I "purged" my youtube history and specifically tried to watch channels that do not discuss politics because I'm really really done with it...and now I think youtube thinks I'm 13 because after some cute animal tiktoks my recommendations were flooded with random tiktok compilation recommendations. I watched some of them and it's such an odd experience. I feel so, so old. I keep looking at people that look fully grown and occassionally bring up uncomfortably adult things in their videos, and I keep reminding myself everyone in those videos is literally half my age. I don't get the format, I don't get their music, I don't get their fashion, their memes and I especially don't get how they don't get sick of hearing the same 30 second song snippet over and over again.
But they are...you know...the beautiful people. The cool kids. Every girl in those snippets looks like she spent more time on her makeup before filming it that the combined time I spent on my makeup since, like, 2017. Every time relationships come up they sound like all of those kids have more experience than I do at almost 30. Expensive fancy clothes, fancy hair, cool gadgets, complicated setups for the videos... Talking about true friendship, talking about parties and crushes. Maybe that's an illusion, but they look like they look so carefree. I don't know how to explain it, but they make me really miss the beautiful youth I never had.
I want to be young, beautiful, cool and carefree like a teenager. I want to be this kind of young. Because I never was.