Everybody should figure out their shower thoughts. I don't understand why people don't. I find so many people to be excruciatingly shallow and intellectually BORING. Now I know why.
When I was 9 I had a 14 year old babysitter, and to me at the time she may as well have been a grown woman. I ran into her again years later when I was 23 and she was 28, and it was so shocking to see her and realize we’re both adults in our 20s, in my head she’s still this way older authority figure lmao
That felt like me and my younger sister. I still perceive her as this little baby because she's 5 years younger than me but it's hard to believe she is a teenager already.
On the black and white subject... In 1970, when I was six, I had only known black and white TV. In fact, we didn't get our first color TV until 1974. I knew color TV was a thing but everyone I knew had black and white sets. When I was six, Gigantor was a cartoon that was broadcast and I watched it regularly. Gigantor was a crime fighting robot and he was my hero. Gigantor made Superman, Batman, even my (second favorite) Green Lantern, look like wimps... I digress... The images of Gigantor whooping up on bad guys stuck in my mind for decades. When TH-cam came out, I looked up my old hero Gigantor and was surprised to realize that the old Gigantor cartoons were broadcast in black and white. I remembered the scenes in color. My mind supplied the color because it obviously wasn't there.
@arnoldcaines9012 I'm around your age. I remember one day when I was little I watched Bewitched on a black-and-white set and immediately afterward insisted that the TV had shown Samantha's living room in color! We did also have a color TV, so I'd seen the Bewitched house in color before. I must have mentally filled in the blanks when I watched in black-and-white. But I still remember my family trying in vain to convince me that the black-and-white TV had not magically shown Bewitched in color!
In 1976 my family won a b&w tv set in a raffle! We already had a color tv so my sister and I got this new tv for our playroom. Anyway we loved that tv (no remote) and somehow I remember seeing shows in color though I know it was impossible. Our brains, memories playing tricks on us.
I remember looking up to that 18 year old volunteer at our pottery course when I was a small child. She was so wise, and confident, and grown. Then I became 18 and didnt know what the hell was going on, and I was disappointed that I didnt feel wise, confident and grown at all. But children started to treat me as if I was all these things.
Yep. I remember being 16 and volunteering to help mentor at a summer youth school thing. I was dealing with kids from elementary up to even highschool (I had to hide that I was 16 aha). these middle school girls were all clambering to be around me because I was older and therefore cool. When I was younger I thought 16 and 18yos were so old and so grown and so free. I was 16 pretending to be 18 and I had a moment where I was like, I'm more mature, yes, but I'm nothing like how I imagined 16-18y/olds to be when I was younger.
@@thecommunity1102 I remember being in 5th grade and for science class my school would have a day where high schoolers came and helped “teach” us about stuff like simple machines or whatever. I thought they were so old. Now I’m 32 and I look at college students like they are children. It’s wild!
Yeah when I was going into middle school I thought the 8th graders looked like adults and I was so scared of them. Now I’m going into junior year and 8th graders look like babies lmao.
Michael literally comes around 1-2 times a year, drops a banger, doesn't acknowledge he's been lost for months, and people don't even question it. That's how good his videos are, quality doesn't need explanation.
One thing he didn't bring up that I saw in a different documentary was the fact that being a teenager is a relatively new concept. For most of history once a person was in their teens they were expected to dress and act like an adult. It wasn't until post WW2 in the 1950's-1980's that teenagers started being marketed to separately with their own separate fashions and activities from adults. It wasn't fully realized as completely sperate fashions until the 1990's and early 2000's.
Exactly, the teenager as a demographic category came literally out of the blue in the 50s with books like Catcher in the Rye, movies like Rebel Without a Cause, the rock'n'roll music and fashion, etc. ... all that new art was reflecting some deep cultural changes in western societies and found a new massive audience, since then products and marketing campaigns targeting specifically teenagers have proliferated so much that they seem to have always existed even if it's not the case
I miss these types of videos 😢. Going >20 minutes into a single topic and asking why over and over again until you get to a satisfying super-deep-down-the-rabbit-hole end point. It's the best.
I always find it weird how people seem to think that at some random point in the future they will suddenly start wearing "old people clothes" because "old people wear them now", but no, when we are old, we will still wear the same clothes we wear now, which will be thought of as old people clothes by the future young people. It's actually pretty interesting how this works.
I remember my dad pointing out something similar when watching Star Trek TOS. In an episode where the crew aged rapidly, they started using old-people verbiage from the 60s. Bones used the word fuddy-duddy, and my dad was like, "Why would they suddenly start talking like people from their grandparent's generation?"
Its definitely a mix. There's plenty of people in their 60s and 70s that wear flat caps, for example, now even though they were never in style in their lifetime. They just seem like something an older guy might wear so they wear it.
Some things are used because you're old, and your shape or needs change. Elastic waistbands, higher waistbands to flatter your spare tyre, no small buttons, slip on shoes, warmer clothes/gilets, shorter hairstyles for thinner hair/less effort, support socks...
@@Zwickerly2 That's my thought, too. Maybe the social role of "old person" is defined by what a person sees old people doing when they're a kid - so they take on the same presentation when they get old.
It’s something that makes a whole bunch of sense that I’ve never even thought about. One of those things where it just kind of clicks and then everything about it makes sense haha
I distinctly remember being in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade thinking kids in 6th grade were basically adults and highschool aged kids appearing to be almost old enough to be my parents.
Me too In my school 6th graders were basically taller than the female teachers,wore stainless watches while we had plastic one's More athletic & More bustling with testosterone evident from deeper voice & prominent Adam's apple Like all the factors,they were not chubby always wrestling We had early gymnasts from that session & very competent sportsmen that played to national level In early winters we were running & jumping Had alot of energy & fighting games imagine a group of 40 males in 2-3 grade fighting & hiding for one spot,there was alot of conflict Further the ground was limited we had to Dodge the tag really swiftly & push another guy for him to get caught, I'm not proud to say I maybe one twice or thrice in the complete years of tags
@@PansyPopsnot only the old people will try to recapture their youth. They will wear baggy clothes with their a$$es hanging out and down to the ground lol.
@famiekj7813a lot of old people wear baggy clothes anyway they can’t afford their own so they wear what ever doesn’t fit and too small won’t fit so baggy it is.
I love that no matter how far apart these uploads are, they always manage to feel the same as they used to, back in a time I now feel deep nostalgia for. Really matches this Timeless Liminal feeling you speak of.
I have been watching videos from this channel from when I was in JR High. This channel feels the exact same as it did back then, in a very good way. To put into perspective on how long I've been watching, I graduated college 2 years ago.
You know it's a VSauce video when 3/4 way through the video you totally forgot the initial topic until Michael brings it back and connects it all together
A lot of interesting topics in this video. One that was briefly mentioned but not explained much was the color of reading books. The only book that I ever read that produced black and white images was "To kill a Mocking Bird."
I think what might also play into this is that fashion being mostly „dictated“ by the youth is a relatively new thing. In the past, fashion was made for adults and so, if you wanted to look fashionable in high school, you dressed older. Karolina Zebrowska has a great video on why we stopped wearing hats that explains this phenomenon.
@Preston Hunt It's because advertisers learned that if you can hook someone onto their product as a teenager, you likely have them for life. Also they tend to be less discerning and are easier to market too. Lastly they started having some spending money so naturally advertisers and fashioned began to target kids and teenagers.
My stepdad insisted on naming my little brother “Andrew” bc he wanted his name to be shortened to “Drew” and to this day nearly six years later is still salty that everyone calls him “Andy” bc for whatever reason calling a bubbly, wide eyed, blond haired toddler “Drew” just didn’t feel right to anyone else. Literally everyone says “he just doesn’t LOOK like a Drew, he looks like an Andy”. It still cracks me up.
This is so innocuously and specifically hilarious, I love it! Tell Pops to hang in there, we have so many random expectations and pre plan so many tiny seemingly insignificant things as parents and to me it's a sign that he loves his kids a whole bunch to have put so much thought and consideration into it and then still be so innocently salty about it decades later. Grumpy old(ER) men are a treasure. 😂
@@shayeuros1964 trust me, I said the same thing XD like “if you were that dead set on him being a drew you could’ve just named him drew instead of andrew” lol
@@autumnpoplawski6889 one of the funniest things ever to me is that my dad’s middle name was “lee” so he wanted to name me “Emma lee” and my mom refused bc she thought it was a stupid name and said, verbatim, “I will never have a child with a name as stupid as that”… So my stepdad’s youngest daughter is named “Emmalee” XD
My great-grandmother Pearl was an orphan and child bride from Kansas (under age 15 we don’t know her exact age). Point being she had a very hard life. On her wedding day photo she looked about 13, still had “baby fat.” You can see the rapid progression of age as she endured the Depression, 6 births, hard farm labor in the sun. By the time she was in her 40s she was a grandmother and LOOKED it, including needing dentures. I am just turned 30, am getting ready to start a family… can’t imagine what our ancestors went through.
Funny how ethnicity plays a big role too tho, my grandmother died at 88, she was born and raised in Africa, worked under the African sun, she also had 6 children. When she died she had all her natural teeth except two front ones due to a fall. Her skin was smooth like mine, even doctors could not guess her age due to her skin. I have real difficulties in guessing Caucasian peoples age because they do indeed age faster than African people. My mother for instance is 53 I kid you not she looks 40, my sister is 35 and still looks like a minor. I have few colleagues that are younger than my mother and look so much older, I tend to visualize 50 year olds like my mother, but I came to discover that it is not a general comparison at all.
@@HAIRHOLIC_1 Very true. My mom and sister always say we just look younger in our family but it's not because its our family. It's because of our melanin from being black. What I am doing differently than others in my family is I am on a 0 carb dairy free strictly carnivore diet. I rarely drank alcohol but I'm cutting it for good and I've never spoked nicotine or have I ever done any hard drugs. I'm 26 years old and I have a feeling my youth will last much longer than most. I'm Debt free and child free, and trying my best to limit stresses. My husband is white but since being with me he has adjusted his lifestyle and has prioritize his health and fitness. He is younger than me but looks older.
@@HAIRHOLIC_1 Well, as a caucasian, I do find than black people look much younger than they are, at least the ones who are in shape. I read an article not long ago about a sugar baby who said she fell in love with her sugar daddy and I have not much problem believing she was honest. The sugar daddy was a black man in his 70's, looked 15-20 years younger and looked damn fine. This type of thing may be related to protection from the sun. We see your lines and wrinkles less too.
@@HAIRHOLIC_1 Tru that. I'm nearly 70 and I don't look, act, walk, or move like white women my age. In still the same height and my back is very straight. It took forever for me to finally get laugh lines at my eyes and you can only see them when I smile. I was being mistaken for a teenager when I was 30. It was so confusing. I had my kid at 18 and his friends and other people thought we were siblings. Even my MIL told me once that my brother was so nice and I'm like, that's my son, not my brother 🤣 I was on a Zoom call learning another language and said in the language that my son was 50 and the teacher tried to correct me and I'm like, no ', I know how to say 50 yo in this language. I'm not confused 😂
@@WhyTH-camWhy I had a black female client who mentioned social security and I thought she meant disability and I was so confused when she clarified she was getting retirement. I thought she was in her 30's! She mentioned she had won a youth-looking contest and I stalked her on social media and there she was! The only thing I did pick up on was her memory wasn't what it should be (I easily pick up on little things like that), otherwise, she looked fantastic and was very pretty.
Look at the following actors: - Carol O'Connor - Jean Stapleton - Norman Fell - Don Knotts - Redd Fox They were all in their 40s and early 50s when they were on TV. They look older than I do now and I am almost 60. No, the 1970s aged people a lot. People DID look MUCH older in the 1970s. That one decade produced very aged looking people. Why? It was the apex of all things that make us look older, including - Lead in the gasoline - TV dinners - Smoking (even non-smokers breathed smoke filled air) - The explosion of sugar in our foods. - The start of inactive lifestyles, before people started going to the gym to compensate for it. The 70s was also a time of great stress. Taxes were high, inflation was off the charts, and interest rates hit double digits. The Viet Naam and the impeachment of a sitting US President during the Soviet era only made things worse.
In the late 1960's Mr. Lee, a University of Maryland english teacher, jokingly asked us to always sit in the same seats. Then he upped the ante and ask us to wear the same clothes. I thought it was very funny.
vsauce helped get me interested in science as a kid. I graduated college last month and am starting my first real job in computer science next week. Thanks Michael and others!
