Did People Used To Look Older?

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[@metalhead351_of]

It's funny to think that there will be a point where hoodies and baggy pants would be seen as clothes for old people

[@PansyPops]

Please no, don’t say this.

[@sle_epytight]

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.

[@mstBel889]

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

[@whitedragoness23]

@@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.

[@whitedragoness23]

@@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.

[@aprroxit3633]

Vsauce is the guy who actually tries to figure out his shower thoughts

[@owlofathena1247]

Lmao 😂😂😂

[@footnotedrummer]

Hilarious! So true.

[@nancywutzke5392]

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.

[@loganbair9562]

@nancy wuzaki you must be really fun at a party

[@omnium_gatherum]

@@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

[@lostindixie]

When I was a teenager, all the boys wanted to be 18 and no older. Old enough to drink in NY state, but not yet old enough (19) to be drafted to Vietnam.

[@bruhmoment1761]

Sheesh man. That’s actually insane. Such a random thought, but what you said kind of reminded me of the fact that Spider-Man comics started along the time when you were in your teens, and I’m like 5 generations later and I read them

[@bigtakeshi]

I grew up watching Friends on TV and they were all in their 20s or early 30s but all were older than me. I'm 37 now and when I watch Friends, they still all seem older than me!

[@caras4766]

Yes exactly! Its like when we watch something that we used to watch at a much younger age, we in many ways still perceive them from that age.

[@ElBribri]

Exactly THIS happens to me, I go and watch old movies and shows having this in mind, but my perspective doesnt change even though actor were younger than I'm currently am, I even ask my family how old were they when "x" thing happend just to compare myself to them, but I still remember them looking older than me

[@ac4181]

They do look really young though

[@tonybates7870]

I know what you mean. The football team I support was full of older people (guys in their 20s and 30s) when I was ten, and now I'm in my 60s . . . they STILL seem older than me!

[@JackGordon]

After all these years I still don’t want to tell Michael that my name is not Vsauce

[@Cheeselover34]

You really look like jack 👀

[@patrickfeeney1773]

Underated comment

[@mattynek2]

Hey Vsauce, Michael here! Your name is Vsauce. _o r i s i t ?_

[@AmazingLube]

To me you look like an Eric. I don't know why.

[@BunnyAssassin]

I don't get it.

[@qh777]

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.

[@dandefish]

Yes! In Kindergarten, 2nd graders were basically adults.

[@nadeen___]

In like 2nd grade the 5th graders we’re like adults . Then when i was in 5th i didnt feel that old lmao

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

Same, here.

[@dinozaurpickupline4221]

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

[@DeezFunny12]

Bro same

[@EmelieBoss]

My mom was called "old lady"(in my language, not a great translation) by some kid when she was 16 years old, right after getting a perm. I feel like all of this has to do with hairstyles. Women curled their hair in crazy ways and men did not try to hide their early hairloss.

[@croozerdog]

my dad went from growing out his balding hair to smooth bald, he legit looked 30 years younger, because people do that nowadays

[@GioGio-fq1vl]

My mom and her sisters were in their late teens/young adulthood in the 80's and they easily looked ten years older than they actually were. The hairstyles, makeup and the shapes of most clothing garments back then were simply unflattering- ain't no way a 16yo girl is going to look 16 under all that voluminous layered hair, heavy neon-colored makeup and giant shoulder pads 😂

[@croozerdog]

@@GioGio-fq1vl people are gonna say the same stuff about our clothes in 40 years

[@susant1323]

I remember my mom and grandma would wear their hair old fashioned. My mom never wore makeup, and was never into fashion. I am in my 40's. I try to keep up with the younger trends. I don't like dressing older. I also keep my hair up and colored. People always think I'm in my early 30's. I grew up in the 80's where parents were super strict. So my childhood was rough. I work full time and have a career. So I am mature in that aspect. But I will sit down and still play video games with my kid.

[@XSaffie_LoveX]

@@croozerdog hack: keep changing your style to match the younger gens, you'll never age haha

[@phildpain]

Indoor Smoking laws really helped with people not looking aged. Better education about the effects of smoking. Also, being educated about the negative effects of the sun with better skin products has helped.

[@kevinf4896]

I really believe this is the main cause. It was EVERYWHERE. Even on planes!

