@@ItBeThatWaySometimes - Oh shit, that's crazy. I noticed with the image of the truck size-increase over the years with the truck bed getting smaller, that it starts with 2-3 seat trucks and then moves to 4-5 seat trucks lol, but I think the gist is still shown there with the truck beds getting smaller than they need to be (since ain't no one using those trucks to haul a bunch of cargo).
Things I say in reverse at concerts. Put your phone away you don't have to document every second of this to really experience it. They would rather stare at the person in front of them through a tiny screen rather than looking at them for real. I don't get it. Even if I don't remember every detail and can't go back and relive it, i will have actually lived it.
I know nothing about fashion, but I also tend to find guessing the 2010s surprisingly difficult compared to be previous decades, some of which I never lived in. This does seem to be a symptom of fashion in previous decades being way more recognizable and distinct. Fashion for common people in the 2010s similar to be very general without much change. The same with cars and the design of most non-tech sector things. You basically have to see a specific reference to get something in the 2010s right.
@@panner11 I don't know. I think it also has a lot to do with how old you are. I found the 70s/80s to actually be a lot harder than I thought, as there seemed to be a lot of 70s leftovers throughout the first half of the 80s. On the other hand, I had the 2010s down to almost a T, especially the early 2010s.
@@katelinakeene7578 Yeah I'm sure it's different for different people. I wasn't alive in the 70s or 80s either. But are you speaking about guessing by using fashion or guessing in general? For me, I just found a few giveaways in fashion that made the 70s and 80s easy to guess well. What giveaways do you look for when guessing the 2010s? I would like to be better at guessing that era, so I'm curious what you see.
@@panner11 I mostly look at fashion first before anything, haha! Usually things like hairstyles, shoes, or the cut of pants makes it easier to guess for any decade, really. I found the latter 70s and early 80s difficult though because there seemed to be a lot of overlap, surprisingly. I was given a picture where the people were wearing bell bottoms and wearing very 70s-esque hair -- turns out it was 1983! That shocked me lol. As for the 2010s, I find that it's very specific articles of clothing that I immediately recognize, like ballet flats or beanies. Also, the cut of the jeans makes guessing the 2010s pretty easy for me. Skinny jeans are often a pretty good giveaway.
@@alexandracrofoot9154 thats not true its because she said she does't like her smile plus her and david had a reality tv show here in the uk in the very early 00s and i remember her saying she thought it was cringey to force a smile for pictures
I'm glad you pointed out the fact that not all countries were on the same page with fashion so other ones were behind with the periods of fashion as apposed to other countries at the time
True, also with technology, laws and whatnot. That's why guessing games like these (even geoguessr) can ne tricky if you don't have that in mind. A picture from some former soviet country and for example canada in the same year or even decade can vastly differ.
I know this mostly relates to the Iron Curtain pictures, but I was genuinely stunned when the two picture at the car race (NASCAR?) and the one with the Whacky Flailing Inflatable Arms Tube Men turned out to be so recent when they both looked mid-late eighties to me 😂
and that's what makes it harder. And not everyone in first world countries keeps up to the moment with fashion either. Most people would struggle to pick photos out down to even a couple years for anything taken in the last 30ish years. Fashion has really changed that little for the vast majority of humans.
Yes, it was so interesting to learn that! I knew about clothes distinctions between rich and poor within a country but never realised how many years apart fashion was in some countries!
Geowizard has been playing it too! It’s interesting that he focuses on vehicles and ignores major fashion clues, while Karolina focuses on fashion and is vague about vehicles.
It's a great game! I'm good with history but not necessarily with visual history (30s and 50s look the same to me despite definitely not being the same), but I managed to eventually get a score in the 4000s using 'vibes' to guess haha.
Day 1376 of Karolina "trying" to convince us she is not a time traveller, by obviously faking some of her answers during certain parts in order to pass as a mere mortal.
As a kid, when our family watched old movies we'd all guesstimate what year it was made (though the year of release may be one or two years later). I'd do it by the fashion, my dad by the cars, and my mother by the age of the actors. I'm afraid my pompous self always won - maybe being one or two years out. It's harder with general photos though as real-life people don't instantly adopt the latest fashions in the way that a film costume department might; you also have regional and socio-economic aspect to consider as well.
@@user-kx6fw8ub9g I love it to and it awakens a memory... When I was in junior high I had a real jerk of a teacher who picked favorites, he taught social studies or something just so he could coach football, one of those types of dudes. Anyway I was a shy kid and he loved to pick on shy kids. I used guesstimate in an answer and he mocked me for making up that word in front of the whole class. I said it was real he said no way so I got up grabbed a dictionary and found it in a matter of seconds. He grabbed the dictionary said uh huh sure and tossed it halfway across the room. I think my life couldve gone a different course if I had better teachers but I will be forever satisfied by that memory lol.
@@sergeantbigmac I never realized how blessed I was to have never experienced a bad teacher. I also come from a family of teachers who made sure my sure my needs. Hmm, I guess I have a privilege I never even considered.
