About
How Hard Did Aging Hit You Challenge, also known through the hashtag #HowHardDidAgingHitYouChallenge, is a photography comparison challenge in which participants post selfies taken 10 years apart.
Origin
In January 2019, the “How Hard Did Aging Hit You Challenge was started on Facebook. One of the earliest available variations of the challenge was posted by TV meteorologist Damon Lane on January 11th, 2019. The post received more than 350 reactions and 65 comments in four days (shown below).
Spread
Later that day, Twitter user @gabbymartin4000 tweeted, “Saw this ‘how did age hit you post’ on Facebook where you compare your first profile picture with your current one… I now feel like I’m 100 and should probably start using an eye cream. #aging #old #makeitstop” (shown below).
Over the following weekend, social media users and celebrities began posting their entries in the challenge on various social media sites (examples below). Twitter published a Moments page to archive the popularity of the meme.
Several media outlets published articles about the challenge, including the New York Daily News,The Daily Dot, Romper, Fox and more.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
Source : https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-hard-did-aging-hit-you-challenge