Watching Tag

From Boyhood and the Up series to TBT posts and TikTok’s yearbook challenge, there’s something compelling about watching people transform and the passage of time itself Should you’re on TikTok, you’ve probably come across the yearbook challenge. It’s when people post high-school yearbook photos of themselves and their friends after which flash forward to them in the current day, often at a marriage, ten-year and even 20-year reunion – to “Spirits” by The Strumbellas. These videos garner likes and views of their hundreds of thousands, proving just how obsessed we should not only with nostalgia and physical transformation but with the passage of time. Yearbook challenges have only recently grow to be popular on...