• Nangijala@feddit.dk
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    When the fuck do we get to retire from the “young and stupid” category? I literally turn 36 today and my body cracks when I get up in the morning.

    Also, I had red eyes in most photos from my child- and teenhood. I spent a lot of money on film in my teens before I got my first phone with a proper camera in 2007.

    Next you’re gonna condescendingly explain what a floppy disc or a cassette tape is too? Even Gen z is old enough to know about those.

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      Right? Who made this? What millennial doesn’t remember red eye, it was in every damn photo when I was a kid and Im not a particularly old millennial.

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    Millennials are old enough to remember analog cameras and photos of people with red eyes. Man, people need to update their definition of which generation is “young.”

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      The oldest millennials are in their early 40s now but to boomers they will always be teens.

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        Using the most common definition of those born 1981-1996: Oldest millennials turn 44 this year, youngest turn 29. Next year we’ll officially transition to “30s to mid 40s.”

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          True. It is not a boomer who made that meme. It is either a troll or yet another bitter Gen X.

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        As far as mental maturity goes I skipped from 15 to 65, which is to say I’ve never truly behaved as a normal adult free of childish and/or eccentric whims.

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        It was so bad that the PC software that came with the camera often had a red eye removal feature. I remember being fascinated when I figured out you could use it on things other than eyes and it just took the red out of anything.

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          Did it do some form of automatic eye detection or did you have to manually select the eyes?

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            You had to select the eyes. The software I remember had a little square box that popped up, and you moved it over the eyes and clicked to remove the red eye.

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        I distinctly remember the first digicams to be worse than analogue in this regard

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      “Millenials” just means “people younger than me” now.

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      Hell, even the older Gen-Z grew up with analog cameras, VHS players, paper maps, and no computers.

      I’m not sure people realize zoomers are almost 30, and millennials are nearing 50.

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        Either way, I think we can agree that millennials know what film is. Many of us have even developed it ourselves. You know back when people were thought things other than app development and learned helplessness.

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      Seriously, I remember taking a disposable camera with me on our school trip Washington. I also remember that it was during that trip that we all found out you could open those things up and turn them into mini tasers.

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    Mhhh… yes, we millenials who are approaching or are already in our 40s… what’s all that red eye stuff about?

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    One thing I found interesting is!how red-eye reduction works - it pre-flashes you eye briefly, before the main flash. So your pupils constrict and light doesn’t reflect off the bottom of your eyes. Yes, you are part of the mechanism!

    Some strange kind of bio-mechanical symbiotic mechanism is that!

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      So that’s why the choice seems to be between red eyes or tiny pupils. I have some old photos where the surroundings look really dark, the flash on the people makes them look ghostly pale and everyone has unnaturally constricted pupils. If we were trying to avoid demonic pictures, I think we failed.

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      But then your subjects relax their pose on the first flash and you have 1/2 the group start walking off by the time the 2nd one flashes.

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      Even beyond that the 1980s is like the start of millennials. I’d ask if this was made by LLMs but I’d expect even those to get something that dumb correct.

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    Millennials are between 29 and 44. They are turning into the old generation.

    This meme feels like it is 10 or more years old.

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      I had a super cool N64 film camera that I took with me to sleepovers and took lots of shitty photos with because I was a dumbass kid that didn’t know anything about photography.

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    People call “millennials” young because they are old but too proud to say “teenagers”.

    Plus the generational infighting is what the ruling class will use to replace or supplement the culture war.