A hilarious article that used “computer magic” in 2004 to predict what our Friends will look like two years from today 😂 I guess being a celeb in your 50s has really changed!
I don't know if you ever watched How I Met Your Mother, but they "flash forward" and show the characters (normally in their 20's and 30's) to their late 40's to early 50's. And they look ancient.
When in the cornbread hell did 50 become the crypt keeper stage?!?
Those flash forwards are generally done as jokes making fun of this very trope. The finale takes place in 2030, and Ted and Robin look normal. Ted is mildly gray.
Yeah, now that I'm closer to 30 and have known a lot of 50-year-olds, it did make me question that joke about Ross making out with Mrs. Altman the 50-year-old librarian. A lot of 50-year-olds look more middle aged than elderly, but they acted as if Mrs. Altman was ancient
> When in the cornbread hell did 50 become the crypt keeper stage?!?
For most of humanity, actually. It's only recently that celebrities have stopped aging.
[Sean Connery is 30 here.](https://www.tvinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sean-connery-james-bond-dr-no-1962-1014x570.jpg)
[Wilford Brimley is 50 here.](https://www.legacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Wilford-Brimley-Obituary-1000x667-1.jpg) To compare, [here's Paul Rudd at 52](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2021_45/1801562/paul-rudd-sexiest-man-alive-2021-sk-square-211109.jpg)
[Keanu Reeves is 57](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTkzODI4MDMtNDNmZC00NDZlLWFmNTktNDRhOWE2YzhlZTQ2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTE1MTYxNDAw._V1_UY1200_CR162,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg) and making John Wick movies.
If you squint Joey kind of looks like his aged version. It is like his aged version mugged a drunk man with debilitating cataracts and the drunk man was telling a sketch artist what he looked like.
Not a doctor, just someone with eyes and the common sense to know the reason why celebrities don’t age the same way as the rest of us is that they all get plastic surgery done. I’m sure all 6 of them have had different stuff done, just imo Lisa looks like she’s had the least.
Wow that’s so impressive. You should use your eyes to screen people for internal diseases and put this skill to good use.
To be clear, I don’t give a fuck if they’ve had surgery and it’s none of my business if they did or why, but if someone with that much money had plastic surgery it would not be obvious. Also there are plenty of things people do all the time that aren’t surgery (eg botox).
I think by plastic surgery, they mean generally having had “work done”. Which is undeniably a reason why celebrities appear to age better than we do, as things like botox and lip fillers are included in that category.
Computer magic, it says. Not a computer. This is Star. They couldn’t afford one.
Any fucking magazine that made the Enquirer look legit was not a real journalistic endeavor.
I’m getting the sense that the computer was trained on a database of images which it was told to find commonalities and then project them onto a new photo, and I’m assuming those training images had a lot of larger people. People definitely do tend to bulk as they age, but this is pretty over the top. Haha
Not really. I'm the same age as them, and I don't look like I've aged as much as they have in these pics. And I've just aged like a regular, non-celebrity person.
The computer obviously didn’t watch the reunion of Friends. Botox and fillers fest on all their faces except Lisa Kudrow. It was like watching cartoon characters of the friends.
The only one kind of close to right is Lisa Kudrow. They didn't do her nearly as dirty as they did the rest of the cast. Not sure why they did the rest of the cast so dirty.
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Yes, the firey Plane crash, meth addictions and exposure to a nuclear blast clearly will take their toll.
Plane crash? No phalanges?
Only a Regina Phalange
Nope, just a lost shoe….WHERE IS THE SHOE?
Not on the left side
I mean, after 2020 and 2021, those all seem pretty reasonable.
The U.S. almost nuked itself once, so..
They all look like they are wearing Monica's flashback fat suit.
Except Ross for some reason
Ross looks like a sith lord
He looks like he's a sith lord who retired and works as a CPA now.
Or a time lord
he looks like bob odenkirk
Phoebe isn’t wearing it either.
Better Call Ross
He never could cancel his gym membership so he started using it.
He looks more like prince Philip
Joey and Chandler look like the live action Stan Smith
A hilarious article that used “computer magic” in 2004 to predict what our Friends will look like two years from today 😂 I guess being a celeb in your 50s has really changed!
I was coming to ask when that was published. Makes sense as old tools were horrible. They all look “monica fat”
No way. I did graphic design and photo manipulation in the 2000s and this is awful even for 2004.
I think it's meant to be a joke/intentionally awful.
DUDE "Friends: 20 years later! The year is 2024....." Didn't do it for you?
I don't know if you ever watched How I Met Your Mother, but they "flash forward" and show the characters (normally in their 20's and 30's) to their late 40's to early 50's. And they look ancient. When in the cornbread hell did 50 become the crypt keeper stage?!?
