@@ItBeThatWaySometimes - Oh shit, that's crazy. I noticed with the image of the truck size-increase over the years with the truck bed getting smaller, that it starts with 2-3 seat trucks and then moves to 4-5 seat trucks lol, but I think the gist is still shown there with the truck beds getting smaller than they need to be (since ain't no one using those trucks to haul a bunch of cargo).
@@alexandracrofoot9154 thats not true its because she said she does't like her smile plus her and david had a reality tv show here in the uk in the very early 00s and i remember her saying she thought it was cringey to force a smile for pictures
I know nothing about fashion, but I also tend to find guessing the 2010s surprisingly difficult compared to be previous decades, some of which I never lived in. This does seem to be a symptom of fashion in previous decades being way more recognizable and distinct. Fashion for common people in the 2010s similar to be very general without much change. The same with cars and the design of most non-tech sector things. You basically have to see a specific reference to get something in the 2010s right.
@@panner11 I don't know. I think it also has a lot to do with how old you are. I found the 70s/80s to actually be a lot harder than I thought, as there seemed to be a lot of 70s leftovers throughout the first half of the 80s. On the other hand, I had the 2010s down to almost a T, especially the early 2010s.
@@katelinakeene7578 Yeah I'm sure it's different for different people. I wasn't alive in the 70s or 80s either. But are you speaking about guessing by using fashion or guessing in general? For me, I just found a few giveaways in fashion that made the 70s and 80s easy to guess well. What giveaways do you look for when guessing the 2010s? I would like to be better at guessing that era, so I'm curious what you see.
@@panner11 I mostly look at fashion first before anything, haha! Usually things like hairstyles, shoes, or the cut of pants makes it easier to guess for any decade, really. I found the latter 70s and early 80s difficult though because there seemed to be a lot of overlap, surprisingly. I was given a picture where the people were wearing bell bottoms and wearing very 70s-esque hair -- turns out it was 1983! That shocked me lol. As for the 2010s, I find that it's very specific articles of clothing that I immediately recognize, like ballet flats or beanies. Also, the cut of the jeans makes guessing the 2010s pretty easy for me. Skinny jeans are often a pretty good giveaway.
Things I say in reverse at concerts. Put your phone away you don't have to document every second of this to really experience it. They would rather stare at the person in front of them through a tiny screen rather than looking at them for real. I don't get it. Even if I don't remember every detail and can't go back and relive it, i will have actually lived it.
Day 1376 of Karolina "trying" to convince us she is not a time traveller, by obviously faking some of her answers during certain parts in order to pass as a mere mortal.
I'm glad you pointed out the fact that not all countries were on the same page with fashion so other ones were behind with the periods of fashion as apposed to other countries at the time
True, also with technology, laws and whatnot. That's why guessing games like these (even geoguessr) can ne tricky if you don't have that in mind. A picture from some former soviet country and for example canada in the same year or even decade can vastly differ.
I know this mostly relates to the Iron Curtain pictures, but I was genuinely stunned when the two picture at the car race (NASCAR?) and the one with the Whacky Flailing Inflatable Arms Tube Men turned out to be so recent when they both looked mid-late eighties to me 😂
and that's what makes it harder. And not everyone in first world countries keeps up to the moment with fashion either. Most people would struggle to pick photos out down to even a couple years for anything taken in the last 30ish years. Fashion has really changed that little for the vast majority of humans.
Yes, it was so interesting to learn that! I knew about clothes distinctions between rich and poor within a country but never realised how many years apart fashion was in some countries!
Geowizard has been playing it too! It’s interesting that he focuses on vehicles and ignores major fashion clues, while Karolina focuses on fashion and is vague about vehicles.
It's a great game! I'm good with history but not necessarily with visual history (30s and 50s look the same to me despite definitely not being the same), but I managed to eventually get a score in the 4000s using 'vibes' to guess haha.
9:04 As a Japanese, by this time military officials would have been dressed in Western clothing! Also the shape of the hat and the cut of the outfit is certainly Chinese, perhaps Manchurian because of the time period. Asian fashion history of the time of Westernization is fascinating, I hope you can look into it!
I was thinking this as well. I don't know a lot, but I believe this is the time period where the western nations were carving out china for themselves.
5:21 the "old ass frames" are likely standard issue glasses and they are notorious for their ugliness. According to my husband, who was in the Navy, they're known colloquially as BCG or Birth Control Goggles because they are antithetical to sexual attraction lol
The US did hold on to ugly glasses much longer than Europe. When I was there in the 90s all the glasses looked super old fashioned to me. I didn’t understand. In mostly everything else the US was leading but not in glasses fashion
which is so funny too me bc I'm actually really into those frames like they're my faves lol so for me the "turn-off" would probably not be the frames themselves but the thicc lenses that make the eyes look funky and disproportioned
As a kid, when our family watched old movies we'd all guesstimate what year it was made (though the year of release may be one or two years later). I'd do it by the fashion, my dad by the cars, and my mother by the age of the actors. I'm afraid my pompous self always won - maybe being one or two years out. It's harder with general photos though as real-life people don't instantly adopt the latest fashions in the way that a film costume department might; you also have regional and socio-economic aspect to consider as well.
@@user-kx6fw8ub9g I love it to and it awakens a memory... When I was in junior high I had a real jerk of a teacher who picked favorites, he taught social studies or something just so he could coach football, one of those types of dudes. Anyway I was a shy kid and he loved to pick on shy kids. I used guesstimate in an answer and he mocked me for making up that word in front of the whole class. I said it was real he said no way so I got up grabbed a dictionary and found it in a matter of seconds. He grabbed the dictionary said uh huh sure and tossed it halfway across the room. I think my life couldve gone a different course if I had better teachers but I will be forever satisfied by that memory lol.
@@sergeantbigmac I never realized how blessed I was to have never experienced a bad teacher. I also come from a family of teachers who made sure my sure my needs. Hmm, I guess I have a privilege I never even considered.
Crewcuts/buzzcuts have been popular in the US off and on since World War II. When I was a toddler I was taken to a barber and they didn't tell him I was a girl. I just had the typical 1970s shaggy kid hair and they gave me a buzz cut. My mother cried but I got to wear my cowboy hat to cover it up so I was happy. I loved hearing Karolina's logic on her guesses and how growing up in Eastern Europe completely confuses everything...The NASCAR picture was obvious to me because I'm from the US and all of those brand logos are still being used. We live next to an O'Reilly Autoparts and that is still their logo. Also, I think the photo might have been taken in the South or Midwest, so having really brightly colorful dyed hair really has only been in the past
5:03 These US Army uniforms were commonly called the "chocolate chip" pattern, because when seen close up they resemble chocolate chip cookie dough. They weren't widely issued to troops until shortly before and during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, which began in August, 1990. That's the only photo in your video I guessed correctly! Good job doing so well based on styles of dress, Karolina!
