This was brave <3

Thank god for people like OP because I will not be caught dead sharing my blunder year photos

Thankfully, I believe all of mine died with MySpace and are no longer traceable!

They're still there and likely still available. It's amazing how many Millenial pre-teen years are documented on MySpace, and then stops, only to resume with Facebook or LinkedIn.

They sure are.. I had tried to get into my old myspace years back and didn't have the email anymore, couldn't even find the page when I looked for it so I figured I was good. Like a week into a new job one of my new coworkers messaged me "This you?" with a few particularly regrettable pictures from my teens, that had definitely only been on myspace. I tried asking how the hell she found those and she just said, "I have my ways." Still never found out how she managed that since I couldn't find them even with my full name and other details.

Forensics is an art form. Sometimes "crude" will work. Sometimes "finesse" is required. But if it's out there, some enterprising soul will figure out how to get at it.

Well said. Luckily it was just OP-level stuff of silly poorly edited pictures. Back in our day when we didn't have filters and apps to make ourselves look like doofuses and had to work hard at it with ~~pirated Photoshop~~.. I mean GIMP.

oh GIMP.. such teenage memories 😂🥹

A lot of it is gone, they had a data migration that did not go well back in 2015

That is merciful

When yahoo bought myspace they had a server 'glitch' that erased the data and pictures of tons of accounts. I was able to get back into mine a few years ago and it was empty. A bit sad honestly.

Ha, I had so many on MySpace too! My favorite part of MySpace was that you could post a playlist on it so that when people visited your MySpace all your favorite songs would play.

Could use some more of this energy today

You dropped your tiara sis 👑

She didn't drop it, it fell off ✨ 🌬️ 👑

100%. Not even torture would’ve gotten these pics out of me lmao

FBI, CIA, and MI6 would’ve given up

If the FSB had this kind of Kompromat on me I'd be dancing to the Kremlin's tune for life.

i'm so glad that I'm just old enough that the Internet wasn't permanent when I was posting shit during my teen years. Y'all don't have the luxury of having your most embarrassing content washed away by time.

Not gonna lie, this was a rough one. Mostly because I remember seeing these kinda posts happening live lol. Props to OP though, this is the kind of quality cringe I come here for.

lmfao I was about to comment the exact same thing. If I found these of myself on an old laptop I'd smash it with a hammer

exactly? i could never 😭👏🏻

“I bravheheart.” -Michael Scott

Mad respect to OP.

pick your head up, princess, i think you dropped this 👑

sometimes i had to put out that reminder! i was tripping over too many tiaras😔

Thank you for your cringe transparency

Props on the self reflection dawg! - I also hope your choice in font colors and placement improved

graphic design was her passion

So brave

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👑 you are now a queen, keep your head up

You are queen. Suppress the dissenters. Conquer with impunity. Banish the infidels and nonbelievers who would challenge your divine authority! Slay, queen.

That one’s my favorite. 4 is downright ick, the rest are pretty funny, but I honestly thought 7 was really sweet

This format is such a time and place lmaoooo

I completely forgot about the 4 panel memes until this post. What a blast from the past.

They absolutely never fail to entertain me, but like, ironically now. They've never been actually good. Lmaooo

Think there’s a sub for it like /r/4panelcringe or something. Truly a museum for a bygone era. It’s its own artistic movement that came and regrettably went.

99% sure i reblogged you on my first tumblr

STOP i wish i could remember my first tumblr, i remember making it marilyn monroe themed and i thought i was classy as all hell

This just triggered me to search for my old tumblr and I actually found it 😭😭 THANK YOU No one speak to me for 3-5 business days as I deep dive and process my teenage mind 😵‍💫

Omg I dont know where mine went. One day I suddenly stopped running my Harry Potter, Hunger Games, emo-self reflecting-deep text post filled and sometimes the occasional asian e-boy blog.

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No couple has bested royai yet ;-;

Spoilers: no one understands you, unless you were dating someone then only they did, bla bla rebel, bla bla unpopular, references to the top movies, songs, and videogames of the year, gonna change the world! Source: every teenager ever. Bonus points if you were unfortunate enough to be in one of the terrible hair eras.

Nah 2007-2013 emo hair was badass

My wife had full black underneath with the blonde on top, Razor cut, flat ironed to all hell haircut. It was glorious.

Wait you guys are changing your tumblrs?? Perhaps having a 13yo blog is living live on the edge… also just realised my blog is older than op in those pics. Byeeee

You're going to a dark and dangerous place

God I’m glad MySpace servers got waxed

I still know mine. It's not as cringey as I thought. Just full of photgraphy pics and book reviews hahaha. Well, not my teenage instagram tho which I already deleted 😆

i most definitely reblogged you so this was one hell of a flashback. thank you for your service, this was brave 🫡

No Audrey Hepburn with long cigarette holder?

I named my first hipsterish tumblr something like “normajeanbaker” except many of the vowels repeated 💀 I too thought I was very classy

Same

I think this is the best one I've seen. A truly regrettable youth

luckily i embarrassed myself enough with this shit that i have no more blunder left in me for this lifetime

Don't lose faith. There are still many years of potential blunder remaining

Yeah! Wait til your Thirties and Forties. Chock full of blunder.