I am 64. People, in general, think I am younger, or sometimes shocked at my age. When I look in the mirror I see a senior citizen, but many think Im 10-20 years younger. 30 year old co-workers flirt with me and I'm not particularly handsome. I feel the key to not showing age is several things. I shave my head, my hair has been thin for decades. When you see photos of bald men in the past, they did everything to try to hide thin hair. Combovers on that horseshoe of too much hair looked ridiculous. Having no hair also eliminates the fact that my hair is a white and grey mix. I tweeze constantly. What doesn't grow on my head comes out of my ears and nose, having stray hair popping out will age you. I have a smallish patch of hair on my chin, I don't want to go full hipster beard because I would look like David Letterman, lol. My glasses look very much like Michael's, out of style glasses age a person's look dramatically. Clothes are simple, Old Navy. They look good on anyone, regardless of age, they are neither trying too hard to be in style or to impress, it's like Garanimals for adults. I also live in a big city where most of my neighbors are half my age. I share many of their interests. Not spending my time with a bunch of geezers reminiscing about "the good old days" certainly helps.
@@cgplays9 he's been doing informational videos for like 10 years now lol, it's weird to think that some people watching these videos were 2 or 3 when he made his first video.
I miss this kind of vsauce video a lot more than I realized. Michael explaining tangents is extremely nostalgic of a happier time. Love you buddy, my kids love the curiosity box.
I actually just assumed that this video was from like 2015 until he talked about sponsors. Doing this type of video again subconsciously aged Vsauce in my eyes!
Schools are a great way of seeing retrospective aging in action. The students graduating look considerably older than the earlier grades. I'm in college now, but when I first came to middle school, the 8 graders looked like miniature adults. When I graduated, however, me and my peers still looked like young teenagers, hardly ever changing. The earlier grades that year looked very young as well. The same can also be said for High School.
As a 21 year old being out of high school for 3 years it was weird because when I was in 8th grade Jr high the incoming freshman in high school looked their age as freshman but then when my year was incoming freshman about half were looking their age but the other half looked even younger than their age and then the year after us of incoming freshmen about 80% of them looked way younger than they were supposed to look and the 20 looked their age so I say genetics in my city we've looked younger than our ages really were because I'm one of those that didn't look their age because my aunts and uncles and friends say I look the same and pass as even a sophomore in high school!😂😅it's so weird
I'm from late 90's and somehow end up having classes with students from early 00's in college. Many of them are using iPad to take notes, while I'm still using paper and pen. Just a few years gap, and looks like a completely different generation. And me trying not to wear too casually on class, makes it even more so lol.
All great points. I always replied when people said "people back then looked so much older than we do now" "do you think at some point, people just choose to wear old people clothes and hair? No, they have probably worn similar styles since their twenties when most of us find our personal styles and these styles seem old to us, which is why looking back at old people when they were young, they seem older to us". Some names make people seem older too because they were trendy decades ago and people have had their name all their lives.
He comes on just twice a year, blows our mind and casually goes away like nothing happened... I can just tell the amount of research he puts in every single video!
I was going to say this feels like a return to form, but actually I think it's a reprise of form. It echoes the old stuff, but in a way that's deeply shaped by the new stuff. This is my favorite period of Vsauce yet. Keep following your creative path, Michael, I'm loving where you're going.
I remember being in high school, and every year the incoming freshmen looked younger and younger. Then I looked back at my freshman yearbook and EVERYONE in my class looked like babies compared to their present appearance. Crazy stuff.
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It seems like each new set of teenagers is less mature than the last, too. Exposure to television and the internet their entire lives and generally being more privileged might explain some of that. I never thought I was as mature as the older kids. But I definitely thought the younger kids were disproportionately immature from the scope of the age differences being considered.
@@JM1993951 This is just people not liking whats new, you can see people saying the same shit 2000 years ago, they've said people were getting dumber when books popularized because they kept ''reading all day like idiots''
@@OnePieceSS23 did people really say that about reading? 😂 I remember parents freaking out over Harry Potter but reading was “nerdy”, not brain rotting.
I realized the thing about hanging on to fashion and it becoming "old people clothes" when cargo shorts were declared Dad clothes in the mid 2010s. I'd worn that all throughout college, and they were popular with everyone. And that's how it struck me.
I had my first cargo pants in the 70's. I bought my 12 year old son some yesterday. And I still have some today, so I dont know. Then again, I don't follow fashion, I buy what I like.
I’m curious to see how this effect evolves with time; As someone who generally cares about clothes and fashion, I’d say trends are treated much differently now than in the past. Like yeah, there are still trendy styles that go in and out of popularity, but fashion focuses much more on individualism today. So much so, to the point where a lot of people pick some of their favorite trends from past eras like a buffet and put it all together. I wonder if this action will make it harder and harder in the future to judge someone’s outfit solely on if the clothing is currently trending or not, or if there’s always going to be an overarching trend that can dictate the “look” of an era
Cargo shorts specifically will always be dad shorts. They're too utilitarian. Kids and dads alike love pockets, but you'll never spot a kid sporting denim shorts with a fanny pack. At least, not for a while.
I had an intro sociology class text about how the concept of children and teenagers didn't really exist until the early 1950s. That's why young people always dressed like little adults. There were stricter societal dress codes for young people.
This is the best episode. It took something I was wondering myself for years and finally put a name to it and analyzed it to its enth degree. I return to watch it every once and awhile. It’s so good
My grandmother has been getting her hair "set" weekly in the same hard little Grandma fro for the past 45+ years, and during the pandemic she couldn't do that so she had her hair down for the first time and she looked AMAZING, like 10 years younger. She hated it lol
@@mollywillo oh take it from someone who has to do old ladies hair all the time with minimal training…. Those beautiful curls hardly ever come without a bunch of work
It's strange to think that the styles we choose to make ourselves look young and lively eventually become the styles that younger generations associate with us looking old and crummy. Truly an example of blind ignorance.
@@calebdonaldson8770 I like the “grandma fro!” But I do associate it with older women of course, since it isn’t really a style as much with the current generations, at least for white women. But it’ll probably come back at some point, as these things do.
I don't know how Michael does it. He finds these topics, addressing phenomena I never realized were a thing. But not only are they a thing, but they're a very well-researched thing with numerous scientific studies and entire sub-cultures. I end up feeling dumb and smart at the same time.
Isn't that just the best feeling though? Discovering something you've never even thought about, but immediately being able to understand and relate to it, that's almost the pinnacle of a learning experience :D A testament to how freaking awesome these videos are, for sure!
My mother was born in 1925 in New York City. She said that in her era, there wasn't any such thing as a "teen age" that had it's own culture, styles, behavior, etc. She said that when you hit puberty and grew into adult size, you just started wearing the same clothes as your parents and were expected to act more grown up. Seems like teenager times started after World War II. I could be wrong...not sure.
It was cool back in old days for teens to try to look like adults. That was considered being sophisticated. It was socially normal to expect teens to graduate from high school and go right into getting married, having children, and providing for their families. Also life expectancy was lower the further back you go. Today's culture is less committed to anything. No one is expected to get married, have kids, have a job that provides for their family at a young age. The social culture more values the beauty of youth and living your best life, and our aesthetic reflects that.
There's a great thing (at 7:20) that may add more questions. Why is it that in some years of this guy's photos, he looks older than later years (when we already know the photos are in chronological order).
I remember the near panic I felt when I turned 30. Now I'll be 60 next month. I wish I could go back in time and tell that kid to just enjoy every day.
i remember asking a friend (we were teenagers) where he'd like to be on his 30th birthday. his response was "i hope i am dead." i am sure he got his wish.
Turning 30 is worse than turning 40 and I’ve heard worse than turning 50 & 60. Unfortunately it’s the people around you who try and make you feel old. Don’t let them. 30 is young and if you take care of yourself you’ll feel 30 for a long time. I read a quote once. “I spent my thin years feeling fat and my young years feeling old”. Only you can change this.
Damn the whole thing about seniors seeming old when you were a freshman then seeming young as hell when you were one is so true. As a freshman, seniors seemed like whole ass adults to me, but as one they seemed like kids, and now at 19 some friends that are going into their senior year seem like they're 15. It's really weird
It's odd because when I was a freshman back in 2020, So many seniors seemed the same age as me so I didn't see them as older. Now I'm approaching 11th and there's a bunch of freshmen that don't even look anywhere close to my age
Yeah, I remember when I was a high school freshman in 2014, high school seniors looked so old and intimidating to me. Now I'm 22 and just graduated college and high school seniors look like children to me 😂
@@elephant35e when I was in 3rd grade elementary school and went to a middle school, every kid looked a high schooler and spoke in finished puberty voices, now that I experienced middle school, everyone seems so much younger
Even after a decade, Vsauce still continues to make some of the best content on TH-cam. This guy was my childhood and it’s awesome to watch a new video of his.
My father sent home a picture of him dressed in local clothing when he was stationed in Egypt. He was 34. At the time I was a child and he was an old man. When I was 34 my husband and I bought a new house and I came across the picture. Realized I was the same age as he was then and he was far from old. Just moved a few years ago and again found the picture. I am a senior now. Looking at it my first thought was, "Why were they sending that baby overseas?" He keeps getting younger in that picture.
I'm 40 now and recently looked through my parents' albums from when they were in their early 20s. They did things I totally associate with "things adults do", like going on family vacation together with a cousins' family, having mutual invitations to home cooked meals and board games afterwards, all very innocent and "behaved" activities. Something that among my friends only started maybe 5 years ago, for many this isn't a thing to this day. Every year I go to a lake for a weekend with a group of people some of which have done this exact same trip since their teens. (I joined in my 20s.) The partys were much harder back then, but even today it's a lot of drinking, cheap food, naked swimming at midnight and generally "partying out" - something I coud NEVER envision my parents do at 40. In fact I remember both their 40s birthdays very well, and it was boring "grownups" sit around and be social events. My dad got a new HiFi, I got a T-Rex head wall mounted decoration. It's not just looks. We're living a VERY different life from our parents, and that is true for every generation.
Man thats true. People lived life back then and it showed in their face. Nowadays we dont live life nearly as much which probably also explains why the youth is more depressed than ever
True. In those days you had a career started, a marriage, a mortgage, and two kids before 25. It was like this well into the mid 90’s. The emergence of the internet, especially after 2000 really opened up youngsters to break the restraints of traditional life and explore this big beautiful world.
Here's an example that really stands out. Edward Platt who played the chief in get smart was only 49 years old when the TV show premiered in 1965, and yet, he easily looked 65. By the time the series ended in 1970, Platt looked closer to 75, yet he was just 54.
Here's something I was thinking about the other day. As a child or teen, a difference of as little as 2 years seemed insurmountable, people in older grades seemed so OLD. Now of course at age 30 I hang out with adults of a wide range of ages from 25 to 45 and none of us seem all that different. But those same people I went to school with, now only around 32 or 33, still seem unapproachably old and mature to my brain.
The longer you live, the less each year feels for you because it's a smaller % of your entire life. When you're 10, 2 years is 20% of your life. Now that you're 30, 2 years is only 6% of your entire life. So in your mind is feels less time. Think about it if you lived forever, how quickly the time would pass for you.
@@3lttlbrdsback in the day they were pretty accurate with ages, think saved by the bell, fresh prince, full house, sister sister, etc. All the younger actors were either the right age or very close to the right age that they were portraying, I think some of them might have even been younger than their characters.
I always felt like the "young people then look like old people now" was very obvious when watching older movies where everyone was dressed according to what was fashionable at the time but I now associated with grandparents etc. I think the quality of the photos and films also plays a role in this. If you put a grainy filter over a portrait taken today, someone who doesn't know the original could believe it to be an old photo even though the facial features didn't change.
Not really. Look at their facial structure. They look older. Today, I’ve seen people that look 17 but are 27 (like, I’m not kidding). I look 16, but I’m 19.
It mainly has to do with the fact that each older generation dressed & acted more proper. Like tucking in their shirt with regular street clothes, for instance. Some middle-aged people & senior citizens still commonly do this. When sports jerseys became iconic in the 90's during the golden era of Hip Hop, most people (and especially the youth) eventually stopped tucking in their shirt with street clothes. Sub-cultures, (like greasers, Hip Hop & gangsters, emos, hipsters, etc...) and religious freedom and lack of tradition are part of the reason why mannerisms & fashion changes and becomes lazier each decade.
I remember being a 2nd grader and seeing the 6th graders at recess, and they looked like full grown young adults to me. It’s true, it’s all about perspective
Yeah but I think it also has to do with clothes (way people dress), things like facial hair, the fact that activities back then were more hand to hand and people probably were much more fit and healthy as they didn't have TH-cam or anything to waste their time on so they would have bigger muscles at a younger age, and because they would live real life more than on computers, I recon that helped them shape into an "older person" quicker mentally and physically. So yeah perspective has some part, but mostly I think it is mainly to do with the society and how what they did then compared to today changes a lot.
@ialwaysgetrevenge I was a freshman 2018-19 and I swear those kids were on steriods they looked like if they were cast as highschoolers in a tv show it would be enough to take you out of the experience
@@shreyashshreyash6277 If this is true, it makes me really sad and worried. Because Vsauce is literally one of the most interesting and valuable, yet well explained and easy to understand channels on the entire website. He is one of the very few channels, that kinda open up the window to understanding, how the world around us actually (seems) to work, instead of how we see it from our own perspektive; who gives a new perspective on us ourselves. I watched every Vsauce video multiple times by now, simply because I often forget what actually "quality" and well thought through content / videos look like.