I was gonna call out the chocolate chip camis as well! so cool that I actually knew something here hahaha I was like, OOP Gulf War- the camo from the 70's was much more "average old timey" camo, thinking of movies like Platoon 😅
I knew the 1996 photo you thought was 80s, mostly because the big inflatable arms guy was invented FOR the 1996 Olympics. I also specifically went to that Olympics, too. (And yes, my dad, TO THIS DAY, wears his socks that high on his legs.)
@@maximrukinov3101 my little treasure hoard of useless knowledge, alongside Vigo breaking his toe on the set of Lord of the rings when he kicked the helmet
It's funny how little help she gets from all the vehicles in the photos with her knowledge base. It'd be interesting to give the same set of pictures to someone who's into car history and see how their points compare.
My hilarious first instinct was to attempt dating the photos based on the film!! Different film has different colour profiles, so you can date based on when the film type was in use. I don't have any of that knowledge, mind you, just know that you *can* do it...
Surprisingly you don't need much actual knowledge - it comes naturally at least for me. The photo with a strange harvesting mechanism from 1943 was screaming it was made in the 40s just with a film grain. Basically, you ve seen thousands of photos taken during WW2, and they all have pretty similar contrast, grain - something like that. I am surprised what this game does to my mind, it's awesome
This game is SO addictive!! I've been playing it pretty constantly since watching your video about an hour and a half ago, and I texted my parents the link and challenged them to a high score duel. 😄 Thank you for sharing this!!
Thank you for introducing this game to me, it's super fun! The final score of my first attempt was 3319. It's funny because the older the photo, the more accurate my guess was. Edit: my second score was only 1593. I got too cocky...
I think the one in 2007 looked a bit older just from the architecture and the general colour of the shot. It made it look a bit softer and less modern.
I tried this and immediately found a photo of an event I witnessed firsthand; a protest in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square three years ago that took place while I was eating dinner just off-camera.
The picture of Messina had George Patton in it. People who know military history can PROBABLY identify the date of the picture within a week or two. But military history is not your thing. You did pretty well basing things on fashion.
16:42 - The '96 Olympics in Atlanta! The row of international flags at the top, the proud display of those inflatable tube men that were new at the time, the color coordination in the crowd's clothes. I think that also explains the woman's '80s hat: someone was really feeling "Designing Women" that day.
You inspired me to play a few rounds and this is really fun! It's also a great tool to demonstrate how it's so easy to divide fashion into discrete periods when in reality it's a lot messier
Karolina, for the military uniform picture, those glasses were military issue and referred to as “birth control glasses” (or because the military also loves acronyms, “bgcs”).
I love how with your knowledge of the cars you can separate them into two categories, pre war (ww2 i guess) and post war only lol I also like how your guess is 99% based on clothes alone, in the farming picture you don't even look at the ancient looking farming equipment and only how high his pants are lmao
“Why is he wearing those old-ass frames?” Those were standard issued frames we were issued at boot camp. I don’t think the styles changed since Vietnam.
In the 2016 picture it looked like they were watching a drag race, those usually have different cars racing every few minutes, so that might explain why not that many people have their phones out! Might have already gotten plenty of videos by this point in the show. Drag races can also be entered by everyday people, so could be that too, OR, could be that car people go to races frequently enough to not need to take videos everytime (or a combination of the above).
The uniform one that tripped you up was recognizable as a specific camo pattern issued for the US Army/Marines for Desert Storm '90-'91. The international coalition was made up of lots of different soldiers in lots of different uniforms - not even all of the US forces got this uniform pattern, so it's probably quite obscure to people outside of the US.
I cracked up laughing when you called out those hideous frames on the soldier, they are infamously fugly and are called BCGs - Birth Control Goggles or, if you wanna be crass, P**sy Deflectors 😂
Oh my gosh, I am so proud to say that I actually did better than you did on this one! I was not expecting that. I suspect it's because of your Polish background. Like in that one where you said the guy looked just like your dad, I knew for sure it was 60s. (I have dual citizenship: Canada and the USA.)
omg i was thinking the same thing, czech fashion and technologies and stuff is so behind sometimes that i would have a reallyy hard time guessing the ones from 1960s and up lol, probably. like with one of the first pictures i tried based off of a 1985 czech movie where an actress had a bblown hairstyle exactly like that so i was like yess!! but the photo was 1977:'D
At 16:43 you mentioned the guys with the high socks and caps like, "so it's gotta be the..." Me, thinking: "90s, totally 90s" Karolina: "...1980's." Me: D: Hahaha in the 90s we were all wearing those thick white socks up to our calves. And all those fanny packs! Looks like a mid-late 90s dad convention. I think if the shorts were pulled up more it'd be more 80s, but all those untucked polos and loose shorts are a dead ringer for the mid-late 90s. Everything's so baggy.
It would be funny if you had someone who doesn’t know about fashion history describe the photo to you and you have to guess the tear from their description!
This is honestly so fun. It's interesting to see how my dabble into women's fashion history either helps or hinders, as well as my own experiences (like being able to guess the 2000s pretty well) and my own general history knowledge which is admittedly limited to the US/parts of the West.
The giveaway in the race car event pic was the Sprint ad on the barrier wall. It's the post Sprint/Nextel merger logo which debuted in 2005 and pre T-Mobile acquisition of Sprint which was finalized in 2020. I guessed 2009, so I was still way off too. I watched the GeoGuesser pro play this a bunch recently and realized you really have to look for contextual clues beyond fashion in any photograph that's post 1980 really. As for the military men, those are standard issue military glasses. They're extremely durable and shatter resistant unlike normal glasses. Those are American DCUs (desert combat uniforms) which means it either has to be the Gulf War or post 9/11 but the camo isn't the digital pattern (made up of lots of tiny squares) which was rolled out heavily in the very beginning of the long conflict. So, that meant odds favored Gulf War. (And I know this stuff because most of the guys I went to HS served post 9/11 and a lot of our dads/uncles served in the Gulf or we knew someone who did)
Hi Karolina, I just started watching Netflix’s recent historical series about Lidia Poët, Italys first female laywer in 1883. It has some lovely dresses 😍😍😍😍 I’m no fashion historian, from what little l can google on womens fashion in Italy during that time I think they follow it somewhat historically corect but would love your analysis! 🤩😍
I tried this and thought a picture from 2016 was from the 70s because the quality was so bad. (there were only 4 kids in the pic, all wearing colorful summer clothing and facing away.)
I loved this video! It was so interesting and I actually learned quite a lot! Please do more of that - maybe even with subscribers submitting pictures and you guessing when they were taken? (although that is a lot of effort for you, so maybe just doing the website again would be fun)
Karolina, the 2015 photo at the car race was a nascar race, they go in a circle for 500 laps or more. if those people had their phones out, they'd be holding them up for hours.
