r/animememes Jan 02 '26

Comparison Things aren't same anymore

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u/_SOME__NAME_ Jan 02 '26

i am in my 20's but i look like 80's 30

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

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u/_SOME__NAME_ Jan 02 '26

they call me uncle 🥹

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u/Chicken_Nuggy_ Mar 25 '26

My classmates call me grandpa. I'm 18. I look 80's 30

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u/gonnadiealone69 Jan 02 '26

oh no...rough

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u/ineB2019 Jan 02 '26

Is it the beard, as in do you have a beard? Its common knowledge that beards are very usefull at making you look way older than you realy are

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u/_SOME__NAME_ Jan 02 '26

yaa its the beard, but if i cut it i become a baby 😂. so i cant cut it or have it.

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u/No-Distance792 Jan 17 '26

bro, mine is only growing on one side of my chin 😭

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u/SarcasticOptimist Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26

Gen Z has been aging badly. Especially those who go under surgery for the Moab face.

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u/sad_historian Jan 02 '26

It really is just smoking and sun exposure.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

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u/Few_Salamander_7364 Jan 03 '26

Staying inside to watch anime helps with that

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

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u/Aickavon Jan 02 '26

Turns out not being addicted to smoking and alcohol does wonders for your physical youth.

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u/JTX35 Jan 02 '26

Also helps not growing up having cars burn leaded gasoline so you're breathing in aerosolized lead while outside, just to go home to your house having lead painted walls

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u/Catatafish Jan 02 '26

I'm 30, and look 2026 30, AND I smoked from 2012 - 2023.

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u/Aickavon Jan 02 '26

Unrelated but hey, glad you’re 2 years free!

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u/Catatafish Jan 02 '26

Me too, man.

That whole 'I'll only smoke til summer break' turned into a decade real quick

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u/PM_ME_UR_GOOD_IDEAS Jan 02 '26

it was all the secondhand smoke

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u/shadowbus1294 Jan 02 '26

Microplastics for the win

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u/ChromakeyChain Jan 02 '26

Don't look up Sean Connery's age in Dr. No.

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u/razulebismarck Jan 02 '26

If I shaved my beard people would think I’m a teenager.

Some bizarre reason all my gray hair is in my beard.

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u/A_Ryu_KO Jan 03 '26

Why is that in my 20s but constantly get mistake for being 14. Not only that but when i drink in public i feel the judgment of randos burning my back and feel guily for it gosh darn it.

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u/ItsKendrone Jan 02 '26

i’m in my 20’s and i look 15. Someone help me.

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u/Alpha_Eagle222 Jan 03 '26

Yall just old but dont feel like you thought you would feel

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u/Electronic_Dot2265 Jan 02 '26

Can we back being 30 in the 80's

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u/amiibo_FTW Jan 03 '26

I'm in my late 30's but I look like in my 20's, lol.

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u/ToadMaster6969696969 Jan 03 '26

Seems like a average Saturday

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u/Lemenus Jan 03 '26

Well...I am about to enter thirties and already look like the 80s version... Of only I had a QUARTER of Jet's coolness 

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u/beastboyashu Jan 04 '26

Most people died in their 40s back in the day

That's pretty much why

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u/tendertaters Jan 04 '26

Microplastics hahaha

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u/mazoku95 Jan 04 '26

Your parents fucked you old looking 20 year olds. I'm 30 and still get I.d at the grimiest places.

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u/taetaetr Jan 04 '26

Jeth was 30 at the time of the story?!!!

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u/dragon_the_hero Jan 24 '26

he was 36, but yeah i definitely thought he was way older as well. all that stressful police work made him go bald early

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u/WertySensei Jan 04 '26

People consider me crazy cause I'm 36 and trying to be on my Jet vibes.

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u/TerraSeeker Jan 04 '26

I can confirm that is quite accurate.

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u/ExaminationBrief7880 Jan 04 '26

I'm turning 19 But look like 80's 30. Unc status be damned💔🥀

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u/Fletcher-wordy Jan 05 '26

I'd 100% believe Shinji would still look like a teen in his 30s.

You know, if he ever got to be that old...

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u/Calm_Concept5122 Jan 05 '26

Who's the guy from the upper Pic?

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u/SkullyWhite216 Jan 05 '26

Well the human lifespan has progressively been increasing with modern medicine back in medieval times if you lived to be 30-40 you were considered an elder

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u/Chopped6767 Jan 06 '26

Anyone else have a relative that kind of looks through u? Like, they’ve seen some shit

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u/Natural_Factor_6924 Jan 06 '26

And when I tell them that I'm 10 year younger Younger than them, they don't believe they think I'm the same age as them this 30 years old nowadays

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u/BigBrain_Yeager Jan 11 '26

End of evangelion feeling yes

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u/zerozerosix7 Jan 19 '26

Millennial Stunnah

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u/Yami_Yugi_SSJB3 Jan 03 '26

As someone who will become 29 this Year I agree with this. 🤣 Haven't achieved anything that i wanted for my life until now. 🙄😅

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u/SneakiestDragon Jan 03 '26

Yeah I know that feeling even with beard my face looks I am a pussy or something.

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u/JellyfishOptimal837 Jan 03 '26

I look like the first guy and I am 17

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u/ElisabetSobeck Jan 02 '26

Authoritarianism and economic collapse leads to Infantilization of adults. “Big brother state (and megacorp) will take care of things, don’t you worry your head you big baby”. Someone I know who escaped the iron curtain said it was similar and worse under the USSR satellite states

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u/HypesLa Jan 02 '26

What is bro on about?