Next year's high school freshmen: 58 facts

[redheadbaker]

www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/extremely-upsetting-facts-about-the-class-of-2018?bffb

In a few short weeks, kids all over the country will be graduating high school as the class of 2014. Let’s take a look at the incoming freshman class, the class of 2018. Here’s how their experience will be different than yours…



1. First off, they were born in 2000 or 2001 and they’re graduating in 2018. They’re the class of 2018.

2. They’ve never lived in a world with monthly texting limits.

3. The lyric “shake it like a Polaroid picture” has no meaning to them.

4. They never knew a Destiny’s Child with four members. They probably don’t know Destiny’s Child at all.

5. The Motorola Razr is a museum artifact:



6. Star Wars has never been a trilogy.

7. Eminem could without a doubt be their dad.

8. Or, you know, one of the dudes from Hanson could be their dad.

9. If you say, “You sound like a broken record,” chances are they won’t understand you.

10. This sound has no meaning:



11. They’ve been alive for 47 albums of Now That’s What I Call Music!

12. The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC have been bands longer than they’ve been alive.

13. And there’s no way they understand this reference:



14. They don’t understand where the shutter sound your phone makes when it takes a picture comes from.

15. They have always had to accept Crocs as reality.

16. They’ve never experienced the crippling fear that comes with picking a top 8:



17. They’ve never had the crushing realization that their disposable camera pictures didn’t come out well.

18. They live in a world where they can hear Blink-182 on a classic rock station.

19. This building has no meaning to them:



20. The song “Waterfalls” by TLC is older than they are.

21. So is the song “All Star” by Smash Mouth, for better or worse.

22. They live in a post-Sisqó world.



23. They were born the same year the Playstation 2 and Gameboy Advance came out.

24. THEY’RE THE CLASS OF 2018.

25. And some of them were born the same year the first Apple stores opened.

26. You can say with 100% confidence that you have MP3s older than they are.

27. One of those MP3s could be “…Baby One More Time.”

28. They’ll never know the LIE that was “anti-skip” technology on a CD player.



29. This storefront doesn’t remind them of anything:



30. None of these names mean anything to them:

Ja Rule

Ashanti

Ryan Cabrera

Ashlee Simpson

Jesse McCartney

Verne Troyer

Wilmer Valderrama

Chad Michael Murray

Kevin Federline

Mischa Barton

The “Dell” Dude

Tom Green

Nick Lachey

Beans

Carson Daly

Moby

Terri Schiavo

William Hung



31. They’ve never lived in a world with Squeeze-Its, Surge, Orbitz, Magic Middles Tan M&M’s, or these bad boys:



32. They’ve always had GPS and have never had to look up directions and print them out.

33. “Roll down your window” has no meaning.

34. Neither does “don’t touch that dial.”

35. They’ve never had a late-night AIM chat interrupted by someone yelling “get off the internet, I need to use the phone!”

36. They’ve never had to untangle a phone cord, straighten an antenna for TV reception, and they probably have no clue what’s happening in this picture:



37. The WWE was never the WWF.

38. They can measure how old they are by saying they’re about four Shrek movies old.

39. Or by saying they’re about the same age as this episode:



40. They have always been forced to accept the harsh reality of the Black Eyed Peas.

41. THEY’RE. THE. CLASS. OF. 2018.

42. “Wardrobe malfunction” doesn’t mean anything.

43. Clay Aiken is just some dude running for Congress.



44. If you asked what brings the boys to the yard, they’d have no idea how to answer that question.

45. Paris Hilton was never popular.

46. They were never forced to look at frosted tips everywhere they went.

47. Leonardo DiCaprio has never been the guy in this picture:



48. They have only been alive for three Harry Potter books.

49. “Darrin’s Dance Grooves” holds no meaning.

50. Beanie Babies were never seen as a gold mine to them.

51. They’ve never had the struggle of picking between Kazaa and Limewire.

52. And chances are they have never burned a CD.

53. The Spice Girls are just some middle-aged British women.



54. They’ve never experienced the frustration of trying to record your favorite songs from the radio to a tape, only to have the DJ start talking and ruin everything.

55. They’ve never heard the wise words of Mr. Feeny.



56. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was never this little dude:



57. They’re as old as Monster’s Inc, Osmosis Jones, The Emperor’s New Groove, Jimmy Neutron, and Spy Kids.

58. Oh, yeah, and they’re THE CLASS OF TWENTY EIGHTEEN. 2018. THE DAMN FUTURE.

[irishbride2]

lol I want to talk to my 8th graders about this.

[KateAggie]

That is an awesome list.

[katfco]

I don't know why, but the Star Wars thing blew my mind the most.
The dial-up sound!
So much nostalgia.

[mcsangel2]

I'm so OLD that at least half this list didn't make any sense to me, either!!

[UMaineTeach]

no. the middle dude for Hanson is my age, same year. I could absolutely NOT have a HS freshman. nope. even my classmates who got pg. in HS/shortly after only have 12 year olds.

I was just thinking today about the shutter sound on the phone and how some people might not know where that sound came from or that it is not needed in digital cameras when NPR used it in reference to a property manager in GA taking photos with his cell phone of tornado damage.

the first group of students I taught were born in 2000-2001. I taught them as 4-pk5 year olds.

[UMaineTeach]

also, just so you know - explaining the math curriculum that makes reference to the 1990's, as in Bill was born in 1998 how old is he - to 4th graders is damn impossible.

No frame of reference for the 1900's, they have only know 2000's.