9:04 As a Japanese, by this time military officials would have been dressed in Western clothing! Also the shape of the hat and the cut of the outfit is certainly Chinese, perhaps Manchurian because of the time period. Asian fashion history of the time of Westernization is fascinating, I hope you can look into it!
I was thinking this as well. I don't know a lot, but I believe this is the time period where the western nations were carving out china for themselves.
5:03 These US Army uniforms were commonly called the "chocolate chip" pattern, because when seen close up they resemble chocolate chip cookie dough. They weren't widely issued to troops until shortly before and during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, which began in August, 1990. That's the only photo in your video I guessed correctly! Good job doing so well based on styles of dress, Karolina!
I was gonna call out the chocolate chip camis as well! so cool that I actually knew something here hahaha I was like, OOP Gulf War- the camo from the 70's was much more "average old timey" camo, thinking of movies like Platoon 😅
5:21 the "old ass frames" are likely standard issue glasses and they are notorious for their ugliness. According to my husband, who was in the Navy, they're known colloquially as BCG or Birth Control Goggles because they are antithetical to sexual attraction lol
The US did hold on to ugly glasses much longer than Europe. When I was there in the 90s all the glasses looked super old fashioned to me. I didn’t understand. In mostly everything else the US was leading but not in glasses fashion
which is so funny too me bc I'm actually really into those frames like they're my faves lol so for me the "turn-off" would probably not be the frames themselves but the thicc lenses that make the eyes look funky and disproportioned
Crewcuts/buzzcuts have been popular in the US off and on since World War II. When I was a toddler I was taken to a barber and they didn't tell him I was a girl. I just had the typical 1970s shaggy kid hair and they gave me a buzz cut. My mother cried but I got to wear my cowboy hat to cover it up so I was happy. I loved hearing Karolina's logic on her guesses and how growing up in Eastern Europe completely confuses everything...The NASCAR picture was obvious to me because I'm from the US and all of those brand logos are still being used. We live next to an O'Reilly Autoparts and that is still their logo. Also, I think the photo might have been taken in the South or Midwest, so having really brightly colorful dyed hair really has only been in the past
I knew the 1996 photo you thought was 80s, mostly because the big inflatable arms guy was invented FOR the 1996 Olympics. I also specifically went to that Olympics, too. (And yes, my dad, TO THIS DAY, wears his socks that high on his legs.)
@@maximrukinov3101 my little treasure hoard of useless knowledge, alongside Vigo breaking his toe on the set of Lord of the rings when he kicked the helmet
It's funny how little help she gets from all the vehicles in the photos with her knowledge base. It'd be interesting to give the same set of pictures to someone who's into car history and see how their points compare.
Karolina, for the military uniform picture, those glasses were military issue and referred to as “birth control glasses” (or because the military also loves acronyms, “bgcs”).
I think the one in 2007 looked a bit older just from the architecture and the general colour of the shot. It made it look a bit softer and less modern.
My hilarious first instinct was to attempt dating the photos based on the film!! Different film has different colour profiles, so you can date based on when the film type was in use. I don't have any of that knowledge, mind you, just know that you *can* do it...
Surprisingly you don't need much actual knowledge - it comes naturally at least for me. The photo with a strange harvesting mechanism from 1943 was screaming it was made in the 40s just with a film grain. Basically, you ve seen thousands of photos taken during WW2, and they all have pretty similar contrast, grain - something like that. I am surprised what this game does to my mind, it's awesome
This game is SO addictive!! I've been playing it pretty constantly since watching your video about an hour and a half ago, and I texted my parents the link and challenged them to a high score duel. 😄 Thank you for sharing this!!
The uniform one that tripped you up was recognizable as a specific camo pattern issued for the US Army/Marines for Desert Storm '90-'91. The international coalition was made up of lots of different soldiers in lots of different uniforms - not even all of the US forces got this uniform pattern, so it's probably quite obscure to people outside of the US.
Thank you for introducing this game to me, it's super fun! The final score of my first attempt was 3319. It's funny because the older the photo, the more accurate my guess was. Edit: my second score was only 1593. I got too cocky...
The picture of Messina had George Patton in it. People who know military history can PROBABLY identify the date of the picture within a week or two. But military history is not your thing. You did pretty well basing things on fashion.
I love how with your knowledge of the cars you can separate them into two categories, pre war (ww2 i guess) and post war only lol I also like how your guess is 99% based on clothes alone, in the farming picture you don't even look at the ancient looking farming equipment and only how high his pants are lmao
This is honestly so fun. It's interesting to see how my dabble into women's fashion history either helps or hinders, as well as my own experiences (like being able to guess the 2000s pretty well) and my own general history knowledge which is admittedly limited to the US/parts of the West.
That one picture where Karolina said one guy looked like her dad's pictures 100% lookd like the pictures of my parents hanging out with friends in like 1989!
I tried this and immediately found a photo of an event I witnessed firsthand; a protest in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square three years ago that took place while I was eating dinner just off-camera.
You inspired me to play a few rounds and this is really fun! It's also a great tool to demonstrate how it's so easy to divide fashion into discrete periods when in reality it's a lot messier
You being baffled about people not on their phones at the car race cracked me up :D honestly phone cameras just aren't high frame rate enough to record fast cars well, plus what would you actually see on the phone, the same cars going by? Not much reason to record! Thank you for the video. I love this one!
