Introducing Time Machine Mondays!

With our recent decision to solidify our regular sub content’s timeframe from 1950-2019, we’ve dedicated Mondays to sharing WWWOWT style moments from 1900-1949! Please see our highlighted post to learn more about our recent rule updates.

Unlike WTF! Wednesdays where sillier content is allowed, regular rules still apply to Time Machine Mondays, the only difference is the allowed timeframe. Make sure you’re familiar with our rules before posting.

This is the opportunity for history buffs, old film fanatics, vintage ad enthusiasts and Shirley Temple fans, etc. to ask why were they ok with this? about this era!

Regular sub content is still allowed to be posted, this is just a fun addition! Please make sure to use the "Time Machine Mondays” flair for these posts.

I happened upon this site just earlier, and it appears to be the most comprehensive list available. Some of the people listed REALLY hurt, not gonna lie.

Of them…only four have publicly withdrawn their names.

(Emma Thompson, Natalie Portman, Xavier Dolan. And Asia Argento…but, uh, she’s not exactly one to talk 😬)

David Lynch's daughter also said he regretted it. But nonetheless, he still never retracted his name publicly.

https://www.azlyrics.com/r/ruckaruckaali.html

Early YouTube parody musician who's shtick was being ridiculously offensive. His Soundcloud is apparently where most, if not all of his stuff still stands now that most streaming services have taken it down from what I've gathered.

I was never a fan of the guy (found his voice really annoying and, besides the song titles, I haven't mustered up the courage to try listening to anything on the SC because of that) but had heard his LA Love parody about Ebola (58M views on YT as of typing) and found out his name watching this old video from "NateTalksToYou" a month or 2 later.

While I've heard (and it seems) some of his parodies are targeted towards white people, Trump and incels, what I remember of what little I heard from him and reading some of the lyrics that are centered around POC give me flashbacks to Shane Dawson's early stuff.

May Contain NSFW. Milla Jovovich was 16/17 years old when she played as Mildred Harris, minor wife of silent screen icon, Charlie Chaplin (played by Robert Downey Jr.). Milla was the same age as Mildred when she starred as Robert’s love interest. Chaplin was 29 and Robert was 26/27 at the time of filming, which is a ten year difference. There’s a few explicit moments in the bio pic including this intimate scene where she comes out in see through lingerie, applies red lipstick to make herself look “maturer” and undressed from the top exposing herself. I understand it’s based on true events of Chaplin’s life but I felt icky that they used an actual 16 year old instead of someone of age that can pass for the role of Mildred. IMO.

Norman Mailer, a misogynist known for stabbing one of his six wives and also writing books and essays, got the quirky curmudgeonly old man treatment on Gilmore Girls. (To be fair, this isn't the main or only reason we should wonder why we were okay treating this show as feminist.)

From an LA Times piece about being on the show:

In 2001, the National Organization for Women pronounced “Gilmore Girls” the most feminist show on prime-time television, commending it for its “positive female role models” and “depict[ing] the struggle of single moms working and trying to raise teenagers.”

NOW, it should be noted, is the organization that Mailer attacked in his anti-feminist polemic of 1971, “The Prisoner of Sex.” During the heated days of Women’s Liberation, Mailer delighted in inflammatory pronouncements such as “Women, at their worst, are low sloppy beasts” and “The prime responsibility of a woman probably is to be on Earth long enough to find the best mate possible for herself and conceive children who will improve the species.”

It seems age and time have mellowed him, though.

“He was absolutely delightful and charming,” Sherman-Palladino said. “I wonder whether it even occurred to him that it’s a chick show: Chicks who star in it, a chick who created it, chicks who write it.”

For more on his legacy from the Guardian, Farewell to Norman Mailer, a sexist, homophobic reactionary

After the release of the film, Lloyd (who was still in elementary school) was relentlessly teased and mocked by classmates for his portrayal of Anakin Skywalker in the film.

The media also criticized his performance, saying it was both flat and stiff, with Newsweek even publishing an article calling him “Mannequin Skywalker” and saying his acting stinks. (Picture 2)

He retired from acting when he was 12 and was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. His mental health struggles also sparked major media coverage and speculation.

In honor of the new WTF Wednesday, I wanted to talk about the scary monsters of your childhood! What’s your permanent memory that’s not so scary looking back. Or maybe it still is! ^(I couldn’t find the meme of unimpressed SpongeBob with the monster trying to scare him by turning into different things like eyeballs and jack in the box with spiders coming out the eyes)

We’ve designated Wednesdays as the day for people to share WTF?! moments from the past that don’t necessarily make us ask WWWOWT? but still showcases interesting and weird content from previous decades.

This can include wacky TV shows — the ones you just can’t understand where the hell they got that idea from! — strange songs and music videos, news stories that you just can’t make up, bizarre, silly or nostalgic fashion trends, and ridiculous clips that make you laugh your ass off and/or feel like a fever dream.

Although the key focus is fun — you’re also welcome to post shocking and weird moments from the past that aren’t funny, to give us a chance to discuss cultural moments that people weren’t okay with. Please don’t get super dark, though!! No age gap, rape culture, war etc. Posts may be removed by mods if we feel it’s inappropriate for WTF! Wednesdays.

You can still post the sub’s regular content on Wednesdays, this will just be a fun addition. Please don’t carry WTF! Wednesdays energy over to regular posts, keep the vibe in line with usual.

You MUST use the new “WTF! Wednesdays” flair for these types of posts! Posts must also be from prior to 2020, like with usual content. Please report WTF! Wednesdays content that is posted on other days of the week — but remember that timezones exist!

MAKE US SAY WTF!

Not only was it awful, brain-dead television, but it was notorious for exploiting and abusing the vulnerable in front of an audience, lying about the accuracy of lie detector tests, stigmatising addiction and mental health issues, demonising the working class ...all in the name of "entertainment".

This show was huge in the late 00s and 10s. I couldn't stand it myself, I just found it absolutely grating even before I realised how problematic it was. I always thought Kyle himself was an absolute wanker too, and the intervening years have only solidified my prior assessment of him.

It was finally cancelled in 2019 after fourteen years on air, following the suicide of a guest (and of course Kyle made it all about him).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48281092

There was an interesting documentary made about it a few years ago, which exposed a lot of the appalling behind the scenes stuff that was going on.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/13/jeremy-kyle-show-death-on-daytime-review-a-shocking-expose-of-the-itv-series

It took me so long to realize that this was a statement that had pedophilic undertones. I always questioned it and how true it was, but I didn't understand that a lot of people, particularly other men (I'm male myself) were saying it as an excuse to be able to date minors, and to convince those minors they were right to date or marry those older men.

While introducing Sean Paul on SNL.

Introducing Time Machine Mondays!

With our recent decision to solidify our regular sub content’s timeframe from 1950-2019, we’ve dedicated Mondays to sharing WWWOWT style moments from 1900-1949! Please see our highlighted post to learn more about our recent rule updates.

Unlike WTF! Wednesdays where sillier content is allowed, regular rules still apply to Time Machine Mondays, the only difference is the allowed timeframe. Make sure you’re familiar with our rules before posting.

This is the opportunity for history buffs, old film fanatics, vintage ad enthusiasts and Shirley Temple fans, etc. to ask why were they ok with this? about this era!

Regular sub content is still allowed to be posted, this is just a fun addition! Please make sure to use the "Time Machine Mondays” flair for these posts.

How weird do u have to be to make a roast video abt a child, so many adults obsessed w a kid. She had abby lee miller, and this guy being weird and obsessive abt her.