We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to show us their best Myspace pictures from the ’00s. Here are some of their responses.
1. "I totally remember editing the 'I love you' in paint."
2. "The angst was so real!"
3. "Dear lord the angle from above."
4. "The sunglasses indoors...cringeworthy."
5. "Why not take a picture with your favorite breakfast cereal and the horrid duckface to the side?"
6. "Overly bleached hair + blurry webcam = perfect Myspace pic"
7. "I’m nearly doing duckface here."
8. "I was so misunderstood and deep."
9. "Life was so simple back when I thought it was the end of the world if I ran out of eyeliner or if my side part wasn’t straight enough."
10. "PC4PC?"
11. "LOL."
12. "My caption for this was 'Start A Riot In Me, Let’s Start, Start' from Paramore."
13. "One time I pretended to be a scene kid."
14. "Sex bands, Oli Sykes-esque writing on the fingers, scene hair, terrible makeup, and an Aeropostale shirt."
15. "Sony Ericsson phone editing at its finest."
16. "~So CoOl~."
17. "Back when I was trying the 'rawr' thing."
18. "Had to get the mirror in the picture!"
19. "Please forgive my eyebrows; thin was in at the time!"
20. "Cringe."
21. "I really thought I was so cool."
22. "There's nothing more early ’00s than a duckface and a peace sign."
23. "So much eye makeup."
24. "*sigh*"
25. "Lots of eyeliner, nude lip gloss, and hairspray."
26. "Classic mirror pic with flash taken on a digital camera along with writing added via Picnik to alert you to the season it was."
27. "Red is edgy and cool. Just like 14-year-old me."
28. "2006 was a bad year for the health of my hair."
29. "Showing off how postered up my room was, always wearing a beret and never looking at the camera."
30. "This photo still makes me cringe."
31. "Oh. Dear. Lord."
32. "Mahooosive green fringe, panda eyes and quirky bow."
33. "My Myspace URL was 'emoheartsrok'. Because emo hearts did indeed rok."
34. "Me during the height of my emo phase."
35. "Junior year of high school, featuring my 2004 Nikon Coolpix, my iPod Mini (pre-Nano) days, and taken in the bathroom."
36. "Really, I have no words for this photo."
37. "I wore that Paramore shirt so much that it got holes in it as opposed to on it."
38. "In my day-to-day life I was known as Christine, but on Myspace I was 'Xtine Xstacy'."
Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.