I cracked up laughing when you called out those hideous frames on the soldier, they are infamously fugly and are called BCGs - Birth Control Goggles or, if you wanna be crass, P**sy Deflectors 😂
Karolina, the 2015 photo at the car race was a nascar race, they go in a circle for 500 laps or more. if those people had their phones out, they'd be holding them up for hours.
16:42 - The '96 Olympics in Atlanta! The row of international flags at the top, the proud display of those inflatable tube men that were new at the time, the color coordination in the crowd's clothes. I think that also explains the woman's '80s hat: someone was really feeling "Designing Women" that day.
I thought immediately the 1920's guy on the farm was an old picture, in part because of the machinery and his outfit, but also because the image quality is old and it looks like the photo has been through some history itself.
Someone has probably already told you this, but those big old glasses the soldier is wearing are BCGs (birth control glasses!) a lot of soldiers actually look great in them and they continue wearing those frames when they’ve finished their duty.
This was so much fun to watch! I'd love to see something like this again because it is so germane to fashion history. I do the same kind of think with a website called Geoguessr, where you're placed in a random place on the globe and need to guess where you are on a map. You have the choice to move around, forward, backward, etc. So fun!
I loved this video! It was so interesting and I actually learned quite a lot! Please do more of that - maybe even with subscribers submitting pictures and you guessing when they were taken? (although that is a lot of effort for you, so maybe just doing the website again would be fun)
I can assure you those old ass glasses frames were still around in the 90s, my dad is a great example XD Although we are from Poland too so maybe that is a wrong metric to go by.
At 16:43 you mentioned the guys with the high socks and caps like, "so it's gotta be the..." Me, thinking: "90s, totally 90s" Karolina: "...1980's." Me: D: Hahaha in the 90s we were all wearing those thick white socks up to our calves. And all those fanny packs! Looks like a mid-late 90s dad convention. I think if the shorts were pulled up more it'd be more 80s, but all those untucked polos and loose shorts are a dead ringer for the mid-late 90s. Everything's so baggy.
“Why is he wearing those old-ass frames?” Those were standard issued frames we were issued at boot camp. I don’t think the styles changed since Vietnam.
In the 2016 picture it looked like they were watching a drag race, those usually have different cars racing every few minutes, so that might explain why not that many people have their phones out! Might have already gotten plenty of videos by this point in the show. Drag races can also be entered by everyday people, so could be that too, OR, could be that car people go to races frequently enough to not need to take videos everytime (or a combination of the above).
omg i was thinking the same thing, czech fashion and technologies and stuff is so behind sometimes that i would have a reallyy hard time guessing the ones from 1960s and up lol, probably. like with one of the first pictures i tried based off of a 1985 czech movie where an actress had a bblown hairstyle exactly like that so i was like yess!! but the photo was 1977:'D
I appreciate you linking this on the end of the year thing. I only want to watch my subscribed video channels, but YT keeps pushing me to shorts and I can never seem to escape them. It's very annoying. I'm glad to watch all of your videos. YT isn't pushing them to me properly. I didn't know I missed any videos but I did. So thanks
I love how I could not recognize the race and figuring it out, but when that photo hit 15:15 I recognized that image when doing research on 20s fashion years ago and said, "1921"!!!
I just went and played a round and a half (I accidentally refreshed the page and lost my progress!) and got two years precisely right. It feels amazing and I will be chasing this high all weekend.
When I volunteered (rejected for bad ticker), the Army issued your prescription glasses. Large safety glasses. It makes sense that you couldn't guess by the glasses. FUN!!
I was feeling such powerful 2006 vibes for the 2016 race pic. My dad used to go to NASCAR races in the early 2000s and that may have been skewing my perspective, but that’s crazy!
It would be funny if you had someone who doesn’t know about fashion history describe the photo to you and you have to guess the tear from their description!
Welcome to NASCAR fans lmao the guy I think was holding a handheld time clock. They really pay attention to the event. People can/have died and cars go flying and they are all televised events so you can just record it when you go. I live by a racetrack and they are a league of their own.
speaking of ABBA, fun fact I used to have pictures of them printed and put under my christmas tree😭😭 when I say I was obsessed I mean OBSESSED- not ashamed tho
The only reason I knew you were wrong for the one at 17:20 was because the tube men flying around in the foreground weren't invented/revealed until 1996. Lol
The giveaway in the race car event pic was the Sprint ad on the barrier wall. It's the post Sprint/Nextel merger logo which debuted in 2005 and pre T-Mobile acquisition of Sprint which was finalized in 2020. I guessed 2009, so I was still way off too. I watched the GeoGuesser pro play this a bunch recently and realized you really have to look for contextual clues beyond fashion in any photograph that's post 1980 really. As for the military men, those are standard issue military glasses. They're extremely durable and shatter resistant unlike normal glasses. Those are American DCUs (desert combat uniforms) which means it either has to be the Gulf War or post 9/11 but the camo isn't the digital pattern (made up of lots of tiny squares) which was rolled out heavily in the very beginning of the long conflict. So, that meant odds favored Gulf War. (And I know this stuff because most of the guys I went to HS served post 9/11 and a lot of our dads/uncles served in the Gulf or we knew someone who did)
Karolina, do you think you could do a video about fashion from the 1550's to 1600? I love the way you construct history timelines for fashion! Also asking because I need info for school. Would love to see it from you!!!!
