It’s been nearly a decade since Stranger Things hit our Netflix screens for the first time back in 2016, and the adorable child stars we first met over nine years ago are now all grown up, as photos of the cast of Stranger Things then and now prove. (Do you feel old? We feel old.)

Inspired by the works of Steven Spielberg , Stephen King , David Lynch and more, the Duffer Brothers’ smash coming-of-age sci-fi horror series made its debut on streaming on July 15, 2016. It’s hard to imagine anyone knew back then just how big a pop culture juggernaut the nostalgic, 1980s-set show would become, but it didn’t take long for Stranger Things to blow up in the television zeitgeist and beyond.

Since its premiere, Stranger Things has transformed into an entire multi-media franchise,

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