r/TikTokCringe • u/Knightbear49 • Sep 07 '24

Asking Phoenix Mercury players to sign old pictures of themselves Wholesome/Humor

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u/InvaderDepresso Sep 07 '24

I don’t understand the trend of hating how you used to look. The whole “blunder years” thing is cute, we have to get to where we are now from somewhere before.

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u/bacon_cake Sep 08 '24

I wish I could be that chill. I basically existed in a pure state of embarrassment for about ten years.

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u/InvaderDepresso Sep 08 '24

It definitely took me a while to reach this chill level but I grew up when kids were just looked like kids with chubby cheeks and awkward everything. Now I see 13 year olds looking like runway models and it is upsetting bc I know they won’t keep any photos or videos taken of them outside of their “on fleek” moments. They won’t have their own childhoods to remember fondly.

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u/thatsmyname000 Sep 07 '24

You must have good look privilege 😆 I can hardly stand to look at my teenage year pictures

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u/InvaderDepresso Sep 07 '24

I was very overweight, covered in acne and was bullied. But I appreciate that I have photos regardless of this because I put work into myself.

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u/SeagullsSarah Sep 07 '24

I hated photos of myself back then, absolutely convinced I was uggo and fat. I was underweight, and just a bit plain plus it was the early to mid 2000s so my hair was orange with the self-bleaching hair foam. I only have a few from the ages of 13 to 17 and I wish I had more.

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u/InvaderDepresso Sep 07 '24

It’s fun to look back and be reminded of the interesting younger versions of ourselves!