Oh my gosh, I am so proud to say that I actually did better than you did on this one! I was not expecting that. I suspect it's because of your Polish background. Like in that one where you said the guy looked just like your dad, I knew for sure it was 60s. (I have dual citizenship: Canada and the USA.)
A good tip on how to tell whether the photos of French soldiers you're looking at were taken at the start or at the end of the war is the colour of their uniform. Bright red pants and dark blue coats at the beginning of the war and pale blue uniforms by the end of it (like in the photo Karolina reviewed).
The 1996 one is from the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Atlanta. Those ladies were wearing their team uniform, wich don't usually go with the current fashion of the moment. Kinda like a weird formal featuring the colors of their country's flag
This is interesting since history and culture across the world looked so different. The clothes from 1920s in my home country look different from 1920s american clothes, for example
Hi Karolina, I just started watching Netflix’s recent historical series about Lidia Poët, Italys first female laywer in 1883. It has some lovely dresses 😍😍😍😍 I’m no fashion historian, from what little l can google on womens fashion in Italy during that time I think they follow it somewhat historically corect but would love your analysis! 🤩😍
I was close for a lot of the ones showing the 60s and after but got the military one for 1990 spot on cuz my Dad served in the Gulf War, I've seen photos of those uniforms a thousand times. Heck he might even be IN that very photo since the guy with the glasses looks JUST like him!
I am proud of my guess for the 1944 picture at 10:30 because it matches my grandma's description of her first memory; when the British Army came to Sicily. Messina is the big harbour between Sicily and the rest of Italy.
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Karolina: "Why is she wearing THOSE glasses? They're so previous year!"
Also Karolina: "Cars come in two models: pre-war and post-war"
and in America trucks come in one model, ugly AF
@@ItBeThatWaySometimes - Oh shit, that's crazy.
I noticed with the image of the truck size-increase over the years with the truck bed getting smaller, that it starts with 2-3 seat trucks and then moves to 4-5 seat trucks lol, but I think the gist is still shown there with the truck beds getting smaller than they need to be (since ain't no one using those trucks to haul a bunch of cargo).
Also look at the military truck. Look for Allies occupation. If men are wearing hats, that is 50;s
“Where are their phones?! Are you telling me that all those people are just enjoying the races and not looking at their phones?!” 😂😂😂
Things I say in reverse at concerts. Put your phone away you don't have to document every second of this to really experience it. They would rather stare at the person in front of them through a tiny screen rather than looking at them for real. I don't get it. Even if I don't remember every detail and can't go back and relive it, i will have actually lived it.
@@michimelody4036 Yes, and a lot of events are recorded professionally online. Why to bother recording? 🤷♀️
attached to the wall.
I was yelling to notice the Sprint (cell phone company) in the background. Alas, she did not hear me.
@@ericdale4641Yep! lol It was the Farmers Insurance ad that clued me in. Although as a nonAmerican, Karolina may have never heard of either brand
Karolina recognizing clothes from the early part of the 1900's but completely missing the 2000's is hilarious.
I know nothing about fashion, but I also tend to find guessing the 2010s surprisingly difficult compared to be previous decades, some of which I never lived in. This does seem to be a symptom of fashion in previous decades being way more recognizable and distinct. Fashion for common people in the 2010s similar to be very general without much change. The same with cars and the design of most non-tech sector things. You basically have to see a specific reference to get something in the 2010s right.
@@panner11 I don't know. I think it also has a lot to do with how old you are. I found the 70s/80s to actually be a lot harder than I thought, as there seemed to be a lot of 70s leftovers throughout the first half of the 80s. On the other hand, I had the 2010s down to almost a T, especially the early 2010s.
@@katelinakeene7578 Yeah I'm sure it's different for different people. I wasn't alive in the 70s or 80s either. But are you speaking about guessing by using fashion or guessing in general? For me, I just found a few giveaways in fashion that made the 70s and 80s easy to guess well. What giveaways do you look for when guessing the 2010s? I would like to be better at guessing that era, so I'm curious what you see.
@@panner11 I mostly look at fashion first before anything, haha! Usually things like hairstyles, shoes, or the cut of pants makes it easier to guess for any decade, really.
I found the latter 70s and early 80s difficult though because there seemed to be a lot of overlap, surprisingly. I was given a picture where the people were wearing bell bottoms and wearing very 70s-esque hair -- turns out it was 1983! That shocked me lol.
As for the 2010s, I find that it's very specific articles of clothing that I immediately recognize, like ballet flats or beanies. Also, the cut of the jeans makes guessing the 2010s pretty easy for me. Skinny jeans are often a pretty good giveaway.
@@katelinakeene7578 cool tips. Thanks
Karolina: I'm not a time traveler
Also Karolina when people in 1910's show up in this game: FINALLY SOME PEOPLE IN CLOTHES!
