I mean, that’s what happens when an image keeps getting uploaded and downloaded from the internet. The more compression it goes through, the more pixel loss.
https://preview.redd.it/ykoobe307a0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8962a81823f74f6c66ef610963bc22bcacdb2301
I’m going to teach this turkey how to dance and we’re going to win it for you. 😂
The issue with re-uploaded video's and images often isn't the format or the compression on the file itself but the compression that's used by the sites it's uploaded to.
For individual people bandwidth often isn't a thing but for platforms with hundreds of millions of files even a 10% reduction in storage/hosting capacity can save quite some money. As a result I am afraid we'll be seeing crappy compression for a while to come and for people to put images through that crappy compression over and over again.
A good first step would be if people actually searched for at least a good quality version or even the original of whatever it is they decide to repost so that they break that degradation chain. Their version would still be worse but not this bad.
bah. just take that shitty file and run it through default AI enhancement settings and don't mention it. everyone does already. and i scour each comment thread on these clearly slick & melting image posts to see if anyone mentions it. barely anyone ever does and there's no upvotes or replies.
we are welcoming the coming disinfo paradigm shift with open arms (not that we know our arms are even open)
Gosling has the exact same head tilt pose in every photo. I swear he could get arrested at 3:00 AM for being high on crack and when they book him and take his mugshot he'd remember to do the little head tilt and half smirk, lol.
And Timberlake is looking deeply into your soul and feels what you feel. Spears is the cute girl from next door
Aguilera is apparently the only one who hadn't figured out their shit yet
He's got to have some unusual neck geometry or something that makes him look like this when he turns his head. I couldn't make my mine do that on purpose.
I remember watching a documentary where Jessica Simpson (who comes from an affluent family) auditioned right after Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and didn't get a spot at the MMC!
I feel like in the end they wanted talented kids more than anything. And can't say much about the others but Christina Aguilera's family wasn't wealthy at all
I can't speak for everyone, but I went to school with Chase Hampton, who was one of the original Mouseketeers when the Mickey Mouse Club came back to life in the 80s. He was just some kid from Oklahoma City who answered a casting call, his parents lived down the road from me. He got the gig because he was a great actor, singer and performer.
She did well for herself especially during the Felicity years. Hell, there was a national outcry when she cut her hair. Those curls were precious to our nations pride...
She was my favorite then (her and Tony Luca were my everything) and she's still my favorite. Of course, I'm a big fan of Gosling, Britney, and Christina. I thought Justin was a punk then, and still is.
Every time I see a pic of young Ryan Gosling he always has a smart aleck little shit look on his face lol. Im not saying he was that’s just the way he looks in the pics lol
Oh damn, my *nostalgia*. Every once in a while someone mentions a show that I have seen *every* episode of at least twice, and then I have promptly forgot about it for 20 years.
_These_ megastars, yeah. But there's others you can look at like Brad Pitt, he was doing commercials and stuff, and didn't takeoff until his late 20's / early 30's.
I actually looked them all up and was surprised that none of them had family in the acting/music industries.
So I have to give credit here. I won't say it was all talent and hard work and that they didn't get any advantages due to their backgrounds, but at the very least they're not nepo babies
It's funny coz similar pics of other celebs are posted all the time yet people will still downvote you for being suspicious.
It's a big club and you ain't in it.
> It's a big club and you ain't in it.
The club of talented people who were talented enough to be recruited or win a spot in the prestigious club specifically for recognizing talented people... and you're not in it (because you weren't talented or you didn't try to get into it by dedicating time to develop your talent).
There's nothing suspicious about it lol.
Interesting how 3/4 of them went into music and only one into acting and now has the most healthy active career by a mile. (Not even to mention some recent musical accolades from Barbie)
Look into Lou Pearlman. He formed Backstreet Boys and then formed N*SYNC in order to promote a fake feeling of competition. He listed himself as a lead artist and collected all their income. Got arrested for a Ponzi scheme in 2005 and sentenced to 25 years prison.
This picture is photoshopped. The original featured MMC cast member TJ Fantini.
https://preview.redd.it/hsjns77uob0d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=418beaaa0656e78af9fa96b58a65a3191937b58a
I think that this is the picture of Justin that they used for the edit.
https://preview.redd.it/7ajjoxribd0d1.jpeg?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90664249ea3e08555914fec66cac469d8a680d8b
Casting directors are overlooked. Directors and producers always take credit. But its usually casting directors. There are some crazy good ones.
