Me. 2010 me would have been hopelessly in love with OP and OP would have been like “I really like Eat-My-Bowls-92 but her weight is holding me back.” And I would have posted how I’m not like other girls because I eat tacos and not salads.
Those shoes definitely disprove your theory. My guess is that he was in an indie pop band (that sounded like a poor man’s version of Never Shout Never).
I haven't heard that name in a decade..
I never cared about the music but I remember the little guy looked like a lesbian.. That's about all I remember..
I actually really liked their album “Time Travel”, but the albums that came before and after it were average at best, I remember.
Plus, I remember how fucking horrible those guys acted towards an interviewer during an interview, and that was the day I stopped caring about their music.
Idk man. This def looks like it could be an ABR promo shot.
The thing that’s actually making me think not is the glamour kills shirt. That’s more an all time low forever the sickest kids type thing
omg there's a time warp
"Million hugs from a million ladybugs" I know that's not the line but I'm also not willing to risk mentally replaying the song to figure it out.
"'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs, as they tried to teach me how to dance."
Yes, it is burned into my memory.
You're welcome.
I think each of the ten thousand bugs is meant to provide their own thousand hugs, perhaps, simultaneously. But fuck, that sounds like one of my recurring nightmares more than any level of comfort.
Owl City himself [answered this](https://www.facebook.com/share/Av3tmDYdWzUT683b/?mibextid=WC7FNe) in 2017:
>I was the recipient of 1,000 hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs for a grand total of 10,000,000 hugs. As the lyrics of the song clearly state, the average layperson would not believe their eyes if 10,000,000 fireflies were to illuminate planet Earth, nor would the average person conclude by natural instinct that 10,000 lightning bugs, acting as a collective group, are capable of embracing a human being 1,000 times without difficulty. By the same token, a gathering of lightning bugs in such vast numbers form a sort of “swarm," and a swarm can collectively surround a human and deliver a “hug” that a single firefly, acting according to the dictates of his own conscience, simply cannot. Consequently, I was embraced 1,000 times by 10,000 luminescent insects.
>This may seem inconceivable due to the firefly’s soft-shelled body, which is common among all winged beetles within the Lampyridae insect family. Members of the scientific community may be tempted to cast doubt upon the possibility of this exchange due to the immobility of the prothorax and pterothorax, in addition to the elytra protruding outward while a firefly is engaged in mid-flight. However, I can testify to the accuracy of this exchange. I can furthermore add that while each individual hug took place, each firefly participated in the chemical reaction commonly known as bioluminescence in which the enzymes within the firefly, in the presence of oxygen, magnesium ions and ATP, emitted a chemically produced light or “glow” because they were happy to be hugging me.
I am a 41 year old dad, and I recognize those slippers as the same Walmart slippers I wear around the house and wear when I’m too lazy to put on real shoes and socks.
Sperry’s were insanely popular when I was in high school. I didn’t get a pair until I was 26 because I didn’t want to wear the same shoes my dad wears.
Oh I know! LL Bean is open 24/7 and I used to go there after shows just to be an ass because it was open. Petting the Moose and Deer and switching outfits on mannequins lolol
lmao right?? bc same. I just know he kept his car keys on a carabiner clipped to a side loop and tucked into the pocket of his skinny jeans, and that alone would’ve had me in a chokehold. <33333
A friend and I used to promote shows in central Illinois. Most if not all of them looked like you. I bet I know what music you played, I can hear it right now lol.
The triple layers, non-dyed scene kid hair, pac sun skinny jeans, Glamour Kills, and moccasins. What a time and place it was. You were either crabcore worship, or the quirkiest indie power pop band your hometown has ever seen.
Omg i would've murdered for something from glamour kills back then! You guys totally sounded like a metalcore band with a shouter and someone who does clear vocals.
Why the hell did that photographer make you pose like that?!! You look like you were born with limb deformities or an extremely long torso with about 200 extra vertebrae
Never shout never
Nickasaur. Or maybe when Christopher Drew went metal with Eatmewhileimhot
whew nickasaur brings me back. i think i still know all the words to rocketships and radios...