I was close for a lot of the ones showing the 60s and after but got the military one for 1990 spot on cuz my Dad served in the Gulf War, I've seen photos of those uniforms a thousand times. Heck he might even be IN that very photo since the guy with the glasses looks JUST like him!
That one picture where Karolina said one guy looked like her dad's pictures 100% lookd like the pictures of my parents hanging out with friends in like 1989!
I can assure you those old ass glasses frames were still around in the 90s, my dad is a great example XD Although we are from Poland too so maybe that is a wrong metric to go by.
I love this WAY too much. I was competing against you SO HARD and shouting when I was correct 😅😂😂😂😂 WHERE IS THE GAMESHOW OF THIS I WOULD FEED THEM MONEY Edit: I feel like to be really good at this you need a wide array of knowledge. The ones I got right that you didn’t were because I knew things like the ages of the guitars (as a musician), or the fact that BlizzCon must be a convention for Blizzard Games which got big after their game Workd of Warcraft, so it had to be a few years after that came out, in addition to the clothing styles and aesthetics of the material objects. Then there were ones that I could tell like were gimmes if you knew like the faces of historical figures for instance. Like you knew Victoria Beckham (I did not) and other folks have mentioned that Messina photo features George Patton, and I think sone of the other ones were the same. So like you need a wide array of toolkits for deciding these; relying on just one or two will lead you astray. It makes it really hard but also REALLY FUN!!!!!
What an amazing game....I got all of them within one year if they had a car and clothes...I specialise in cars and fashion combined. I grew up with vintage cars and we own two ourselves now and also do car events in costume. SO as an historical costumer, i got most of them within a year. I didnt get the military or the airport close tho....anything after 2000 is pretty much tech defined...and no clue about them. Interestingly hair, hats and shoes and makeup is more dateable and cars are more datebale than ppl give them credit for. fashion is too ubiquitous after 2000 in a crowd setting as well...got all the post 2000's one VERY wrong. LOL
@@catarinavergueiro7453 Very good question, and one im about to write an article about for a magazine (another story). But, in answer to your question, a combination of technology in fabrics and manufacturing has streamlined every day clothes into a fairly ubiquitous fit, one that is loose, stretchy and we have almost "standardised" every day clothing. We are quickly loosing details in what we wear that dates our clothes, in attempts to rush into our days and just get stuff done. What matters today is not how you look but what you do, and how quickly you do it. SOcieties priorities have changed. Its not about social conformation, its about performance, so therefore something drops off our priority list. And in this case, high fashion has been what ppl have scrificed. For example, small details of ones clothing is what determines a date. For men, this is shape of and angle of point on shirt collars, and tie styles, with women, it tends to be the fabric used for jeans. Remember Tencel - a black flowly fabric used for "jeans" in the late 1990's. Where did thhey go? SO comfy, but they made way for denim again. Today, any style is in fashion, so long as it suits you. In thhe 1920's, women who just did not have the body to flatter it, wore a flapper dress, its just what was available. But today, ppl wear skinny jeans OR bootleg when available depending on what they prefer. The huge variety of fabrics means we wear sports wear as day wear, esp at home. Mens pants other than denims are a cotton, and the pockets, waistband and zipper arrangement hasnt really changed in 50 years. So, historically women did care about fashion, but updated it with the latest hat or bag etc. 1900, photos show women in 1893 fashion with 1900 dated hat. But today, the hat is no more, as are gloves, stylish handbags etc. Fashion has become something that is something ppl really care about or they dont, but you also have to look at the setting of the photo. A photo of a crowd at an airport is not reliable post 2000's to date except for technology and brands, most of us could wear what we wore 20 years ago and no one would notice. But when you look at hair cuts (the 1990's midi flick cut, or 1980's perms, and today its the wave created by the dyson air wrap) these are more dateable than clothes. If you look at fast fashion there is nothhing remarkable about them. There are fleeting fads, like the peasant look of the mid 2000's, but some ppl are bringing that back. So its not about the STYLE per se, its more about the fabric type, which is VERY hard to tell from a distance. SO whille in the 1940's and 50's, you could pin something to a 3 to 5 year time gap - today - it could be 10 or 20 depending on how close the photo is, what the makeup and hair looks like and whether its a casual setting (airport crowd..? anyones guess) or a group out for dinner (better idea based on clothes, makeup and deco style of the restaurant even). I ramble a lot i know - but no we dont care about fashion as much because we have shifted our focus on an everyday level to what we do rather than what we wear. Wearing clothes today is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Except for a few individuals who feel its important to wear a piece of history and destroy it in the process!! I hope that helps expllain it a bit...?
@Catarina Vergueiro To add to Roxann’s excellent comment, I think social media and fast fashion have affected the difficulty of defining 21st century looks. In previous years, looks would change once a year. Nowadays, clothes cycle out of fast fashion stores every two weeks, and influencers present something new as if of course is already the hot new item. Also, simply being in a time period makes a difference - I couldn’t really tell you what 90s style was at the time but I can now … but that should apply to the 00s and it doesn’t. (Tho’ 80s style was glaringly obvious even during the 80s OMG 😂)
@@nimue325 Very very true, thankyou. Yes fast fashion is kind of an oxymoron, because theres nothing fashionablle in them at all. Clothing purchase turnover would be more befitting this practice than fast fashion! And of course fashionistas are struggling to re-invent the wheel too, theres nothing new in fashion anymore. We have done it all, seen it all. Princess Anne - perfect example of how fashion isnt about what you wear, its about HOW you wear it.
@@roxannlegg750 Anyone who loves both cars and fashion is 🔥 - they are both design, technology, history, necessity, politics, gorgeous, and stupidly gendered.
@@nimue325 ROTFLMHO. Yes I grew up with my father restoring vintage and classic cars, and we are (or rather I am) running the costume competition for the Morris Minor National Rally here in South Australia in March. Personally I own a Rover P3 1949, and my hubbie a 1969 Austin 1800 mk II. Its the 75th anniv of the MM, and we are committee members of the club. You cannot sep cars and fashion, as car style and fashion, and even the technology have their own correlations with form, shape, style and useage. Ive been writing articles for months on it for their magazine. The old men in the club arent that impressed but I have the support of the Pres as he has millenial kids who llove vintage fashion and recognised the relevance but also appeal. We have ppl flying in from overseas for it and esp coming in costume. 4 days of costume perfection is actually putting a lot of pressur eon me to look right, given ive written about a doz articles on it for them. "No pressure girl but - if youre the judge, dontcha think you should look the best?". Prob is, in 4 days I have to nail, the late 1940's, mid 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's. And im plus sized so im making everything! The event has its own F B page, you can check it out...
