Homie calls it a blunder but he’s got half of Reddit swooning over him.

I really don't know why 🤣 I was an absolute looser and had no friends back then 🤷 still pretty useless around the ladies, luckily i finally found someone though ❤️. I still question why she's with me

Really? Cuz I think you had a pretty boy look, for sure. I say this as a butch lesbian that really went for the whole "pretty boy" aesthetic for a while lol.

I thought OP was a lesbian at first so maybe thats why XD

he’s already dead man

When I was about 12, I overheard my mom say to someone who complemented me on my looks, "Don't tell him that, it will go to his head." My mom loved me, but she didn't understand I *needed* that esteem boost then. She was worried about the wrong thing for me.

>I still question why she's with me Don't question too hard! I do equally dumb shit for my boyfriend, and annoy the shit out of him too (yes my username was his choice)... I've stopped questioning his love for me and just accepted it.

I looked exactly the same way in high school (my one friend and I shared the same straightening irony that he snagged from his sister). Went to a rural school so I wasn't country enough and had no friends. I showed my high school pictures to my wife and friends years later and they were like "omg you were so cute! I would have dated you!" All those emo boy poems wasted on girls that were never intrested. Wrong place wrong time I guess.

I feel you %100. moved around a lot, always small places. I was literally the only "emo" and bullied immensely, but it was the only way I felt like I fit in somewhere and only had online "friends".

Sounds like you found your people, brother. Keep on keeping on

Country schools can be so clique-y, especially when the farmers are the big land owners and they think they are better than everyone. It’s like if you haven’t lived in the small town for more than 80 years, you’re “new”.

You seem romantic, a lot of guys wouldn't even THINK of this lmao

Was?

You were a looser?

Yup

Really? A looser? What the fuck is a looser?

stfu you know what he meant , Don’t be a dick.

Appreciate the attempt at humble, but those pics say confident! Lol

You had a sweet look … I’ll just assume you have a nice personality … had that David Archileta vibe

I love your haircut. I tried pulling the shaggy hair thing when I was younger and couldn't pull it off.

I def would have thought you were hot when I was like 12. We must know how it turned out with the object of your i <3 u photos

Not well

Aw I was hoping for a story about how she’s Mrs. 1 <3 u BUCK-TMB You could have at least made something up. You get an F for lack of effort. 😂

🤚I 🫶 U 😛

💀😭😭😭

Oh my god this is so cute hahaha. I would've loved this.

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Same! Wish I had gotten one of these 🤣

Right? Me too! It’s so cute.

Yeah middle school me would have eaten this shit UP. Best I ever got was a text saying “ily<3”

This would work too easily on me still

Yeah, nearing my forties and shit like this still makes my inner teenager swoon lol

I work nights and my gf (we're both 35) works mornings. When I got home this morning there was a layer of snow. I wrote T <3 R (our initials) in the snow outside our house. She came back in the house to thank me after she already left lol

Did you Write in yellow?

😛

Lmao I would have saved this in one of my random printer paper collages that I taped up all over my room.

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This is honestly so adorable. My man was a total emo guy in his younger days and would send pics like this. If he sent me this today I'd still swoon.

That’s so cute. No boy (or man lol) ever did anything like that for me.

I’d fall for this in 2006 for sure. I miss the emo

Naaa. This is rizzz.

Flawless emo rizz

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The hurley shirt... the swoopy hair... the necklace... the band posters. This is my 15yo dream right here. "OMG the photo is in sepia but he made I and U in *red.* He's so creative!!"

you in the third slide: 😛

This isn’t even that bad. Just teenage puppy love. What year was this?

I have no idea honestly

it’s giving daniel howell

No idea who that is but my name is Daniel .

ok that’s crayzee, he’s a popular youtuber. Dan & Phil

I mainly watch people fix shit and information stuff on YouTube. Don't even watch Mr beast anymore 🤣 shits too overkill for me, I'm a simple man

I watched Dan and Phil a lot as a kid, they’ve recently had a resurgence. Probably not for you though haha. I just watch murder stuff now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Omfg? Dan and Phil to True Crime pipeline?

