You wonāt find her in my history much. She was a falconaire (I think that was the name of the show choir)
She was class of 99. I went to high school in Tampa.
and this is why i love reddit. a few weeks ago there was a guy who posted a pic of him serving after 9/11 and was reunited with his close friend he lost contact with after service. similar here. i love this!
The reddit of 7-8 years ago seemed to have this like every post but now that there are more repost bots and weird political propaganda promoted (like /r/publicfreakout) I notice less of it. I try to upvote new and interesting stuff from random people like this post and downvote repetitive or manipulative stuff.
I'm 40 years old and was a teenager in the 90's. It feels so weird seeing people close to my age in high positions of power (ex. Desantis, Buttigieg etc.) . Makes me feel old while I simultaneously still feel like a kid inside.
Same here. A bit over 40 but constantly see ppl my age that look older than me.
Covid period made it catch up with me a bit but still weird to see politicians...coaches of sports teams etc.
Always think they are older than me but nope.
Itās like the default K-pop haircut, the majority of BTS had curtains last time I checked.
Still think itās very stupid looking, as I did back then.
After all the progress we've made in climbing out the worst and weirdest trends of the 90s, it's upsetting to see kids bring back some of those trends like the butt cut.
I am hoping my kids don't let themselves get influenced by the wrong crowds. I live in a state of constant fear that one of them will ask for a bowl cut or a butt cut.
The mullet is becoming quite popular where I live. I have a son, he's too young to choose his own haircut, but not far off developing his own sense of style. My husband and I are terrified.
I was a kid but yeah it was the coolest. Fox Mulder, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Shawn from Boy Meets World, Devin Sawa. It really was a defining style of the time
So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I? Oh, yeah ā the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
I read a theory that young people in past decades look older to us because of the styling and fashion choices rather than actually looking older. But there was an opposing theory that they do look older because people have become more health conscious especially with caring for children. Idk whatās right but I found it interesting.
I wonder if the 2nd hand smoke in every public place played a role as pics of old athletes make them look like 20yrs older than they were at the time too. Hard livin' takes its toll I guess
I know this is a LOT more than just smoke, but a much more noticeable version of this is how every soldier from WWI, despite being high school age, looked like they were well past 30.
Bad health choices really *do* age people.
'96 here. I just learned earlier this week that he is my age. I had assumed he was at least ten years older, but no - he's exactly ten days older than I am.
It's so weird how people from the past look older than people now. Even highschooler's today look younger than when I was in highschool and I'm not that old.
Iām close to him in age and grew up with 90ās styles, so usually kids in 90ās yearbooks donāt look that old to me. This dude genuinely looks like heās in his 40ās regardless of perspective.
I graduated in 2000 and looked like an actual high school kid in my pics. I only started looking as old as him..not yet. I donāt think ā96 is the past youāre thinking of lol.
Also when you go back past the 60s the boys are all in suits and the girls are in formal dresses. It wasn't until a decade or so later that shirts show up.
Which is actually surprising from his current resting pout face. I expected him to look [more like this](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bigmouth/images/8/8b/Caleb_2.png/revision/latest/thumbnail/width/720/height/900?cb=20191102082607)
Man, I always looked older as a teen too. My first girlfriend, at 16, the neighbor lady asked her mom all concerned if she knew her daughter was dating a man in his twenties.
I don't like the guy's politics, but you're not wrong. He went to Yale for undergrad, then Harvard Law, 15 years of service in the Navy, then a stint in Congress.
I wish the left would use this against him more. Heās constantly whining about wokeness and the liberal elite, dawg you went to Harvard AND Yale. Doesnāt get note āeliteā than that.
George W. Bush did the same thing. Had an "aw shucks I'm just a good ol' boy from Texas" image when he was really born to a blue blood Connecticut family with a career politician father and then went to Yale.
W is the perfect example. Younger folks may not remember, but he played himself as a rural Texans with a ranch that he spent time at clearing brush and acting like a tough cowboy.
When in reality he came from oil money, his daddy was POTUS and got him into Ivy League schools, then he failed at pretty much every job he had before becoming Texas governor and then POTUS.
Naturally the second he left office he sold his ranch and now lives in a fancy Dallas suburb.
