when you're young, the new words and phrases that you hear other youngsters say are fun and fresh. but when you get older, you're not exposed to the latest lingo until it's already made its way through layers of increasingly old and uncool people, and your first exposure to a new phrase is some cringe tryhard using an already-dated catchphrase incorrectly, so you can easily dismiss it as annoying stupid nonsense for babies since you never saw the meme in its prime, full of chaos and sly vitality