Impossible

So, the internet took off. This lady is putting a picture of her food on her personal website. There is a respiratory disease pandemic so people are wearing masks for public health safety measures.

Lol, it's not that crazy. The 90s has both internet and masks.

Ah, you see, they didn't specify WHICH 90s. It's actually a time traveler from 2493.
Humans have long since transcended the need to take photos as their bodies have been replaced by extremely advanced biomachinery that allows them to perfectly recall the exact image they wish and share it directly with someone straight into their main sentience processor.
- Sounds like hell.
Maybe throw in a bit about how cell phones are flat rectangles now, they're ubiquitous and have both high speed internet access and built in cameras.
- Yeah, cell phones had internet in the 90's as well.
WTF is a lady??? 🤯
They would probably think taking pictures of food was the coolest thing too

This is probably just some bait to generate engagement

"She's taking a picture of the ice cream"

Time traveller: Ok

They had cameras in the 90s. It wasn't the dark ages

Even the Gameboy had a camera.

We got 'taste masks' now that can simulate eating any delicacy, even in slow motion, without a single calorie to burn afterwards. You just scan the food with this wireless scanner.

I guess the assumption is the time traveler from the 90's is sentinelese

Ah yes, things people weren't aware of in the 90s: masks, respiratory illness, mobile phones, cameras, and ice cream.

Granted that exact form factor of combination phone/camera is novel but come on.

Yeah all these concepts would be fairly easy to explain to someone from 100 years ago. Sure they would be amazed of how much more compact and affordable modern photography had gotten, but the concept is unchanged. Icecream is nothing new, masks are nothing new.

This woman is using her standard-issue hand-held matter replicator to fabricate an ice cream cone in her hand. How hard was that?

I swear some sci-fi is like this...
30 years into the future: autopilot flying antimatter powered laser cars deliver ice cream created by matter replicators! Personal AGI enabled robotic assistants do everything for us! Special ships warp space to travel infinite distances instantly!
Reality: 30 years into the future we still haven't learned to stop picking our noses. We still eat plastic. Our cars have "autopilot" and crash into each other.

I'd think a time traveller from the 90s would have a decent concept of technology considering at the minimum they've learnt to operate a time machine.

SARS outbreak was in 2002 so it’s not really old concept for the 90s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbreak

Asians were wearing masks in public for the common cold long before today's other outbreaks.
You're not wrong. But if someone time travels from the 90s then 2002 is still a future they haven't seen yet.
SARS was bad, but not anywhere close to COVID bad. We’re coming up on the sixth anniversary of COVID and there are still people dying every day from it.
Also, someone from the 1990s being transported to 2002 would probably be more interested in a very different event that occurred less than a year before.
- The debut of Shrek?

Engagement bait

Unpaid Freelance worker creates more training data for AI, probably in Japan, where mask-wearing is normal when you have a cold.

easy.

General over use of acetaminophen, contrary to the common belief that it caused autism, made humans allergic to consuming animal milk products (lactose intolerance). However, more than just giving one gas, consuming dairy products now results in death.

Our great world leader, Elon, felt pitty on us and provided us all with Neurochips, which allows us to synthetically taste dairy once again after a quick image scan.

This woman exhibts caution by covering her mouth and nose and enjoys a timeless vanilla ice cream.

A rare sample of the output of a working ice cream machine at Macca's.

Not really related, but if you're hankering for a soft serve, I highly recommend heading to your local GYG instead of Maccas. Their machines aren't more reliable, but their soft serves are so much nicer. Thicker, creamier soft serve than Maccas offers.

/s

That's a cellular PDA, and we had a plague so folks are now mask conscience to some degree. Also a bunch of dipshits had their brains melted by the internet and now are causing massive problems, also memes are the DNA of the soul.

Camera.....phone???!!!

Easy, I show them up this clip: youtu.be/9hYjzF3OJyM?t=67

She’s wasting that ice cream, that’s what.

Show someone from the 1990s the video of those guys “bravely” breaking the law to get a haircut.