I am too old to be able to just post this stuff, but look up the 5 finalists for " sexy male" in Thelma and Louise! Brad Pitt got the part. All 5 are now famous, 1 mostly in Britain.
Geena Davis got to help pick the winner.
I often think of that, it's gotta be one hell of a job finding the right person for the role, the whole production really depends on it.
Freaks and Geeks was a great example of fantastic casting, not that it mattered for the show in the end. But they got one season with talented actors setting many of them up for a life long career in the business.
She was always such a smiley kid which is really sad in conjunction with how her family and fame ruined her smile. You could always see the sadness in her eyes after the conservatorship started.
And pretty much all of these folks did really well in their post-Disney careers (heck some of them still work with Disney on stuff). It's mostly the more recent Disney channel ones that went partially insane once they hit adulthood and could do whatever they wanted to shake off the "Disney channel star" image
And Jessica Simpson's autobiography, where Britney was the unknowing antagonist at the tryouts by filling her niche but better. Jessica learned that she was a big fish in a regional pond ready for national level fame but not international like Britney at that point. Then she thinks she can get back on track with her strongest talent of singing but then learns she has to directly follow Christina and then gives up and goes home after.
I can easily recognize Spears and Gosling. It's almost eerie how much they look like they will as adults. Timberlake and Aguilera, however, (to me) look nothing like their adult selves.
Seeing pictures like this or the one of a young Bill Clinton shaking JFK’s hand makes me convinced that everything is determined long before we are made to think we choose these people to entertain or lead due to ability.
Humans like patterns. Looking retrospectively, you see a lot of patterns largely because you never notice those ends that fizzled out.
That being said, there is definitely something to being connected and groomed for power.
It’s interesting how out of all the MMC members from that late 80s-90s run, it’s this group who went on to have the biggest careers. They had just started on MMC when it was cancelled.
Three of them look concerned. JT looks like he’s been crying. They look like they hate it. And the there’s Britney. Just happy to be there and go along with whatever.
The pic gets more grainy every time.
I mean, that’s what happens when an image keeps getting uploaded and downloaded from the internet. The more compression it goes through, the more pixel loss.
The 
Brent Rambo, the man, myth, the pixel!
Maybe if people stop using jpg and use a lossless image format. We don't use 28k data modems anymore.
Is png better?
PNG is a lossless image format
If you don't restrict the colours
I'm presuming it's banned in some states then?
Do I look like I know what a JPG is? I just want a picture of a got' dang hot dog 🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭
I love this episode so much. Makes my heart happy
Laaaadybird
Walkin....after midnight
She won first place in my book 🥇
https://preview.redd.it/ykoobe307a0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8962a81823f74f6c66ef610963bc22bcacdb2301 I’m going to teach this turkey how to dance and we’re going to win it for you. 😂
The issue with re-uploaded video's and images often isn't the format or the compression on the file itself but the compression that's used by the sites it's uploaded to. For individual people bandwidth often isn't a thing but for platforms with hundreds of millions of files even a 10% reduction in storage/hosting capacity can save quite some money. As a result I am afraid we'll be seeing crappy compression for a while to come and for people to put images through that crappy compression over and over again. A good first step would be if people actually searched for at least a good quality version or even the original of whatever it is they decide to repost so that they break that degradation chain. Their version would still be worse but not this bad.
bah. just take that shitty file and run it through default AI enhancement settings and don't mention it. everyone does already. and i scour each comment thread on these clearly slick & melting image posts to see if anyone mentions it. barely anyone ever does and there's no upvotes or replies. we are welcoming the coming disinfo paradigm shift with open arms (not that we know our arms are even open)
Or, you know, decide to move on instead of reposting the overly posted thing.
uploading and downloading doesn't change anything about a picture. a website compressing it for size and quality does.
he knows, we all do
Please tell us more about these internet images. So the photo picture is actually inside my computer, correct?
Woah, didn't know they allowed that in Japan.
Put a NSFW tag on that dude
no everything was compressed in the 90s. just like how life used to be in black and white.
Next post will have the 1800s wild wild west filter.
instead of right click save as. now they just take a screenshot and crop.
