About

The Idea Of My Age Not Starting With a 1 Anymore is a series of memes expressing sadness over your age changing from a number beginning with a one (10-19 years old) popularized through an X / Twitter post that uses a photo of musician PinkPantheress's face as a sad reaction image. The post was made on May 18th, 2025 by X user @plutogoats and garnered viral spread over the following days, inspiring other memes that use similar captions.

Origin

On May 18th, 2025, X^[1] user @plutogoats posted an image of musical artist PinkPantheress under the caption, "The idea of my age not starting with a 1 anymore," garnering over 15,000 likes and 1,800 reposts in four days.

Spread

On May 19th, 2025, X^[2] user @blurremi posted a GIF of Pinkpantheress under the caption, "The idea of my age not starting with a 4 anymore…," garnering over 3,400 likes in three days. On the same day, X^[3] user @featureswifts quoted the original post, writing, "me when i turned 2," garnering over 443,000 likes and 17,000 reposts in three days.

The post by @featureswifts was featured in a Cracked^[4] editorial on the "39 of the Funniest Tweets from Tuesday, May 20, 2025." That same day, the post was shared to the /r/recontext^[5] subreddit, garnering over 5,000 upvotes in two days.

On May 21st, X^[6] user @luvmoonv posted the same image of Pinkpantheress but more stretched out, captioned, "the idea of my age not starting with a 4 anymore……..," garnering over 217,000 likes in a day.

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