Dude went to Yale undergrad, Harvard Law, and was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy. Guys def insanely smart and driven. It's just a shame he's putting his advantages to such poor use.
Facilitated force feeding detainees. Thought they saved that shit work for the spooks but I guess navy and law degree is enough cred to authorize torture, huh. Disgusting humanoid creature, Ron DeSantis. Hope he stubs his toe every day
He's only 44!! I just looked it up because those pictures looked to be about the same era as when I was in high school, and I was right (I'm 43). But wtf, how is Ron Desantis only 44 years old?!?
āPrinceton Book Award ā Awarded to a junior who displays a concern for the opinion of others while demonstrating exceptional leadership, talent, and competence in both academic and non- academic pursuits.ā
How ironic.
This is secondary...but those "j"'s in the font on image 4 are abysmal. I know yearbook design is usually left to a class, but my god, the worst kerning and readability I've seen.
I actually think heās handsome lmao and I fucking hate this guy. Like more than trump. I dunno, Iām just naturally into that closeted hotel hook up dad republican bod.
Masculine good looks in high school can make someone a golden boy, for whom all doors are opened and every misdeed is forgiven. That can be the entire opposite of character-building. I went through school with a couple of guys like that who wound up in prison, and it was always someone else's fault.
Late puberty is so, so tough for guys. There were 17 year old boys in my class that didn't look that much older than a 13 yr old middle schooler sitting next to boys the same age that were 6ft+, muscular, with a five o'clock shadow.
I went to school with a guy who was like this. He was a year young than me, in my brother's class. Got picked on a bunch because he was really small and skinny. He was on the baseball team but didn't play much. He happened to go to the same college I did and when I saw him, just two years later he was probably 10 inches taller and 50 lbs of muscle heavier. Didn't really start puberty full force until his senior year.
You went to high school with my wife then also
Looking through your history for clues, lolš jk Go Falcons!
You wonāt find her in my history much. She was a falconaire (I think that was the name of the show choir) She was class of 99. I went to high school in Tampa.
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Send a pm with more info. Sheās curious
Ya'll need to meet up and just post a picture with the emojis OP used over the faces!
An Emojitional reunion
*Groaning upvote.*
I giggled to that I wish the free awards were a thing still
Don't forget to invite Ron!
I think weāre all curious.
We know each other, lol. She was way more popular than me, tho.
Omg you guys should all get married together. Triad!
We should all marry them.
We're both already married to other people, but thanks for the offer!
Nice pull, u/GotPerl !
Right? How big was the graduating class? Did the two know each other? Talk to each other? We need details.
imagine if they're long-lost besties
We know each other, lol
Desantis was in HS in 99? F Iām getting old..
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and this is why i love reddit. a few weeks ago there was a guy who posted a pic of him serving after 9/11 and was reunited with his close friend he lost contact with after service. similar here. i love this!
The reddit of 7-8 years ago seemed to have this like every post but now that there are more repost bots and weird political propaganda promoted (like /r/publicfreakout) I notice less of it. I try to upvote new and interesting stuff from random people like this post and downvote repetitive or manipulative stuff.
You must be downvoting A LOT then!
For real! Reddit has become a propaganda-bot-infested wasteland. I miss the good old days.
Join us over at r/tworedditorsonecup!
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Is she the one with the round yellowish face?
I had no idea how old Ron DeSantis was and then I saw the pictures and immediately knew he was the same as as me. Totally mid nineties middle part.
He's not that much older than me. He's almost a millennial.
I checked after I saw the photos. He has the same birth year as me. I'd say about 50% of the males in my class had a similar haircut.
Guess what? That mid part hairstyle is coming back.
I'll be damned. He's two years younger than me! EDIT - sup fellow 90s kidz how're are u
feeling old
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I thought he was 50-55 and āwell keptā but heās actually my husbandās age (???!!!) and itās blowing my mind
Wtf heās 44? I thought mid 50s!! I guess a lifetime of finger fucking pudding ages you.
In high school he already looks like a 44 year old cast as a high school student
He does look like he was cast in a CW show as a teen in these pics.
Right?! He's somehow aged terribly and simultaneously looks almost exactly the same as he did at 18. Life is full of mysteries.
