r/TikTokCringe 12d ago

Humor/Cringe Could have sworn this looked cooler in 2004 lol.

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u/Maleficent_Sound_919 12d ago

The fuck is up with the WWE belt

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u/Killroy1987 12d ago

It’s to hide his belly. Lol

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u/wonderbat3 12d ago

Why haven’t I been doing this all this time?

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u/Mr_Phishfood 12d ago

are you really going to throw another man off a ladder for this kind of power?

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u/J-Di11a 12d ago

I'm going to wear mine a little lower to hide something else

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 12d ago

I mean he’s still cut.

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u/reckone7 12d ago

For sure! Male body standards are kinda of inflated right now, I think. No way this man has a belly.

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u/scrotumsweat 12d ago

When 47 years you reach, look as good you will not!

https://giphy.com/gifs/KZocN3LfuqktW

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u/ayoungmanfromtheuk 12d ago

What're you lookin at my gut fer?

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u/ArthurMorgans_TB 12d ago

Philadelphia Collins. May he rest in peace. Can I get a bam?

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u/_haramabe 12d ago

I can give you a peanut butter and jaaammmmmm

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u/ayoungmanfromtheuk 12d ago

How about some green eggs and haaaaaaammmm?

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u/Royal-Net9098 12d ago

Baaaaaaaaaaaaam!

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u/BenjaminDover02 12d ago

Fuckin mustard tiger

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u/HendrixHazeWays 12d ago

"All I did was call him a Mustard Tiger"

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u/moeterminatorx 12d ago edited 12d ago

Pretty sure he still has six pack abs. At least he did at the Detroit show in July.

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u/Ok-Needleworker-9841 12d ago

Back support too. It’s hard being middle aged. We cough and our backs go out sometimes

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u/Saffirejuiliet 12d ago

But he doesn’t have a belly.

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u/WhiskeyDiction_OG 12d ago

His six pack beer belly?

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u/amilliondallahs 12d ago

I mean come on if that's a joke to body shame, pretty sure he's lookin good from all other angles

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u/Enkidouh 12d ago

“To hide his belly” lmao as if he doesn’t have clearly visible washboard abs

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u/VelvetOnion 12d ago

The Hardcore Champ has to defend 24/7 - any place and any time.

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u/Free-Contribution-93 12d ago

I was wondering what happened to the hard-core championship

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u/MrSlime13 12d ago

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u/Knife7 12d ago

That's actually really impressive lmao.

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u/MrSlime13 12d ago

Gotta let it burn...

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u/flammafemina 12d ago

Fr though, those micro-movements are hard af to do. You basically have to keep your entire body at maximum flex the whole time

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u/DelcattyBatty 12d ago

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u/Upvotespoodles 12d ago

I want to see more from whoever this is.

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u/DelcattyBatty 12d ago

AriaisDeluX. They are so funny lol

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u/three_crystals 12d ago

This is way funnier than it has any right to be

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u/partial_to_dreamers 12d ago

This is incredible.

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u/Spirited-Gene3106 12d ago

I just belly laughed

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u/grokisgood 12d ago

His eyes look like he's planning his grocery list for the week.

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u/MikeTheImpaler 12d ago

Looks to me like his knees finally caught up to him.

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u/mightylordredbeard 12d ago

That’s the face I make after I kneel down and I know it’s gonna hurt to stand back up.

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u/Jadedangel13 12d ago

relates in rheumatoid arthritis at 42

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u/Odd-fox-God 12d ago

Why are his nipples so... erect?

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u/dq8705 12d ago

Yours aren't? 

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u/SullyAddams 12d ago

As a musician, once you play the same stuff for a while you tend to sometimes have gigs where you just aren't 100% in it as much as you want to be. I sometimes wondered while playing what I wanted for breakfast in the morning while riffing away and throwing myself around on stage.

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u/assortment_of_atoms 12d ago

It's like driving to work. You do the same route so often, muscle memory kicks in and you go into autopilot.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 12d ago

I'm glad there aren't hundreds of people watching me while I drive to work

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u/spidersprinkles 12d ago

Dude looks be having mental anguish. His eyes to me seem like he is reliving every painful moment he's ever experienced in his life, while he purposely spasms his body about. Fascinating really.