“Is that Victoria Beckham ? And she is smiling? Definitely before 2000’s” 😂 I can’t hahahaha
i dont get it
@@dyip-vb1wlshe had a some pretty harsh lip fillers and Botox in the 2000s and now, to the point where it looks like she can’t close her mouth now
@@dyip-vb1wl victoria is known for not smiling because she was called 'posh spice' and still kept the persona today. definitely not fillers lmao
@@alexandracrofoot9154 thats not true its because she said she does't like her smile plus her and david had a reality tv show here in the uk in the very early 00s and i remember her saying she thought it was cringey to force a smile for pictures
I'm glad you pointed out the fact that not all countries were on the same page with fashion so other ones were behind with the periods of fashion as apposed to other countries at the time
True, also with technology, laws and whatnot. That's why guessing games like these (even geoguessr) can ne tricky if you don't have that in mind. A picture from some former soviet country and for example canada in the same year or even decade can vastly differ.
I know this mostly relates to the Iron Curtain pictures, but I was genuinely stunned when the two picture at the car race (NASCAR?) and the one with the Whacky Flailing Inflatable Arms Tube Men turned out to be so recent when they both looked mid-late eighties to me 😂
and that's what makes it harder. And not everyone in first world countries keeps up to the moment with fashion either. Most people would struggle to pick photos out down to even a couple years for anything taken in the last 30ish years. Fashion has really changed that little for the vast majority of humans.
Yes, it was so interesting to learn that! I knew about clothes distinctions between rich and poor within a country but never realised how many years apart fashion was in some countries!
What a fun topic to cover on the channel. Chronophoto is like Geoguessr but for people who dabble in History and Cultural Studies in all its forms.
Geowizard has been playing it too!
It’s interesting that he focuses on vehicles and ignores major fashion clues, while Karolina focuses on fashion and is vague about vehicles.
It's a great game! I'm good with history but not necessarily with visual history (30s and 50s look the same to me despite definitely not being the same), but I managed to eventually get a score in the 4000s using 'vibes' to guess haha.
This isn’t a fair game when you’ve personally lived through all these eras, Karolina
It's okay, Karolina. We knew you're an immortal being that took nap from late 1960s until mid 1990s
She studied that time period because it's the only one she hasn't lived in
That’s when the time police attacked her and she went in a coma
Day 1376 of Karolina "trying" to convince us she is not a time traveller, by obviously faking some of her answers during certain parts in order to pass as a mere mortal.
Time Traveler or Ancient Pagan immortal sorceress or immortal vampire, she's one of those
@@Tadicuslegion78 Nah she's just Polish
Lol
@@arachnidlupus7625 So vjesci
Karolina is going to get busted by the Time Police, at this rate.
As a kid, when our family watched old movies we'd all guesstimate what year it was made (though the year of release may be one or two years later). I'd do it by the fashion, my dad by the cars, and my mother by the age of the actors. I'm afraid my pompous self always won - maybe being one or two years out. It's harder with general photos though as real-life people don't instantly adopt the latest fashions in the way that a film costume department might; you also have regional and socio-economic aspect to consider as well.
I love the word guesstimate
@@user-kx6fw8ub9g I love it to and it awakens a memory... When I was in junior high I had a real jerk of a teacher who picked favorites, he taught social studies or something just so he could coach football, one of those types of dudes. Anyway I was a shy kid and he loved to pick on shy kids. I used guesstimate in an answer and he mocked me for making up that word in front of the whole class. I said it was real he said no way so I got up grabbed a dictionary and found it in a matter of seconds. He grabbed the dictionary said uh huh sure and tossed it halfway across the room. I think my life couldve gone a different course if I had better teachers but I will be forever satisfied by that memory lol.
@@sergeantbigmac I never realized how blessed I was to have never experienced a bad teacher. I also come from a family of teachers who made sure my sure my needs. Hmm, I guess I have a privilege I never even considered.
9:04 As a Japanese, by this time military officials would have been dressed in Western clothing! Also the shape of the hat and the cut of the outfit is certainly Chinese, perhaps Manchurian because of the time period. Asian fashion history of the time of Westernization is fascinating, I hope you can look into it!
I was thinking this as well. I don't know a lot, but I believe this is the time period where the western nations were carving out china for themselves.
As a citizen of a country who got colonized many times over, I found this picture the most chilling.
20 minutes of Karolina ignoring cars lmao.
As all sensible people should.
I could literally watch you play this for hours
Same. I hope for a part 2
5:03 These US Army uniforms were commonly called the "chocolate chip" pattern, because when seen close up they resemble chocolate chip cookie dough. They weren't widely issued to troops until shortly before and during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, which began in August, 1990. That's the only photo in your video I guessed correctly! Good job doing so well based on styles of dress, Karolina!
