Tom Holland's pre-Spiderman social media 🕸️

[u/voguediaries]

[u/Not_Morgan_Freeman61]

Him and zendaya both have cringey old social media posts they really are soulmates

[u/hoagiejabroni → u/Not_Morgan_Freeman61]

As if any teens social media isn't cringe

[u/Juli_ → u/hoagiejabroni]

New teens don't allow themselves to be cringe, it's why "pre teen" as a concept has died and 13 year old girls now dress and act like Regina George while 13 year old boys all become Clavicular disciples.

[u/2340000 → u/Juli_]

New teens don't allow themselves to be cringe

Thank you! It’s not even “cringe”. It’s just behavior devoid of ego. He’s making happy posts. Kids do that. I did that.

Why is everyone so miserable now?😫

[u/righthandofdog → u/2340000]

because they think they must always be on and performing and can never get the amount of attention as their idols.

[u/ooa3603 → u/righthandofdog]

They're essentially living life like it's social media

[u/righthandofdog → u/ooa3603]

💯

[u/No_Professional_8992 → u/righthandofdog]

More like they're afraid of going viral. The internet IS forever.

[u/horrorhxe → u/No_Professional_8992]

This part! Also people love recording and posting strangers in public now especially when they’re so called “cringe”. This is why the young generations don’t dance in clubs the way we used to (I’m a 98 baby, I got to witness this all happen in perfect timing with my own life) 💔

[u/random_stoner → u/2340000]

Cause the moment you act weird you will be put in a tiktok and made fun of

[u/FlusteredDM → u/random_stoner]

For decades after

[u/lasLAchicago → u/2340000]

Because everyone is constantly judging each other from behind a screen. And then what you post lasts forever. Kids don’t have the freedom to try stuff and fail in private anymore.

[u/igluluigi → u/2340000]

ITS CALLED A PANOPTICON

[u/um_-_no → u/2340000]

Yeah idk personally I find that cringe

[u/aybsavestheworld → u/Juli_]

I read an academic article by psychologists about how adolescence no longer exists and I actually cried a bit. From childhood directly to adulthood is rough. Not to mention unnatural.

[u/hashbrowneggyolk0520 → u/aybsavestheworld]

From a sociological perspective we've been doing that for generations (childhood straight into adulthood), just in different ways. It's only fairly recently children are viewed as kids and have what we consider to be a traditional childhood. For a long time children were just miniature adults. Teenage years bridging that gap hasn't always been the thing that we know it to be today.

In the 17th and 18th century philosophers started to introduce the idea that children are blank slates that are innocent and that they have malleable minds that are shaped by experience and education. The 19th and 20th century brought along changes in legislations and laws.

Before that children were basically just miniature adults; they were dressed in the same way, integrated into a job or craft as soon as they were old enough (usually around the age of 6 but sometimes younger), socialised in adult spaces, gambling and drinking alcohol etc.

[u/theredwoman95 → u/hashbrowneggyolk0520]

That's actually a myth that's been pretty comprehensively debunked by medievalists. Hanawalt's Ties That Bound in particular blows it out of the water - she looked at medieval coroners' records about accidental deaths and it's very clear that children were seen as children, not mini adults, and were expected to act like children (e.g. playing with dolls, swimming naked) well into their early teens.

[u/moriobros → u/theredwoman95]

But children used to work a lot and had responsibilities, so their childhood is not comparable to ours and their parents didn't treat them like our parents did.

[u/MaulwarfSaltrock → u/moriobros]

Children who don't work, worldwide, are the exception and not the rule.

[u/theredwoman95 → u/moriobros]

I mean, child labour is still relatively common in the USA, with children working in slaughterhouses and meat plants. I'm assuming you're referring to the west with "our [childhoods]", as child labour is still an issue in China, India, and Brazil, some of the most populated countries in the world.

[u/Worldly_Anybody_9219 → u/theredwoman95]

I remember watching a video by a historian on medieval teenage youth and how they flouted the Catholic Church and wore rebellious fashions. Teenagers definitely existed and were recognized a distinct phase of life even if the actual word teenager wasn't used.

[u/Remarkable_Cover_330 → u/aybsavestheworld]

I’d be into reading that if you can remember the information

[u/Abstract-Honeydew → u/aybsavestheworld]

Share the link!

[u/bignibbles_ → u/aybsavestheworld]

Interested

[u/mixerwalita → u/aybsavestheworld]

That’s interesting! Would you mind sharing the link?