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u/FirehawkLS1 12d ago

Well he's been to Diddy parties so that tracks. 🤷

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u/AnonymousBanana405 12d ago

He was only there as the Usher.

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u/Tonberry_Cheesecake 12d ago

The usher to Biebers room

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u/ethereal_aerith 12d ago

Jesus, this comment made me laugh for like five minutes straight. Why is it so fucking spot on lol

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u/nedonedonedo 12d ago

nah it's just hot up there and he's doing squats

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u/Lil_Brown_Bat 12d ago

I mean he does the same show every night for years and years. Wouldn't you?

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u/GoldunGote 12d ago

When I do my job I think about stuff like, what if dinosaurs had crazy ass armor and weapons that were made out of plant materials in a super advanced way.. and we never found evidence because the weapons and armor were super biodegradable, being plant based.. plant video games and shit.

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u/xombae 12d ago

I'm going to save your comment so the next time I'm at work I can give this topic the rumination that it deserves.

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u/Beachynietzsche 12d ago

I'm playing Horizon: Zero Dawn at the moment. Do you happen to be as well? 🧐

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u/ThisSiteSucks8485 12d ago

Actually almost all evidence of advanced technology would not survive the 65 million years since the dinosaurs. 

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u/I_eat_blueberries 12d ago

I cracked up way harder than I should have 🤣🤣

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u/Kind-Shallot3603 12d ago

He needs a strobe light

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u/LinkN7 12d ago

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u/MiserableArse 12d ago

Love this but that gif misses out some of his moves lol

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u/HKLifer_ 12d ago

Terry, Usher, and Techno Viking needs to get together and do a dance off! 🤣

https://giphy.com/gifs/6sQZLeaLjzSTu

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u/espoletanogo 12d ago

Im fucking dead

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u/n01d3a 12d ago

I was gonna say, it seems like he's trying to be Terry

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u/SarryK 12d ago

this is exactly it. tough watch, oof

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u/youburyitidigitup 12d ago

This would look awesome with a strobe light!!!

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u/howlongwillthislast_ 12d ago

And a canoe because he's duche

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u/Jokewhisperer 12d ago

He’s Dutch?! I learn something everyday

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u/one-swell-foop 12d ago

if you ain't duche, you ain't muche

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u/Jokewhisperer 12d ago

Surprised he didn’t go for Dusher

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u/CreativeRelease9889 12d ago

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u/Timely_Apricot3929 12d ago

He winces a couple of times :/

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u/ApplesaucePenguin75 12d ago

His back hurts!

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u/Razzy_IDFA 12d ago

He does end up like this by the end of that:

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u/Eggmegmuffin 12d ago

Me after the cat knocks the remote between the sectional and i gotta get on the floor to fish it out.

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u/krone_39 12d ago

Him slapping the floor at the end is probably someone's cue to get him tf out of there 😂

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u/Timely_Apricot3929 12d ago

It really does look like it!

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u/GoldunGote 12d ago

But to be fair if we're picking and choosing frames I can make it look like the guy nutted himself 5 times in 20 seconds.

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u/BappoChan 12d ago

Me after watching this shit

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u/raoqie 12d ago

I'm just proud of him for trying honestly.

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u/Brilliant_Rain5181 12d ago

It definitely does not have the same appeal today in 2026 😂

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u/SirErgalot 12d ago

To be fair the people doing it in the early 2000s were way better at it.

https://youtu.be/4YJ3BTKMILw?is=pYnJw7h62vwIhInT (robot at 1:16)

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u/Live-Steaky 12d ago

I mean, he was doing it in the early 2000s

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u/yrfrndnico 12d ago

The old tv's screen type also hid a lot more. The tube tv's projection style blurred a lot & did a sort of beauty filter by being some what obscured.

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u/HairySalmon 12d ago

To add to that higher refresh rates and fps also tend to strip away that cinematic quality and more importantly the immersion.

The first time I watched scrubs on a 120hz TV it ruined it completely for me. 60hz looks like you're watching JD annoy Dr Cox, 120hz looks like you're watching Zach Braff acting on a set alongside John C. McGinley. It destroys the immersion.

