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I'm This Old

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Added May 21, 2019 at 11:31AM EDT by Matt.

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About

I'm This Old refers to a social game in which participants share images of pop culture artifacts to express their age.

Origin

The earliest available example of the game was posted by Instagram [1] user @I_dot_green on March 28th, 2014. That day, they posted an image of an 80s-era Apple Macintosh computer with the caption "#howoldareyou #imthisold #thegreentexthurtmyeyes" (shown below).


screenshot of Instagram post of an 80s Mac computer and hashtags about being old

Spread

Several years later, on May 5th, 2019, Twitter [2] user @chasedinero317 tweeted a photograph of a Minute Maid juice bar and a frozen Ellio's Pizza. They captioned the photograph "Im This Old 😬" (shown below, left).

Days later, Twitter[3] user @wltgsB tweeted the caption with a photoshopped Game Boy game adaptation of American rapper Lil B's mixtape Blue Flame (shown below, center).

On May 18th, 2019, Twitter[4] user @flowered_one tweeted a photograph of girl's undergarments labeled with the days of the week. They captioned the tweet, "Im this old 😭 😭I used to get so upset if I couldn’t find the right day." The tweet received more than 11,000 retweets and 33,000 likes in three days (shown below, right).


I'm This Old meme with pics of old snacks, a pizza square and a frozen juice bar I'm This Old meme of Game Boy cartridge with picture of rapper Lil B I'm This Old meme of underwear labeled with days of the week

As the posts grew in popularity, variations of the meme also emerged. For example, on May 18th, Twitter[5] @Unstablee_ tweeted a photograph from the film Small Soliders. They captioned the tweet, "Let me show my age in a tweet, I’m this old." Within three days, the tweet received more than 32,000 retweets and 78,000 likes (shown below).

On May 20th, BuzzFeed [6] published a listicle about the memes. That day, Twitter[7] published a Moments page on the meme.


I'm This Old meme of Small Soldiers characters

Various Examples


"How old are you?": TM MOIST TOWELETTE 10:30 PM -18 May 2019 IM THIS OLD 2:58 PM -19 May 2019 im this old 6:05 PM - 19 May 2019
NAW IM REALLY THIS OLD r (-CYCLONES 8:16 PM - 19 May 2019 im this old 9:48 PM - 19 May 2019 How old are you? Me: 1:53 AM-19 May 2019

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