I lost my Myspace password long ago, but the memories of editing my photos by cranking the saturation all the way up and adding glitter text on each one will live in my head forever. The blunder years from age 12-19 seem to be a thing of the past now with how fast kids grow up. They’re missing out on the awkward, angst-filled years that involved a little too much aerosol cologne.
People on Reddit’s r/BlunderYears page share all their most embarrassing pictures from years they have probably tried to forget. Here are some of the best ones:
1. “I spent most of my highschool career working at Sonic instead of playing sports. I thought it would be funny to wear a Sonic uniform instead of a Letterman’s jacket for my senior picture. So that happened… 2001”
2. “Why YES!! My vest WAS homemade!”
3. “2004. Trying to take a MySpace photo while no one was at home.”
4. “I learned my lesson about taking a razor to my eyebrows. Big oof.”
5. “My childhood was destined to be a rough one…”
6. “My dad always thought this haircut looked incredible on me. My mom thought the shirt was incredible. Looking back at 2nd grade me is incredible. I’m a female.”
7. “1996 HS Yearbook Picture”
8. “Thought it would be cool to make KNEX body armor”
9. “Me in 2004, when all I ever watched was Fight Club and The Matrix while blasting The Prodigy “Smack My Bitch Up”. So cool I had to wear two sunglasses.”
10. “In middle school, I told everyone I had a older boyfriend, who also happened to be an Abercrombie model. This was my proof….”
11. “I was 10 when I realized people with no bangs had grown them out, not cut them off.”
12. “My good friend Josh showing off his sais in HS.”
13. “Hawaii wasn’t ready for my ice cold sister and I in 2003.”
14. “13-14 year old me during my “Eminem phase”. That’s a hairbrush hanging from my lamp and all of my pictures from that time are made black and grey”
15. “2004 family road trip: obligatory angsty teens against picturesque backdrop”
16. “When I was a kid I played basketball for a church called Transfiguration. Our uniforms didn’t age well for them”
17. “4 years ago. My friend is saving this photo for her future kids to show that she thought she had a cool phase too.
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18. “Me, a straight female, trying to impress my crush by being one of the guys. I’m on the right.”
19. “Homecoming 2012. Yes that’s my real hair. Yes I spent an hour on it every day.”
20. “Me at 17(2010) living it up in Vegas”
21. “My mother found this photo of my church friend (Ryan Gosling) and I. We had some Awful 90s hairs cuts.”
22. “10 years ago and our first family photo, it looked like we stole someones kid.”
23. “My wife’s school picture with her most prized possession at the time. An Evanescence CD.”
24. “Me in 2009, I called myself Brandon Bloodbath.”
25. “As a 10yr old male…”
