People Are Sharing Their Most Embarrassing Old Photos and It’s Priceless

John Summers • Contributor

Oct 11, 2024 12:00 AM EDT

This needs to become a trend—normalize the cringe, embrace it! We all have photos from the past that are absolutely embarrassing. Maybe it's a photo our mom forced us to take when we were small children, maybe it's a yearbook photo exposing how clueless and cringey we were in our formative years, or maybe it's that one time we tried to cut our own hair, and the results were captured for all eternity on film by one of our older siblings. These are the kinds of photos we usually tuck away in some old photo album or hide in the back of a drawer, hoping they'll vanish and never see the light of day again.

But the good people in the Reddit group r/blunderyears decided to do the opposite and embrace the cringe. They posted their most embarrassing photos from the past and, by making them public, allowed themselves to move on and accept who they were. Perhaps we should all do the same.

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"Craziest mullet/bowl cut I've ever seen belongs to me"

via u/Mothmans_Sidepiece
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"The 70s were rough."

via u/OkIHereNow
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"Some of you studied the blade, I studied the butterfly"

via u/captainbluebeardd
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"Twenty years ago I was in a screamo band. Now, I’m 40."

via u/ChelsieGrinn
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"Hard Rock Hallelujah"

via u/Alco_Warrior
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"My boyfriend and his mom in 1992."

via u/Commercial_Fig_6366
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"Showed up to homeschool group in a homemade narwhal costume."

via u/Mys-Fit
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"When mom cut my hair"

via u/thumperjohn
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"Maybe one day I can tell my children what went down that weekend."

via u/TheDamus647
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"Yes Johnny Tsunami was a personal hero of mine, why do you ask?"

via u/itak365
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"90s Taekwondo. The reflection of the lights in my glasses really make this for me."

via u/bobsburgersrules69
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"The 80’s…"

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"Punks not dead. Junior year 2001"

via u/LisaTheLionHearted
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"It's 2013, 14 year old me liked photoshop, fedoras, and space."

via u/Insanitychick
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"Yes. Yes I do like Legos."

via u/chils123
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"My college rebel phase was to be the opposite of my hippy dippy parents."

via u/Stormageadon
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"My fiancé and her mom"

via u/SlackerJL888
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"My dear Grandpa showed these to my fiance the night before our holy matrimony."

via u/POLARBEARBRIDE
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"It WAS a phase mom."

via u/Tayson00
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"Turned 16 and stepmom took me straight to the mall for a keys-in-hand photo shoot"

via u/ManUsesWords
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"Jazz Class Glamour Shot. Circa 1990-Something…"

via u/New_Sea344
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"My parents made a SpongeBob costume for me out of an old CRT TV box (2001)"

via u/DigitalDavid94
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"5 Years, Going on Spinster"

via u/godzillas_zilla
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"When you're 7 but already planning your first campaign rally."

via u/LittleWarsaw
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"My dad back in ‘75 with his ‘69 Mustang"

via u/jbozeman1981
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"I looked like Rick Moranis in Kindergarten."

via u/RagAndBows
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"Early 90s. The HEIGHT of my awkward 'tween years."

via u/Skelly_Pup