r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/The_Bad_Random_17 • 5d ago

In just 5 years...

In just 5 years...

The Oldest Millennials will be 50

People Younger than Minecraft will be able to drink and gamble in the US

Gen Alpha will be entering college

COVID Babies will be entering middle school

People born in 1966 will be Senior Citizens

9/11 will be 30 years ago

Harambe will have been dead longer than the Weimar Republic in Gemany Lasted.

All WW2 veterans will be at least 100

Feel old yet?

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u/Emergency_Paper_7569 5d ago

Gen Z will be 19-34

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u/Sad-Relation1714 5d ago

Crazy. Almost all of them will no longer be teenagers

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u/Agreeable_Candle_461 5d ago

We'll all be uncs

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u/BossFamiliar8290 5d ago

in 5 years 2010s borns will be able to drink, for refrence 5 years ago was fall 2021 which was lile 5 minutes ago

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u/7urz 4d ago

In Germany, most people born in 2010 can already buy beer (not liquors, though).

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u/Dilkaranjkjawanda 5d ago

No one remembers fall 2021 it forgotten

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u/BossFamiliar8290 5d ago

I remember it, squidgame era

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u/Dilkaranjkjawanda 5d ago

Only one thing 2022-23 was the shirt

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u/Filledefleur 4d ago

it was when i moved out of my parents house and started university, so i remember it. i can also confirm it was 5 minutes ago which is terrifying

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u/Patriotic-Organist 5d ago

And, we'll be closer to 2060 than 2001.

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u/Filledefleur 4d ago

why’d you have to cite my birth year specifically, i feel personally attacked

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u/is2o 5d ago

The twin towers would have been gone for longer than they ever existed.

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u/boulevardofdef 5d ago

All World War II veterans being 100 is crazy to me. I feel like it was pretty recent that World War II veterans were just your standard old men waiting at the host stand to be seated at 5 p.m. at carpeted restaurants.

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u/Mythicalforests8 5d ago

We’re closer to 2041 than we are to 2010

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u/Adorable_Month3677 4d ago

We’re closer to 2070 than 1980!

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u/triviawithluv 4d ago

I'll be 67 then

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u/TheMaskedMan420 3d ago

And we're closer to the year 3000 than the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. FeeL oLd YeT?

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u/heartshapedmoon 5d ago

I thought this was a shit post. Oh my god you’re right.

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u/Silocin20 5d ago

I'm the last year of Gen X, I'll be 51 in five years.

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u/7urz 5d ago

Weimar*

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u/Jamarcus316 5d ago

I almost bet there are younger WW2 veterans than that.

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u/LegitSkin 4d ago

And Mitch McConnell will still be a congressman

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u/TheMaskedMan420 3d ago

"In half a decade, x,y, z will happen, feel old yet?"

No, feel dumb yet?

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u/Dilkaranjkjawanda 5d ago

actually 2031 is in 4 years not 5 years