Why Do So Many 13-Year-Old Girls Look 18 Today?

[Monster Energy]

5 hours ago, OmniNaut said:

Nothing new here, it happened before as well. When I grew up in the 80's/90's it also happened, then they blamed MTV and Madonna for it.

The same happened in the 50's with Marilyn Monroe in the 00's with Britney Spears.

At least Marilyn and Madonna made a contribution to create positive change, Marilyn with women's rights and Madonna with women's rights and acceptance of the queer community.

Same pattern different details.

 

Maybe the make-up applications are getting more sophisticated, so it visually closes the gap between 13 and 18.

Maybe it's just you getting older and the age gap between you and a 13 yo is getting bigger.

If you're talking about online specifically it could be filters and AI enhancing going on.

I agree that this isn’t entirely new. The difference is scale and intensity.

A 13-year-old today has access to social media, beauty influencers, filters, editing apps, and makeup tutorials that previous generations never had.

 

[Monster Energy]

On 2026-05-30 at 7:36 PM, Lila9 said:

Young girls are hypersexualized, while adult women are infantilized in ways that encourage them to resemble hypersexualized young girls.

Who exactly does this serve?

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Pedophiles, of course!

 

Great videos!

[Monster Energy]

On 2026-05-31 at 0:17 AM, Raze said:

Because girls go through puberty earlier now than in the past, likely because of plastic releasing phthalates in the water supply which when ingested by humans can imitate female hormones.

That can’t be the reason. I come from a country where people drink natural tap water directly and rarely buy bottled water, yet girls there still tend to look older than their actual age.

My country and continent is very natural 

[PsychedelicEagle]

On 5/30/2026 at 5:54 PM, Monster Energy said:

Better nutrition?

I was going to say higher IGF-1 due to the increased intake of animal protein as well as total protein intake. Notice you can't necessarily say "better" because chronically-high IGF-1 is causally related to the development of chronic diseases and cancer (see Valter Longo's research). Tall stature is also correlated with weaker cortical bone structure.

I asked Claude and it said:

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Body fat (strongest evidence). Higher childhood BMI raises leptin, which activates the hypothalamic GnRH system that triggers puberty. Rising obesity tracks closely with earlier menarche.

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Phthalates, BPA, parabens, and some pesticides interfere with estrogen/androgen signaling—evidence strongest in girls, mixed in boys.

Early-life programming. Low birth weight plus rapid catch-up growth, and prenatal chemical exposure, associate with earlier maturation.

Stress. Psychosocial stress and adverse family environments correlate with earlier puberty in girls, likely via HPA-axis effects.

Diet composition. High animal-protein intake in childhood links to earlier onset through IGF-1/insulin signaling.

I personally think that this earlier development and taller statures are not that beneficial for longevity.

Edited 15 hours ago by PsychedelicEagle

[Carl-Richard]

43 minutes ago, Monster Energy said:

That can’t be the reason. I come from a country where people drink natural tap water directly and rarely buy bottled water, yet girls there still tend to look older than their actual age.

My country and continent is very natural 

You think Scandi water ain't contaminated? :>

[Monster Energy]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

You think Scandi water ain't contaminated? :>

I was actually saying the water is clean.

 

[hyruga]

Because everyone goes for that ideal look so 13 looks like 18.

28 looks like 18 and 

38 looks like 18 (if they maintained well)

[gettoefl]

18 is peak life. Why not? Who doesn't want to be 18. We are all 18 in our mind. The world has told us and sold us that this is the peak and after is downhill. Your body is fading and failing. We let our kids buy into this because we buy into it. Youthfulness is godliness. Don't dare get old else advertisers won't sponsor the stuff you like to watch. It will be cancelled. You will be cancelled. Stay a zero year old adult for life folks. The world is going to love you forever. Don't tell your kids though.

Edited 10 hours ago by gettoefl

[Schizophonia]

On 30/05/2026 at 6:47 PM, Rafael Thundercat said:

Is because you wish that way so you feel that flirting with then will not bring you trouble but will. Why do one even care about this? Pedo Vibes in this question. Hehe

😹

[Schizophonia]

On 31/05/2026 at 3:07 PM, Sugarcoat said:

A predator is gonna chose a child regardless of clothes

😹 This sentence is funny to 

[Schizophonia]

In my experience it's the opposite people look younger latter. 

Compared to my parents' generation. 

Edited 10 hours ago by Schizophonia

[Monster Energy]

7 hours ago, gettoefl said:

18 is peak life. Why not? Who doesn't want to be 18. We are all 18 in our mind. The world has told us and sold us that this is the peak and after is downhill. Your body is fading and failing. We let our kids buy into this because we buy into it. Youthfulness is godliness. Don't dare get old else advertisers won't sponsor the stuff you like to watch. It will be cancelled. You will be cancelled. Stay a zero year old adult for life folks. The world is going to love you forever. Don't tell your kids though.

Wise words 

[Monster Energy]

7 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

In my experience it's the opposite people look younger latter. 

Compared to my parents' generation. 

Older people look younger, while younger people look older.

 

[Carl-Richard]

10 hours ago, Monster Energy said:

I was actually saying the water is clean.

Based on what?

Here are some funny statistics from this article (https://tidsskriftet.no/2020/06/debatt/kan-miljogifter-true-oss-som-art):

According to "Nordisk ministerråd", exposure to PFAS is responsible for 750-1250 deaths a year in the Nordic countries.

Furthermore, they estimate these countries use 21-35 billion Danish krones per year to counteract the negative health effects and excess mortality caused by PFAS.

A multi-center study of three regions in Norway found that 100% of blood donors had PFAS blood levels above suggested cut-off values.

[Carl-Richard]

There is something I've coined the "Scandi delusion" that probably most people who live in Scandinavia (including myself in the past) are under, that everything in Scandinavian countries is so safe, no worries, institutions are rock solid and provide all the best all the time, they have created a perfect safety net that us as privileged citizens can exist under. It is a delusion, as demonstrated above.

It's also related to a feeling that Scandinavian countries are somehow exempt from military threats and that a military invading is like "illegal" or against the laws of the universe. We're next-door neighbors to Russia (literally bordering it) and some of the most militarily strategic NATO countries with respect to Russia. Nazi Germany invaded Denmark and Norway only a few decades ago.

Edited 1 hour ago by Carl-Richard