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Reviewing my old Flickr Photos!

🕑 Added 2024-08-16 18:10:40 +0000 UTC

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Eva

It's such a cute time capsule 🤍

Kathleen Duncan

If no one has responded yet... You're in luck, friend! https://youtu.be/xmp1t3W4goA?si=-5rN98AOBarOK_fZ

Grackles

I still love dresses as tops! Also, that chair you are sitting in! Have you explained that somewhere, and if so where, and if not can you tell us how you made that? I love it.

Johanna Henderson

I hear dresses over jeans are coming back 😉

Shannon

Omg I loved these! It would be interesting to see you recreate your favorites now that you have developed into an awesome artist and content creator ❤️

Tess Gardner

Thank you for the Binx peets!

Jules

Honestly these have a good deal of skill involved! It's just extremely of the time, with a good dose of Adolescence. These would be right at home on old school "aesthetic" tumblr.

SakuraHarley

Don't be hard on yourself! These were amazing and a sign of the times haha XD I love them all so much and it unlocked memories of myself doing similar things <3

Danielle Bergmann

Don't worry. One Easter, my 13 yr old self thought it was a good idea to corrupt my little cousin into pretending we were both dead on a bench in our Easter dresses for a "death selfie." I had a stuffed blue monkey around my neck for color and took the Pic myself. Absolutely no editing was done. I hate myself every time I think about it 🤣🐰🐣💀

Allison Burleson

So fun, thanks for sharing! I definitely had some 2009-2010 memories unlocked by watching your journey. Honestly great job to young Rachel for being so creative!

Anna O.

I was a drama kid who lived in hoodies and jeans and tended to avoid photos when I was in my early teens, but I got into taking film pictures for a while and have a lot of pictures from when I was working at a summer camp in the early 2000s--I don't think any of them ended up online because that would have required getting my dad to help me use his film scanner and he'd already commented that my prints had a lot of pictures of a certain boy. Far too embarrassing. I didn't even start a blog until shortly before heading off to university in 2005, so I also had nowhere to post them.

Nikita C

The floppy boots took me back! 🤣🤣 don't forget the vests!! Loved me a good vest!

Delphia

Congratulations! 🥳

Rachel Maksy

TRUE lol

Rachel Maksy

Lol YESSS

Amanda

You just triggered all of my memories from my early 2000 deviantart days, where I did dramatic emo photoshoots with my friends lol.

Mary Artberry

Okay but in your/our defense, dresses worn as tops was how we coped with a fashion industry that really did not care about our level of comfort

Andrea Roark

I loved this, it was so fun to see your old photos

Renee

A Fall livestream in September would be fun.

Ciara Neiger

I was 17 in 2003/2004 and my friends an I inexpertly were cosplaying Lord of the Rings and Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version). I love how much growth I've made in my creative journey since then and don't cringe at the old stuff, even when my friends do. 😉

David Birkam

Hearty meal of validation was/is the source of so much creative internet cringe. That propelled me for so many years. I'm glad to see you giving your past self so much love/grace.

Maggie Stewart

Okay but now show us your tumblr 😂

Hannah Stoelb

I would have absolutely added your pictures to my MySpace for the ✨aesthetic ✨

Samantha E.

This was amazing.

Carly Black

Thank you for the trip down memory lane. It'd always both fun and TERRIBLE to go back and look at your stuff from high school.

Katelyn Ryder

Are we the same person?! These just typify the 2009-2010 vibe I lived. Memories ☺️

Autumn Rose

As an Alabamian (don't hold it against me) I had to laugh at the Cape Cod hoodie in the country photoshoot. Nothing says country like...Cape Cod!

Bizbot

My cringe era was just before social media happened so my cringe photos are somewhere in my mother's house in a shoe box and will never see the light of day. Some peak early 90s fashion and hair choices. Does anyone else remember hair mascara? Also I am obsessed with your office chair once again 💖

Caleb Bonyun

This threw me back in time so hard, my friends and I did a photoshoot for her photography class in that exact place where you did the wedding dress one at almost the same time. What a small world!