[@paulmeredith4515]

And drinking. Many people used to drink a lot more and more often

[@jimijames6449]

I really don’t think these are the main things that apply. Fashion and, camera tech are by probably larger components. As well as the behaviour towards cameras

[@simarkeyan]

Lifestyle is a big factor. But I observe my mother when I was a kid during 90s and growing up. I thinks it's #1 the cloth, try wearing old school clothing. #2 Camera tech, isn't it obvious we take more 5shots to get 1 qualify picture. I have brown skin we use to play in the sun when I was a kid but it's called glow up when I become lighter since I don't expose myself in the sun anymore. I can put this reason in lifestyle but I'm also trying to say the color, which we can relate it to the camera tech apst vs now #3 Hairstyle, this one can really change the way you look #4 lifestyle, there are many reason for this but I want to specify how kids work before at the very young age, they already thinking about obligation. Are they stressed before and took life seriously that's why they are very mature (brain and appearance)

[@manne8575]

Sun is good though if you don't overdo it. Vitamin D and lots of other benefits. The sun is the source of all life, don't demonize it.

[@LenaClaire91232]

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

[@neoxz_10]

Got a heart from Vsauce!🤯

[@rachelmay23]

POV: You accidentally took the word “ran” to literally. Thank you for 6 likes!

[@RM-wp7df]

@@rachelmay23 lmaoo

[@kings5218]

Plz say you fuqqed

[@tolgacetiner1243]

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.

[@carriehooper32]

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.

[@rect835]

Nice info

[@Callie88Lilly]

Well said!

[@beatlesiracundos]

Yes Kevin Samuels said the same thing. Just like dating is a new modern practice.

[@Julessa]

I didn't know this! That is fascinating!

[@Johnny_Savage]

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

[@izzrk]

I went to a small high school and the graduating class pictures were on the walls around the freshman and senior lockers on the first floor. Every day we saw 18 year olds going back to the '40s, and there was a lot of spirited conversations around what were the factors that made some of those kids look straight-up middle-aged. We covered most of the topics you presented here- styles, makeup, photographic style and quality, aging of the photos on the wall, etc., and none of that controlled for all of the old kids we saw looking back at us on the wall. I think the most enduring impression I took from that experience was that all the grown folks running around making all the decisions were, at one point, just insecure idiots desperate to fit in, just like we were. I graduated in '90; I wonder how old I look hanging there on the wall looking down at these kids now?

[@lattrelbia2527]

1:42 nice to see Adam Friedland in the wild.

[@Desasterific]

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.

[@cobyhoff]

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?"

[@Zwickerly2]

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.

[@AshArAis]

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...

[@Drekromancer]

@@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.

[@shala_shashka]

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

[@santinogioja2626]

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.

[@prodbysh4co]

He’s already cemented his legacy he doesn’t need to explain anything anymore I kind of suspect he’s doing something crazy tho

[@greenshinigami5566]

Then he's gone

[@Ready2_Go]

Pink Fliyd doing and album every 4 years, you just accepted it and waited.

[@BillAnt]

He already solved life's greatest mystery..... life itself. Nothing's left to do other than fooling around from now on. :D

[@leofinkleyjr4280]

facts

[@sicNtwstdF]

You do not look like a Michael. You look like a Steve. Great video by the way. I always had this mindframe and when trying to explain it to others, they couldn't relate.

[@ipwee]

I thought it was interesting when he said his name was Michael. He and I look alike and have similar mannerisms. As it happens, my name is Michael.

[@MartinBrunoSar]

You're literally my favorite KZbinr Michael, I return now and then because the quality is so good

[@philspaghet]

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

[@eric6cartman9]

word im new here glad I wasn't the only one who was a bit lost

[@orth82]

So true. 6:29 blew my mind :)

[@suomeaboo]

Or in his earlier videos, he simply never goes back.

[@Novusod]

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."

[@MikaelaCaliber]

true lol

[@DolanDarker]

Nothing slaps harder than when that Vsauce theme kicks in

[@JoaoLeote7331]

But what is nothing? And how hard can it slap?

[@pratik.khairnar]

@@JoaoLeote7331 harder than the Vsauce theme

[@sarthakjain1824]

Incoming will smith joke

[@crudecube]

What about my dad?

[@thetiesthatbinds3216]

Getting a notification that Vsauce uploaded slaps harder 😏

[@OrangeChickenTHC]

This feels like a nice break from the usual brain rot that festers in social media. Great video!

[@catastic9394]

Stop watching the brain rot then

[@OrangeChickenTHC]

@@catastic9394 It’s not like you can just filter it out. It’s literally everywhere you go. If you don’t think it’s a problem, then you’re clearly too used to it.

[@MarcPlaysDrums]

I was telling my kids the same thing, I didn’t know there was a name for it. People in the past only look old because their styles are old. I noticed it years ago when I looked at my parents wedding pics and looked deep in their faces and saw their youth. Then I realized, the only thing that was old was their style of dress.

