Remember when you were in middle school and your main form of communication with your friends was Myspace since your parents hadn’t agreed to let you have a cellphone yet? You were pretty weird back then. I didn’t know you back then and I still don’t know you very well now, but it’s a fact: teens are fucking weird. The weirdest part about them is that they don’t realize how odd they are until they get older and start creeping through their old social media profiles. My old Myspace? Gross. Cringe. I was fucking strange.
Apparently so was Taylor Swift, not that you or I ever really wondered about what kind of social media presence she had before she got famous. Although at least her apparently very first Myspace profile photo wasn’t too bad (the one above is from CSI):
Could use some conditioner, but what teenager doesn’t? At least this one is a bit better:
The photos are fairly standard for your average 16-year-old in the mid 00’s. But the comments? Well…they’re also fairly standard for your average 16-year-old in the mid 00’s, but they’re still hysterically bad. Inside jokes, F-bombs, signing your comments as “T” when your name is displayed right next to them already…yeah. Pretty standard social media incompetency that we’ve come to expect from our younger selves:
Does reading through these remind you what a dork you were in high school? Good, because we were all losers, no matter how cool you might’ve thought you were. Even Taylor Swift comes across like a goober in these comments, and you know what? It’s refreshing.
In other words: never, ever feel bad about who you used to be…unless you were Hitler.
Then you should feel really bad.
[H/T Buzzfeed]