“Only Millennials Wear These” — Woman Able to Guess Gym-Goer’s Age Because She Wears Ankle Socks

If you wear ankle socks, then you're probably a millennial.

That's what this one TikTok user, Paige Mills (@bikerbiddie), correctly surmised when she was asked to guess the age of someone at her gym she initially thought was 25 or 26 years old.

Paige stitched her video together with a separate video that asks the question: "What is one thing that would indicate that you're in your 30s?"

"I became friends with a girl at the gym and when I asked her how old she was she asked me to guess and I had thought 25, 26 this whole time," Paige began her response.

The TikToker continued: "And then I looked her up and down, and then I said 32."

The woman Paige had been chatting it up with at the gym was surprised at her ability to correctly guess her age. As Paige continued her story:

"She said, 'Yes, how did you know that? Usually people guess a lot younger.' And I said, 'Because, baby, you have ankle socks on.'"

She went on to state, "The ankle socks will always give you away. Next time you're at the gym, take a look around. Everybody over 30, ankle socks. Everybody under 30, crew socks."

It seems that Paige's gym friend doesn't necessarily want people knowing her real age, because Paige's socks comment had an effect on her.

"The next time I saw her, she was wearing brand-new crew socks," Paige said.

Paige isn't the only TikTok user to talk about this difference in sock wearing, however. Another TikToker user, Eva Gutowski discussed this same phenomenon in a video of her own.

"If you were a kid in the '90s or 2000s, why don't we wear no-show socks anymore? OK? I know some people are out there wearing their no-show socks but I don't know about you, I probably own one pair of no-show ankle socks," Eva said.

She continued to question why folks all of sudden seem like they're allergic to ever wearing these socks again. She continued to discuss this phenomenon: "And I remember back when I was in elementary school, if I showed up to school and my parents put me in some d--- tube socks..."

Eva then went on to physically illustrate her aversion to her parents putting her in a pair of a tube socks by demonstrating on camera how she would roll them down: "I would literally do this thing where I would roll them, like I would like take my socks and roll them and they would look so crusty ... like that," she said, showing off her rolled-down socks.

The TikToker then went on to question why the socks have seemingly fallen out of fashion: "Just so that I could have socks like this. And I was so embarrassed because my parents would never buy me no-show socks. I don't know why. But, anyway, I was thinking about it today. Why don't we like those?"

"Obviously I know multiple people are still getting by just fine with their no-show socks. But I feel like the people that are like, right on the cusp of like millennial to Gen Z, or Gen Z, we do not f--- with those no-show socks. And I don't think we'll f--- with them ever. Ever in our lives. We don't know when or why it happened, but there is a shift in our generation where we are all about the tube sock now," she continued.

She went on to highlight just how much people are still in love with tube-style socks: "I don't think I will ever go back to a no-show sock," Eva said, again, showing off her sock rolled over her leggings. "I will die wearing tube socks. I just have this feeling that we're gonna get old one day and our kids, when we have kids someday, are going to go back to the ankle sock."

She said, while applying makeup on her face. "And we're gonna be so stuck on the tube sock and they're gonna make fun of us calling us like old. It's gonna flip and it's gonna be our kids. Our kids are gonna flip it on us. But we, we're loyal to that d--- tube sock."

Several people who responded to Eva's video stated that they weren't fans of no-show socks because they have a tendency to constantly roll off of their feet, causing their ankles to rub against their shoes, resulting in blisters and overall discomfort.

"They always come off my feet," someone wrote.

"They slide down or the back of my sneakers give me blisters," wrote another.

Someone else commented: "We realized no-show socks expose the tiny ankles we own."

There were some folks who were still loyal to the no-show sock, however, like this person who commented: "Still wearing the no-show socks."

What about you? What do you think? Are you still proudly rocking your no-show socks? Or do you think that tube socks are where it's at — why would you spend the same amount of money for less fabric?