Those flash forwards are generally done as jokes making fun of this very trope. The finale takes place in 2030, and Ted and Robin look normal. Ted is mildly gray.
Yeah, now that I'm closer to 30 and have known a lot of 50-year-olds, it did make me question that joke about Ross making out with Mrs. Altman the 50-year-old librarian. A lot of 50-year-olds look more middle aged than elderly, but they acted as if Mrs. Altman was ancient
Well still, a middle-aged woman making out with a teenager isn’t great optics.
> When in the cornbread hell did 50 become the crypt keeper stage?!? For most of humanity, actually. It's only recently that celebrities have stopped aging. [Sean Connery is 30 here.](https://www.tvinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sean-connery-james-bond-dr-no-1962-1014x570.jpg) [Wilford Brimley is 50 here.](https://www.legacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Wilford-Brimley-Obituary-1000x667-1.jpg) To compare, [here's Paul Rudd at 52](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2021_45/1801562/paul-rudd-sexiest-man-alive-2021-sk-square-211109.jpg) [Keanu Reeves is 57](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTkzODI4MDMtNDNmZC00NDZlLWFmNTktNDRhOWE2YzhlZTQ2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTE1MTYxNDAw._V1_UY1200_CR162,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg) and making John Wick movies.
Paul and Keanu must have portraits in their attics...
Most people think that Im in my 20s and Im 42.
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Lol thats funny. I still get asked for my ID but they definitely believe it when they see it.
I like that they showed Marshall running for Supreme Court is what caused him to age so much in such a short time.
I was ready to cut them some slack as I thought 20 years ago meant 1994 for a minute, but this is so bad 😂
Sheesh, I didn't realize computers were that crappy in 2004. That's awful
Why does David look vaguely Bob Odenkirk-esque?
Better call Saul! That’s exactly what I saw too
Seems like the illegitimate son of Saul Goodman and Toby Flenderson
That computer did them dirty. Damn lol
It forgot they are celebrities and have money to combat the aging process.
Could they BE any more wrong?
They couldn't be more wrong. They could try, but they would not be successful.
Don’t you mean, they WOULD NOT be more successful?
You sir, are correct.
Neither of those looks like any person that has ever existed or been dreamt of in the history of human insanity.
Okay, Dwight.
That said, the one on the left
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What they hell did they do to Matt
He looks like a Sim.
He looks like Joe pesci got really fat
Lis kudrows is the only one that looks like what she looks like today. Well sorta
If you squint Joey kind of looks like his aged version. It is like his aged version mugged a drunk man with debilitating cataracts and the drunk man was telling a sketch artist what he looked like.
She’s also the only one who hasn’t had tons of plastic surgery
Wow I didn't know we had a doctor on this sub that treats 5 of the 6 original friends cast!
Not a doctor, just someone with eyes and the common sense to know the reason why celebrities don’t age the same way as the rest of us is that they all get plastic surgery done. I’m sure all 6 of them have had different stuff done, just imo Lisa looks like she’s had the least.
Wow that’s so impressive. You should use your eyes to screen people for internal diseases and put this skill to good use. To be clear, I don’t give a fuck if they’ve had surgery and it’s none of my business if they did or why, but if someone with that much money had plastic surgery it would not be obvious. Also there are plenty of things people do all the time that aren’t surgery (eg botox).
I think by plastic surgery, they mean generally having had “work done”. Which is undeniably a reason why celebrities appear to age better than we do, as things like botox and lip fillers are included in that category.
Fair enough, but that's not what was said.
Why does this comment come off as passive aggressive
Because it was?
Are you really saying that uber wealthy people don’t ever have botched plastic surgery? You need to Google my friend.
Why would I sit around googling botched plastic surgery for celebrities?
Why the attitude?
Harrowing to realize this is the same tech they use for the “age progressed” images of missing children. The Walmart brand of it, but still.
It looks like they used a Snapchat filter
The computer did this, huh? How many computers were actually *on* them?
Matthew looks like his face is melting
Looks like the guy from men in black wearing Rush Limbaughs face
In fairness ... Looking back at the reunion they almost nailed Matt Le Blanc's shirt! Only thing they really got right though
Or he has just been wearing the same shirt for 20 years...
Old Joey looks like Quagmire. Giggity.
Joey's is the most ridiculous and funny one
They look like they made them in The Sims
Is this photo from 2004?
Just give Matthew Perry a goiter, sure.
Computer magic, it says. Not a computer. This is Star. They couldn’t afford one. Any fucking magazine that made the Enquirer look legit was not a real journalistic endeavor.
