This is amazing! I can’t believe it never occurred to me that this image would’ve been created as a joke to begin with! I feel like we all did things exactly like this at that age.. how quickly we forget.. going to go look through some old pictures now!

I love everything about this. Well researched and hilariously written. I need more meme retrospectives in my life. The excerpt of the interview with R.L. Stein was perfect. Reading all those Gersberms titles really brought back some memories.