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26-05-2025
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People Are Sharing The '00s Pop Culture Moments That Make Them Want To Die From Cringe And Honestly, Same
No matter how nostalgic you feel, it's hard not to admit that the 2000s were a decade of cringe. Recently, the BuzzFeed Community shared the pop culture moments from the '00s that they shudder the most thinking about, and it's low-key impossible to make it through the list without going into full body cringe... 1."Christina Aguilera's style choices " —Anonymous 2."Britney and Justin. 2001 VMAs. All that denim." —Anonymous, 40, New Orleans 3."The Superbowl where Justin Timberlake ripped off Janet Jackson's bra. Unexpected and cringey. Why would they invite him back to do the 2018 halftime show?!" —Anonymous, California 4."Britney being chased by paparazzi constantly. Truly awful." —discostudio 5."Literally any time a teenage girl was asked about her virginity." —Ceinwen Related: 9 Celebrities Who Have Endorsed Donald Trump In The Past Month 6."How certain female celebrities were body shamed. Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie, Anna Nicole Smith among others. They were all beautiful and they didn't deserve that." —Anonymous, 38, Tennessee 7."Ashley Simpson being caught lip-syncing on SNL." NBC / NBCUniversal via Getty Images, NBC —Anonymous, 49, Pennsylvania 8."Everything about Jersey Shore and the Kardashians." —poeticmoon912 Related: "It Was Not Right": Shailene Woodley Broke Her Silence About The Aaron Rodgers Breakup 9."[The Office episode] 'Scott's Tots.' Full stop" —Matt, Colorado 10."It crosses over into the 2010s, but How I Met Your Mother has aged terribly." "Barney was a sexual predator and his behavior was played for laughs. But I think the thing people came around to more slowly is that Ted may actually be worse because we're supposed to think he's nice and romantic when really his behavior is awful in its own way. The classic 'man slowly wears down woman he's crushing on' trope." —Anonymous 11."Flavor of Love." "Women signed up for a Bachelor-esque style show and the prize was Flava Flav. He gave them all nicknames, and it was peak reality TV. The moment that I will never forget? When Pumpkin SPIT in New York's face during the elimination ceremony and in retaliation, New York shoved Pumpkin into the camera that was filming. These women were really fighting over Flava Flav! " —Anonymous, 33, NC 12."The Team Aniston vs Team Angelina stuff. In hindsight, it's really gross." —Anonymous 13."Australians Next Top Model — Sarah Murdoch announcing the wrong winner — awks!" —Anonymous 14."Australian Big Brother's 'turkey slap' — a female contestant was assaulted and it was broadcast on the 24-hour livestream." —Caitlin 15."So many movies that haven't aged well, but the one that comes to mind most is Shallow Hal. Can't believe I thought it was funny at the time." —Anonymous finally, "Definitely Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch. Everything about that relationship with Katie Holmes, really." —Anonymous What pop culture moment from the 2000s makes you cringe the most? Also in Celebrity: If You Think You're Smarter Than The Average Celebrity, Prove It By Correctly Answering These Questions They Got Wrong On "Jeopardy" Also in Celebrity: 12 Celebs Who Came Out At A Young Age, And 13 Who Came Out Way Later In Life Also in Celebrity: Sophie Turner Opened Up About Her "Incredibly Sad" Split From Joe Jonas
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08-05-2025
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People Are Confessing To The Worst Things They Have Ever Done, And That They Would Only Admit On Their Deathbeds
I think it's safe to say that we all have a secret list of cringey, questionable, or downright bizarre things we've done that we wouldn't want anyone to know for various reasons. Maybe you've told a lie so big that there is no way you could admit the truth now, or perhaps it was something more innocent, like you accidentally liked your ex's new partner's vacation pic at 2 a.m. and you would die if any of your friends found out. Natalia Lebedinskaia / Getty Images Recently, Reddit user deadend-decendant wanted to know about those secrets when they asked: "What's the worst fuck up you've had that you'll admit on your deathbed?" Fox Television The thread went viral, getting over 2.7K responses. Below are the top and best comments: 1."I stole a kid's playset once. Answered an ad on Craigslist to pick