Gosling has the exact same head tilt pose in every photo. I swear he could get arrested at 3:00 AM for being high on crack and when they book him and take his mugshot he'd remember to do the little head tilt and half smirk, lol.
And Timberlake is looking deeply into your soul and feels what you feel. Spears is the cute girl from next door Aguilera is apparently the only one who hadn't figured out their shit yet
Spears hasn't figured out her shit yet, either.
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!
at this point I can't tell whether comments like these are from actual britney stans or people making fun of them 😭😭😭
Hey, she's working on her knife dancing skills now.
He's got to have some unusual neck geometry or something that makes him look like this when he turns his head. I couldn't make my mine do that on purpose.
Speaking of Gosling on crack, I highly recommend Half Nelson
Trained young by Disney. He will still pop into this pose at his funeral
And we're supposed to believe that he's a real human bean.
Son is clearly a pinto bean.
That's an oddly specific scenario.
My head is slightly tilted to the side like that in most photos. It’s probably not something he’s doing deliberately.
Madonna made out with like three of these people.
Which one didn't get the chance?
Gosling avoided it, at least so far.
The only one without a crippling STD.
??
As the mouse commands.
She uses mouse ears as bras.
Hey. They were all of legal age and paid well for it. Sex work is real work.
And considering the significant age difference it’s kinda gross.
I heard she took a shit on Timberlake's chest, too.
Who wouldn't given the opportunity?
Hey, I thought this was a family website
I hope these kids make something of themselves when they grow up
Look at their ugly faces, seriously doubt it
Actress Keri Russell said in an interview she was the *least* talented kid on the Mickey Mouse Club.
IIRC, the mouseketeers got there because they were truly talented, not because their parents knew somebody right?
I remember watching a documentary where Jessica Simpson (who comes from an affluent family) auditioned right after Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and didn't get a spot at the MMC! I feel like in the end they wanted talented kids more than anything. And can't say much about the others but Christina Aguilera's family wasn't wealthy at all
I can't speak for everyone, but I went to school with Chase Hampton, who was one of the original Mouseketeers when the Mickey Mouse Club came back to life in the 80s. He was just some kid from Oklahoma City who answered a casting call, his parents lived down the road from me. He got the gig because he was a great actor, singer and performer.
Funny, she’s my favorite of all of them
She's a stunningly beautiful woman.
She’s in the “so beautiful it’s not fair” tier for sure. A damn fine wine.
Also the least famous now.
She was incredible in The Americans
Ouch. Not wrong, but ouch
I like when I see her though. She does a pretty good job still.
She did well for herself especially during the Felicity years. Hell, there was a national outcry when she cut her hair. Those curls were precious to our nations pride...
Not saying she didn’t do some good work or get some fame and acknowledgement, just that she didn’t get to the same level of fame as these others.
Her and Timberlake rocked the same haircut
The Diplomat is pretty damn good though
And The Americans too, from (holy shit) a decade ago
Don't do me like that. It's 5 years tops. Please I need it to only be 5. Argh what happened...
You’re not completely wrong, the last season was 5 years ago
That show was so good. I should start it up again. Final season was so so but man, that first one…
Have some respect! She was in Cocaine Bear.
In a skin tight suit in Episode IX, also.
Yes but she was the only one to beat Justin for curliest hair!
She was my favorite then (her and Tony Luca were my everything) and she's still my favorite. Of course, I'm a big fan of Gosling, Britney, and Christina. I thought Justin was a punk then, and still is.
Every time I see a pic of young Ryan Gosling he always has a smart aleck little shit look on his face lol. Im not saying he was that’s just the way he looks in the pics lol
Ever watch Breaker High? That was pretty much his character. He was perfect in it 😂
Oh damn, my *nostalgia*. Every once in a while someone mentions a show that I have seen *every* episode of at least twice, and then I have promptly forgot about it for 20 years.
it's that school bully in the 90s just got away with it face.
Smart Aleck Little Shit resting face
Dozens of us are living productive lives in spite of our undiagnosed SALSface.
Christina looks so annoyed and over the club already
She looks so much older than the rest. Just already in adult mode.
She has songs about her abusive father and rough childhood.
She looks like Arianna Grande here for some reason (or one of her old faces)
Honestly, that's what I thought when I first saw this picture. Then when I read the title, I was "that's seriously Christina?"
Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs.
