I hate how much I relate to this... at 20

senopahx · 9 months

Wait until you're old enough to realize that it doesn't matter.

euphoric_barley · 9 months

Come on now, you're only 20. Wait till your hair falls out and your dick stops working.

paradiseandjunk · 9 months

No way man! I'm going to keep on rocking forever

theDudeRules · 9 months

Wait till you hit 40. I guess all you young people on Reddit think that 46 is old. I can honestly tell you that you go to bed one night and wake up and you are 40. It happens so damned fast. The first time you hurt your back will be the wake up call. I just had 3 disks in my spine fused and tons of arthritis scraped out of my lumbar bones. Getting old sucks physically, but mentally I feel 20 and I think I always will. :-)

Khaemwaset · 9 months

At 20, eh? What, is another pokemon character more popular than your favourite?

the2belo · 9 months

What they don't tell you is, they skip a generation, and then they recycle "it". They make "it" cool again, but only after stripping it down, giving it a different paint job, and completely missing the fucking point.

RepostThatShit · 9 months

If you feel like this when you're 20 then you were never with it to begin with.

[deleted] · 9 months

How did his lip get to be on top of his arm like that?

total_looser · 9 months

no, it just means you are overly concerned with what everyone else thinks.

[deleted] · 9 months

Stop looking up to 15 year olds.

north7 · 9 months

It's the circle of life folks.

When you get to highschool you realize what an idiot you were in grade school.

When you get to college you realize what a loser you were in high school.

When you get a real job in the "real world" you realize how stupid you were in college.

When you become a parent you realize how immature you were before that.

That's all i got so far, but I'm sure when my kids get to grade school and I see all the weird shiat that passes for cool it'll start all over and I'll think ~~their~~ they're all retarded.

EDIT - fixed my their/they're booboo. I never do that so I'm giving myself a pass this time, and you all upvotes for calling me out

Spiderdan · 9 months

I'm 21 and because I never got sucked into twitter i have no idea what those stupid #imaretard tags mean. it has begun.

timmytimtimshabadu · 9 months

Thanks for reposting what i made on my birthday, slightly over two months ago.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/kktb0/its_my_bday_not_my_reddit_one_my_real_one_31/

pilsner407 · 9 months

honestly, if you're 20 years old and you haven't figured out already that the vast majority of the "with it" stuff is moronic bullshit, you've got much bigger problems to deal with

glegleglo · 9 months

I remember when I went to visit my lil brother and told him I got a rubber band bracelet that is shaped like a dinosaur. Deadpan look on his face he says "those are silly bands, where have you been." My glass shattered :(.

zublits · 9 months

If you're not it at 20, you never were.

There, I fixed it. Leave me alone.

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excavator12 · 9 months

When skinny jeans and emo became trendy i realized this applied to me.

Captain_English · 9 months

As I commented to my seniors at work (I'm 22) whilst helping them with their computer - it's not their fault they don't understand it in detail. It just came along past the time when they would ever be used to that sort of thing the way those of us who grew up with them are.

I pointed out that what scares me is the amount they've changed in the time I've been alive. Keeping currency is a time consuming task. What will be invented or adopted in my life that will leave me feeling "well, I'm not comfortable with that."

Anyone here seen the film eXistEnz? Yeah. Fuck that.

ajed1250 · 9 months

I turned 20 today. Sounds about right.

ch2008 · 9 months

This is how I felt when twilight came out.

jalangen · 9 months

All of those ` really piss me off.

Mackinstyle · 9 months

Why did you use ` ' as quotation? You're 20 and I really hope this wasn't intentional. But the keys... they're just so far away!

Looking at it again just drives my brain nuts. Just going out of the way to look so off and troll me. That was the plan wasn't it?

theroguesstash · 9 months

I wouldn't call it "scary and weird" as much as "completely retarded and ridiculous looking". The phrase "like a monkey fucking a football" comes to mind.

Williekins · 9 months

I used to be "With it" like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.

Hammyman · 9 months

I'm 40. When I look at what is "it", it looks the same as the "it" that was "it" when I was 18 even though "it" has changed many times in the past 20 years. In fact some of what is "it" now was actually "it" when it was "it" for my parents. It would seem that this generations "it" is actually a mix of the two previous generations of "it".

ackafoo · 9 months

One time it came up in a conversation with my son that I was 16 in 1969. He thought about it and said that almost everyone he knows wishes they were from my generation. I got the weirdest feeling of pride for something I can't actually take any credit for.

life_failure · 9 months

yea... but our shIT was awesome!

theirs is stupid and lame...

GET OFF MY FUCKIN LAWN!

