Is it a good or a bad thing that people look younger than they should be when they're an adult?

[Colon capital V]

Was looking at the Jack Doherty thread and saw that this nigga is apparently 20

For reference this is what a 20 yo man looked like in the 1900s

Should it be okay that men are still looking like little children? How should we fix this? War?

 

[Breadbassket]

How should we fix this? War?

Give them better haircuts and make them wear suits?

 

[Whatevermancer]

For reference this is what a 20 yo man looked like in the 1900s

He only looks older cause he's wearing a suit.

 

[Rozzy]

He only looks older cause he's wearing a suit.

And he doesn't have a retarded haircut.

 

[Xenomorph]

Genetics, advances in healthcare, modern convenances can do wonders.

 

[Beautiful Border]

It's weird I saw this thread when I did because I just saw a video claiming the opposite, that Gen Z look older than Millennials did at the same age.

Now I don't know who to believe...

 

[OrionBalls]

I enjoyed looking twenty well into my thirties. But, I've also met sixteen year-olds who look twenty five. I think part of it is diet and how frequently you wear makeup. Part of it is how much life you experience and how rough that life is.

 

[SNU]

I don't know how other people do it but I look really young for my age and all I do is every few months I say a prayer to a long forgotten God and take a human life

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Sexual trauma at a young age has varying effects on stunting people's development. Aside from their voice possibly being frozen at the age when it happened, the most obvious sign is when the lower half of the skull doesn't elongate and reshape the jawline appropriately during second puberty. It seems mostly random as to which symptoms manifest, if any at all. Those age 25+ Hollywood actresses in particular who still have the skull shapes of girls under 16 are glaring cases.

When you see an adult with a face that's too round, the corners of the mouth too close to the jawline, nonexistent chin length under the bottom lip, eyes set far too low, eyes disproportionately large or a total lack of chin/jaw widening specifically on a man, you're generally looking at a molestation victim.

The very young man in the first photo isn't helped by that haircut or those borderline FAS folds on his eyes, but his chin and jawline look completely normal for someone five years out from being finished with his physiological development.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

It's neither good nor bad, it's neutral, people just look how they look. Most people would consider it a boon though.

 

[DumbDude43]

that guy in the 1900s pic has similar babyface going on as the zoomer kid, it's just the rest of the photo that makes him look more mature
>monochrome instead of real color
>wearing a suit
>adult man haircut instead of zoomer cringe
>good posture
>full body picture instead of just a headshot

 

[Night Crawler]

I watched a video about this on YouTube. People are looking younger now. They compared pictures of people in the past and they looked much older. 30 year olds looked like they were in their mid to late 40's or even early 50's in some cases.

It's a not a bad thing. It's got to be happening to females as well. Downside is you end up with a relatively young looking woman that can't have kids easily or at all depending on how old she is. But at least she doesn't look like some old hag. Another problem is the younger women will look really young. Like so young you worry about getting busted.

I have that problem as well. I was in my mid 30's and was told I looked like I was in my early 20's. I am 39 now and look like I'm in my late 20's. I'm going to look 12 years younger than what I am.

The guy in the old picture looks fairly young as well. It looks like someone stuck a 17-19 year old guy in a suit and gave him an old man haircut. I know the hairstyle was probably popular at the time. He could possibly pass for 16 even.

Its genetics people aren't engaging in certain behaviors as much anymore like drinking smoking and so on. The people who do usually look pretty old. I would say life isn't as stressful anymore, but it still is just in different ways. Genetics would be the biggest factor though as with most things.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

Genetics, advances in healthcare, modern convenances can do wonders.

I think this is a significant part, or even the biggest part. Another equally big part is that we don't demand people be adults even into their 30s now. I heard a story of a kid in Poland in WWI (or rather what would become Poland after the war) being given a gun and told to fight when he was 12. When your country is a warzone, you grow up pretty fast. When it's not a warzone, but you have to work in the factory at that age, you grow up not quite as fast, but faster than a kid raised now. It might be interesting to see how a kid today in Sudan or Myanmar ages compared to a kid in the US or Finland at the same time.