up a free kids' wooden playhouse/swingset. Got the street right, but must have gotten the house numbers mixed up. Pulled up to a house I thought was it, knocked on the door, and no one answered, disassembled the playground, and threw it in the trailer. Several hours later I got an email from the Craigslist person bitching that I never showed up." Hixi / Getty Images —viral_virus 2."I was a little bullshitter as a kid and one of my elementary school rivals/best friends (kids are dumb) got a puppy. I was jealous as hell, so I told everyone that my dog was going to have puppies. I kept up the ruse for weeks. Finally, the enemy/bestie was due to come over to my house. I knew I was in deep shit so I came up with the best and also darkest idea: all the puppies died. We had a massive, unkempt backyard, so I made a pile of rocks and put sticks in the shape of a cross. When she came over, she asked my mom about it. My mom said, 'There were no puppies.' But, I told my friend that my mom was just so devastated she wouldn't talk about it. I showed her the grave." Okssi68 / Getty Images/iStockphoto "My dog (who was spayed the whole time) was standing in the yard with us, solemnly looking at a pile of rocks. She thought we were out there to play fetch, so she just stood next to me, which made my friend further believe my dog was mourning her puppies. That was the end of it, and I never fessed up or admitted it to anyone." —boscobeau 3."I know a funeral director that accidentally cremated someone who wanted to be buried." Kzenon / Getty Images/iStockphoto —TurbulentPhase4481 4."I was using the laundromat at my university's dorms, and one of my tops fell half out, making the door not sealed but still locked. Long story short, the place was flooded, I tried stopping the machine, but couldn't, I tried calling the number of the machine, no one answered. I tried to clean it but didn't have anything to do it with, so when the machine finished, I took my clothes and skedaddled out of there." Youngvet / Getty Images —Iluvaic Related: 50 Of The Funniest Stories People Shared About The "Stupidest Person" They've Met 5."I got blamed for pushing a guy down the stairs after he tried to fight me. Had a few witnesses back me up, saying he slipped. Ended up in a wheelchair for a while. I pushed him." Thomas Northcut / Getty Images —Adorable-Bike-9689 6."My POS little brother, who was 17 and selling drugs, begged me to sell some jewelry at a pawn shop for him to pay off a traffic ticket. I hated this idea, asked where he got the jewelry, he said it was an exchange on a drug deal from a guy in a city an hour away. I did it in hopes he could get his license back and get a real job. The jewelry turned out to be my grandmother's — the little bastard swiped it when he was helping my mom clean out her apartment shortly after she passed. I was so disgusted and tried to buy it back, but it was too late. I'll never tell my mother, but holy jeeze, did I let him know what a POS he is." Stuart McCall / Getty Images —Snake_Bait_2134 7."I shit my pants on the playground in third grade because the substitute teacher wouldn't let me back inside. When we finally went back inside, I made a beeline to the toilet, trashed my underwear, and desperately tried to clean out my shorts, to no avail. They were black so they didn't show the obvious poop stains. We had to line up on the second square from the wall going back into class and the person behind me loudly stated that someone 'smelled like crap.' I 'jokingly' blamed the class pariah, and everyone ran with it. He got made fun of the rest of the year, but it was actually me. My bad, Robert." Gpointstudio / Getty Images/iStockphoto —Actionhotdog_go 8."My dog got sprayed by a skunk when I was in middle school and he rubbed a bit against my backpack when he ran in freaking out. I tried not to bring the backpack to school, but I had so much stuff that I had no choice, and my mom was having none of it. The lockers at school were in bays, so they were backed up against each other. I shoved the backpack in my locker when it was empty, and it got a lot of attention from students and faculty for how bad the smell was. The smell was blamed on these two popular girls who had their locker backed up against mine. As their bay had most of the scent for some reason. I pulled my backpack out later, and it hardly smelled at all for some reason. Almost as if the skunk's stank literally drifted from my bag to their locker. Never got caught for it." Eyecrave Productions / Getty Images —Marmamat