[@neverstopschweiking]

I looked at a family photo with my grandfather as a child, held in the arms of his mother and standing next to him is his uncle, who died as a pilot in the RAF during WWII. I always thought my uncle is in his 30s on the photo, but then I realized he was born only 10 years before my grandfather. He was 15 or 16 in the picture. It's not clothing style, he is clean shaven, has a tank top shirt and short hair. He worked hard on a farm and had huge muscles.

[@jacobnegrete6263]

No that’s wrong, people are also getting shorter and more babyfaced builds

[@WinterandNoodle]

@@jacobnegrete6263 Source: I made it up

[@LKCLifer]

The wife who challenged her husband to wear the same clothes, I absolutely loved that they did this and kept it going.

[@Bob-jm8kl]

...and you know all the HS kids thought he was a legend for doing it.

[@CoolGobyFish]

I like how he never updated his style in 30 years. kept the same 70s stache and hair )))))

[@gigiarmany4332]

so cool🙌🏾🔥💥

[@rasberryfields2132]

Humans are strange creatures!🙃

[@mbranagan4277]

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.

[@misery8264]

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.

[@thecommunity1102]

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.

[@originalcontent210]

@@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!

[@WhiteWolfBlackStar]

AGREE! Ha ha ha

[@Maggie-eu7im]

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.

[@atgimm2090]

Wow I thought I was the only one who felt this way

[@adrian_9951]

This hit the nail on the head. We used to wonder about that about some of the black soul singers from back in the day, the delfonics and the spinners. The dudes from friends of distinction. Those people were in their teens and early 20s in those old clips where they looked in their 40s and 50s. We were told those black folks lived harder lives along with the times

[@tracyfontsere6388]

Absolutely, positively FASCINATING!!! I'm so glad i watched this. I often think about the fact that, at age 50, I'm still attractive, vital and active ( and still don't have any crows feet) and yet both of my grandmothers were...OLD at this age. No shade towards them, ivquite loved my paternal Gramma, but they were wrinkled, stooped, riddled with health issues, one required a cane to walk and just looked... well, like grandmothers! While I'm not yet a grandparent ( I have a nine year old), I can't help but think that I share dna with these women but yet they were so much older than I am at this age. Of course we have more information about health and way more skin care, it still is quite surprising to see the vast difference. I'm grateful, thankful and hope to see what I'm like in 30 or 40 years as well.

[@007nadineL]

U think yr still attractive Big difference

[@tracyfontsere6388]

@@007nadineL I never said I thought I'm a super model, only that I'm attractive. I'm pretty confident that I still look nice and definitely younger than previous generations in my family. By the same token, the generations that have come after me will likely hold up even better.

[@charlottemartyr]

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.

[@NurseSnow2U]

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]

Dad shoulda just named him Drew then😅

[@autumnpoplawski6889]

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.

[@charlottemartyr]

@@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

[@charlottemartyr]

@@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

[@micky100]

Makes sense. Watching 90’s teen dramas during my childhood made me believe that school would last up to my 30’s.

[@kickpublishing]

They used 30 year old actors.

[@guntertorfs6486]

@@kickpublishing Of course , the dimwit didn't realize that , NOT.

[@DrSpaceman69]

@@kickpublishing yes, that's the joke.

[@3lttlbrds]

😅 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

[@ariadna2018]

@@kickpublishing Yes

[@jazz77T]

Ive always wondered about this!!! Love how you made a video on this

[@kayleighlehrman9566]

I think that part of why most of our dreams are primarily visual and auditory, and not also tactile and olfactory, comes down to active vs passive sensations. While we can turn our eyes and ears to more actively invesitgate those senses, typically we're always actively absorbing that information during our waking life; conversely, in order to smell or feel something we need to actively participate to get the full experience (deep nasal inhale, reaching out and placing our hand on something, eg.) Unless the smell or feel of something is particularly poignant one way or the other, it often isn't worth committing to memory.

[@stotab8700]

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.

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

Hey! Did you know God is three in one!? The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit! Bless him! 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! Have a blessed day, everyone! ❤

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

Your worries (yes, anxiety), depression, suicidal thoughts, EVERYTHING will melt away and be NO MORE when you lean on God and put your trust in him! When I have physical pain, I literally pray and the Lord quells it, that I am healed! 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.

[@greatdayforpizza6974]

@@Call_Upon_YAH Man just shut up

[@luckyizzac]

@@Call_Upon_YAH ok😐

[@austindarling9595]

reading this comment is funny because me and my friends in high school used to say and think the same thing

[@Judybloom799]

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 🤯

[@JM1993951]

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.

[@OnePieceSS23]

@@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''

[@medexamtoolsdotcom]

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.

[@BePostiveStayHydrated]

Same for me

[@JM1993951]

@@OnePieceSS23 did people really say that about reading? 😂 I remember parents freaking out over Harry Potter but reading was “nerdy”, not brain rotting.

