Listen, I am from Middle East, so the concept of talking formally to your elders is not a foreign concept for me at all. But for us the age gap should be at least 5 years, usually 10 years to refer to someone formally. Of course when you talk to strangers and in business environment you always start with formal speaking at first, that's different and true to many languages I believe.
But man, speaking to a guy a year or two older than me with honorifics? What kind of torture is that? Like we are peers man, we're literally the same gen. It is so refreshing that a lot of groups drop it nowadays, Twice all speak informally to one another and Shuhua doesn't give a fuck in general, she talks to everyone informally. But when I see other groups freaking out, getting all shocked when somebody forgets to use it, doing the "yaja time" stuff, l cringe all the time. Like relax, all time should be yaja time, yall are freaking peers, leave that confucius bs in the past where it belongs 
