MySpace was a mess. Even if you are the most accepting, tolerant, beautiful soul out there, you still must admit that when social media was new and everyone was still trying to figure out this whole "taking pictures of ourselves" thing, MySpace became the garbage depository that we all needed. If you say you didn't have one of these 12 angles on your MySpace, you're a big fat liar.
1.The fedora
This hat, tilted at the side, made everyone look totally cool. Definitely 100% mobster and 0% Cheeto-dust fingers and adult My Little Pony fans, right?2. The "Looking away from the camera" I am ashamed to say that I still have the one I used to wear in mine.
2. The "Look Away From the Camera"
Because it was too cool to make eye contact. Maybe we all did this because we didn't want people to think that we were just this weird looking.
3. The Professional photo editor
What was this editing app? I remember everyone using it and writing things like "Summerrrr <3" in Paint-esque fonts. And the filters. Oh God the filters.
4) The duck-face/peace sign combo
Once again, so cool. If I make an ugly face, it means that I'm not ugly in real life... I'm trying to on purpose, right?
5) The Concealer Lips
Okay, this one wasn't an angle. It was much, much more sinister than that. And it's coming back into style.
6) The Piknik Edit
PikNik. That's what that app was called. The app that turned all of us in 8th grade into graphic designers basically. Once again, we all seemed to think that once you added a totally obnoxious and not-at-all-trying-too hard filter, all our insecurities would go away.
7) The MySpace URL
ORIGINAL PROPERTY DO NOT STEAL! Like people were going to our MySpaces and catfishing with our mirror pics with the flash still on. My sister used to be guilty of this. The girl genuinely thought she was going to end up on Catfish.
8) The "camera in a mirror"
What was it with the early 2000's that had such an aversion to asking "hey mami, can you take a picture of me?" I think it's because deep down we were all secretly ashamed of what we were doing. This stuff was humiliating and subconsciously we all knew it. Not well enough to...you know, not put it on the internet for the world to see, but we knew it.
9) The "Was there even a camera on this cell phone?" picture
RIP NOKIA put respect on his name.
10) The weird, collage-esque...thing
This is one of those things that I am happy to say that I didn't engage in. Once again, what the heck was the point of this? "Look at me, I'm so cool that I have 6 photos on me nonchalantly looking away from the camera." So. Cool.
11) The Webcam
So what, you didn't own a mirror? That was the only excuse to have such an impersonal, grainy photo that looked like something from CSI: Special Victim's Unit in the early 2000s.
12) The Master Paint Edit
Once again, we were all master graphic designers. This one is like #3's stupid younger brother who's 10 years old but still can't really read yet, but who really wants to be like his older bro. His older bro who is also a goddamn disaster.
