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by zxcvgm 1350 days ago
Tom Scott did a video about this topic in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY
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In 2018, we went with school to the national forensics institute where they (among other things) presented their research on this. Not sure if it's also online somewhere; their website is nfi.nl
That's weird.

I came here to check that someone had linked to that video, but in my mind it feels a lot longer ago than Dec 2021. I feel like that video should be 3 or 4 years old.

It's doubly weird because that normally happens the other way around, where I think something happened about a year ago, and it was actually 3 or 4 years ago. Or I think something happened 5 years ago, and it was actually 10-12.

People seem to be reporting anecdotally that the pandemic has messed with their sense of time. I wonder if there are any serious research projects underway to study this phenomenon.
Maybe you should submit the video to The Hummingbird Clock and find out for sure! hehe
I find it personally hard to date stuff that came out or that I watched during the pandemic. To me it felt like I consumed 4 or 5 years of content in the span of each year. My sense of time is completely twisted.
I would have said 3-4 years as well, and I would have been certain beyond any doubt that it was more than 2 years. Crazy.
I too could swear I saw that video much earlier. But I guess it was actually this one: https://youtu.be/bij-JjzCa7o