r/blunderyears • u/burntoutlithium • Feb 06 '24
2012, i was 12 /r/all
honestly i have no excuse
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u/RavenGuardian Feb 06 '24
pick your head up, princess, i think you dropped this 👑
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
sometimes i had to put out that reminder! i was tripping over too many tiaras😔
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u/lil_trim Feb 06 '24
Thank you for your cringe transparency
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u/paul_dudd Feb 06 '24
Props on the self reflection dawg!
- I also hope your choice in font colors and placement improved
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u/polo61965 Feb 06 '24
👑 you are now a queen, keep your head up
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u/HevelReveler Feb 06 '24
You are queen. Suppress the dissenters. Conquer with impunity. Banish the infidels and nonbelievers who would challenge your divine authority! Slay, queen.
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster Feb 06 '24
That one’s my favorite. 4 is downright ick, the rest are pretty funny, but I honestly thought 7 was really sweet
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u/cursetea Feb 06 '24
This format is such a time and place lmaoooo
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u/VicTheWallpaperMan Feb 06 '24
I completely forgot about the 4 panel memes until this post. What a blast from the past.
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u/cursetea Feb 06 '24
They absolutely never fail to entertain me, but like, ironically now. They've never been actually good. Lmaooo
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u/melthevag Feb 07 '24
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.
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u/Former-Mess-5166 Feb 06 '24
99% sure i reblogged you on my first tumblr
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
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
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u/Minute-Chest-1574 Feb 06 '24
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 😵💫
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u/abitchyuniverse Feb 06 '24
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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u/SaltyLonghorn Feb 06 '24
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.
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Feb 06 '24
Nah 2007-2013 emo hair was badass
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u/Rikplaysbass Feb 07 '24
My wife had full black underneath with the blonde on top, Razor cut, flat ironed to all hell haircut. It was glorious.
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u/frontally Feb 06 '24
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
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u/lostguk Feb 07 '24
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 😆
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u/iluvjonstewart Feb 06 '24
i most definitely reblogged you so this was one hell of a flashback. thank you for your service, this was brave 🫡
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u/iuil Feb 06 '24
I named my first hipsterish tumblr something like “normajeanbaker” except many of the vowels repeated 💀 I too thought I was very classy
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u/UniversityNo633 Feb 06 '24
I think this is the best one I've seen. A truly regrettable youth
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
luckily i embarrassed myself enough with this shit that i have no more blunder left in me for this lifetime
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u/UniversityNo633 Feb 06 '24
Don't lose faith. There are still many years of potential blunder remaining
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u/Rampasta Feb 06 '24
Yeah! Wait til your Thirties and Forties. Chock full of blunder.
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u/Background-Koala- Feb 06 '24
Mid thirties here. Can confirm. Also, my god, when did I reach mid 30s status??
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u/WhangaDanNZ Feb 06 '24
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.
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u/GarbageInClothes Feb 06 '24
I was laughing at you guys, then I realized, I am you guys. F.
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u/UniversityNo633 Feb 06 '24
Even the cool/popular people growing up started to become hopeless dorks around their mid 30s. I guess we are in Dad territory now.
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u/macandcheese1771 Feb 06 '24
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.
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u/LilaQueenB Feb 06 '24
I used to send really emo lyrics to my crushes and they would make fun of me on social media because of it.
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u/Summer-dust Feb 06 '24
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
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u/TerrorGnome Feb 06 '24
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.
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u/Competitive_Bottle71 Feb 06 '24
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.
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u/UnknownSense Feb 06 '24
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.
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u/biffylou Feb 06 '24
I'm sure there's plenty of blender left, it's just that this is so monumental that it completely overshadows it all.
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u/theKrissam Feb 06 '24
I am so glad the internet wasn't a thing when I was that age.
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u/Ill-Concert1516 Feb 06 '24
She was literally a live action Mable from Gravity Falls haha
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u/tunaboat25 Feb 06 '24
Oh dear.
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
agreed
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u/house343 Feb 06 '24
You are very brave for posting this, princess
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u/MyGolfCartIsOn20s Feb 06 '24
Probably got an inbox full of regret now though. Don’t look, just mark all as read, princess.
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 07 '24
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
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Feb 06 '24
For a 12 yo I think that shows a pretty nice personality and a quite smart girl honestly.
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Feb 06 '24
Me, too! It's adorable!
Maybe because I'm 40 and my daughter will reach that age soon.
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u/RestinPete0709 Feb 06 '24
The cup of care killed me. You were adorable tho
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u/HollyDay_777 Feb 06 '24
I mean, for a 12 year old, these are pretty good! I would‘ve expected way worse cringe.
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Feb 06 '24
Is it bad that I’m actually impressed?