Oh my God me too....
Eatmewhileimhot!! Haven’t thought about that sound in so long
I see you mentioned eatmewhileimhot and I raise you itoldyouiwouldeatyou
was thinking the same exact thing hahaha, or even the ready set!
You beat me to it :(
Alvin & The Chipmunks
I am just confused/concerned about who thought this was a good picture?
I have no idea what this man’s proportions are
right? like isn't that torso a bit too long?
He can go lower
Is this a random iasip in the wild?
Needs cut-offs.
It’s hard to tell when the fashion style back then was to wear your little sister’s jeans.
That was a good one had to chuckle a bit Edit my Little sister is way taller than i am lolololol
*confused screaming*
36 24 36
Doesn’t appear brick to me.
He’s quirky obvi
Manic pixie dream boy
Me. 2010 me would have been hopelessly in love with OP and OP would have been like “I really like Eat-My-Bowls-92 but her weight is holding me back.” And I would have posted how I’m not like other girls because I eat tacos and not salads.
What's he doing, grabbing dicks?
Holding up invisible sporks
MIDDLE OUT!!!
It's that pose of "if we're legit famous one day this will be in a museum and no one will think it's silly, it'll be art!"
Yeah but 2010s were difficult, man. This WAS cool! Lolol
It reminds me of this famous Harry Styles meme photo where he’s wearing suspenders and pink pants that always gets reposted
All time low
Not even the band, just an honest critique of the music
Big time rush
Seeing the GK shirt made me think the same thing lol
Shit?
Likely with a high pitched/nasal voice.
tonight will be the noight that i will fall for yeeewww
ovur and ovur a-GEHN
DOnt make me chANgE MY MIND
Wish.com presents *Dashboard Confessional*
My Chemical Castration
Toonoyt will bay the noyt that I will faaall for yooo!
I don't have one original thought! 🥲
I was gonna say whiny but trying to be too cool to care that it sounds uninspired.
Blink 182?
THE VOICE INSIDE MOI YED
Watching, waiting, commiserating
SAY IT AINT SO
TOIMES LIOKE THIS, IT'S OBVIOUS
I was going to say sounds like Metro Station but same same.
Yep. Came to say shit.
That was my guess
My thoughts exactly! Lmfao
This has christian metalcore vibes
Those shoes definitely disprove your theory. My guess is that he was in an indie pop band (that sounded like a poor man’s version of Never Shout Never).
I haven't heard that name in a decade.. I never cared about the music but I remember the little guy looked like a lesbian.. That's about all I remember..
I had to Google him to see…. 100% spot on assessment lol
I actually really liked their album “Time Travel”, but the albums that came before and after it were average at best, I remember. Plus, I remember how fucking horrible those guys acted towards an interviewer during an interview, and that was the day I stopped caring about their music.
Not sure the little fellow is a lesbian, but he certainly has the Karen haircut.
Idk man. This def looks like it could be an ABR promo shot. The thing that’s actually making me think not is the glamour kills shirt. That’s more an all time low forever the sickest kids type thing
First thing I thought was The Devil Wears Prada circa 2006.
I was thinking Death Cab for Cinema Club
Why were you jacking off two invisible men?
Efficiency
Nah if you want efficiency you go tip to tip so you can get 4 guys at once.
But you need to factor in girth and dick to floor distance
Middle out!
Oh Reddit, you never fail me
Father-son-holy spirit
Oh this is pure Reliant K vibes.
Immediately what I thought. Not edgy enough for half the shit mentioned here, but for a sheltered christian kid (possibly) deep in the closet? primo.
[удалено]
Haven’t heard that name since 2003ish. Thank you
Fall Out Beibz
Probably like Owl City
omg there's a time warp "Million hugs from a million ladybugs" I know that's not the line but I'm also not willing to risk mentally replaying the song to figure it out.