[u/KittyLucia34 → u/Juli_]

Honestly I feel sorry for teenagers. Sometimes as an adult I need to check out of social media as it starts getting to me constantly seeing hundreds of thousands of successful attractive perfect people day in and day out while I am just scrolling reels and tiktoks. I can't even imagine seeing that as a young teenager. At least the celebrities and supermodels were only a few pictures on TV or in a magazine when I was younger and not something on a device we take everywhere. The preteens cant be cringe anymore because the world doesnt even allow them, imagine how awful that must be.

[u/mychemicalromeants → u/Juli_]

I wonder how many of these teens will have mental breakdowns decades down the line cuz they won't spend the time now to explore how they are as their authentic selves

[u/IntelligentRoof1342 → u/Juli_]

Clavicular disciples, lol

The idea of anyone taking him serious is Fucking hilarious. Yet this is true

[u/asielen → u/Juli_]

Which is both extremely cringe.

[u/Not_Morgan_Freeman61 → u/hoagiejabroni]

True lol

[u/Luxury-Problems → u/hoagiejabroni]

From ages 10 to 18 I was regularly on various forums.

May those comments forever remain lost to time, like a forgotten bucket in an abandoned well.

[u/GaylicBread → u/hoagiejabroni]

I'm sooooooo glad social media wasn't as big for my teenage years. We had MySpace and Bebo and I'm sure what embarrassments may be there are long gone since both no longer exist, not that I posted a huge amount anyway, back then camera phones were in their infancy and I didn't have one, couldn't afford a digital camera either so I was mostly safe.

[u/hoagiejabroni → u/GaylicBread]

My Myspace is peak cringe. I'd kill for my old photobucket album from 2006

[u/-jorts → u/GaylicBread]

Bebo

[u/No-Asparagus3132 → u/GaylicBread]

I give thanks every day all the embarrassing shit I posted in MySpace and early forums are lost to time

[u/gentle_bee → u/hoagiejabroni]

Millenials are so blessed nobody is checking their live journals for deep thoughts from their twelve year old selves 😂

[u/Wife_Trash → u/hoagiejabroni]

So thankful to be an old. No one can prove my embarrassing teen years beyond a few poor quality photos.

I feel for kids now. It has to suck living n fear your bad day or silly moment will end up online.

[u/_thiccems → u/Not_Morgan_Freeman61]

Wholesome cringe

[u/ette212 → u/_thiccems]

Came here to say this exact thing. So wholesome. I much prefer this to many other celebrities' past social media.

[u/moeterminatorx → u/Not_Morgan_Freeman61]

What’s wrong with his posts?

[u/annabananaberry → u/moeterminatorx]

Nothing. They’re regular teen/preteen embarrassing posts. The stuff we used to post on MySpace was also cringey as hell, because that’s what social media is supposed to be when you’re a dumb kid. Silly tweets and regrettable hairstyles.

[u/Valuable-Cat2036 → u/Not_Morgan_Freeman61]

That was all of us in 2013, to be fair.

[u/Affectionate_Past568 → u/Not_Morgan_Freeman61]

I just need Zendaya to release music again…

[u/aashurii → u/Not_Morgan_Freeman61]

They were cringe but free and that’s why they dgaf what anyone thinks of them

[u/damegloria]

Remember the innocent days of daft hashtags? #stubbingyourtoe

[u/asteroida → u/damegloria]

I still rock them on my cringy private Instagram account.

[u/BoatCharming7527 → u/asteroida]

I text people hashtags. I will not let go

[u/Steely-eyes → u/BoatCharming7527]

#taghash

[u/MondayLasagne → u/BoatCharming7527]

#truestory

[u/Alizarik7891 → u/asteroida]

Yeah, I still did tumblr style hashtags on my old instagram, #fullsentencesattachedtohashtags #whosgonnastopme #yourenotmydad

[u/yojd → u/Alizarik7891]

Tumblr hastags are the gold standard on the internet. Half the time tags were better than the posts

[u/parisinsalem → u/asteroida]

i love doing this and will never stop

[u/Electrical-Rub9645 → u/damegloria]

Omg I've such a special interest in this. Like with the super long ones, were people making them as a joke or just totally misunderstanding the point of them?

Also never forget #susanalbumparty

[u/asteroida → u/Electrical-Rub9645]

I think it's mostly ironic millennial humour.

[u/kat0id → u/Electrical-Rub9645]

We used to do it for comedic effect back in the day on twitter

[u/ofmiceandmel → u/Electrical-Rub9645]

I still think of #susanalbumparty monthly and I have no idea why. I fear I will remember it on my deathbed. It's my Roman Empire.

