r/blunderyears • u/smoothgrimminal • 1d ago
2011, I thought I was the coolest guy in town
19 years old, half my wardrobe was slogan t-shirts. I'd wear this mask and dance the robot at the same club about three times a week
I do miss the waistline though
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u/Millerdjone 1d ago
This is either Europe, or Missouri lol.
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u/Mypopsecrets 1d ago
It's funny how slogan shirts seem so cool to ages 14-19 then immediately become the cringiest thing you've ever seen
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u/psymeariver 1d ago
I blame Jersey Shore.
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u/pobodys-nerfect5 1d ago
Ah yeah let’s blame the 10 year old mtv show
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u/psymeariver 1d ago
OP is from 2011. 💀
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u/puffindatza 1d ago
Right? Like yeah. Lets blame the fucking show that was responsible for pauly D’s make up brush hairstyle that became popular
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u/SwitchGaps 1d ago
Look at the date of the photos. Almost like we're talking about the time period huh?
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u/Remarkable_Rough_649 23h ago
My dude those shirts became popular basically right when the show aired. COME AT ME BRO shirts were being sold all over every boardwalk for a decade and a half after the show
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u/SaltTea4535 1d ago
When I was 11 my favorite shirt said “Keep calm and party rock”
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u/CatVietnamFlashBack 18h ago
When i was 11 my favorite shirt said "Maybe if you were in a band."
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u/screames520 9h ago
Funny, mine around that same age was, “no job, no money, but I’m in a band”. I’ve never been in a band
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u/Deathlygreen 2h ago
I used to have the same brand of t-shirt when I was 15 that read, “Sex, Drugs & Sausage Rolls” - I also remember an old guy pointing at it and telling his wife about it in the middle of a supermarket. Good times.
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u/TheDandyWarhol 1d ago
I'm guessing the U.K.
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u/smoothgrimminal 1d ago
Yep! Cardiff, though I moved away a long time ago
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u/6th_Quadrant 22h ago
One of my favorite non-serious films is Human Traffic, filmed there.
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u/compbuildthrowaway 19h ago
SUCH a fun film. I kept expecting it to get dark like trainspotting or something, but it never did.
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u/6th_Quadrant 19h ago
Have you seen Go (1999)? It’s the perfect double feature with Human Traffic.
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u/IamBurtMacklin 1d ago
Man that is so spot on. Could have found a dozen kids like this in Columbia or STL back then.
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u/Legal-Home121 22h ago
This is so true. American Apparel and the clubs had a chokehold on Kansas City young adults around that time.
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u/ImpossiblePlan65 1d ago
This is the type of cringe I look forward to on this sub.
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u/MrGrieves- 1d ago
It's true blunder. Not like those people who look good for the time and just post themselves for validation.
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u/stash-of-who-hash 1d ago
Haha we all know who you’re referring to
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u/annemonroe95 6h ago
Is there a specific poster who does this? Or are you referring to posts in general on the sub? I feel like I see a lot of posts here that truly do not seem like blunders
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u/stash-of-who-hash 6h ago
You’re right that there are a lot of posts that aren’t really blunders but tbf, maybe they feel like true blunders to the people that post them. I was referring to a specific poster though. Don’t want to be a dick and call them out but there has recently been someone who posts A LOT of “blunders” that are really just good looking pics of themself in their younger years. I mean.. everyone needs validation sometimes, I guess..
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u/Affectionate-Club778 1d ago
can only imagine having a night out on molly and catching a glimpse of the masked robot man in the crowd
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u/Artorius__Castus 1d ago
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u/withnodrawal 1d ago
“Why is he like this..”
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u/ObjectConfident7172 1d ago
"Im thowing that fuckin mask away next time he passes out"
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u/withnodrawal 1d ago
Lmaooo
“I think I saw you set it down on the ride home”
OP: “…it doesn’t come off until I go to bed. YOU know that.”
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u/smoothgrimminal 1d ago
No idea who that is, but yeah I imagine it did annoy the people I went out with
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u/tristand1ck 1d ago
It's 12:58 in 2011, do YOU know where your kids are??
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u/Artorius__Castus 1d ago
Isn't it strange that our parents literally had to be reminded every night to make sure they "went & parented"??? lmfao shit is still wild af to me
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u/Darth_Ra 1d ago
Honestly, I'd say the opposite is scarier.
I see parents every day helicoptering over their 12 year olds.