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ImTheManOkay · 9 months

I wonder if generations before us (us being 20-something year olds) looked at the kids 5-6 years younger then them and shat their pants in fear. I mean, I know memories tend to change as time goes on, but shit man. High schoolers are so much different now then they were 8 years ago when I was starting.

The same goes for all my friends. We look at the younger kids from our generation, and I absolutely know for a fact that we were not like them.

Jammku · 9 months

Age 25 here. Does anyone remember when videogames, mainly in the early 90's, were trying to be "rad" and "hip" but was regarded as a "nerd" hobby or uncool? How it was once in a blue moon to see a video game commercial, how most of the "cool" kids thought it was stupid to play games instead of sports? Now look at it. It's shameful to put someone like me in the same category as the "CAWW O DOOTY" kiddies. Yeah, games are still considered a "nerdy" hobby (World of Warcraft) but it's very socially acceptable to talk about them now than it was in elementary / middle school.

Dracomantis · 9 months

I'm 23... I was never proud to be from my generation... I mean, we have the fucking Spice Girls...

But what kids are into now? makes me sick.

Joufy · 9 months

As soon as the young folk started talking about scenecore and stickcam I felt old. That shit makes no sense to me.

Nosiegfried · 9 months

Wait till you get to your mid 30s. Not old, but i feel like i belong to another century... Oh, wait a minute...

headwrong · 9 months

` is not a quote mark.

alligot123 · 9 months

I am 17 and I have no idea what some slang means anymore...

NoobHUNTER777 · 9 months

I was never with it.

Whompa · 9 months

I can't stop looking at his face somehow being in front of his hand according to the drawing. Wtfffffffffffffffff

Zeag · 9 months

Like how Dubstep is now a douchebag thing? (All hail Skrilex!) shivers

Lumpy_bd · 9 months

Just imagine how much worse it will feel when you hit 30!

MissCheeks · 9 months

Don't worry about it. I had the same thing happen to me at 20. All of a sudden, the radio started playing shit like Nickelback and Three Days Grace or Three Doors Down or whatever. I was like "ok, well I guess this is where I start talking like my dad." Anyways... thankfully after that I discovered the Internet... and downloading... and realized that if you really make an effort to find cool stuff to relate to, you will. :)

Just find what your it is.

SodomizingHipster · 9 months

Just wait.

[deleted] · 9 months

I for one plan on relying on Reddit to help mitigate this over time.

Purple_Herman · 9 months

Awww. I hate how much you relate to it too.

TeCuervo · 9 months

Then get ready for your mid-life crisis at 24.

djfeelgood · 9 months

Bahahaha... it only gets worse. Im 25 and cant believe how shitty kids born in the 90's are.

[deleted] · 9 months

Yes, yes, you're like every other young twenty or thirty something redditor who doesn't follow popular culture and therefore doesn't understand people when they reference it. In turn you consider yourself old or out of the loop, or perhaps even wise beyond your years because you don't pay attention to pop culture. Good for you.

bobdole369 · 9 months

I'm 32 - this happened to me before the year 2000...................

killajay · 9 months

My 20th is in 11 days. I can't agree more.

AndyPLR · 9 months

That is just discouraging.

Tomtom041890 · 9 months

`Quote'

Throwd5002 · 9 months

IT, is always hot babes and $$

Slatt · 9 months

Haha! This will never happen to me!

... I was never "with it" in the first place.

Krumbsie · 9 months

Woah woah, we're all missing the main point here. In the picture his hand is the closest thing to us, yet it's still behind his lip.

digitalpencil · 9 months

20?!

go back to bed.

BlackestNight21 · 9 months

Oh shut up 20 yo. Go drink and fuck bitches/womyn.

dcmcderm · 9 months

I'm 30, and this quote defines me as a person. I actually recite it when a young-en is blabbing on about something I don't understand.

alfx · 9 months

apparently the new "it" is for 20 year olds to pretend they are old people now.

alphafox · 9 months

A better example is from the ed, edd, & eddie show, trying to keep up with the 'in crowd' Pogo sticks and such, they finally decide to be themselves and in 10 years they will be popular again.

MikeOfAllPeople · 9 months

Any music made after 2001 is crap.

Red_AtNight · 9 months

I would argue that I was never with it.

GroundhogExpert · 9 months

So you peaked in high school? I have no sympathy for you.

moyerr · 9 months

Oh my god. Did the mismatching quotation marks bother anybody else? It' madeit' impossible to `read.'

beelisi11 · 9 months

at 19 I totally get the idea of this.