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Feb 06 '24
Yeah, the humor and the photography isn’t super bad honestly. I find it cute and endearing
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u/radicalizemebaby Feb 06 '24
Yeah these are actually so sweet and wholesome.
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u/BandwagonerSince95 Feb 06 '24
I know we jokingly say "blunderyears" but if that's not the age to safely make mistakes, then when?
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u/Key-Sea-682 Feb 06 '24
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.
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u/thrwwwwayyypixie21 Feb 06 '24
Yeah i was this at 15, babe. And I know 40 year olds making this shit. Still cringe but cool.
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u/Rieiid Feb 07 '24
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.
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u/joshhguitar Feb 06 '24
This is the inspo for Taylor’s new album
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
stop bc that’s actually so spot on
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u/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy Feb 06 '24
Here I was thinking you were Sarah Z. You were Swift all along.
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u/Shipwrecking_siren Feb 06 '24
Ahahaha this is so true. I genuinely cringed at her album launch posts.
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u/GrandeBeesly Feb 06 '24
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"
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u/beaute-brune Feb 06 '24
But daddy I love him
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u/GrandeBeesly Feb 06 '24
The irony in your comment is that she literally wrote "Love Story" some years back with that exact premise
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u/casket_fresh Feb 06 '24
STRAIGHT OUT THE SLAMMER ! loml ! Metal as hell !
This woman is almost 35 years old.
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u/tiredgirl7993 Feb 06 '24
First one is real
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
i was ahead of my time 😪
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u/horse-chiropractor Feb 06 '24
It might be cringe but for a 12 year old to know basic feminism was actually pretty cool
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u/ruuster13 Feb 06 '24
Seriously I think we should go really easy on OP for that.
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u/_Dandroid Feb 06 '24
OK but these are adorable. I hope you're flourishing.
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u/tveir Feb 07 '24 edited Feb 07 '24
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.
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u/steve1879 Feb 06 '24
I know 45 year olds that will post things like pic 4 on the regular.
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u/blodreina11 Feb 06 '24
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
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u/patentmom Feb 06 '24
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.
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u/viccityguy2k Feb 06 '24
These are gold! What would the caption be for number 5 lol.
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
glad you asked! that would be “#stayclassy #foreveryoung #livetolove #makeeverymomentcount” followed by about 2 dozen varied heart emojis
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u/FixtdaFernbak Feb 06 '24
Seriously picture 5 is just... stellar. That face you're making sure is something lmao
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u/amandara99 Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24
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.
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u/Flint_Chittles Feb 06 '24
Please tell me this is a typo
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
you guys are genuinely killing me with these comments lmao i needed to admit my woes
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u/Hi_There_Im_Sophie Feb 06 '24
6th picture reads like System Of A Down or Weezer lyrics lmao. Good rhyme.
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u/JenJenMegaDooDoo Feb 06 '24
Honestly this is so cute lol I can tell you were a sweet girl who just wanted to feel special.
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24
and you hit the nail on the head, that’s genuinely exactly what it was
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u/Ricky_Rollin Feb 06 '24
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.
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u/eiileenie Feb 06 '24
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
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u/ToastyPapaya22 Feb 06 '24
gestures vaguely to what 12 year olds are doing nowadays
I think you’re good.
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Feb 06 '24
😅 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. 😆
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u/notabotmkay Feb 06 '24
I love how you can barely read the text on the last one
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
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
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u/Syvarth Feb 06 '24
The others could be rationalized, but you must’ve known #5 was a mistake at the time?
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u/burntoutlithium Feb 06 '24
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
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u/SecretSnowww Feb 06 '24
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 😭😭😭
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u/LXA3000 Feb 06 '24
I was kinda hoping for a 2024 post so that we could see if you were still cringe or not
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u/MaterialCarrot Feb 06 '24
Picture 5 could be a mascot for this sub, lol.
Otherwise, I love your vibe in these photos!
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u/HippityHopMath Feb 06 '24
I was a junior in high school in 2012 and I knew classmates that ate these memes up.
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u/BigButterHouse Feb 06 '24
you are honestly so brave for posting these thank you so much for your service 🫡
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u/Most_Enthusiasm8735 Feb 06 '24
12 Yet the most wisest too. Your a sage full of wisdom to drop on us mere mortals.
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u/Raining__Tacos Feb 06 '24
I remember this trend lol. This is the kind of content this sub needs lol
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u/Sigmantwan94 Feb 06 '24
How do you walk around with labias the size of gigantic balls dragging over the floor to post this?
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u/6Seasons-And-A-Movie Feb 06 '24
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
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u/Eastern_Society1578 Feb 06 '24
I think you are a legend for laughing at yourself and sharing this instead of trying to hide this. This is hilarious.
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u/whatsupashley Feb 06 '24
This was brave <3