"'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs, as they tried to teach me how to dance." Yes, it is burned into my memory. You're welcome.
A thousand hugs from ten thousand bugs means only 1/10th of them hugged you. Pretty weak
I think each of the ten thousand bugs is meant to provide their own thousand hugs, perhaps, simultaneously. But fuck, that sounds like one of my recurring nightmares more than any level of comfort.
Owl City himself [answered this](https://www.facebook.com/share/Av3tmDYdWzUT683b/?mibextid=WC7FNe) in 2017: >I was the recipient of 1,000 hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs for a grand total of 10,000,000 hugs. As the lyrics of the song clearly state, the average layperson would not believe their eyes if 10,000,000 fireflies were to illuminate planet Earth, nor would the average person conclude by natural instinct that 10,000 lightning bugs, acting as a collective group, are capable of embracing a human being 1,000 times without difficulty. By the same token, a gathering of lightning bugs in such vast numbers form a sort of “swarm," and a swarm can collectively surround a human and deliver a “hug” that a single firefly, acting according to the dictates of his own conscience, simply cannot. Consequently, I was embraced 1,000 times by 10,000 luminescent insects. >This may seem inconceivable due to the firefly’s soft-shelled body, which is common among all winged beetles within the Lampyridae insect family. Members of the scientific community may be tempted to cast doubt upon the possibility of this exchange due to the immobility of the prothorax and pterothorax, in addition to the elytra protruding outward while a firefly is engaged in mid-flight. However, I can testify to the accuracy of this exchange. I can furthermore add that while each individual hug took place, each firefly participated in the chemical reaction commonly known as bioluminescence in which the enzymes within the firefly, in the presence of oxygen, magnesium ions and ATP, emitted a chemically produced light or “glow” because they were happy to be hugging me.
Excellent. Thank you!
what do you think he means- An African or a European lightning bug?
I bet you said "gurl" a lot.
Or Lord.
Gurl and bewbs
3OH!3 but less iconic
I know that you’re carnivorous, but I don’t really give a piss
I still bump 3OH!3. The kids don't get it
Saw them at warped tour in 2009, it was a good time!
Metro station
Scrolled specifically to make sure this was said. 100% Metro Station.
We put the “sexual” in Metrosexual.
Those some LL Bean slippers?
I am a 41 year old dad, and I recognize those slippers as the same Walmart slippers I wear around the house and wear when I’m too lazy to put on real shoes and socks.
Same man. Do yourself a favor and save up for a pair of the LL Bean ones. Like night and day.
This was weirdly a huge trend among the emo/scene kids in 2006-2011. Skinny jeans and LL bean moccasins. Warm as hell in the winter though!
Sperry’s were insanely popular when I was in high school. I didn’t get a pair until I was 26 because I didn’t want to wear the same shoes my dad wears.
Oh I know! LL Bean is open 24/7 and I used to go there after shows just to be an ass because it was open. Petting the Moose and Deer and switching outfits on mannequins lolol
TIL there are physical LL Bean stores. They’ve always been a mail order thing where I live.
My Chemical Faceplant?
Tonoight will be the noight that I oi will fawl for you.
Owyver ahgoiiinnne
This is what I was looking for before I posted!
Simple Plan - Just a kid
I'm a dick, I'm a dick, I'm ad-dick-ted to you"
Not only do I know exactly what you guys sounded like, I also know that I would have been OBSESSED with you guys
lmao right?? bc same. I just know he kept his car keys on a carabiner clipped to a side loop and tucked into the pocket of his skinny jeans, and that alone would’ve had me in a chokehold. <33333
Lol same - it didn’t take much, did it?
*inhale* THIS IS SANDPIT TURTLEEEE
Glee
A friend and I used to promote shows in central Illinois. Most if not all of them looked like you. I bet I know what music you played, I can hear it right now lol.
Very cool, I used to organize some shows at ISU back in the early 00s. I miss the central Illinois scene.
I've scrolled all thru these comments....are you going fucking respond to the guesses?