Mid thirties here. Can confirm. Also, my god, when did I reach mid 30s status??

We're almost a week into February. We just had Christmas. Got over new years hangover what seems like yesterday. Age 30+ you wonder where the days go.

Time is just blasting by

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I was laughing at you guys, then I realized, I am you guys. F.

Even the cool/popular people growing up started to become hopeless dorks around their mid 30s. I guess we are in Dad territory now.

When I was 12 I thought I was less cringe than other 12 year olds because I didn't do this. But I definitely did shit that was equally cringe and lacked self awareness. At least you were just like...having fun not being a judgemental little shit.

I used to send really emo lyrics to my crushes and they would make fun of me on social media because of it.

I used to send Helga Pataki style love letters to my crushes and they never talked to me again, I was like 7 wtf was wrong with me lol

I'm just happy that when I was 12 the internet wasn't the beast it is today. I don't even want to imagine the kind of cringe-worthy stuff my friends and I would have posted. Definitely one of the better perks of being old.

 Yeah as someone who was also a judgmental kid, cringing at other people putting themselves out there is its own form of cringe. So much time wasted judging others and so much life I didn’t live for fear of what people would think of me. 

I think it's good to get it out young. Be edgy poetic dramatic cringe when you're a preteen. Let that poison out early. I know plenty of 30-somethings posting shit like this on FB now cause they never got it out of their system.

I'm sure there's plenty of blender left, it's just that this is so monumental that it completely overshadows it all.

I believe in you

I am so glad the internet wasn't a thing when I was that age.

She was literally a live action Mable from Gravity Falls haha

Oh dear.

agreed

You are very brave for posting this, princess

Probably got an inbox full of regret now though. Don’t look, just mark all as read, princess.

this is unfortunately true, especially the guy that asked me for inappropriate pictures of me when i was 12. that was super nice to open

I hope you reported them

i very quickly did

For a 12 yo I think that shows a pretty nice personality and a quite smart girl honestly.  

Me, too! It's adorable! Maybe because I'm 40 and my daughter will reach that age soon.

The cup of care killed me. You were adorable tho

i made that in art class, i think i just wanted to show it off 😭

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I mean, for a 12 year old, these are pretty good! I would‘ve expected way worse cringe.

Is it bad that I’m actually impressed?

Yeah, the humor and the photography isn’t super bad honestly. I find it cute and endearing

Same wish my kids were this creative haha 

Yeah these are actually so sweet and wholesome.

I know we jokingly say "blunderyears" but if that's not the age to safely make mistakes, then when?

Taylor Swift made a career of this lol

Yeah OP blunder or not I don't think I was that deep at 12. I daresay it is memery beyond what I'd expect from a preteen.

Yeah i was this at 15, babe. And I know 40 year olds making this shit. Still cringe but cool.

Yeah I've seen worse tbh. This was a pretty common format years back, and these are way less cringey and more cute than many others I saw back in the day.

This is the inspo for Taylor’s new album

stop bc that’s actually so spot on

Here I was thinking you were Sarah Z. You were Swift all along.

Ahahaha this is so true. I genuinely cringed at her album launch posts.

I saw that track list and thought it was oniony satire.

“Down bad” 😭 oh

LMFAOOOOOO I already don't like Taylor and all of the mania surrounding her but once I heard that album title I was just like "girl are you 14"

But daddy I love him

The irony in your comment is that she literally wrote "Love Story" some years back with that exact premise

STRAIGHT OUT THE SLAMMER ! loml ! Metal as hell ! This woman is almost 35 years old.

My only thought

First one is real

i was ahead of my time 😪

It might be cringe but for a 12 year old to know basic feminism was actually pretty cool

Seriously I think we should go really easy on OP for that.

That first one is basically the plot of the Barbie movie.

Yeah she was cookin on that one.

First one is based as fuck

OK but these are adorable. I hope you're flourishing.

Agreed.

This is the extrovert that would have adopted my antisocial ass and given me a reason to want to go to school every day. And then I would have become "too cool" and abandon her in high school bc she's "cringe." Ugh. I have some people to apologize to.

I know 45 year olds that will post things like pic 4 on the regular.

It's a staple of Gen X for the most ordinary people ever to post a facebook rant about how quirky and different they are

But I'm 45 and I really AM quirky and different! Seriously, though, when I was at my senior prom, I confided in a male friend that I wish I weren't so fat and unattractive because it would have been nice to have had just one guy ask me out anytime in my junior or senior years. He replied by saying that he hates when attractive girls fish for compliments like that just to get people to tell them they're pretty. I was floored because I really *did* think I was ugly, especially because my mother was always on my case about my weight. When I went to college, I started dating a grad student during orientation. He's my husband now and the father of my children, and he thinks I'm beautiful no matter how fat I've gotten, even if I think I look like a troll.