I was gonna call out the chocolate chip camis as well! so cool that I actually knew something here hahaha I was like, OOP Gulf War- the camo from the 70's was much more "average old timey" camo, thinking of movies like Platoon 😅
5:21 the "old ass frames" are likely standard issue glasses and they are notorious for their ugliness. According to my husband, who was in the Navy, they're known colloquially as BCG or Birth Control Goggles because they are antithetical to sexual attraction lol
HGAHHAAHAH
My husband called those BCG’s (birth control glasses)
The US did hold on to ugly glasses much longer than Europe. When I was there in the 90s all the glasses looked super old fashioned to me. I didn’t understand. In mostly everything else the US was leading but not in glasses fashion
which is so funny too me bc I'm actually really into those frames like they're my faves lol so for me the "turn-off" would probably not be the frames themselves but the thicc lenses that make the eyes look funky and disproportioned
This made me holler, thank you for the laugh!!
Crewcuts/buzzcuts have been popular in the US off and on since World War II. When I was a toddler I was taken to a barber and they didn't tell him I was a girl. I just had the typical 1970s shaggy kid hair and they gave me a buzz cut. My mother cried but I got to wear my cowboy hat to cover it up so I was happy. I loved hearing Karolina's logic on her guesses and how growing up in Eastern Europe completely confuses everything...The NASCAR picture was obvious to me because I'm from the US and all of those brand logos are still being used. We live next to an O'Reilly Autoparts and that is still their logo. Also, I think the photo might have been taken in the South or Midwest, so having really brightly colorful dyed hair really has only been in the past
I had a crew cut when I was a kid in the 60s , cost 75 cents
Oh my poor you ! Glad you made a bad situation good with your cowboy 🤠 hat!
I am from WI and I agree that it looks like the race photo was taken in the Midwest.
I knew the 1996 photo you thought was 80s, mostly because the big inflatable arms guy was invented FOR the 1996 Olympics. I also specifically went to that Olympics, too. (And yes, my dad, TO THIS DAY, wears his socks that high on his legs.)
Haha 😂 yes yes!
Great addition to my marvelous pile of useless knowledge, thank you!
@@maximrukinov3101 my little treasure hoard of useless knowledge, alongside Vigo breaking his toe on the set of Lord of the rings when he kicked the helmet
Omg imagine if The Catherine De Medici Time Travelling Society played this together. That’d be fun.
Yes, we want to see this happen!
Petition!
@@sonian7234 I second this petition
@@helenahsson1697 I third the petition
Make it so!
It's funny how little help she gets from all the vehicles in the photos with her knowledge base. It'd be interesting to give the same set of pictures to someone who's into car history and see how their points compare.
It would be fun to submit ancestral family photos for her to guess.
Karolina, for the military uniform picture, those glasses were military issue and referred to as “birth control glasses” (or because the military also loves acronyms, “bgcs”).
Because you wouldn't be able to get laid wearing those?
This could become an ongoing series. I could watch this for hours
"That was pure luck!" she says, as if she isn't right there *in* the picture
I see you, Karolina 🕵
I think the one in 2007 looked a bit older just from the architecture and the general colour of the shot. It made it look a bit softer and less modern.
My hilarious first instinct was to attempt dating the photos based on the film!! Different film has different colour profiles, so you can date based on when the film type was in use. I don't have any of that knowledge, mind you, just know that you *can* do it...
Surprisingly you don't need much actual knowledge - it comes naturally at least for me. The photo with a strange harvesting mechanism from 1943 was screaming it was made in the 40s just with a film grain. Basically, you ve seen thousands of photos taken during WW2, and they all have pretty similar contrast, grain - something like that. I am surprised what this game does to my mind, it's awesome
@@maximrukinov3101 That's cool! I'm quite bad at associating dates to things, so even if I've seen many images I can't put a decade to it.
This was really fun to watch. And I'm tempted to play myself. A Friday night time waster, perfectly timed.
This game is SO addictive!! I've been playing it pretty constantly since watching your video about an hour and a half ago, and I texted my parents the link and challenged them to a high score duel. 😄 Thank you for sharing this!!
IKR? My current high score is 4625. How high did y'all get?
The uniform one that tripped you up was recognizable as a specific camo pattern issued for the US Army/Marines for Desert Storm '90-'91. The international coalition was made up of lots of different soldiers in lots of different uniforms - not even all of the US forces got this uniform pattern, so it's probably quite obscure to people outside of the US.
Thank you for introducing this game to me, it's super fun! The final score of my first attempt was 3319. It's funny because the older the photo, the more accurate my guess was.
Edit: my second score was only 1593. I got too cocky...
The picture of Messina had George Patton in it. People who know military history can PROBABLY identify the date of the picture within a week or two. But military history is not your thing. You did pretty well basing things on fashion.
I love how with your knowledge of the cars you can separate them into two categories, pre war (ww2 i guess) and post war only lol
I also like how your guess is 99% based on clothes alone, in the farming picture you don't even look at the ancient looking farming equipment and only how high his pants are lmao
This is honestly so fun. It's interesting to see how my dabble into women's fashion history either helps or hinders, as well as my own experiences (like being able to guess the 2000s pretty well) and my own general history knowledge which is admittedly limited to the US/parts of the West.
That one picture where Karolina said one guy looked like her dad's pictures 100% lookd like the pictures of my parents hanging out with friends in like 1989!