[@Daviros]

How you come up with this stuff is amazing!

[@DK_1981]

Best YT video I’ve seen in a long time! Great job!

[@glectarful]

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.

[@Christerray]

I have all of the vsauce videos downloaded onto my ipad whenever I go flying and after years they never lose their impact

[@user-ze6mh8fg1k]

Bruh...no I know exactly what your saying 😁

[@chefboyardee2223]

When I clicked on it I legit thought it was an old reupload

[@PivotGuy401]

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.

[@scottjgray83]

I love how he manages to install a low level existential crisis in me, and I'll be thinking about this all week.

[@slowphiechen]

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.

[@Hakajin]

I love her! I should check that video out!

[@elinebuis5751]

This is the first time I have ever heard another person mention Karolina Zebrowska

[@feminismandgardening2750]

i love her sm omg

[@Gabe94dotcom]

hmm

[@Delphi333]

@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.

[@CamilaBric]

wow what a great video, Michael catches you telling his stories. I wanted to know the answer to the question in the title of the video but he gave us that and much more. Pleasantly surprised. A new subscriber from Colombia🇨🇴

[@lucialamprey2690]

Good post. One observation among many: people today dress like toddlers did years ago. Years ago, men wore suits almost all the time. Women wore dresses and girdles. I was walking through a mall when there still were malls and I said to my husband that if my grandmother can back today she would think people were walking around in their underwear.

[@OrangeNash]

Yes - if you do want to try and dress like a person in the future, the best way would be to go out in wearing just contemporary underwear.

[@WinterandNoodle]

What a weird comment, do you live in like a daycare or something? All I seen is people wearing casual clothing...

[@lucialamprey2690]

@@WinterandNoodle What a weird comment. Pro tip: Typing before your brain cell kicks in is not a great look. Read what I wrote and it may all come together for you.

[@alexshelby1]

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.

[@BoguZzNL]

A man with an intelligent mind and unstoppable curiosity.

[@Grapefruit5000]

Also it's just damn interesting.

[@squishykotetsu]

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!

[@alexshelby1]

@@squishykotetsu It's a paradox that keeps me coming back for more :)

[@Krizzsek]

A lot of it is looking at established behaviors and asking... why?

[@PatchworkUSA]

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.

[@milobaret8672]

You right

[@rattuna4773]

That is correct, Vsauce actually mentions this exact phenomenon in his video "Juvenoia", it was quite surprising for me to learn.

[@stefchanel1723]

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.

[@klandies3]

there’s actually a very interesting documentary about this exact subject, titled "Teenage"

[@MsLogjam]

The Greatest Generation wanted its children, the boomers, to have everything. Now the white boomers are spoiled rotten.

[@jeffseidl]

Really like the point about the styles having such a big impact

[@ConanDuke]

I love it when everything that I basically intuited from direct observation and a-priori reasoning back when I was 18 years old, is vindicated and confirmed 30 years later in a Vsauce video.

[@Kevin_Carlson]

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.

[@moel8230]

Thank you, man from the future. I turned 31 yesterday. I have to enjoy my life more!

[@kurtgandenberger6139]

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.

[@brunoventura3]

Thanks for the advice. I'll turn 30 tomorrow.

[@RafaelMunizYT]

thanks for the advice. I'll turn 30 in 10 years

[@vanessapoppy7875]

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.

[@kib1455]

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.

[@sunshinex315]

Oh yeah! I learned about that in a child development course and the history of children. Very interesting how things change over time

[@julier.1902]

Never heard that, it's quite profound actually.

[@ThreeRobloxians]

i had a similar thought process

[@dominicturner77]

Was catcher in the rye something to do with the advent of the concept of the teenager?

[@user-ni9eh5md5j]

My great Grandparents Married at 13 & 14 years old and thought that was normal in the south . I’m 56 now

[@KevinSeifert]

As for dreams, I remember having a lucid dream where I could see colors and thought "well that answers that question.". Then I was able to concentrate and switch the dream back and forth between color and black and white.

[@melodyebuskin5490]

My hubby and I have been watching, ‘What’s My Line’ a game show from the late 50’s early 60’s and seeing people in the their 30’s & 40’s looking like they’re in their 70’s. We thought it was because of what they were wearing but after watching your video I see that it’s not the whole reason.

[@demo9750]

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.

[@DrSwoose]

@@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.

[@WilliamTravisIto]

@DONT READ PROFILE PIC i wont dw

[@alexisyuk9544]

@@cgplays9 1

[@Soggytaco25]

Forreal use to watch these as a freshman, here I am now a 27 year old dad lol

[@fortheloveofnoise9298]

@@Soggytaco25 Woah, I'm 27 and my life hasn't even begun..... couldn't imagine being a dad this young

[@aubreynaulin6207]

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.