In the 80s a running joke was how old men would wear their suit pants way too high. I used to assume this had to do with how bodies change as we age, and something they did to prevent the pants from falling off. It blew my mind when I saw some fashion shots from the 50s and saw that high pants were actually a thing back then. People weren't wearing suit pants "like an old person", they were just wearing the suit they bought when they were young in the 50s, and it was simply just no longer in fashion.
Kinda wish high pants came back. It seems like they would be comfortable and also the crotch area had way more room….. pants nowadays can be murderous on the boys.
Here’s my trick to not feel old: when I was in the first half of my 20’s I felt like my 30’s would be old (or at least different). When I was about 26 or 27, I started to make myself think that my 40’s would be ‘old’. I kept doing this each decade and now that I am 60, I am starting to think of being 75 as being old. I also work on healthy habits.
That's pretty cool! I wonder when it'll start breaking down, though? I doubt it'll be like "well, I may be 110 now, but just wait until I'm 125-*THEN* I'll finally be 'old'!" (:p)
Love this. People screamed when I showed them my ID in a club a couple of years back, no one would believe that I was 48. They all figured I was 25, some people refused to believe it. Now all of a sudden I look at LEAST 35, and I'm only 50. It's distributing. No wrinkles around my eyes or any of that crap. No wattle, baby face.
Hate to break it to you Diane. But everyone does that unconsciously or otherwise. “Old” is relative. “Old” is always older than you are now. Perhaps when you find it hard to walk or think the illusion will crumble. Guess I’ll find out at some point. Btw, I’m 64 but still feel “young”. Funny that… lol
This is such a funny video to find because my grandfather was bald at 16 years old. He would go to convenience stores and buy cigarettes for himself and his friends. I miss him more than he could ever know. I know I'm a year late, but thanks for the awesome video, Michael!
Michael often explores the kind of questions that I've pondered on my own but would never bother asking anyone, because it seems too whimsical or trivial around which to have a serious discussion. And somehow he manages to present it in a way that makes it as profound and worthwhile as any intellectual topic.
When I was a kid, very old ladies drew pencil thin eyebrows way up high on their foreheads. I found the look very strange. My mother explained than women continued to wear the makeup that they wore when they were young. Decades later, I saw photos of beautiful Hollywood starlets from the 1920’s wearing that exact style. It was an ahah moment.
The "cool" '80s look of a tucked-in shirt, shorts or jeans, and white sneakers with white socks is a classic dad look today. Hairstyles too. The same is true for every decade that has come and gone. There are also actual factors that reduce aging, like sun block (and not intentionally getting a tan at the beach every summer), less smoking, more weightlifting, moisturizer, and somewhat better nutrition. And, there are cosmetic changes, like more prevalent hair coloring, Botox, fillers, and plastic surgery. And, to a point below, health care has greatly improved. Obviously illness can age people significantly.
I literally thought about the 22 year old manager I had when I was 17. He seemed like such an adult. Today I'm 25 and thinking back to that time in high school. Retrospective Aging is weird. Thanks for the video Mike! You always deliver when we need you most.
Had a 16 year old trainee recently tell me I'm very mature and in control and the whole time I was thinking that I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 (now 21). I remember thinking my managers were very mature when I was a trainee. Guess it happens to everyone.
When I was 17 18 19 my manager in his mid-20s was shorter than me I was eating he couldn’t tell me nothing I’ll tell him I’ll wait for you after the clock you know what it is..
It's important to remember that parents don't always stick to the name they originally planned because they often choose one that they feel 'fits' their child. This means that part of why people might feel like a 'Josh' or whatever their name is could stem from the fact that their parents associated certain characteristics or feelings with that name when they chose it.
I always find it strange how people seem to believe that at some point in the future they will suddenly start wearing "old people clothes" because "old people wear them now," but no, when we are old, we will still wear the same clothes we wear now, which future young people will consider to be "old people clothes." It's actually rather fascinating how this works.
Not really. If everyone nowadays is wearing t-shirts, jeans, sweatpants, hoodies, and sneakers, and people in 100 years are still wearing t-shirts, jeans, sweatpants, hoodies, and sneakers... why would any of it be considered "old people clothes?" The only reason we consider a suit w/ a hat etc. to be "old people clothes" is because that style WAS in fashion decades ago, but isn't anymore. The clothes we wear today will still be in fashion 100 years in the future. The reason this hasn't been the case historically is because we've been tending towards more casual clothing for centuries. Now, we're at a point where we can't get any more casual. So, fashion won't change much here on out - in fact, it hasn't really changed at all in the past 30 years. Look at pictures of people from the 90s. They dressed the exact same (minus joggers, maybe?). Even in the 70s, when people still wore suits to work, t-shirts/hoodies/jeans with sneakers were very much the norm outside of work. Hell, Jordans have been around since the early 80s. It's a nice thought but.. your great grandkids definitely won't say you're wearing "old person clothes." Everyone still wears the same shit from the 70s/80s in 2022. That won't change in another 50 years because there's nothing to change anymore. We've hit the peak of casual attire.
@@alienwarex51i3 You have a valid point, and I completely concur. All the shit I just read in your comment is entirely accurate. Additionally, I believe that our fashion-forward attire will remain popular in 30, 60, or even 100 years. Only time will tell. The 1970s and 1980s had a pretty cool style that was a little different from what we wear today. We've indeed hit the peak of casual attire.
@@alienwarex51i3a lot of older women's designs in their clothes is something a lot of younger women wouldn't wear. Also the baggy capris and shorts is a thing a lot of older women wear that most younger people don't
This was quite interesting to watch, especially with the naming phenomenon. I was born with the real name “Bradley” but since I despised that name from a early age, I just used my middle name, “Vince” 19 years later, anyone who knows me by Vince and I tell them my name is Bradley, I almost always get a “no way”
This reminds me of a meme about the name "Grant" The mom wanted to let a person hold her baby named Grant but the person didn't want to hold him instead, he wanted Grant to do his taxes.
People on old Vsauce videos always marvel about how modern they feel, and people in the comments on modern Vsauce videos say they feel just like they used to. Almost sounds like a topic Michael could make a video about.
@@dyhall Michael's old videos have a certain style to it. It starts with a certain shower question, moves to some other random information and ends with an existential crisis. This video is just that.
This is the first video I'm watching of his and I literally thought this. I was like "why does this video feel so nostalgic?" I even checked the date of the video
This reminds me of an observation I once made. People complain about war movies using actors that are much older than the actual soldiers were. Then I looked at photos taken during combat operations, and those young men looked much older than their years, and understandably so. I think the expressions, fatigue, and other factors actually made those teenagers look like they were 40.
The army can be brutal to the body. I joined when I was 16, and 9 years in doing time as a paratrooper with a few deployments, people regularly mistake me for being up to 10 years older. I feel like it too.
as a fashion student... throughout most of history, people wanted to look grown up, mature... they dressed and wore styles to emphasize "i am mature" or were dressed in minature versions of adult clothing- certainly for portraits and photos. that shifted Drastically in the "youthquake" of the 60s, when suddenly everyone wanted to look YOUNGER...
@Kento Yamasaki so explain why finite sins and disappointments deserve eternal punishment. It would be appalling to sentence someone to death for shoplifting, but it's ok to torture someone for eternity for... Coveting they neighbor's wife?
This!! And it’s also true that children were forced to grow up much faster in terms of the labor they would provide. There wasn’t really a “teenage” time period as we think of it today for the majority of human history. you were a child and then you were an adult and when you were a child you were taught skills that would make you a “good” adult and that was mainly tailored to your gender.
These later episodes are actually my favorite. They go into these really profound topics about my life that I didn’t realize everybody else thought about too.
I always thought it was so weird how when I was a freshmen all the seniors looked 25 but then when I was a senior I looked at my graduating class and it looked like we hadn't aged a day. Really cool to hear it discussed in this video as no one else in my HS really noticed it like I did or cared enough to dig into why that was the case. Retrospective aging is really an interesting topic
I think everyone’s thought that at some point. I used to think it all throughout school. The people 4 or 5 years above me always seemed so old, until you were their age, and you feel young still.
It happened for me as a junior. The incoming freshmen looked like goofy junior high school kids. It made me very self conscious of how older students must have saw us juniors.
I know, this is a question I’ve ALWAYS had and what absolutely amazing luck that sauce is the guy to answer it. Thanks vsauce, you’re one of the best there is.
This is why horror movies have always been able to get away with casting 30 year olds to play highschool seniors and it plays well despite adults rolling their eyes at it. That's the relative age that their target audience views seniors as being.
That correlation between dreaming and reading was such a good comparison because it makes so much sense and really gives the viewer a way to understand how dreaming could be in an "indeterminate color"
As somebody who primary plays video games rather than watch movies, my dreams feel a lot more like playing a game than watching a movie when I look back on it. Therefore I feel the idea of understanding dreams in terms of the media we consume makes a lot of sense
Few people know about it, this simple, rising concentration of CO2 extends human life, and today they look like 30. Globalists are fighting co2 because no one needs old people who live 120 years or more.
Every person who values TRUTH above all is a true scientist. I respect no one on this earth more so then anybody but scientist because their whole profession is based on Proof & findings and Pursuit of truth & i love the modern world is direct outcome of all the scientist in the world who lived & died and gave world whatever technology we have. Even Michael is a true scientist love his content before content blew up in internet even as early as 2010.
Your supposed to say madlad nowadays. You must be old. All the cool kids say madlad. Btw I hate the word madlad, thank you for not saying it. Its stupid.
Vsauce is easily the most influential person on the internet and doesn’t even realize it. He was basically the beginning of this genre of video which is by far my favorite
There is the cultural fact that a few generations ago, being old(er) had some benefits in social status. Hence, younger people would try to look and act older than people of the same age would today, so that they would be taken seriously in certain social relationships like business, politics, romance, and so on. This has changed in recent years for a variety of reasons. The older-is-better thing would also encourage certain behaviors like smoking and alcohol use which definitely not only are older behaviors but also make a person look physically older (and often enhance actual aging.)
@@elainejohnson796 I loved those documentaries. Some of the later ones made me so sad, seeing how different their personalities were from when they were younger. I need to find them and watch them again. Thanks for the reminder.
Hmmm ..there used to be more young people in population so being old was more special...but now majority of population are old people..so being younger is more special. People always strive toward what they aren't instead of appreciating themselves for who they are.
I agree, also being older got you respect where as now parents NEVER treat their kids like adults. Something my millennial friends and I have been talking about. My parents’ parents treated them like adults. Boomers refuse to respect their children the same.
3:30 I felt this exact thing, looking at the seniors when I was a freshman looked like grown ass adults, but interestingly once i graduated and visited my school a year later the seniors at that time, who were only a year younger than me, looked like literal babies, it was so weird to think that i saw myself as so grown up when i was in their position, but then a year later saw them as little kids
An ancient Chinese philosopher named Zhuang Zhou wrote once about how he had a vivid dream of waking up as a butterfly. In the dream, he said, he had no feeling that what he was experiencing was in any way unreal. For all he knew, he had always been a butterfly, and the "real world" his consciousness had apparently departed seemed to be dissipating illusion. He eventually grew tired and fell asleep on a leaf. When he awoke, he was a human man again, and felt as though he had always been. He did not feel that what he was experiencing was unreal, and the dream seemed now to be the dissipating illusion. Later, he thought about the dream and wondered whether he could really be sure that he had been Zhuang Zhou dreaming of being a butterfly, or if he was now a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuang Zhou.
weight , alcohol, and tabacco also play a large role. I have seen guys go from looking like they could be my dad to looking younger than me from weight loss. Also people used to drink and smoke more. Those can make huge differences.
I've learned so many things from Vsauce that are somehow now permanently with me. It's not often that anyone is exposed to a piece of information and can earnestly say that they've permanently put it to memory. Vsauce is the exception, I find myself frequently recalling bits of information from these videos even after many years.
Same. The video from years back on whether we all see colours the same, or we just think we do, haunts me to this day. Same with the one about how on a molecular level we may not touch anything
compelling science! says nothing about poisons in the food and water, it's just perspective and uhh every high schooler in that clip smoked! I mean I used to smoke and still look like a teenager but that's anecdotal. I really hate this bs science that ignores studies that go against popular opinion.
I have been playing video games for a long time and probably a lot of gamers would agree with me that when we try to recall the games we used to play 10 year earlier, with really poor 480p graphics, we seem to remember them in very high quality real like graphics. Only when we go back to play them now, we realize what computer graphics used to be back then. This could be another example of what vsauce was talking about. Bdw, I love these vsauce videos which start with something and wander off to some totally different topic while touching on so many things on the way.
