The term currently points in two directions
OLD AGE PERFORMANCE
Self-mocking use for early bedtimes, old-fashioned preferences, aging aesthetics or behaving older than one’s age.
ONLINE DATING MAXXING
Forum shorthand in which OLD means Online Dating and oldmaxxing means optimizing dating-app profiles, photos, strategy or use.
What is OLDMAXXING?
In one branch, OLDMAXXING is self-parody: early bedtimes, older technologies, unfashionable preferences and jokes about becoming one’s own elderly relative. In another, OLD is an acronym for Online Dating, and oldmaxxing refers to improving dating profiles, photographs, app strategy and results. The two meanings share a spelling and almost nothing else.
Supposedly maxes
ATTENTION / INTERPRETATION / PARTICIPATION
Adherents believe
Going to bed early can become an identity.
Every preference eventually acquires an age.
The suffix turns ordinary aging into a discipline.
A better profile can change one’s position in Online Dating.
Capital letters are carrying more meaning than the word can hold.
You may already be OLDMAXXING if…
- you call something new that is seven years old
- bedtime has become the most exciting part of the evening
- you prefer the older version before trying the replacement
- your friends think you mean aging while your forum means dating apps
- you have optimized photographs for a system you claim to hate
Typical practices
- choosing the earlier bedtime
- preferring older technologies or versions
- performing premature elderhood
- optimizing dating-profile photographs
- rewriting app bios
- comparing Online Dating strategies