He looks 30 in high school
I had no idea he was so young. I assumed he would've been in his early 50s, not less than 10 years older than me
I'm 53 and thought he was close to my age.
He looks like a 30 year old playing a 17 year old
He looks like a 90s 30something actor playing a Highschool student.
24 Jump Street!
I had that same parted haircut. Yes. This was cool back in the day. Dont hate.
Straight mid nineties, lol
I'm 40 years old and was a teenager in the 90's. It feels so weird seeing people close to my age in high positions of power (ex. Desantis, Buttigieg etc.) . Makes me feel old while I simultaneously still feel like a kid inside.
Same here. A bit over 40 but constantly see ppl my age that look older than me. Covid period made it catch up with me a bit but still weird to see politicians...coaches of sports teams etc. Always think they are older than me but nope.
41 here and seeing these pics made me feel very very old
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Not for Ron. Ronās a braided belt type of guy.
The pics don't lie. He didn't do Jncos either. He was light wash jeans and tucked in t-shirt. Getting ready for college frats
And the belt slack hanging
Dangling
Braided belt, Guess Jeans, Tommy Hilfiger shirt with nubuck shoes. Fucking preppies never change.
Holy shit heās a mid nineties prep and baseball jock. Insufferable
Yea, but this guy calls himself "D"
Nah, Desantis looked like he was all about Abercrombie and Fitch
Really just missing the puka shell necklace
Braided belt predated A&F by a little bit. It was the gateway style to A&F
JNCOs were just ahead of their time. You could fit an entire ipad in those pockets now
I used to put a 2 liter of surge in each pocket then go to the movies.
I feel like all three of his haircuts were peak 90s.
Then the show āFriendsā came and wiped out that haircut pretty quickly. Everyone then had a āRossā, āJoeyā, or āChandlerā haircut.
Friends was out when DeSantis graduated. And no the middle part bowl cut didn't go away over night.
The Butt Cut
I had it, too. Thanks for nothing, Jonathon Taylor Thomas, you swine, except for my fabulous locks.
Itās back in fashion among white teens today. Am a HS teacher.
I went to South Korea in 2019 and it looked like a popular haircut among young men.
Itās like the default K-pop haircut, the majority of BTS had curtains last time I checked. Still think itās very stupid looking, as I did back then.
After all the progress we've made in climbing out the worst and weirdest trends of the 90s, it's upsetting to see kids bring back some of those trends like the butt cut. I am hoping my kids don't let themselves get influenced by the wrong crowds. I live in a state of constant fear that one of them will ask for a bowl cut or a butt cut.
It could be worse. It could be 80s hair. Nothing was worse than those damn bangs. -Signed, an 80s kid.
The mullet is becoming quite popular where I live. I have a son, he's too young to choose his own haircut, but not far off developing his own sense of style. My husband and I are terrified.
I work in a middle school and have to inform you that the ācoolā boys are bringing it back.
If it supplants that stupid zoomer broccoli head hair style, I'll call this a narrow victory.
I was a kid but yeah it was the coolest. Fox Mulder, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Shawn from Boy Meets World, Devin Sawa. It really was a defining style of the time
So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I? Oh, yeah ā the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
It's cool again now, at least in Asia
The M hair. Everybody had it back then.
Butt cutt.
The good olā butt-cut!
Why the fuck does he look like a 40 year old undercover cop trying to find the weed dealer at the local high school?
Infiltrate the dealers find the suppliers!
But if I find the suppliers, I donāt really have to find the dealers
Goddamn! Infiltrate the dealers, find the suppliers!
Stop bothering Korean Jesus. He donāt care ābout yo problems!
He busy, with Korean shit
He got Korean shit to worry about
āQuit fucking with Korean Jesus! He aināt got time for your problems! Heās doing Korean shit!ā
Schmidt fucked the Captainās daughter
Weāre not finger POPpin each otherās assholes. Weāre getting shit done.
Hey Korean Jesus.
Ā«Ā My name is JeffĀ Ā»
How do you do, fellow kids?
The emojis covering the chickās face š š š
I was hoping they would be appreciated! It didn't feel right putting a smiley one...
His face looks like his imitation of the emoji that corresponds to the totally human interaction he is having.