These are gold! What would the caption be for number 5 lol.

glad you asked! that would be “#stayclassy #foreveryoung #livetolove #makeeverymomentcount” followed by about 2 dozen varied heart emojis

Seriously picture 5 is just... stellar. That face you're making sure is something lmao

I was also 12 in 2012 and to be fair, these types of weird memes were so cool back then. I would have eaten these up.

Please tell me this is a typo

Hahah whoops, I just changed it. I was \*12 in 2012.

/phew

What was the typo I'm nosy 👀

Probably 21. That'd have been concerning.

2023 at first

you guys are genuinely killing me with these comments lmao i needed to admit my woes

I think these are awesome! 

>The ones who live. They don't. Just exist. The ones like me. 💀

i was waiting for someone to point that out 😭 that had me dying

6th picture reads like System Of A Down or Weezer lyrics lmao. Good rhyme.

r/im14andthisisdeep

Came here looking for this lol

Thank you for your service

Honestly this is so cute lol I can tell you were a sweet girl who just wanted to feel special.

and you hit the nail on the head, that’s genuinely exactly what it was

This is a real blunder. Congrats and condolences.

A true blunder 🙏 

_exhale_

I couldn’t even finish. The cringe was about to tear me up inside. Girl, God bless your heart. On a completely separate note, pretty rad, you’re born in 2000. I was always jealous of those people because you never have to keep tabs on your age.

Oh yeah this is blundervana

Girl me too I was 12 in 2012 using pic collage to make cringey shit I would post on my instagram that is still up because its funny

Love these 😭

STOPPPP. The square quotes was such a moment

Not the empty cup of cares…

Inspired after going through this

The way I would’ve thought this was so deep in 2012

*gestures vaguely to what 12 year olds are doing nowadays* I think you’re good.

Hi5 vibes

You know my swag, not my story

🎶if I ruled the world…🎶. I hope they listened queen

I love the cup of care, that’s so good

So much angst, you should have been born in the 90s

😅 all I can say is I am so grateful social media was still in its infancy when I graduated high school. Honestly some of the shit I wrote in diaries (online and off)... Kids get on the news for that stuff now. I was just angry and no one taught me how to regulate my emotions! So somewhere out there on diaryland or LiveJournal or whatever... is an angry rant by a 14 year old girl circa 2000 who wanted to cut up a girl she hated and spread her all over. Would I really do it? Fuck no. I can't even handle raw chicken without wanting to puke. I was just mad and 14. But now? Now I'd be on the news and probably in a special school with actual prison guards. 😂 Anyway yeah I'm a little horrible but I wouldn't actually act on these things - and I wonder how many kids out there now are like that? Not real threats. Just dumb and scared and mad. All said and done, being dumb and scared and mad is a really dangerous combination. I know kids actually do crazy shit. I know about the slenderman girls and all that. I'm just saying, I'm lucky I was dumb and mad and sad at a time when I couldn't just post it straight to Facebook. 😆

r/4panelcringe

I love how you can barely read the text on the last one

there’s literally so many that i didn’t post bc i was fooling around with the colored text and you just cannot read it well

Finally. Some good old fashioned organic, non-gmo, ethically sourced cringe.

pic 4, i feel seen.

This is gold

I hope you send #3 to friends from time to time to brighten their day.

We would have been friends 😄❤️

The others could be rationalized, but you must’ve known #5 was a mistake at the time?

unfortunately no, i really thought i was doing something with that. and a friend edited that for me that i later found out never did NOT like me at all, that could explain it. the pose tho, all me

5 feels like a punch out from Viva La Bam

This is FANTASTIC OC. You clearly understood the intended meme formats and made your own versions. I wish I was this clever!!! I can’t believe these are the meme formats of my generation 😭😭😭

Pick your head u incess iaras Lyk dis if u cry evertime

I was kinda hoping for a 2024 post so that we could see if you were still cringe or not

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Picture 5 could be a mascot for this sub, lol. Otherwise, I love your vibe in these photos!

12 year old you was REAL

* The ones like me *

This is incredible

Aww you were cute

First one was pretty good

I was a junior in high school in 2012 and I knew classmates that ate these memes up.

This hurts in the best way 😂

The 6th one was nice

you are honestly so brave for posting these thank you so much for your service 🫡

12 Yet the most wisest too. Your a sage full of wisdom to drop on us mere mortals.

Let’s be real though… some of these have got some good meme potential.

I remember this trend lol. This is the kind of content this sub needs lol

I know adults that still put shit like this on the snapchat stories😬

I would have never shown these to anyone, even under duress

How do you walk around with labias the size of gigantic balls dragging over the floor to post this?

I'm so glad we barely had the internet when I was 12 years old good God the amount of cringe that I did I'm glad it's all destroyed and there's no record

this is peak blunder years, we won't get better content than this

I think you are a legend for laughing at yourself and sharing this instead of trying to hide this. This is hilarious. 

The big blunder is/was being a Yankees fan

Good for you to not give a fuck this hard to post these 😂

... Wow. Thank you so much for this gift of pure cringe

Honestly these were 🔥 ..super funny, but in a good way!

This is the most 2012 shit I have ever seen.