Vsauce
3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2022–2024
22:54 · 21M views · Jul 11, 2022
Vsauce explores whether people in past decades really looked older than people of the same age today, or whether photographic and cultural factors make them seem so. It draws on old photos, yearbooks and perception research.
HN commenters cite it to explain why people in old photos seem older than they were.
3 comments from Hacker News
Non native speaker here, it's the second time this week[1] that I see "didn't used to..." instead of what I believe to be the correct form "didn't use to...". Aren't verbs after "did/didn't" always supposed to be in the present tense? For example you would say "I didn't see you last night" rather than "I didn't saw you last night". Is there a grammatical rule I'm missing? [1] the other one was this video by youtuber Vsauce, this video EDIT: wow so many interesting responses, thank you!
I'll spare you my gay saga, but to cheer you up: Thanks to medical strides and our indoor-loving HN crew [0], hitting 30 is simply not a crisis. The phrase "30's are the new 20's" is something to live by. You've got loads of time ahead, no worries. [0] this video . Explores why previous generations looked older when they were our age.
Mad Men argument doesn't hold up either, Michael from Vsauce did a recent video on exactly this, we simply perceive images of young people in the past decades as older than they are this video