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.”

Boomer forgot how millennials are old enough to have had to have film developed.

Mate I'm a millennial and I had my photos developed at the chemists. You're thinking of gen z.

Millennial? No we don't we were there the whole time...

I'm a Millenial, grew up with a polaroid. This meme is just wrong.

How, uh, young do you think millennial are exactly? Pretty much all of us were around for cameras before phones.

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.

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

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.

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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!

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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.

SATANIC PANIC!!!

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.

Let him find out the hard way that the demons won