Related: "Something In My Head Said, 'Don't Get Up'": 16 Older Adults Reveal The Wildest Supernatural Encounters From Their Childhood 9."Tried to unclog a toilet at a party. Made it worse. Blamed it on a guy who left before me. Everyone still calls him 'Sh*tstorm Steve.' Sorry, Steve." Garrett Aitken / Getty Images —jadedamnhot 10."When I was in fifth grade, my friend brought a pretty powerful magnet to school. We then found out it messes with the monitors if you gloss over it real quick with the magnet — and we did this to the entire computer lab. Had no idea it broke the monitors and we never spoke about it again after that, lmao." Sdominick / Getty Images/iStockphoto —simplytoaskquestions 11."I was 4 years old and set fire to some weeds near my grandparents' house and almost burned the whole farm down. The firefighters came and put everything out; it took them a while to combat the blaze. They put it out, and absolutely no one asked me anything, cause I was 4, I guess. I wonder if my grandparents knew to an extent. Probably." Andrew Merry / Getty Images —frankie_cranky_666 12."I did a reading at my son's wedding. I was carrying a cellphone in the front pouch of a kilt I was wearing for the ceremony (the couple wanted a Scottish theme). And of course, I didn't turn it off before standing up at the podium. My brother, who was running late, gave me a call at the moment I started my reading. Fortunately for me, the podium had a gap in the front, so instead of the sound coming up to my microphone, it traveled out to the pews. Everyone started reaching for their phones to check that they had shut them off — there were over 60 people there — and NOBODY was looking my way. I slipped my hand into the pocket and shut the phone off while they were distracted." LightFieldStudios / Getty Images/iStockphoto "At the reception, people came up to me and apologized for allowing their phones to ring, and that they couldn't reach them in time to shut them off. A LOT of people were angry, and there was a lot of discussion at the reception about who would have been so rude. NOBODY suspected it was me, and it's gonna stay that way. Not saying anything; not even on my deathbed." —Ceilibeag 13."I broke a $50,000 tool at work and acted surprised when my boss found it broken. It was my first month working as a petroleum engineer." Courtney Hale / Getty Images —snowboarder_123 14."Oh man, I was working in sales and had two ladies, one much older than the other. I just assumed and spent most of the appointment speaking to one lady and referring to the other as 'her mum.' Eventually her mum got up and went outside, and her daughter whispered to me, 'She is my girlfriend, please stop calling her my mum as she's about to punch you' 💀. I gave them loads of free stuff cause I felt so bad." NBC —tits-n-teeth 15."Clogged the toilet with toilet paper at my new job at a school two weeks in. Left the mess there like nothing happened, 'cause I didn't know what to do. Later, a coworker was complaining to me about a little girl who'd clogged the toilet and kept denying it and lying to get out of trouble when she was told off. The little girl wasn't lying. It wasn't her. I did it. I felt sorry, but didn't bother correcting my coworker." Prospective56 / Getty Images —holdnarrytight 16."My grandpa worked in an ammunition plant and taught me how to press my own bullets as a kid. I used the same backpack for school, and the bullet I was so proud of fell out of it at school. I pretended nothing happened, school went on lockdown, dogs searched everyone's lockers, it was scary, and I still feel bad about it." Aslan Alphan / Getty Images —Mobwmwm 17."Stopped Apple's global payments processing for a few hours and then fixed it. Got recognised for fixing it and won an award, which meant I got a very expensive high-performance trip (think five* weeks' paid vacation). No one figured out I was also responsible for breaking it 😂" Tero Vesalainen / Getty Images —dwmixer 18."Stole my friend's sister's car, got high with their brother, crashed into a parked car. Returned the car. Police did an investigation never found out it was me." Aogreatkim / Getty Images/iStockphoto —Late_Tea_1893 lastly, "MANY years ago after some regrettable mall Chinese food, I tried on jeggings at Aeropostale and ended up full-on shitting in them. Total mess. I used a makeup bag from my purse to help collect the rest, folded the shitty jeggings back onto the display, and ditched the shit-filled bag in a random purse for sale at Dillards before vanishing. I'm so sorry, lol. I was like 13 and didn't know I had IBS 😩." Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images —chloemae1924 You can read the original thread on Reddit. Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity. 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07-05-2025