It's reassuring to see that your experience was like mine--scores all over the place. You're much better at the pre-20's photos than I am, though. And why does all fashion since the year 2005 or so look the same to me?
It's easy to say because I'm not the one playing but I feel like the inflatable tube man gave that one photo away for me. Maybe they had them in the 80s but I can't recall seeing any photos of them before the early 2000s. Loved this video though. This could honestly be a chill stream.
Sorry to info dump here, but the inflatable figures actually have an interesting history. There’s a good episode about them on the 99 Percent Invisible podcast. They were invented for the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics by Peter Minshall, an artist from Trinidad who was known for creating large dancing puppets. Minshall calls them Tall Boys, and the original ones that you see in the photo actually have two legs, instead of the single tube type that has become widespread.
Ok, funny story about the military photo from 1990. The reason they look dated is that those have been the standard issue frames for glasses. They were designed to be compatible with gas masks during World War 2. They are fondly referred to in the military as "birth control goggles."
You being baffled about people not on their phones at the car race cracked me up :D honestly phone cameras just aren't high frame rate enough to record fast cars well, plus what would you actually see on the phone, the same cars going by? Not much reason to record! Thank you for the video. I love this one!
This was so much fun to watch! I'd love to see something like this again because it is so germane to fashion history. I do the same kind of think with a website called Geoguessr, where you're placed in a random place on the globe and need to guess where you are on a map. You have the choice to move around, forward, backward, etc. So fun!
My parents could have told you the year that picture in the factory was taken by the sewing machines. They have over 300 of them. I am an only child. Please save me.
I thought immediately the 1920's guy on the farm was an old picture, in part because of the machinery and his outfit, but also because the image quality is old and it looks like the photo has been through some history itself.
In America, at least on the East Coast, 70's fashion to me represented terrible colors, terrible hairstyles and terrible silhouettes. I just remember everyone looking frumpy. And yet, SOMEHOW Cher looked amazing! lol
Someone has probably already told you this, but those big old glasses the soldier is wearing are BCGs (birth control glasses!) a lot of soldiers actually look great in them and they continue wearing those frames when they’ve finished their duty.
The only reason I knew you were wrong for the one at 17:20 was because the tube men flying around in the foreground weren't invented/revealed until 1996. Lol
To be fair, I don’t remember what year Kennedy was assassinated and I live in the United States so you being that close when he wasn’t even your president is really impressive to me
I don't know why I have to remind someone who tries to live as of she was in the late 1930's this but most of us live a few years or even decades behind current trends. My grandmother had an old ranch house built around 1910 or earlier near South Los Angeles. I lived there as a child before my parents could afford to buy a new house in a suburb a couple of miles southwest. The house was literally a 1930's house except for a 1950's refrigerator. My father was a schoolteacher so we never had an excess of money for clothing and appliances. If you saw a picture of us in that house you could be excused for thinking it was shot in the 1930's or 1940's, especially as our camera was an antique itself. Many of the places I've lived had decor a few decades old. Cars tend to be used for many years, as do casual clothes. You could easily be off a decade by looking at a picture. It's been said of Canada that they generally live a decade behind the US and it's true. I'm impressed that your answers have been so close.
I was able to guess the army photo from the first game as early 90s bc my dad has photos of himself in those exact uniforms. Down to the glasses! The glasses do look old but iirc they were what the military gave out at the time
Karolina: "Why is she wearing THOSE glasses? They're so previous year!"
Also Karolina: "Cars come in two models: pre-war and post-war"
and in America trucks come in one model, ugly AF
@@ItBeThatWaySometimes - Oh shit, that's crazy.
I noticed with the image of the truck size-increase over the years with the truck bed getting smaller, that it starts with 2-3 seat trucks and then moves to 4-5 seat trucks lol, but I think the gist is still shown there with the truck beds getting smaller than they need to be (since ain't no one using those trucks to haul a bunch of cargo).
Also look at the military truck. Look for Allies occupation. If men are wearing hats, that is 50;s
“Is that Victoria Beckham ? And she is smiling? Definitely before 2000’s” 😂 I can’t hahahaha
i dont get it
@@dyip-vb1wlshe had a some pretty harsh lip fillers and Botox in the 2000s and now, to the point where it looks like she can’t close her mouth now
@@dyip-vb1wl victoria is known for not smiling because she was called 'posh spice' and still kept the persona today. definitely not fillers lmao
@@alexandracrofoot9154 thats not true its because she said she does't like her smile plus her and david had a reality tv show here in the uk in the very early 00s and i remember her saying she thought it was cringey to force a smile for pictures
Karolina recognizing clothes from the early part of the 1900's but completely missing the 2000's is hilarious.
I know nothing about fashion, but I also tend to find guessing the 2010s surprisingly difficult compared to be previous decades, some of which I never lived in. This does seem to be a symptom of fashion in previous decades being way more recognizable and distinct. Fashion for common people in the 2010s similar to be very general without much change. The same with cars and the design of most non-tech sector things. You basically have to see a specific reference to get something in the 2010s right.
@@panner11 I don't know. I think it also has a lot to do with how old you are. I found the 70s/80s to actually be a lot harder than I thought, as there seemed to be a lot of 70s leftovers throughout the first half of the 80s. On the other hand, I had the 2010s down to almost a T, especially the early 2010s.
@@katelinakeene7578 Yeah I'm sure it's different for different people. I wasn't alive in the 70s or 80s either. But are you speaking about guessing by using fashion or guessing in general? For me, I just found a few giveaways in fashion that made the 70s and 80s easy to guess well. What giveaways do you look for when guessing the 2010s? I would like to be better at guessing that era, so I'm curious what you see.
@@panner11 I mostly look at fashion first before anything, haha! Usually things like hairstyles, shoes, or the cut of pants makes it easier to guess for any decade, really.
I found the latter 70s and early 80s difficult though because there seemed to be a lot of overlap, surprisingly. I was given a picture where the people were wearing bell bottoms and wearing very 70s-esque hair -- turns out it was 1983! That shocked me lol.
As for the 2010s, I find that it's very specific articles of clothing that I immediately recognize, like ballet flats or beanies. Also, the cut of the jeans makes guessing the 2010s pretty easy for me. Skinny jeans are often a pretty good giveaway.
@@katelinakeene7578 cool tips. Thanks
“Where are their phones?! Are you telling me that all those people are just enjoying the races and not looking at their phones?!” 😂😂😂
Things I say in reverse at concerts. Put your phone away you don't have to document every second of this to really experience it. They would rather stare at the person in front of them through a tiny screen rather than looking at them for real. I don't get it. Even if I don't remember every detail and can't go back and relive it, i will have actually lived it.
