It’s funny that your age feels different depending on who you are surrounded by. When you walk into an old-style diner, you probably start to feel very youthful compared to all of the oldies coming for their 5 pm dinner. But then the second you go on the internet and notice you can’t relate to the new memes at all, suddenly you feel approximately ready to take out your dentures. It can definitely be hard to keep up with the internet since it feels like everything is essentially run by 12-year-olds, and we just know we do not look cool to people in that demographic. But honestly, attempting to say anything definitive about that generation could also be a stretch, what do we know?

The good thing is that it’s not that we know less, we just have different kinds of knowledge. So here are a bunch of memes that we’re pretty sure no 12-year-old would get. Consider it our little inside joke.