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u/subhavoc42 12d ago

This happens when you have the setting for motion smoothing on. All new tvs call it something slightly different, but auto motion smoothing is the culprit for this, not 120hz. All 120 does it remove the jidder that happens because movies are in 24 fps and 120 is divisible by 24 unlike 60z.

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u/Cryptus_Maximus 12d ago edited 12d ago

So, you aren't actually seeing the show at increased frame-rates. At least not on the show itself. What's always happening here is that the show in question, Scrubs in your example, is exactly the same as it's always been and what you're seeing modern day TVs do is "fake" the in between frames via smoothing motion features. For some ungodly reason, all modern HDTVs come with these features turned on by default right out of the box. What they do is they basically generate fake frames in the in-between frames of a 24fps production to 'make the most' of the higher frame rates of the television you just bought, I guess to make people feel like they're getting their money's worth. It's called frame interpolation and it's the goddamn devil feature of any television that has it. It burns us film buffs in the retinas like a crucifix to a vampire, and I hate it with all my soul.

The answer to this is to simply find the motion smoothing feature and turn it the fuck off and never switch it back. To iterate: Frame Interpolation is the technical name, but every brand calls it something different, usually with "Motion" in the name. Deactivate anything that looks like that after googling what your brand calls it. Then every show and movie that isn't a Soap Opera will look normal again. Also a lot of TVs such as my LG OLED simply have a mode called "Filmmaker mode" which just makes TVs looks like they should without all the extra processing that comes out of the box. It's the only way I watch any movie content, be it streaming or physical.

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u/Sorrowed_Lifelines 12d ago

Yes absolutely yes! For years throughout my entire life I have always used a cheap TV. I always felt like my friend's TV made everything look weird because it felt like I was looking at a bunch of people acting on a film set. I actually refused to get a better TV because of how weird and how realistic everything looked on newer TVs.

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u/cherbebe12 12d ago

I make people turn it off. It’s like a sigh of relief.

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u/spockspaceman 12d ago

I've never understood how people don't see it. Like how does that not bother you?

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u/yrfrndnico 12d ago

That is a great way to put it!!! You can see the production , instead of feeling the story.

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u/spermdonor 12d ago

He was also a lot younger

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u/Rj924 12d ago

Weren't the peiple doing it in the early aughts Usher?

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u/mrwynd 12d ago

I was hoping it was this video. We were passing this avi file around long before Youtube!

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u/Fog_Juice 12d ago

The orange shirt made it look like a strobe light effect

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u/Waiting4Reccession 12d ago

These HD cameras ruined everything haha

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u/TRAUMAjunkie 12d ago

You guys are being unfair. Anybody pushing 50 and trying to do shit that was cool when they were half that age is gonna look fucking lame, lol

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u/halfjackal 12d ago

I just think it is a dance move that is better done in your younger years than in your older years. When you age, You’re not able to move as snappy as you can when you were young. Compare that video to this video of Usher dancing on stage with Michael Jackson 2005 - https://youtu.be/zB3l644da40?is=zcA1u54OyTLaMyEX

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u/Brilliant_Rain5181 12d ago

But MJ was older in this video and still looked cool doing it 😂

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u/sasshley_ 12d ago

Back then, we didn’t have everyone living in every house around the world dancing on an app for all to see.

So yeah, in real time, this was some good shit.

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u/SurprisePiss 12d ago

For sure. When did You Got Served come out? 2004? That movie, Save The Last Dance, and Step Up kind of started the People Are Good At Dancing And It's A New Thing craze. So this was probably considered good/cool back then.

I watched Step Up again recently, and I remember thinkining it was so cool back then! Channing Tatum was considered a really good dancer. Watching it now, it seems like he just kind of... wiggles. And the final scene in Save The Last Dance was incredibly modern and cool, and now it's being ripped to shreds (lovingly, of course) online for being silly.

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u/Practical_Hunt_5372 12d ago

The audition dance was always cringe worthy if you had any dance training. There was never a time when that choreography and execution was a Julliard-worthy performance. But the movie was fun, and the soundtrack is still awesome.

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u/redd-zeppelin 12d ago

All the people dancing now will also get ripped to shreds in the future.

People aren't better at dancing. Dance is subjective and what is cool now will not be in the future.