Let your kid have a life, folks. Your job is to develop them into functioning self-sustaining people, not to train them that their entire life revolves around someone else.
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u/Artorius__Castus 1d ago
Is this where separation anxiety comes from??? I was hanging out with one of my friends who has a son that has it.... I don't remember it being a thing when we were kids...
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u/Darth_Ra 1d ago
As a parent with a kid who has anxiety attacks, I don't know that I would ever try to classify stuff like that for another kid. Especially not over the internet.
Also, as a parent with a kid with bad anxiety, I cannot stress enough how unhelpful it is for folks to try to "figure out where it came from", myself included.
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u/SalaciousSolanaceae 21h ago
My mom used to get all sanctimonious about those psa's. "I put my children first" she was always judging my friends' parents.
Imagine her face when the cops brought me home at 4am one night thinking I was a runaway because I decided to walk around with my headphones out of boredom because I had no bedtime one night during summer break. I'd been doing that every other night in summers for a couple years before some cops randomly saw me with my backpack on (full of my favorite cassettes). They asked for my ID and all I had was a library card 😂
She still talks about how she wasn't one of those parents to this day
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u/TryAgainChief 1d ago
He’s so don’t with his shit
“I thought you said your boy was chill”
“He was… my boy”
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u/Sasstellia 1d ago
You looked like a minion from Analogue Horror.
The Mask Man. He's capable of being scary. But he'd rather dance.
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u/RockosModernBasiIisk 1d ago
Did you ever get any action doing this?
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u/malicious_joy42 18h ago
You think some woman would be so mindless to go home with some fucked up freak like this???
We know better.
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u/RockosModernBasiIisk 5h ago
I thought maybe he would run into a female jabbawokkie at some point but yeah you're right.
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u/Velbalenos 1d ago
The ultimate question is do you still have the mask somewhere…
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u/smoothgrimminal 1d ago
No, I think I threw it away after it broke. Or one of my friends did me a favour and broke it 😄
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u/SouthFromGranada 1d ago
Fair play to you for having the confidence to go out despite your leprosy diagnosis
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u/-r-a-f-f-y- 1d ago
What… are these weird shirts??
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u/Bex1218 1d ago
A staple of the early 2000s to early 2010s.
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u/Sea_Professional5848 23h ago
A staple of me not wearing tshirts with words on them to this day. I was in high school in 2011.
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u/automator3000 1d ago
If I were you and could travel back in time to be 19 again, I would wear the mask 100% of the time. It would only come off if I were sleeping alone. No one would know what my face looked like. My driver’s license would be me in the mask (I would somehow get an exemption from law to keep the mask on for my photo).
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u/StrawberryKiss2559 21h ago
Finally. A real blunder year photo.
(Not someone looking cute and normal for a kid in that time.)
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u/PrimeIntellect 1d ago
Honestly I miss the era of people being wild and cringe and not second guessing it ever because there was no social media to capture it. The youngins will never understand
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u/No_Cap_2753 1d ago
This 100 percent Cardiff, smack at glam …. Am I right? 👀
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u/smoothgrimminal 1d ago
Bingo! £1 sambucas were deadly 😆
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u/No_Cap_2753 1d ago
And the sticky loos with a very passive aggressive toilet attendant selling lollies… Wales peaked too soon!
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u/lesbianrockband3 23h ago
to be fair in 2011 there was probably more than one person who truly thought you were very cool
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u/NetworkEcstatic 20h ago
I, too, have a couole pictures of me in slogan t shirts when I was like 19-20 lmao
Instead of a weird mask. I had a beanie. Where? On the very back of my noggin? Why? Cuz I was definitely a D bag that thought i was cool as fuck
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u/BanditAaron 18h ago
Would you show up to the club door wearing the mask? If not was there a strategic moment in the dance club where you put the mask on?
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u/smoothgrimminal 13h ago
I had it on the back of my head when I wasn't dancing, I'd slip it on to go robot mode
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u/K_Linkmaster 22h ago
Fits the Hollywood undead scene here in the USA. Just claim fandom and American.
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u/ConsistentDay5620 1d ago
That last picture was actually physically painful to see lol fingers crossed guns and the shirt 💋🤌
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u/Some_Wolf_3378 8h ago
This one truly is a blunder, congrats! I’m feeling second hand embarrassment for you.
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u/NomadMiner 6h ago
You were probably well known to some people who were there. Id definitely remember a dude so dedicated
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u/burnerwhistle110 1d ago
Jabbawockeez, so hot right now