@@michimelody4036 Yes, and a lot of events are recorded professionally online. Why to bother recording? 🤷♀️
attached to the wall.
I was yelling to notice the Sprint (cell phone company) in the background. Alas, she did not hear me.
@@ericdale4641Yep! lol It was the Farmers Insurance ad that clued me in. Although as a nonAmerican, Karolina may have never heard of either brand
Day 1376 of Karolina "trying" to convince us she is not a time traveller, by obviously faking some of her answers during certain parts in order to pass as a mere mortal.
Time Traveler or Ancient Pagan immortal sorceress or immortal vampire, she's one of those
@@Tadicuslegion78 Nah she's just Polish
Lol
@@arachnidlupus7625 So vjesci
Karolina is going to get busted by the Time Police, at this rate.
I'm glad you pointed out the fact that not all countries were on the same page with fashion so other ones were behind with the periods of fashion as apposed to other countries at the time
True, also with technology, laws and whatnot. That's why guessing games like these (even geoguessr) can ne tricky if you don't have that in mind. A picture from some former soviet country and for example canada in the same year or even decade can vastly differ.
I know this mostly relates to the Iron Curtain pictures, but I was genuinely stunned when the two picture at the car race (NASCAR?) and the one with the Whacky Flailing Inflatable Arms Tube Men turned out to be so recent when they both looked mid-late eighties to me 😂
and that's what makes it harder. And not everyone in first world countries keeps up to the moment with fashion either. Most people would struggle to pick photos out down to even a couple years for anything taken in the last 30ish years. Fashion has really changed that little for the vast majority of humans.
Yes, it was so interesting to learn that! I knew about clothes distinctions between rich and poor within a country but never realised how many years apart fashion was in some countries!
What a fun topic to cover on the channel. Chronophoto is like Geoguessr but for people who dabble in History and Cultural Studies in all its forms.
Geowizard has been playing it too!
It’s interesting that he focuses on vehicles and ignores major fashion clues, while Karolina focuses on fashion and is vague about vehicles.
It's a great game! I'm good with history but not necessarily with visual history (30s and 50s look the same to me despite definitely not being the same), but I managed to eventually get a score in the 4000s using 'vibes' to guess haha.
Karolina: I'm not a time traveler
Also Karolina when people in 1910's show up in this game: FINALLY SOME PEOPLE IN CLOTHES!
This isn’t a fair game when you’ve personally lived through all these eras, Karolina
20 minutes of Karolina ignoring cars lmao.
As all sensible people should.
9:04 As a Japanese, by this time military officials would have been dressed in Western clothing! Also the shape of the hat and the cut of the outfit is certainly Chinese, perhaps Manchurian because of the time period. Asian fashion history of the time of Westernization is fascinating, I hope you can look into it!
I was thinking this as well. I don't know a lot, but I believe this is the time period where the western nations were carving out china for themselves.
As a citizen of a country who got colonized many times over, I found this picture the most chilling.
It's okay, Karolina. We knew you're an immortal being that took nap from late 1960s until mid 1990s
She studied that time period because it's the only one she hasn't lived in
That’s when the time police attacked her and she went in a coma
I could literally watch you play this for hours
Same. I hope for a part 2
5:21 the "old ass frames" are likely standard issue glasses and they are notorious for their ugliness. According to my husband, who was in the Navy, they're known colloquially as BCG or Birth Control Goggles because they are antithetical to sexual attraction lol
HGAHHAAHAH
My husband called those BCG’s (birth control glasses)
The US did hold on to ugly glasses much longer than Europe. When I was there in the 90s all the glasses looked super old fashioned to me. I didn’t understand. In mostly everything else the US was leading but not in glasses fashion
which is so funny too me bc I'm actually really into those frames like they're my faves lol so for me the "turn-off" would probably not be the frames themselves but the thicc lenses that make the eyes look funky and disproportioned
This made me holler, thank you for the laugh!!
As a kid, when our family watched old movies we'd all guesstimate what year it was made (though the year of release may be one or two years later). I'd do it by the fashion, my dad by the cars, and my mother by the age of the actors. I'm afraid my pompous self always won - maybe being one or two years out. It's harder with general photos though as real-life people don't instantly adopt the latest fashions in the way that a film costume department might; you also have regional and socio-economic aspect to consider as well.
I love the word guesstimate
@@user-kx6fw8ub9g I love it to and it awakens a memory... When I was in junior high I had a real jerk of a teacher who picked favorites, he taught social studies or something just so he could coach football, one of those types of dudes. Anyway I was a shy kid and he loved to pick on shy kids. I used guesstimate in an answer and he mocked me for making up that word in front of the whole class. I said it was real he said no way so I got up grabbed a dictionary and found it in a matter of seconds. He grabbed the dictionary said uh huh sure and tossed it halfway across the room. I think my life couldve gone a different course if I had better teachers but I will be forever satisfied by that memory lol.
@@sergeantbigmac I never realized how blessed I was to have never experienced a bad teacher. I also come from a family of teachers who made sure my sure my needs. Hmm, I guess I have a privilege I never even considered.
Crewcuts/buzzcuts have been popular in the US off and on since World War II. When I was a toddler I was taken to a barber and they didn't tell him I was a girl. I just had the typical 1970s shaggy kid hair and they gave me a buzz cut. My mother cried but I got to wear my cowboy hat to cover it up so I was happy. I loved hearing Karolina's logic on her guesses and how growing up in Eastern Europe completely confuses everything...The NASCAR picture was obvious to me because I'm from the US and all of those brand logos are still being used. We live next to an O'Reilly Autoparts and that is still their logo. Also, I think the photo might have been taken in the South or Midwest, so having really brightly colorful dyed hair really has only been in the past
I had a crew cut when I was a kid in the 60s , cost 75 cents
Oh my poor you ! Glad you made a bad situation good with your cowboy 🤠 hat!
I am from WI and I agree that it looks like the race photo was taken in the Midwest.
It would be fun to submit ancestral family photos for her to guess.
5:03 These US Army uniforms were commonly called the "chocolate chip" pattern, because when seen close up they resemble chocolate chip cookie dough. They weren't widely issued to troops until shortly before and during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, which began in August, 1990. That's the only photo in your video I guessed correctly! Good job doing so well based on styles of dress, Karolina!
I was gonna call out the chocolate chip camis as well! so cool that I actually knew something here hahaha I was like, OOP Gulf War- the camo from the 70's was much more "average old timey" camo, thinking of movies like Platoon 😅
Omg imagine if The Catherine De Medici Time Travelling Society played this together. That’d be fun.
Yes, we want to see this happen!
Petition!
@@sonian7234 I second this petition
@@helenahsson1697 I third the petition
Make it so!