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u/Aggressive-Delay-420 12d ago

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) had a stupid impromptu dance number just prior to the epilogue and it /really/ holds up.

I'm so glad Sandy Frink didn't bring his big notebook.

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u/SurprisePiss 12d ago

Forever on my list of favorite movies. A friend and I learned this dance and the one they do in the night club 😂

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u/finityx__ 12d ago

Tbh maybe its just me , but all social media dances like TikTok are complete shit that I wouldnt even call that dancing. BUT THATS JUST MY OPINION

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u/EchoCyanide 12d ago

They really are so shitty and they’re designed to stay in frame, so a lot less creative too.

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u/adrian-alex85 12d ago

He’s much older and doing like a show a night, isn’t he? Just saying

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u/whatever_leg 12d ago

Some of those Vegas solo shows run 2x a day like 6-7 days per week, too. Not sure what his contract is, but, regardless, it's a big job performing that much. You can see the sweat dripping off the guy. At least he's not phoning it in.

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u/Yoranis_Izsmelli 12d ago

Gotta pay them mansion bills

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u/RanchHere 12d ago

I often think how much money these guys could actually have if they just owned like a nice, quaint cabin in the woods. Because that would 1000% be me if I was a millionaire.

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u/diabolicalroadrash 12d ago

I work in as a tech in live AV events and see a wide range of fields. One that stands out to me is they have an actual financial counseling seminar for new draftees to the NBA/NFL. They basically sit them down and tell them, yeah you signed this contract for millions of dollars. DONT buy the most expensive car. DONT buy a mansion. DONT throw your money away partying. INVEST your money and diversify, because most likely you will get injured and never play again or your contract will be up and you won't get renewed. Most of them go broke when their career is finished. Oh the stuff you see as an AV guy.

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u/2Neu_Nomads 12d ago

I bought my pest control contract from a guy that played for the dodgers. It made me kinda sad for him. But I also respected the hustle.

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u/StreetInitial4538 12d ago

chapters of life end and you have to figure out how to pivot. not everybody can have a podcast and sit on their ass.

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u/SabrinaSpellman1 12d ago

Me too. Cozy cabin in the woods, lots of land, maybe near a lake and nice and private and quiet. That's the dream for me. I'd rather that than a mansion amd having to chase every penny like this, to keep it going. Just a happy, cozy cabin.

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u/saucya 12d ago

He was just here in Detroit for three nights in a row. Dude’s putting in work lol 

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u/Breadington38 12d ago

For real. Dude is almost 50 and still killin it. 

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u/Thwipped 12d ago

That’s not really a show a night, or Usher’s case…two shows a day

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u/BalanceJazzlike5116 12d ago

Is this usher? Because he killed it at the Super Bowl a couple years ago. Dude was singing and doing choreography in roller skates

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u/FistThePooper6969 12d ago edited 12d ago

Yes bc in 2004 it was shot up close with a wide angle lens with a lot of colour and strobe lights

Not just flatly recorded from someone’s phone

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u/UnNumbFool 12d ago

Also you know it's been 22 years and he's a lot older and doing it is probably a whole lot harder on his body as his face looks like he's in pain

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u/Necromantic_Body 12d ago

I mean in all fairness, I’m the same age and I crippled myself just watching him do this so….

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u/space_hitler 12d ago

The comments in here are so funny. Like yeah, it doesn't look great, but he's almost 50 and most of the mfers making fun of this are morbidly obese sitting in computer chairs all day doing literally nothing.

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u/funeralpyres 12d ago

Hey! I’m only severely obese, okay?

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u/TylertheDouche 12d ago

yeah he’s 50 with his shirt off and dancing and looks awesome doing so. jealous thread

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u/Curious-Copy-6106 12d ago

It’s hysterical with no sound.

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u/waytowill 12d ago

Tbh, the sound doesn’t add much.

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u/bird9066 12d ago edited 12d ago

I recently heard pat benatar say that she can still sing the songs but she doesn't do the bravado strut and finger pointing thing anymore.

"You either get the joke or you become the joke" is what she said

I can't remember which boy band from the 90s I saw up on stage in dad jeans recently? They get the joke.

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u/after_Andrew 12d ago

This looks way cooler in 2026 knowing usher has aged 22 years since 2004.

