Cited on HN 3 times, 2022–2024, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN commenters cite it to explain why people in old photos seem older than they were.
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.
“we simply perceive images of young people in the past decades as older than they are” (HN, 2022)
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!
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]
We perceive people in old photos as older than they were
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.
Explores why previous generations looked older at the same age.
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