I knew the 1996 photo you thought was 80s, mostly because the big inflatable arms guy was invented FOR the 1996 Olympics. I also specifically went to that Olympics, too. (And yes, my dad, TO THIS DAY, wears his socks that high on his legs.)
Haha 😂 yes yes!
Great addition to my marvelous pile of useless knowledge, thank you!
@@maximrukinov3101 my little treasure hoard of useless knowledge, alongside Vigo breaking his toe on the set of Lord of the rings when he kicked the helmet
This could become an ongoing series. I could watch this for hours
It's funny how little help she gets from all the vehicles in the photos with her knowledge base. It'd be interesting to give the same set of pictures to someone who's into car history and see how their points compare.
My hilarious first instinct was to attempt dating the photos based on the film!! Different film has different colour profiles, so you can date based on when the film type was in use. I don't have any of that knowledge, mind you, just know that you *can* do it...
Surprisingly you don't need much actual knowledge - it comes naturally at least for me. The photo with a strange harvesting mechanism from 1943 was screaming it was made in the 40s just with a film grain. Basically, you ve seen thousands of photos taken during WW2, and they all have pretty similar contrast, grain - something like that. I am surprised what this game does to my mind, it's awesome
@@maximrukinov3101 That's cool! I'm quite bad at associating dates to things, so even if I've seen many images I can't put a decade to it.
This was really fun to watch. And I'm tempted to play myself. A Friday night time waster, perfectly timed.
This game is SO addictive!! I've been playing it pretty constantly since watching your video about an hour and a half ago, and I texted my parents the link and challenged them to a high score duel. 😄 Thank you for sharing this!!
IKR? My current high score is 4625. How high did y'all get?
Thank you for introducing this game to me, it's super fun! The final score of my first attempt was 3319. It's funny because the older the photo, the more accurate my guess was.
Edit: my second score was only 1593. I got too cocky...
I think the one in 2007 looked a bit older just from the architecture and the general colour of the shot. It made it look a bit softer and less modern.
I tried this and immediately found a photo of an event I witnessed firsthand; a protest in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square three years ago that took place while I was eating dinner just off-camera.
"That was pure luck!" she says, as if she isn't right there *in* the picture
I see you, Karolina 🕵
I'm so glad you nailed the Spice Girl era, because that is literally the only one I could have guessed with any degree of certainty 🤣
The picture of Messina had George Patton in it. People who know military history can PROBABLY identify the date of the picture within a week or two. But military history is not your thing. You did pretty well basing things on fashion.
16:42 - The '96 Olympics in Atlanta! The row of international flags at the top, the proud display of those inflatable tube men that were new at the time, the color coordination in the crowd's clothes. I think that also explains the woman's '80s hat: someone was really feeling "Designing Women" that day.
You inspired me to play a few rounds and this is really fun! It's also a great tool to demonstrate how it's so easy to divide fashion into discrete periods when in reality it's a lot messier
Karolina, for the military uniform picture, those glasses were military issue and referred to as “birth control glasses” (or because the military also loves acronyms, “bgcs”).
Because you wouldn't be able to get laid wearing those?
I love how with your knowledge of the cars you can separate them into two categories, pre war (ww2 i guess) and post war only lol
I also like how your guess is 99% based on clothes alone, in the farming picture you don't even look at the ancient looking farming equipment and only how high his pants are lmao
omg the race one from 2016 was so difficult, the ONLY thing I found that could've given it away was the guy with the wireless headphones
“Why is he wearing those old-ass frames?” Those were standard issued frames we were issued at boot camp. I don’t think the styles changed since Vietnam.
appreciation post for Carolina matching her shirts to the background so the colour schemes are pleasant
In the 2016 picture it looked like they were watching a drag race, those usually have different cars racing every few minutes, so that might explain why not that many people have their phones out! Might have already gotten plenty of videos by this point in the show. Drag races can also be entered by everyday people, so could be that too, OR, could be that car people go to races frequently enough to not need to take videos everytime (or a combination of the above).
The uniform one that tripped you up was recognizable as a specific camo pattern issued for the US Army/Marines for Desert Storm '90-'91. The international coalition was made up of lots of different soldiers in lots of different uniforms - not even all of the US forces got this uniform pattern, so it's probably quite obscure to people outside of the US.
I cracked up laughing when you called out those hideous frames on the soldier, they are infamously fugly and are called BCGs - Birth Control Goggles or, if you wanna be crass, P**sy Deflectors 😂
My mom had those frames. I was like looks my mom's old frames. Ah 90s
@@FeralFelineFriend The style hasn't changed, soldiers are still wearing these :P
Oh my gosh, I am so proud to say that I actually did better than you did on this one! I was not expecting that. I suspect it's because of your Polish background. Like in that one where you said the guy looked just like your dad, I knew for sure it was 60s. (I have dual citizenship: Canada and the USA.)
This is interesting as shit you can just milk this for like a five video series
omg i was thinking the same thing, czech fashion and technologies and stuff is so behind sometimes that i would have a reallyy hard time guessing the ones from 1960s and up lol, probably. like with one of the first pictures i tried based off of a 1985 czech movie where an actress had a bblown hairstyle exactly like that so i was like yess!! but the photo was 1977:'D
lol that was easily the most unexpected Louis de Funès reference I’ve ever come across
At 16:43 you mentioned the guys with the high socks and caps like, "so it's gotta be the..."
Me, thinking: "90s, totally 90s"
Karolina: "...1980's."
Me: D:
Hahaha in the 90s we were all wearing those thick white socks up to our calves. And all those fanny packs! Looks like a mid-late 90s dad convention. I think if the shorts were pulled up more it'd be more 80s, but all those untucked polos and loose shorts are a dead ringer for the mid-late 90s. Everything's so baggy.
It would be funny if you had someone who doesn’t know about fashion history describe the photo to you and you have to guess the tear from their description!
Someone tell Karolina that time travelling is cheating 😆
The whole time I was watching GeoWizard play this I was thinking “I WANT TO SEE KAROLINA PLAY THIS RIGHT NOW”
Wish granted 😊
Nord VPN - keeping your IP address as invisible as Karolina in this outfit against this wallpaper
1:35: Me: Karolina it is 1963! Go for it!
1:36: Karolina: 1964.
1:37: Me: Oh God why?! :(
Karolina: tries to guess the year by clothes cuz knows nothing about cars
Me: tries to guess the year by cars cuz I know almost nothing about clothes😂
me too
This is honestly so fun. It's interesting to see how my dabble into women's fashion history either helps or hinders, as well as my own experiences (like being able to guess the 2000s pretty well) and my own general history knowledge which is admittedly limited to the US/parts of the West.
This game looks cool! Like a history geoguessr.