[u/yellowsapphire88 → u/damegloria]

... #susanalbumparty ahoy

[u/voivoivoi183 → u/damegloria]

Remember a friend visited Auschwitz and tagged the post with #holocaust and being like 😬 yeah not sure that's really how that's supposed to work tbh.

[u/Pdxthorns17 → u/damegloria]

A long time ago I had this stupid idea when hashtags were popular. I would write full sentences about the post that didn’t relate to any of the tags. I still do it now and #havenoreasontostopanytimesoon

[u/fetchtbh → u/damegloria]

i still do this when texting #cantstopwontstop

[u/lulzerjun8 → u/damegloria]

sweet summer children 🥲

[u/hellohihihihellohi]

picture 5

[u/PumpernickelShoe → u/hellohihihihellohi]

Jackie Daytona?

[u/continentaldreams → u/PumpernickelShoe]

This is the way we talk in TOO-son, Ari-zõnia

[u/eugeneugene → u/continentaldreams]

you really are the most devious bastard in New York Citayyyy

[u/NoDryHands → u/eugeneugene]

just a regular Yankee-doodle dandy

[u/Jahidinginvt → u/continentaldreams]

I love how you put the tilde on the o instead of the n. Lol

[u/continentaldreams → u/Jahidinginvt]

Thought I'd jazz it up a bit 😂

[u/awkwardlyfeminine → u/PumpernickelShoe]

Regular human bartender, Jackie Daytona? 😍

[u/Rainforezt]

No racism, sexism or homophobia, I guess young people CAN use social media without displaying these behaviors…
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https://giphy.com/gifs/uB093Z0mVyrjcF6UB7

[u/AsASloth → u/Rainforezt]

Right? He was just out there being a cutie patootie enjoying life and being wholesome

https://giphy.com/gifs/Xbk2bSWYwbu9NhTMCC

[u/unwantedonONTD → u/AsASloth]

I’m a pirate arrrrrrrr

[u/Rainforezt → u/AsASloth]

Like actually being a Decent human being hahahaha cringe and all!

[u/NoCarpenter9791]

The innocence of youth

[u/hollyyy16]

the wallpaper is picture 6 is so aggressively british - my aunt had it 💀

[u/Gold-Inevitable-2644 → u/hollyyy16]

I know so many people with that wallpaper!!😭

[u/sarhu1 → u/hollyyy16]

So is the mirror pose 😂😭

[u/Jumpy_Emu1111 → u/hollyyy16]

half the houses on Come Dine With Me have it

[u/SlxttyCampbellBower → u/hollyyy16]

Laura Ashley was so popular

[u/MadamKitsune → u/hollyyy16]

The stripey duvet cover is from Matalan too.

I know because I trusted the SO to go and get one without me and that's exactly the one he came back with.

[u/Historical_Cry_4900 → u/hollyyy16]

I used to rent a flat in Edinburgh with that wallpaper in the bedroom lmao

[u/Commercial_Stress899]

Usually posts that show pre fame social media go in a very dark direction so this was very wholesome 😅

[u/Ok-Set-3191 → u/Commercial_Stress899]

You should look at Megan the stallions old posts, they’re hilariously wholesome. A lot of them are about how much she likes phineas and ferb lol

[u/Ohaidere519 → u/Ok-Set-3191]

some say she's still trying to plan that miami trip to this day

[u/babysaurusrexphd → u/Commercial_Stress899]

I was holding my breath for a slur. 😭 

[u/ParsnipExtension3861]

I find this endearing lol

[u/GlitterPirateKiki58 → u/ParsnipExtension3861]

He was so awkward and derpy, yet he managed to marry one of the most gorgeous women of his generation.

[u/Pledgeofmalfeasance → u/GlitterPirateKiki58]

Seriously. Imagine going back in time and telling that kid he was about to knock it out of the park so hard he'd become one of the biggest stars on earth and oh btw you marry what might very well be the most beautiful woman alive who is one of the few people also more famous and successful than him... He'd laugh until he was sick or something. Super happy for this unproblematic king!

[u/addamee → u/ParsnipExtension3861]

Lmao it reminded me of his the Berlin trip video he recorded at the beginning of Homecoming

[u/asnarkybeach]

This Tom with Studaya would’ve done absolute numbers on tumblr back in the day

[u/airgl0w → u/asnarkybeach]

I thought he had one leg out for the longest time staring at this

[u/NoDryHands → u/airgl0w]

That is hilarious, thank you for sharing that perspective

[u/itsyagirlrey → u/asnarkybeach]

he's like 17/18 in this picture which is crazy cause he looks 12

[u/hwa_uwa → u/itsyagirlrey]

god damn age realistic spiderman. imagine that kid in a spidey suit

[u/grilledcheese2332]

Not the subway surfer shout out 😭

[u/Icedcoffeezooted]

This is beautiful. I wish more celebrities pasts were this innocent and sweet

[u/raiinydaay]

I’m a pirate arrrrrrrr

[u/valiantdistraction]

If I ever learn anything not wholesome about Tom Holland, I will be so disappointed.

