Anon is a cowboy

a kid with a infatuation? O no the horror. It's fucking fine. If people want to laugh about it later in good spirits, awesome. If it's not in good spirits, then congratulations you have identified a asshole. Someone not worth giving two shits about.

Also deadwood. That show is fucking awesome and I am not particularly fanatic about western or cowboy culture.

Deadwood was a show about Rome, rethemed to the old west because HBO already had ROME going on
- Deadwood was about cops in a lawless place, not Rome. It was originally pitched as taking place in Rome, and the show ROME forced them to change the setting.

This looks AI generated, why didn't he just get the clothes and take a damn picture? That way it wouldn't look like shit
- The issue is that it would, because it's Elon.

The real tragedy is that he didn't stick to it. People who stop being willing to stand out make the world a more boring place.

Hell yeah, people said "Howdy partner" to him. Fucking lean into that shit!

Real cringe is adult quasi strangers teasing someone for what they did as a teenager.

This is more fun if anon is in Italy or something.

Given how many Westerns were from Italy (ie. Spaghetti Westerns), it would make some sense.
- That is why they said that.

IDK why but this just made me think of Dodgeball.

"Who's Steve the Pirate?"

"Literally the only player on the team that dresses up like a pirate?"

"We have a player that dresses up like a pirate?!"

Lean into it. And if all someone sees is something that happened years ago, fuck'em. They don't know you.

Best thing to do is to own it, accept it and laugh with them at how cringe it was.

Eh, kids will be kids. I remember when I was in the 6th grade there was a kid named Steven who only ever wore camo to school. Of course we all made fun of him. 😔 kids (and their adult versions) can be mean. I hope Steven turned out fine.

Wat. In my 6th grade if someone had worn camo all the time they would've been king of the class.
- In my 6th grade, wearing camo was so common it was utterly unremarkable. Only time someone got joked with was when a kid named Hunter wore a camo jacket with camo pants outside of deer season.

Fake.

No one remembers Anon years later.

When I was in highschooli n the late 2000s, country bars were all the rage so you would've fit right in

Just didn't own it. Anyone with confidence could have made it work just fine.

I got a cowboy hat once until my partner pointed out that men who wear cowboy hats always end up on the TV news with neighbours describing them as a “quiet man who kept himself to himself”, despite which “nobody saw this coming”.