Yes exactly my thought! We used to play geoguessr in uni
That was fun!.... you're humor and quips are awesome...more like these please@
One of your most interesting videos in a while, it's a joy to be able to observe your thought process! Hope for part2
Such a fun game. Thank you for introducing me to it.
The giveaway in the race car event pic was the Sprint ad on the barrier wall. It's the post Sprint/Nextel merger logo which debuted in 2005 and pre T-Mobile acquisition of Sprint which was finalized in 2020. I guessed 2009, so I was still way off too. I watched the GeoGuesser pro play this a bunch recently and realized you really have to look for contextual clues beyond fashion in any photograph that's post 1980 really.
As for the military men, those are standard issue military glasses. They're extremely durable and shatter resistant unlike normal glasses. Those are American DCUs (desert combat uniforms) which means it either has to be the Gulf War or post 9/11 but the camo isn't the digital pattern (made up of lots of tiny squares) which was rolled out heavily in the very beginning of the long conflict. So, that meant odds favored Gulf War. (And I know this stuff because most of the guys I went to HS served post 9/11 and a lot of our dads/uncles served in the Gulf or we knew someone who did)
NO PHONES JUST PEOPLE LIVIN IN THE MOMENT
I literally love the way her accent makes american words sound way more posh😆
Hi Karolina, I just started watching Netflix’s recent historical series about Lidia Poët, Italys first female laywer in 1883. It has some lovely dresses 😍😍😍😍 I’m no fashion historian, from what little l can google on womens fashion in Italy during that time I think they follow it somewhat historically corect but would love your analysis! 🤩😍
I tried this and thought a picture from 2016 was from the 70s because the quality was so bad. (there were only 4 kids in the pic, all wearing colorful summer clothing and facing away.)
"Why is he wearing those old ass frames"... military is why.
Yep, LOL! Free-ninety-nine is why!
I loved this video! It was so interesting and I actually learned quite a lot!
Please do more of that - maybe even with subscribers submitting pictures and you guessing when they were taken? (although that is a lot of effort for you, so maybe just doing the website again would be fun)
Karolina, the 2015 photo at the car race was a nascar race, they go in a circle for 500 laps or more. if those people had their phones out, they'd be holding them up for hours.
I was close for a lot of the ones showing the 60s and after but got the military one for 1990 spot on cuz my Dad served in the Gulf War, I've seen photos of those uniforms a thousand times. Heck he might even be IN that very photo since the guy with the glasses looks JUST like him!
That one picture where Karolina said one guy looked like her dad's pictures 100% lookd like the pictures of my parents hanging out with friends in like 1989!
I can assure you those old ass glasses frames were still around in the 90s, my dad is a great example XD Although we are from Poland too so maybe that is a wrong metric to go by.
Even more evidence Karolina is a time traveler from the early 20th century. Easily identifies photos from her time but way off on more recent decades
petition for you to do a livestream of playing this like those guys who play geoguessr
I love this WAY too much. I was competing against you SO HARD and shouting when I was correct 😅😂😂😂😂 WHERE IS THE GAMESHOW OF THIS I WOULD FEED THEM MONEY
Edit: I feel like to be really good at this you need a wide array of knowledge. The ones I got right that you didn’t were because I knew things like the ages of the guitars (as a musician), or the fact that BlizzCon must be a convention for Blizzard Games which got big after their game Workd of Warcraft, so it had to be a few years after that came out, in addition to the clothing styles and aesthetics of the material objects. Then there were ones that I could tell like were gimmes if you knew like the faces of historical figures for instance. Like you knew Victoria Beckham (I did not) and other folks have mentioned that Messina photo features George Patton, and I think sone of the other ones were the same. So like you need a wide array of toolkits for deciding these; relying on just one or two will lead you astray. It makes it really hard but also REALLY FUN!!!!!
I adore the wallpaper in the ad! especially with your matching shirt
No one chatting about the elementary school boy with a rifle in the classroom? That was a wild picture.
That was fun! Basically I got most of the military and sports ones wrong.
Video idea, you should make a historical of vintage dollhouse.
What an amazing game....I got all of them within one year if they had a car and clothes...I specialise in cars and fashion combined. I grew up with vintage cars and we own two ourselves now and also do car events in costume. SO as an historical costumer, i got most of them within a year. I didnt get the military or the airport close tho....anything after 2000 is pretty much tech defined...and no clue about them. Interestingly hair, hats and shoes and makeup is more dateable and cars are more datebale than ppl give them credit for. fashion is too ubiquitous after 2000 in a crowd setting as well...got all the post 2000's one VERY wrong. LOL
@@catarinavergueiro7453 Very good question, and one im about to write an article about for a magazine (another story). But, in answer to your question, a combination of technology in fabrics and manufacturing has streamlined every day clothes into a fairly ubiquitous fit, one that is loose, stretchy and we have almost "standardised" every day clothing. We are quickly loosing details in what we wear that dates our clothes, in attempts to rush into our days and just get stuff done. What matters today is not how you look but what you do, and how quickly you do it. SOcieties priorities have changed. Its not about social conformation, its about performance, so therefore something drops off our priority list. And in this case, high fashion has been what ppl have scrificed. For example, small details of ones clothing is what determines a date. For men, this is shape of and angle of point on shirt collars, and tie styles, with women, it tends to be the fabric used for jeans. Remember Tencel - a black flowly fabric used for "jeans" in the late 1990's. Where did thhey go? SO comfy, but they made way for denim again. Today, any style is in fashion, so long as it suits you. In thhe 1920's, women who just did not have the body to flatter it, wore a flapper dress, its just what was available. But today, ppl wear skinny jeans OR bootleg when available depending on what they prefer. The huge variety of fabrics means we wear sports wear as day wear, esp at home. Mens pants other than denims are a cotton, and the pockets, waistband and zipper arrangement hasnt really changed in 50 years. So, historically women did care about fashion, but updated it with the latest hat or bag etc. 1900, photos show women in 1893 fashion with 1900 dated hat. But today, the hat is no more, as are gloves, stylish handbags etc. Fashion has become something that is something ppl really care about or they dont, but you also have to look at the setting of the photo. A photo of a crowd at an airport is not reliable post 2000's to date except for technology and brands, most of us could wear what we wore 20 years ago and no one would notice. But when you look at hair cuts (the 1990's midi flick cut, or 1980's perms, and today its the wave created by the dyson air wrap) these are more dateable than clothes. If you look at fast fashion there is nothhing remarkable about them. There are fleeting fads, like the peasant look of the mid 2000's, but some ppl are bringing that back.
