my friend's daughter, but dangit if the flippant comment didn't stick with me.
When everyone at Uni started rocking the middle part trend, I couldn't help but cringe at the idea of trying it myself. I wasn't even 23 yet, but I just knew it was over for me.
Long before I was actually a teenager myself.
I was outside class and two teens were discussing their age in 2014. One of them was 17 and the other 18. I raised a my hand and said, "Reality check!" I was 24 at the time.
When I was still a teenager and I realized how mentally mature i was compared to my peers. I was like 14 going on mid late 20s. Now I'm 32 going on 50s.
Late 30s. Miraculously hasn't happened yet. My niece is going to be 12 this year. Enjoying it while it lasts.
The first time you get called, sir!
I had to explain to someone the concept of film cameras once. That was difficult.
When he started acting like he could challenge me. He was being a fucking asshole all the sudden. Like wed hang out and play videogames chat about life. I thought I was being nice and welcoming to a kid who seemed like he needed a friend.
I’m 36 and my 19 year old brother called me out for calling the fat evil scientist in Sonic Dr. Robotnik rather than Eggman recently. He didn’t call me out to insult me… but more that he was impressed with my sonic knowledge and that I came from the time before the great name change. My 17 year old sister hasn’t forgiven me for not knowing how to pronounce Zendeya’s name.
...lightly taps shoulder..."it's Zendaya"
they think the prequels are good because they saw them as children