Yeah OP, wtf
It's been up for 6 hours. Some people aren't terminally online. It's also 8 am here. He's probably asleep after posting it before bed.
You wanted to sound like an edgy, more raw and indie Mumford and Sons. You sounded more like a shitty indie band that played bad blink 182 covers
The Ready Set
The Bangles….Egyptian posing, dead giveaway.
Something that sounds like whatever Stephen jerzack would put out at the time lol
My aged aunty used to wear slippers like those.
Like Sum 41 with a bedtime.
Falling in Boy
The Matches but private school.
Bad. I'm guessing you sound bad.
My Chemical Fallout Heights
Like a child from green day and justin bieber
Hopefully like a kick in the crotch?
WOAH-OH OH-WOAH OOOH! WOAH-OH AWOAH-OOH!
Why do I put myself in these situations?
Like generic monster noises
Do you remember what made you pose that way?
Awful?
Mid-west emo?
This pic is just screaming to be fucked with in photo shop.
Panic! At the Discount Store
The triple layers, non-dyed scene kid hair, pac sun skinny jeans, Glamour Kills, and moccasins. What a time and place it was. You were either crabcore worship, or the quirkiest indie power pop band your hometown has ever seen.
Why are you pretending to hold two cocks?
A bottlenose dolphin being sexually assaulted by a yellowfin tuna?
Ed Sheeran after being kicked in the balls whilst being frontman for maroon 5?
Shit.
The Hives or Ok Go
Midwest emo?
The Ready Set
Glamour Kills clothing… Your band was very cringy, whiny pop-punk music for sure.
Yes and it’s specifically because of the Glamour Kills hoodie
Mix of The Rocket Summer and Nevershoutnever.
Omg i would've murdered for something from glamour kills back then! You guys totally sounded like a metalcore band with a shouter and someone who does clear vocals.
Country like screamo
Like a twink jerking off 2 dudes?
Bad.
You had lyrics like “DOO-DOOO, DOOBY DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO!”
2014 indie Brit rock
Warped tour
Your legs look so small lol Perspective goin wild
Disappointment
Like a loose fart?
You have a lot of songs about long torsos and short legs ?
Your comment reminds me of the Cake song. And now I will never sing Short Skirt Long Jacket the same.
A little singing, a little screaming?
Pop punk
Emo math rock
No need to guess
You look like you're jerking off two ghosts.
Those are some nice slippers.
Probably like “Where are yewwww and um sew sorey”
What is that pose
Your band's name started with "the" and ended with "s"?
The lollipop guild?
Was the band name Cowboys With Invisible Horses?
Like every other band in 2010.
I never seen the male version of Karen haircut before
Shit?
Panic! At the Hobbit Hole
Why the hell did that photographer make you pose like that?!! You look like you were born with limb deformities or an extremely long torso with about 200 extra vertebrae
Lmao sounds like generic 00’ straight edge emo music
Metro station
I wanna say All Time Low but also wanna say Chiodos
Like a more annoying version of Owl City
Probably had a song named Lexi or some other basic white girl name.
All American Rejects reject
Even more embarrassing cause it's like 3 years too late
I GOT YOUR PICTURE, IM COMING WITH YOU...🎶🎶
I see that glamour kills hoodie
Alvin and the Chipmonks
Generic brand fallout boy
I'm thinking you wanted to go for a Fallout Boy sound, but wound up sounding like L.L. Bean hold music.
I’m…. In….. trouble I’m and adddddict
This man looks like 2010
You definitely said “tonight” like “teeew-noiight”
Every now and then a blunder hurts so good
I miss those glamor kills hoodies
Those loafers are killing the vibe
Never Shout Never but somehow worse
Twee + emo (midwestern variety)
A little bit of Nickasaur, a little bit of The Ready Set.
Undoubtedly one of your songs started “IM SORRY…” with a high pitched whine
Busted x mcfly
Shit
Simple plan?
Stand up to the big guys!!! -Nathan Fielder