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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
People still fall for the "generational" bait?
The American generational names only exist because the person who gets to name the new name get a ton of cash to spread the definition, even though those definitions are completely arbitrary.
source: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/generation-myth-leadership-bobby-duffy.html
Millennials are old enough to remember analog cameras and photos of people with red eyes. Man, people need to update their definition of which generation is “young.”
The oldest millennials are in their early 40s now but to boomers they will always be teens.
Using the most common definition of those born 1981-1996: Oldest millennials turn 44 this year, youngest turn 29. Next year we'll officially transition to "30s to mid 40s."
Even the digitals you had in the 00's didn't have very good red eye correction (if any at all)
I distinctly remember the first digicams to be worse than analogue in this regard
It was so bad that the PC software that came with the camera often had a red eye removal feature. I remember being fascinated when I figured out you could use it on things other than eyes and it just took the red out of anything.
"Millenials" just means "people younger than me" now.
And at the same time, “boomer” means anyone over 50, somehow. Soon I will be a boomerlennial.
Hell, even the older Gen-Z grew up with analog cameras, VHS players, paper maps, and no computers.
I'm not sure people realize zoomers are almost 30, and millennials are nearing 50.
im 40. im a millenial.
...im old
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Boomer forgot how millennials are old enough to have had to have film developed.
I'm gen z and I still remember that time.
Mate I'm a millennial and I had my photos developed at the chemists. You're thinking of gen z.
You're thinking of young gen z. I am gen z and as a kid I also had some of my photos developed.
Millennial? No we don't we were there the whole time...
Right? Who made this? What millennial doesn't remember red eye, it was in every damn photo when I was a kid and Im not a particularly old millennial.
I'm a Millenial, grew up with a polaroid. This meme is just wrong.
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.
When the fuck do we get to retire from the "young and stupid" category?
Also, I had red eyes in most photos from my child- and teenhood. I spent a lot of money on film in my teens before I got my first phone with a proper camera in 2007.
Next you're gonna condescendingly explain what a floppy disc or a cassette tape is too? Even Gen z is old enough to know about those.
I, Gen Z, am old enough too remember the red eyes on photos? What is this trying to say xd
That people make shit up.
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.
Millennials are between 29 and 44. They are turning into the old generation.
This meme feels like it is 10 or more years old.
I'm a millennial and my first camera used film cassettes similar to these ones.
110 film! The first time I figured out that capacitors hurt was when I dropped a 110 film camera. The front plate popped off and when I tried to pick up the camera, I touched the wrong part of the circuit board and the flash cap discharged into my hand. I dropped the camera, and it recharged the capacitors. I picked it up again and got zapped again. Was not the brightest kid. Picked it up more carefully and popped the front plate back on. Camera was fine. Entire cartridge of film developed perfectly.
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!
Hardly anyone takes photos with a flash anymore.
Phones instead crank up the sensitivity and use AI to get rid of the noise (=draw an image that vaguely resembles what's in front of the camera).
The sensors themselves are also slightly better than 20 years ago, much less 40. Meaning they can probably produce a nicer image before all the AI shit.
It was the flash. That's why cameras flash earlier now.
Oh god , remember the anti red eye flash that strobed for a second before the flash?
I still don’t understand how that worked. At the time I thought it was “getting your eyes used to the bright light so they wouldn’t turn red with the big flash,” but that definitely doesn’t make sense.
I still don’t understand how that worked. At the time I thought it was “getting your eyes used to the bright light so they wouldn’t turn red with the big flash,” but that definitely doesn’t make sense.
I understood it as the red eyes you see in photos is the wide open iris of an eye you're photographing zooming in on the blood vessels in the back of the eye. Flashing bright light before the photo makes the iris of the person you're photographing contract significantly, so you can't see the blood vessels in the back of the eye anymore.
Mhhh... yes, we millenials who are approaching or are already in our 40s... what's all that red eye stuff about?
Fun fact some may find disturbing, when you see a red-eye photo you're actually looking at the inside of the person's eyeballs. Red-eye in photos happens when a camera flash reflects off the back of the eye, specifically the choroid, a layer rich in blood vessels behind the retina. When the flash is too quick for the pupil to contract, the light enters the eye and bounces off this red tissue, giving you a great picture of the inside of their eyeballs. I hope everyone enjoys knowing that as much as I have.
One thing I found interesting is!how red-eye reduction works - it pre-flashes you eye briefly, before the main flash. So your pupils constrict and light doesn't reflect off the bottom of your eyes. Yes, you are part of the mechanism!
Some strange kind of bio-mechanical symbiotic mechanism is that!
Families wouldn't know demons walked among them until the photos were produced. Usually by then the demon clued in and left its host without a trace before it could be exorcised.