The Rock Recreated His Geeky 90s Fanny Pack Pose And, As He Always Does, Nailed It Perfectly

Only Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson not only could recreate his HILARIOUSLY geeky fanny pack pose from the 90s and somehow make it inspirational.

Another thing only The Rock could do is take a brutally nerdy moment in his life and somehow use it to subtly remind everyone that he has a new movie coming out (which is what the photo was all really about because he knew it would go viral). Dude is truly the ultimate promoter.

Anyway, as you surely recall, a couple years back Johnson shared a throwback photo of himself that pretty much set the internet on fire for its awesome nerdiness…

“Fanny pack and lean take it to a whole other level… #90sRock #WTF #BuffLesbian.”

The Rock later went on The Tonight Show and explained some of the logic behind the photo as well as the secret everyone wanted to know: what was in the fanny pack?

The answer, of course, was Pop Tarts and condoms, what else?

Fast forward to Tuesday night and out of the clear blue Johnson went and dropped this photo recreation of that magical moment on us…

Perfect.

Now he could have just left it at that with a few dozen of his best hashtags (The Rock LOVES hashtags), but he somehow managed to turn the goofy photo into a form of inspiration for others.

“When I took this iconic absurdity of a picture in 1996 I was one year removed from sleeping on a used mattress I took from a garbage dumpster in the back of an hourly sex motel. Couldn’t afford to buy a bed so we do what we gotta do to get by. You can imagine all the fun colorful bodily fluids I tried my best to clean off.
21 years later I’m taking the same photo backstage hosting #SaturdayNightLive for the fifth time. If you’re going thru your own tough times ‘used mattress’ stage, do your best to have faith things’ll get better and always be willing to outwork your competition because you never know where life is gonna take you.”

“And ALWAYS remember to place a soft tissue under your left elbow as to protect the fabric of the cheap ass swag turtleneck that had you out here looking like a bad ass buff lesbian.”

“Oh and tuck the thumb in the fanny pack. Always tuck the thumb.” 🤙🏾

Words to live by right there. And by that I mean “always tuck the thumb,” of course.

Let’s do this…

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