If you play them on the hardware from the time they'll look much much better than on modern PCs. Especially with CRT monitors for games from that era. It's not just nostalgia.
It could also be a context thing. At the time, almost all images you saw was similar, everything pretty much had the same technology. 1. you saw less flaw because it's older technology 2 . At the time these weren't flaw to you, only now which makes you pay more attention to it
I swear to God it's so uncanny when you're aware of it. This phenomenon I can relate to in one occasion: During my younger years, with my DS I notably played Mario 64. I remember the visuals of Mario 64 being the same of Mario Galaxy's graphics. A year ago, I got curious and watched a speedrun of Mario 64, and I was surprised to see how it actually looked primitive with polygons and low graphics when my mind clearly remembered it with smooth high quality resolutions and frame rates
When I started college at the merchant marine academy all the guys had to shave their heads and wear uniforms. The first bunch of days I felt like everyone around me looked my age (18) and the people in charge of us looked like hardened sailors or something. When I got to know classmates and would find some who were actually older, it was like glass shattering and I could then recognize oh yeah this guy looks 34 but just has a shaved head. I just envisioned him as the same age as me. Similarly, I saw one of those hardened sailors getting yelled at and I realized he was a just a sophomore and I actually was older than him by a few months. I always found the illusion of age interesting
It was the same but reversed for me when I joined the Army. I went in at 30 and no one knew I was that old until I told them because everyone looks old when you have a bald head. I also didnt really realize most people were a decade younger than me until their hair started growing back towards the end of basic
There is also an issue that nowadays we want to look younger which historically is relatively new on such scale. Before the second half of 20th ct young people tried to look older to be taken seriously. The idea of youth as something especially valuable and primar to preserve was a consequence of cultural revolution and popculture.
yes! when I was a kid, we wanted a job, a car, and to be an adult. my young nephews want to stay at home and wear t-shirts. they are in their 20's, but dress and look the same as when they were 13.
Exactly. Your statement is ACTUALLY the synopsis of the whole thing. People tend to forget that back then, people WANTED to look older. Definitely not the case nowadays. People couldn't even get what was perceived as a real job back in the day if they "looked" young, regardless of whether they were the proper age or could do the work. The term "wet behind the ears" implied they were too young or inexperienced to know/do anything on an adult level since they "looked" young. He could've summarized that by just including this one fact but aye.... guess then he wouldn't have basis for a 22 min video. Lol.
This is absolutely fantastic. As a nurse, I noticed that smokers and non-smokers look generally the same in age/appearance until their mid-20s. By 30, it was easy to guess who the smokers were as there was definitely an effect on aging.
do you think this will continue with many younger people using vapes and smoking weed? I’m still unsure of how either of these things will affect aging in comparison to cigarette usage
@@cocteautwin I can only speak from experience with greenies... And here's my take: the heat from fire does dry your facial skin which ages it soo much. Cigarettes light with much less fire than weed because business people want you to consume it but the chemicals do kill you... Then the lung damage just kind of agens your whole body a biy. Vaping can alleviate some of this but wont remove it. Plus, as with everything, new damaging chemicals are being found out in vaping.
I've smoked since I was 17 and I look pretty young, I'm 30 now. I look way younger than my mom at my age and much younger than my grandmother at my age, both them smoked. That can't be the only reason.
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@@LisaAnn777 Google what people did to themselves in the 1960s and 1970s along with not exercising, unhealthy eating, heavy drugs and loads of unprotected sex. Not 100% of course, but the best case cenario was the combination of no exercise, unhealthy eating and smoking. Which yes, leads to premature aging. Also, if you go further back in time to the 1930s and 1940s, there was MASSIVE collective stress due to it being wartime, not to mention poor nutrition due to rationing. Stress=cortisol=premature aging. As well as a bare minimum nutrition. Nowadays we have it easy in comparison.
the most vivid dreams I had as a child were very vividly coloured and some had a palette that was very prominently one hue and breathtakingly so, it would be one of the principal takeaways of the dream
I love how over a decade later, Michael looks the same, speaks the same and the editing style is exactly the same it really creates a timeless video and the same music !
There was a really cute tiktok trend a while ago where moms dressed like their daughters, showing the before and after. It really demonstrated the illusion of fashion associated with past decades and older people, because everyone was blown away by how young they looked
Didn't realize how much I missed Vsauce until watching this video. Your short stuff is good, but your longer videos just hits different. I watched all 22 minutes enthralled.
it's the hairline. same as me, im 27 and i was losing my hair at like 24. Until i shaved my head fully, people used to think i was a lot older. When he shaved his beard he looked a lot younger as well
Yeah, I'm surprised he says he's only 36! Could be a wind-up? I'm 61 and do feel I should be 36ish, but I would have put his age later. Thinning hair, glasses and beard maybe add years compared, but wisdom trumps youth perhaps to add years? If you'd asked me, maybe 45 to 50 - an interesting thought given subject matter of the content (apologies to Michael re age assumption!).
Vsauce is the guy who actually tries to figure out his shower thoughts
Lmao 😂😂😂
Hilarious! So true.
Everybody should figure out their shower thoughts. I don't understand why people don't. I find so many people to be excruciatingly shallow and intellectually BORING.
Now I know why.
@nancy wuzaki you must be really fun at a party
@@loganbair9562 honestly, probably lol people like this are the *best* kind to chat with at parties. You talk about/ learn some of the coolest shit
When I was 9 I had a 14 year old babysitter, and to me at the time she may as well have been a grown woman. I ran into her again years later when I was 23 and she was 28, and it was so shocking to see her and realize we’re both adults in our 20s, in my head she’s still this way older authority figure lmao
POV: You accidentally took the word “ran” to literally. Thank you for 6 likes!
@@rachelmay23 lmaoo
Plz say you fuqqed
I’ve had the reverse effect on people I knew who were younger than me. Even though it’s only a few years they feel so much younger.
That felt like me and my younger sister. I still perceive her as this little baby because she's 5 years younger than me but it's hard to believe she is a teenager already.
Nothing slaps harder than when that Vsauce theme kicks in
But what is nothing? And how hard can it slap?
@ harder than the Vsauce theme
Incoming will smith joke
What about my dad?
Getting a notification that Vsauce uploaded slaps harder 😏
On the black and white subject... In 1970, when I was six, I had only known black and white TV. In fact, we didn't get our first color TV until 1974. I knew color TV was a thing but everyone I knew had black and white sets.
When I was six, Gigantor was a cartoon that was broadcast and I watched it regularly. Gigantor was a crime fighting robot and he was my hero. Gigantor made Superman, Batman, even my (second favorite) Green Lantern, look like wimps... I digress... The images of Gigantor whooping up on bad guys stuck in my mind for decades. When TH-cam came out, I looked up my old hero Gigantor and was surprised to realize that the old Gigantor cartoons were broadcast in black and white. I remembered the scenes in color. My mind supplied the color because it obviously wasn't there.
Now that is cool 😎
@arnoldcaines9012 I'm around your age. I remember one day when I was little I watched Bewitched on a black-and-white set and immediately afterward insisted that the TV had shown Samantha's living room in color! We did also have a color TV, so I'd seen the Bewitched house in color before. I must have mentally filled in the blanks when I watched in black-and-white. But I still remember my family trying in vain to convince me that the black-and-white TV had not magically shown Bewitched in color!
In 1976 my family won a b&w tv set in a raffle! We already had a color tv so my sister and I got this new tv for our playroom. Anyway we loved that tv (no remote) and somehow I remember seeing shows in color though I know it was impossible. Our brains, memories playing tricks on us.
I remember looking up to that 18 year old volunteer at our pottery course when I was a small child. She was so wise, and confident, and grown. Then I became 18 and didnt know what the hell was going on, and I was disappointed that I didnt feel wise, confident and grown at all. But children started to treat me as if I was all these things.
Yep. I remember being 16 and volunteering to help mentor at a summer youth school thing. I was dealing with kids from elementary up to even highschool (I had to hide that I was 16 aha). these middle school girls were all clambering to be around me because I was older and therefore cool. When I was younger I thought 16 and 18yos were so old and so grown and so free. I was 16 pretending to be 18 and I had a moment where I was like, I'm more mature, yes, but I'm nothing like how I imagined 16-18y/olds to be when I was younger.
@@thecommunity1102 I remember being in 5th grade and for science class my school would have a day where high schoolers came and helped “teach” us about stuff like simple machines or whatever. I thought they were so old. Now I’m 32 and I look at college students like they are children. It’s wild!
AGREE! Ha ha ha
Yeah when I was going into middle school I thought the 8th graders looked like adults and I was so scared of them. Now I’m going into junior year and 8th graders look like babies lmao.
Wow I thought I was the only one who felt this way
Michael literally comes around 1-2 times a year, drops a banger, doesn't acknowledge he's been lost for months, and people don't even question it. That's how good his videos are, quality doesn't need explanation.
He’s already cemented his legacy he doesn’t need to explain anything anymore I kind of suspect he’s doing something crazy tho
Then he's gone
He already solved life's greatest mystery..... life itself. Nothing's left to do other than fooling around from now on. :D
facts
People like Michael aren't lost, they're just dwelling for extended periods in their deep thoughts.
One thing he didn't bring up that I saw in a different documentary was the fact that being a teenager is a relatively new concept. For most of history once a person was in their teens they were expected to dress and act like an adult. It wasn't until post WW2 in the 1950's-1980's that teenagers started being marketed to separately with their own separate fashions and activities from adults. It wasn't fully realized as completely sperate fashions until the 1990's and early 2000's.
Nice info
Well said!
Yes Kevin Samuels said the same thing. Just like dating is a new modern practice.
I didn't know this! That is fascinating!
Exactly, the teenager as a demographic category came literally out of the blue in the 50s with books like Catcher in the Rye, movies like Rebel Without a Cause, the rock'n'roll music and fashion, etc. ... all that new art was reflecting some deep cultural changes in western societies and found a new massive audience, since then products and marketing campaigns targeting specifically teenagers have proliferated so much that they seem to have always existed even if it's not the case
I miss these types of videos 😢. Going >20 minutes into a single topic and asking why over and over again until you get to a satisfying super-deep-down-the-rabbit-hole end point. It's the best.
I always find it weird how people seem to think that at some random point in the future they will suddenly start wearing "old people clothes" because "old people wear them now", but no, when we are old, we will still wear the same clothes we wear now, which will be thought of as old people clothes by the future young people.
It's actually pretty interesting how this works.
I remember my dad pointing out something similar when watching Star Trek TOS. In an episode where the crew aged rapidly, they started using old-people verbiage from the 60s. Bones used the word fuddy-duddy, and my dad was like, "Why would they suddenly start talking like people from their grandparent's generation?"
Its definitely a mix. There's plenty of people in their 60s and 70s that wear flat caps, for example, now even though they were never in style in their lifetime. They just seem like something an older guy might wear so they wear it.
Some things are used because you're old, and your shape or needs change. Elastic waistbands, higher waistbands to flatter your spare tyre, no small buttons, slip on shoes, warmer clothes/gilets, shorter hairstyles for thinner hair/less effort, support socks...
@@Zwickerly2 That's my thought, too. Maybe the social role of "old person" is defined by what a person sees old people doing when they're a kid - so they take on the same presentation when they get old.
It’s something that makes a whole bunch of sense that I’ve never even thought about. One of those things where it just kind of clicks and then everything about it makes sense haha
After all these years I still don’t want to tell Michael that my name is not Vsauce
You really look like jack 👀
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Hey Vsauce, Michael here! Your name is Vsauce.
_o r i s i t ?_
To me you look like an Eric. I don't know why.
I don't get it.
I distinctly remember being in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade thinking kids in 6th grade were basically adults and highschool aged kids appearing to be almost old enough to be my parents.
Yes! In Kindergarten, 2nd graders were basically adults.
In like 2nd grade the 5th graders we’re like adults . Then when i was in 5th i didnt feel that old lmao
Same, here.
Me too
In my school 6th graders were basically taller than the female teachers,wore stainless watches while we had plastic one's
More athletic
& More bustling with testosterone evident from deeper voice & prominent Adam's apple
Like all the factors,they were not chubby always wrestling
We had early gymnasts from that session & very competent sportsmen that played to national level
In early winters we were running & jumping
Had alot of energy & fighting games imagine a group of 40 males in 2-3 grade fighting & hiding for one spot,there was alot of conflict
Further the ground was limited we had to Dodge the tag really swiftly & push another guy for him to get caught, I'm not proud to say I maybe one twice or thrice in the complete years of tags
Bro same
11:57 NO HES TOTALLY A JUSTIN!!!!
... I thought he was a Josh😊
i SWEAR i thought he was a bill
Yes!!!!
I said Mark. I also said Dan with Dan too. Which is funny, because I am a Dan.
I did have Bob and Tim around the wrong way though.