TerminalBrilliance · 9 months

Do you actually "hate" how much you "relate" to that or are you just looking for attention OP? You can change, you know, and you can change in a way that you enjoy "it" whilst being a complete shill and enjoy your own life. You don't have to become things you like or enjoy...

Personally I think you're just looking for attention and/or validation of however you live your life right now, probably because you're a good old coward.

pjgamer77 · 9 months

Come on your 20. My Grandma is 83 and my dad 63, they feel like this.

Lets put it into perspective, my Grandma was 20 in 1948. The war just ended and she was in a refugee camp in Belgium, working in a factory. She is 83, healthy and living in a nice neighbourhood in Canada.

She feels out of it. Her Glenn Miller doesn't play on the radio anymore because most of the people who liked it when she did...are dead. Now that sucks.

But for the record, she says that life passes by in a flash. Last thing she knew she was 20, then 30 then 80. She can't believe it, she can't believe she is a great-grandma now.

[deleted] · 9 months

what are you talking about? im 20 to and 'it' hasn't changed that much for us. hell our 'it' is still forming and changing

ganjamensch · 9 months

Wow, you're 20, you're like super-old. Like grandpa old.

You can't even legally buy alcohol, dude.

Simple_Man · 9 months

You're adorable.

BlueJoshi · 9 months

I've found that I've slowly gotten further and further ahead of the curve as I've gotten older, actually. Started back in highschool and hasn't stopped yet. It's a little painful when I go out and see people engaging in habits or trading jokes that I grew sick of a year ago :(

I realise how hipstery that sounds.

listerfyne · 9 months

at 20 you are still in the it phase,you fucking moron. now go out and get laid and listen to whatever shitty music u kids listen too these days.

F_A_F · 9 months

Get to 36....then we'll talk :(

mp6521 · 9 months

"I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps i hear when they get on the decks..."

pooptrack · 9 months

repost

dofphish · 9 months

Enjoy life and being your age.

riptaway · 9 months

HAHA. At 20. I don't think you're out of touch, I think you're just stupid.

Mikulak25 · 9 months

That nostalgia from 5 years ago is hitting you pretty hard, huh?

zzaman · 9 months

I miss loose clothes. It works for fat guys...

Nenor · 9 months

What the hell is with all the `s and 's and "s. What the fuck does that sentence even mean? Also, there is no "is" in the first part, why is there "isn't" in the second?!

Spyhop · 9 months

34 here. Still wondering at what point modern rock music lost it's testicles.

yrogerg123 · 9 months

Just wait until you're 24...

GJOP · 9 months

Shut up. Just shut up you stupid little baby person.

tehbizz · 9 months

Oh my god, you mean you're getting older and in response to this mysterious change, shit doesn't make sense any more? Here's a tip: stop hanging out with people younger than you, problem gets fixed immediately.

ayers231 · 9 months

Always, in the course of a species' existence, there is a side note. A form of the species where-in nature tried something new, just in case, and it failed miserably. Not that the life form itself wasn't viable, just that the life form was far enough removed from useful that no individuals of the original species wanted to mate with it. That is how I view Rebecca Black. Even my three year old said "that's not nice music".

Ghost_In_The_Ape · 9 months

"It" is too general. Realize that when you were younger and "with it" you weren't "it" to some of your peers.

Liked hip hop? Well the punk and goth kids hated you. Liked alternative? Well metalheads saw you as weak. You were the soccer captain? Well you're only cool in other countries besides the US.

When I turned 20 I was also tired of all the charade. I fantasized about moving to other countries. But it was then when I found my cultural self, lets not confuse that with professional self, I still have no idea what I want to do. But I found identity in a niche of people. It is impossible to be "cool" with mass appeal at anytime in your life.

All you can do is pick a side and be respectful of others, no matter how shit-throwing monkey insane the others turn out to be. Just realize that you are not alone on your side. There may however, be rarity, or distance between people like you. But the internet has closed those gaps. Love my little ponies? There's a forum for you. Love the ship-in-a-bottle craft? There's a forum for you. Believe George Bush is an intergalactic space lizard? There's a forum for you. Just be honest with yourself because at any givin moment there's someone out there who is going to hate you no matter what you do in life.

So fuck it, i'm gonna go eat my pizza with a fork.

pwnusmaximus · 9 months

I am so horrifically lost.. What does that even mean?

Darthtagnan · 9 months

Well, then you're in for a shocker at thirty!

akshark00 · 9 months

Love the Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin posters in the back, always with it.

demonkingjj · 9 months

Shit, I'm even younger and I can't stand this dubstep shit.

Thunderliger · 9 months

It feels weird feeling this at 14

dim3tapp · 9 months

I hate how much I can't relate to those `graves' as a typographer.

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