I tried this and immediately found a photo of an event I witnessed firsthand; a protest in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square three years ago that took place while I was eating dinner just off-camera.
You inspired me to play a few rounds and this is really fun! It's also a great tool to demonstrate how it's so easy to divide fashion into discrete periods when in reality it's a lot messier
You being baffled about people not on their phones at the car race cracked me up :D honestly phone cameras just aren't high frame rate enough to record fast cars well, plus what would you actually see on the phone, the same cars going by? Not much reason to record! Thank you for the video. I love this one!
I'm so glad you nailed the Spice Girl era, because that is literally the only one I could have guessed with any degree of certainty 🤣
I cracked up laughing when you called out those hideous frames on the soldier, they are infamously fugly and are called BCGs - Birth Control Goggles or, if you wanna be crass, P**sy Deflectors 😂
My mom had those frames. I was like looks my mom's old frames. Ah 90s
@@FeralFelineFriend The style hasn't changed, soldiers are still wearing these :P
Karolina, the 2015 photo at the car race was a nascar race, they go in a circle for 500 laps or more. if those people had their phones out, they'd be holding them up for hours.
That was fun!.... you're humor and quips are awesome...more like these please@
16:42 - The '96 Olympics in Atlanta! The row of international flags at the top, the proud display of those inflatable tube men that were new at the time, the color coordination in the crowd's clothes. I think that also explains the woman's '80s hat: someone was really feeling "Designing Women" that day.
I thought immediately the 1920's guy on the farm was an old picture, in part because of the machinery and his outfit, but also because the image quality is old and it looks like the photo has been through some history itself.
Someone has probably already told you this, but those big old glasses the soldier is wearing are BCGs (birth control glasses!) a lot of soldiers actually look great in them and they continue wearing those frames when they’ve finished their duty.
This was so much fun to watch! I'd love to see something like this again because it is so germane to fashion history. I do the same kind of think with a website called Geoguessr, where you're placed in a random place on the globe and need to guess where you are on a map. You have the choice to move around, forward, backward, etc. So fun!
You know what I thoroughly enjoyed this and encourage you to make it a series
I loved this video! It was so interesting and I actually learned quite a lot!
Please do more of that - maybe even with subscribers submitting pictures and you guessing when they were taken? (although that is a lot of effort for you, so maybe just doing the website again would be fun)
I can assure you those old ass glasses frames were still around in the 90s, my dad is a great example XD Although we are from Poland too so maybe that is a wrong metric to go by.
omg the race one from 2016 was so difficult, the ONLY thing I found that could've given it away was the guy with the wireless headphones
At 16:43 you mentioned the guys with the high socks and caps like, "so it's gotta be the..."
Me, thinking: "90s, totally 90s"
Karolina: "...1980's."
Me: D:
Hahaha in the 90s we were all wearing those thick white socks up to our calves. And all those fanny packs! Looks like a mid-late 90s dad convention. I think if the shorts were pulled up more it'd be more 80s, but all those untucked polos and loose shorts are a dead ringer for the mid-late 90s. Everything's so baggy.
At 10:25 I literarily started talking to my screen: "Karolina, that's General Patton in Sicily!"
It's so cool how much knowledge you have of clothing and fashion
appreciation post for Carolina matching her shirts to the background so the colour schemes are pleasant
I can see this becoming the next Geoguessr, with players getting incredibly precise with fashion, cars, photo quality, work uniforms and the like.
“Why is he wearing those old-ass frames?” Those were standard issued frames we were issued at boot camp. I don’t think the styles changed since Vietnam.
In the 2016 picture it looked like they were watching a drag race, those usually have different cars racing every few minutes, so that might explain why not that many people have their phones out! Might have already gotten plenty of videos by this point in the show. Drag races can also be entered by everyday people, so could be that too, OR, could be that car people go to races frequently enough to not need to take videos everytime (or a combination of the above).
omg i was thinking the same thing, czech fashion and technologies and stuff is so behind sometimes that i would have a reallyy hard time guessing the ones from 1960s and up lol, probably. like with one of the first pictures i tried based off of a 1985 czech movie where an actress had a bblown hairstyle exactly like that so i was like yess!! but the photo was 1977:'D
This game looks cool! Like a history geoguessr.
Yes exactly my thought! We used to play geoguessr in uni
I appreciate you linking this on the end of the year thing. I only want to watch my subscribed video channels, but YT keeps pushing me to shorts and I can never seem to escape them. It's very annoying. I'm glad to watch all of your videos. YT isn't pushing them to me properly. I didn't know I missed any videos but I did. So thanks
Karolina does not accept defeat easily! I think you're right, location makes a huge difference with how close to the current fashion they are.
I love how I could not recognize the race and figuring it out, but when that photo hit 15:15 I recognized that image when doing research on 20s fashion years ago and said, "1921"!!!
I just went and played a round and a half (I accidentally refreshed the page and lost my progress!) and got two years precisely right. It feels amazing and I will be chasing this high all weekend.
I loved not knowing the car but the hair. That’s so on brand. I love the sound of this game! I’ll have to check it out!
