Discovered something brutal—I'm already a middle-aged person (zhong deng).

During the New Year visit back home, my cousin from the countryside said that the slang term "bouncing old dude (👴)" refers to people who registered on these platforms before 2000, the old generation.

Can't even have fun at bars and clubs anymore, it's all post-05 generation, there's a generation gap. Feels like just a few years after graduating college and suddenly I'm almost 30......