[@HAIRHOLIC_1]

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.

[@merinajalaya740]

@@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.

[@WhyYoutubeWhy]

@@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.

[@Mehki227]

@@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 😂

[@Mehki227]

@@WhyKZbinWhy 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.

[@e-man2081]

Very interesting video! It could almost be divided into chapter or separate videos because the topics shifted from appearance of age to name associations to dreams, and some other stuff. I think he's right about better nutrition and health care causing people to age slower. Then there are all the "grandmother hair styles" and nasty mustaches that people used to wear. Another thing I noticed is that people were more dressed up in the past and that made them look older. As for dreams, I have both color as well as black and white dreams. The color dreams are the more vivid ones, and the vague (non REM?) dreams can be black and white. I believe it's important to realize that dreams are so abstract that it's hard to represent them visually. For this reason I don't believe it will ever be possible to record dreams (only brain waves from which it would be hard to extract video, audio, or even thoughts).

[@Maacholas]

whoa, I was expecting one thing from this video and it came with dozens of cool info. Nice one!

[@autumnalgloom5360]

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.

[@elephant35e]

When I was 6 in kindergarten, 11 year olds in 5th grade looked like adults to me.

[@labnine3362]

What if they were adults and then stopped aging just at the right moment to mess with you?

[@user-ef9pn7mp3b]

@@elephant35e this is real life kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJu6YoWNqtV_mtU

[@user-ef9pn7mp3b]

@@labnine3362 this is real life kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJu6YoWNqtV_mtU

[@Zhyrim]

@@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

[@StarlaBizarre]

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]

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

[@elijah-jamesmac2039]

@@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

[@calebdonaldson8770]

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.

[@mollywillo]

@@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.

[@pastpresentfuture3599]

@@mollywillo I just figured that due to arthritis they get their hair set so they don’t have to try to style it…

[@KaraLainne]

Adding to the mix: as a person from another time period, my take on why younger people looked older is due to perspective and attitude's of that time period. When I was younger, adult society used to say things like, "act your age", "dress your age", and this is what a good girl should look like, act like, think like etc... There was always expectations of what that was. Also, young people wanted to j hurry up and grow up so they could be taken seriously or earn their stripes quicker so they could increase their rank in the world. eg get that job or job title due to perceived competence and experience. I remember even at as young as 14 being told I'm no longer a kid i have to behave and dress like an adult now by the time I got to 18 then 19, then 20 something I still wasn't 'old enough', 'experienced enough' blah blah blah, but still constantly being told how to look and behave and think. Looking around, there is also the 'role modelling' factor. If everyone around you looks and acts a certain way, and society projects certain images and expectations of what that should be, then you emulate it. So yeah, younger people were told when it's time to get a job, get married, what responsibilities they should have and various stages of life, and when you played those roles you got rewarded well for them eg social acceptance, that job, etc etc. For example: If you were a woman and weren't married by 20 something, you were a spinster. The image of a spinster was projected in a certain way in the movies. People were groomed to embody standards, mindsets, social expectations, and rules of those time periods. at 30 you were already an old maid/middle aged. Dress accordingly. Act accordingly.

[@clematistaiga]

Wow this was amazing and well thought out. Subscribed!

[@comboldam]

“We think people looked older in the past because they look the way older people looked today” 😮 great sentence

[@ericherman5413]

It occurs to me that there weren't really any "children's clothes" until at least the 70s. Before that, children very much wore tiny adult styles. Blue jeans were never worn in public by anyone except the poorest folks who didn't own anything more expensive. Girls wore dresses and gloves. Boys wore slacks and long sleeves, if not a full suit. Some children looked so adult they could have passed for adults before age 14, and the way they were styled by adults made a world of difference.

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

​@@ericherman5413nah, even then you can see some telltale signs of premature aging in the boomer and gen x genetation, specially on their skins. Leaded gas and paint, a lot of smooking eveywhere, lots of other chemicals no longer allowed in food and healthcare products, etc. The younger half of the millenial generation and younger people were spared of chronical exposition to lots of toxins that older generations didn't.

[@IndigoIndustrial]

@@carlosdgutierrez6570 It's just sunscreen, an awareness of skin cancer and smoking. Also, people glug a lot more water these days.

[@elizabethstein9698]

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.

[@cybrunettekitty5197]

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

[@juniorlara2394]

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

[@poopyfarts42069]

i look like a frikin 12 year old lmfao

[@whhatwut]

@@hillskevin924 🤓

[@Richard-Gore]

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.

[@jackbauer9901]

Vsauce is so entertaining that a whole 22 minute video feels like a short! Well done!