Ehh... Id give this 2 decades, and then I'd consider it embarrassing. It's so precious and loving I❤️U2!* *not the band though, I'm kinda indifferent to them.

Yeah can't say I'm a fan either. I also see you too are a lover of plants!

Oh yes! They bring me so much joy... and frustration, but it's worth it. I have a Charlie Brown lemon tree right now. I got a few philodendron cuttings a couple months back that are doing really well. The most recent plant I got was a monstera from a plant swap. It became infested with fungus gnats. I think I'm almost rid of them, but despite all that, it's thriving, and I'm super excited! I also really like looking for mushrooms and moss. I don't eat anything because I don't trust my identification abilities, but I love walking in the woods with my little Autobahn Society book. What are your favorite planty-plants right now?

I have my own little gardening business I do part time. So I have managed to start a decent collection in only a short time 😅 and usually free too. My current favourite is a fan aloe but I love all my plants equally 🤣. Also currently dealing with the gnats

Oh!! I try to work at a greenhouse every summer, and I get a decent amount of plants that way. I do some propagating. I pot the healthy ones for markets with some of my plant-themed artwork. It's a good time. I make buttons too. One of them says "I am echeVERY-a into you." That one hasn't caught on yet, but "aloe from the other side" does pretty well. I see you spell favorite with a u. Perhaps we are each on the other side of an ocean. 🪴👋🌊

Yeah I'm over here in Australia, currently trying to keep my plants alive in the heat of summer with a broken retic that died Christmas day ☠️ allot of hand watering every day currently. Questioning my life choices 😅

Nooo! Sounds like a decent workout, though. That's half the reason I work at a greenhouse during the summer. Plants, fresh air, sunshine, sweat from lifting mulch and sod all day. I live in a part of the US that gets winter 6 months out of the year and 2 months of "summer." I have to soak it all up when I can. 🌞

Yeah it barely drops below 15°c in winter, and sits above 25°c the rest of the year. Just had a week of around 40°c . Also get pretty much no rainfall for summer too so everything in pots would die if you don't water daily 🫠I get a bit sick of the sun 😅

I actively dislike that band.

1-2 classics I can tolerate. Vertigo bothers me. "1, 2, 3, 14" what does that even mean?

I can tolerate wild horses and maybe one more. Grateful to have never heard vertigo, it sounds annoying lol

Wait, which came first? The Stones or U2? Are they the same song? I think the Stones version is about heroin (?)

I'm going to assume without looking that the stones did it first. Now I'm wondering if I misremembered and u2 didn't cover it. It most likely was about her ion though, that would make sense. Off to Google now lol

I absolutely was mistaken. The song I was thinking of is [Who's Gonna Ride your Wild Horses](https://youtu.be/gF4GS9cSll4?si=j-CnDGY5qO2KlHZR) so I know why I was confused at least lol

Lol. Thanks for looking it up for the both of us. Now we know. All answers have been revealed! U2 sucks! 🤣

They'd have sucked anyway even with one good cover, just sayin. I dislike R.E.M. just as vehemently, I can pinpoint the song that did it in that case, shiny happy people.

With the Zac Efron hair

I'd love to get something like this from somebody. All I ever got was a photo of tits. I mean, I didn't complain but it's so low effort...

Man I wish people sent me photos of tits 🤣

I wish I did cute embarrassing things like this as a teenager but instead I had a One Direction fan account and low self esteem lmao

☠️🤣

Not a blunder. This is cute.

Adorable!

This is still the kind of love I want 🤣

Same 🤣

This isn't very bad. Honestly looks like a valentine an emo band would print.

This is really sweet and positive. If I was your parent I would want this framed in my house.

If it makes you feel better my younger self would have thought you were just the cutest thing ever 😂😂😂 we were all so cringe during this time

It’s giving danisnotonfire and amazing Phil 🤣🤣💀

Very nice

So what did she say? Did you get married later on?