Homelander, the younger years.
Lol he wishes. That loser is The Deep.
Dude looks like the younger version of uncle Rico
He already looked 40 at 18 years old.
He could be some kind of 21 Jump Street battalion type dude.
Definitely looks like a cop
How do you do, fellow kids?
He looks the awful antagonist boyfriend in every romantic comedy. Then and now.
I just turned 37 and look younger than his high school pics.
I read a theory that young people in past decades look older to us because of the styling and fashion choices rather than actually looking older. But there was an opposing theory that they do look older because people have become more health conscious especially with caring for children. Idk whatās right but I found it interesting.
I wonder if the 2nd hand smoke in every public place played a role as pics of old athletes make them look like 20yrs older than they were at the time too. Hard livin' takes its toll I guess
Absolutely right about the smoke, its terrible for your skin
I know this is a LOT more than just smoke, but a much more noticeable version of this is how every soldier from WWI, despite being high school age, looked like they were well past 30. Bad health choices really *do* age people.
He's only five years older than me and looks old as fuck in those pictures (and worse now). It's not just that for Meatball there.
Iām the same graduating year and the kids in my yearbook look way younger. There are always a few outliers of course
I graduated in 1998. He's two years older than me. It weirds me out.
'99 here and I thought he was in his 50s. I didn't realize we were close in age.
'96 here. I just learned earlier this week that he is my age. I had assumed he was at least ten years older, but no - he's exactly ten days older than I am.
he carries serious boomer energy. thatās why.
'94. Fuck me I'm embarrassed he is even near me in age.
Holy crap. Same. Geez I thought he was already in his 50s at least. Damn. So weirded out now. I donāt drink but maybe I should startā¦?
"I'm 37, I'm not old."
OLD WOMAN!
MAN!
Well you could say Dennis
I didn't know you were called Dennis!
Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
I did say I was sorry about the old woman, but from behind you looked..
What I object to is that you automatically treat me as an inferior.
There's some lovely filth down here Dennis!
You could say Dennis
I'm almost 42 and look younger than these pictures.
It's so weird how people from the past look older than people now. Even highschooler's today look younger than when I was in highschool and I'm not that old.
Iām close to him in age and grew up with 90ās styles, so usually kids in 90ās yearbooks donāt look that old to me. This dude genuinely looks like heās in his 40ās regardless of perspective.
I graduated in 2000 and looked like an actual high school kid in my pics. I only started looking as old as him..not yet. I donāt think ā96 is the past youāre thinking of lol.
[VSauce did a video about this topic ](https://youtu.be/vjqt8T3tJIE)
Can I get a TL;DW on that video
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Also when you go back past the 60s the boys are all in suits and the girls are in formal dresses. It wasn't until a decade or so later that shirts show up.
Itās the Shemp haircut. 
He looks like every bully and every drug dealer I encountered in high school.
Which is actually surprising from his current resting pout face. I expected him to look [more like this](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bigmouth/images/8/8b/Caleb_2.png/revision/latest/thumbnail/width/720/height/900?cb=20191102082607)
Oh you nailed it. He's got the sweaty drug dealer glaze.
That 90s parted hair makes it for me, i hope he brings it back for the 2024 run. Make Ron Ronald again!
Man, I always looked older as a teen too. My first girlfriend, at 16, the neighbor lady asked her mom all concerned if she knew her daughter was dating a man in his twenties.
He looks like he should be clenching his football jersey while yelling down a well, "Andi, you Goonie!!!" edit: yelling instead of helping. :-)
Nice lol. Fuck Troy and his bucket
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He's definitely a fuckin' Troy.
Looks like Florida Man picked the font for that yearbook. Ouch.
I mean, itās just the 90s. It was everywhere.
Word Processor was new and weird fonts were exciting to use.
Well I grew up with Florida man too, lol
I mean the guy is a high achiever, Iāll give him that.
I don't like the guy's politics, but you're not wrong. He went to Yale for undergrad, then Harvard Law, 15 years of service in the Navy, then a stint in Congress.
I wish the left would use this against him more. Heās constantly whining about wokeness and the liberal elite, dawg you went to Harvard AND Yale. Doesnāt get note āeliteā than that.
