This meme is so old that I was 27 when I first read it.
Growing Old
Submitted 10 months ago by LodeMike@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Me with my 30+ year-old ass: Oh, this meme is about people in their 20s. This is about me!
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Me in my late 40s: Rustydrd speaks for my demographic! I feel so heard!
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
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.
Moneo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mister, this is a Wendys.
ignotum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m sorry that happened to you sir, my condolences
Katzastrophe@feddit.org 10 months ago
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
BigPotato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The first time you find yourself yelling at a young person for loitering is like a religous experience.
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m 32.
Get off my lawn.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Ok
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You have a lawn? Impressive!
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Me and my spouse rent a 2B2B trailer in a trailer park. It came with a yard. Lol.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This doesn’t stop even when you hit 40
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Me remembering I turn 27 in 13 days. 💀
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Welcome to the 27 club
cheddar@programming.dev 10 months ago
Don’t you have to die to join the club?
decivex@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Turn back now!
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bro how? This ride is out of control.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Now you are that much closer to 50 than birth!
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When I turned 25, my mom told me I’m a quarter of a century old and that hit me so hard
glitchdx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
thorbot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Average Lemmy user mentality
nl4real@lemmy.world 10 months ago
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 months ago
No ❤️
Squorlple@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I never understood why this particular meme needed to be told from within the SpongeBob universe
TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably because a bunch of people around there aga that relate with the meme are still watching SpongeBob
LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Yes. This. Speaks to the twenty-something crowd well.
hswolf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I throw you another question, why not?
Squorlple@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I am 37. I need to die.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Why
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 would have been in my early twenties.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think mine was when I turned 30 and all my health feel apart, and I needed a lot of treatment you hear old people talk about.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I turn 30 this year. I’m ready
aidan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I am half-way through 21 now so I can’t say I’m basically a teenager anymore :(
sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I know this and I am in my 40ies.
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dont blink, or you’ll be 47
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh 27 I’m 27… Oh wait… No!!!
Frittiert@feddit.org 10 months ago
I still feel addressed when there’s something about “young people”. At 34.
toofpic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
39 here, same shit. I’ll roll right into the “how do you do, fellow kids” meme
Domille@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
aeki@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Wait, I’m not “young people”? (37)
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
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.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Still applicable. I think.