[redwino]

Apr 29, 2014 21:00:01 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

also, just so you know - explaining the math curriculum that makes reference to the 1990's, as in Bill was born in 1998 how old is he - to 4th graders is damn impossible.

No frame of reference for the 1900's, they have only know 2000's.

My niece once looked me dead in the eye with all seriousness and said. "You were born in the 1900's?" She said it like I was the oldest person alive. She's 11 now but was about 8 at the time.

My nephew is this age and I feel like he'd get some of the references because he spends a lot of time with my mom and aunt. They primarily use house phones, my aunt brought an old school camera to Christmas dinner, and I'm pretty sure my mom's cable free tv has some sort of antenna attached to it. He and his sisters did ask me if I knew who Coolio was a few weeks ago. I said of course and started singing gangsta'd paradise. They saw him on celebrity wide swap and thought his hair was hilarious. Those damn kids make me feel so old.

[sushi]

I had no idea the Nick studios aren't there anymore. Last time I went to universal was 1993. Sigh.

[Dumbledork]

Apr 29, 2014 19:42:01 GMT -5 redheadbaker said:

18. They live in a world where they can hear Blink-182 on a classic rock station.

Nope. No, no, no. No, no. No.


NO.

[wanderlustfoodie]

I am old.

[dexteroni]

These lists never fail to make me feel old. In fact, this one makes me feel even older than normal because my oldest nephew is a year older than these kids - he was born in 1999. And I would say that most if not all of these apply to him.

But I stopped dead in my tracks at #16 because I know one of the people in the "top 8" photos. The "Destroyer Of Worlds" is Kellie, my roommate sophomore year of college. So funny! I feel like I've achieved a life milestone - "recognize someone you know in a Buzzfeed list." I wonder how many texts she got today about this. lol.

[meshaliuknits]

Do they not make squeeze its anymore? Just the Kool aid ones?

I've seen Wonderballs recently, so that's inaccurate. Or they were hella old.

#ignoringthepoint

Sent from my EVO

[heyjude]

TLDR Version: YOU ARE AN OLD.

[darthnbjenni]

I teach 8th grade, so I'm used to this. In the past 10 years what gets me the most is when I teach about 9/11. I went from kids being able to tell me where they were when they heard about it, to those not even born yet.

[cosmos]

Apr 29, 2014 20:55:11 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

no. the middle dude for Hanson is my age, same year. I could absolutely NOT have a HS freshman. nope. even my classmates who got pg. in HS/shortly after only have 12 year olds.

I was just thinking today about the shutter sound on the phone and how some people might not know where that sound came from or that it is not needed in digital cameras when NPR used it in reference to a property manager in GA taking photos with his cell phone of tornado damage.

the first group of students I taught were born in 2000-2001. I taught them as 4-pk5 year olds.

The oldest one is my age. I'm 34. I could absolutely have a 14 year old biologically....

[unclejesse]

I still have a mixed feeling of sadness/rage when I go to Universal Studios and see the fucking Blue Man Group painted over my childhood!
I'm so glad I got to see it in person before it was taken down, but sad I can't take my kid to go get slimed.

[IIOY]

Fuck this entire thread.

[notsocreepylurker]

Hooray for # 45 at least (Paris Hilton has never been famous)

[Velvetshady]

Apr 29, 2014 19:42:01 GMT -5 redheadbaker said:

...
5. The Motorola Razr is a museum artifact:

I'm so old I *just* stop using my Razr in Feb (you kids and your fancy phones...). And I'm old enough to have ignored many of the items listed when they were big because I was a working adult dealing with real life shit.





[scoots her walker across the room toward mcsangel2]

[CrazyLucky]

In case we didn't feel old enough... The one about rolling down windows made me laugh. We took DS to a classic car show and one of the guys let him crawl around the car. He asked what the crank for rolling down the windows was.

Also, I live in the district where Clay Aiken is running. I hope he is able to defeat Renee Elmers. I'm so sick of her anti-ACA propaganda.

[NitaX]

Apr 29, 2014 20:42:02 GMT -5 katfco said:

I don't know why, but the Star Wars thing blew my mind the most.
The dial-up sound!
So much nostalgia.

I was complaining about Comcast screwing up our download speed and I compared it to dial-up. 
My 11 yr old was like "What is dial up?" 

Yes Boo. You are young. Oh, and she asked me when I got my first cell phone. I laughed. I was like - baby I was 20-something. Before then I had a sky pager/beeper.

[NitaX]

Apr 30, 2014 6:50:22 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Fuck this entire thread.

[ringstrue]

Lol @ Ashlee Simpson and Nick Lachey

[BeagleMama]

Apr 29, 2014 19:42:01 GMT -5 redheadbaker said:

13. And there’s no way they understand this reference:

I work in a higher ed and a friend of mine who is in admissions loves to use this meme for spring deadlines. I sent this to her and just about died that the high school students probably don't get the reference.

[Deleted]

When I saw this, I realized C will probably graduate in 2028. Now that feels really surreal.

[redheadbaker]

Confession: I don't get the "It's gonna be May" reference.

[Scout'sHonor]

I was a senior in hs then and some of my classmates were pregnant when we graduated, so they definitely have teenagers now!

[Deleted]

I kind of hate lists like this because they make youngs out to be morons. I'm sure they know what a camera lens sounds like, since lots of cameras still have lenses that click. I never owned a record but know what the phrase "sounds like a broken record" means. Star Wars was never really a trilogy, being that the first movies were episodes 4, 5, and 6. Carson Daly has been on The Voice and the Today Show recently. And on and on.

[BeagleMama]

DUP