Ashlea H

I think finding out who someone was in high school is an EXCELLENT way of knowing at least a their formative oomph.

Breahna Lesemann

Angsty high school art is the best. I have many ridiculous art pieces out in the world. Thanks for sharing yours!

Elizabeth Saltmarsh

Less than 2 weeks, you say? Time to go style my wig.

✨Sadie✨

Oh so embarrassing I have some of the exact same pics and poses of myself to. I guess we though the arms up thing was so 'carefree' 🤣🙄 and I have the exact same swing photo pose to haha 😂😂

Samantha Gray

Some of the self portraits are giving very early Taylor swift ❤️

Emily 莉莉

This is like reading my old high school poetry

HoneyAndBlueberries

Here I am in the garden with my arms up 😂😂😂

FrizzyLizzy

It would be cool to see you redo some of these photos to see how you’d take the same pose & setting, but frame & edit it differently!

Cheri LaTorre

Your friends are lucky, I coerced all my friends in college to pose for photographs naked. Lol. It was a long time ago and naked was pretty much the name of the game.

noveltypenmanship

I was thinking that Butterflies and Hurricanes looked like the cover of an indie rock album and then you broke out the strings🤘

Arti

ohh my god all of these bands you named were SUCH a throwback 😂 and what boy didn't list "into the wild" as their fav book/movie back then lolll. i like how kind you are to your younger self, that's something I'm def working on myself!

Jac and the making of

I get it. I love snacks, too 🤣🤣

Alyssa Steiner

i forgot about FlickR till now

Nicole Coan

Well you still kind of wear a dress as a top sometimes 😂 you just add a skirt on top 😉

Sanam Jamshidi

This made me think of the time I used to edit photos of myself on piknik and post them on Facebook hahahahahaha I wish I could bleach that period from my brain because of the cringe :)))))))

teebe

Cackling bc my friends and I did the exact same things. Dead girl photos? Check. Taking artsy photos and posting them to song lyrics? Check. Coercing friends into photo/video shoots? Check. Everyone trying to learn guitar? Check. also these types of photos seem cringe now but they would have killed on MySpace.

✨Sadie✨

Two videos in one day! My heart😍😍😍💖💓💓 I can't take such excitement

Kristin B

I thought I was the only one obsessed with the solar flares 😅

Leigh

This was a super delightful blast from the past! And I would wager that NO ONE on EARTH can look back at high school photos without a bit of a cringe. It's a universal experience!

Rachel Maksy

hahahaha lil hams

Rachel Maksy

💯💯💯😂

Rachel Maksy

LOL yes

Rachel Maksy

LOLL

Rachel Maksy

hahhahaha thank you!

Jo Bauer (Sewing Nerd Studios)

I didn't think I knew who that was at first, but I spent too many summers at Warped Tour to not recognize that face once I looked him up 😂😂

Dottie Elizabeth Vanderbilt

I blame Christofer Drew for the vests, honestly. 😂

Martha

I always want people to know how I was in highschool. I feel like it better explains the nerdy outbursts that squeak out later -- they'll be prepared 😂

Elon Bond

I have a deviantart that I think of every once in awhile… and then I cover myself in a blanket and remind myself that it was the early 2000’s and everything is okay

Jessica Turnley

Rachel in her JJ Abrams era. 😁

Rachel Maksy

🥰🥰

Rachel Maksy

JUST FOR UUUU

Rachel Maksy

agreed!!

Rachel Maksy

absolutely 😂😂

Sabrné

Your composition on these photos were kinda fire tho.

Rachel Maksy

lol YES

Rachel Maksy

15 years in March! 🤯

Rachel Maksy

hahahaha EXACTLY

DawnZimm

🎶 You would not believe your eyesss, if ten million firefliess

OdinsSage

Someone just pick that poor girl up >v<

OdinsSage

Were these photos a product of their time? Absolutely. But that's not something to feel cringe or embarrassed about. You're allowed to go through changes and experiment, that's how we evolve and grow as people. If we didn't have the "cringe" moments, we would be shallow souls. You should be proud of past Rachel, she's what got you to where you are today.