He's definitely a Justin
It's funny to think that there will be a point where hoodies and baggy pants would be seen as clothes for old people
Please no, don’t say this.
They already are, the people wearing that stuff are either young in 2023 or were young in 1997 or 1998. Both look kind of childish.
I think we're already there. Any man wearing a flat billed hat, sagging pants and baggy shirt must be an old guy stuck in the 90s
@@PansyPopsnot only the old people will try to recapture their youth. They will wear baggy clothes with their a$$es hanging out and down to the ground lol.
@famiekj7813a lot of old people wear baggy clothes anyway they can’t afford their own so they wear what ever doesn’t fit and too small won’t fit so baggy it is.
I love that no matter how far apart these uploads are, they always manage to feel the same as they used to, back in a time I now feel deep nostalgia for. Really matches this Timeless Liminal feeling you speak of.
I have all of the vsauce videos downloaded onto my ipad whenever I go flying and after years they never lose their impact
Bruh...no I know exactly what your saying 😁
When I clicked on it I legit thought it was an old reupload
I have been watching videos from this channel from when I was in JR High.
This channel feels the exact same as it did back then, in a very good way.
To put into perspective on how long I've been watching, I graduated college 2 years ago.
I love how he manages to install a low level existential crisis in me, and I'll be thinking about this all week.
You know it's a VSauce video when 3/4 way through the video you totally forgot the initial topic until Michael brings it back and connects it all together
word im new here glad I wasn't the only one who was a bit lost
So true. 6:29 blew my mind :)
Or in his earlier videos, he simply never goes back.
A lot of interesting topics in this video. One that was briefly mentioned but not explained much was the color of reading books.
The only book that I ever read that produced black and white images was "To kill a Mocking Bird."
true lol
1:42 Adam Friedland spotted
Im gay
I'm so gay
I think what might also play into this is that fashion being mostly „dictated“ by the youth is a relatively new thing. In the past, fashion was made for adults and so, if you wanted to look fashionable in high school, you dressed older. Karolina Zebrowska has a great video on why we stopped wearing hats that explains this phenomenon.
I love her! I should check that video out!
This is the first time I have ever heard another person mention Karolina Zebrowska
i love her sm omg
hmm
@Preston Hunt It's because advertisers learned that if you can hook someone onto their product as a teenager, you likely have them for life. Also they tend to be less discerning and are easier to market too. Lastly they started having some spending money so naturally advertisers and fashioned began to target kids and teenagers.
My stepdad insisted on naming my little brother “Andrew” bc he wanted his name to be shortened to “Drew” and to this day nearly six years later is still salty that everyone calls him “Andy” bc for whatever reason calling a bubbly, wide eyed, blond haired toddler “Drew” just didn’t feel right to anyone else. Literally everyone says “he just doesn’t LOOK like a Drew, he looks like an Andy”.
It still cracks me up.
This is so innocuously and specifically hilarious, I love it!
Tell Pops to hang in there, we have so many random expectations and pre plan so many tiny seemingly insignificant things as parents and to me it's a sign that he loves his kids a whole bunch to have put so much thought and consideration into it and then still be so innocently salty about it decades later. Grumpy old(ER) men are a treasure. 😂
Dad shoulda just named him Drew then😅
Ok but my dad was the SAME. My mom wanted to name my brother Drew. My dad thought it was the ugliest name. They compromised on Andrew.
@@shayeuros1964 trust me, I said the same thing XD like “if you were that dead set on him being a drew you could’ve just named him drew instead of andrew” lol
@@autumnpoplawski6889 one of the funniest things ever to me is that my dad’s middle name was “lee” so he wanted to name me “Emma lee” and my mom refused bc she thought it was a stupid name and said, verbatim, “I will never have a child with a name as stupid as that”…
So my stepdad’s youngest daughter is named “Emmalee” XD
My great-grandmother Pearl was an orphan and child bride from Kansas (under age 15 we don’t know her exact age). Point being she had a very hard life. On her wedding day photo she looked about 13, still had “baby fat.” You can see the rapid progression of age as she endured the Depression, 6 births, hard farm labor in the sun. By the time she was in her 40s she was a grandmother and LOOKED it, including needing dentures. I am just turned 30, am getting ready to start a family… can’t imagine what our ancestors went through.
Funny how ethnicity plays a big role too tho, my grandmother died at 88, she was born and raised in Africa, worked under the African sun, she also had 6 children. When she died she had all her natural teeth except two front ones due to a fall. Her skin was smooth like mine, even doctors could not guess her age due to her skin. I have real difficulties in guessing Caucasian peoples age because they do indeed age faster than African people. My mother for instance is 53 I kid you not she looks 40, my sister is 35 and still looks like a minor. I have few colleagues that are younger than my mother and look so much older, I tend to visualize 50 year olds like my mother, but I came to discover that it is not a general comparison at all.
@@HAIRHOLIC_1 Very true. My mom and sister always say we just look younger in our family but it's not because its our family. It's because of our melanin from being black.
What I am doing differently than others in my family is I am on a 0 carb dairy free strictly carnivore diet. I rarely drank alcohol but I'm cutting it for good and I've never spoked nicotine or have I ever done any hard drugs.
I'm 26 years old and I have a feeling my youth will last much longer than most. I'm Debt free and child free, and trying my best to limit stresses.
My husband is white but since being with me he has adjusted his lifestyle and has prioritize his health and fitness. He is younger than me but looks older.
@@HAIRHOLIC_1 Well, as a caucasian, I do find than black people look much younger than they are, at least the ones who are in shape. I read an article not long ago about a sugar baby who said she fell in love with her sugar daddy and I have not much problem believing she was honest. The sugar daddy was a black man in his 70's, looked 15-20 years younger and looked damn fine. This type of thing may be related to protection from the sun. We see your lines and wrinkles less too.
@@HAIRHOLIC_1 Tru that. I'm nearly 70 and I don't look, act, walk, or move like white women my age. In still the same height and my back is very straight. It took forever for me to finally get laugh lines at my eyes and you can only see them when I smile. I was being mistaken for a teenager when I was 30. It was so confusing. I had my kid at 18 and his friends and other people thought we were siblings. Even my MIL told me once that my brother was so nice and I'm like, that's my son, not my brother 🤣 I was on a Zoom call learning another language and said in the language that my son was 50 and the teacher tried to correct me and I'm like, no ', I know how to say 50 yo in this language. I'm not confused 😂
@@WhyTH-camWhy I had a black female client who mentioned social security and I thought she meant disability and I was so confused when she clarified she was getting retirement. I thought she was in her 30's! She mentioned she had won a youth-looking contest and I stalked her on social media and there she was! The only thing I did pick up on was her memory wasn't what it should be (I easily pick up on little things like that), otherwise, she looked fantastic and was very pretty.
Look at the following actors:
- Carol O'Connor
- Jean Stapleton
- Norman Fell
- Don Knotts
- Redd Fox
They were all in their 40s and early 50s when they were on TV. They look older than I do now and I am almost 60. No, the 1970s aged people a lot. People DID look MUCH older in the 1970s. That one decade produced very aged looking people. Why? It was the apex of all things that make us look older, including
- Lead in the gasoline
- TV dinners
- Smoking (even non-smokers breathed smoke filled air)
- The explosion of sugar in our foods.
- The start of inactive lifestyles, before people started going to the gym to compensate for it.
The 70s was also a time of great stress. Taxes were high, inflation was off the charts, and interest rates hit double digits. The Viet Naam and the impeachment of a sitting US President during the Soviet era only made things worse.
The wife who challenged her husband to wear the same clothes, I absolutely loved that they did this and kept it going.
...and you know all the HS kids thought he was a legend for doing it.
I like how he never updated his style in 30 years. kept the same 70s stache and hair )))))
so cool🙌🏾🔥💥
Humans are strange creatures!🙃
In the late 1960's Mr. Lee, a University of Maryland english teacher, jokingly asked us to always sit in the same seats. Then he upped the ante and ask us to wear the same clothes. I thought it was very funny.
I’ve learned so much today
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@@Vsauce 👍
@@Vsauce I love that you pray for the futures knowledge
Oh it's Markass Brown Lee!
vsauce helped get me interested in science as a kid. I graduated college last month and am starting my first real job in computer science next week. Thanks Michael and others!
That's awesome. Share the knowledge
Are you doing IT? I’m graduating in like a year and half and not sure what I’ll do
hell yeah! I graduated a week ago and will be starting a CS job in a few months too! :)
nice 👍
That’s amazing! I’m so happy for u, what course did u do?
I am 64. People, in general, think I am younger, or sometimes shocked at my age. When I look in the mirror I see a senior citizen, but many think Im 10-20 years younger. 30 year old co-workers flirt with me and I'm not particularly handsome. I feel the key to not showing age is several things. I shave my head, my hair has been thin for decades. When you see photos of bald men in the past, they did everything to try to hide thin hair. Combovers on that horseshoe of too much hair looked ridiculous. Having no hair also eliminates the fact that my hair is a white and grey mix. I tweeze constantly. What doesn't grow on my head comes out of my ears and nose, having stray hair popping out will age you. I have a smallish patch of hair on my chin, I don't want to go full hipster beard because I would look like David Letterman, lol. My glasses look very much like Michael's, out of style glasses age a person's look dramatically. Clothes are simple, Old Navy. They look good on anyone, regardless of age, they are neither trying too hard to be in style or to impress, it's like Garanimals for adults. I also live in a big city where most of my neighbors are half my age. I share many of their interests. Not spending my time with a bunch of geezers reminiscing about "the good old days" certainly helps.
This felt like one of the classic VSauce episodes I grew up enjoying. This feels like a sudden return to form, on the topic of aging no less.
@@cgplays9 he's been doing informational videos for like 10 years now lol, it's weird to think that some people watching these videos were 2 or 3 when he made his first video.
@DONT READ PROFILE PIC i wont dw
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Forreal use to watch these as a freshman, here I am now a 27 year old dad lol
@@Soggytaco25 Woah, I'm 27 and my life hasn't even begun..... couldn't imagine being a dad this young
I miss this kind of vsauce video a lot more than I realized. Michael explaining tangents is extremely nostalgic of a happier time. Love you buddy, my kids love the curiosity box.
I actually just assumed that this video was from like 2015 until he talked about sponsors. Doing this type of video again subconsciously aged Vsauce in my eyes!
yes ☺️☺️☺️☺️ agreed
I have a question about the box, how long does shipping take and would you say all the stuff you get is worth it?
Its her finally 😅 m.th-cam.com/video/4qb8laKxYko/w-d-xo.html
Yeah I remember watching him during the summer and loving his video
Schools are a great way of seeing retrospective aging in action. The students graduating look considerably older than the earlier grades. I'm in college now, but when I first came to middle school, the 8 graders looked like miniature adults. When I graduated, however, me and my peers still looked like young teenagers, hardly ever changing. The earlier grades that year looked very young as well. The same can also be said for High School.
Guess I can't make fun of Hollywood anymore for film prior to 2010 having actors that look like full grown adults in high school settings lmao
As a 21 year old being out of high school for 3 years it was weird because when I was in 8th grade Jr high the incoming freshman in high school looked their age as freshman but then when my year was incoming freshman about half were looking their age but the other half looked even younger than their age and then the year after us of incoming freshmen about 80% of them looked way younger than they were supposed to look and the 20 looked their age so I say genetics in my city we've looked younger than our ages really were because I'm one of those that didn't look their age because my aunts and uncles and friends say I look the same and pass as even a sophomore in high school!😂😅it's so weird
i look like a frikin 12 year old lmfao
@@hillskevin924 🤓
I'm from late 90's and somehow end up having classes with students from early 00's in college.
Many of them are using iPad to take notes, while I'm still using paper and pen. Just a few years gap, and looks like a completely different generation. And me trying not to wear too casually on class, makes it even more so lol.
All great points. I always replied when people said "people back then looked so much older than we do now" "do you think at some point, people just choose to wear old people clothes and hair? No, they have probably worn similar styles since their twenties when most of us find our personal styles and these styles seem old to us, which is why looking back at old people when they were young, they seem older to us". Some names make people seem older too because they were trendy decades ago and people have had their name all their lives.
He comes on just twice a year, blows our mind and casually goes away like nothing happened...
I can just tell the amount of research he puts in every single video!
My thoughts exactly!
Cool to see another Better Ideas fan.
@@alexsyld5410 🙌 that's right man
@Darius Bostic How about no...The evangelizing days are long over mate.
It is not just him a team of people makes the vids
I was going to say this feels like a return to form, but actually I think it's a reprise of form. It echoes the old stuff, but in a way that's deeply shaped by the new stuff. This is my favorite period of Vsauce yet. Keep following your creative path, Michael, I'm loving where you're going.
The return to classic Jake Chudnow music was especially welcome.
I even anticipated the slimy vsauce crush at the end of the video
I know right? It's great!