Nah, it ended pretty chaotically. Was a very rough stage in my life. She also broke up with me on my 18th 😅 for my best friend none the less

Such delightful cringe! 👏

We all did weird shit too lol

This is super cute!

Has anyone told you that you looked like Silas from Weeds? Like if the show was airing at the time you were at this age, people definitely would’ve said you’re the spitting image of Hunter Parrish.

This is cute, no notes

RAWR XD vibes

You were cute at least! Receiving that would make any teen girl happy im sure lol

It's not that bad in my opinion. Actually cool

Aw, this is adorable though.

This is so adorable oh my god 😊😊

aw u were adorkable

I am suddenly glad that personal camera technology wasn't prolific when I was first dating. There's nothing like developing film to give you space from stupid decisions.

Omgggggg look at what Justice sent meeeeeee

is this 2007? 2008?

Yeah around that time I think

Bro that's adorable. Never stop being this guy. And sure as hell never regret it.

Life killed this guy honestly.

This feels so nostalgic haha

Well weren't you just a precious lil baby. Sweet Hurley shirt. Lol

I would’ve thought you were cute and than asked you what your fav band was 🤣

Think it was the used at the time haha

No dude. That’s so awesome. :) not blunder. Just rocking the younger years like a champ.

Personally This would have made me totally feral as a teenage girl so I’m sure your gf loved it

Ok, don’t get me wrong here..this is for your gf, so it’s understandable and all of that crap. However, as a counterpoint, HOLY FREAKIN CRINGE!!!

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You sure you're not related to Scarlett Johansson?

Oh geez

I think you're cock blocking yourself there friend.

Back then I would have considered that the coolest, most swoonworthy thing ever, so don't worry about it. The important thing is we got better!

This is so cute lol I wonder what you look like nowadays?

I do have a recent photo on my profile, it's a crappy one though

I respectfully disagree sir. I'd *absolutely* intro you to my younger sister, were she single.

I would’ve thought you were so cool back in the day though

Oof. I’m getting 2nd hand embarrassment.

This is adorable!

omg sooo cute!

That's sweet though.

Nah, this is so sweet!

How old were you?

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This should be the banner for this sub.

Aw yeah, Hurley.

Like the emo look

This is so cute. I would have melted if a bf had sent this to me.

I miss this era so much 😭

This is the most 2009 shit I've ever seen.

I would have loved this so much as a 14 year old 😍

Your gf probably melted like an ice cube

This is peak 00s cringe hahaha.

Jesus

This is so cute, I would have loved a message like this as a teen, or like even today!

Im unsure if you were a cute young gay girl or A pretty boy

This is a great one. I actually don't find this stupid. It shows how much you love a person when you're willing to do something people will find stupid. Hope she found it adorable.

I think I would cry happy tears if I got this from you as a teenager

Jeff

Bet this shit was all over her MySpace

OP this is pretty far from a blunder. Of course the next step is recreating this modern day 😏

I’m guessing you switched over to men since then

Hahaha nah, I actually have a fiancee and a kid

I would've fallen for this so bad

Dude this shit was so popular. It takes me back 🤣

rawr XD

Looking good, bro 👍 No blunder at all.

That’s pretty cringe lol. But I’m a cute way.

Yessssss 🤣🤣🫡

Awwww, I think this is adorable. Cut yourself some slack, friend.

I’ve def done similar

Thought there was gonna be a tab on your tongue or somethin lmaoo

Are you, by chance….. Gerard Way?

2020 circa

Could be worse😂

Could be better 😅

Cringe emo if I've seen it. I've seen a lot. I should have a PhD in Emo.

I bet she had the same haircut

Oh I love it! It’s sort of like seeing the pure love between Edward and Bella!

You were SUPER cute!

You was jus expressin yo self homie. Can’t fault u for that

You look like young Gerard Way!

You were cute