A YouTuber wanted to see how he ages. For this reason, he took thousands of photos over 25 years.
The YouTuber JK Keller undertook a special project: He took a selfie of his face every day for 25 years. This resulted in a series of photographs consisting of several thousand images, which he regularly edits into a video.
As viewers, you can watch in time-lapse how the YouTuber ages a day with each picture. The result is very impressive.
He actually started at the age of 22, and his current picture was taken 25 years later when he was 47. In the current video, you can see how JK Keller ages over 25 years in just over five minutes. We have embedded the video for you here:
The YouTuber’s face changes only slightly over 25 years
What stands out? The changes in his face are hardly noticeable. Over the 25 years, he hardly changed at all. His hairstyle changes repeatedly; sometimes he has longer hair, then again shorter hair, and he constantly wears a new model of glasses, but otherwise, his face hardly changes. Many viewers on Reddit also notice this and praise his patience with the many photos:
Wow! Just a little over 8,000 images. Great focus on the series. It takes a lot of patience for this. I estimate that most people would change more than he does.
However, some viewers report that his video ends just before the exciting changes begin. Therefore, they hope that YouTuber JK Keller will not stop his series now but will continue it. This cannot be said for sure, as JK Keller seems to upload a video only every two years on his YouTube channel. Since 2017 (launch of the channel), he has uploaded only twelve videos.
The change is not particularly dramatic; I hope he continues to take photos because he stopped exactly where aging becomes interesting.
Why could later images become exciting? As a study from Stanford University shows, humans age particularly significantly around the ages of 34, 60, and 78. These changes at a protein level are associated by researchers with considerable changes in the body overall. And the series of images stops several years before this process begins. By now, the YouTuber is 48 years old.
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