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[–]Mr_anchovy 66 points67 points ago

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I can't imagine any other prediction of the future that ended up missing the mark by such a huge margin.

I think they could have tried harder than just giving him a mustache though... Looks a bit like Lando Calrissian.

[–]FranzWilhelmIII 12 points13 points ago

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Well his fanbase probably did increase tenfold so in that respect...

[–]mobbade 1 point2 points ago

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Literally could not be farther from how he turned out

[–]APpookie 26 points27 points ago

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He could have turned into a frog.

[–]ignisrenovatio 25 points26 points ago

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Lando?

[–]kurisutin 10 points11 points ago

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I bet if someone traveled back in time and showed them a picture of him before he died they'd either shit themselves or lock the time traveler up

[–]tourdefranz 26 points27 points ago

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What a specific reason to travel back in time.

[–]solarnexus 0 points1 point ago

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I expect if you're going to bend space-time itself and possibly break all the known laws of physics, it had better be for a specific reason...

"Hmm... now what do I do? twiddles thumbs"

[–]eidetic 0 points1 point ago

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Popcorn!

[–]PhantomBeggar 5 points6 points ago

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close enough.

[–]GrinningPariah 5 points6 points ago

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Could someone reddit up a shot of MJ in 2000 for comparison? I'm asleep.

[–]ashpatash 15 points16 points ago*

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Michael Jackson 2000

ps sweet dreams

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points ago

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No, not Betty Boop--Michael Jackson.

[–]Ecocide113 6 points7 points ago

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That picture is really creepy. :(

[–]suitski 0 points1 point ago

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Unfortunately MJ was a drug addict living beyond his means. Thats what 'those' kind of people look like :(

[–]tyson31415 1 point2 points ago

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I think the endless plastic surgeries did more to make him look like that than the drugs did. He seemed to be trying to turn himself into a white woman for a while back in the 90's.

[–]lacienega 1 point2 points ago

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He had vitiligo and loss of hair because of lupus/burn, he was trying to look like a person.

[–]ricekrispytreat 4 points5 points ago

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Wow, suddenly, I see something so humanizing . . .

He wore the white glove to hide the spots. It seems he went quite a ways to conceal these things. I think the world owes him an apology.

[–]kolm 3 points4 points ago

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This hurts much more than it makes me laugh.

[–]lgodsey 7 points8 points ago

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The entire issue is available on google pdf. It's pretty interesting. I skimmed through the dated ads and the saw the other aged celebrities (SPOILER: they slapped a mustache on Emmanuel Lewis and called it a day). Mostly, I was struck by this odd comic that I don't imagine could be printed in, say, the New Yorker or Forbes.

[–]golyadkin 2 points3 points ago

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TIL that 1985 Ebony Magazine is way classier than anything I read today. Most of the alcohol ads should be posters in slightly too hip apartments.

[–]isntserious 0 points1 point ago

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TIL in 1985 Tinactin was not yet tough actin'.

[–]mucocele 1 point2 points ago

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Thanks! I love looking at the ads in old magazines.

[–]BrianWulfric 1 point2 points ago*

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I love the "Blacks in Wonderland" article that says Eddie Murphy becomes Secretary of State to President Jesse Jackson. Instead he's doing such excellent films as "Norbit" and "Pluto Nash".

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I actually liked Pluto Nash

[–]selflessGene 1 point2 points ago

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Starts at page 163

[–]homebma 0 points1 point ago

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So many menthols

[–]Whazzits 0 points1 point ago

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And on page 117 we find a spot-on prediction of Lady Gaga.

[–]heytjm 8 points9 points ago

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anybody else think this was Billy Dee Williams?

[–]mongo_lloyd 1 point2 points ago

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[–]deusmacabre 1 point2 points ago

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I'll get you next time, turtles!

[–]FOR_SClENCE 2 points3 points ago

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I'm liking that awesome suit of his. The popped lapel, not so much.

[–]Shaded21 1 point2 points ago

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Dead wrong

[–]Skibbled 1 point2 points ago

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Nope.

[–]VslachaTurbo Sloth 1 point2 points ago

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson?

[–]nuklz 1 point2 points ago

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they thought he would look like lionel richie?

[–]LoveEngineFive 3 points4 points ago

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"He will have aged gracefully" ... Not so much.

[–]2Dinosaurs1Cup 3 points4 points ago

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I love how they failed to predict the future. What a bunch of idiots.

[–]jenniferkurzava 1 point2 points ago

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What year was that published?

[–]NorthernNights 3 points4 points ago

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It looks like 1985, by the bottom left of the page (or it could be 1983).

For a prediction from 1985 using then-available technology, I'm impressed with how accurate that could have been.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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Doctoring photos has been around for a long time--airbrushing Playboy models was de rigeur even at the magazine's inception, and as early as the 30's in cinema stockings would be put over movie camera lenses to make a glamorous halo surround the female leads. Photoshop is a national pastime!

[–]Megan_Bee 0 points1 point ago

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They were a little off.

[–]Dont_trustme 0 points1 point ago

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How wrong they were.

[–]mani_ 0 points1 point ago

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when was this predicted?

[–]BrianWulfric 1 point2 points ago

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1985

[–]ashpatash 0 points1 point ago

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i like the clark gable mustache they gave him, classy.

[–]sparklingh2o 0 points1 point ago

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His fan base grew more than 10 fold.

[–]Iamacutiepie 0 points1 point ago

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So close.

[–]irapeninjas 0 points1 point ago

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Nailed it

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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This is one of the few times digg beat us to the punch

This is a few years old, but still good

[–]NeverStopPosting 0 points1 point ago

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It was on 9gag first.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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9gag didn't exist yesterday

[–]IAmTheWaller67 0 points1 point ago

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Oops.

[–]wavetoyou 0 points1 point ago

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I read this as Michael Jordan...still makes sense

[–]dafreeboota 0 points1 point ago

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He was Lando calrissian! Edit: didn't see all the same comments, my bad

[–]fett4evr 0 points1 point ago

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WHOOPS!!!

[–]secretvictory 0 points1 point ago

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ha ha!

aw, now i'm sad.

[–]JasonMaggini 0 points1 point ago

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There was also this age progression.

[–]LeMadnessofKingHippo 0 points1 point ago

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So he turns into Lando Calrissian?

[–]BrianWulfric 0 points1 point ago

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This is more sad than funny. He got all those surgeries because he thought wasn't that good looking a dude.

[–]pretzelzetzel 0 points1 point ago

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I want to see the rest of these.

[–]Ryuzaki4x 0 points1 point ago

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and boy were they wrong

[–]BigChill85 0 points1 point ago

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You have no idea how sad this makes me...

[–]CheezeburgerTroll 0 points1 point ago

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Carlton?

[–]ehullz 0 points1 point ago

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Maybe seeing this is what caused the big change in appearance?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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aged gracefully

He did neither.

[–]Smellmyhand -4 points-3 points ago

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Can't believe this is reddit and nobody has said he looks like Neil Degrasse Tyson

[–]einsteinway -2 points-1 points ago

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Haters. I thought he was great on "Sliders".

[–]spases -1 points0 points ago

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i lol'd.

[–]Althonse -1 points0 points ago

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Old.

[–]CunderscoreF -3 points-2 points ago

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NDT anyone?