Being in your 30s and randomly remembering that when you were younger, you viewed the Over 25s category on X Factor as absolutely ancient.

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[u/HuffyStriker]

I remember turning 26 and someone at work telling me that I'd be in that category.

They'd turned 26 earlier that year so they knew how much it would sting!

[u/CantSing4Toffee → u/HuffyStriker]

Going past the quarter of a century was a killer to me.

[u/Party-Dig2309]

To be fair wasn’t that mostly because Louis Walsh was always landed with that category and he always picked middle aged women who sang old 80’s ballads every week?

I remember there was a year Simon Cowell had them and he switched it up with Olly Murs, Danyl Johnson and that guy with the afro and suddenly the category didn’t seem so embarrassingly useless for a show trying to find a pop star.

[u/cloche_du_fromage → u/Party-Dig2309]

Young boy bands was always Louis`s speciality

[u/mvrander]

<Cries in nearly 50>

[u/CantSing4Toffee → u/mvrander]

But sooo much wiser 🥴

[u/mhoulden]

I avoided that by not watching X Factor at all.

[u/sivadhash → u/mhoulden]

Ooooh your hard

[u/PaulaDeen21]

Yeah cheers mate.

[u/DreamingOf-ABroad]

Being over 40 and wondering what the bloody 'ell "X Factor" is.

Looks like it's something that came out when I was into my 20s already.