So its not about the STYLE per se, its more about the fabric type, which is VERY hard to tell from a distance. SO whille in the 1940's and 50's, you could pin something to a 3 to 5 year time gap - today - it could be 10 or 20 depending on how close the photo is, what the makeup and hair looks like and whether its a casual setting (airport crowd..? anyones guess) or a group out for dinner (better idea based on clothes, makeup and deco style of the restaurant even). I ramble a lot i know - but no we dont care about fashion as much because we have shifted our focus on an everyday level to what we do rather than what we wear. Wearing clothes today is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Except for a few individuals who feel its important to wear a piece of history and destroy it in the process!! I hope that helps expllain it a bit...?
@Catarina Vergueiro To add to Roxann’s excellent comment, I think social media and fast fashion have affected the difficulty of defining 21st century looks. In previous years, looks would change once a year. Nowadays, clothes cycle out of fast fashion stores every two weeks, and influencers present something new as if of course is already the hot new item.
Also, simply being in a time period makes a difference - I couldn’t really tell you what 90s style was at the time but I can now … but that should apply to the 00s and it doesn’t. (Tho’ 80s style was glaringly obvious even during the 80s OMG 😂)
@@nimue325 Very very true, thankyou. Yes fast fashion is kind of an oxymoron, because theres nothing fashionablle in them at all. Clothing purchase turnover would be more befitting this practice than fast fashion! And of course fashionistas are struggling to re-invent the wheel too, theres nothing new in fashion anymore. We have done it all, seen it all. Princess Anne - perfect example of how fashion isnt about what you wear, its about HOW you wear it.
@@roxannlegg750 Anyone who loves both cars and fashion is 🔥 - they are both design, technology, history, necessity, politics, gorgeous, and stupidly gendered.
@@nimue325 ROTFLMHO. Yes I grew up with my father restoring vintage and classic cars, and we are (or rather I am) running the costume competition for the Morris Minor National Rally here in South Australia in March. Personally I own a Rover P3 1949, and my hubbie a 1969 Austin 1800 mk II. Its the 75th anniv of the MM, and we are committee members of the club. You cannot sep cars and fashion, as car style and fashion, and even the technology have their own correlations with form, shape, style and useage. Ive been writing articles for months on it for their magazine. The old men in the club arent that impressed but I have the support of the Pres as he has millenial kids who llove vintage fashion and recognised the relevance but also appeal. We have ppl flying in from overseas for it and esp coming in costume. 4 days of costume perfection is actually putting a lot of pressur eon me to look right, given ive written about a doz articles on it for them. "No pressure girl but - if youre the judge, dontcha think you should look the best?". Prob is, in 4 days I have to nail, the late 1940's, mid 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's. And im plus sized so im making everything! The event has its own F B page, you can check it out...
I guessed the 1990 one perfectly because it reminded of the persian gulf war
It's reassuring to see that your experience was like mine--scores all over the place. You're much better at the pre-20's photos than I am, though. And why does all fashion since the year 2005 or so look the same to me?
yesss i always liked guessing when photos came from
It's easy to say because I'm not the one playing but I feel like the inflatable tube man gave that one photo away for me. Maybe they had them in the 80s but I can't recall seeing any photos of them before the early 2000s. Loved this video though. This could honestly be a chill stream.
Sorry to info dump here, but the inflatable figures actually have an interesting history. There’s a good episode about them on the 99 Percent Invisible podcast. They were invented for the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics by Peter Minshall, an artist from Trinidad who was known for creating large dancing puppets. Minshall calls them Tall Boys, and the original ones that you see in the photo actually have two legs, instead of the single tube type that has become widespread.
Ok, funny story about the military photo from 1990. The reason they look dated is that those have been the standard issue frames for glasses. They were designed to be compatible with gas masks during World War 2. They are fondly referred to in the military as "birth control goggles."
"Ok finally some people in clothes" lol
You being baffled about people not on their phones at the car race cracked me up :D honestly phone cameras just aren't high frame rate enough to record fast cars well, plus what would you actually see on the phone, the same cars going by? Not much reason to record! Thank you for the video. I love this one!
This was so much fun to watch! I'd love to see something like this again because it is so germane to fashion history. I do the same kind of think with a website called Geoguessr, where you're placed in a random place on the globe and need to guess where you are on a map. You have the choice to move around, forward, backward, etc. So fun!
It's funny because the when people are travelling they tend to go for comfort and can look kinda 1990s, a bit of a red herring lol.
My parents could have told you the year that picture in the factory was taken by the sewing machines. They have over 300 of them. I am an only child. Please save me.
At 10:25 I literarily started talking to my screen: "Karolina, that's General Patton in Sicily!"
You were pretty spot on with most of them. I wouldn't have been able to do nearly so well 😂
That 1996 crowd shot with those inflatable waving sculptures. That has to be the summer Olympic Games. That’s the very first time they were used
I thought immediately the 1920's guy on the farm was an old picture, in part because of the machinery and his outfit, but also because the image quality is old and it looks like the photo has been through some history itself.
In America, at least on the East Coast, 70's fashion to me represented terrible colors, terrible hairstyles and terrible silhouettes. I just remember everyone looking frumpy. And yet, SOMEHOW Cher looked amazing! lol
That's General Schwarzkopf in camouflage. "Stormin' Norman" of operation "Desert Storm" fame ... so yeah, 1990.
Someone has probably already told you this, but those big old glasses the soldier is wearing are BCGs (birth control glasses!) a lot of soldiers actually look great in them and they continue wearing those frames when they’ve finished their duty.
"Oh my god is that Victoria Beckham?...And she's smiling so it must be before 2000" Maam!
The only reason I knew you were wrong for the one at 17:20 was because the tube men flying around in the foreground weren't invented/revealed until 1996. Lol
To be fair, I don’t remember what year Kennedy was assassinated and I live in the United States so you being that close when he wasn’t even your president is really impressive to me
This game looks so fun - and that photo was absolutely not taken 2016 something is broken lol
The cars are super modern tho😭
I was sad when it ended LMAO I think I could watch you play this game for 2 hours without noticing
I don't know why I have to remind someone who tries to live as of she was in the late 1930's this but most of us live a few years or even decades behind current trends. My grandmother had an old ranch house built around 1910 or earlier near South Los Angeles. I lived there as a child before my parents could afford to buy a new house in a suburb a couple of miles southwest. The house was literally a 1930's house except for a 1950's refrigerator. My father was a schoolteacher so we never had an excess of money for clothing and appliances. If you saw a picture of us in that house you could be excused for thinking it was shot in the 1930's or 1940's, especially as our camera was an antique itself. Many of the places I've lived had decor a few decades old. Cars tend to be used for many years, as do casual clothes. You could easily be off a decade by looking at a picture. It's been said of Canada that they generally live a decade behind the US and it's true. I'm impressed that your answers have been so close.
I was able to guess the army photo from the first game as early 90s bc my dad has photos of himself in those exact uniforms. Down to the glasses! The glasses do look old but iirc they were what the military gave out at the time