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Untangling why people your age in other decades always look so much older. Were they really older? Or are is there a context that's missing?

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What does it mean to be X age at Y time?

Every few years a viral post goes around that attempts to contextualize age by time, that people of X age looked like this in the year Y. It’s interesting, that the Golden Girls were geriatrics in their fifties, that the Cheers cast were grandparents in their thirties.

Last week, a post about 38 year olds in 2005 had a similar effect. These people look young and old, the women with wavy helmet bobs and the men balding and bespectacled. There are wrinkles, there are extra chins, there is the posture of people who would become cougars and metrosexuals, Karens and kin. They look normal in that these people still exist today, that to be in your thirties is when your “you” begins to be captured in amber, that the flexibility of your body and being becomes more rigid. Everything is soft in this space: the edge has been sawed off.