Jo Bauer (Sewing Nerd Studios)

Why did we all decide business casual vests were necessary to complete the late 2000s scene-kid adjacent aesthetic? 😂😂 This was so specifically relevant to my experience of that time, it brought back so many memories - so thanks for sharing! 🖤🤘

Dildo Shwaggins

Back of Tommys head looks like Harry Potter😭🩷🙏🏻

Whitney

A Fine Frenzy had a chokehold on me. I’m so sad that there weren’t more albums.

Jac and the making of

Our cat needed an auto feeder for the same reasons lol. Hobbits everywhere

Tristyn Pease

Peets for Patreoooon!🤣

Laney Boyd

i actually really love the maternal sort of understanding you're offering your younger self! acknowledging that it was a time of self discovery and figuring out what you liked, what worked, what didn't, all that jazz. and also: in order to eventually make good art you pretty much always have to make some not so good art first!

Delphia

I had no idea that you and Nick have been together that long! Congratulations! And thank you for this peek into Teen Rachel!

Dottie Elizabeth Vanderbilt

Somehow finding out we have such similar teen lore makes mine feel less cringe 😂😂 it's all cannon events in the emo to vintage pipeline

Eloise (San1984)

Bink's having hobbits meals makes me so happy somehow 😁 also, not nearly as cringe as I thought it might be ;)

Rachel Maksy

it's wild!!

Rachel Maksy

oh YES myspace for sure lmaooo

Rachel Maksy

hahahah OF COURSE

Rachel Maksy

LMAOOO

Anne-Marie Robart

Hardy meal of validation 🤣 An excellent description of all teenage social media (...myspace... 😒). Love this Rachel. Thank you for sharing! ❤️

Lilith

I love that you had a Muse phase bc same omfg

Kathryn Laudeman

The slouchy boots were definitely present!

Rachel Maksy

LMAO that's genius

Rachel Maksy

YES HAHAHA

Rachel Maksy

heehhee <333

ida

babe wake up, piping hot Rachel lore just dropped

Demara Morrow

"voluntold" is my favorite word to explain friends doing things they hate but love me and do anyways when I do t give them a choice lol

Emma-Rose Colk

I am so ready for the nostalgia! I went to university in 2006 and it feels like a lifetime away now

Kathryn Laudeman

lol this reminded me SO MUCH of the “fashion” tumblr that my friends and I made in high school and had so many photo shoots for 😂

Rachel Maksy

awwww :) and YUP hahahaha I could never do that these days

Liz

It may be mostly cringe but it's really cute to see baby Rachel and baby Nick and how soft and smiley you got while looking at those photos. Thanks for sharing ♥️

Rachel Maksy

LOL yuuuuuup

Rachel Maksy

HAHAHA

Rachel Maksy

he's like 'what gives?????'

Clu Bear

Loved this. Oh man… the memories of when I was a teenager in the early 2000s flooding back. The vibes. Love your memory of you and Nick staying up all night determined to see the sunrise. My husband and I have a memory like that too when we started dating freshman year of college. We stayed up and walked around campus all night until the sun came up. Adorable. Now I can barely stay up past 10:30 pm. Hahaha.

Ukita Cosplay

Woohoo

Caitlin Land

it’s like looking in a different flavor mirror, so glad I didn’t know what posting online was during this time

Kathryn M. Norwood

Young Rachel wanted uppies.

Edith

Pls, Cooper’s face in that pic with Nick had me CACKLING

Taffany M

I feel like images like this will go into an art history book one day 🤣

Rachel Maksy

Hehehehehe yissss

Rachel Maksy

HEHEHE

Rachel Maksy

LOL 🥰

Kara

Yessss!!! Been hoping for this since you posted these in Insta! They made me smile so much. I felt so seen 😆 So much cringe, yet so enjoyable to behold