@@TheJudge064 bruh thats exactly what i thought. When i heard the jake chudnow music in the first few seconds,i knew this would be a banget
I remember being in high school, and every year the incoming freshmen looked younger and younger. Then I looked back at my freshman yearbook and EVERYONE in my class looked like babies compared to their present appearance. Crazy stuff.
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Jesus died for our sins, rose from the dead, and gives salvation to everyone who has faith in him! True faith in Jesus will have you bear good fruit and *drastically* change for the better!
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Know that there is power in the name Jesus Christ! His name casts out demons and heals! People are bothered by his name. The world hates the truth and wants to continue living sinfully! God's children are set apart (holy) and righteous.
@@Call_Upon_YAH Man just shut up
@@Call_Upon_YAH ok😐
reading this comment is funny because me and my friends in high school used to say and think the same thing
14:10 but he looks like a josef 😿
SAME I've only gotten one of these name questions "right" so far hahahah
but people guessed DAN because it's the much more common name 😊...
Ayo, I'm team Josef. He looked a bit Georgian to me
I remember talking about this with friends in highschool (92-96) .. we all noticed that every new freshman class, the kids got smaller and smaller 🤯
It seems like each new set of teenagers is less mature than the last, too. Exposure to television and the internet their entire lives and generally being more privileged might explain some of that. I never thought I was as mature as the older kids. But I definitely thought the younger kids were disproportionately immature from the scope of the age differences being considered.
@@JM1993951 This is just people not liking whats new, you can see people saying the same shit 2000 years ago, they've said people were getting dumber when books popularized because they kept ''reading all day like idiots''
When I was in high school, I was 14 through 18, but I guess you repeated grades 78 times.
No I kid, I know you mean the years 1992-1996.
Same for me
@@OnePieceSS23 did people really say that about reading? 😂 I remember parents freaking out over Harry Potter but reading was “nerdy”, not brain rotting.
I realized the thing about hanging on to fashion and it becoming "old people clothes" when cargo shorts were declared Dad clothes in the mid 2010s. I'd worn that all throughout college, and they were popular with everyone. And that's how it struck me.
I had my first cargo pants in the 70's. I bought my 12 year old son some yesterday. And I still have some today, so I dont know. Then again, I don't follow fashion, I buy what I like.
I’m curious to see how this effect evolves with time;
As someone who generally cares about clothes and fashion, I’d say trends are treated much differently now than in the past. Like yeah, there are still trendy styles that go in and out of popularity, but fashion focuses much more on individualism today. So much so, to the point where a lot of people pick some of their favorite trends from past eras like a buffet and put it all together.
I wonder if this action will make it harder and harder in the future to judge someone’s outfit solely on if the clothing is currently trending or not, or if there’s always going to be an overarching trend that can dictate the “look” of an era
Nobody declared cargo shorts to shite in mid 2010s
Sept it’s all a bunch of bull and everything is edited.
@@shaungraen3892 if you think any era has a specific look you need to realize the world is full of people.
Cargo shorts specifically will always be dad shorts. They're too utilitarian. Kids and dads alike love pockets, but you'll never spot a kid sporting denim shorts with a fanny pack. At least, not for a while.
I had an intro sociology class text about how the concept of children and teenagers didn't really exist until the early 1950s. That's why young people always dressed like little adults. There were stricter societal dress codes for young people.
Oh yeah! I learned about that in a child development course and the history of children. Very interesting how things change over time
Never heard that, it's quite profound actually.
i had a similar thought process
Was catcher in the rye something to do with the advent of the concept of the teenager?
My great Grandparents Married at 13 & 14 years old and thought that was normal in the south . I’m 56 now
This is the best episode. It took something I was wondering myself for years and finally put a name to it and analyzed it to its enth degree. I return to watch it every once and awhile. It’s so good
My grandmother has been getting her hair "set" weekly in the same hard little Grandma fro for the past 45+ years, and during the pandemic she couldn't do that so she had her hair down for the first time and she looked AMAZING, like 10 years younger. She hated it lol
You have just made me realize that NOT all the dozens of old women I see at church have naturally curly hair. Or at least might not. I am blown away
@@mollywillo oh take it from someone who has to do old ladies hair all the time with minimal training…. Those beautiful curls hardly ever come without a bunch of work
It's strange to think that the styles we choose to make ourselves look young and lively eventually become the styles that younger generations associate with us looking old and crummy. Truly an example of blind ignorance.
@@calebdonaldson8770 I like the “grandma fro!” But I do associate it with older women of course, since it isn’t really a style as much with the current generations, at least for white women. But it’ll probably come back at some point, as these things do.
@@mollywillo I just figured that due to arthritis they get their hair set so they don’t have to try to style it…
I don't know how Michael does it. He finds these topics, addressing phenomena I never realized were a thing. But not only are they a thing, but they're a very well-researched thing with numerous scientific studies and entire sub-cultures. I end up feeling dumb and smart at the same time.
A man with an intelligent mind and unstoppable curiosity.
Also it's just damn interesting.
Isn't that just the best feeling though? Discovering something you've never even thought about, but immediately being able to understand and relate to it, that's almost the pinnacle of a learning experience :D A testament to how freaking awesome these videos are, for sure!
@@squishykotetsu It's a paradox that keeps me coming back for more :)
A lot of it is looking at established behaviors and asking... why?
My mother was born in 1925 in New York City. She said that in her era, there wasn't any such thing as a "teen age" that had it's own culture, styles, behavior, etc. She said that when you hit puberty and grew into adult size, you just started wearing the same clothes as your parents and were expected to act more grown up. Seems like teenager times started after World War II. I could be wrong...not sure.
You right
That is correct, Vsauce actually mentions this exact phenomenon in his video "Juvenoia", it was quite surprising for me to learn.
It was cool back in old days for teens to try to look like adults. That was considered being sophisticated. It was socially normal to expect teens to graduate from high school and go right into getting married, having children, and providing for their families. Also life expectancy was lower the further back you go. Today's culture is less committed to anything. No one is expected to get married, have kids, have a job that provides for their family at a young age. The social culture more values the beauty of youth and living your best life, and our aesthetic reflects that.
there’s actually a very interesting documentary about this exact subject, titled "Teenage"
The Greatest Generation wanted its children, the boomers, to have everything. Now the white boomers are spoiled rotten.
There's a great thing (at 7:20) that may add more questions. Why is it that in some years of this guy's photos, he looks older than later years (when we already know the photos are in chronological order).
I remember the near panic I felt when I turned 30. Now I'll be 60 next month. I wish I could go back in time and tell that kid to just enjoy every day.
Thank you, man from the future. I turned 31 yesterday. I have to enjoy my life more!
i remember asking a friend (we were teenagers) where he'd like to be on his 30th birthday. his response was "i hope i am dead." i am sure he got his wish.
Thanks for the advice. I'll turn 30 tomorrow.
thanks for the advice. I'll turn 30 in 10 years
Turning 30 is worse than turning 40 and I’ve heard worse than turning 50 & 60. Unfortunately it’s the people around you who try and make you feel old. Don’t let them. 30 is young and if you take care of yourself you’ll feel 30 for a long time. I read a quote once. “I spent my thin years feeling fat and my young years feeling old”. Only you can change this.
Damn the whole thing about seniors seeming old when you were a freshman then seeming young as hell when you were one is so true. As a freshman, seniors seemed like whole ass adults to me, but as one they seemed like kids, and now at 19 some friends that are going into their senior year seem like they're 15. It's really weird
Lol. I remember freshman year being shocked at seeing boys with facial hair 😆
It's odd because when I was a freshman back in 2020, So many seniors seemed the same age as me so I didn't see them as older. Now I'm approaching 11th and there's a bunch of freshmen that don't even look anywhere close to my age
@@l1585 I was a senior in 2013 and nowadays seniors look like literal children to me, I cannot take them very seriously at first 😄
Everyone seems to say this, and yet I have never heard people talking about how right now, we will seem so young to our older selves.
Yeah, I remember when I was a high school freshman in 2014, high school seniors looked so old and intimidating to me. Now I'm 22 and just graduated college and high school seniors look like children to me 😂
I have such a vivid memory of myself as an 8 year old looking at 14 year olds and determining they were practically adults. This memory is so weird.
When I was 6 in kindergarten, 11 year olds in 5th grade looked like adults to me.
What if they were adults and then stopped aging just at the right moment to mess with you?
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@@elephant35e when I was in 3rd grade elementary school and went to a middle school, every kid looked a high schooler and spoke in finished puberty voices, now that I experienced middle school, everyone seems so much younger
I love how Vsauce answers our questions with a million other questions.
Even after a decade, Vsauce still continues to make some of the best content on TH-cam. This guy was my childhood and it’s awesome to watch a new video of his.
I’m so happy he made a video, I’ve been waiting for one.
Pp
even after all these years, Michael inspires curiosity.
I don’t know when I discovered Vsauce but I definitely was an adult.
My father sent home a picture of him dressed in local clothing when he was stationed in Egypt. He was 34. At the time I was a child and he was an old man. When I was 34 my husband and I bought a new house and I came across the picture. Realized I was the same age as he was then and he was far from old.
Just moved a few years ago and again found the picture. I am a senior now. Looking at it my first thought was, "Why were they sending that baby overseas?"
He keeps getting younger in that picture.
You made me lol
This is beautiful.
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I'm 40 now and recently looked through my parents' albums from when they were in their early 20s. They did things I totally associate with "things adults do", like going on family vacation together with a cousins' family, having mutual invitations to home cooked meals and board games afterwards, all very innocent and "behaved" activities. Something that among my friends only started maybe 5 years ago, for many this isn't a thing to this day.
Every year I go to a lake for a weekend with a group of people some of which have done this exact same trip since their teens. (I joined in my 20s.) The partys were much harder back then, but even today it's a lot of drinking, cheap food, naked swimming at midnight and generally "partying out" - something I coud NEVER envision my parents do at 40. In fact I remember both their 40s birthdays very well, and it was boring "grownups" sit around and be social events. My dad got a new HiFi, I got a T-Rex head wall mounted decoration.
It's not just looks. We're living a VERY different life from our parents, and that is true for every generation.
Man thats true. People lived life back then and it showed in their face. Nowadays we dont live life nearly as much which probably also explains why the youth is more depressed than ever
A t rex head and naked swimming. Sounds awesome and I'm 39
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True. In those days you had a career started, a marriage, a mortgage, and two kids before 25. It was like this well into the mid 90’s.
The emergence of the internet, especially after 2000 really opened up youngsters to break the restraints of traditional life and explore this big beautiful world.
Yeah sometimes I feel ashamed around my parents considering what stage of life they were at when they were my age
Here's an example that really stands out. Edward Platt who played the chief in get smart was only 49 years old when the TV show premiered in 1965, and yet, he easily looked 65. By the time the series ended in 1970, Platt looked closer to 75, yet he was just 54.
Here's something I was thinking about the other day. As a child or teen, a difference of as little as 2 years seemed insurmountable, people in older grades seemed so OLD. Now of course at age 30 I hang out with adults of a wide range of ages from 25 to 45 and none of us seem all that different. But those same people I went to school with, now only around 32 or 33, still seem unapproachably old and mature to my brain.
The longer you live, the less each year feels for you because it's a smaller % of your entire life. When you're 10, 2 years is 20% of your life. Now that you're 30, 2 years is only 6% of your entire life. So in your mind is feels less time.
Think about it if you lived forever, how quickly the time would pass for you.
Sooo interesting. But yeah I totally get you. Something I've thought about as well
@@tocov exactly
@@tocov that's so crazy actually if u really lived forever or very very long
Vsause has a video on this subject
Makes sense. Watching 90’s teen dramas during my childhood made me believe that school would last up to my 30’s.
@@kickpublishing Of course , the dimwit didn't realize that , NOT.
@@kickpublishing yes, that's the joke.
😅 especially now, it's gonna worst. It used to be more early 20s in 90s playing teens..now it's more mid twenties to 30s
@@kickpublishing Yes
@@3lttlbrdsback in the day they were pretty accurate with ages, think saved by the bell, fresh prince, full house, sister sister, etc. All the younger actors were either the right age or very close to the right age that they were portraying, I think some of them might have even been younger than their characters.
I always felt like the "young people then look like old people now" was very obvious when watching older movies where everyone was dressed according to what was fashionable at the time but I now associated with grandparents etc.
I think the quality of the photos and films also plays a role in this. If you put a grainy filter over a portrait taken today, someone who doesn't know the original could believe it to be an old photo even though the facial features didn't change.
Not really. Look at their facial structure. They look older. Today, I’ve seen people that look 17 but are 27 (like, I’m not kidding). I look 16, but I’m 19.
@Hanover Fiste ok incel
If you name your daughter Mavis she will be born as a fully grown middle aged woman who smokes two packs a day.
@Hanover Fiste You may live in a place where it's not hot and humid all year long, or you don't spend much time outside.