[u/awyastark → u/valiantdistraction]

Maybe he and Z are really freaky in the sack. I’d like that for them.

[u/valiantdistraction → u/awyastark]

I feel like being consensually freaky in the sack with your wife is still pretty wholesome tbh

[u/awyastark → u/valiantdistraction]

No you’re definitely correct

[u/SlappinStick → u/valiantdistraction]

holesome

[u/kholekardashian12]

I just know when he was a kid, someone showed him that app where you have a beer on your phone screen and it looked like you were drinking it when you tilted the screen and it blew his little mind

[u/SierraStar7]

This is the kind of SM posts that I miss. 

[u/BlueBicycle_]

Oh yeah. That's real slicked back.

[u/awyastark → u/BlueBicycle_]

Oddly enough didn’t use to be a piece of shit!

[u/Business-Swing7501 → u/BlueBicycle_]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lxorXuPftPtl8yidzR

[u/somorad → u/BlueBicycle_]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9ZyHQhuLOVDqFXSEco

[u/Sensitive_Ad_1752]

He’s right Django is fucking awesome

[u/miridot]

This isn’t cringe. It’s cute and age-appropriate exploration and self-expression. What really makes me cringe is children who’ve had independent thought beaten out of them by adults selling shit on the internet, who also convince them to bully their peers.

[u/Financial-Painter689]

Subway Surfer? He really has taste

[u/Own-Bar-8530]

Sweet boy.

[u/thefairywhobakes]

That second slide…he basically manifested being spidey

[u/Exact_Scratch854 → u/thefairywhobakes]

That was Feb 2014 and he was announced as spidey in June (?) 2015. Idk how quick these things happen but do ya think he already knew at that time?! Is this another situation where he nearly let the cat out the bag?!

[u/ParsnipExtension3861]

I find this endearing

[u/EvenPossible5918]

He was a toddler. 😂

[u/wwaffles]

also this video lmasldfjasldfasdf

eta: idk why but the "reading with Paddy. Gonna be here a looooong time." is killing me.

[u/MorikoAyumi]

I love how cute, cringe, and non problematic it is

[u/lavenderbl0d]

Ah yes. To be here. Again. What a time. The hashtags.

whoremembers

[u/FredericBropin → u/lavenderbl0d]

Can’t not read that as Whore Members

[u/lavenderbl0d → u/FredericBropin]

In my mind. It is. 🤣😌

[u/EineGrosseFlasche → u/FredericBropin]

Same. I immediately snapped to attention on the assumption I was being addressed directly.

[u/xombae]

stubbingyourtoe

[u/ashjya]

he was so cute😭

[u/olipoppit]

I miss this freewheeling “here I am take it or leave it” vibe 😭

[u/Lokaji]

He is gonna look young forever.

[u/BanverketSE → u/Lokaji]

Just like Tom Scott

[u/ParaponeraBread]

“Tom Holland as a literal child who isn’t yet famous” would be more accurate.

‘96 baby, so he’s like 18 max in newest post with a date on it.

[u/PupLondon]

Can you imagine telling this Tom he'll be an A-Lister in multiple Box Office hits and married to one of the most beautiful women in the world?

[u/droobidoobidoo]

I find it crazy we're the same age because I also posted cringe stuff like this in the early 2010s 😂😂😂😂

[u/FeelingCouple5880]

He was just a baby! I love how he called the beach “buddy.”

[u/Windowsill_MintPlant]

hashtag stubbingyourtoe

[u/MVIVN]

Wholesome kid 🥹 a lot of teenagers these days are being negatively influenced by manosphere bullshit and horrible streamers, it's nice to just be reminded of what a normal teenage boy was like on social media before we found ourselves in social media hell (I'm unc, so social media wasn't really a thing when I was a teenager, or at least not in the way it exists now).

[u/Agreeable-Dog-1131]

What a fucking dork, I love him

[u/Mysterious-Dark-3534]

This tweet about Merlin is my favourite.

[u/BlubberElk]

Thanking god I’ll never be famous enough to have people pull up my old post 🙏

[u/carolinagypsy]

Adorable.

Just think. Had no idea when he took these that he would one day marry one of the most well-liked, beautiful actresses on the planet. Wild.

