I'm a Millenial, grew up with a polaroid. This meme is just wrong.
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Even beyond that the 1980s is like the start of millennials. I'd ask if this was made by LLMs but I'd expect even those to get something that dumb correct.
How, uh, young do you think millennial are exactly? Pretty much all of us were around for cameras before phones.
Millenials grew up going into a store to have photos developed from film.
People call "millennials" young because they are old but too proud to say "teenagers".
Plus the generational infighting is what the ruling class will use to replace or supplement the culture war.
I think they mean GenZ but this meme looks pretty old so it was probably actuate when it was posted originally.
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Let him find out the hard way that the demons won
I, Gen Z, am old enough too remember the red eyes on photos? What is this trying to say xd
I'm GenZ and I remember when Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at my school.
Some people don't get it
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That people make shit up.
It wasn't all Orange Julius and great music.
Yeah yeah the satanic panic.
The dark times, before Buffy came along and saved the world.
Now that I think of it, was Buffy her actual name or was it short for something?
Millennials are between 29 and 44. They are turning into the old generation.
This meme feels like it is 10 or more years old.
Ok, boomer.
Wait, do digital cameras not do the red eye effect? Now that I think about it, I don't think I've seen a photo with red eye in it in a long time, but I had always assumed that was a consequence of the camera flash, not the film...
Edit: TIL that camera redeye does come from the flash, but it hasn't been much of a thing these days because today's phones/cameras adjust the flash timing to compensate. Thanks for the replies!
The red eye effect happens when flash reflects off the retina. Compact cameras (film and early digital) had flash very close to the lens, so there was a high chance of that happening.
Not much of a chance these days, when most people take photos with cell phones, the cellphone cameras have adequate low light performance so you don't need flash to begin with, and the "flash" is just an LED that isn't as luminous as a real flash bulb.
After holiday dinners, my grandpa would bust out the faux-leather bound Polaroid, mount it to a tripod and tell us all to stop moving, "It's not a movie camera!" Then he'd be amazed it was almost ready 5 seconds later. Every single time.
I remember when a flash was essentially an exploding bulb. Before me, they made a pop sound. In the 70s, there were cubes that rotated so you'd get multiple uses, IIRC. The real pros later had strobes but also, just bouncing the light off the ceiling and such cut down on the red eye which was really about light shooting directly into the eyes. That direct light also created harsh shadows and washed out features.
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I hope I did not spark a generational rift here, I only wanted to share a funny meme I found.