 

[Doktor Grimm]

Some of it probably does just come down to changes in style/diet/skincare over the decades, but I'm sure there's something more to it. I went looking for old pictures of teenagers, since the guy in the OP might not be the best example:



No cherry picking here; these are all from the first page of Google. The dude on the right has crow's feet! He's like eighteen!!

Mild PL, but I'll be entering my twenties soon -- I still routinely get clocked as a 14-15 year old, even when I put in active effort to look older. Granted, I'm an extreme case, but none of my mid-late zoomer peers look anything like these people. I think there's a legitimate environmental incentive in modern society for us to retain juvenile traits further into adulthood, and we're seeing the results of that in real time. My (totally unsubstantiated) theory is that since people are settling down and having children much later on average, we're likely to select for those who remain youthful and attractive into their thirties and forties.

Also we don't have to fight bears or work the fields or spend twelve hours a day in factories to sustain ourselves. The need for us to reach peak fitness by age 18 just isn't there anymore, so if you're living in a first-world country, there's more benefit to be had by staying in an earlier developmental stage and letting your brain develop for longer. Natural selection or something. IDK.

 

[Lithuophile]

19 year old guy in a suit

He's 20 vro

 

[eatler]

I think a lot of what your experiencing to is that the zoom zooms got the broccoli cut. Sure there’s always been twinky late 20 year olds and such but this guy has probably the most cringe cut you can get out there right now. I don’t know anyone who has a broccoli cut and doesn’t look punchable.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I'm nearly 28, and still get pulled up for my I.D. every now and then, when I try to buy alcohol. This is the only case where this has been a "curse" to me, so far. I probably look like Andrew Garfield's/Peter Parker's collateral maternal relative. I've probably BARELY physically aged in a little over 10 years, and to give actual serious credence to that point, there is a theory out there that aging rates (and lifespans, probably) in individuals can vary significantly.

@Lithuophile Rich Kid Syndrome. Another attention seeking twonk, blasting his face all over the Internet, just so he can make more money he doesn't rightfully earn (and doesn't deserve), a bit like Mr. Beast, but I suppose, as much as I hate to take his side, he DOES help people... but filming it is a bit cunty to me. Doherty seems like he's a provocative little shit. The other Doherty (with more of the throaty Gaelic almost K sound on the H), back when Babyshambles was popular, wouldn't have stood for his crap, I like to think. That bouncer in that one vid exercised the patience of a saint.

 

[AnOminous]

I'm nearly 28, and still get pulled up for my I.D. every now and then, when I try to buy alcohol. This is the only case where this has been a "curse" to me, so far. I probably look like Andrew Garfield's/Peter Parker's collateral maternal relative. I've probably BARELY physically aged in a little over 10 years, and to give actual serious credence to that point, there is a theory out there that aging rates (and lifespans, probably) in individuals can vary significantly.

I was getting carded into my 40s despite absolutely ghastly personal habits. Unfortunately age has caught up with me.

 

[IDF]

On one hand we look more fuckable, longer into old age but on the other it's clear our hormones are fucked by poisonous foods and plastic pollution.
It's a draw.

 

[LobsterBoy669]

I'm in my thirties, and it's a coin toss whether I get carded for cigs or booze (though if I shave it's more often that I get carded). I have been told by some people that I look like I'm in 20s; I've also been told that I look like I'm in my early 40s. I think that it really depends on who's looking at you. A younger person is going to see all of the features that make you look older, while an older person is going to think you look young.

I still remember to this day a time when my grandpa asked me to go get him lottery tickets while we were at the local grocery store. I was 19 at the time. The woman at the counter asked for my ID; I gave it to her. She looked at it, and then she looked at me, right in my eyes, and then apologized. Because according to her, my eyes said I was old enough. That was the first time I ever felt like an old fuck. It was certainly not the last time though.