I still remember the day I grew old. After forgetting my change at a self checkout machine, an younger attendant ran after me and refered to me as ‘sir’. After that day, I was no longer young. I was 29.
I remember the day as well. I walked all through the store grabbing everything I needed and while waiting in the checkout I realized I forgot the milk. I laughed and said “Oh wow” then the guy behind me looked at me and I shrugged and said “I forgot the milk!” and left the line I’d been standing in for a few minutes to get the milk.
My age at the time didn’t matter because it was on that day, I became old. Talking to strangers in the grocery store, forgetting to get the milk, and laughing about it? Old.
I’m sorry that happened to you sir
I realised I had become an adult when some woman told her kid “that mister” would tell him off if he didn’t behave, and gestured in my direction. I looked behind me. There was nobody there.
I had become The Mister. The stranger based punishment of exasperated mothers everywhere. Fear me, little children, and despair.
Mister, this is a Wendys.
Damn, I turned old when I grabbed some coloring pages off the ground to give them back to a child and got called the “nice fat lady” afterwards by the child. Double whammy
I still feel addressed when there’s something about “young people”. At 34.
I think under 35 is kinda young. Maybe a few hundred years ago you would have counted as old but nowadays with modern healthcare people live much longer and healthier.
Still applicable. I think.
39 here, same shit. I’ll roll right into the “how do you do, fellow kids” meme
- Same lol.
48 here. Had a minor heart attack earlier this year, so sometimes I’m starting to feel old.
You’re one year older than me and we’re the two oldest people here so far, which makes me feel super old.
I hope the minor heart attack is the only one you ever have to suffer through.
Fun thing about being this old: I thought I was turning 48 until my wife told me I was turning 47 a few days before my birthday.
Fun fact about being 48; I’m turning 50 next year, which sounds a lot. But I only feel old-ish when mentioning my age.
What is a “minor” heart attack?
A heart attack where you have almost zero loss of heart funtion afterwards. Also, no loss of consciousness, just feeling really bad for an hour.
Heart attack < 18yo
When your hear hurts a bit for 2 seconds and you’ve accepted that your time has come
Doesn’t help that the media has been infantilizing millennials for 20 years.
Wait, I’m not “young people”? (37)
This meme is so old that I was 27 when I first read it.
Now you’re 27 and a half
Half a year latre
Is that the English spelling of later?
No, it’s the Danish spelling of climb. Missing a k, though.
I am 37. I need to die.
Why
Oh 27 I’m 27… Oh wait… No!!!
Me with my 30+ year-old ass: Oh, this meme is about people in their 20s. This is about me!
Me in my late 40s: Rustydrd speaks for my demographic! I feel so heard!
I’m 32.
Get off my lawn.
You have a lawn? Impressive!
Me and my spouse rent a 2B2B trailer in a trailer park. It came with a yard. Lol.
Ok
I turn 30 this year. I’m ready
I know this and I am in my 40ies.
Dont blink, or you’ll be 47
The first time I can remember feeling old was when I was walking home behind a couple of kids and one said to the other in a cautionary tone that there was a “big ol’ guy” (or words to that effect) behind them. I guess I seemed menacing in some way? I was in my early twenties, which means those kids are older now than I was then.
I was about 17. Slapped the awing of a building for no particular reason. Little kid walkign with his Daddy says “That man is tall!”
First time anyone called me a man.
I think mine was when I turned 30 and all my health fell apart, and I needed a lot of treatment you hear old people talk about.
I never understood why this particular meme needed to be told from within the SpongeBob universe
I throw you another question, why not?
More effort for the creator to edit? Possibly isolates audiences unfamiliar with the franchise, particularly those who wouldn’t know that the fish is a newscaster or that the stylized TV is a TV? Also, the wojak is underwater and as a human presumably wouldn’t be able to breathe (boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder).
I’m also just now noticing that a real life photo of clothes has been edited onto the cartoon wojak. It seems like there’s too much hyperstylization in the visuals in contrast to what is supposed to be a generic idea in the message.
Same reason shitposts from 20 years ago use cartoons from 30 - 40 years ago.
Most people in their 20s (who grew up with any sort of western cultural influence) have memories of watching spongebob as a kid.
Its literally one of the most influential and popular children’s series of the past 20 years, if not ever.
Probably because a bunch of people around there aga that relate with the meme are still watching SpongeBob
Yes. This. Speaks to the twenty-something crowd well.
be like me. Can’t become old if you identify as an immortal god to whom age has no meaning.
doesn’t stop my back from hurting through.
Average Lemmy user mentality
This doesn’t stop even when you hit 40
I am half-way through 21 now so I can’t say I’m basically a teenager anymore :(
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
No ❤️