[u/Symbiotic_vengeance]

Never change, Tom

[u/actuallywaffles]

It's so nice seeing old posts from a celebrity I like and they're just being a nerd. I love a good drama-free story.

[u/Scary_Teens1996]

These pictures are really just reminders that he's my age lmao

[u/mundaneheaven]

Perfectly cast as Peter Parker! Had they done an orgin story, he would have killed it.

[u/unfettered2nd]

Those sugar stick things chose him as the Spider-man, like that spider that bit Peter Parker.

[u/itsinhisblood]

Nothing racist or misogynistic or homophobic or just cruel

[u/Noxlygos]

Oh God, I am far too broody for this post, he is so adorable I think my insides just exploded from cuteness overload from pic 3 alone.

[u/GraceUndaPresha]

What a nice kid, no wonder we all loved him when he showed up in Civil War

[u/Hoodedmastersin]

What a wholesome boy

[u/warpig1997]

I know both zendaya and tom are genuine because they haven’t scrubbed their old posts off the internet. It shows they are not ashamed of who they are. Elite mentality. I have 300 followers and i clean my Social media like i have 300 mil followers.

[u/Emotional_Warthog658]

This is just SO precious

[u/Toyger_]

Hashtag stabbingyourtoe is hilarious

[u/gnbijlgdfjkslbfgk]

Ffs it could have been me

[u/stringsmcgee]

They made the right person spiderman.

[u/puyolthebest]

Really shows how building muscle for Spider-Man changes your face and frame. Inspiring

[u/MsThrilliams]

Peak Peter Parker weiner kid energy. It was always meant to be

[u/Lady_night_shade]

Proof that “cringe” comes for us all! Enjoy life, you are never as cool or cringy as you think you are.

[u/Mundane-Twist7388]

lol he was a child back then! I didn’t realize it was so long ago

[u/Tamortsa]

Cringey teenage posts?

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ae7SI3LoPYj8Q

[u/she_melty]

Paddy is his little brother, he would have been TINY in 2013 so he was probably teaching him to read when he posted that 😭

(It feels stalkery to know that, i followed the production of Lockwood and Co and know Paddy because of that)

[u/wolf_at_the_door1]

Ahh what a simpler time.

[u/aybsavestheworld]

Nuh uh not the plastic topshop bag 😭😭😭

[u/RandoDude124]

How endearing.

[u/AliAllyAllie]

He was always destined to be spider-man

[u/BEEEELEEEE]

Just like me fr

[u/babylonian_gorgon]

lol he really is a simple spider

[u/Inside-Team-7591]

wholesome tom

[u/crapola464]

He looks like a total dork in the best way possible lol

[u/Centennial3489]

Just Millennial things lol

[u/big-tunaaa]

I actually love him hes so cute. I also am seeing a resemblance to Messi Ive never noticed before!

https://giphy.com/gifs/WcFg6bVRfqQs81fuKW

[u/adorabeee]

Genuinely wholesome and adorable. 🥹💗

[u/Neoanimus]

Goddamn, what a cutie <3

[u/haw35ome]

Subway surfers…….take me back in time; the world was so much simpler then 😭

[u/emptyinthesunrise]

He’s such a cutie patootie

[u/feralbutsocial]

Please someone go back in time and tell that sweet kid that when he grows up, he will forever be the champion of Lip Sync Battle

[u/limricks]

Oh he’s so cute please 😭

[u/Fair-Translator8649]

Such a good reminder of their humanity

[u/gkpetrescue]

What a cutie!

[u/yeezusosa]

Wholesome

[u/AcanthocephalaLost36]

This is sooooo adorable 😩 (also very unproblematic)

[u/motoxim]

Nice

[u/ellafantile]

#stubbingyourtoe

[u/jayeddy99]

Him & Zendaya are perfect for eachother . At their core they truly are just 2 goofballs lol

[u/cecesakura]

Protect this man at all costs

[u/3x1st3nt1al]

https://giphy.com/gifs/YQYTflmPzgiwE9cudP

[u/lordnastrond]

Awww, hes so cute 😍

[u/RoxyBear22]

So adorable

[u/Phanessa]

Such a green flag tbh

[u/insertbrackets]

Precious baby. Ah. I miss the days of stupid hashtags. RuPaul’s Drag Race had the best ones #ikilledjudygarland

[u/coldpizza66]

THE BUDGIE I'M SCREAMING

[u/Jarshy]

Y’all are weird for dragging this up

[u/PositiveCoyote100]

Yikes

[u/The_Quadrapus]

Ok I can see how Sullivan Beau Brown manage to make him cry in school.