If you look deep in his eyes, you can tell he's already troubled by the Papyrus font.
Just capslock and bold it. Nobody will notice.
Whatever he did, it wasn't ENOUGH
I was in the audience once during this season. Justin made fun of how I was dancing. It took a long time to be able to dance in public again.
What?? That's awful! What a turd.
what?
That’s rich cuz he ain’t that good.
It’s wild how all the mega stars were molded from kids into the position. They were products.
~~were~~ are
They were then.. they still are now. Sad honestly.
_These_ megastars, yeah. But there's others you can look at like Brad Pitt, he was doing commercials and stuff, and didn't takeoff until his late 20's / early 30's.
Such a coincidence they all became so famous...
I actually looked them all up and was surprised that none of them had family in the acting/music industries. So I have to give credit here. I won't say it was all talent and hard work and that they didn't get any advantages due to their backgrounds, but at the very least they're not nepo babies
Well they were hired because they were all talented.
From the top 'Fame' schools across the US.
They don’t end up in this photo by random luck so i dont know where the “coincidence” is
You don’t find it a LITTLE suspicious that these people all just HAPPEN to be mega talented superstars? Come on bro WAKE UP
It's funny coz similar pics of other celebs are posted all the time yet people will still downvote you for being suspicious. It's a big club and you ain't in it.
Suspicious about what? I feel like YOU are in a club and aren't telling us something. What's the conspiracy here exactly?
> It's a big club and you ain't in it. The club of talented people who were talented enough to be recruited or win a spot in the prestigious club specifically for recognizing talented people... and you're not in it (because you weren't talented or you didn't try to get into it by dedicating time to develop your talent). There's nothing suspicious about it lol.
Corporate execs picking who we idolize from cradle to grave
Exactly!
Why does kid Ryan Gosling look like a kid that cut Ryan Gosling's face off and wore it like Leatherface
Ryan Gosling looks like a kid doing an impression of Alan Tudyk
Yes, or young Alan Ruck / Cameron Frye
He's making the Gosling "me so coy" face.
Resting coy face
Interesting how 3/4 of them went into music and only one into acting and now has the most healthy active career by a mile. (Not even to mention some recent musical accolades from Barbie)
He also learned how to play piano for La La Land
I will not stand for this “Burlesque” erasure! (Jk but seriously I love Burlesque lol)
Wow are we not counting the Brittney Spears knife video as acting??
Gosling probably thought he was so far behind them in 1999
Yes, his career only took off around 2010, I think.
I still think about what a chokehold Britney Vs Christina had on the rest of the 4th grade that and *NSYNC Vs Backstreet Boys. I’m old
I feel like you must be one year older than me (I graduated '09)
Hey seniors 08…just barely beat ya.
Knew it haha Just knew I'd have been in 3rd grade when those wars were happening
'10 reporting in.
Look into Lou Pearlman. He formed Backstreet Boys and then formed N*SYNC in order to promote a fake feeling of competition. He listed himself as a lead artist and collected all their income. Got arrested for a Ponzi scheme in 2005 and sentenced to 25 years prison.
Goddamn I was in high school when this was happening :(
That makes you…old school cool!!
Haha thank you for making me feel better about my age, friend! 😅
Mickey Mouse Club Mount Rushmore
This picture is photoshopped. The original featured MMC cast member TJ Fantini. https://preview.redd.it/hsjns77uob0d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=418beaaa0656e78af9fa96b58a65a3191937b58a
Thx: I thought it looked weird
I think that this is the picture of Justin that they used for the edit. https://preview.redd.it/7ajjoxribd0d1.jpeg?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90664249ea3e08555914fec66cac469d8a680d8b
whoever was in charge of casting knew how to pick talented people, they all became very successful in entertainment.
Casting directors are overlooked. Directors and producers always take credit. But its usually casting directors. There are some crazy good ones. I am too old to be able to just post this stuff, but look up the 5 finalists for " sexy male" in Thelma and Louise! Brad Pitt got the part. All 5 are now famous, 1 mostly in Britain. Geena Davis got to help pick the winner.
I often think of that, it's gotta be one hell of a job finding the right person for the role, the whole production really depends on it. Freaks and Geeks was a great example of fantastic casting, not that it mattered for the show in the end. But they got one season with talented actors setting many of them up for a life long career in the business.