[@MarcusZepeda]

I'm glad that he Said that not all people back then looked older that people back then did look their age but has to do with their genetics or their hairstyles

[@-umph]

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.

[@milky7257]

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!

[@roseproctor3177]

yes ☺️☺️☺️☺️ agreed

[@popefrancisgaming]

I have a question about the box, how long does shipping take and would you say all the stuff you get is worth it?

[@helloimmark2424]

Its her finally 😅 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqLFaZ-XgN2ModE

[@mc_spankie1446]

Yeah I remember watching him during the summer and loving his video

[@mstieferman]

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!

[@4realGTFOH]

That's awesome. Share the knowledge

[@jackmariner]

Are you doing IT? I’m graduating in like a year and half and not sure what I’ll do

[@johnnychabin6982]

hell yeah! I graduated a week ago and will be starting a CS job in a few months too! :)

[@FriedRice3519]

nice 👍

[@lmaoaims]

That’s amazing! I’m so happy for u, what course did u do?

[@user-hq4jz6lc9d]

I joined the Army in 1978, going to basic training for three months with an OSUT unit. My company shared the mess hall with other basic training units in the same training battalion. I marveled at the other solders who were a couple months further ahead in their training. They seemed so much older and more mature-- like real soldiers....... even though they were perhaps at best on-average only a couple months older than me. A mere couple of months later, I could look at the newer trainees just coming in and thought they looked so young and innocent, even though they were maybe on-average a couple months or so younger than I. I thought "look at those stupid FNGs".

[@cintowin]

I honestly think like in the beginning clip of the 80s high schoolers is that's just how they recognize older people's style (the hair makeup) so seeing it in highschool they automatically think old

[@virajbhale3143]

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!

[@Budgetmeright]

My thoughts exactly!

[@alexsyld5410]

Cool to see another Better Ideas fan.

[@virajbhale3143]

@@alexsyld5410 🙌 that's right man

[@wu1ming9shi]

@Darius Bostic How about no...The evangelizing days are long over mate.

[@jonathanzhang5625]

It is not just him a team of people makes the vids

[@jimboramba]

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.

[@KratostheThird]

Second hand smoking, which ended up killing Andy Kaufman.

[@nk1974]

Absolutely

[@TurismoHistoricoCarioques]

Absolutely, the combination of smoking and not exercising led to premature aging.

[@callmekirkland8]

​@TurismoHistoricoCarioques as if people exercise now lol. My neighbors refuse to walk their dogs farther than it takes to get them to pee (about 20 meters total walk length on average). They never exercise besides this twice a day 20 meter walk in an apartment complex.

[@LisaAnn777]

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.

[@BstarBme]

Heavy drinking and smoking will easily add 10 years your look

[@destrygriffith3972]

I like how at the end he says that still images can't contain motion and narrative, and how well comics violate that. You'll know exactly what I'm talking about if you're either a comic reader or especially if you've read UNDERSTANDING COMICS by Scott MacLeod (sp) - it's a fascinating explanation of the mindbending properties of the medium, which I believe addresses the specific attribute of being halfway in between a single-panel painting and a motion picture.

[@destrygriffith3972]

Edit ha ha that's funny. Turns out McLeod's name was originally spelled that way (he changed it to McCloud).

[@bryantbarboza4149]

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

[@hyperat8146]

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 KZbin 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.

[@khalednajjar3852]

Literally the same

[@nana_untamed]

Yess they did

[@JayDorsey-my6wm]

@@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

[@hampter386]

I was literally about to make the same comment

[@neilangelopalquiza6522]

Michael went from talking about how your style can affect how people perceive your age to comparing dreams to movies. What a madman.

[@normalman23]

That's literally the theme of the video bro. How long did it take for you to spew those words out?

[@rogerroger9952]

A parkour master.

[@words007]

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.

[@peterw1534]

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.

[@adityanaik6291]

like he does every video

[@jeantetreault132]

Thanks! Michael. You surely have a great scientific knowledge and you're quite éloquent when it comes to explaining things. I'm 55 years old and i remember seing my parents who actually looked much older during the 1960s and the 1970s. I look at my old colored pictures from that same time period and eventhough i still looked quite amazingly younger than my age, i know the next younger generation of people today will think that i looked much older back then and that they will definetely look younger than me. Furthermore, you also have to consider the fact that people appeared much older on a 16 mm film strip rather than appearing on digital numeric video if you catch my drift.

[@politefan8141]

I wonder if we'll still be able to tell how much time has passed when we have 20-30 years of high definition footage to look back on.

[@manray005]

I noticed this phenomenon in my school. Even just 3 years above you can look in the yearbook and compare vs my class. They all look like they're 25-30 and we look like 15 year olds at most even in senior year.

