If You Know How to Burn a CD, You're Probably Old

A Twitter thread from a member of Generation Z is making us all face our mortality

BY Josiah HughesPublished Oct 22, 2018

If there's one thing the youth of today absolutely love to do, it's to inadvertently make us all feel old as hell. Take, for example, a Twitter user whose innocent question about CDs sent us all into an existential spiral as we faced our impending mortality.

A 17-year-old named Alyssa, who tweets as @tamarianians, started off the implosion with a seemingly innocent query — how the hell do you burn a CD, anyway?
 
Twitter user @theblackpcnther responded with a kind — if oversimplified — explanation that still left Alyssa feeling a little confused:
 
As the conversation progressed, Alyssa called the whole thing "weird yet fascinating." When other people weighed in, she doubled down on the fact that CDs are confusing for her generation:
 

Of course, while burning CDs has certainly gone out of style the whole conversation was dominated by unfiltered hatred launched at her from a variety of people, all of whom are undoubtedly insecure about their CD-burning knowledge and the oldness now attached to it:
   

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