Cringiest thing you did as a teenager

[Dom Cruise]

I actually don't think this is cringey, I think it might have been based, but as a horny 15 old without an internet connection one time while I was at a mall I just bluntly walked into the Victoria's Secret and asked the lady behind the counter for a catalog.

She had to do the usual employee spiel of asking if I wanted a subscription, but asked me if I was 18, to which I said "not quite"

 

[Wonderful Id]

Printed hentai at the library back in the late 90's,before I had a computer or the internet.

I find a small computer in the corner and a nearby printer I could send the goods to.

At some point, it seems that an old man who worked at the library caught on when I printed too much...but all that happened was that he told me how to not get caught, which makes me think he kept what he found

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Printed hentai at the library back in the late 90's,before I had a computer or the internet.

I find a small computer in the corner and a nearby printer I could send the goods to.

At some point, it seems that an old man who worked at the library caught on when I printed too much...but all that happened was that he told me how to not get caught, which makes me think he kept what he found

What kind of hentai? Tentacle? Chix w/ dixx?

 

[Wonderful Id]

What kind of hentai? Tentacle? Chix w/ dixx?

Other than some Mai Shiranui stuff, I don't really recall. Keep in mind that this was the late 90's era of hentai. What was hardcore then is quaint now.

Spoiler

What sucks is that I'd love to find that Mai stuff now, but there are 20 years worth of additional Mai pics online and I don't recall anything specific enough to make it stand out in a search

 

[Big Bad Wart]

I was pretending to be retarded and would say "kek" when I found something "funny" and then I did it so much it became a tick that sometime comes up to this day. I feel like necking myself when I accidentally saying kek legitimately in a public space in 2020. Also to add I was not a sargonite I was just on 4chan /pol/ too much which also make me wince when I look back.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I was pretending to be retarded and would say "kek" when I found something "funny" and then I did it so much it became a tick that sometime comes up to this day. I feel like necking myself when accidental saying kek legitimately in a public space in 2020. Also to add I was not a sargonite I was just on 4chan /pol/ too much which also make me wince when I look back.

You think that's bad, when i was 13/14 years old i would say "buddy" like Pauly Shore all the time.

 

[Tikbalang]

It was a night at school, I took a shower in the garden area and ran to the classroom wet and butt naked.

To this day, I don't know if the security has the cctv footage

 

[Drinkerbelle]

Me and my friends kept a 'score sheet' of guys we boned that worked at the local Renaissance Festival when it was in town. Ugh.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Other than some Mai Shiranui stuff, I don't really recall. Keep in mind that this was the late 90's era of hentai. What was hardcore then is quaint now.

Spoiler

What sucks is that I'd love to find that Mai stuff now, but there are 20 years worth of additional Mai pics online and I don't recall anything specific enough to make it stand out in a search

I'll be honest, I was unironically living the "It's called hentai and it's art!" meme for a short while back when I was an edgy 14 year old. Thankfully, I dropped that after a few weeks.

Got broadband internet for the first time earlier that year and basically spent the entire winter break staying up all night reading scanned manga and "lemon" fanfics or watching entire hentai OVA's at the time since we didn't do anything for Christmas that year. It was cringe-inducing as fuck, but I was a horny teenage edgelord.

Looking back on those memories, one weird thing was that I noticed a lot of the older-looking hentai anime from the 80's and 90's tended to be a lot more hardcore and "degenerate" with lots of rape and BDSM. Guro, demons, and tentacles were more common back then too.

I'd say the wider trends of the "OVA Boom" and the popularity of stuff like Urotsukidoji played a part in it. The thing about pop culture and media is that certain eras tend to have certain kinds of trends. Even the porn.

 

[haglover]

i have a youtube channel named its[realname]bitchXD

Printed hentai at the library back in the late 90's,before I had a computer or the internet.

I find a small computer in the corner and a nearby printer I could send the goods to.

