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Why did people in the past look older?
Did people in the past look older?
They did.
Apples to apples, age to age, a direct and equal comparison between two people from different eras reveals that indeed - our predecessors looked much more long in the tooth than we do now (fortunately).
Was it the non-4k resolution of older pictures and videos? Was it the black and white newsreel-type footage that in and of itself invoked feelings of age and maturity? Was it the dearth of pixels, clarity or AI filters that made twenty-year olds - even in their youthful glory - look a minimum of 10 years older than they really were? Whatever it was, people “back then” looked older.
And with “back then,” I mean as recently as the 70s and 80s. Something happened in the 90s, and inexplicably people started to look closer to their biological age, thankfully (not sure why, but perhaps we’ll investigat…
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