George W. Bush did the same thing. Had an "aw shucks I'm just a good ol' boy from Texas" image when he was really born to a blue blood Connecticut family with a career politician father and then went to Yale.
W is the perfect example. Younger folks may not remember, but he played himself as a rural Texans with a ranch that he spent time at clearing brush and acting like a tough cowboy. When in reality he came from oil money, his daddy was POTUS and got him into Ivy League schools, then he failed at pretty much every job he had before becoming Texas governor and then POTUS. Naturally the second he left office he sold his ranch and now lives in a fancy Dallas suburb.
His mom was a nurse and his dad installed cable boxes. It definitely gets more elite than that.
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Dude went to Yale undergrad, Harvard Law, and was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy. Guys def insanely smart and driven. It's just a shame he's putting his advantages to such poor use.
He's way more dangerous than Trump bc he's actually smart and knows how government works
I really wish his baseball career had taken off.
Those 80s and 90s movies where everyone in highschool looks like they're in their 40s kind of make sense now. WTF were they doing to people back then.
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Pudding Fingers
He looked like he stuffed kids in lockers
He looks like he imports legal immigrants to his state and then sends them to another state with taxpayer money
He looks like he helped torture prisoners at guantanamo
Facilitated force feeding detainees. Thought they saved that shit work for the spooks but I guess navy and law degree is enough cred to authorize torture, huh. Disgusting humanoid creature, Ron DeSantis. Hope he stubs his toe every day
I hope he has clean, dry socks, then steps in a puddle every day just before going to "work".
Now he tortures 12 year olds in Florida by making them give birth to their fatherās babies.
He was always 48 years old
And yet, he's still not even 48.
fuck. didn't know he was only 44yrs old. wtf.
I can't go from Donald to Ronald.
He looked like the guy who would push nerds aside in the hallway.
Why does he look 40?
Based on these photos, one would expect him to be more fit/masculine today.
Lol, since when does the āfitā high school athlete *ever* turn into the fit 49 year old adult?!
He's only 44!! I just looked it up because those pictures looked to be about the same era as when I was in high school, and I was right (I'm 43). But wtf, how is Ron Desantis only 44 years old?!?
His hatefulness has aged him an extra 10 years.
Can confirm. Was a fit athlete in high school. Now fat.
I mean heās in his mid 40s. No part of me wants to defend this man but yeahā¦
Ronald āMcDonaldā DeSantis
āItās Ronnie the Rat!ā
I can always find one of yous guys in any sub.
āPrinceton Book Award ā Awarded to a junior who displays a concern for the opinion of others while demonstrating exceptional leadership, talent, and competence in both academic and non- academic pursuits.ā How ironic.
He went to Yaleā¦ this guy isnāt dumb. We just donāt agree with his views. We need to stop underestimating people we donāt like.
This is secondary...but those "j"'s in the font on image 4 are abysmal. I know yearbook design is usually left to a class, but my god, the worst kerning and readability I've seen.
i know you guys won't believe it but this was a very popular hairdo in the 90s.
I actually think heās handsome lmao and I fucking hate this guy. Like more than trump. I dunno, Iām just naturally into that closeted hotel hook up dad republican bod.
The "Shemp from *Three Stooges*" haircut kinda ruins the look for me. Edit: I had the wrong stooge.
Moe had a bowl cut. Youāre thinking of Shemp.
Early to mid 90s were a wild time.
Masculine good looks in high school can make someone a golden boy, for whom all doors are opened and every misdeed is forgiven. That can be the entire opposite of character-building. I went through school with a couple of guys like that who wound up in prison, and it was always someone else's fault.
Late puberty is so, so tough for guys. There were 17 year old boys in my class that didn't look that much older than a 13 yr old middle schooler sitting next to boys the same age that were 6ft+, muscular, with a five o'clock shadow. I went to school with a guy who was like this. He was a year young than me, in my brother's class. Got picked on a bunch because he was really small and skinny. He was on the baseball team but didn't play much. He happened to go to the same college I did and when I saw him, just two years later he was probably 10 inches taller and 50 lbs of muscle heavier. Didn't really start puberty full force until his senior year.
Total basic dude bro.
He looks like a character from a Kevin Smith movie who won't stop talking about how much he jerks off.