It mainly has to do with the fact that each older generation dressed & acted more proper. Like tucking in their shirt with regular street clothes, for instance. Some middle-aged people & senior citizens still commonly do this. When sports jerseys became iconic in the 90's during the golden era of Hip Hop, most people (and especially the youth) eventually stopped tucking in their shirt with street clothes.
Sub-cultures, (like greasers, Hip Hop & gangsters, emos, hipsters, etc...) and religious freedom and lack of tradition are part of the reason why mannerisms & fashion changes and becomes lazier each decade.
4:25 The “But actually…” glasses push. Gold. 🤣
Man, this is like a classic vsauce video! Not that the newer style of videos are bad, it's just nostalgic
i wonder if that was the point
Yeah, it feels so much like I'm back in 2012 again
@@kai.raio. not really this just isn’t a short so the style is different
When I clicked on this I thought I am watching an older video, only later I looked at the date
The thinner beard really does it
I remember being a 2nd grader and seeing the 6th graders at recess, and they looked like full grown young adults to me. It’s true, it’s all about perspective
Yeah but I think it also has to do with clothes (way people dress), things like facial hair, the fact that activities back then were more hand to hand and people probably were much more fit and healthy as they didn't have TH-cam or anything to waste their time on so they would have bigger muscles at a younger age, and because they would live real life more than on computers, I recon that helped them shape into an "older person" quicker mentally and physically. So yeah perspective has some part, but mostly I think it is mainly to do with the society and how what they did then compared to today changes a lot.
Literally the same
Yess they did
@ialwaysgetrevenge I was a freshman 2018-19 and I swear those kids were on steriods they looked like if they were cast as highschoolers in a tv show it would be enough to take you out of the experience
Micheal's videos never seem to drop in quality no matter how many years pass, enjoyed it as always!
in fact his videos get better as the years go on
But his views are decreasing 😥
@@shreyashshreyash6277 If this is true, it makes me really sad and worried.
Because Vsauce is literally one of the most interesting and valuable, yet well explained and easy to understand channels on the entire website.
He is one of the very few channels, that kinda open up the window to understanding, how the world around us actually (seems) to work, instead of how we see it from our own perspektive; who gives a new perspective on us ourselves.
I watched every Vsauce video multiple times by now, simply because I often forget what actually "quality" and well thought through content / videos look like.
@@shreyashshreyash6277 I think its because of the upload times, youtube favors those who upload alot of videos frequently
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10:08 BIRDS ARENT REAL SHIRT SPOTTED YOOOO
In the 80s a running joke was how old men would wear their suit pants way too high.
I used to assume this had to do with how bodies change as we age, and something they did to prevent the pants from falling off.
It blew my mind when I saw some fashion shots from the 50s and saw that high pants were actually a thing back then.
People weren't wearing suit pants "like an old person", they were just wearing the suit they bought when they were young in the 50s, and it was simply just no longer in fashion.
Why is no one mentioning the common denominator they’re all white
I assumed this too!
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Kinda wish high pants came back. It seems like they would be comfortable and also the crotch area had way more room….. pants nowadays can be murderous on the boys.
Here’s my trick to not feel old: when I was in the first half of my 20’s I felt like my 30’s would be old (or at least different). When I was about 26 or 27, I started to make myself think that my 40’s would be ‘old’. I kept doing this each decade and now that I am 60, I am starting to think of being 75 as being old. I also work on healthy habits.
@Lil Yeet Obviously it works for them...
That's pretty cool!
I wonder when it'll start breaking down, though? I doubt it'll be like "well, I may be 110 now, but just wait until I'm 125-*THEN* I'll finally be 'old'!" (:p)
Love this. People screamed when I showed them my ID in a club a couple of years back, no one would believe that I was 48. They all figured I was 25, some people refused to believe it. Now all of a sudden I look at LEAST 35, and I'm only 50. It's distributing. No wrinkles around my eyes or any of that crap. No wattle, baby face.
I'm 50, I figure I've got what, another 45-50 good years ahead of me🤣
Hate to break it to you Diane. But everyone does that unconsciously or otherwise. “Old” is relative. “Old” is always older than you are now. Perhaps when you find it hard to walk or think the illusion will crumble. Guess I’ll find out at some point. Btw, I’m 64 but still feel “young”. Funny that… lol
This is such a funny video to find because my grandfather was bald at 16 years old. He would go to convenience stores and buy cigarettes for himself and his friends. I miss him more than he could ever know. I know I'm a year late, but thanks for the awesome video, Michael!
20:13 Holy shit my philosophy professor
Michael often explores the kind of questions that I've pondered on my own but would never bother asking anyone, because it seems too whimsical or trivial around which to have a serious discussion. And somehow he manages to present it in a way that makes it as profound and worthwhile as any intellectual topic.
Lol same
The am stupid for thinking about this questions
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When I was a kid, very old ladies drew pencil thin eyebrows way up high on their foreheads. I found the look very strange. My mother explained than women continued to wear the makeup that they wore when they were young. Decades later, I saw photos of beautiful Hollywood starlets from the 1920’s wearing that exact style. It was an ahah moment.
Like Jean Harlow
Don’t exactly look like you used to honey
Another reason might be that some people go through chemotherapy and their eyebrows never grow back.
This is why I keep up with makeup trends and plan to continue
The "cool" '80s look of a tucked-in shirt, shorts or jeans, and white sneakers with white socks is a classic dad look today. Hairstyles too. The same is true for every decade that has come and gone.
There are also actual factors that reduce aging, like sun block (and not intentionally getting a tan at the beach every summer), less smoking, more weightlifting, moisturizer, and somewhat better nutrition. And, there are cosmetic changes, like more prevalent hair coloring, Botox, fillers, and plastic surgery.
And, to a point below, health care has greatly improved. Obviously illness can age people significantly.
I literally thought about the 22 year old manager I had when I was 17. He seemed like such an adult. Today I'm 25 and thinking back to that time in high school. Retrospective Aging is weird. Thanks for the video Mike! You always deliver when we need you most.
you mean twice a year? lol
Had a 16 year old trainee recently tell me I'm very mature and in control and the whole time I was thinking that I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 (now 21). I remember thinking my managers were very mature when I was a trainee. Guess it happens to everyone.
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When I was 17 18 19 my manager in his mid-20s was shorter than me I was eating he couldn’t tell me nothing I’ll tell him I’ll wait for you after the clock you know what it is..
It's important to remember that parents don't always stick to the name they originally planned because they often choose one that they feel 'fits' their child. This means that part of why people might feel like a 'Josh' or whatever their name is could stem from the fact that their parents associated certain characteristics or feelings with that name when they chose it.
I always find it strange how people seem to believe that at some point in the future they will suddenly start wearing "old people clothes" because "old people wear them now," but no, when we are old, we will still wear the same clothes we wear now, which future young people will consider to be "old people clothes."
It's actually rather fascinating how this works.
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Not really. If everyone nowadays is wearing t-shirts, jeans, sweatpants, hoodies, and sneakers, and people in 100 years are still wearing t-shirts, jeans, sweatpants, hoodies, and sneakers... why would any of it be considered "old people clothes?" The only reason we consider a suit w/ a hat etc. to be "old people clothes" is because that style WAS in fashion decades ago, but isn't anymore. The clothes we wear today will still be in fashion 100 years in the future. The reason this hasn't been the case historically is because we've been tending towards more casual clothing for centuries. Now, we're at a point where we can't get any more casual. So, fashion won't change much here on out - in fact, it hasn't really changed at all in the past 30 years. Look at pictures of people from the 90s. They dressed the exact same (minus joggers, maybe?). Even in the 70s, when people still wore suits to work, t-shirts/hoodies/jeans with sneakers were very much the norm outside of work. Hell, Jordans have been around since the early 80s. It's a nice thought but.. your great grandkids definitely won't say you're wearing "old person clothes." Everyone still wears the same shit from the 70s/80s in 2022. That won't change in another 50 years because there's nothing to change anymore. We've hit the peak of casual attire.
@@alienwarex51i3 You have a valid point, and I completely concur. All the shit I just read in your comment is entirely accurate. Additionally, I believe that our fashion-forward attire will remain popular in 30, 60, or even 100 years. Only time will tell. The 1970s and 1980s had a pretty cool style that was a little different from what we wear today. We've indeed hit the peak of casual attire.
😂😂😂 agreed. But then, at old age most people go for more decent and more covering clothes.
@@alienwarex51i3a lot of older women's designs in their clothes is something a lot of younger women wouldn't wear. Also the baggy capris and shorts is a thing a lot of older women wear that most younger people don't
This was quite interesting to watch, especially with the naming phenomenon.
I was born with the real name “Bradley” but since I despised that name from a early age, I just used my middle name, “Vince”
19 years later, anyone who knows me by Vince and I tell them my name is Bradley, I almost always get a “no way”
Bradley Cooper put the bar too high :D
@@bht665 But is it better to be a Vince Vaughn?
Bro downgraded his name
This reminds me of a meme about the name "Grant" The mom wanted to let a person hold her baby named Grant but the person didn't want to hold him instead, he wanted Grant to do his taxes.
That's like when Al Capone despised being called "Scarface" and degraded his nickname to "Snorky" or something like that
This video feels like 2013. Vsauce has stayed true to his content and i love it.
People on old Vsauce videos always marvel about how modern they feel, and people in the comments on modern Vsauce videos say they feel just like they used to.
Almost sounds like a topic Michael could make a video about.
@@dyhall Michael's old videos have a certain style to it. It starts with a certain shower question, moves to some other random information and ends with an existential crisis. This video is just that.
FACTS
His name isn't Vsauce, that's the name of the CHANNEL not the presenter
This is the first video I'm watching of his and I literally thought this. I was like "why does this video feel so nostalgic?" I even checked the date of the video
13:45 I guessed Dan before the choices even showed up and i got it right. coolest thing to happen today
Please never stop making videos, everything Vsause has ever made has impacted me positively.
*Vsauce not Vsause
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This reminds me of an observation I once made. People complain about war movies using actors that are much older than the actual soldiers were. Then I looked at photos taken during combat operations, and those young men looked much older than their years, and understandably so. I think the expressions, fatigue, and other factors actually made those teenagers look like they were 40.
Sad but true.
Usually ppl enter armies at 21 22 so the oldest pics are at that age but somehow they still look too old in them
The army can be brutal to the body. I joined when I was 16, and 9 years in doing time as a paratrooper with a few deployments, people regularly mistake me for being up to 10 years older. I feel like it too.
as a fashion student... throughout most of history, people wanted to look grown up, mature... they dressed and wore styles to emphasize "i am mature" or were dressed in minature versions of adult clothing- certainly for portraits and photos.
that shifted Drastically in the "youthquake" of the 60s, when suddenly everyone wanted to look YOUNGER...
@Kento Yamasaki so explain why finite sins and disappointments deserve eternal punishment. It would be appalling to sentence someone to death for shoplifting, but it's ok to torture someone for eternity for... Coveting they neighbor's wife?
This!! And it’s also true that children were forced to grow up much faster in terms of the labor they would provide. There wasn’t really a “teenage” time period as we think of it today for the majority of human history. you were a child and then you were an adult and when you were a child you were taught skills that would make you a “good” adult and that was mainly tailored to your gender.
@Kento Yamasaki lol gtfo with this nonsense
@Kento Yamasaki people are getting more hostile towards comments like that these days cuz the world needs to hear them more than ever..
@Kento Yamasaki now that escalated quickly!
Lol 😂
These later episodes are actually my favorite. They go into these really profound topics about my life that I didn’t realize everybody else thought about too.
I always thought it was so weird how when I was a freshmen all the seniors looked 25 but then when I was a senior I looked at my graduating class and it looked like we hadn't aged a day. Really cool to hear it discussed in this video as no one else in my HS really noticed it like I did or cared enough to dig into why that was the case. Retrospective aging is really an interesting topic
As a senior the freshmen looked like elementary students
I think everyone’s thought that at some point. I used to think it all throughout school. The people 4 or 5 years above me always seemed so old, until you were their age, and you feel young still.
It happened for me as a junior. The incoming freshmen looked like goofy junior high school kids. It made me very self conscious of how older students must have saw us juniors.
I know, this is a question I’ve ALWAYS had and what absolutely amazing luck that sauce is the guy to answer it. Thanks vsauce, you’re one of the best there is.
This is why horror movies have always been able to get away with casting 30 year olds to play highschool seniors and it plays well despite adults rolling their eyes at it. That's the relative age that their target audience views seniors as being.
That correlation between dreaming and reading was such a good comparison because it makes so much sense and really gives the viewer a way to understand how dreaming could be in an "indeterminate color"
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Why you saying so?
As somebody who primary plays video games rather than watch movies, my dreams feel a lot more like playing a game than watching a movie when I look back on it. Therefore I feel the idea of understanding dreams in terms of the media we consume makes a lot of sense
Few people know about it, this simple, rising concentration of CO2 extends human life, and today they look like 30. Globalists are fighting co2 because no one needs old people who live 120 years or more.