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People Are Sharing The Tiny Embarrassing Moment That Still Haunts Them Years Or Decades Later, And Whoa
If you're anything like me, one of your hobbies is probably waking up in the middle of the night to stew over something embarrassing that you did at least five years ago. Recently on Reddit, people shared the tiny moments of cringe that they fear they'll never forget, and it made me feel so much less alone. Here are some of the top comments: 1."I was at a funeral and said 'Congrats' instead of 'Sorry for your loss.' I don't even know how that happened. My brain just panicked." Shironosov / Getty Images —Dudelude6542 2."During COVID and online lectures, a classmate sent a funny remark in the meeting chat. Many people were liking his message and laugh-reacting to it. I then sent a joke that played off of his. Nobody reacted to it. In a classroom of 60 people. For the remainder of the lecture, nobody wrote anything else in the chat." —fatfreehoneybee 3."At university, in the first term, we were told we would all get reports on our progress at the end of the year. I jokingly said, 'Do they get sent to our mummies?' but everyone took it as a serious question, and the tutor gave me a little lecture about how I was a grown-up now and needed to take responsibility for myself. Mortifying." —BobBobBobBobBobDave 4."In high school, this girl asked if I had a pen, and I just… froze. I stared at her for like 3 seconds, then handed her my lunch. Don't know why. I didn't even have a pen in the first place." Михаил Руденко / Getty Images/iStockphoto —FrostPetal2024 5."I was talking to my girlfriend in class, and then I wanted to ask the teacher something, and I called the teacher the nickname I used for my girlfriend at the time. The whole class burst out in laughter. It felt like those nightmares where everyone points and laughs at you." —PvtPill 6."A teacher at school lost a baby late in pregnancy and had time off. We (the older kids) were told what had happened. The year after, she told some of us in class that she was pregnant again and would be taking time off next term. And my teenage unfiltered response was 'Wow. Again? After what happened last time?' And even though I know I was a teenager and quite dumb, I want to go back in time and slap myself." —BobBobBobBobBobDave 7."I remember one time in fourth grade, my teacher randomly said the carefully phrased line I had never heard before, 'Mississippi is a hard word to spell. Can you spell it?' I, being a socially awkward and diligent straight-A student at the time, jumped at the chance to show off my spelling abilities, so I put my hand up and spelled 'M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I.'" Jacob Wackerhausen / Getty Images "The teacher laughed and said, 'Nope! Class?' and literally the entire class all said in unison, 'I-T' and all laughed uproariously while I sat in embarrassed silence, wanting nothing more at that moment than for the earth to just open up and swallow me whole to put me out of my misery." —GabuEx 8."I used to go to a pub quiz with my friends every Thursday. One of the barmaids was absolutely gorgeous and was the sister of my friend's girlfriend, who told me I was definitely her type. So my friend came to the bar with me to introduce us as I got a round. She hands me my pint, smiles, and reaches over to shake my hand. Unfortunately, I have kind of shaky hands, and a bit of beer spilled down over my right hand." "In a truly brain-dead moment, I swapped the glass to my other hand and licked the beer from my hand before reaching over to shake hers. I don't know why I did it, just a deer-in-the-headlights moment. I saw her later in the beer garden having a smoke and went over to apologise. We had a good laugh about it, but I had definitely blown my chances. Still makes me wince whenever I think about it, twenty years later." —ReverendRover Related: 50 Of The Funniest Stories People Shared About The "Stupidest Person" They've Met 9."I was walking with my dog when I noticed a big pimple on my face in the reflection of a window. Inspected it closer and glanced through the window after a couple of seconds, and saw a whole class of boys staring at me. Took me