‘PEN15’ is a hilariously painful reminder that middle school mattered

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Every once in a while, social media is swarmed by people participating in 10 year challenges, where people dig up photos of themselves from a decade ago and juxtapose them with a more recent picture. These challenges are meant to show how much time has changed someone, but to be real — they’re really just a flex on how much hotter people are now than when they were teenagers. 

10 year challenges often start conversations about how wild fashion was back then, why anyone thought a then-trendy haircut looked good, or how everyone has puberty to thank for erasing the humiliating forms of their younger selves. The “after” picture exists as a thank you, or perhaps a thank god, that the acne and bad jeans of the past don’t exist anymore.  Read more…

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