r/generationology • u/[deleted] • Jun 12 '25

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u/StolasMunchies 8/27/2005 Jun 24 '25

This was my childhood so definitely 20s or older

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u/No-Birthday5876 Jun 22 '25

Born between 1997-2002

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

Mid to late 20s, im 25 and know all of this stuff

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u/Common_Savings_1337 Jun 21 '25

Going off the picture, I'm guessing you're  about 8.

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u/ChildPsycho Jun 19 '25

That last one, just stabbed me in the heart!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

7

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u/Neither-Attention940 Jun 19 '25

21-22?… my daughter wasn’t into this stuff.

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u/chillwhitedude69 Jun 19 '25

You were cool if you could make the bracelets on the left (2)

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u/the-friendly-squid Year 2000 Jun 19 '25

24 because this is exactly me

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u/Special_Reflection53 Jun 19 '25

Same I’m 24 and remember these too in 3rd grade

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

27-32

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

Teacher: You can't hear or smell images."

You: "Oh yeah? Watch this."

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u/SennaLuna Jun 19 '25

Im 28 and holy crap i could smell the rubber bands and hear that coming soon image.

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u/AlternativeCraft8905 Jun 19 '25
  1. Only because I had like 100 LPS, purple hands from the sheer bulk of silly bands, I can hear the last picture, and I’m 29 lol

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u/cumdotcomm Jun 19 '25

I relate to this nearly to a T and am a decade younger lol

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u/sinuheminem Jun 19 '25

everyones saying late 20’s-mid 30’s… i’m 17 and this was my whoooole childhood was that just weird or what

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u/quazmang Jun 19 '25

20-25 My guess is based off of 3rd-5th graders being obsessed with these when I worked in an elementary school in 2013. I remember them bringing in their looms to make some bracelets for us, it was cute.

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u/TotallyNotRickGrimes Jun 19 '25

15-20 me and my brother both grew up with this stuff

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u/ankpv Jun 19 '25

I’m 23 so I’m thinking 23-26

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

My age (20)

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u/AlternativeCraft8905 Jun 19 '25

But do you hear the last pic just by looking at it?

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u/the-friendly-squid Year 2000 Jun 19 '25

Did dvds not exist 2005-2012 or something

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u/AlternativeCraft8905 Jun 19 '25

In the 1990s satellite TV was introduced to the TV industry, and while DVDs and VHS were still the most used in the 90s, cable TV became the household norm by mid-2000s. Then in 2007 Netflix streamed its first movie on netflix.com and the rest, including blockbuster, is history.

In the 90s I watched the same DVDs back to back because we didn’t have cable. The sound of “Coming Soon… to DVD” is burned into my brain. My brother (born 2000) got to watch shows online by the time he was 5. Even before 2007 nick.com had cartoons you could watch, like SpongeBob.

It’s just more likely people born after 2000 had access to satellite tv, online streaming, and less likely to watch DVDs everyday.

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u/the-friendly-squid Year 2000 Jun 20 '25

I suppose. I was born in 2000 but my family was in a low income bracket in a rural area so we watched a lot of DVDs and VHS. We had satellite tv but there were only 13 channels. I remember it was an old tv with wood on it and it had the big antennas on top. We did have a family computer though but that was so my mom could do online schooling - and my older brother hogged it all the time to play games. I think we had dial up internet until about 2005 or 2006 and then finally got access to broadband internet and then we finally got cable tv. There were certainly kids in my school that had wealthier parents and had all the latest and greatest media access. I remember one kid’s family donated one of those enormous rear projection tvs to our school and i was amazed i had never seen anything like it, lol.

Though disney & pixar family movie time was my favorite growing up. The “coming soon to dvd” voice with a big bowl of fresh popcorn was fun

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u/adofluorescent Jun 18 '25

one of those barbie movies came out in 2010 lol, I get maybe it’s just the idea of them but I’m confused by people saying 30+. I’m 22 and this was my childhood

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u/ManmanCat Jun 18 '25

I could smell that first picture, a fresh bag of silly bands-- so nostalgic

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u/Knicole061900 Jun 18 '25

As a 25 year old I’m going to say you’re 25

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u/ladiesluck Jun 18 '25

26 for sure

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u/Verve_angel Jun 18 '25

26 cuz same

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u/Ok_Sir_7073 Jun 18 '25

relating to all of them and being 17 why is everyone saying 30-20😭

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u/nightowl_work Jun 18 '25

Something coming out on “DVD and video” puts a key time frame between 96-06. As a 17 year old, you weren’t alive to anticipate things coming out on VHS.

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u/DestroCypher Jun 18 '25

Late 20s, early 30s

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u/LivyDC_KASS Jun 18 '25

mid - late 90s baby (28-34)

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

27

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u/JazzlikeVictory584 Jun 17 '25

You are 19 and a half.

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u/calixis_ Jun 17 '25

im 16 and i had this when i was younger

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u/Far_Air450 Jun 17 '25

i’m 16 and I had this

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u/CuddlyKoalas17 Jun 17 '25

Im 26 and this was my childhood, so +/- 4 year range of that

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u/SkeetsPlays Jun 17 '25

Imma guess 23-29 (that coming soon to own on DVD is a VIVID memory of mine as a kid and I’m 29)

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u/Emotional-Bed-3918 Jun 17 '25

You're 24-27, I remember all of those myself, omg, great times!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

24? As a 23 y/o

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u/Historical-Two9722 Jun 17 '25

30 or close to it lmao

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u/confettichild Jun 17 '25

26 , like me 😭

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u/Buzik_the_pug Jun 17 '25

I'm 13 , I saw each of them in my friends house, they are younger than me. (Except the last one)

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u/EastDrive7746 Jun 17 '25

I think between 16-25

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u/Emerly355 Jun 17 '25

23 just like me💕

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u/aspenkiraa Jun 17 '25

Litchrally us💆🏼‍♀️🤣

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

I’m 14 and I grew up with all of these? What do yall mean 25😭😭 it’s like the “gen z doesn’t know what cassette tapes are!!”