[@hihunter7]

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

[@leannewheeler5351]

Lol. I remember freshman year being shocked at seeing boys with facial hair 😆

[@l1585]

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

[@katyungodly]

@@l1585 I was a senior in 2013 and nowadays seniors look like literal children to me, I cannot take them very seriously at first 😄

[@gwenzero2906]

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.

[@kamalking4933]

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 😂

[@fedupwithusernames]

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.

[@fryPS]

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.

[@GingerBun]

@Hanover Fiste ok incel

[@Mr.Morden]

If you name your daughter Mavis she will be born as a fully grown middle aged woman who smokes two packs a day.

[@Mr.Morden]

@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.

[@Galidorquest]

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.

[@Starrider.]

Wow this video turned out to be waaaay more informative than I originally thought

[@destrygriffith3972]

7:45, it would've been better for them to give us the median age, because this would eliminate the wildcard estimations like 90 or 50 (though in the real world these might've canceled each other out by being equally frequent on both sides of the spectrum, hard to say so actually I would appreciate hearing the median ALSO, but not just the median either).

[@sir9integra9jr]

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.

[@TheJudge064]

The return to classic Jake Chudnow music was especially welcome.

[@jarnesss2546]

I even anticipated the slimy vsauce crush at the end of the video

[@seveny6to4]

I know right? It's great!

[@niranjanrajesh1058]

@@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

[@Askemanden]

It’s hard to understand that Michael is only 36 years old when he has been vsaucing our brains for over a decade

[@jestersudz6085]

hes 36???

[@tomsheldon4950]

36?? I thought he was around 45!

[@cauliflowerconnoisseur2710]

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

[@detourne]

...and looks like he's 50.

[@mrartist.studio]

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!).

[@libby6494]

Sun damage ages the skin. Effective sunscreen didn't really hit the market until the 90's prior to that the spf factor was really low and tanning oils were more popular. That's primarily why people of the same age back then look older than people of the same age today.

[@Rothron]

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.

[@bean5976]

Why is no one mentioning the common denominator they’re all white

[@AMcDub0708]

I assumed this too!

[@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrl7059]

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[@user-ef9pn7mp3b]

@@bean5976 this is real life kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJu6YoWNqtV_mtU

[@NO-bw5dn]

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.

[@Madamoizillion]

A note about fashion history, one could argue that before the 1950s (and this date is not a hard boundary) there wasn't a strong sense of "teenage fashion", as in, the clothes that were around were pretty much the same for adults and young people alike. By the 1950s and definitely the 1960s, there was an emergence of teen fashion and teen-specific culture that has mostly continued until today, with an interesting note that there may be some reversion of tween/teen fashion becoming adult-like again with the pervasiveness of influencer-based social media and the pandemic causing teens to consume more content from adults and less direct influence from their peers.

[@jdfromparis6230]

Also getting your picture taken was a big or at least a bigger deal so you would make an effort to look presentable, good hair, good clothes...

[@Hexation]

@@jdfromparis6230 hmm

[@breachan5465]

I was really hoping someone would mention the fashion changes/impacts that became available! Thankyou

[@FlameG102]

thats a good point. We didn't have a strong solid encapsulation of "teenager" until the 20's. And then in the 50's and 60's with the rise of commercialized TV and radio we began to advertise to age groups. children, and teenagers, specifically. So both became far more hard edge defined.

[@RCAvhstape]

@@jdfromparis6230 And dress codes were still more common and stricter back in the 70s and right up to the mid 2000's. You wore a shirt and tie to work in an office every day, so you just managed to have nicer clothes around your house.

[@whisperofwonder]

Very insightful video, thank-you 🙏

[@carlosbpvp]

This is a brilliant, complex analysis of a topic that is complex. A rarity on KZbin.

[@YourBoyDonald]

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.

[@MichaelStevens-ry8fc]

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[@alienwarex51i3]

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.

[@YourBoyDonald]

@@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.

[@joand2217]

😂😂😂 agreed. But then, at old age most people go for more decent and more covering clothes.

[@ashleydrye3311]

@@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

[@fonkbadonk5370]

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.

[@ferdtheterd3897]

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

[@SoulDelSol]

A t rex head and naked swimming. Sounds awesome and I'm 39

[@sion8]

*+*

[@blackhawk7r221]

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.

[@beyondbackwater4933]

Yeah sometimes I feel ashamed around my parents considering what stage of life they were at when they were my age

[@Lexyvil]

It's interesting that when you're an adult, you see every other adult as being the same age. Even when comparing yourself to a senior. I like to think that we're all mentally in our 20s after reaching that point, despite our bodies continuing to grow old. For example, I'm 33 but still feel like a 20 year old in a 33 year old's body. The thing that did change aside my body I'd say is my knowledge, but I still enjoy the same things I did back then as I do now.