When I volunteered (rejected for bad ticker), the Army issued your prescription glasses. Large safety glasses. It makes sense that you couldn't guess by the glasses. FUN!!
this is weird but i think the AD BREAK animation is so pretty 🥺🥺
petition for you to do a livestream of playing this like those guys who play geoguessr
I was feeling such powerful 2006 vibes for the 2016 race pic. My dad used to go to NASCAR races in the early 2000s and that may have been skewing my perspective, but that’s crazy!
It would be funny if you had someone who doesn’t know about fashion history describe the photo to you and you have to guess the tear from their description!
i really want you to know how much i appreciate your videos. My mood lifts when i see that you uploaded a video
Welcome to NASCAR fans lmao the guy I think was holding a handheld time clock. They really pay attention to the event. People can/have died and cars go flying and they are all televised events so you can just record it when you go. I live by a racetrack and they are a league of their own.
One of your most interesting videos in a while, it's a joy to be able to observe your thought process! Hope for part2
I think it would be so cool to see karolina make a video of a period drama character and an actual woman from that period meet
I was sad when it ended LMAO I think I could watch you play this game for 2 hours without noticing
I did better than I thought I would and having my two correct answers be first and last was a nice way to bookend things :)
speaking of ABBA, fun fact I used to have pictures of them printed and put under my christmas tree😭😭 when I say I was obsessed I mean OBSESSED- not ashamed tho
You did so great at these, really well reasoned.
The only reason I knew you were wrong for the one at 17:20 was because the tube men flying around in the foreground weren't invented/revealed until 1996. Lol
The whole time I was watching GeoWizard play this I was thinking “I WANT TO SEE KAROLINA PLAY THIS RIGHT NOW”
Wish granted 😊
The giveaway in the race car event pic was the Sprint ad on the barrier wall. It's the post Sprint/Nextel merger logo which debuted in 2005 and pre T-Mobile acquisition of Sprint which was finalized in 2020. I guessed 2009, so I was still way off too. I watched the GeoGuesser pro play this a bunch recently and realized you really have to look for contextual clues beyond fashion in any photograph that's post 1980 really.
As for the military men, those are standard issue military glasses. They're extremely durable and shatter resistant unlike normal glasses. Those are American DCUs (desert combat uniforms) which means it either has to be the Gulf War or post 9/11 but the camo isn't the digital pattern (made up of lots of tiny squares) which was rolled out heavily in the very beginning of the long conflict. So, that meant odds favored Gulf War. (And I know this stuff because most of the guys I went to HS served post 9/11 and a lot of our dads/uncles served in the Gulf or we knew someone who did)
Karolina, do you think you could do a video about fashion from the 1550's to 1600? I love the way you construct history timelines for fashion! Also asking because I need info for school. Would love to see it from you!!!!
Oh my gosh, I am so proud to say that I actually did better than you did on this one! I was not expecting that. I suspect it's because of your Polish background. Like in that one where you said the guy looked just like your dad, I knew for sure it was 60s. (I have dual citizenship: Canada and the USA.)
A good tip on how to tell whether the photos of French soldiers you're looking at were taken at the start or at the end of the war is the colour of their uniform.
Bright red pants and dark blue coats at the beginning of the war and pale blue uniforms by the end of it (like in the photo Karolina reviewed).
The 1996 one is from the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Atlanta. Those ladies were wearing their team uniform, wich don't usually go with the current fashion of the moment. Kinda like a weird formal featuring the colors of their country's flag
This was so much fun to watch .
the thrill of that fire truck photo guess!!! such a fun video, thank u karolina :) :)
This is interesting since history and culture across the world looked so different. The clothes from 1920s in my home country look different from 1920s american clothes, for example
i kept looking at the quality of the photos and at the 2021 picture i was like, yeah this one is recent, its definitely digital
i love the way every video just ends so abruptly
Such a fun game. Thank you for introducing me to it.
This is interesting as shit you can just milk this for like a five video series
Omg I’ve been addicted to ChronoPhoto (even more than Geoguesser) and I’m SO happy you’re playing it! Have funnn
knowing about cars is a big help in some of these pictures
Hi Karolina, I just started watching Netflix’s recent historical series about Lidia Poët, Italys first female laywer in 1883. It has some lovely dresses 😍😍😍😍 I’m no fashion historian, from what little l can google on womens fashion in Italy during that time I think they follow it somewhat historically corect but would love your analysis! 🤩😍
I was close for a lot of the ones showing the 60s and after but got the military one for 1990 spot on cuz my Dad served in the Gulf War, I've seen photos of those uniforms a thousand times. Heck he might even be IN that very photo since the guy with the glasses looks JUST like him!
I am proud of my guess for the 1944 picture at 10:30 because it matches my grandma's description of her first memory; when the British Army came to Sicily. Messina is the big harbour between Sicily and the rest of Italy.
I've lived through the 70s to now and happy I got the pics dates mostly right. Men's pants hold a lot of clue from when it's in fashion
I literally love the way her accent makes american words sound way more posh😆
This is super fun! I can see it being a good party game in a room full of people with different cultural proficiencies!
can we appreciate karolina for the time she spent on this video
I adore the wallpaper in the ad! especially with your matching shirt