Give me 30 year old Jet any day. Dude is the perfect ship mom/dad combo rocking a bald and beard.
We’ve finally reached the next stage of evolution
I had that same beard, hairline, and sunglasses when I turned 30 in 2011
I still do now at 42 honestly, but my facial hair is just less pointy lol
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More people using sunscreen and lotion on the regular prevents skin damage. More people are eating healthy, working less physically demanding jobs. Also there’s a pretty huge bias with seeing pictures of older people and seeing them as older than they actually look. It has to do with seeing older styles of clothing and how people tend to keep their core styles longer. This makes people in the present see past photos as “older people” regardless of how young the faces look.
Also the microplastics are preserving us from the inside out. We’re all deli-wrapped now.
Each cell wrapped for our protection.
Tanning beds also used to be a HUGE thing. The people that really frequently went to get a tan have much more leathery skin.
Also smoking was banned indoors
Can’t destroy my body and skin if I don’t go outside.
People also smoke way less now. See the skin of someone at 30 who started smoking at 15, to see someone who looks like 40.
I believe it. I was buying smokes without an ID by the time I was 17.
Specifically, top panel man is smoking, bottom panel isn’t. That’s why they look like that. Mystery solved.
And everything around us smokes less too.
In 1950 cars had basically no emission standards, factories didn’t either, and a LOT of people heated their homes with coal or wood.
It’s very much the smoking. That V Sauce video about it being clothing wasn’t convincing. Comparing just faces negates that possible perception issue. And when constrained to only faces people in the past still look older.
Hair styles also make a difference. And it’s all of the things, individually, that add up.
For me it was the hormone therapy
Smoking.
And alcohol.
And lead exposure.
And my axe.
Is my buddy, I bring him when I walk
Why is this?
Smoking.
And not using sun block when working outside all day.
I smoke and don’t use sun screen and am 40 and look like exhibit b. Why can’t I grow a fancy beard like jet and look like I’ve been around the block using just my face…
I smoke, just turned 39, and people still regularly guess I’m in my early 20’s. Frankly, I’m surprised we don’t look older considering how much stress can cause visible aging. Where are the 13 year olds that look 102?
Also being outside in the UV radiation of the sun ☀☢️
Because we were 6 in the 80s.
I have bad news. You’re in your 40s.
…I’m aware
It’s because of the WEF using hormones to turn the frogs gay, obviously.
But… I’m not a frog
…or are you?
Lower testosterone is probably a big part of it. Look at 23 or 24 year old enhanced bodybuilders. they look like theyre 35. For whatever reason peoples T levels have been going down about 1 percent per year for the last 50 years. Its bound to have an effect.
This is nonsense
How much testosterone you have is not directly related to how ‘masculine’ you look. It’s far more complicated than that. There are people with baby face that have very high levels of testosterone, and people who look very masc that have low levels.
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thats dumb it literally changes your bone structure rapidly, adding bone to your brow and jaw. GH will cause all your bones to get thicker too.
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I wasnt talking about masculinity, i was talking about apparent age. Test converts to DHT over time which in turn causes male hair patterns. Beard growth, receeded hair line, etc. Other than that though, it just makes you look older.
examples :
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Source?
I don’t see any links to Vsauce’s video on this so I’m going to assume every response is wrong. TLDR: Styles become associated with eras and people in those eras become associated with our perception of that age bracket.
Appropriate username.
Also with names. Like picture a Mildred or even a Vicky, and you probably conjure up a person of a certain demo
“Agnes” is one hundred percent a fossil you saw driving on the highway.
Also, because of increased healthy lifestyle awareness, we are actually ageing slower than we used to. The clue is in the cigarette the top cartoon smokes. Today we smoke less, we exercise more, we use more sunscreen and we eat healthier, all allowing our bodies to produce more firm collagen in less damaged skin cells.
This. Remember the cool kids from high school smoking, drinking, taking drugs? Yeah they look like 50 in their 30s now.
But what if you found out the opposite? I did it all but cigarettes in HS and college and I look 10 years younger than my middle age, it’s pretty sweet.
I’m also in the same boat as this, I think it really comes down to genetics plus health risk factors
It makes people feel better thinking the kids who did drugs and partied are disadvantaged.
yep! but the difference is only a couple of years in apparent age. so really, nope.
I saw something speculating that Americans still age faster than other countries due to all the hormones they consume in animal products.
I saw something speculating jews shot space lasers to start forest fires. Luckily, I understand speculation isn’t fact.
exercise more
X to doubt
Omnivores vs plant based eaters
You know damn well they couldn’t afford beef…it was always bell peppers and beef…minus the beef.
My mans clearly never seen the show lol
U mean based plant eaters?? 🫡
Lots of good answers here. Another minor one is Hollywood bias - older male actors got starring roles in romantic films. Random example, Cary Grant was 59 when he played the lead role in Charade opposite Audrey Hepburn who was 34.
Add to that the low quality of TV broadcasts, different styles of filing and lighting in movies, and less subtle use of makeup and people in film and TV from stuff from the 90s back have an other-world quality to them if you look back at that compared to the high definition world were in now. Even older magazines and pictures can be available at lower quality to us on the Internet than at the time, as we don’t get to see the true originals but lower quality scans on the Internet compared to modern digital photographic.
It’s amazing looking at old film from the 1800s that has been well kept or restored - not just people but the whole world actually looks real unlike what we’re used to.
We’re so used to looking at history in low definition or the artificiality of old fashioned TV/movie techniques and biases.
Plus everything has filters on it now. Movies, online and magazine pictures, even the selfies you take at home have heavy anti-aging filters. After looking at all your selfies, go look at an actual mirror and you’ll be surprised at how rapidly you aged.
The micro plastics sustain me
I put that shit on everything!
I laughed way too hard at this. Thanks, I hate it.
I crave the certainty of PLASTIC
On Mondays we wear pink!
One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Plastic isn’t biodegradable… Even in death I suffocate turtles.
Cowboy Bebop came out in 1998.
What it was really like being 30 in the 80’s:
(It’s a metaphor for being afraid of AIDS)Not enough giant nutsack
Is it? My understanding is that Japan didn’t have a lot of awareness of the AIDS crisis (and still doesn’t really?)
I thought the body horror was more associated with fears of scientific progress. I’ve only seen Akira once so I’d love to watch it again in light of other interpretations.
That part was just a joke. I’m saying the image itself represents being 30 in the 80s and being afraid of the AIDS crisis. Not that Akira itself is a metaphor for that lol
(It’s a metaphor for being afraid of AIDS)
Is that really what Akira was about? Or is that just some overzealous weeaboo grad student’s opinion?
Neon Genesis Evangelion came out in 1995.
Shinji’s fifteen or something, no?
