The need to use animated characters probably explains it and that is, it is really not true.
We’re a lot sadder now, so we don’t smile much. The lack of smiling saved us from face wrinkles which keeps us looking young.
Sunscreen probably has something to do with it.
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No doubt on smoking. Plus people didn’t even care about second hand smoke around kids until after the 80s.
I’d thought millennials drank less too but all the numbers are saying that’s wrong.
Alcoholism is huge now, so much so, they reclassified that shit from alcoholic to social drinker.
I’m a social drinker, I have to drink to be around people, and I’m constantly around people.
Masculinity no longer has any acceptable outlets.
Why is this?
Smoking.
And not using sun block when working outside all day.
I smoke and don’t use sun screen and am 40 and look like exhibit b. Why can’t I grow a fancy beard like jet and look like I’ve been around the block using just my face…
Also being outside in the UV radiation of the sun ☀☢️
I smoke, just turned 39, and people still regularly guess I’m in my early 20’s. Frankly, I’m surprised we don’t look older considering how much stress can cause visible aging. Where are the 13 year olds that look 102?
Because we were 6 in the 80s.
I have bad news. You’re in your 40s.
…I’m aware
People are aging more slowly than in the past, we have better information on how to take care of ourselves. But there is wide variation when you get older. I will say though, that I still feel really good in my mid 50s, nothing hurts, I am still strong and healthy and think that would have been less usual even just 20 years ago.
We’ve finally reached the next stage of evolution
Cowboy Bebop came out in 1998.
Neon Genesis Evangelion came out in 1995.
Shinji’s fifteen or something, no?
What it was really like being 30 in the 80’s:
(It’s a metaphor for being afraid of AIDS)(It’s a metaphor for being afraid of AIDS)
Is that really what Akira was about? Or is that just some overzealous weeaboo grad student’s opinion?
Not enough giant nutsack
Is it? My understanding is that Japan didn’t have a lot of awareness of the AIDS crisis (and still doesn’t really?)
I thought the body horror was more associated with fears of scientific progress. I’ve only seen Akira once so I’d love to watch it again in light of other interpretations.
That part was just a joke. I’m saying the image itself represents being 30 in the 80s and being afraid of the AIDS crisis. Not that Akira itself is a metaphor for that lol
The micro plastics sustain me
I put that shit on everything!
I laughed way too hard at this. Thanks, I hate it.
I crave the certainty of PLASTIC
On Mondays we wear pink!
One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Plastic isn’t biodegradable… Even in death I suffocate turtles.
Lots of good answers here. Another minor one is Hollywood bias - older male actors got starring roles in romantic films. Random example, Cary Grant was 59 when he played the lead role in Charade opposite Audrey Hepburn who was 34.
Add to that the low quality of TV broadcasts, different styles of filing and lighting in movies, and less subtle use of makeup and people in film and TV from stuff from the 90s back have an other-world quality to them if you look back at that compared to the high definition world were in now. Even older magazines and pictures can be available at lower quality to us on the Internet than at the time, as we don’t get to see the true originals but lower quality scans on the Internet compared to modern digital photographic.
It’s amazing looking at old film from the 1800s that has been well kept or restored - not just people but the whole world actually looks real unlike what we’re used to.
We’re so used to looking at history in low definition or the artificiality of old fashioned TV/movie techniques and biases.
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Lower testosterone is probably a big part of it. Look at 23 or 24 year old enhanced bodybuilders. they look like theyre 35. For whatever reason peoples T levels have been going down about 1 percent per year for the last 50 years. Its bound to have an effect.
This is nonsense
How much testosterone you have is not directly related to how ‘masculine’ you look. It’s far more complicated than that. There are people with baby face that have very high levels of testosterone, and people who look very masc that have low levels.
Source?
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thats dumb it literally changes your bone structure rapidly, adding bone to your brow and jaw. GH will cause all your bones to get thicker too.
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I wasnt talking about masculinity, i was talking about apparent age. Test converts to DHT over time which in turn causes male hair patterns. Beard growth, receeded hair line, etc. Other than that though, it just makes you look older.
examples :
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The curse of Eva. Duh.
It’s because of the WEF using hormones to turn the frogs gay, obviously.
But… I’m not a frog
…or are you?
Smoking.
And alcohol.
And lead exposure.
And my axe.
Is my buddy, I bring him when I walk
