This meme is so old that I was 27 when I first read it.
Growing Old
Submitted 4 months ago by LodeMike@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 4 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 4 months ago
Me in my late 40s: Rustydrd speaks for my demographic! I feel so heard!
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 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 4 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 4 months ago
Mister, this is a Wendys.
ignotum@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m sorry that happened to you sir, my condolences
Katzastrophe@feddit.org 4 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 4 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 4 months ago
The first time you find yourself yelling at a young person for loitering is like a religous experience.
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m 32.
Get off my lawn.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Ok
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You have a lawn? Impressive!
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Me and my spouse rent a 2B2B trailer in a trailer park. It came with a yard. Lol.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This doesn’t stop even when you hit 40
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Me remembering I turn 27 in 13 days. 💀
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Welcome to the 27 club
cheddar@programming.dev 4 months ago
Don’t you have to die to join the club?
decivex@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Turn back now!
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bro how? This ride is out of control.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Now you are that much closer to 50 than birth!
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 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 4 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 4 months ago
Average Lemmy user mentality
Squorlple@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I never understood why this particular meme needed to be told from within the SpongeBob universe
TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Probably because a bunch of people around there aga that relate with the meme are still watching SpongeBob
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Yes. This. Speaks to the twenty-something crowd well.
hswolf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I throw you another question, why not?
Squorlple@lemmy.world 4 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 4 months ago
I am 37. I need to die.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Why
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago
I turn 30 this year. I’m ready
aidan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I am half-way through 21 now so I can’t say I’m basically a teenager anymore :(
sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I know this and I am in my 40ies.
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Dont blink, or you’ll be 47
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh 27 I’m 27… Oh wait… No!!!
Frittiert@feddit.org 4 months ago
I still feel addressed when there’s something about “young people”. At 34.
toofpic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
39 here, same shit. I’ll roll right into the “how do you do, fellow kids” meme
Domille@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
aeki@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Wait, I’m not “young people”? (37)
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 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 4 months ago
Still applicable. I think.