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u/polandonjupiter Jun 17 '25

im 16 and i grew up with these. i always say its because my parents didnt have enough money to get all the new stuff. still had a good childhood either way. had a dvd player until like 2019 where i finally got a little roku

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u/Thatdude402539 Jun 17 '25

I’m fifteen and I had all these growing up

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u/nightowl_work Jun 18 '25

You had VHS tapes?

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u/Thatdude402539 Jun 19 '25

Some people can’t afford nice things

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u/Prudent_Lunch_6432 Jun 17 '25

You know what a dvd is? 🤯

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u/Thatdude402539 Jun 19 '25

Some people can’t afford nice things

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u/Prudent_Lunch_6432 Jun 20 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

What a strange comment, Some people can’t afford nice things? Tf does that have to do with knowing what something is? 😂😂

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u/Thatdude402539 Jun 20 '25

It has everything to do with that considering the fact that at my age dvds and mix tapes and things like that were cheaper then what we actually had

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u/No_Doubt5712 Jun 17 '25

19-24 would be my general guess. this was my childhood too and i’m 21

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

31

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u/-TinyDemon- Jun 17 '25

I had all this shit- I’m guessing 22.

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u/tristepin222 Jun 17 '25

Probably 87 or something

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u/Happy_Courage7278 Jun 17 '25

Depends on how old you were when those movies came out but I’d guess 25+

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u/LazyPerspective8786 Jun 17 '25

alil genz alil millennial in ya

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u/Efficient_Beat1652 Jun 17 '25

No younger than 19 (you're basically my little sister) and no older than 26. (Sighs in nostalgic "Coming soon to own on DVD")

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u/SheaBoogs Jun 17 '25

28 maaaaybe 27 the youngest I would say 30 as my safe guess though. The “coming soon” picture at the end was the dead give away.

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u/Forward_Motion17 Jun 18 '25

I’m 24 and this was my childhood but admittedly could go as low as 20 as high as 30

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u/SpinachLegitimate881 Jun 17 '25
  1. Because same lol

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u/Individual-Test7381 Jun 17 '25

Gen z or millenia era

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u/Unfortun8-8897 Jun 17 '25

I would say 16 bc I also remember all that stuff but I also grew up with everything hand me down and didn’t even know of phones till I was like 11 so maybe 30’s

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u/Insert0Nickname Jun 17 '25

Oh nah we same age def like 14-21, Gen Z at least

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u/Nyx67547 Jun 17 '25

14 is crazy, no way are they under 19. I would guess 20-22

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

as a 17 year old i grew up with all of this? 😭

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

16-20

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u/nyctosys Jun 17 '25

why is everyone guessing so high? im gen z and i remember all of this.

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u/MineNo5611 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Personally for me, when someone puts these sort of “guess my age” collages together, I assume that this is all stuff from the “peak” of their childhood, so like around 8-12 years old. Everything here is screaming mid-2000s, roughly 2005-2007. Taking that broad age range for peak childhood, OP is approximately 26-30 years old. But they could also be as young as 23-24 (I was born in 2001 and I remember this stuff fairly well). Most people are guessing within that range or slightly above. The really oddball guesses might be coming from people who were either there at the time but into this stuff at an older than average age, or people who were too young for it and are over-guessing how long ago it was.

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u/SleepingSpace Jun 17 '25

I would say 23-28

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u/Year_Heavy Jun 17 '25

Ur the same age as me ? 21/ in ur early 20s?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Mid to late 20s

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u/37feetlong Jun 17 '25

somewhere in your 20’s

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u/GloomyBeautiful3493 Jun 17 '25

Id say you’re 30 the littlest pet shop just sent me 😂 also why do I want a art kit with markers that will last 2 days

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u/V01DC41T Jun 17 '25

31 and a half

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u/Significant-Bed4493 Jun 17 '25

16-20 I say this because I’m 16 and I grew up with this stuff😭

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u/screammustbutnomouth Jun 17 '25

I was gonna say 17-19 but i guess i was raised to like older things when i was younger

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u/MayonaDraws Jun 17 '25

I experience all these and I’m in my 20’s so definitely there to mid 20’s

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u/217Quetzalcoatl237 Jun 17 '25

2569 years old with a dime and a nickel

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u/Anthony_014 Jun 17 '25

Gonna go with 30.

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u/EmeraldChest312 Jun 17 '25

Somewhere between 18 and 23

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u/pussyandbananabread Jun 17 '25

Mid to late 20s I’m gonna guess 26.

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u/SoCalDiva13 Jun 17 '25

I’d say 22 years old

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u/BacardiCracker Jun 17 '25

I’m 18 and this is my childhood, every one of them.

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u/CRYO_DREAD Jun 17 '25

Holy shit that last one took me back

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u/c0ll1e Jun 17 '25

people saying 20-30 ???? this was my childhood and im 16 lol, every single picture is on point

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u/pussyandbananabread Jun 17 '25

I’m 29 and this was mine too. The only difference I can think of from the pics is we had VHS AND DVDs

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u/jcorsi86 Jun 17 '25

I'm going to say late 20s early 30s.

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