I am in complete disbelief at the idea of Michael being in his mid 20s when he put out his first huge scientific videos.
This man is truly legendary
Fancy seeing you here Swellman! Looking forward to more videos!
14:12 I got goosebumps because when I saw his face I thought Daniel before the list even appeared.
Michael went from talking about how your style can affect how people perceive your age to comparing dreams to movies. What a madman.
That's literally the theme of the video bro. How long did it take for you to spew those words out?
A parkour master.
Every person who values TRUTH above all is a true scientist. I respect no one on this earth more so then anybody but scientist because their whole profession is based on Proof & findings and Pursuit of truth & i love the modern world is direct outcome of all the scientist in the world who lived & died and gave world whatever technology we have. Even Michael is a true scientist love his content before content blew up in internet even as early as 2010.
Your supposed to say madlad nowadays. You must be old. All the cool kids say madlad.
Btw I hate the word madlad, thank you for not saying it. Its stupid.
like he does every video
Vsauce is easily the most influential person on the internet and doesn’t even realize it. He was basically the beginning of this genre of video which is by far my favorite
I love vsauce 💕
Vsauce isn't a person. Vsauce is an entity. That's Michael though, he's the shit.
he's started so many on a journey to ask why
What other creators used this style
We are Vsauce.
There is the cultural fact that a few generations ago, being old(er) had some benefits in social status. Hence, younger people would try to look and act older than people of the same age would today, so that they would be taken seriously in certain social relationships like business, politics, romance, and so on. This has changed in recent years for a variety of reasons. The older-is-better thing would also encourage certain behaviors like smoking and alcohol use which definitely not only are older behaviors but also make a person look physically older (and often enhance actual aging.)
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@@elainejohnson796 I loved those documentaries. Some of the later ones made me so sad, seeing how different their personalities were from when they were younger. I need to find them and watch them again. Thanks for the reminder.
Hmmm ..there used to be more young people in population so being old was more special...but now majority of population are old people..so being younger is more special. People always strive toward what they aren't instead of appreciating themselves for who they are.
I agree, also being older got you respect where as now parents NEVER treat their kids like adults. Something my millennial friends and I have been talking about. My parents’ parents treated them like adults. Boomers refuse to respect their children the same.
3:30 I felt this exact thing, looking at the seniors when I was a freshman looked like grown ass adults, but interestingly once i graduated and visited my school a year later the seniors at that time, who were only a year younger than me, looked like literal babies, it was so weird to think that i saw myself as so grown up when i was in their position, but then a year later saw them as little kids
An ancient Chinese philosopher named Zhuang Zhou wrote once about how he had a vivid dream of waking up as a butterfly. In the dream, he said, he had no feeling that what he was experiencing was in any way unreal. For all he knew, he had always been a butterfly, and the "real world" his consciousness had apparently departed seemed to be dissipating illusion.
He eventually grew tired and fell asleep on a leaf. When he awoke, he was a human man again, and felt as though he had always been. He did not feel that what he was experiencing was unreal, and the dream seemed now to be the dissipating illusion.
Later, he thought about the dream and wondered whether he could really be sure that he had been Zhuang Zhou dreaming of being a butterfly, or if he was now a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuang Zhou.
I know this because of Cowboy Bebop.
Ancient Chinese secrets.
okay weeb
@@oliver5479 fun fact: the most American culture is Native American culture. So you're a weeb if you like hamburgers or hot dogs.
@@HOLDENPOPE that makes no sense but feel free to try again.
weight , alcohol, and tabacco also play a large role. I have seen guys go from looking like they could be my dad to looking younger than me from weight loss. Also people used to drink and smoke more. Those can make huge differences.
*tobacco
@@moosetasticbombastic1998 Bearstein moment right there.
Sleep. Get 8-9 hours every single day. Drink at least 8 ounces of water first thing in the morning too!
I've seen big people have baby faces and when they lose weight quickly, usually from surgery, it ages them quite badly.
@@mgd6087 I have a 40 yr old friend who does this, she look 12!
100% was not expecting the bug to show up in a vsauce video 1:43 lmao
I've learned so many things from Vsauce that are somehow now permanently with me. It's not often that anyone is exposed to a piece of information and can earnestly say that they've permanently put it to memory. Vsauce is the exception, I find myself frequently recalling bits of information from these videos even after many years.
Same
It's surprising right
Same. The video from years back on whether we all see colours the same, or we just think we do, haunts me to this day. Same with the one about how on a molecular level we may not touch anything
This right here. There's so many random little bits that I bring up in conversation because they're still there
Maybe it’s cause we’ve all binge watched every vsauce video 10+ times each 😉
Compelling content as always, Michael. Keep Looking Up!
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Nice to see you here Neil!
@@Mattie-Ai Correlation does not imply causation. Just b/c Neil is correlated with StarTalk, it doesn't mean....well....actually...
compelling science! says nothing about poisons in the food and water, it's just perspective and uhh every high schooler in that clip smoked! I mean I used to smoke and still look like a teenager but that's anecdotal. I really hate this bs science that ignores studies that go against popular opinion.
I have been playing video games for a long time and probably a lot of gamers would agree with me that when we try to recall the games we used to play 10 year earlier, with really poor 480p graphics, we seem to remember them in very high quality real like graphics. Only when we go back to play them now, we realize what computer graphics used to be back then. This could be another example of what vsauce was talking about.
Bdw, I love these vsauce videos which start with something and wander off to some totally different topic while touching on so many things on the way.
That's so true! I never related it to real life people though
To be fair you were playing the best of what was available at the time. Huge steps in frame rates and resolution over time.
If you play them on the hardware from the time they'll look much much better than on modern PCs. Especially with CRT monitors for games from that era. It's not just nostalgia.
It could also be a context thing.
At the time, almost all images you saw was similar, everything pretty much had the same technology.
1. you saw less flaw because it's older technology
2 . At the time these weren't flaw to you, only now which makes you pay more attention to it
I swear to God it's so uncanny when you're aware of it. This phenomenon I can relate to in one occasion: During my younger years, with my DS I notably played Mario 64. I remember the visuals of Mario 64 being the same of Mario Galaxy's graphics. A year ago, I got curious and watched a speedrun of Mario 64, and I was surprised to see how it actually looked primitive with polygons and low graphics when my mind clearly remembered it with smooth high quality resolutions and frame rates
Seeing Jim Croce pics from his late-20s is crazy. He looks 50.
When I started college at the merchant marine academy all the guys had to shave their heads and wear uniforms. The first bunch of days I felt like everyone around me looked my age (18) and the people in charge of us looked like hardened sailors or something. When I got to know classmates and would find some who were actually older, it was like glass shattering and I could then recognize oh yeah this guy looks 34 but just has a shaved head. I just envisioned him as the same age as me. Similarly, I saw one of those hardened sailors getting yelled at and I realized he was a just a sophomore and I actually was older than him by a few months. I always found the illusion of age interesting
It was the same but reversed for me when I joined the Army. I went in at 30 and no one knew I was that old until I told them because everyone looks old when you have a bald head. I also didnt really realize most people were a decade younger than me until their hair started growing back towards the end of basic
There is also an issue that nowadays we want to look younger which historically is relatively new on such scale. Before the second half of 20th ct young people tried to look older to be taken seriously. The idea of youth as something especially valuable and primar to preserve was a consequence of cultural revolution and popculture.
I am 20 I look 40
yes! when I was a kid, we wanted a job, a car, and to be an adult. my young nephews want to stay at home and wear t-shirts. they are in their 20's, but dress and look the same as when they were 13.
I know that sentiment was is very popular in Japan. It's fascinating to thing the West is a lot closer than it'd like to admit.
( No)Thanks to Botox🙄
Exactly. Your statement is ACTUALLY the synopsis of the whole thing. People tend to forget that back then, people WANTED to look older. Definitely not the case nowadays. People couldn't even get what was perceived as a real job back in the day if they "looked" young, regardless of whether they were the proper age or could do the work. The term "wet behind the ears" implied they were too young or inexperienced to know/do anything on an adult level since they "looked" young. He could've summarized that by just including this one fact but aye.... guess then he wouldn't have basis for a 22 min video. Lol.
This is absolutely fantastic. As a nurse, I noticed that smokers and non-smokers look generally the same in age/appearance until their mid-20s. By 30, it was easy to guess who the smokers were as there was definitely an effect on aging.
do you think this will continue with many younger people using vapes and smoking weed? I’m still unsure of how either of these things will affect aging in comparison to cigarette usage
@@cocteautwin I can only speak from experience with greenies...
And here's my take: the heat from fire does dry your facial skin which ages it soo much.
Cigarettes light with much less fire than weed because business people want you to consume it but the chemicals do kill you...
Then the lung damage just kind of agens your whole body a biy.
Vaping can alleviate some of this but wont remove it.
Plus, as with everything, new damaging chemicals are being found out in vaping.
I can easily pass as 25. 37 in a month. Been smoking for 20 years..
@@cocteautwin dont see why weed would age you🤷🏻♂️ its a natural herb
@@Makabert.Abylon Benzene is a natural chemical. It kills you. Arsenic is natural. So is strychnine.
7:46 he looks ever happier and more amused the older he jets. Yes Jets… I meant to do that.
This one was some fantastic old school VSauce style, starting on a topic and roaming freely to thought provoking ideas. Loved it !
True! Old School Vsauce
Ironically?
Yeah, I love how those videos would start off with a generally simple question and then end with “so that’s how the world will end”
the music too, brings me back to early Vsauce
Yes, subjective platitudes, cherry picking, and a narrative for profit above all else. This is why people, 'love it'.
Thanks again Michael for pointing out something that everyone experiences but no one really thinks too much about. This is why we miss Vsauce
You just admitted that you're an NPC. Bro go outside and think for yourself. You dont need to wait for Vsauce to point something out bro.
@@normalman23 This is something an NPC would say.
I think the fact nearly everyone smoked for like 50 years and even the ones who didn't smoke were constantly breathing it in, probably had an effect.
Second hand smoking, which ended up killing Andy Kaufman.
Absolutely
Absolutely, the combination of smoking and not exercising led to premature aging.
I've smoked since I was 17 and I look pretty young, I'm 30 now. I look way younger than my mom at my age and much younger than my grandmother at my age, both them smoked.
That can't be the only reason.
@@LisaAnn777 Google what people did to themselves in the 1960s and 1970s along with not exercising, unhealthy eating, heavy drugs and loads of unprotected sex. Not 100% of course, but the best case cenario was the combination of no exercise, unhealthy eating and smoking. Which yes, leads to premature aging. Also, if you go further back in time to the 1930s and 1940s, there was MASSIVE collective stress due to it being wartime, not to mention poor nutrition due to rationing. Stress=cortisol=premature aging. As well as a bare minimum nutrition. Nowadays we have it easy in comparison.
the most vivid dreams I had as a child were very vividly coloured and some had a palette that was very prominently one hue and breathtakingly so, it would be one of the principal takeaways of the dream
I love how over a decade later, Michael looks the same, speaks the same and the editing style is exactly the same it really creates a timeless video and the same music !
Times change, Vsauce doesn't
Into hurricane lamps, are you?
Then this is an old man editing from future. According to him.
He's lost a pretty good amount of weight, I think. But otherwise, yeah, he looks basically the same
Seriously! his early videos still hold up today and don't even seem dated!
There was a really cute tiktok trend a while ago where moms dressed like their daughters, showing the before and after. It really demonstrated the illusion of fashion associated with past decades and older people, because everyone was blown away by how young they looked
Nothing about tiktok is cute.
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i wish i was a little bit taller i wish i was a baller i wish i had a girl who looked good i would call her
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@@ludaheracles7201that's what I'm saying
Didn't realize how much I missed Vsauce until watching this video. Your short stuff is good, but your longer videos just hits different. I watched all 22 minutes enthralled.
Same
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Enthralled is the exact word I thought. I was sitting with my face a few inches from the screen utterly hooked.
Same here.👍👍
i thought his channel was completely different actually
In Kerbal Space Program, each astronaut has the exact same face model, but they still feel different because they have different names.
It’s hard to understand that Michael is only 36 years old when he has been vsaucing our brains for over a decade
hes 36???
36?? I thought he was around 45!
it's the hairline. same as me, im 27 and i was losing my hair at like 24. Until i shaved my head fully, people used to think i was a lot older. When he shaved his beard he looked a lot younger as well
...and looks like he's 50.
Yeah, I'm surprised he says he's only 36! Could be a wind-up? I'm 61 and do feel I should be 36ish, but I would have put his age later. Thinning hair, glasses and beard maybe add years compared, but wisdom trumps youth perhaps to add years? If you'd asked me, maybe 45 to 50 - an interesting thought given subject matter of the content (apologies to Michael re age assumption!).