Your eyes are older
advancements in health, medicine, food, exercise and most today just simply are not struggling like our parents did at the same age. a lot of those dudes now been making bank since high school, on top of family privileges. I know one of my homies family was essentially moved into a new house so he could go to a different high school for athletics. we just live in a totally different world today
The guys in the first picture are scowling. The guys in the second picture are yucking it up. The hair styles in the second pic are more modern and youthful. There are less black youth prominently displayed who people bias as being more grown up. Even what they're wearing tracks as vintage versus modern.
All the above
they look the same, the guys in 05 are just black.
actual answer is less lead and asbestos exposure.
I'm closer to 30 than 20 and people assume my 19 year old cousin is older than me going off that the kids might look older