54 Photos That Aged So Terribly, I Literally Cringed Upon Seeing Them

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This photo of Pee-Wee Herman, who was later arrested for indecent exposure at a porn theater:

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This comment doubting the popularity of touchscreens:

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This magazine cover from 1997, which predicted “25 years of prosperity, freedom, and a better environment”:

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This cookbook from Ned Fulmer and his wife Ariel (Fulmer would later publicly be caught cheating):

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This post about Russell Brand, whose rape case is set to go to trial next year (though he’s entered a plea of “not guilty”):

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This “code of ethics” for Enron, which would would go bankrupt amid major counts of fraud in a huge scandal:

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This old SeaWorld game starring Shamu (a name given to multiple orcas, one of whom went on to kill a trainer at the end of a SeaWorld show):

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This joke photo from 2019:

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This complaint about an iPhone costing $300-400:

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This quote from Miley Cyrus, who I love, but who has definitely changed:

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This comment about Jake Paul not caring about money:

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The “funeral” Microsoft held for the iPhone:

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This old ad calling heroin “non-addictive”:

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This ad for asbestos:

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This tweet about Brexit, which did, in fact, happen:

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This 1990 compliment (about Back to the Future director Bob Zemeckis), which is now an insult:

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This claim from Max Landis about Bright (spoiler alert: it did NOT become the new Star Wars):

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This Ellen DeGeneres quote dedication (DeGeneres was later accused of fostering a toxic work environment):

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This tutorial for that old iPhone/iPod game Plague, Inc., before COVID (actually, the existence of this game at all):

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This page from the Guiness Book of World Records calling Venezeula the “happiest country”:

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This pride-themed bookmark with a Neil Gaiman quote (he was later accused of multiple counts of sexual assault, which he denied):

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And this tweet from Gaiman:

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This tweet from Troy Aikman about Patrick Mahomes, who has now won three Super Bowls (the same as Aikman).

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This quote from Newton Baker, the US Secretary of War in WWI:

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This article about Nick Baumgartner, who tied for gold and became the oldest snowboarding gold medalist only days later:

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This video from controversial YouTuber Onision in 2016, who later left YouTube after being demonetized due to grooming allegations (which he denied):

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This tweet from Andrew Cuomo, who lost the NYC mayoral race to Zohran Mamdani, who energetically rallied the masses into a massive political upset:

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The workout machines that use these, which truly anger me every time I see them:

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This tweet from YouTube, which later hid dislikes:

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This Quora answer about GTA 6, which STILL hasn’t been released, to the point where it’s become a meme:

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The existence of this movie, no less because the screenwriter, Norman Thaddeus Vane, had actually married a 16-year-old while he was pushing forty (the two later divorced):

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This tweet from Netflix, which has canceled many, many shows without resolution:

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This post about Russia, which did invade Ukraine:

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This book, which was quickly disproved by WWII:

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This quote, and the Reddit comment under it (the game would notoriously be full of bugs):

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This comment about the then newly announced iPhone:

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This ad for the Titanic’s return trip:

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This tweet, which spoke too soon:

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This newspaper article about lead being good for your health:

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This poster, which suggested WWII would continue into 1952.

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This 1917 poster about the US-Russia relationship, and democracy in Russia:

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This ad, which accidentally became pro-gambling:

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This comment about Pietro Fittipaldi, who would, in fact, go on to become an F1 driver:

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This headline (the tower still isn’t completed):

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And finally, everything about this screenshot (Boyinaband has a multitude of allegations against him, and Musk is…Musk):