a year to go past this window again." —jdonowhatido 10."I was fired once, and I knew the person who fired me before the job. It came out of absolutely nowhere, and I was completely blindsided. I literally couldn't speak, and for whatever reason I still can't comprehend, I stood up and hugged them and just walked out. I wish I had done 100 things differently in that moment. " Anchalee Phanmaha / Getty Images —SEARCHFORWHATISGOOD 11."I am female, and when I was 12, I was answering a question in science at school. The correct answer was 'something something something organism.' I got mixed up and said 'orgasm' instead. All the boys started laughing hysterically, including the male teacher, who made a slightly inappropriate joke. I had no idea what that word meant, apart from some sort of sexual connection, but I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me right then and there. I still, decades later, remember the level of humiliation I felt." —Ok-Ship8680 12."I was talking to a friend of a friend at a party when I was 18. We were getting along well and had known each other at a distance for a while. I didn't realize he had a stutter. When he stuttered, I, for some reason, thought he was joking and pretended to stutter while grinning stupidly. He suddenly looked shocked and a bit sad. I realized my misunderstanding immediately. Today I would just explain the misunderstanding and kind of own it, but I was too awkward and a teenager, so I just sort of looked shocked too and changed the subject." —Attic1992 13."One time, I was eating at a restaurant and the waitress came over to see if everything was alright, and I looked over and a massive strand of drool slid out of my mouth and right onto my plate. She backed away with her hands up." DjelicS / Getty Images —Valaqueen Related: "Something In My Head Said, 'Don't Get Up'": 16 Older Adults Reveal The Wildest Supernatural Encounters From Their Childhood 14."In my undergrad public speaking course, I noticed one girl who was supposed to speak that day didn't, so I asked her why, and she said because her asthma was acting up. My social anxiety brain that hates public speaking blurted out, 'Oh! I should've said that too!' I do not have asthma. It dawned on me very quickly after that, from the look on her face, that I had just said a very stupid and insensitive thing." —No-Statistician-3589 15."I was in high school. A girl I was interested in asked me if I liked her. Because there were other people around, I said 'no.'" —EkorrenHJ 16."When I was a younger man (pre-cell phones), a girl I was dating, in hindsight, broke up with me by telling me she was really busy but should call her to see if we could hang out. I proceeded to call her once a week for two months, intermittently, leaving voice messages. I wasn't stalking or creepy, I genuinely believed she was just that busy. The earnestness and naivety of those messages makes me cringe at my inability to take a hint." Thinkstock Images / Getty Images —IronBornPizza 17."I remember not deciding quickly enough between 'you never cease to amaze' and 'you never disappoint', and it came out 'you never cease to disappoint.' THAT was awkward." —ddonthekeys 18."I didn't believe that any girl would be interested in me. So when I gave my crush in school chocolate for Valentine's Day and she genuinely seemed to be happy about it and asked if I wanted to meet up at some point, I just said 'maybe' and walked away. Sorry for giving you the cold shoulder, Christina." —MrsWhiterock 19."I was on an after-school softball team in elementary school. During games, we had some chants that we would yell at the other team when we were bored in the dugout while our team was at bat—typical trash talk stuff. One time, my team was on the field, but being the worst player on the team, I wasn't given a position and was left to hang out alone in the dugout. I got it in my head that I could at least help by doing one of our chants by myself." Dann Tardif / Getty Images "I picked my favorite one, and with my whole chest, started yelling a chant about the outfielders being incompetent and encouraging the batter to hit a home run, forgetting that my team was the one in the outfield and the other team was batting. I realized my mistake after one verse and just slowly trailed off. To this day, I physically cringe when I remember it." —returntoapeiron 20."I went on a group trek with my friends from high school. One of the girls there was quite like an influencer. Matched her beanies to her outfits and overpacked when