At some point, it seems that an old man who worked at the library caught on when I printed too much...but all that happened was that he told me how to not get caught, which makes me think he kept what he found

my boyfriend had a friend in high middle school who showed him the anime site he downloaded porn off of at the library, and also gave him a psp sd card filled with hentai
the site still exists and he still has the sd card

 

[Orange Rhymer]

I was pretending to be retarded and would say "kek" when I found something "funny" and then I did it so much it became a tick that sometime comes up to this day. I feel like necking myself when I accidentally saying kek legitimately in a public space in 2020. Also to add I was not a sargonite I was just on 4chan /pol/ too much which also make me wince when I look back.

Seriously? Like that South Park when Cartman pretends he has Asperger's ?

 

[Big Bad Wart]

Seriously? Like that South Park when Cartman pretends he has Asperger's ?

Don't know what episode you are are talking about. Is it the special Olympics one? if that is the one you are talking about then not that extreme or planned. It was literally something that kinda happened I started doing halfheartedly without much thought that eventually came back to bite me in the ass. Looking back I can't even tell give clear time when it started.

The laugh devolved from pouncing it "KEK" to just "K" to eventually just "KKKK" and sounding like I was trying to say the Korean laughter onomatopoeia in real life.

 

[FuckedUp]

Seriously? Like that South Park when Cartman pretends he has Asperger's ?

Don't know what episode you are are talking about. Is it the special Olympics one? if that is the one you are talking about then not that extreme or planned. It was literally something that kinda happened I started doing halfheartedly without much thought that eventually came back to bite me in the ass. Looking back I can't even tell give clear time when it started.

The laugh devolved from pouncing it "KEK" to just "K" to eventually just "KKKK" and sounding like I was trying to say the Korean laughter onomatopoeia in real life.

Not sure if they were referring to that one, but in the sequel to "you're getting old" (pretty sure it was called "asperger's") he did actually pretend to have "ass burgers" by shoving burgers in his underwear.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Not sure if they were referring to that one, but in the sequel to "you're getting old" (pretty sure it was called "asperger's") he did actually pretend to have "ass burgers" by shoving burgers in his underwear.

Yeah, that one.
He starts cursing at people, using it as an excuse. Then, (in the principle's office) his inhibitions are lowered to the point of saying inappropriate statements about himself.

I have heard that ticks can be made. I guess this author is proof.

There was a case of a HS girl that would wet herself for IG/Twitter clout. She soon realized she 'unlearned' bladder control and had to wear diapers.
Killed herself a couple years ago.

 

[FuckedUp]

Yeah, that one.
He starts cursing at people, using it as an excuse. Then, (in the principle's office) his inhibitions are lowered to the point of saying inappropriate statements about himself.

I have heard that ticks can be made. I guess this author is proof.

There was a case of a HS girl that would wet herself for IG/Twitter clout. She soon realized she 'unlearned' bladder control and had to wear diapers.
Killed herself a couple years ago.

That's a third episode where he pretends to have tourette's.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

That's a third episode where he pretends to have tourette's.

Apologies. I blended 2 in my head.

 

[Small Dong the Worthy]

Gave a speech on communism for a class in Highschool. Had to defend a subject I was against. Used the projector to display the old USSR flag behind me and softly played the anthem on repeat in the background. I hate myself to this day for it. It’s not the top of my list but it’s the first that comes to mind.

 

[Darksy DePhil]

Being a (closet) /pol/fag. Even if for a short while.
I didn't go full on sperg interrupting other people to talk about politics and own the libz but i did watch lots of WS theory vids by William Luther Pierce. I reposted dozens of /pol/ propaganda on my social media (not tied to my IRL identity) and even had "trump supporter" on my bio for a while i wasn't even american. I lost a few followers who seemed like they could have been chill people who share my interests.

Then again, it was 2016. Thankfully I dropped that shit shortly afterwards.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Vampire LARP

Same here. Got really big into World of Darkness for a while in my later teen years.

Seriously, I spent the summer after junior year LARP'ing Vampire: The Requiem with some college kids and then did the same in 2011 and 2012 except it was Masquerade and you had college kids and old-timer goth burnouts.

although tbh vampire the masquerade bloodlines is still a good game.

Indeed it is

 

[UntimelyDhelmise]

Writing Smash Bros. fanfiction. Self-inserts, OCs, the same damn "mansion" setting that every other bloody person used, the whole 9 yards.