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.”
Wow thanks I’m going to go cry now
Don’t leave me high. Don’t leave me dry-igh-igh…
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.
Did it do some form of automatic eye detection or did you have to manually select the eyes?
You had to select the eyes. The software I remember had a little square box that popped up, and you moved it over the eyes and clicked to remove the red eye.
I immediately jumped to magical thinking and every person you took a picture of was robbed of blood.
Before anyone asks, yes, I’m on the line with RL Stine as we speak.
Red eye correction didn’t come to the default camera app on iPhones until 2013.
My oldest nephew was born in 2003 and I was still having to manually remove red eye using Paintshop Pro 7 from my mum’s digital photos of him when was about 6 or 7.
“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.
As a Xennial, this terrifies me, but I’m thankful I’m old enough to dodge the draft when the first round happens.
I hope I never have to utilize the skills GI Joe taught me.
Xoomennial
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
<.<
Wait until they find out about GenAlpha
Is bait.
Red eye happens because of the flash. So still happens on digital cameras. It’s just nowadays they automatically detect and correct for it after the shot has taken. Or some cameras can do a pre flash before the flash for the shot fires or a light turns on when you half press the shutter button. That way the pupil will shrink and less light will enter the pupil and not light up the back of the eye.
Boomer forgot how millennials are old enough to have had to have film developed.
I’m gen z and I still remember that time.
Red eyes also happen on digital photos.
Pissed the hell out of my boomer photography enthusiast dad. Somehow, I ruined every photo he took off me.
Somehow, I ruined every photo he took off me.
Our level of rebellion knows no bounds!
Somehow, I ruined every photo he took off me.
“How many times do I have to tell you not to open the camera door?! You can’t see the picture yet!”
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.
Either way, I think we can agree that millennials know what film is. Many of us have even developed it ourselves. You know back when people were thought things other than app development and learned helplessness.
I believe they are name gen alpha or some other greek letter.
Gen alpha surely. But also the younger gen z I would think. Afaik gen z starts around the end of the 90s
I don’t know for genZ people but I use my last disposable camera in 2010. Althought, I must be honest I had stop to use them for more almost two years in favor of the more common digital camera.
I think I last used a disposable one in 2008 when I was 6. I have an analog one now but was fully digital inbetween.
There was a brief surge in the 10s where disposable film cameras were given out as party favors at weddings.
Edit: Meant to comment on a comment further down.
Generation Omega.
I can’t wait to see how Gen Delta turns out.
Seriously, I remember taking a disposable camera with me on our school trip Washington. I also remember that it was during that trip that we all found out you could open those things up and turn them into mini tasers.
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.
Millenials grew up going into a store to have photos developed from film.
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.
I’m GenZ and I remember when Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at my school.
Some people don’t get it
I’m a millennial and I remember when Abraham Lincoln walked past the window at school and smiled and waved.
He was going to the bathroom.
I’m GenZ and Skibidi Rizzler Ohio
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 don’t think you properly understand how generations work.
- A Boomer is anyone older then me who I disagree with.
- A millennial is anyone younger then me who I disagree with.
- Someone from Gen Z is anyone younger than me who uses a technology (usually a social media site) I don’t like.
For some reason I feel like these rules were written by a gen x but iDK why
You totally stole this explanation from Tik Tok, zoomer. I bet you don’t even know how to launch Netscape from command line. /S
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If you were concerned, then why not send a private message instead? “Not trying to be rude”, sure. Sounds like you’re trying to intimidate. Maybe you shouldn’t do that.
Millennials are between 29 and 44. They are turning into the old generation.
This meme feels like it is 10 or more years old.
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.
I mean, if it was posted when millennials were young, it is still not at all accurate.
When millenials were young, they were directly experiencing red eye photos, so there’s no way this meme could have ever been right.
Why can’t pride say teenagers
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.
So I was right??!!
Yes
With film cameras, you got me. No clue. I always wondered though.
Well, that’s it. A first (few) flash(es) to contract your retina, and then the flash to take the picture.
I distinctly remember early Facebook and its predecessors being filled with red-eye pictures
Now that you mention it, I think you might be right… My memory’s not the best lol. From the other replies, it seems that the rarity of redeye these days comes from the timing of modern cameras’ flash, not whether or not it uses film.
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.
bait
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.
And when it’s not red, you have a serious issue going on. This is actually how a couple initially noticed something was wrong with their toddler’s eye. Turned out she had cancer. She’s a healthy adult now, with a glass eye, but I have never looked at red eyes in photographs in a negative way since then.
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.