we were specifically asked not to. She was a good person, though. Cue me loudly talking about her to all my friends. With the theatrical hand gestures and mean girl comments. She was sitting behind me all the time. She heard everything. In fact, she piped in while I was in the middle of my rant, saying, 'You know I can hear you, right?' Most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me. Wish I could take it back." —seashell_2020 21."I don't know why, but I once curtsied to a pair of nuns. They stopped in at my work one day because they knew my grandfather (RIP) and wanted to speak to my mother about something. I don't know why I did it, but when I went to go find her for them, I half curtsied/bowed my head." —AirNomadKiki 22."I had been talking to a guy on a dating site for weeks, and we were finally meeting in person. I was 24 or 25 at the time, but not very experienced, as I had only dated one guy before this. The man I was meeting was 30, very handsome, and a real adult with a good job and his own place, so I was nervous beyond belief. When I got to the bar and saw him waiting for me, my nerves kicked in, and my whole body started to shake. He turned and saw me, lit up, and opened his arms as if ready to hug me." Antonio Hugo Photo / Getty Images "I completely panicked and had no idea what to do, so I walked up to him and blurted out, 'I have to poo,' and then continued walking to the back of the bar where I eventually found a bathroom. I then hid in shame for over an hour. I have no idea why I said that — I didn't even have to go. I just remember calling my bestie crying from the toilet stall, and she confirmed that I did indeed have to change my name and move to Mongolia to start a new life, because it was embarrassing beyond belief. The guy, to his credit, texted me to see if I was alright, but I ignored and blocked him and sat in that bathroom stall for an ungodly amount of time until I thought he'd left. Mark, if you're reading this, I'm so sorry." —lady_fresh 23."I was at a party and inebriated and talking in a group that included a trans woman I had just met who was really early in her transition, and I was trying to agree with something and went, 'That's what /he/ said!' really emphatically, while gesturing to her. After like half a second my brain went dammit dammit and I corrected and repeated 'That's what /she/ said!' but I still feel awful when I think of it because I know that getting misgendered is fucking shitty. She and her partner became part of our friends group at the time, and we hung out occasionally after, so I hope she knows I didn't mean it." —greypyramid7 24."I was around maybe fourth or fifth grade, and was over my friend's house one day in the summer. Her mom was asking about our family's upcoming summer vacation, so I was telling her all about how we were going to stay at my Aunt's condo near the beach. Only I was saying 'condom' instead of condo for the entire conversation. My friend told me afterwards and couldn't stop laughing." —maeby_not 25."I had to go into work for a meeting six hours after my night shift ended, so I just threw on the same clothes with clean underwear. I was walking into the meeting room, late, when last night's bright red knickers slid down the leg of my jeans onto my shoe, and I kicked them clear across the room in front of everyone." Moppet / Getty Images —FormalMango 26."I tried to jokingly ask someone if they had been to a cock fighting ring and instead asked if they had been in a cock ring." —MagicalGhostMango finally, "In 10th grade Spanish, I tried impressing a girl by reading a love poem… entirely in the wrong language. I grabbed the French page, went full‑speed 'Je t'aime' while my teacher's eyebrows launched into orbit. Class went silent, then someone coughed, 'Wrong class, Romeo.' I still wake up at 3 a.m., replaying that bilingual train wreck. The only thing that helps is imagining future‑me re‑watching the scene on a couch like it's a comedy short. If it's going to live rent‑free in my head, it might as well pay with laughs." —ChopCoupons Can you relate? Tell us about that tiny little moment of pure cringe that you still think about in the comments or via the anonymous form below: Also in Internet Finds: People Revealed The Creepiest, Cult-Like Towns In The United States And, Jesus Christ, It's Icky Also in Internet Finds: 23 People Who Tried Their Best, But Crapped The Bed So Bad Also in Internet Finds: 27 Extremely Disturbing Wikipedia Pages That Will Haunt Your Dreams Until The End Of Your Days
