Regardless of what else the Recording Industry Association of America has done, most of us know them for fighting illegal music downloads by suing college students and sometimes grandmothers into bankruptcy. That made us wonder what the world would be like if other industries cared as much about money, and as little about horrifically bad PR.
Remember that show on MTV, where that rapper would travel around and fix people's shitty lives by putting TVs inside their car? Did we just dream that?
As magazines wither from existence, they've been trying a bunch of crazy shit to stay relevant. One crazy idea they'll probably never try is actually telling the truth, so we figured we'd ask you to show us what that might look like.
Millions of dusty old yearbooks and family photo albums all confirm the same thing: we looked pretty dorky as kids. With that in mind, we asked readers to use the magic of image manipulation to show us what some of pop culture's most iconic characters looked like when they were children. The results were equal parts adorable and deeply disturbing.
The future of technology always finds some unexpected way to be terrifying. Our ancestors probably assumed lifelong protection from the chickenpox would come with a lot less arm stabbing.