[@Shikai_Suigetsu]

This is exactly my perception since 5th grade. People from 5th grade when I was in second grade look older than I was, when I was in 5th grade.

[@Greg-om2hb]

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.

[@Patrick3183]

Like Jean Harlow

[@MustacheDLuffy]

Don’t exactly look like you used to honey

[@sirenachantal471]

Another reason might be that some people go through chemotherapy and their eyebrows never grow back.

[@manicpepsicola3431]

This is why I keep up with makeup trends and plan to continue

[@RichM3000]

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.

[@dawnelder9046]

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.

[@r.e.t.8656]

You made me lol

[@BBBeanie855]

I just decided to watch this and Vsause was able to make it so interesting

[@bardozan]

I've watched every Vsauce videos at least twice, but never realised that the title is incorrect. It should be "did people use to".

[@simonsaysism]

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.

[@tocov]

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.

[@mihailmilev9909]

Sooo interesting. But yeah I totally get you. Something I've thought about as well

[@mihailmilev9909]

@@tocov exactly

[@mihailmilev9909]

@@tocov that's so crazy actually if u really lived forever or very very long

[@SSGARFIELD99]

Vsause has a video on this subject

[@direct0r]

Holy shit he went from "did people used to look older?" to "do dreams have color?" and it all somehow still made sense. Bravo VSauce, you confound me.

[@mlsanica7618]

use*

[@who511]

Now I'm fascinated that many old people think they dream in black and white...wow... but maybe we all do and just recall it with colour :o

[@mlsanica7618]

@@oritsejolomiokirika9913 did people used ? Are you sure ?

[@yangpaan453]

@@oritsejolomiokirika9913 when using "did you" you follow it up with "use to" not "used to" look it up.

[@mlsanica7618]

@@yangpaan453 finally someone

[@zevac]

I like to think Michael is just in a psych ward and he likes entertaining the guards with his facts from time to time

[@RebecaEnache]

13:56 I DID NOT EXPECT TO GET THAT RIGHT

[@asston712]

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"

[@ron4202]

Im very sorry your first three comments are from stupid spam bots

[@ron4202]

@DONT READ PROFILE PIC Okay, im not reading it

[@charlenecunningham4279]

Why you saying so?

[@rhysbaker2595]

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

[@endriupres6708]

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.

[@linden4372]

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

[@ludaheracles7201]

Nothing about tiktok is cute.

[@pegacis]

@@ludaheracles7201average Redditor

[@kashvi1225]

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

[@jamesbizs]

@@pegacisaverage thumbler

[@Bigboi-eg1sc]

​@@ludaheracles7201that's what I'm saying

[@pip25hu]

I'm pretty sure color has a meaning in dreams, since I sometimes notice an interesting or odd color not in retrospect, but while in the dream itself ("hmm, why is that barrel blue?") and react to it by trying to take a closer look, for example.

[@sabrinusglaucomys]

I'm really skeptical of the idea that what we remember seeing in dreams isn't more closely-related to what we actually saw because when I lucid dream, I often get caught up in checking out the graphics so unless that's all somehow a false memory, I think we actually are truly *seeing* something in our dreams

[@bridgethannah2933]

“Oh, to be young and in your 70s again,” lamented my 93 year-old father-in-law.

[@stevenglikin3219]

That actually makes sense though, because in your 70s you're in your pension so you don't have to work, but are still a lot healthier than you would be at 93 :P

[@DaddyLeviticus]

I made your comment have 117 likes. 93 Year-Old Father-In-Law, do you mind telling me what you’re doing on that ship? “Sir, Finishing This Episode.”

[@DoctorSwellman]

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

[@Ren99510]

Fancy seeing you here Swellman! Looking forward to more videos!

[@gustavomurillo3067]

I find this very interesting, and somehow related to the theory of strings.

[@jstantongood5474]

Parts of the background music sounds like scenes from the 1982 Bladerunner film

[@Zucore_Creates]

my jaw dropped when he said we think young people back then look old because they wear and act like old people we know

[@CoolGobyFish]

stupid bearded hipsters and girls with silly high rise pants already look old to me. when I was in college in the 90s, those things were made fun of and where for someone who was "old". mom jeans- that's what we used to call high rise pants.

[@littleball3829]

yeah I guess every generation has their own fashion which backwards makes them who they are

[@awileksand]

Yes cool, and in fact they ARE the old people we know 😊

[@GlamrockSonic]

it all makes sense now.

[@SMoon2698]

fantastic! so ill be an old person wearing graphic tees and sweatpants! hell yeah@@KaiAura