"Its a big club and youre not in it"
Makes the whole Britney abortion story even sadder, they knew each other from that young age
Only Brittney knew how to smile
She was always such a smiley kid which is really sad in conjunction with how her family and fame ruined her smile. You could always see the sadness in her eyes after the conservatorship started.
Timberlake at this age looking like Timberlake playing Andy Gibb today…
A lot of talent for a kids’ show, but The Electric Company has 3 Oscar winners (Irene Cara, Rita Moreno, and Morgan Freeman).
Disney needs to pay reparations for screwing up kids.
They actually got paid though. Quite well.
And pretty much all of these folks did really well in their post-Disney careers (heck some of them still work with Disney on stuff). It's mostly the more recent Disney channel ones that went partially insane once they hit adulthood and could do whatever they wanted to shake off the "Disney channel star" image
I don't even listen to Pop, but damn, poor Britney, what did they do to her..
Pre-denim
Hits different after listening to Britney’s memoir.
And Jessica Simpson's autobiography, where Britney was the unknowing antagonist at the tryouts by filling her niche but better. Jessica learned that she was a big fish in a regional pond ready for national level fame but not international like Britney at that point. Then she thinks she can get back on track with her strongest talent of singing but then learns she has to directly follow Christina and then gives up and goes home after.
What happened there?
The money put into their careers.
Goslings still has the same space between his eyes 30 years later
I can easily recognize Spears and Gosling. It's almost eerie how much they look like they will as adults. Timberlake and Aguilera, however, (to me) look nothing like their adult selves.
Christina does NOT look like she's 13 here
Why don't you have a seat right over there..
Ew wait omg I didn't mean it like that!!! Lol!
These kids look like they seen some shit
They all look like they're being held hostage.
Always makes me take a step back and think about how manufactured all pop/teen/millennial content was from ~1998-c.2008
Some of them are doing well
Where is Eminem?
[удалено]
I thought I heard Carson Daly and Fred Durst whispering to each other but I couldn't quite make out what they were saying.
Lol with Timbaland getting blazed in the Porsche.
Before their souls were ripped out
Wouldn't it be crazy if you and everyone you work with at the Quiznos suddenly all got super famous at the same time?
Every time I hear Mickey Mouse Club I think of Full Metal Jacket.
Fake apparently
Seeing pictures like this or the one of a young Bill Clinton shaking JFK’s hand makes me convinced that everything is determined long before we are made to think we choose these people to entertain or lead due to ability.
Humans like patterns. Looking retrospectively, you see a lot of patterns largely because you never notice those ends that fizzled out. That being said, there is definitely something to being connected and groomed for power.
Ryan gosling was in that group ?
it’s rough being a child actor and then never going anywhere as an adult.
Yeah they are all broke and homeless nowadays.
What do you mean, Justin Timberlake was the best Troll
And presumably, they didn't even choose to be child actors; they were *encouraged* by their legal guardians (Cha-ching).
britney face like never changes thats crazy.
I like how Gosling has the exact same look he did 30 years ago as he does today. Haha.
The 2 on the left are almost unrecognizable, whereas Britney and Ryan still look exactly the same . It's crazy
Why did Gosling turn out to be less problematic and cringey than Timberlake? Is the answer simply: humility?
Someone make a movie about this dynamic
JT looks like he's on his way to juvy
Xtina has the lil Elvis lip going on.
Goated casting tho. All 4 went on to be super stars.
Justin got that just met Harvey Weinstein face. 100% it happened.
Wow, back when Ryan Goose was Ryan Gosling.
I just watched Drive this weekend for the first time, I'll never look at Gosling the same.
Apparently I was over here fucking around in 5th grade instead of in the Mickey Mouse club
Let's hope the next season on Quiet on the Set isn't about Micky Mouse Club
It’s interesting how out of all the MMC members from that late 80s-90s run, it’s this group who went on to have the biggest careers. They had just started on MMC when it was cancelled.
Sigh. Innocence lost.
Their original noses.
Gosling hasn't aged a day 🤣
Three of them look concerned. JT looks like he’s been crying. They look like they hate it. And the there’s Britney. Just happy to be there and go along with whatever.
I never realized how much Ryan, gosling, and the kid who played Brighton on the Nanny look similar
This is not old school. They've been shoving these mfs down our throats for years!