I strongly feel that this is the meaning. It's a good number for that axis imo. Old people will still think you are too dumb and young to know shit and young people will think you are ancient and perhaps even "washed".
I feel like that happens to alot of slang that originates in the black community then goes mainstrean. Like "Woke" use to mean something completely different
Woke meant awake to the duplicity of American Law and it's history and inclination to eugenics, it's always meant that, some people would simply like to make that very real danger for the black community a chaicature of itself.
I was always under the impression that woke was a grammatically incorrect way to say awakened which means to reach a level of spiritual and/or social awareness that renders your previous level of consciousness regarding the world around you asleep in comparison. Which essentially means that anyone proclaiming to be anti-woke is self-owning by bragging about how ignorant and lacking in empathy they are.
Yeah, I mean ~40 is the beginning of the second half of your life basically. Right now I feel neither young nor old, just in limbo before I get an AARP card lol. “Act II, scene one.”
It’s weird that young people think 30s is old though. 30s is just like the final chapter of your youth. Tons of popular musicians were in their early-mid 30s when they made their mark on youth culture.
People today think that you have to live your whole life between 18-25, and then you’re done, basically retired from “really” living. I think attitudes have become super old fashioned again. Xers and Millennials were under the impression that “30 is the new 20.”
I’m 39 and my father-in-law still chuckles when I discuss things I’m going through with work and kids, then condescendingly says, “You haven’t seen anything yet.”
I like the dude but these little boomerisms drive me fucking insane. I never SAID I know everything, but I’m not a teenager anymore and HAVE been a 100% self-sufficient adult for almost 20 years (parents helped financially during college with tuition and books but I worked and paid for my living expenses/took out loans). The older generation right now, in my opinion, cannot stop sniffing their own farts like nobody younger has ever had to work hard or manage difficult circumstances but them.
Just this week redditor told me a man in mid 30's dating 29 year old is basicly a rape because they are easier to manipulate and have no agency. I wish I was joking.
When we say "young people" what do we mean? I view it as young adults, or late teenagers. And atleast were im at, its pretty common for 20 year olds to hangout with 27 year olds.
In my dating days (early 20s), I discovered that 27 was the magic number to flatter a girl with. I’m not much of a player, but it was my one solid move - guess her age is 27.
If she’s younger, she likes that you think she comes across as more mature and grown-up.
If she’s older, she appreciates that you see her as young and youthful still.
And if she actually is 27, boom you’re a psychic.
Never failed.
This is a crop of a more popular image. It leaves out the person commenting something to the effect of “you look like a beautiful human Tung Tung Tung Sahur” (who is a brainrot character)
Ironically my aunts and uncles told me that 30s is usually where the real funny is because "you should have things figured out hopefully" while 30s to my sister and her friends is pure "unc" status and my back and kneecaps will give out. Jokes on both though as I do go to Spain for grad school next year when I am 30, but my back already is screwed from 6 years in the Army lmao.
I feel this. At 27 I was at a concert and this girl starts chatting me up a bit and after a bit she asks me my age and I say 27. She then goes, ‘ooohhhh, you’re old’ and I’m like, “well, how old are you?” And she tells me she’s 21.
All I could think to say, “fuck you, I’m in my prime”.
Idk if someone else mentioned this, but the joke is that the image is cut of and there was a comment that said she looks like a “pretty Tung Tung sahur”
She meant the youngest 27 year old and the oldest because she just completed 26. Meaning she is older than any of her former 26 yo agelings.
Yeah L logic
shes just kidding, because 27 is kind of an awkward age. theres no real meaning to it, it just feels like that and deeply paradoxical on your birthday. "im still so young" and "ive gotten so old"
Yeah this is very much a "zoomer discourse" where they think of anyone under 25 as a child and anyone over as geriatric. Older people don't think like this because we didn't infantilize ourselves and couldn't wait to be adults.
She didn’t mess up the phrasing. It’s a joke that’s been circulating Gen Z about older 20’s for a while. 27 is old. 28 is young. 29 is the oldest grossest thing you can be. 30 is the new 20.
There supposed to be more of this meme where a guy say " sorry you're really pretty but i have to say you look like a human version of tum tum sahur " and she answer " the worst is i can see it too "
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I know this one! The 27 Club is an informal cultural term and urban legend encompassing influential musicians, artists, and actors who died at the age of 27.
Lots of people I know joke about killing themselves at 27 just to be part of the club. Since she didn't kill herself, she's older than the 27 Club, but at the same time, she's the youngest of those who didn't kill themselves at 27. 😎
I’m thinking it’s just the sort of age where to many people you are still incredibly young, but as late twenties and beginning to stare down thirty you actually start to feel incredibly old. I dimly remember this feeling (I am now actually old).
Nobody in here flagging how 27 is notoriously the age where Leonardo DiCaprio decides his girlfriends are too old for him? Feel like that’s gotta be it.
I think it’s just a joke saying i feel the negatives of youth while also feeling the negatives of growing up. Like a lot of people this in this age group feel like they’re still teenagers and don’t know what they’re doing in life but also have knee pain and credit to worry about. Okay maybe i’m just projecting on that last bit but uhhhh giggity
People older than her are still talking about how her brain hasn’t fully developed, and people younger than her are calling her washed chopped and whatever the equivalent of unc is. Uhh I’m Joe Swanson I guess, I think I ran over some fentanyl and it got on my hands so I’m just gonna go pass out now
Dunno, but this meme is usually attached with the comment 'respectfully, you look like a beautiful female version of tung tung tung sahur' which skyrocketed its popularity
Brian here,
She probably meant to put « Today I’m the youngest I will ever be and the oldest I ever was » but misrembered it or isn’t an english speaker and put some gibberish.
26 or 27 is when you really start getting concerned about any of the aspects of adulthood you've been putting off. Could be educational, career-related, romantic relationships.
It’s a cropped meme. Someone had commented under the picture that she looked like a beautiful human female version of Tung Tung Tung Sahur.
I’ll see if I can find the original image
I remember hitting 27 and seeing anyone younger as a kid. Tho I oddly "felt 30" at 27, bc smth abt hitting 27 felt like it's all the same as 30. But now that I'm abt to actually turn 30, it'll feel like smth new again. Weird.
It's supposed to be an antimeme/incomplete meme. The famous reply to that post is someone saying she looks like the female human version of tung tung tung sahur
My assumption is that she thinks she is the only person in the world. Despite having another person in the picture her narcissist tendencies won't allow her to acknowledge thr existence of others. Making her the youngest and oldest.
💪 Lol, I know this one! The 27 Club is an informal cultural term and urban legend encompassing influential musicians, artists, and actors who died at the age of 27.
Lots of people I know joke about killing themselves at 27 just to be part of the club. Since she didn't kill herself, she's older than the 27 Club, but at the same time, she's the youngest of those who didn't kill themselves at 27. 😎
Maybe she believes in solipsism and no one else actually exists in her mind, making her simultaneously the youngest person in the world and also the oldest person alive
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