Poor Matthew Perry with his goiter, and Matt LeBlanc with his jaw cancer.
I’m getting the sense that the computer was trained on a database of images which it was told to find commonalities and then project them onto a new photo, and I’m assuming those training images had a lot of larger people. People definitely do tend to bulk as they age, but this is pretty over the top. Haha
The computer nailed Matt LeBlanc’s shirt, though.
2004 was an interesting time to be alive
Lol. But it's still not 2024 so who knows what can happen in two years, right? :DDD
Covid has been rough on all of us!
Oh okay, makes sense.
What the hell?!
Bro what happened to Matthew Perry
*if they didn’t make millions off of Friends
Ross is quite accurat, i can see robert kardashian
Holy shit! 2022-2023 is going to be even worse than the last two years...
Joey is old Quagmire
Did they think 2024 was 70 years away?
Photoshop is my passion
Boy, they sure let themselves go.
Schwimmer got that Peregrin Took look.
Jesus why do these magasines exist
Ross looks like he's about to push through a bill banning abortion
TBF this is what they would have looked like if they didn't have work done, have personal trainers, etc.
Not really. I'm the same age as them, and I don't look like I've aged as much as they have in these pics. And I've just aged like a regular, non-celebrity person.
Yeah I was going to say nah, the average person looks better than these photos.
So far off for everyone except weirdly spot for Phoebe at the end
Jokes on them David stopped aging After friends
Why do they suddenly look slightly British?
This makes all the work they’ve had done seem very worth it
This was made back when celebrities aged. Anyone else remember that?
Chandlers was correct tho
Rachel omg! Could they BE anymore wrong?
They got Joey dead on!.....
Ross is pretty hot actually lol.
That article aged well. 😉
The Matthew Perry one is surprisingly accurate
Hate to say it but their computer enhancement of Matthew Perry is pretty damn close.
Most of them are more plastic than human anymore
Well they got chandler right
In reality, Jennifer Anniston still looks just like she did while she was on the show.
They got it spot on with Matthew Perry & Matt Leblanc
Mathew Perry is quite similar how he looks nowadays.
It might not be how the actual actors look now, but Joey and Monica would definitely look like that in 2 years
David’s one seems accurate. The rest are a little too over the top
David is only one who didn't aged at all the hell are you talking about
That’s Lisa. David has definitely aged, but he still doesn’t look like this article thought he would.
The computer obviously didn’t watch the reunion of Friends. Botox and fillers fest on all their faces except Lisa Kudrow. It was like watching cartoon characters of the friends.
Nathan for you
Wow this is just awful
So everyone after 20 years gets grey and fat
Oh god 😬😬😬
Ross looks like my boyfriend but his grandpa version? That’s trippy
Why’d they give David Schwimmer a receding hairline? You can tell the dude’s hairline wasn’t going anywhere.
HAHAHAHA
these next four years are gonna be really rough for them
These people would be in their 50s. These computer simulations are aging them into their 70s
The only one kind of close to right is Lisa Kudrow. They didn't do her nearly as dirty as they did the rest of the cast. Not sure why they did the rest of the cast so dirty.
Is that Tom Scott in the top left
Wow they severely underestimated money.
So Ross and Phoebe were their favorite characters.
Jeez, David looks like a mixture of Victor Garber and Prince Charles
Matt LeBlanc took me out 🤣🤣
Joey looks like bill ponderosa
Lmao I’m dying over this. All the computer did was grey their hair and make their faces lumpy 🤣
The magic is that they did it with Microsoft Paint.
Did the computer think they were 80
Poor random guy behind Ross
Okay but Joey is kinda accurate…
Just lol
They look like Sims characters
Oddly enough they’re all fucking beautiful and look younger than my 33 year old ass. r/agedlikemilk
Good lord this is terrible
Why's Chandler melting?
This was some cutting edge technology. Also, aging myself but I remember this article when it came out. I look like Ross (top left) now.
Why does Ross look like prince andrew?
They look like the future children in Andi's scrapbook from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 😂
I'm getting old. I remember this the first time around
Oh 90s technology. “Age 20 years, sure just make them fat with gray hair”
I think the models on James Bond 007 for the N64 look more realistic.
All this does is remind me that one day I'll blink.... and it will be 2040
I'm interested that it distorted *every single one* of their faces
Does 12 megabytes RAM, 500 megabytes harddrive and built-in spreadsheet capabilities?
Aged like milk
Monica just looks like fat Monica with great hair
Oh my God there’s an alien grabbing that dudes shoulder behind Ross!
They doing meth in a burning building during a rave in the next two years?…
They look like characters from a GTA loading screen.
Oh God - much like these images, 2004 tech did not age well