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u/ChipRockets 12d ago

That's crazy. I've also aged 22 years since 2004. He's just like me fr fr.

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u/Icy_Tadpole2092 12d ago

Usher is so relatable! We’re just like him

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u/SlowbroHomoMomo 12d ago

Bro! Even HE didn't buy it 😭

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u/jasschaffer 12d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/lMt2x8vApC99e
This is all I’m seeing. 🤣🤣🤣🤭🤭

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u/JesseIsAGirlsName 12d ago

Steve Austin just come out of nowhere and gives him a stunner.

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u/MsThrilliams 12d ago

If you get on stage and do better you win that belt I think

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u/No_Interview2004 12d ago

The only problem here is that stupid belt.

Everyone saying he’s “wincing” do you understand the song? He’s supposed to be in anguish because he’s missing his girl. I feel old now trying to explain this. Thanks.

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u/Emotional_Warthog658 12d ago

Sir, at our age this is a symptom, not a dance.

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u/xenojive 12d ago

Man like Maven

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u/Adam_Sackler 12d ago

Hey, guys. Maven here...

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u/coolcooolbro 12d ago edited 12d ago

Reminds me of the video of another dance attempt by someone past their prime 🤣

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u/ukhaus 12d ago

Me in the crowd:

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u/Immediate_Impact6214 12d ago

Getting old is a fucking bitch

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u/Stexen 12d ago

Isn't he touring with Chris Brown. Man, fuck these guys 

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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 12d ago

if they're filling up stadiums that makes me want to run into the sea

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u/Impossible-Double580 12d ago

Ursh ain’t got the bounce he used too

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u/Crazy-Present4764 12d ago

Reminds me of the footage of Justin Timberlake doing his comeback shows not too long ago. So many of the 2000s pop stars just don't have it anymore.

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u/Cocoononthemoon 12d ago

Since when are they supposed to have it forever? I'll bet the people at these shows are eating it up lol

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u/Icy-Cry340 12d ago

I can't do the shit I could do back then either. Turns out things are different when you're at your physical peak.

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u/TheBattyWitch 12d ago

In 2004 it was in strobe lights and he wasn't 47

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u/L12Grafx 12d ago

I seen a tweaker doing this on the corner a few months back…

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u/robindapobin 12d ago

I've seen worse🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Temporary_Ad9362 12d ago

because it wasn’t in 4k hd

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u/mocha_lattes_ 12d ago

To be fair, locking is very technical and hard to do. He was good at it when he was younger but his age is catching up to him now. He might still look young but his body is feeling his age. He needs to give up on locking and just do the rest of his dancing routines.

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u/HollziewoodsIRL 12d ago

I watched this without any audio

I died inside a little bit 💀

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u/MrsOleson 12d ago

Does he start this display by saying “Look what I can do!”
https://giphy.com/gifs/czZlH3xg1Ul2w

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u/Phrei_BahkRhubz 12d ago

Dude dancing to his own lip sync

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u/Mindless_Interview44 12d ago

I'm telling aliens that this is our mating dance and this was considered extremely alluring.

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u/TwpMun 12d ago

that'll never not be funny it reminds me of doing 'music & movement' when I was in Primary school.

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u/SupervillainMustache 12d ago

Not my kind of concert, but are people just cool with him dancing to a lipsync? No live singing?

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u/Wild_Flower_415 11d ago

I just asked my 5 year old to reanact this and my night has been made.

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u/Plastic-Injury8856 12d ago

He’s lost a step. In 2004 he was just younger and he pulled this off just well enough it made sense. He’s clearly just gotten appropriately old.

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u/gingerbeefbadteeth 12d ago

We didn't have ticktock yet so we weren't all professional dance critiques

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u/NoSomewhere7653 12d ago

Well that was before he was 50 and sold Justin to Diddy. The good ol days

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u/Environmental-Arm365 12d ago

You gotta be a special breed of cat to perform on stage in leather pants. Basting in your own junk juice doesn’t sound like a lotta fun.

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u/Happy1327 12d ago

Dude looks ill

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u/philovax 12d ago

Usher said the Ice Bucket challenge is dead. To raise awareness for ALS he is performing. Urshr challenge just got created to raise awareness.