If you’re on the latter half of your twenties, chances are you’re still feeling pretty young, footloose, and fancy free — especially if you haven’t decided to have children yet! However, regardless of how young you think you are, I promise you, these 15 facts will have you checking the mirror for wrinkles and maybe even shouting at the neighborhood kids to stay off your damn lawn.
#15. Lindsay Lohan is now older than the actress who played her potential stepmother in The Parent Trap.
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Chew on that for a minute.
#14. Likewise, the kids from Jurassic Park are now older than Laura Dern was when she filmed the movie.
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That cannot be right.
#13. There are kids in high school who have never known a world without social media.
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It’s kind of sad when you think about how your childhood probably didn’t revolve around the internet, or at least not to the same degree.
#12. Rookie of the Year is old enough to be in the process of a remake.
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I guess that makes it a classic. Who would’ve thunk it?
#11. This year, kids born in the 2000s became adults.
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Did your brain just implode?
#10. Spongebob Squarepants is so old he’s now part of the Nick at Nite lineup.
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Yup, that’s when old people watch Nickelodeon.
#9. The Phantom Menace was released in 1999, which means we’re just about as far from it as it was from the original Star Wars, released in 1977.
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On the bright side, we can still remember a Star Wars universe in which The Phantom Menace didn’t exist.
#8. Kids today have never lived in a world where iProducts haven’t existed.
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But most of them have never heard of or seen an original iPod [screaming emoji].
#7. And while they might love Fortnite, they’ll never know the joy of handheld games like a GameBoy.
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I mean, yeah, tablets are fancier, but nothing beats the simplicity of that square, grey box.
#6. Blink 182 is being played on classic rock stations.
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You know, the stations we used to refer to as the “oldie” station and that played rock n’ roll from the 50s?
#5. It’s been 18 years — an entire childhood — since the cast of the first Harry Potter movie was announced.
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Another little boy living under the stairs could’ve had a whole other set of adventures in a magical universe in that time!
#4. They could make a High School Musical 4 and have it take place at their 10 year reunion.
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Idk why, but this one killed me.
#3. The 90s to them were the 70s for us.
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Our childhoods have been reduced to homecoming week themes.
#2. If someone wants to make a “vintage” movie, like The Wedding Singer was for us, it would be set in 2005.
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That’s 13 years ago, friends.
#1. There are kids in high school who were born after both Elf and Shrek were released.
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What would it be like to have never lived in a world without Will Ferrell equating Christmas?
No shame, people. Getting older is actually the best.
